Abstract Up to fifty thousand front-end and service hybrids are required for the CMS Outer Tracker Phase-2 Upgrade. These hybrids, which built on carbon fibre stiffened circuits contain several flip-chip ASICs, will be glued in module structures, making repairs almost impossible. Due their complexity, testing within production is a very important aspect. A multiplexed infrastructure, based cust...

Stuttering is a neurodevelopmental disorder associated with left inferior frontal structural anomalies. While children often recover, stuttering may also spontaneously disappear much later after years of dysfluency. These rare cases of unassisted recovery in adulthood provide a model of optimal brain repair outside the classical windows of developmental plasticity. Here we explore what distingu...

In this paper we consider the problem of minimizing the costs of outsourcing warranty repairs when failed items are dynamically routed to one of several service vendors. In our model, the manufacturer incurs a repair cost each time an item needs repair and also incurs a goodwill cost while an item is awaiting and undergoing repair. For a large manufacturer with annual warranty costs in the tens...

This paper presents an algorithm which learns phonological grammars. These phonological grammars— like grammars in Optimality Theory (OT, Prince & Smolensky, 2004) or rule-based grammars (Chomsky & Halle, 1968)—describe phonological maps, or the transformations from input (underlying) forms to output (surface) forms (Tesar, 2014). Like OT grammars, the grammars which underlie the algorithm dist...

Slip studies predominantly focus on either structural or semantic properties of the errors. Since most analyses have been based on pen-and-paper collections, i.e., on-line notes, it is quite understandable that suprasegmental of errors have remained a neglected area. The present prosodic analysis is based on acoustical measurements of 307 self-repairs. Each repair has been measured with the Pra...