The study began with the problem posed by an organisation for a group of researchers in the UK. There was a need to carry out an in-depth study to evaluate the continuous improvement programmes in the context of Lean Construction, and the following question emerged: How to evaluate the continuous improvement programme? This paper aims to understand how the literature on continuous improvement, ...

background: it seems necessary to assess dentists’ needs in order to upgrade the quality of the educational programs. this study was conducted to determine general dentists’ perspectives in the continuing educational programs in mazandaran province.    methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among 430 dentists in mazandaran during 2011-2012. a questionnaire was distribut...

The absolutely continuous spectrum of an ergodic family of onedimensional Schrödinger operators is completely determined by the Lyapunov exponent as shown by Ishii, Kotani and Pastur. Moreover, the part of the theory developed by Kotani gives powerful tools for proving the absence of absolutely continuous spectrum, the presence of absolutely continuous spectrum, and even the presence of purely ...

Featured review: Hodnett, E. D., Gates, S., Hofmeyr, G. J., & Sakala, C. Continuous support for women during childbirth. The Cochrane labor support review has been entirely reconstructed with the following new elements: reviewer team, title, protocol, large randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and subgroup analyses. It also includes expanded background and discussion sections. The new review su...

objective(s): reliability measures precision or the extent to which test results can be replicated. this is the first ever systematic review to identify statistical methods used to measure reliability of equipment measuring continuous variables. this studyalso aims to highlight the inappropriate statistical method used in the reliability analysis and its implication in the medical practice.   m...

background osteotomy is one of the major steps in rhinoplasty. the aim of study was to compare edema and ecchymosis after external and internal lateral osteotomy in patients who underwent rhinoplasty. methods based on a prospective randomized clinical trial, 168 osteotomies were performed through an external route in a perforating fashion and internal route in a continuous fashion at right or l...

Background: The prevalence of diabetes 2 is a global health challenge that requires continuous care. The use of non- Pharmaceutical interventions in the control and treatment of type-2 diabetes can be less costly and have less complications. Therefore, this study aimed to identify a variety of non- Pharmaceutical interventions in the control and treatment of type-2 diabetes through systematic r...

BACKGROUND It is widely believed that placebo interventions induce powerful effects. We could not confirm this in a systematic review of 114 randomized trials that compared placebo-treated with untreated patients. AIM To study whether a new sample of trials would reproduce our earlier findings, and to update the review. METHODS Systematic review of trials that were published since our last ...

This paper deals with continuous frames and continuous Riesz bases. We introduce continuous Riesz bases and give some equivalent conditions for a continuous frame to be a continuous Riesz basis. It is certainly possible for a continuous frame to have only one dual. Such a continuous frame is called a Riesz-type frame [13]. We show that a continuous frame is Riesz-type if and only if it is a con...

background: identification of disease risk factors can help in the prevention of diseases. in assessing the predictive value of continuous variables, a routine procedure is to categorize the factors. this yield to inability to detect non‑linear relationship, if exist. multivariate fractional polynomial (mfp) modeling is a flexible method to reveal non‑linear associations. we aim to demonstrate ...