radioiodinated meta iodobenzylguanidine (mibg) is one of the important radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear medicine. [123/131i]mibg is used for imaging of adrenal medulla, studying heart sympathetic nerves, treatment of pheochromacytoma and neuroblastoma. for clinical application, radioiodinated mibg is prepared through isotopic exchange method, which includes replacement of radioactive iodine in a...

Publication bias, sometimes known as the "file-drawer problem" or "funnel-plot asymmetry," is common in empirical research. The authors review the implications of publication bias for quantitative research synthesis (meta-analysis) and describe existing techniques for detecting and correcting it. A new approach is proposed that is suitable for application to meta-analytic data sets that are too...

Meta-analysis offers ecologists a powerful tool for knowledge synthesis. Albeit a form of review, it also shares many similarities with primary empirical research. Consequently, critical reading of meta-analyses incorporates criteria from both sets of approaches particularly because ecology is a discipline that embraces heterogeneity and broad methodologies. The most important issues in critica...

BACKGROUND Meta-ethnography is a unique, systematic, qualitative synthesis approach widely used to provide robust evidence on patient and clinician beliefs and experiences and understandings of complex social phenomena. It can make important theoretical and conceptual contributions to health care policy and practice. RESULTS Since beliefs, experiences, health care contexts and social phenomen...

> This paper presents an overview and a survey of logic program synthesis. Logic program synthesis is interpreted here in a broad way; it is concerned with the following question: given a speciication, how do we get a logic program satisfying the speciication? Logic programming provides a uniquely nice and uniform framework for program synthesis since the speciication, the synthesis process and...

The Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) is a National Quality Forum nursing care performance standard with sizable global evidence about nurse practice environments. This research synthesis includes qualitative integration (meta-synthesis) and quantitative integration (meta-analysis). A multinomial meta-analysis was used to model multiple classes of like outcomes for ...

This paper performs a meta-analysis of the effect on economic growth financial development and liberalization in European emerging markets compares with that advanced economies. A meta-synthesis 893 estimates extracted from 45 studies suggests finance has positive growth. Furthermore, our findings indicate synthesized size was smaller than Results meta-regression analysis test for publication s...

INTRODUCTION Osteoarthritis is a highly prevalent and disabling condition. Primary care management of osteoarthritis is generally suboptimal despite evidence for several modestly effective interventions and the availability of high-quality clinical practice guidelines. This report describes a planned study to synthesise the views of primary care clinicians on the barriers and enablers to follow...