Consonant inventories are commonly drawn to assess the phonological acquisition of toddlers. However, the spontaneous speech data that are analysed often vary substantially in size and composition. Consequently comparisons between children and across studies are fundamentally hampered. The current study aims to examine the effect of sample size on the resulting consonant inventories. A spontane...

This paper examines a change in business practices in the pharmaceutical manufacturer-to-distributor supply chain, a change that essentially forced pharmaceutical distributors to maintain lower inventories. This change also provided pharmaceutical manufacturers with information about distributor customer demand and inventories that had previously been withheld from them. Supply chain theory and...

Acronyms are increasingly prevalent in biomedical text, and the task of acronym disambiguation is fundamentally important for biomedical natural language processing systems. Several groups have generated sense inventories of acronym long form expansions from the biomedical literature. Long form sense inventories, however, may contain conceptually redundant expansions that negatively affect thei...

A critical question in planning a response to bioterrorism is how antibiotics and medical supplies should be stockpiled and dispensed. The objective of this work was to evaluate the costs and benefits of alternative strategies for maintaining and dispensing local and regional inventories of antibiotics and medical supplies for responses to anthrax bioterrorism. We modeled the regional and local...

There is a long tradition in laboratory phonetics of describing the interaction of phonetic inventories and constraints of auditory perception and articulatory production. For example, Liljencrants & Lindblom (1972) attempted to predict the inventories of typical vowel systems by appealing to the notion of maximal perceptual distinctiveness. Stevens (1989) explained the makeup of these inventor...

Emission inventories from mobile sources have traditionally been obtained through computer modeling. This method, however, has intrinsic shortcomings in that ideal factors are included while real-world observations are left out. The model predictions have not correlated well with measurements from several studies. Recently, a fuel-based method of obtaining on-road emissions inventories has been...