America`s Strategies against IR during the Last Forty Years

The Disappearance of the Hegemony of the USA and IR`s Being of Forty Years Old

The main purpose of this paper is to study the way(s) in which the America's hegemony confronted IR and declined during the 40 years of the Islamic Revolution. Accordingly, when analyzing the subject, Lacla and Mouffe's discourse analysis method is used. The hypothesis of the study may be mentioned as: while accepting the discoursive conflict of IR and USA, the United States intends to introduc...

Medical Research Council. Special Report Series, No. 247. The Epidemiology of Diphtheria during the Last Forty Years

Forceps Delivery during the Last Fifty Years

occurrence. Since I first began practice in 1842, I have kept accurate notes of all my obstetric cases; and I therefore venture in 1892 to submit to your notice the experience which I have acquired respecting Forceps Delivery. Before 1842, when I was not yet a qualified practitioner, I attended thirty-five midwifery cases under the superintendence of my father, who was then lecturer on obstetrics

Forty Years of X-Ray Binaries

In 2012 it was forty years ago that the discovery of the first X-ray binary Centaurus X-3 became known. That same year it was discovered that apart from the High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) there are also Low-Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs), and that Cygnus X-1 is most probably a black hole. By 1975 also the new class of Be/X-ray binaries was discovered. After this it took 28 years before ESAs INTE...

REDUCE: The First Forty Years

Volker Weispfenning and his group in Passau have had a long interest in computer algebra. In this talk, REDUCE, one of the algebra programs they use, will be discussed. The development of this program began over forty years ago. We shall discuss the design decisions that have influenced its long-term survival, and the way in which the program has evolved with time.

Forty years in cardiology.

ELECTION to this lectureship has brought me an honour which I rank highly, in that I am aware of the acknowledged distinction of my predecessors and which laid claim to their appointment to this office. The invitation has also placed upon my shoulders a heavy responsibility, namely to discharge my duty as creditably as they did, and has planted in me a fear lest I fail to do so. I mean, however...