Welsh bresych ‘cabbages’

Cabbages and CABG.

Coronary artery bypass grafts relieve angina and prolong some patients' lives with an operative mortality of 1-4%. The grafting requires temporary artificial maintenance of the blood's circulation and oxygenation with cardiopulmonary bypass. In the United States some 200 000 people yearly have a coronary artery bypass graft-six times as many in relation to the population as in Britain. The grea...

Text-to-speech synthesis for welsh and welsh English

English sounds that had no equivalent in Welsh (equivalences derived from [4]). These three segments were: / /, / /, and / /. Tables 1 and 2 show the South Welsh phonemes, with their equivalents in RP and the extra English segments. This work represents the first known attempt to develop a text-to-speech synthesiser for Welsh. A list of pseudo-Welsh nonsense words was generated, allowing for ce...

The conceptual structure of cabbages and things

In 1994Eleanor Saffran co-authoredwithMyrna Schwartz a seminal review of semantic memory impairments and their implications for the representational format and organisation of conceptual knowledge. In that paper, they argued that conceptual knowledge is distributedacross a network of different sub-systems or ‘‘attribute domains,’’ including at least a perceptual and functional or propositional ...

Welsh I am

With developments in genetics, researchers are increasingly able to address historical issues surrounding human migration and provenance by studying present populations. Nigel Williams reports on one of the latest studies looking at a crucial period of British history.

Welsh and Gender