Revisiting the discourse on accomplishing MDG-4

The Difficult Task of Evaluating MDG-4

Background. The fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG-4) proposed to reduce under-5 mortality rates (U5MR) by two thirds within 25 years. The article discusses changes in U5MR for 35 sub-Saharan African countries, for which DHS surveys are available. Methods. Analysis of DHS data, reconstruction of time series of U5MR, and comparison with other series. Findings. Few countries were able to ach...

on the relationship between using discourse markers and the quality of expository and argumentative academic writing of iranian english majors

the aim of the present study was to investigate the frequency and the type of discourse markers used in the argumentative and expository writings of iranian efl learners and the differences between these text features in the two essay genres. the study also aimed at examining the influence of the use of discourse markers on the participants’ writing quality. to this end the discourse markers us...

Newborn survival - the forgotten milestone for achieving MDG 4.

a Health System Development, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to Monir Islam (email: [email protected]) Introduction Globally, and particularly in South East Asian countries, child and infant health and survival has improved significantly over recent decades. Improved nutrition including breastfeeding, successful immunization programm...

Formally Linking MDG and HOL Based on aVeri ed MDG

Emotion and sincerity in Persian discourse: accomplishing the representation of inner states

This paper deals with the presentation and evocation of emotion in performative face-to-face linguistic communication in Iran. Performance in linguistic communication is shown to involve the speaker's need to convey an impression of his or her own inner states. Since a€ectivity is one of the most dicult things to convey in face-to-face interaction, it is posited that a person employing success...