This report describes the treatment of osetomyelitis of the femur of 9-month-old dog with the use of heterologous carbonated nanocrystal bone mineral and collagen, stabilised by a bone plate. In this dog, due to mistakes during earlier stabilisation, bone infection and sequestration had arisen. After antibiotic therapy, plating stabilisation was carried out. Osteosynthesis with the use of dynam...

This paper presents an analysis of the joint determination of growth and business cycles with the view to studying the long-run implications of short-term monetary stabilisation policy. The analysis is based on a simple stochastic growth model in which both real and nominal shocks have permanent effects on output due to nominal rigidities (wage contracts) and an endogenous technology (learning-...

This paper develops a two-period disequilibrium model of a small open economy under Keynesian unemployment to analyse the effects of temporary, anticipated, and permanent coffee price shocks. The model includes a government sector that administers a commodity price stabilisation fund, and allows for capital market imperfections. The type of capital market imperfection makes an important differe...

This paper examines under what conditions fiscal policy in the form of government spending should contribute to macroeconomic stabilisation. To this end optimal fiscal targeting rules minimising the microfounded social loss are examined in the following settings. Firstly, for the benchmark New Keynesian model, where monetary policy is unconstrained, a neutrality result for fiscal obtains: fisca...

Suitable bioconjugation strategies and stabilisation of biomolecules on electrodes is essential for the development of novel and commercially viable biosensors. In the present review, the functional groups that comprise the selectable targets for practical bioconjugation methods are discussed. We focus on describing the most common immobilisation techniques used in biosensor construction, which...

This article is concerned with L1 and L2 semi-global stabilisation of continuous-time periodic linear systems with bounded controls. Two problems, namely L1 semi-global stabilisation with controls having bounded magnitude and L2 semi-global stabilisation with controls having bounded energy, are solved based on solutions to a class of periodic Lyapunov differential equations (PLDEs) resulting fr...

Commodity price stabilisation schemes are again topical, this time as a result of pressure from UNCTAD for an integrated programme on commodities as part of the 'New International Order'. Despite the long history of interest in the subject and its evident importance for developing countries the conventional analysis of the impact of price stabilisation is remarkably simplistic.^ The theory was ...

A four-wavelength low-power continuous-wave frequency laser reference system has been realised in the 935.4-nm range for water vapour differential absorption lidar (DIAL) applications. The system is built around laboratory extended-cavity and DFB diode lasers. Three lasers are directly locked to three water vapour absorption lines of different strength, whereas the wavelength of the fourth lase...

Haiti is routinely characterised as an archetypical fragile state. In spite of considerable donor investment in security promotion, real and perceived safety have proven frustratingly elusive. In the years before the devastating earthquake of 12 January 2010, the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, was also the site of considerable experimentation to promote security and stability. T his paper r...