Background and Objective: Oral cancer is one of the 10 most common cancers in the world and its global outbreak is increasing. Saliva assessment is one of the non-invasive diagnostic methods for this cancer. The aim of the study was to achieve a comprehensive conclusion about changes in salivary antioxidants in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the mouth (OSCC). Materials and Methods: I...

background & aim : worldwide prevalence of infertility has been reported to be 3-7% of all couples. there are varieties among the results of studies conducted on the prevalence of infertility in iran. the present study aimed to evaluate the trend of infertility using meta-analysis method in iran. methods & materials : we systematically reviewed all published papers in medline database of the na...

Previous approaches to implementing temporal DBMSs have assumed that a temporal DBMS must be built from scratch, employing an integrated architecture and using new temporal implementation techniques such as temporal indexes and join algorithms. However, this is a very large and time-consuming task. This paper explores approaches to implementing a temporal DBMS as a stratum on top of an existing...

The digitization and annotation of audiovisual programs results in a huge amount of information that becomes useful only if it is properly organized and if the appropriate query mechanisms exist. Usually audiovisual information and meta-information is stored in relational database schemata that consist of decades of tables, relationships and constraints that complicate the information querying ...

BACKGROUND Interventions aiming to coordinate services for the community-based dementia population vary in components, organisation and implementation. In this review we aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of community-based care coordinating interventions on health outcomes and investigate whether specific components of interventions influence their effects. METHODS We searched four database...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether network meta-analyses, increasingly used to assess comparative effectiveness of healthcare interventions, follow the key methodological recommendations for reporting and conduct of systematic reviews. DESIGN Methodological systematic review of reports of network meta-analyses. DATA SOURCES Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews...

Objective To examine whether network meta-analyses, increasingly used to assess comparative effectiveness of healthcare interventions, follow the keymethodological recommendations for reporting and conduct of systematic reviews. Design Methodological systematic review of reports of network meta-analyses. Data sources Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of E...

A large amount of human genome data has been collected and efficient techniques for handling the data and for building and testing biological hypotheses are needed. We developed an object-oriented database system with rule-based query interface for genomic computation. The database is constructed on a commercially available object-oriented database system Gemstone and contains GenBank entries a...