The Nixon shock after forty years: the import surcharge revisited

America`s Strategies against IR during the Last Forty Years

The Islamic Revolution, as the greatest historical evolution of contemporary times, has caused America`s interests face many challenges. Understanding the tools and strategies used by the United States against the Islamic Republic of Iran helps us to better understand and confront the country. In this regard, using the theory of invasive realism, American strategies against the Islamic Republic...

Post-tuberculosis chronic empyema of the "forty years after".

The authors present 110 cases of patients hospitalized in the last 5 years, with long-term disabling sequelae of pulmonary tuberculosis. Twelve out of them (= 10.9%) suffered from post-tuberculous chronic empyema, with an average latency period of 44.83 years between the acute tuberculous illness and the clinical manifestation of the empyema. Nine of the patients had been treated with collapsot...

Forty Years After the War: How are Vietnam

Understanding how the Vietnam Veteran generation is faring today in terms of behavioral, physical and social health is a critical undertaking for several reasons. First, Vietnam Veterans constitute the largest living cohort of United States (US) Veterans and are the modal users of US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) services. There are also international cohorts of Vietnam Veterans, as Austr...

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.

The Emilian Model Revisited: Twenty Years After