1. I will be arguing from data on vowel shifts in progress, and from principles of language change, that language specific phonetic implementation rules must be part of speaker knowledge, and thus part of language acquisition. Then, I will sketch an abstract model of what phonetic implementation could be like. Having argued these points, I will address how this approach interacts with phonologi...

The nearest-neighbor method is perhaps the simplest of all algorithms for predicting the class of a test example. The training phase is trivial: simply store every training example, with its label. To make a prediction for a test example, first compute its distance to every training example. Then, keep the k closest training examples, where k ≥ 1 is a fixed integer. Look for the label that is m...

This paper proposes the concept of the Virtual Enterprise Broker as an innovative model to design and create Build to Order supply chains. The Build to Order supply chain responds to the demands of new global manufacturing economy offering high level of customization, high customer driven design, volume flexibility, short cycle time, none inventory costs, minimal total cost and dynamic supply c...