background & aim: a meta-analysis refers to the statistical synthesis of results from a series of studies and has been used to estimate pooled prevalence of human diseases. in this study, we review some statistical issues regarding the meta-analysis of the prevalence of human diseases such as statistical software and programs, transformations of prevalence rate, assessment of heterogeneity, and...

background: the number of scientific publication by a country is an important indication of its science generation and development. the aim of this study was to compare the publications in medical sciences of islamic countries from 2002-2009 with those of a number of developed countries.   methods: the pubmed and cia world fact book were used to extract the number of publications and socioecono...

Although TCP behavior is one of the most studied aspects of Internet traffic, little is known about TCP performance within modern enterprise networks. In this paper we analyze aspects of TCP performance observed in packet traces taken over four months from a mediumsized enterprise. We assess the prevalence of broken TCP transactions, applications used, throughput of TCP connections, and phenome...