When Griffiths presented his report ‘Community Care Agenda for Action’ to the Secretary of State, directors of social services heaved sighs of relief as it appeared to be some kind of confirmation that those of us responsible for delivery of a complex range of services were in reality performing an impossible set of tasks. Griffiths lent support to our view that we were being asked ‘to make bri...

Disorder is an unavoidable ingredient of real systems. Spatial disorder generates Griffiths phases (GPs) which, in analogy to critical points, are characterized by a slow relaxation of the order parameter and divergences of quantities such as the susceptibility. However, these singularities appear in an extended region of the parameter space and not just at a (critical) point, i.e., there is ge...

AIMS To examine the predictive value of early developmental testing for identifying neuromotor and perceptual-motor impairment at school age in children with neonatal encephalopathy (NE). METHODS Eighty full term infants with NE were followed longitudinally. Where possible, children were tested on the Griffiths scales at 1 and 2 years and at 5-6 years, on the Touwen Examination, Movement ABC,...

The Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society mourns the loss of Lemuel Matthews Griffiths, who died on September 22nd, lri eightieth year, an Ex-President and one of its earliest an(i most active members. With this issue already in the Press it is quite impossible to do justice to his memory or give a(lequate expression to the well-earned gratitude of his medical c?nfreres in Bristol for the many yea...

In this paper we prove that the Griffiths group of a general cubic sevenfold is not finitely generated, even when tensored with Q. Using this result and a theorem of Nori, we provide examples of varieties which have some Griffiths group not finitely generated but whose corresponding intermediate Jacobian is trivial.