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Drum-Taps: Revisions and Reconciliation

Position Statement: TAPs All Over My Chips

An increasing number of system-on-chip (SoC) application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) have more than one embedded processor with test access port (TAP). A processor’s TAP facilitates a hardware interface to a software development/debug tool. Such tools exist for several different processors and embedded controllers such as the IBM PowerPC family of processors, the ARM family of processo...

NTP taps disinfection by-products for study.

The use of chlorination to purify water supplies is considered one of the most important public health advances of the twentieth century. Following the 1908 introduction of widespread water chlorination, once-common diseases such as cholera, dysentery, and typhoid fever were practically eliminated. However, the chlorination cure-all proved to have a caveat: disinfection by-products (DBPs), whic...

A Tactile Automated Passive-Finger Stimulator (TAPS)

Although tactile spatial acuity tests are used in both neuroscience research and clinical assessment, few automated devices exist for delivering controlled spatially structured stimuli to the skin. Consequently, investigators often apply tactile stimuli manually. Manual stimulus application is time consuming, requires great care and concentration on the part of the investigator, and leaves many...

An ultrasound examination of taps in Japanese

This paper used ultrasound technology to examine the plain and palatalized taps in Japanese. Six participants of Japanese produced nonsense words containing /ɾ/ and /ɾ/. The mid-sagittal contours were compared in three intervocalic contexts: a_a, o_o, u_u. The results showed that /ɾ/ had a great deal of variability around the tongue dorsum. This suggests that /ɾ/ lacks a dorsal gesture; unlike ...