Part-of-speech tagging is needed for French Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis to disambiguate the pronunciation of homograph heterophones, liaison instances, and eventually to model intonational contours. A core problem in the part-of-speech tagging in French TTS is to decide on the tagset used for the tagger and the tagset needed by TTS. We carried out a number of experiments on several sizes of ...

I read with interest the study by Marmoush et al. [1] about the 80-year-old woman with an exacerbation of her asthma who suffered Takotsubo syndrome (TTS), after using “her rescue albuterol inhaler several times.” As the authors state this is not the first case of an albuterol-triggered TTS, as shown by many similar cases of TTS published as single case reports and series of patients derived fr...

Abstract Background and aims The Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is characterised by an acute left ventricular dysfunction without exhibiting signs of stenosis. TTS affects mainly the ventricle, however, its pathophysiology comprises transient impairments in atrium functions with a prevalence atrial fibrillation (AF) around 18% correlating higher heart rhythm disorders. In this study, we aimed to prov...

Given that Mandarin is a tone language and English is not, the present study investigated the perception of Mandarin tones in young school-aged children with or without tone language exposure. Mandarin Monolingual (MM), English-Mandarin Bilingual (EMB) and English Monolingual (EM) children aged 6 to 8 years participated in tone identification and discrimination tasks. Tone identification and di...

BACKGROUND The consumption of low quality foods is common in low socioeconomic areas; and according to epidemiological studies, the density of nutrients often proves the quality of diet. This study aimed to compare the density of macronutrients and micronutrients in various parts of Tehran. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study performed from September to December 2007 in all the 22 distri...