While there is no consensus about the history of time since the beginning, in this paper I will discuss some possibilities. We have a pretty clear picture of cosmic history from the electroweak phase transition through the time of recombination, a period which includes the QCD phase transition and big bang nucleosynthesis. This paper includes a quantitative discussion of the age of the universe...

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 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...

Infantile myofibromatosis is a rare mesenchymal disorder of early childhood characterized by the formation of tumors in skin, muscle, viscera, bone, and subcutaneous tissue [1-3]. It may present with a solitary form or a multi-centric form. The condition was previously known as congenital generalized myofibromatosis. It affects almost exclusively infants and young children. It was felt to be a ...

Auctions are promising decentralized methods for teams of agents to allocate and re-allocate tasks among themselves in dynamic, partially known and time-constrained domains with positive or negative synergies among tasks. Auctionbased coordination systems are easy to understand, simple to implement and broadly applicable. They promise to be efficient both in communication (since agents communic...

Three periods can be distinguished in university patenting at the U.S. Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) since the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980: (1) a first period of exponential increase in university patenting till 1995 (filing date) or 1999 (issuing date); (2) a period of relative decline since 1999; and (3) in most recent years—since 2008—a linear increase in university patenting. We argue that this...