RATIONALE Women with cardiovascular disease are treated less aggressively than men. The reasons for this disparity are unclear. Pharmaceutical advertisements may influence physician practices and patient care. AIMS AND OBJECTIVE To determine if female and male patients are equally likely to be featured in cardiovascular advertisements. METHODS We examined all cardiovascular advertisements f...

BACKGROUND There has been rapid growth in the technical and physiologic demands made on skaters who perform more and more difficult jumps, spins, lifts, throws, and free skating movements. PURPOSE To investigate the frequency of injuries and overuse syndromes in elite junior skaters. STUDY DESIGN Questionnaire. METHODS During four consecutive Junior World Figure Skating Championships and ...

[This corrects the article on p. 124 in vol. 12, PMID: 25191502.].

This paper proposes a new, e cient, gure from ground discrimination method. This algorithm is based on the assumption that background data features can be more easily detected than gure data features, thus emphasizing the background detection task (and implying the name of the method). Along the iterative labeling process, data features are sequentially and permanently labelled as "background",...