BACKGROUND Low back pain (LBP) in schoolchildren with no apparent clinical cause is known to be a common problem, but considerably less is understood regarding the aetiology of such pain. AIM To assess the role of both mechanical and psychosocial factors (including emotional and behavioural problems and other somatic pain complaints) in childhood LBP. METHODS A cross sectional study was car...

BY GUY METCALFE1,*, DANIEL LESTER1, ALISON ORD2,6, PANDURANG KULKARNI3, MURRAY RUDMAN4, MIKE TREFRY5,6, BRUCE HOBBS2,6, KLAUS REGENAUR-LIEB2,6,7 AND JEFFERY MORRIS3 1Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO ) Division of Materials Science and Engineering, PO Box 56, Graham Road, Highett, Victoria 3190, Australia 2CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining, 26 Dick Perry...

Strengthening impact assessment: a call for integration and focus Angus Morrison-Saunders, Jenny Pope, Jill A.E. Gunn, Alan Bond & Francois Retief a School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch, WA6150, Australia b School of Geo and Spatial Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa c Integral Sustain...

Author details Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag, 1797, Penrith South, DC, NSW 2751, Australia. School of Nursing & Midwifery, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia. School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales, St George Hospital, IVF Australia Southern Sydney, South Street, Koga...

Recently Haferlach, Wessnitzer, Mangan and Webb (2007) reported producing a novel neural model of the animal behaviour known as path integration, a navigation process requiring a compass and odometer. Here we comment on comparisons that that paper makes with our earlier work, (Vickerstaff & Di Paolo, 2005) where we also evolved a neural model of path integration. The authors make prominent ment...

The aim of my PhD research is focused on Text Mining, one major research school in Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), and in particular Text Preprocessing (TPP) for classification / categorization of documents utilizing novel algorithms for the identification of hidden patterns, rules, regularities and trends within these documents. Significant techniques in Data Mining, another wellknown ...