Assessment of growth status of dentofacial skeleton is important during orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning procedures particularly in young children having skeletal malocclusion. ‘Genetic and epigenetic factors have a marked effect on the growth status of a child thus the need for the orthodontist to use various skeletal maturation indices to determine period of accelerated growth. Ai...

Oocyte maturation is a final step of gamete development that follows a prolonged period of cell growth within a growing follicle. Unlike oocyte growth that takes several weeks or months, maturation process is a short (hours or days), dynamic process. The period of oocyte maturation varies among species, ranging from 10-13 hours in the mouse (Edwards & Gates, 1959) to 16-24 hours in the cow (Dom...

Mosaic disease in Jatropha curcas plants is caused by begomoviruses carried whitefly vectors, and only mature vectors can transmit the virus. In this study, a mathematical model developed for dynamic analysis of spread mosaic J. plantation, accounting maturation period as time delay factor. The existence conditions stability equilibrium points have been studied with qualitative theory. basic re...