fracture mapping of late permian-early triassic flat-lying sedimentary rocks in the sydney basin,new south wales, australia, shows that joints developed originally in extension were faulted in subsequentevents. joints with a regional distribution fall into two (early and late) formed groups. group i joints propagatedhorizontally and never interfered with each other. these joints were subsequent...

We give a detailed and rigorous picture of the mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in the deep insulating regime (DIR) within the Nguyen, Spivak and Shklovskii model including spin-orbit coupling (SO). Without SO, we find that fluctuations of the log-conductance are persistent above a saturation field Bs, where one has that the logconductance is approximately a stationary random process. In con...

Inflammatory arthritis is a condition which is characterised by recurrent episodes of joint pain and swelling. It encompasses a spectrum of disorders ranging from rheumatoid arthritis to ankylosing spondylitis. In these conditions, for reasons that are poorly understood, the immune system raises an inflammatory response within the joint space. In some cases, autoantigens have been identified (e...

INTRODUCTION The current 1987 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have proven less useful in early arthritis. The objective of this study was to identify and compare predictors of three relevant outcomes of chronic arthritis in a cohort of very early arthritis patients. METHODS The Norwegian Very Early Arthritis Cohort (NOR-VEAC) includ...

Systematic longitudinal observations were made as typically developing toddlers and young children with autism and with Down syndrome interacted with their caregivers in order to document how joint engagement developed over a year-long period and how variations in joint engagement experiences predicted language outcome. Children with autism displayed a persistent deficit in coordinated joint at...

Ensuring content persistence with minimal replication overhead is a prerequisite for providing any consistent service over a peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay. This paper introduces S-DATA, a bandwidth efficient protocol for achieving highly available P2P systems with minimal replication overhead. When considering a global P2P system, the cyclic behavior of peers situated at different time zones can b...

BACKGROUND The main aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between persistent disease activity and radiographic progression of joint damage in early rheumatoid arthritis (ERA). METHODS Forty-eight patients with active ERA was assessed every 3 months for disease activity for 3 years. Radiographic damage was measured by the Sharp/van der Heijde method (SHS). The cumulative inflamm...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterised by persistent joint inflammation and concomitant joint destruction, and in severe cases with extra-articular manifestations, multiple joint involvement, and a significant reduction in life expectancy. In addition, functional decline and disability inevitably accompanies joint destruction. The extent to which most standard medical approaches have a posi...