Introduction Uveitis in JIA can be severe and immunosoppressive therapies may not be sufficient. Anti-TNF-alfa agents (Infliximab, Adalimumab) have been proposed. The percentage of success is different among series and no controlled trials have been published yet. Abatacept, a selective T-cell co-stimulation modulator, has been shown to be a valid alternative to anti-TNF-alfa agents in patients...

The word spirit with a small "s", has many meanings. It may mean 1) one of the elements in man which is considered as separable from the flesh and animating the body; or, 2)a person, from the moral, emotional or-intellectual point of view; or, 3) a person's disposition, permanent or temporary mental attitude, or, predominance of the spirit over the flesh especially as manifested in courage, ene...

Despite anecdotal evidence connecting angel and venture capital (VC) financing, there is little systematic evidence on how the two early-stage capital sources interact. To study this topic, I assemble the first comprehensive dataset on angel financing and characterize its size, scope, and role in the early-stage capital market. I use the population of newly incorporated startups located in Cali...

This article focuses its attention on the functioning of biblical motifs in American fiction and their penetration public speeches non-fiction through literary journalism techniques. The findings this work illustrate that religious lexicon as a whole have been used steadily all U.S presidents. Taking into account majority Americans (73%) relates to Christians, belong important rhetorical stylis...

Ādam pictured the zabāniya as duplicates of the angel of death who, according to the Quran (4:97, 32:11), seizes the souls of sinners when they die and interrogates them about their wrongdoings. This is also how later tradition pictured them: as black creatures who appear at the moment of death to pull people’s souls out of their bodies and drag them into hell, where they torture them.2 However...