The incidence of recruit injuries during basic training in the Irish Army is, to date undocumented. In this retrospective cohort study, the medical records of 415 recruits are examined. The lower limb predominated as the anatomical site of the majority of injuries. The overall incidence of male 'first time' injuries was 56.96 per 1000 man-week training. The corresponding female figure was 99.26...

Figure 1: En bloc resection specimen of the proximal fibula of a 43 year old female, containing a lobulated bluish white, translucent tumour (4.5 x 2 x 1.9 cm) located centrally within the medullary cavity, consistent with central chondrosarcoma. Figure 2: Corresponding macro-slice showing a lobular architecture, and endosteal cortical thinning. Cytonucle ar appearance can be more readily appre...

The objectives of this study were to determine food preferences, body image perceptions, dieting behaviors, and nutrient intakes of elite male and female figure skaters. Male (n = 23) and female (n = 26) figure skaters completed a food preference checklist, a questionnaire examining their demographics, dieting behaviors and body image perceptions, and 3-d food records. Male skaters had a higher...

(copulation and egg-laying, respectively; Figure 1 experiments 6 and 13, and [1]). Silencing the fru GAL4 neurons in fru M virgin females does not induce egg-laying, as it does in wild-type (fru F) females (Figure 1C, experiment 7). Thus, Fru M appears to reconfigure the circuit for male rather than female behaviour in a way that cannot be explained entirely by altered patterns of neuronal acti...

The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between shyness and adjustment outcomes in competitive adolescent figure skaters. At Time 1, 40 female figure skaters completed self-reports of shyness, athletic self-esteem and psychological coping style. At Time 2, approximately nine months later, skaters completed a measure of competitive anxiety immediately prior to a competitive per...

This study was conducted to assess adult female performance on the Southern California Visual Figure-Ground Perception Test (FGP) and to obtain an estimate of the test's reliability. Data were obtained for two scoring formats. The first format was the score for all items on the test (TOTAL), and the second format was the score through the fifth error (FIRST-FIVE). The mean scores were 38.24 (SD...