Background Due to the insidious onset and non-specific nature of axial spondyloarthritis (AxSpA), there is often a significant delay diagnosis. The average diagnosis in UK 8.5 years [1] . This associated with several adverse sequalae including poor disease-related quality life worse overall health outomes [2,3] In addition, are substantial health-economic costs this. Recent modelling data UK, c...

Background: Our study focuses on the work engagement in PE of French vocational high school students. Indeed, these students is a major concern teaching staff. The majority have not chosen field to which they are assigned. This non-choice one factors leading disengagement from and deviant behaviour [Arrighi, Jean-Jacques, Céline Gasquet. 2010. “Orientation et affectation: la sélection dans l’en...

Because acute segmental wall motion abnormalities (SWMAs) of the left ventricle are highly sensitive and specific indicators of myocardial ischemia, this study compared the incidence and significance of ischemia, as detected by two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography and surface electrocardiography, during anesthesia and surgery in patients at high risk of myocardial ischemia. During s...

To cite: Cullinan P, D’Souza E, Tennant R, et al. Thorax 2014;69: 1059–1060. INTRODUCTION One of us was asked to consider a diagnosis of occupational asthma for a man who had worked for 20 years as a metal turner in a large, modern factory producing specialised machine parts. He described a 2 year history of severe breathlessness that improved when he was not at work. His spirometry was restric...

Because acute segmental wall motion abnormalities (SWMAs) of the left ventricle are highly sensitive and specific indicators of myocardial ischemia, this study compared the incidence and significance of ischemia, as detected by two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography and surface electrocardiography, during anesthesia and surgery in patients at high risk of myocardial ischemia. During s...

We present the advantages of guided sentences composition for communicating in natural language with computers. We show how guidance can be achieved by means of the partial synthesis of sentences and describe our approach consisting in separating knowledge that comes under different levels of well-formedness and coroutining their treatment. This approach has led us to develop in Prolog a softwa...

This paper presents results from recent work using a shallow water Lagrangian float for sea floor imaging and water column profiling. The float is a flexible platform that is able to carry a suite of sensors and position itself at any point in the water column using ballast control. The low cost of the float and minimal peripheral requirements for personnel and handling gear make it an attracti...

One of the most fertile areas in social psychiatry in the last two decades has been the study of the aetiology of depressive illness. The number of reports appearing requires periodic stocktaking to keep abreast of developments, but the criteria by which findings should be evaluated are not always self-evident and merit some consideration. This theme is particularly topical in view of a recent ...

We clarify how the requirement of conservative extension features in the thinking of various deflationists, and how this relates to another litmus claim, that the truth-predicate stands for a real, substantial property. We discuss how the deflationist can accommodate the result, to which Cieslinski draws attention, that non-conservativeness attends even the generalization that all logical theor...