Background The propagation of communicable diseases through a population is an inherent
spatial and temporal process of great importance for modern society. For this reason a …

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) integrates its genome into that of infected cells and
may enter an inactive state of reversible latency that cannot be targeted using antiretroviral …

Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) controls but does not eradicate HIV infection; HIV
persistence is the principal obstacle to curing infections. The proportion of defective …

Background HIV-1 proviruses can persist during ART in clonally-expanded populations of
CD4+ T cells. To date, few examples of an expanded clones containing replication-competent …

Methods Participant recruitment and informed consent were performed under Institutional
Review Board (IRB)-approved protocols at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). For FACS…

Floods are one of the most perilous natural calamities that cause property destruction and
endanger human life. The spatial patterns of flood susceptibility were assessed in this study …

Based on a sample of 102 US organizations, this study examines the impact of knowledge
characteristics, recipient learning intent, source attractiveness, and relationship quality on the …

Among the most productive ecosystems around the world, wetlands support a wide range of
biodiversity such as waterfowl, fish, amphibians, plants and many other species. They also …

Accurate crop yield predictions are crucial for farmers and policymakers. Despite the widespread
use of ensemble machine learning (ML) models in computer science, their application …

Rare CD4 T cells that contain HIV under antiretroviral therapy represent an important barrier
to HIV cure 1 , 2 – 3 , but the infeasibility of isolating and characterizing these cells in their …