Background and aims: Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignant and papillary cancer and three times more prevalent in women than men. The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence rate and trend of thyroid cancer in Iranian population. Methods: National incidence was rated by Iran National Cancer Registry data derived from Iran’s annual national cancer registration reported f...

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Trichophoromyia ruifreitasi sp. n. is described as a new species of sand fly from the genus Trichophoromyia Barretto. This description is supported with illustrations and photographs that detail the morphological characteristics of male specimens collected in the municipality of Assis Brasil, Acre State, Brazilian Amazon. This species is similar to Trichophoromyia auraensis (Mangabeira), but th...

Lak is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by over 150,000 people in the central highlands of the Republic of Dagestan in the Russian Federation. It utilizes reduplication in certain durative verb forms, notably imperatives, the present participle (both short and full forms), the present gerund, and the assertive present and conditional forms (Murkelinskij 1971:187; Khajdakov 1962:410-416). T...

Introduction and Background: Radial grabens at Tharsis record crustal extension due to the load [1−3]. However their development and significance beyond 2-D strain estimates are largely unknown. For example, early Viking-based strain models required two separate phases of Tharsis loading to produce the “inner” and “outer” radial grabens [4,5]. In contrast, recent MGS-based stress models for Tha...

A new mealybug species, Chorizococcus zoysiaesp. n., feeding on Zoysia tenuifolia (Poaceae), is described from Taiwan. Adult female, third-instar female, second-instar female and first-instar nymph were described and illustrated in this article. Keys are provides to (a) separate this new species from similar species of Chorizococcus and those of same genus on zoysia grasses and (b) to identify ...