Leveling is a mechanism that restores or imposes uniformity on paradigms, thereby upholding the principle “one meaning one form” (Humboldt’s Universal). In a set of inflectionally-related forms, the shared element is the verb stem, whose meaning is constant across all forms. The principle of onemeaning-one-form is contravened whenever a stem alternation arises as the result of a phonological pr...

We consider hazard (mortality) rates in heterogeneous populations consisting of ordered (in the defined stochastic sense) subpopulations. This setting can be interpreted via the fixed frailty models with one or more frailty parameters. The shape of the hazard rate is of main interest in this paper. Specifically, the deceleration and leveling off in the hazard rates (mortality plateaus) are disc...

Project management methodologies have been the most utilized management tools in today’s industry and the Critical Path Method considers the logical dependencies between related activities that may have to share common resources. This method has then been expanded to allow for the identification of resource-constrained activities and the size of those resources. They are usually called activity...

Phase Change Memory (PCM) may become a viable alternative for the design of main memory systems in the next few years. However PCM suffers from limited write endurance. Therefore future adoption of PCM as a technology for main memory will depend on the availability of practical solutions for wear leveling that avoids uneven usage especially in the presence of potentially malicious users. First ...

Vertical geodesy is undergoing a revolution because of two factors. First, new precise three-dimensional position measurement techniques used over very long distances and based on extraterrestrial reference systems provide a new class and precision of geometric data previously unavailable for geophysical investigations. Second, physical models in tectonic theory for large earthquakes predict cr...

Flash memory has now become a crucial component in building Linux-based embedded computers. As the overall flash-memory lifetime is concerned with block endurance, wear leveling is needed to evenly erase all blocks. This paper presents a modularized implementation of a wear-leveling algorithm. Our goal is to instantly enable any existing Linux-based flash file systems the ability of wear leveli...

There has been increasing interest over the last few years in the use of radar interferometry for land subsidence evaluation/monitoring. InSAR time series algorithms such as PSI and small baseline methods offer the possibility to measure ground displacements to a degree of accuracy comparable to traditional geodetic technique such as leveling. This preliminary work reveals the potential of time...