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Reply to Wang and Zhang.

1. An additional updated literature search had been conducted by the authors (D. Menzies and H. Hussain) to identify additional studies that had been published since the last systematic review and might otherwise have been included in the individual patient data (IPD). Of 523 titles identified, 30 were selected for full text review. Thirteen were additional reports on the cohorts that were alre...

Reply to Wang and Liang.

TO THE EDITOR—We thank Drs Wang and Liang for their comments. Mass drug administration (MDA) is not sustainable even in the short term and should not be advocated. Numerous epidemiological studies from around the world, dating back to the early 1980s, have shown that the impact of praziquantel on the prevalence, intensity, and morbidity of disease is short-lived and that in highly endemic areas...

Wang and Brady Reply.

Lin, Hua & Qian Wang (2007)

Is Mandarin Chinese a syllable-timed language? Based on auditory impression, traditional analyses say it is. However, this question has rarely been investigated from the perspective of acoustic phonetics. Following Ramus et al. (1999) and Grabe and Low (2002), we measured the four rhythmic correlates: vowel percentage, consonant standard deviation, rPVI and nPVI in passage readings and conversa...

In Reply to Loh and Lin:

Academic Medicine, Vol. 89, No. 4 / April 2014 530 has limited benefits and potential harms for the receiving community abroad. As these short-term models become popular, our research group believes that standards are needed to shift this “balance of benefits” more towards the intended service recipients (i.e., the community abroad) while retaining benefits derived by learners and sending insti...