Amoeboid cell motility is essential for a wide range of biological processes including wound healing, embryonic morphogenesis, and cancer metastasis.It relies on complex dynamical patterns of cell shape changes that pose long-standing challenges to mathematical modeling and raise a need for automated and reproducible approaches to extract quantitat
Diversion programmes have been found to be effective mechanisms to reduce crime and change the behaviours of youth globally and in South Africa.However, studies done on diversion programmes have focused more on factors influencing crime, rates of recidivism and treatment of the offenders.This paper thus explored the impact of diversion programmes o
OVO-like proteins (OVOL) are members of the zinc finger protein family and serve as transcription factors to regulate gene expression in various differentiation processes.Recent studies have shown that OVOL genes are involved in epithelial development and differentiation in a wide variety of organisms; yet there is a lack of comprehensive studies t
Wind-wave contributions to tropical cyclone (TC)-induced extreme sea levels are known to be significant in areas with narrow littoral zones, particularly at oceanic islands.Despite this, little information exists in many of these locations to assess the likelihood of inundation, the relative contribution of wind and wave setup to this inundation, a
Abstract Background Understanding the structure and drivers of gut microbiota remains a major ecological endeavour.Recent studies have shown that several factors including diet, lifestyle and geography may substantially shape the human gut microbiota.However, most of these studies have focused on the more abundant bacterial component and comparativ