context resilience can be seen as an adaption to stress, such as that caused by health problems or disease, that attenuates the negative effects of stress. the present research performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to study resilience scores among adults diagnosed with chronic physical diseases. evidence acquisition electronic databases, including persian language (scientific informat...

background praziquantel, an antischistosomal compound, is used as first-line drug for chemotherapy of schistosoma japonicum since 1984. in this article, we conducted a systematic review and mete-analysis to evaluate the efficacy and safety of different dosages of praziquantel (pzq) for treatment of schistosoma japonicum. evidence acquisition: a number of six articles published in peer-reviewed ...

abstract background: research shows that the age at menarche, as an essential element in the reproductive health of women, had been decreasing in the 19th and 20th centuries, and shows a huge variation across different countries. there are numerous studies performed in iran reporting a range of age at menarche. thus, this meta-analysis aimed to determine the overall mean age at menarche of the ...

Meta-analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM) are two important statistical methods in the behavioral, social, and medical sciences. They are generally treated as two unrelated topics in the literature. The present article proposes a model to integrate fixed-, random-, and mixed-effects meta-analyses into the SEM framework. By applying an appropriate transformation on the data, studies i...

Quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is a well-known problem in the facility location and layout. It belongs to the NP-complete class. There are many heuristic and meta-heuristic methods, which are presented for QAP in the literature. In this paper, we applied 2-opt, greedy 2-opt, 3-opt, greedy 3-opt, and VNZ as heuristic methods and tabu search (TS), simulated annealing, and pa...

Results Five of the 12 meta-analyses exhibited heterogeneity (I >0.30) in age differences, when there should have been none, with two having significant or substantial heterogeneity (I > 0.50). In three meta-analyses we found that the age of intervention group was statistically significantly higher than in the control group. Two meta-analysis had a distribution of p-values that were inconsisten...

conclusions the results of this research have important implications regarding the attention of students’ counselors to meta-cognitive dimensions in order to prevent students’ tendency for addiction. results the rate of students’ addiction potential tendency can be predicted by having characteristics of their meta-cognition. it also appeared that among the five parameters of meta-cognition, the...