Is it possible for a distributed filesystem to perform at the same speed as local disk filesystems, at least in important cases? This paper is trying to answer this question for traditional client-server distributed filesystems, not for distributed filesystems exploiting very fast networks and disk striping techniques. We claim the answer is ”yes”. Systems such as AFS, Sprite, Coda, Arla and DF...

Abstract Rhetorical structure is helpful in improving how the writers maintain cohesion in their writings. This study examines how the Iraqi writers maintain cohesion in the text by analyzing the various rhetorical moves in Azzaman, an online Iraqi newspaper. To this purpose, twelve opinion articles from Azzaman Iraqi newspaper, published from January 2013 to June 2013 were analyzed. The findin...

It has been previously noted that voiceless coda stops in English may undergo optional glottalization, i.e. they are produced with simultaneous glottal closure. The glottal closure usually produces laryngeal coarticulation on the previous vowel in the form of laryngealization (creaky voice). In this paper, the effects of vowel laryngealization on coda stop perception were investigated. Eighteen...

[1] We examine waveforms and data used to construct coda magnitude in southern California to estimate the spatial variation of coda Q and its dependence on frequency. Our analysis combined with independent borehole data suggests that coda is mainly generated by multiple scattering in the upper few kilometers of the crust where large impedance contrasts occur because of surface layering or fract...

Recent studies on question generation identify the need for automatic discourse analysers. We evaluated the feasibility of integrating an available discourse analyser called HILDA for a specific question generation system called CODA; introduce an approach by extracting a discourse corpus from the CODA parallel corpus; and identified future work towards automatic discourse analysis in the domai...

This paper aims to examine how the consonant clusters and illicit codas are modified in Mandarin loanwords transliterated from English, and to argue that no rules need to be involved and that a purely constraint-based approach—within the framework of Optimality Theory—can explain the data. The data collected from transliterated American state names and state names display the onset-coda inconsi...

We propose a high dimensional classification method, named the Copula Discriminant Analysis (CODA). The CODA generalizes the normal-based linear discriminant analysis to the larger Gaussian Copula models (or the nonparanormal) as proposed by Liu et al. (2009). To simultaneously achieve estimation efficiency and robustness, the nonparametric rank-based methods including the Spearman’s rho and Ke...

The relative perceptual confusability of the coda nasals /m/, /n/, and /ŋ/ was investigated in Southern Min and Mandarin for insight into the nasal mergers that have happened in the history of the Chinese languages. Coda /m/ was the most confusable of the nasals, mirroring the historical pattern in which the bilabial was the first coda nasal to be lost. In both Southern Min and Mandarin, the al...

Properties of syllable onset /l/ that depend on the voicing of the syllable coda were measured for four speakers, representing different non-rhotic British English accents that differ in their phonetic realisation of onset /l/ and in their system of phonological contrast involving onset /l/ and /r/. Onset /l/ was longer before voiced than voiceless codas for all four speakers, and darker for tw...