BackgroundOnchocerciasis causes a considerable disease burden in Africa, mainly through skin and eye disease.Since 1995, the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) has coordinated annual mass treatment with ivermectin in 16 countries.In this study, we estimate the health impact of APOC and the associated costs from a program perspectiv
Nowadays, it has become commonly accepted that the meaning of linguistic elements is interconnected with the context of their use.Deixis is one of the classical pragmatic phenomena that illustrates that context-dependence is inherent in language as meaning of deictic expressions cannot be constructed without the identification of the speech event w
In the Minangkabau language of Indonesia, the class of nouns can have multiple forms, which are used frequently in everyday conversation.The Minangkabau language contains examples of both of these types of word reduplication.According to our line of reasoning, reduplication occurs when the Minangkabau language, which is currently in a relatively co