As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, you might hear an unfamiliar Irish term get tossed around before the pints get tossed back. Sláinte is a classic Irish toast, and in true St. Paddy’s Day fashion, ...
A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example, the word 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but the word 'door' had just one ...
This is the second of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the second of eight other consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore ...
Genes encode proteins and proteins dictate cell function. Therefore, the thousands of genes expressed in a particular cell determine what that cell can do. Moreover, each step in the flow of ...
Abstract: The current pronunciation scoring based on Goodness of Pronunciation (GOP) uses posterior probabilities of the Acoustic Models. Such algorithms suffer from generalization since they are ...
Correspondence to Dr Serenydd Everden, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Reading RG1 5AN, UK; serenydd.everden{at}googlemail.com A 57-year-old man with no ...
This document presents a clinical lexicon comprising data elements related to chest pain and acute myocardial infarction (MI), in the sense and context of how these ...
A typical approach for many cardiovascular surgical procedures is median sternotomy. Despite advances in surgical techniques and postoperative care, complications still occur in 0.5–5.0% of cases.