Odontogenic keratocyst (OKC) is a cyst of tooth origin with an aggressive clinical behavior including a high recurrence rate. OKC demographics in the northwestern United States are presented and compared to those reported elsewhere. A total of 430 cases were obtained from 393 patients of the northwest region over a period of 15 years. Data evaluated included: site, gender, age, race, and associ...

Homeostasis Marianna Rodova1, Seunghwan Kim1, M. Abdul Mottaleb2 and M. Rafiq Islam1* 1Biochemistry Laboratory, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri, USA 2Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri, USA *Corresponding author: Rafiq Islam, Biochemistry Laboratory, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, USA, Te...

*Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4, Canada †U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. National Parasite Collection, and Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, BARC East 1180, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, Maryland 20715 ‡Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Deve...

Under which conditions can one permute the rows and columns in an instance of the transportation problem, such that the Northwest corner rule solves the resulting permuted instance to optimality? And under which conditions will the Northwest corner rule find the optimal solution for every possible permutation of the instance? We show that the first question touches the area of NP-completeness, ...

this report presents a new record of iranolacerta brandtii brandtii from 30 km south of tekab city, west azarbaijan province and 130 km south of the previously known distribution range of the subspecies; a new record of iranolacerta zagrosica in kaljonun mountain peak, lorestan province, about 70 km northwest of the type locality; a new record of apathya cappadocica urmiana in the manesht prote...

[1] The Big Dry, a recent drought over southeast Australia, began around 1997 and continued until 2011. We show that between 2002–2010, instead of a localized drought, there was a continent-wide reduction in water storage, vegetation and rainfall, spanning the northwest to the southeast of Australia. Trends in water storage and vegetation were assessed using Gravity Recovery and Climate Experim...

Determining whether a population is introduced or native to a region can be challenging due to inadequate taxonomy, the presence of cryptic lineages, and poor historical documentation. For taxa with resting stages that bloom episodically, determining origin can be especially challenging as an environmentally-triggered abrupt appearance of the taxa may be confused with an anthropogenic introduct...

The appearance of Square in Northwest Iran, as a traditional element of the city, did not have a certain definition in the urban planning due to its structural disruption in the spatial fabric as well as its chaotic present in the manifestation of its identity. On the other hand, since the concept of the square in this area does not match to the similar models existing in the central plateau of...