background and objective: becker muscular dystrophy (bmd) is a subtype of dystrophinopathies and designated as “mild form of dystrophinopathy”. the frequency rate of the disease is 1:18000 to 1:30000 in different populations and the symptoms are presented at about 8-9 years of age. the diagnostic panel composed of serum ceratin kinase (sck) measurement, electromyography (emg), and as a major co...

becker's naevus shows itself as a pigmented area of skin which is aquired , persistant and asymmetrical and sometimes shows evidence of increased androgen sensitivity. colocalization with other developmental anomalies is reported rarely. we report a 20 year old woman who developed an extensive and bilateral becker naevus since the age of 12 year and had left breast hypoplasia, too.

Three new species of Hapigia Guenée, 1854, from Brazil and Ecuador, are described: H. postpallida Becker sp. nov., violacea Becker, nov. violetta

BACKGROUND Becker nevus is a nevoid melanosis, referred to as Becker nevus syndrome when it is associated with other anomalies. Our objectives were to report the occurrence of a Becker nevus with an underlying desmoid soft-tissue tumor; to review Mayo Clinic's experience with Becker nevi, concentrating on Becker nevi associated with bone, vascular, neural, and other soft-tissue abnormalities; t...

Seven genera of Chloropinae (Diptera: Chloropidae) from Vietnam and Thailand are discussed: Eurina Meigen (1 species), Chloromerus Becker (1 species), Siphlus Loew (1 species), Neoloxotaenia Sabrosky (3 species), Aragara Walker (1 species), Elachiptereicus Becker (1 species), Lagaroceras Becker (1 species). Some of them are new to the fauna of Vietnam and Thailand. Two new species are described...

© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 S. Grossbard, The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1623-4_2 This chapter and the following are adapted from “A Theory of Allocation of Time in Markets for Labor and Marriage,” Economic Journal, Vol. 94, pp. 863–882, December 1984. While writing it I benefited from helpful comments from Gary Becker, Jerry Green (f...