Publications by authors named "T D Mast"

Background: New dosage form and frequency options may improve HIV treatment outcomes and reduce disparities in access and use.

Methods: People with HIV (PWH) in the US completed a demographic and discrete choice experiment survey of preference for 13 hypothetical HIV treatment options: daily and weekly oral tablets; 1-, 3-, or 6-monthly injections by self or a health care provider; yearly implant; or combinations. Best-worst scaling and a latent class model were used to analyze overall preference choices and for groups of individuals with similar patterns of preferences; the model also predicted uptake of products.

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In this work, we propose a multi-level protocol for routine theoretical studies of chemical reaction mechanisms. The initial reaction paths of our investigated systems are sampled using the Nudged Elastic Band (NEB) method driven by a cheap electronic structure method. Forces recalculated at the more accurate electronic structure theory for a set of points on the path are fitted with a machine learning technique (in our case symmetric gradient domain machine learning or sGDML) to produce a semi-local reactive potential energy surface (PES), embracing reactants, products and transition state (TS) regions.

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Capsules are long-chain carbohydrate polymers that envelop the surfaces of many bacteria, protecting them from host immune responses. Capsule biosynthesis enzymes are potential drug targets and valuable biotechnological tools for generating vaccine antigens. Despite their importance, it remains unknown how structurally variable capsule polymers of Gram-negative pathogens are linked to the conserved glycolipid anchoring these virulence factors to the bacterial membrane.

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The Reflections series takes a look back on historical articles from The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America that have had a significant impact on the science and practice of acoustics.

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