Molecular data is increasingly used in the study of the origin of modern humans. Several molecular markers are available for study, however the most widely used is mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). In 1987 Rebecca Cann, Allan Wilson and Mark Stoneking published the seminal paper demonstrating the power of mtDNA as a tool for analyzing human origins. Since then, a large body of literature has been publ...

You will notice in this issue that the Literature Review has a slightly new look and focus. Like previous issues in which Dr Goldstone did such a marvelous job, this section will try to keep you up on the latest information appearing in the medical literature. However there will be a few differences. First, I will be joined by five other reviewers who will add their expertise to the column. I a...

Following are the literature review presented here for the development of Hindi to Marathi Machine Translation system. ANUBAAD translates news headlines from English to Bengali, which uses example based Machine Translation system. The input headline is initially searched in the direct example base for an exact match. If a match is obtained, the Bengali headline from the example base is produced...

quality control plays an important role in increasing the product quality. fuzzy control charts are more sensitive than shewhart control chart. hence, the correct use of fuzzy control chart leads to producing better-quality products. this area is complex because it involves a large scope of industries, and information is not well organized. in this research, we provide a literature review of th...

Systematic Review methodology (SRm) is an increasingly popular choice for literature reviews in the Social Sciences. Although, compared to traditional narrative reviews SRm appears timeconsuming and laborious, transparency and replicability of the methodology is argued to facilitate greater clarity of review. Nevertheless, researchers in Industrial, Work and Organizational (IWO) Psychology have...

Systematic reviews are central to the enterprise of evidence-based medicine (EBM). However, traditional ‘Cochrane’ reviews have major limitations, especially when dealing with heterogeneous methodologies or an applied setting. The meta-narrative review (see Soc Sci Med 2005; 61: 417-30) is one of several new methods that seek to address pragmatic policy-level questions via broad-based literatur...

a bstra ct   background: although today parents’ participation in taking care of hospitalized children is considered as an indispensable principle, it is still among the concepts with no consensus about. the main objective of this study is to define parents’ participation in taking care of hospitalized children.   materials and methods: the concept of “parents’ participation in taking care of h...

Levy and Ellis (2006) and Webster and Watson (2002) lament the fact that information systems (IS) scholars tend to be unaware of the need for structure in literature reviews. Even today, the rigorous, standardized methodology for conducting a systematic literature review (SLR) that has developed from the health sciences and other fields is virtually unknown in IS research. In this paper, we ada...