Banning boxing.

On the barbaric nature of boxing: thoughts following the panorama debate on banning boxing after yet another death.

Boxing Theories

In previous papers, I presented an inference method for rst-order logic based on the transformation between canonical normal forms (Bittencourt, 1994) and a concurrent algorithm for this transformation that, in the one hand, generates only clauses that are not subsumed by any other and, in the other hand, is naturally concurrent and therefore easy to parallelize (Bitten-court, 1995). This algor...

[Brain injuries in boxing].

The case for banning cigarettes.

Lifelong smokers lose on average a decade of life vis-à-vis non-smokers. Globally, tobacco causes about 5-6 million deaths annually. One billion tobacco-related deaths are predicted for the 21st century, with about half occurring before the age of 70. In this paper, we consider a complete ban on the sale of cigarettes and find that such a ban, if effective, would be justified. As with many poli...

Ocular complications of boxing.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the prevalence of ocular injuries in a large population of boxers over a period of 16 years, in particular, the most severe lesions that may be vision threatening. METHODS Clinical records of the medical archive of the Italian Boxing Federation were analysed. A total of 1032 boxers were examined from February 1982 to October 1998. A complete ophthalmological history ...