Rhetorical Structure Theory: looking back and moving ahead

Rhetorical Structure Theory: Looking Back and Moving Ahead

Rhetorical Structure Theory has enjoyed continuous attention since its origins in the 1980s. It has been applied, compared to other approaches, and also criticized in a number of areas in discourse analysis, theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics. In this paper, we review some of the discussions about the theory itself, especially addressing issues of the reli...

Clinical trial registration: looking back and moving ahead.

In 2005, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) initiated a policy requir­ ing investigators to deposit information about trial design into an accepted clinical trials regis­ try before the onset of patient enrollment.1 This policy aimed to ensure that information about the existence and design of clinically directive trials was publicly available, an ideal that leaders ...

Tobacco quitlines: looking back and looking ahead.

Telephone based tobacco cessation services, or quitlines, have become central components of many comprehensive tobacco control programmes. This paper provides an overview of their history, noting milestones in the growth of quitlines. Key factors in their worldwide adoption were solid evidence from clinical trials with large community samples and strong backing from public health officials. Qui...

Disabilities: looking back and looking ahead.

Stunting in Nepal: looking back, looking ahead†

Nepal hasmade impressive gains in health and nutrition despite being in a state of political, economic and demographic transition. According to the Nepal Demographic Health Surveys, stunting in Nepal has fallen from 57% in 2001 to 41% in 2011, an annual decline of 1.7 percentage points. A 3.9% annual reduction is, however, required to achieve the global target of 40% fewer stunted children by 2...