INTRODUCTION The association between fish consumption and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is unclear. The aim of this paper was to summarize the available evidence on the association between fish consumption and risk of RA using a dose-response meta-analysis. METHODS Relevant studies were identified by a search of MEDLINE and EMBASE through December 2013, with no restrictions. A random-effects dose...

Nowadays, Value engineering (V.E.) is considered as a tool of construction management that can help companies to improve their procedures, services and final products regarding the client’s needs, as an end user, with respect to time, cos t and quality. The V.E. process has evolved from previous methods based on the concept of value and functional approach. These methods were pioneered by Lawre...

Background and Aim: Brain mapping is a study of the anatomy and function of the CNS (central nervous system). Brain mapping has many techniques and these techniques are permanently changing and updating. From the beginning, brain mapping was invasive and for brain mapping, electrical stimulation of the exposed brain was needed. However, nowadays brain mapping does not require electrical stimula...

Type-Logical Lexical Functional Grammar is a new syntactic framework similar in nature to Type-Logical Categorial Grammar, but with a distinct Lexical Functional Grammar flavour. It is the overall setup of TLLFG that makes it a close relative of TLCG, but it is the information encoded in the type system that brings it even closer to LFG. The encoding of f-structure information in the TL-LFG typ...

Background: Early diagnosis of patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's, known as mild cognitive impairment, is of great importance in the treatment of this disease. If a patient can be diagnosed at this stage, it is possible to treat or delay Alzheimer's disease. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is very common in the process of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. In th...

Purpose: In epiphora, dacryocystography (DCG) is established for localization of underlying dacryostenosis. DCG is of limited value concerning the depiction of periductal structures, and does not provide functional information e.g. in dysfunction of the canalicular muscle pump or relative stenoses for reasons of active instillation of the contrast agent. Dacryoszintigraphy provides sufficient f...