“Women easily feel that they have lost a year if they don’t ski faster”: Finnish ski coaches’ discursive constructions of gendered dual career pathways

Randomized Clinical Trials on Trial: Have They Lost Their Appeal?

Preface Human beings have a future if they deserve to have a future!

World Scientific Review Volume-9in x 6in book Preface Human beings have a future if they deserve to have a future! Gregory J. Chaitin This book is offered with admiration and affection to Gregory J. Chaitin 1 on the occasion of his 60th birthday (25 June 2007).

Ski injury predictive analytics from massive ski lift transportation data

Ski injury research is traditionally studied on small-scale observational studies where risk factors from univariate and multivariate statistical models are extracted. In this article, a large-scale ski injury observational study was conducted by analyzing skier transportation data from six consecutive seasons. Logistic regression and chi-square automatic interaction detection decision tree mod...

A survey of Canadian Alpine ski racing coaches regarding spinal protective devices for their athletes.

INTRODUCTION Spinal protective devices are a recent addition to the protective equipment worn by competitive and recreational alpine skiers and snowboarders. Their rate of use is not documented at the time of publication. The objective of this study was to examine the current attitudes and recommendations of Canadian alpine ski racing coaches towards spinal protective devices. METHODS A conve...

To Ski or Not to Ski on Replaced Hips

A report on two friends Since the outbreak of peace and prosperity in Europe forty years ago skiing has become one of the most popular pastimes , and now many of its ageing devotees have had their hips replaced, they are still sound in wind, are they also sound in limb? They feel physically restored, the snows and the slopes beckon, should they accept the challenge or should 'wiser councils pre...