This paper looks for an interpretation of the phonetic factors causing consonant lenition and elision to occur through an analysis of intervocalic [j] in Majorcan, a dialect of Catalan spoken in the Mediterranean island of Majorca. Articulatory and acoustic data for several Majorcan Catalan speakers still producing the palatal glide in all word positions and segmental environments show that the...

Hardware lock-elision (HLE) introduces concurrency into legacy lockbased code by optimistically executing critical sections in a fast-path as hardware transactions. Its main limitation is that in case of repeated aborts, it reverts to a fallback-path that acquires a serial lock. This fallback-path lacks hardwaresoftware concurrency, because all fast-path hardware transactions abort and wait for...

An enumeration of individual objects is not always the best means of infonnation exchange. This papiz concerns the problem of providing aggregate responses to database queries. An aggregate response is an expression whose terms an3 quantified concepts. The tradeoff between the conciseness and preciseness of an aggregate response is studied. Conciseness is measured by the length (the number of t...

We prove that every word is concise in the class of compact R-analytic groups. That is, for w and group G such set values w{G} finite, verbal subgroup w(G) also finite.