conclusions our meta-analysis, while not ruling out possible publication bias, showed no association between gene polymorphisms of apoc3 and the risk of nafld development in different populations in the world. evidence acquisition we performed a meta-analysis of all relevant studies published in the literature. a total of 115 clinical trials or reports were identified, but only seven trials met...

introduction: post-operative pain and flare-up may occur in up to 58% of patients following root canal treatment. the aim was to conduct a systematic review and a possible meta-analysis to determine the effect of glucocorticosteroid (gcs) on pain following root canal treatment. methods and materials: scopus, medline and central databases were searched up to 30 th january 2017 with broad key wor...

review studies are those researches in which the population under study consists of original articles in a defined field of human knowledge. the aim of the present review article is to overview such review studies and to determine the advantages and disadvantages of each study within the health domain. at the end of 2012 the pub med search engine was searched using “ systematic reviews ” and “ ...

Amounts of historical data collected increase and business intelligence applicability with automatic forecasting time series are in high demand. While no single modeling method is universal to all types dynamics, using an ensemble several methods often seen as a compromise. Instead fixing diversity size, we propose predict these aspects adaptively meta-learning. Meta-learning here considers two...

background :cell-based therapies can be used to treat neurological diseases and spinal cord injuries. the aim of this study was to assess the clinical outcome of bone marrow derived mononuclear cells (bm-mncs) transplantation in patients with spinal cord injuries.   method s: following a systematic review to detect clinical intervention studies, a meta-analysis was done for pooling data to esti...

introduction : the purpose of this study was to investigate the executive functions (efs) as the mediators between coping with stress styles and generalized anxiety disorder (gad). we examined two styles of coping with stress (problem focused coping (pfc) and emotion focused coping (efc)) and eight executive functions (inhibition, flexibility, focusing, working memory, decision making, reasonin...

this study is investigated the optimum parameters for a tuned mass damper (tmd) under the seismic excitation. shuffled complex evolution (sce) is a meta-heuristic optimization method which is used to find the optimum damping and tuning frequency ratio for a tmd. the efficiency of the tmd is evaluated by decreasing the structural displacement dynamic magnification factor (ddmf) and acceleration ...

this paper presents a new meta-heuristic solution to find the efficient frontier using the mean-variance approach. portfolio optimization problem is a quadratic programming model and, changes to np-hard if the number of assets and constraints has increased, and it cannot be solved using common mathematical methods in a reasonable time. therefore, a heuristic or meta-heuristic algorithm should b...