statement of problem: physiologic pigmentation of oral mucosa is considered as a prevalent entity among black people and those having relatively dark skin. gingival physiologic pigmentation may cause problems for some patients specially ladies as far as esthetics is concerned. to overcome the issue, the surgery might be suggested which can cause some problems due to its side effects. cryotherap...

The sensitivity and specificity of a newly developed ligase chain reaction (LCR) test kit were examined by the use of highly purified elementary bodies (EBs) and in situ inclusions containing reticulate bodies only. The performance of the LCR kit was compared with a commercially available polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test kit, AMPLICOR Chlamydia trachomatis. The number of EBs and inclusions ...

In Turkey, only one species of Kyllinga L. (Cyperaceae) is known. This study looked at the morphology, palynology, and fruit morphology brevifolia. The are described depicted. Furthermore, provides information on species' regional ranges as well IUCN threat category for each species, which assigned LC. pollen grains subspheroidal in shape, with micro-echinate-perforated surface ornamentation. c...

Intracytoplasmic inclusions containing Chlamydia psittaci were isolated by a newly established method. Infected L-cells at 20 h after infection were suspended in 0.25 M sucrose-tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane buffer containing ethylene-diaminetetraacetic acid, homogenized in a Dounce tissue grinder, and filtered through a 2,000-mesh screen. Isolated inclusions were stabilized in 5% bovine serum...

Due to hybridization events in evolution, studying different genes of a set of species may yield two or more related but different phylogenetic trees for the set of species. In this case, we want to combine the trees into a reticulate network with the fewest hybridization events. In this article, we develop a software tool (named UltraNet) for several fundamental problems related to the constru...

Newey and Smith (2001) have recently shown that Empirical Likelihood (EL) exhibits desirable higher-order asymptotic properties, namely, that its O ¡ n−1 ¢ bias is particularly small and that biascorrected EL is higher-order efficient. Although EL possesses these properties when the model is correctly specified, this paper shows that the asymptotic variance of EL in the presence of model misspe...