OBJECTIVES To quantify the incidence and type of medical problem arising during an amateur circumnavigation yacht race, the BT Global Challenge. METHODS All cases from 14 participating yachts in a confidential medical log completed by an appointed medic were reported. RESULTS A total of 685 cases were reported, of which 299 (43.6%) were injuries and 386 (56.4%) illnesses. The subtype of inj...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of clavicle fractures in professional and amateur cyclists and evaluate the factors associated with its occurrence. METHOD One hundred and forty professional and amateur athletes were interviewed through a questionnaire regarding age and time practicing bicycling, among others. RESULTS Among the 140 evaluated cyclists, there were 19 (13.5%) clavicle frac...

This project sought to determine the minimum useful antenna aperture for amateur radio astronomers to successfully detect pulsars around the Hydrogen line frequency of 1420MHz. The technique relied on the collaboration with GM Gancio, who provided RTL SDR data of the Vela pulsar (B0833-45, J0835-4510) and others, collected with a 30m radio telescope. This data was processed to determine the ach...

While recent scholarship has helped uncover specific stories of women in different commercial cinema industries, there remains a lacuna around the role amateur filmmakers within national contexts. Where male filmmaking often been linked to range solitary or group-based leisure pursuits, we cannot make same assumption about filmmaker’s involvement social groups, not least due gendered nature dom...

The presence of bubbles in the markets and its formation has been regarded by economists and they have been looking to develop methods that can be recognized by using appropriate method for the formation of bubbles. In this paper, first, the formation of bubbles is tested using the new unit root test known as Phillips test (Generalized Sup ADF test) for 50 companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange...

1. Not planning at all By far the most common planning problem is simply not planning at all, and this sin is easily avoided. A person need not be an expert planner to plan effectively. I’ve seen numerous instances of projects planned by rank amateurs that have run well simply because the people in charge had carefully considered their project’s specific needs. Forced to choose between an exper...

Q-switched lasers are the treatment of choice for amateur and professional tattoos, because these devices achieve optimal selective photothermolysis of dermal tattoo pigment, thereby minimizing collateral tissue damage.[1] Unfortunately, laser tattoo removal is costly and tedious, requiring multiple treatments for professional tattoos (up to 20 sessions). Variables that make tattoos harder to c...