Julius thomsen first published his account of myotonia (an unusual muscle stiffness disorder) in himself and his family in 1876. By november 1971, Peter Becker was already famous for his eponymous Becker muscular dystrophy when he came to the second international congress on Muscle Diseases, in Perth. there, he presented an extensive study of myotonia, recognising a recessively inherited diseas...

The field of computational complexity is reaching what could be termed middle age, with over forty years having passed since the first papers defining the discipline. With this metaphor in mind, the early nineteeneighties represented the end of adolescence for the area, the time when it stopped wondering what it would be when it grew up. During the childhood period of the sixties, research cent...

The changes in psychoanalytic self psychology since its origination by Heinz Kohut are described as differences in three branches: the traditional, the intersubjective, and the relational. Each claims both a distinctiveness and a major influence within self psychology. These are described and contrasted. It is suggested that an effort to integrate all three is premature, and that they will cont...

Iran’s foreign policy toward international organizations has always oscillated between divergence and convergence, depending on the status of the country in question and the statesmen's point of the view. This study aimed to examine the status of international organizations in Iran’s foreign policy. A divergent approach to international organizations was adopted during 1981-1988 and 2005-2013. ...