Objectives To examine the literature to determine if stabilisation exercises are effective for the treatment of pain and dysfunction in patients with low back pain. Data sources PubMed (MEDLINE), CINAHL, AMED, PEDro and the Cochrane Library were searched up to October 2006. Review methods Inclusion criteria were: randomised clinical trials; in English; full publications; subjects were adults wi...

This paper explores the evolution of international stabilisation agendas and their significance for humanitarian action. Stabilisation includes a combination of military, humanitarian, political and economic activities to control, contain and manage areas affected by armed conflict and complex emergencies. Encompassing narrow security objectives and broader peace-building efforts, stabilisation...

Distributed management of complex large-scale infrastructures, such as power distribution systems, is challenging. Sustainability of these systems can be achieved by enabling stabilisation in global resource utilisation. This paper proposes EPOS, the Energy Plan Overlay Self-stabilisation system, for this purpose. EPOS is an agent-based approach that performs self-stabilisation over a tree over...

We identified ten patients who underwent arthroscopic revision of anterior shoulder stabilisation between 1999 and 2005. Their results were compared with 15 patients, matched for age and gender, who had a primary arthroscopic stabilisation during the same period. At a mean follow-up of 37 and 36 months, respectively, the scores for pain and shoulder function improved significantly between the p...

Inflation and moduli stabilisation mechanisms work well independently, and many string-motivated supergravity models have been proposed for them. However a complete theory will contain both, and there will be (gravitational) interactions between the two sectors. These give corrections to the inflaton potential, which generically ruin inflation. This holds true even for fine-tuned moduli stabili...

We examine some recent cases in which stabilisation has failed for political reasons, in the process developing a model of political response to crisis which stems from the ‘survival strategy’ literature. Alongside the ‘standard’ correlations of stabilisation failure with inequality and deficiencies in social capital, we also draw attention in this context to the ability of ‘pro-poor expenditur...

L’auto-stabilisation garantit qu’à la fin d’une période de fautes transitoires, un système réparti retrouve de lui-même un comportement correct en un temps fini. La spéculation consiste à garantir que le système soit correct pour toute exécution mais possède des performances significativement meilleures pour un sous-ensemble d’exécutions qui sont supposées plus probables. Un protocole spéculati...

We consider residual-based stabilised finite element methods for the generalised Oseen problem. The unique solvability based on a modified stability condition and an error estimate are proved for inf-sup stable discretisations of velocity and pressure. The analysis highlights the role of an additional stabilisation of the incompressibility constraint. It turns out that the stabilisation terms o...

This paper is concerned with the exponential mean-square stabilisation of hybrid stochastic differential equations (also known as stochastic differential equations with Markovian switching) by delay feedback controls. Although the stabilisation by nondelay feedback controls for such equations has been discussed by several authors, there is so far little on the stabilisation by delay feedback co...