ABSTRACT In this article, we investigate the presence and absence of commas in a longitudinal sample texts genre report written by 11 to 15 years-old students from school countryside São Paulo State. Our hypothesis is that comma used when syntactic boundaries match prosodic ones. The constituents are formed phonological information, according principles defined Prosodic Phonology theoretical ap...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the data from Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) linking HIV serological data and fertility, and to recommend new age-specific fertility rate (ASFR) ratios of HIV-positive women to HIV-negative women to be used in the WHO/UNAIDS HIV estimates. METHODS The authors obtained ASFRs and ASFR ratios from HIV-infected women and HIV-uninfected women from 20 DHS surveys collected...