Searching MEDLINE and ISI (via BIDS)(from 1981 until October 1997), Inside Information Plus (from 1993), the Cochrane Library, EMBASE, SIGLE and FirstSearch were searched for relevant trials; the search terms were provided. Bibliographic listings of all retrieved articles were handsearched. In addition, authors of abstracts, academic centres, leading centres of EUS, manufacturers and an EUS e-m...

An extensive clinical study of Yusho and many animal experiments were carried out by the Yusho study group in Kyushu University in order to clarify the mechanism of toxic actions of Kanechlor. Most of the findings have been published in Japanese with brief English abstracts. I hope this abstract will help in the understanding of the important observations obtained by these studies. Table 1. Lab...

In this appendix we discuss some technical details of our implementation of latent semantic analysis on a set of 1,615 research abstracts published in MIS Quarterly, The reader who is interested in a theoretical introduction to LSA and an illustration example is referred to Appendix C. In accordance with well-accepted information retrieval and text mining procedures we started the analysis by c...

OBJECTIVE To analyze publication rate, time to publication and the characteristics of the abstracts presented at the annual Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine (KARM) meetings. METHODS A total of 1,027 abstracts presented at the 2008 and 2009 annual KARM meetings were enrolled in the database and searched for their subsequent citation in PubMed, KoreaMed, and Google Scholar. RESULTS T...

An abstract summarizes the accompanying article in order to promote it. While many move-analysis studies of abstracts in applied linguistics (AL) have used similar coding frameworks and demonstrated similar rhetorical organizations, their findings have not yet been aggregated to show the overall picture. The present study aimed to both examine move structures in AL abstracts and compare the res...

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In the reviewed literature, many studies have compared research articles written by L1 and L2 speakers of English. this regard, comparing English from two different linguistic backgrounds distinguishes study similar studies. While writing article abstract, writers need to calculate what weight give their arguments while showing credibility authority at same time. Given these reasons, use hedges...

s screened (n = 469) Abstracts excluded (n = 353) Wrong methodology (119) Review article, editorial, or no results (107) Wrong outcome (97) Wrong population (30) Full-text articles assessed for eligibility (n = 116) Full-text articles excluded (n = 62) No control (17) Missing necessary data/results (12) Duplicate abstract of publication (9) Non-English language (7) National-level campaign (4) O...