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...

results analysis showed that there were no significant differences between the groups at baseline (p < 0.05). comparison of the results between the two groups before the two-step test showed that anger and vitality scales between the two groups have no significant differences, but on the other scales (depression, dizziness, fatigue and tension), differences between pre and post-test groups were...

In English written text, words are separated by spaces, but in written Chinese text, there are no such separators between words. (See Figure 1.) Thus, effective information retrieval of Chinese text first requires good word segmentation. In this paper, we investigate an efficient algorithm to discover the words and their occurrence probabilities from a corpus of unsegmented text without using a...

Introduction: This study was conducted to evaluate prevalence and risk factors for diagnostic discordance for osteoporosis due to different T-scores of lumbar spine and femoral neck. Methods: In this cross sectional study demographic, anthropometric and risk factors for osteoporosis were derived from a database on 3,039 post-menopausal women who underwent bone densitometry for the first time i...

The current study investigated the effects of oral code-mixing and glossing on L2 vocabulary learning. To this end, 60 EFL learners studying at pre-university school were given a pre-test to make sure that they did not have any prior knowledge of the target words. Based on their scores in the pre-test, 36 pre-university students were selected and divided into three groups, including two experim...

Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for software developers, providing a large amount of code snippets and free-form text on a wide variety of topics. Like other software artifacts, questions and answers on SO evolve over time, for example when bugs in code snippets are fixed, code is updated to work with a more recent library version, or text surrounding a code ...

This paper presents the core concepts for poST language &#x2013; a process-oriented extension of IEC 61131-3 Structured Text (ST) which intends to provide conceptual consistency PLC source code with technological description plant operating procedure. The can be seamlessly used as textual programming complex software in context ( $3^{rd}$ </...

BACKGROUND Mobile phone short message service (SMS) text messaging, has the potential to serve as an intervention medium to promote sustainability of weight loss that can be easily and affordably used by clinicians and consumers. OBJECTIVE To develop theoretically driven weight loss sustaining text messages and pilot an mHealth SMS text messaging intervention to promote sustaining recent weig...

It was a quasi-experimental study because the study involved in training participants in twoclasses each containing about 5 to 6 years old pre-primary students. To this end, fifty studentsparticipated in the study who were studying at Misagh School in Tabriz. In order to makesure of their homogeneity, the researcher administered a pre-test. Based on the results, 40students were selected as the ...