Multifactor funds, which offer risk factor diversification, have several appealing characteristics. They enable investing in factors, has become a typical way to enhance portfolio’s long-term risk-adjusted return; they provide exposure more than one factor, enables diversification; and these benefits neatly packaged product. What’s not like? Their performance. Although their track record is lim...

BACKGROUND Complications in early pregnancy, such as threatened or actual miscarriage is a common occurrence resulting in many women presenting to the emergency department (ED). Early pregnancy service delivery models described in the literature vary in terms of approach, setting and outcomes. Our objective was to determine outcomes of women who presented to an Australian regional ED with diagn...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between function and disease activity in early inflammatory arthritis (EIA). METHODS Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort (CATCH) (n=1143) is a multi-site EIA cohort. Correlations between the Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ) and DAS28 were done at every 3 months for the first year and then at 18 and 24 months. We also investigated the...

Earthquake Alarms Systems, ElarmS, is a methodology for providing warning of forthcoming ground shaking during earthquakes. The approach uses a network of seismic instruments to detect the first-arriving energy at the surface, the P-waves, and translate the information contained in these low amplitude waves into a prediction of the peak ground shaking that follows. The instruments closest to th...

Liver resection (LR) and liver transplantation (LT) are potential curative treatment methods for early hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, it is controversial which treatment is more beneficial to patients with solitary HCC meeting the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) criteria (single lesion, diameter≤50mm, no vascular invasion, no extrahepatic metastasis). We retrieved patients wit...

INTRODUCTION Although many studies have suggested that the presence of autoantibodies, such as rheumatoid factor (RF) and/or anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are predictors of joint damage, the association with disability and quality of life questionnaires are not known. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the correlation between the Health Assessment Questionnaire...