smoking has become more prevalent in turkey than it has in those of western countries during the past decade. this study was conducted to make parameter estimations on gender related smoking habits with the minimum of variance. of the ninety-two researches related to smoking habits conducted from 1981 to 2003 in turkey, 60 were deemed appropriate for the application of meta analysis and meta re...

the lack of proper evaluating mechanisms for km initiatives has caused managers to think of investments in km as a fad and additional cost. km maturity models assist organizations to evaluate km projects and adopt appropriate strategies for progress. in spite of various models and frameworks related to km maturity, no comprehensive model has been proposed so far to integrate multiple dimensions...

the growth in the number and quality of businesses caused many positive results for societies. but it can potentially bring some unfavorable effects to their environment. although there issued many different definitions of social responsibility, there is lack of consensus among scholars about its definition. aside from its different and sometimes paradoxical definitions, corporate social capita...

OBJECTIVES To introduce guidelines for the conduct, reporting, and critical appraisal of meta-analyses evaluating diagnostic tests and to apply these guidelines to recently published meta-analyses of diagnostic tests. DATA SOURCES Based on current concepts of how to assess diagnostic tests and conduct meta-analyses. They are applied to all meta-analyses evaluating diagnostic tests published i...

The synthesis, self assembly and magnetic properties of a polychlorotriphenylmethyl radical, substituted with six meta-carboxylic groups, are reported showing that radical-radical hydrogen bonds in the solid state yield to very weak intermolecular ferromagnetic interactions.

BACKGROUND Meta-narrative review is one of an emerging menu of new approaches to qualitative and mixed-method systematic review. A meta-narrative review seeks to illuminate a heterogeneous topic area by highlighting the contrasting and complementary ways in which researchers have studied the same or a similar topic. No previous publication standards exist for the reporting of meta-narrative rev...

This study departs from 19 research findings with the same subject, namely Dieng dreadlocks discussing concepts of myth, social identity, and commodification perspective or paradigms each researcher. is certainly interesting to be meta-synthesized in finding uniqueness these converged concepts. The general purpose was find similarities differences presented. In particular, this explain a compre...

We introduce the series of 7 tutorial papers on evidence synthesis methods for decision making, based on the Technical Support Documents in Evidence Synthesis prepared for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Decision Support Unit. Although oriented to NICE's Technology Appraisal process, which examines new pharmaceutical products in a cost-effectiveness framework, t...

Goodness of fit evaluation should be a natural step in assessing and reporting dose-response meta-analyses from aggregated data of binary outcomes. However, little attention has been given to this topic in the epidemiological literature, and goodness of fit is rarely, if ever, assessed in practice. We briefly review the two-stage and one-stage methods used to carry out dose-response meta-analys...