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Author’s response to reviews Title: Assessment of Peripheral Blood Lymphocyte Subsets in Children with Nutritional Iron Deficiency anemia (Two Egyptian Centers Study) Authors:

Line 47: suggest replace "promotes" with "may result in an" inadequate immune response Reply Had revised and corrected Line 48: Sentence structure incomplete there should be an "of" before "childhood iron deficiency anemia". Reply Had revised and corrected Line 49: The result presented did not really address any clinical correlations Reply Had revised and corrected. The word clinical is omitted...

Panayiotis K

Aim: To estimate the prevalence among... Reply: This has been done. Methods: 13-14 years. Relative differences... Reply: This has been done. Results: among children in the G/C compared with the T/C community. Reply: This phrase now reads “among G/C compared to T/C children in both age-groups” Surprinsingly, the proportion reporting family history of allergy almost doubled among the G/C group. R...

Neural processing associated with comprehension of an indirect reply during a scenario reading task.

In daily communication, we often use indirect speech to convey our intention. However, little is known about the brain mechanisms that underlie the comprehension of indirect speech. In this study, we conducted a functional MRI experiment using a scenario reading task to compare the neural activity induced by an indirect reply (a type of indirect speech) and a literal sentence. Participants read...

An improved method of generating speech from concept and its application to a dialogue system of road guidance

A method of concept-to-speech conversion was developed and applied for the reply speech generation in a spoken dialogue system on road guidance. The method is an improved version of our formerly developed one, where a sentence with necessary information for speech synthesis is generated from the concept of reply and converted to a reply speech. By handling concept in phrase unit instead of sent...

Issues on the Scrambling Effects in the Processing of Japanese Sentences: Reply to MIYAMOTO and NAKAMURA (2005) Regarding the Experimental Study by KOIZUMI and TAMAOKA (2004)