Revista Andaluza de Medicina del Deporte: Balance 2018. (Andalusian Journal of Sports Medicine: Balance 2018)

2018 Changes in the Journal

CombinaTexas 2018 February 10 – 11 , 2018

In this talk we give combinatorial proofs of q-Stirling identities using restricted growth words. This includes a poset theoretic proof of Carlitz’s identity, a new proof of the q-Frobenius identity of Garsia and Remmel and of Ehrenborg’s Hankel q-Stirling determinantal identity. We also develop a two parameter generalization to unify identities of Mercier and include a symmetric function versi...

State of the Journal 2018: HeartRhythm Case Reports

HeartRhythm Case Reports is completing its fourth year in publication. The mission of the journal remains to publish very high quality case reports that improve the care of patients by advancing research, education, and optimal health care policies and standards in the realm of heart rhythm disorders. The journal remains very healthy with a broad readership and diverse pool of authors. It is pr...

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo (Journal of the São Paulo Institute of Tropical Medicine) fifty years later.

A case of sporotrichosis in a woman presenting 63 cutaneous lesions distributed all over the tegument is related. The patient had both humoral (Immunoglobulins) and cellular (Lymphocytes subpopulations) immunity within normal limits, but was under treatment with steroid during a long time (Prednisone 10 mg daily for 2 years), due to a sciatic pain. In addition a review of the Brazilian literatu...

Energy balance: a crucial issue for exercise and sports medicine

The Malhotra editorial challenges the effectiveness of physical activity for weight loss in obese individuals. The guidelines and reports highlighted above present much of the evidence base and include a specific Cochrane systematic review by Shaw et al, 7 which was ignored by the Malhotra editorial. This review included 43 studies reporting results from 41 rando-mised controlled trials includi...