Self-repairs, where speakers repeat themselves, reformulate or restart what they are saying, are pervasive in human dialogue. These phenomena provide a window into real-time human language processing. For explanatory adequacy, a model of dialogue must include mechanisms that account for them. Artificial dialogue agents also need this capability for more natural interaction with human users. Thi...

This paper describes an approach to designing self-healing component for robust, concurrent and distributed software architecture. A self-healing component is able to detect object anomalies inside of the component, reconfigure inter-component and intra-components before and after repairing the sick object, repair it, and then test the healed object. For this, each self-healing component is str...

To the Editor: We read with interest the editorial by Taylor et al1 concerning the ongoing debate about cardiac chimerism. We were surprised that the authors cited the article of Glaser et al2 as proof that chimerism would not exist but failed to mention our study showing that cardiomyocytes can be regenerated by non-cardiac cells in human transplanted hearts. Importantly, in our article, which...

Reparations are widely regarded as a key element of dealing with the past in transitional justice. Over three decades, there has been plethora state practice, jurisprudence, and international norms requiring states other responsible actors to redress victims’ harm. Yet practice remain significant deficiencies delivering reparations on ground those affected. This article explores what victims th...

Horizontal cleavage meniscus tears are a common orthopedic injury often treated with partial or total meniscectomy versus repair. This Technical Note presents a technique for all-inside repair with uniform compression of the superior and inferior leaflets by placement of multiple circumferential compression stitches using an all-inside self-retrieving suture passing device. The currently descri...

Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) enable rapid proliferation that also causes DNA damage. To maintain genomic stabilization during rapid proliferation, ESCs must have an efficient system to repress genotoxic stress. Here, we show that withdrawal of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), which maintains the self-renewal capability of mouse ESCs (mESCs), significantly inhibits the cell proliferation and DNA...

The emerging field of Self-Repair Computing is expected to have a major impact on deployable systems for space missions and defense applications, where high reliability, availability, and serviceability are needed. In this context, RAM (random access memories) are among the most critical components. This paper proposes a built-in self-repair (BISR) approach for RAM cores. The proposed design, i...