Perspective: The rare must become common

Common, Uncommon and Rare Phonological Disorders: An OT Perspective

COMMON, UNCOMMON, AND RARE PHONOLOGICAL DISORDERS: AN OT PERSPECTIVE John Kinney, M.A. George Mason University, 2004 Thesis Director: Dr. Steven H. Weinberger This thesis analyzes phonological disorders with derivational theory and Optimality Theory (OT). Because of its typological nature, OT is shown to be a better theory in which to analyze phonological disorders. Phonological disorders are c...

NoC's at the center of chip architecture: Urgent needs (today) and what they must become (future)

The collision of large-scale computational capabilities (multi-core) and system-scale integration (system-on-chip) have produced a landscape in which networks-on-chip are a central critical element of system design. However, the traditional approaches and requirements from these two communities are quite different with divergence in requirements of cost, regularity, power, methodology, compatib...

Next-generation Architectures Must Become More Flexible to Meet the Inevitable Changes to Market and Customer

0272-1732/00/$10.00  2000 IEEE Motivated by necessity, change is inevitable. The buggy whip manufacturer realized this on seeing a Ford Model A drive past. Until the late 18th century, circumnavigation of the globe was a near impossibility without an accurate way to measure longitude. It wasn’t until John Harrison dedicated most of his life to developing an accurate timepiece that the problem ...

Equal for whom? Addressing disparities in the Canadian medical system must become a national priority.

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...