BACKGROUND Meta-analyses may be prone to generating misleading results because of a paucity of experimental studies (especially in surgery); publication bias; and heterogeneity in study design, intervention and the patient population of included studies. When investigating a specific clinical or scientific question on which several relevant meta-analyses may have been published, value judgments...

in order to evaluate row spacing and microelements spraying on yield and some morphological traits ofpeppermint, a split plot experiment was conducted based on randomized complete block design with fourreplications in sari agricultural sciences and natural resources university during 2010-2011. threelevels of row spacing (50 × 10, 50 × 20 and 50 × 30 cm) and two levels of microelements (no spra...

The master theorem provides a solution to a well-known divide-and-conquer recurrence, called here the master recurrence. This paper proves two cook-book style generalizations of this master theorem. The first extends the treated class of driving functions to the natural class of exponential-logarithmic (EL) functions. The second extends the result to the multiterm master recurrence. The power a...

The work presented here addresses the issue of tuning PD controllers for controlling integrating plus deadtime (IPDT) processes using settling time and gain and phase margin specifications. Tuning formulae are derived for PD controller being used for controlling IPDT processes. Simulations have been carried out to determine the effectiveness of the tuning formulae. Also, comparison between prop...

In this paper, we define a new kind of the hypergeometric function, say, Hermite-Tricomi functions. An explicit representation, recurrence relations for the Hermite-Tricomi functions are given and differential equations satisfied them is presented. A new expansions of the exponential for a wide class of functions, whose properties, including recurrences, addition theorems, generating functions ...

We investigate a network of influences connected to global mean temperature. Considering various climatic factors known to influence global mean temperature, we evaluate not only the impacts of these factors on temperature but also the directed dependencies among the factors themselves. Based on an existing recurrence-based connectivity measure, we propose a new and more general measure that qu...