BACKGROUND Forest plots are graphical displays of findings of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Little is known about the style and content of these plots and whether published plots maximize the graphic's potential for information exchange. METHODS We examine the number, style and content of forest plots presented in a previously studied cross-sectional sample of 300 systematic reviews. ...

Systematic reviews are popular. A recent estimate indicates that 11 new systematic reviews are published daily. Nevertheless, evidence indicates that the quality of reporting of systematic reviews is not optimal. One likely reason is that the authors' reports have received inadequate peer review. There are now many different types of systematic reviews and peer reviewing them can be enhanced by...

Pulsar research must be considered 35 years after the detection of pulsars a mature science, where the basic questions have been raised and discussed. One would hope that many if not all generic and important problems have found some kind of answer and that scientific work can concentrate now on specific details requiring more in depth investigation. We know, however, that this picture is not t...

Abilities Somatic regulation Detail Analysis Global analysis Humor mania Sadness/depression Moderate arousal High levels arousal

Traffic classification has received increasing attention in the last years. It aims at offering the ability to automatically recognize the application that has generated a given stream of packets from the direct and passive observation of the individual packets, or stream of packets, flowing in the network. This ability is instrumental to a number of activities that are of extreme interest to c...

In recent years, publishers have responded to the need for publications that summarize complex topics but formerly the review article was less popular, and students of neurological medicine then depended more on textbook accounts of diseases affecting the nervous system. No work has so dominated the 20th century and influenced neurologists in the English speaking world as Russell Brain's Diseas...