In an attempt to explain the lack of consensus that emerged from a review of the extant literature on the performance implications of cultural differences in mergers and acquisitions [M&A], meta-analyses were conducted for three categories of performance measures: stock market-based measures, accounting-based measures, and socio-cultural integration outcomes. As hypothesized, meta-analytic find...

article history: received date: 25 september, 2016 review date: 12 october 2016 accepted date:23 november 2016 printed on line: 5 january purpose the aim of the present study was to study the impact of meta cognitive skills training on the reduction of academic procrastination and anxiety exam in male students. material & method: statistical population in this study consisted of all high school...

BACKGROUND Most meta-analyses include data from one or more small studies that, individually, do not have power to detect an intervention effect. The relative influence of adequately powered and underpowered studies in published meta-analyses has not previously been explored. We examine the distribution of power available in studies within meta-analyses published in Cochrane reviews, and invest...

Background: Burn is one of the public health problems, especially in low-income and middle-income countries, and this problem is far more important for pregnant women and their fetus. There was no a systematic study to comprehensively review the epidemiology of Maternal and Fetal`s Burn inIran, this study was conducted for this purpose. Materials and Methods: In this systematic review and meta...

conclusions hepatoprotective agents combined with antiviral drugs can significantly improve liver function and liver fibrosis parameters in patients with hepatitis b. results a total of 22 randomized controlled trials encompassing 1,714 cases were considered in the meta-analysis. the obtained results indicated that the combination of antiviral drug and hepatoprotective agent was better than ant...

The successful integration of ecosystem ecology with landscape ecology would be conducive to understanding how landscapes function. There have been several attempts at this, with two main approaches: (1) an ecosystem-based approach, such as the meta-ecosystem framework and (2) a landscape-based approach, such as the landscape system framework. These two frameworks are currently disconnected. To...

Background: Social distance, which is linked with negative emotional impacts, is one strategy to avoid coronary heart disease, particularly for single parents and their children. The purpose of this research was to see how helpful filial therapy and cognitive-behavioral art-play therapy are for single mothers' emotional perspectives. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted with three...

Action detection and temporal segmentation of actions in videos are topics of increasing interest. While fully supervised systems have gained much attention lately, full annotation of each action within the video is costly and impractical for large amounts of video data. Thus, weakly supervised action detection and temporal segmentation methods are of great importance. While most works in this ...

Agent’s meta-reasoning is a computational process that implements agent’s capability to reason on a higher level about another agent or a community of agents. There is a potential for meta-reasoning in multi-agent systems. Meta-reasoning can be used for reconstructing agents’ private knowledge, their mental states and for prediction of their future courses of action. Meta-agents should have the...