Abstract Globally, uveitis is a collection of intraocular inflammatory disorders that affect mainly the uvea, resulting in irreversible blindness and a heavy socioeconomic burden.Excessive autoimmune inflammation and oxidative stress are major drivers that contribute to the initiation and progression of uveitis.Nevertheless, current therapeutic met

The Small Punch (SP) and Shear Punch (ShP) tests are well established mechanical test approaches that have found application in several industrial sectors for material ranking and mechanical property estimation, particularly where more conventional approaches are inhibited.Despite the advantages that the two test methodologies have to offer, the ma

The intracellular bacterium Waddlia chondrophila, which belongs to the Chlamydiales order, was found to be associated with miscarriage in humans.There is little to no knowledge regarding the mode of infection, impact on the neonate and pathophysiology of this emerging bacterium.We have previously shown that W.chondrophila induces a systemic infecti

Lexical comparison has long dominated the study of West African language history.Ap-proaching TACTICAL VESTS the subject from a different perspective, this paper compares a sample of West African languages based on a selection of typological features proposed to be temporally stable and hence possible markers of historical connections between langu

In this paper, we introduce a decode-and-forward multi-hop hybrid free-space optical/radio frequency (FSO/RF) system.The FSO link is assumed to follow Gamma-Gamma distribution with the combined effects of pointing errors and path loss under intensity modulation with direct detection technique, and the RF link Raglan Shirt is assumed to follow Nakag