In psoriatic arthritis, permanent joint damage characterizes disease progression and represents a major debilitating aspect of the disease. Understanding the process of joint damage will assist in the treatment and disease management of patients. Multistate models provide a means to examine patterns of disease, such as symmetric joint damage. Additionally, the link between damage and the dynami...

In any legal system, one finds numerous rules and practices as well as constitutional provisions which are incompatible with utilitarian considerations. These rules and practices often grant benefits to an individual whose wellbeing is at risk; yet the costs of these benefits to other individuals outweigh the benefits. Thus, for instance, despite the persistent belief of economists that efficie...

For centuries, theologists, historians, archaeologists, petrologists, and others had been interested in a story about Christian martyrs known as Passio Sanctorum Quattuor Coronatorum. It is a hagiographic manuscript from the 4th century which describes the martyrdom and death of two separate groups of Christians who suffered Diocletian's persecution. One group lived in Pannonia and the other in...

The Millstone Hill radar facility operated by M. 1. T. Lincoln Laboratory has made measurements of the distribution of electrons in the. F-region of the ionosphere by observing the weak incoherent backscatter signal. These measurement were first made early in 1960 and were conti””ed thro”gho”t 1961 on a routine basis at least once a week. This report presents al I the electron density profll es...

t Officers Staff Sergeants Drummers Corporals Privates Maitland, left Rawulpindee en route for the hills beyond Murree, to be eraployed in road-making; followed by the head-quarters of the regiment on the 9th May, strengthf under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Hodgson. On the 19tli May, after some little detention on the way, the two detachments arrived at, and were located, the headquarters and...

The "floating" posterior inferior glenohumeral ligament (floating PIGHL) is an uncommon cause of posterior shoulder instability. This pathologic lesion, defined as detachment of both the origin of the PIGHL (posterior Bankart lesion) and insertion of the of the PIGHL from its humeral head insertion site, often results in significant and persistent shoulder instability symptoms. An effective sur...

1 Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 2 Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 3 Harvard Project Zero, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 4 The Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA 5 Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Lon...

Endocrinology in Haryana: 50 years of statehood , 15+ years of service Sir, Haryana, a small but dynamic state of Northwest India, completed 50 years of statehood on November 1, 2016. The past half‑century has been marked by sustained and significant growth in all fields. Both public and private sectors have worked hard to transform Haryana from a little‑known dusty state to one of the engines ...

BACKGROUND Eponymous terms are used frequently in daily patient care and scientific literature. They remind us of our predecessors in surgery. It is debatable whether eponymous terms are reliable in case of information transfer. The aim of our study was to investigate whether the original meaning of eponymous terms in shoulder and elbow surgery has been preserved in its use in contemporary lite...

production. 8) The cells must be approved by the National Control Authority. The data obtained in a number of field trials of vaccine produced in one such human diploid cell strain is sufficiently encouraging to warrant continued efforts. Over 200,000 persons have now received vaccines produced in the human diploid cell strain WI-38. Vaccines against poliomyelitis, adenovirus type 4, measles, r...