Premise. One of the two objectives of the AOSE TGF meeting to be held in Ljubljana, on February 28th is that of collecting, refining and possibly merging Agent-Oriented (AO) modeling languages meta-models. Our aim in this paper is to contribute to the achievement of this objective by describing the Tropos modeling language meta-model that we have implemented in a Tool for AO Modeling (http://sr...

The objective of this study was to examine the association between personal use of hair dyes and the risk of leukemia. We conducted a systematic literature review of epidemiology studies reporting leukemia-specific cancer risks among hair dye users, and estimated the meta-relative risk (meta-RR) and corresponding 95% confidence interval (95% CI) of leukemia, comparing hair dye users to nonusers...

Meta-analysis helps to find final objective evaluation for the research’s field, which includes all accumulated data. Therefore, that provides a unique perspective to see whole picture. As example, one of the recent meta-analysis of circulation research collected 872 articles along 27 years without any language restriction, which considered of interest and fully reviewed. However, 16 eligible a...

Taking into account competitive markets, manufacturers attend more customer’s personalization. Accordingly, build-to-order systems have been given more attention in recent years. In these systems, the customer is a very important asset for us and has been paid less attention in the previous studies. This paper introduces a new build-to-order problem in the supply chain. This study focuses on bo...

One of the key issues in mining is the hauling system. Truck and shovels are the most widely used transportation equipment in mines. In this paper, a two-phase simulation-based optimization is presented to maximize utilization of hauling system in the largest Iranian open-pit copper mine. In the first phase, The OptQuest for Arena software package was used to solve the optimization problem to p...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether financial ties to one drug company are associated with favourable results or conclusions in meta-analyses on antihypertensive drugs. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Meta-analyses published up to December 2004 that were not duplicates and evaluated the effects of antihypertensive drugs compared with any comparator on clinical end points in adults. Fi...

OBJECTIVE Two investigations evaluate Bayesian meta-regression for detecting treatment interactions. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING The first compares analyses of aggregate and individual patient data on 1,860 subjects from 11 trials testing angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors for nondiabetic kidney disease. The second explores meta-regression for detecting treatment interaction on 671 c...

This paper proposes a new mixed-integer model for the multi-skill resource-constrained project scheduling problem (MSRCPSP). The interactions between workers are represented as undirected networks. Therefore, for each required skill, an undirected network is formed which shows the relations of human resources. In this paper, community detection in networks is used to find the most compatible wo...

Our primary objective was to perform a meta-analysis and meta-regression evaluate the effects of diets supplemented with calcium salts palm fatty acids (CSPF) compared nonfat control (CON) on nutrient digestibility production responses lactating dairy cows. secondary whether experimental design affects supplemental CSPF. The data set formed from 33 peer-reviewed publications CSPF at ?3% diet dr...

the aim of present research was examine of relationship between destruction meta-cognitive beliefs and academic achievement of students with test anxiety. for this purpose, 243 girls and boys subjects with test anxiety of 900 students of guidance schools of noshar city were determined as the sample of study. for gathering the data, meta-cognition questionnaire and test anxiety inventory were us...