A literature review is a body of text that aims to review the critical points of current knowledge including substantive findings as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. A literature review usually precedes a research proposal and results section. Its ultimate goal is to bring the reader up to date with current literature on a topic and forms the basis for...

Literature review is a cascading process of searching, reading, analyzing, and summing up of the materials about a specific topic. However, searching the literature is like searching "a needle in a haystack", and hence has been called "Cinderella".(1) Therefore, skills and effective pathways of searching the literature are needed to achieve high sensitive and specific results.

The metabolic syndrome is proposed as a cluster of known cardiovascular risk factors, interrelated by a common pathophysiological defect, that symbolize a heightened metabolic burden. Advocates of the concept argue that it is a predictor for both diabetes and cardiovascular disease, complications of great importance posttransplantation. The abundant medical literature on the topic is now expand...

The following article was initially presented at the Speciality Examination for Fellowship of the Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine. The examiners at that diet awarded it a high score. It is reproduced here as an example of what the Education and Examination Board of the Faculty believe a clinical topic review should be. The purpose of the clinical topic review in the Fellowship Examin...

The following article was initially presented at the Speciality Examination for Fellowship of the Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine. The examiners at that diet awarded it a high score. It is reproduced here as an example of what the Education and Examination Board of the Faculty believe a clinical topic review should be. The purpose of the clinical topic review in the Fellowship Examin...

This thesis is a combination of empirical and modeling work concerning articulatory-acoustic relationships in speech production. The empirical work investigates the functional relationship between articulatory variability and stability of acoustic cues during American English /r/ production. The analysis of articulatory movements shows that the extent of intra-subject articulatory variability a...

The Denial-of-Service attack problem continues to grow despite the fact that many solutions have been proposed in the research literature and the commercial field. The problem is not that the solutions have not had technical merit, but that they have either not scaled to architectural levels or they have had serious deployment issues. As a result, there is still no comprehensive, architectural ...

The development of wavelength division multiplexing opens a new horizon in optical networks and promises to be one of the best solutions for the high demand of the bandwidth. However, with this technology, many problems arise, especially those related to the architecture to be used in optical networks to take advantage of the huge potential of this technique. Many approaches and architectures h...

Title: Guideline-based quality indicators a systematic comparison of German and international clinical practice guidelines: protocol for a systematic review Authors: Monika Becker ([email protected]) Jessica Breuing ([email protected]) Monika Nothacker ([email protected]) Stefanie Deckert ([email protected]) Mirco Steudtner ([email protected]) Jochen Schmit...

The architectures that are used in the increasingly popular area of cryptography are discussed. In the design of cryptographic systems optimization in speed and area are important for surpassing acceptable standards. Many methods have been explored in the literature with regard to optimizations in speed. Although area is not as critical as the aforementioned constraint, it is closely related to...