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The present commentary discusses several translations of the term odds into Spanish, and argues in favor of some translations and against others. The need for more precision in the use of terminology, that is often used in misleading ways, both in English and in Spanish, is emphasized.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin, who died attempting to cross a border to escape persecution, described both the impossibility and the possibilities of translation. The impossibility is implicit in the very title of Benjamin's essay, Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers. The German word Aufgabe can mean "task" or "e…

The nature of the visual input that integrates with the audio signal to yield speech processing advantages remains controversial. This study tests the hypothesis that the information extracted for audiovisual integration includes co-occurring suprasegmental dynamic changes in the acoustic and visual signal. English sen…

There is an unmet need for Chinese language health materials in the USA. We investigated the use of machine translation (MT) plus human post-editing (PE) to produce Chinese translations of public health materials. We collected 60 documents that had been manually translated from English to traditional Chinese. The Engli…

In the final instalment of this three part series detailing my experiences as an English midwife receiving maternity care in America, this article discusses specific differences in practice between the UK and America from the perspective of a midwife. Here I focus on the implications of an approach to care that views p…

Following his discharge from the Royal Navy at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1816, Dr John Forbes (1787-1861) studied at the University of Edinburgh and gained his MD degree in the following year. He moved to Cornwall in September 1817 and started using a primitive stethoscope. In 1821 he translated Laennec's class…

Primary persistent atrial standstill due to atrioventricular muscle dystrophy is a rare familial disease in dogs. The diagnosis of this disorder in a 5-month-old English springer spaniel is the earliest in dogs that have been presented at the Ontario Veterinary College.

The present study used an object manipulation task to explore whether infants are able to learn words in a foreign language. French-learning 20-month-olds, who were taught new words in either English or French by a bilingual French-English speaker, succeeded in both language conditions.

Medical document retrieval presents a unique combination of challenges for the design and implementation of retrieval engines. We introduce a method to meet these challenges by implementing a multilingual retrieval interface for biomedical content in the World Wide Web. To this end we developed an automated method for…

The authors report a study in Dutch that used an on-line preparation paradigm to test the issue of semantic dependency versus morphological autonomy in the production of polymorphemic words. Semantically transparent complex words (like input in English) and semantically opaque complex words (like invoice) showed clear…