In this paper, a multi-strategy enhanced chimpanzee optimization algorithm (MSEChOA) acting on path planning for delivery vehicles is proposed to achieve the goal of shortening global path lengths for the delivery unmanned vehicles and obtaining safe...
Chimpanzees used as pets and in the entertainment industry endure detrimental living conditions from early infancy onwards. The preferred option for ending their existence as pet or circus chimpanzees is their rescue and transfer to a primate sanctua...
Chimp Haven is a private, nonprofit organization that serves as the largest chimpanzee sanctuary in the world. The National Institutes of Health supports the federal sanctuary system, which is operated by Chimp Haven, to provide lifetime care for chi...
Studies in patients and chimpanzees that spontaneously clear Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) have demonstrated that natural immunity to the virus is induced during primary infections and that this immunity can be cross protective. These discoveries led to op...
Chimp Haven is a sanctuary for chimpanzees retired from biomedical research, rescued from the pet trade, or re-homed after other organizations could no longer care for them. To provide optimal care for over 300 chimpanzees, Chimp Haven’s animal...
Stressors over the lifespan can contribute to physiological dysregulation, or allostatic load. Allostatic load has been studied in humans using allostatic load indices (ALIs) for over 25 years, but the same methods are rarely applied to other species...
An improved chimpanzee optimization algorithm incorporating multiple strategies (IMSChoA) is proposed to address the problems of initialized population boundary aggregation distribution, slow convergence speed, low precision, and proneness to fall in...
Precision and non-damaging harvesting is a key direction for the development of mechanized fruit harvesting technologies. Blueberries, with their soft texture and delicate skin, present significant challenges for achieving precise and non-damaging me...
Sleeping Beauty (SB) is the first DNA transposon employed for efficient transposition in vertebrate cells, opening new applications for genetic engineering and gene therapies. A transposon-based gene delivery system holds the favourable features of n...
The Chimp Optimization Algorithm (ChOA) is a heuristic algorithm proposed in recent years. It models the cooperative hunting behaviour of chimpanzee populations in nature and can be used to solve numerical as well as practical engineering optimizatio...
Despite the rapid advances in deep learning (DL) for object detection, existing techniques still face several challenges. In particular, object detection in adverse weather conditions (AWCs) requires complex and computationally costly models to achie...
A vaccine will likely be one of the key tools for ending the HIV-1/AIDS epidemic by preventing HIV-1 spread within uninfected populations and achieving a cure for people living with HIV-1. The currently prevailing view of the vaccine field is to intr...
High-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) provides a comprehensive picture of the transcriptome, including the identity, structure, quantity, and variability of expressed transcripts in cells, through the assembly of sequenced short RNA-seq reads. Alt...
This paper presents a hybrid indoor localization framework combining time difference of arrival (TDoA) measurements with a swarm intelligence optimization technique. To address the nonlinear optimization challenges in three-dimensional (3D) indoor lo...
Elevated levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the atmosphere present substantial risks to human health and welfare. The accurate assessment of PM2.5 concentrations plays a pivotal role in facilitating prompt responses by pertinent regulatory...
One of the top causes of mortality in people globally is a brain tumor. Today, biopsy is regarded as the cornerstone of cancer diagnosis. However, it faces difficulties, including low sensitivity, hazards during biopsy treatment, and a protracted wai...
Tandem repeats (TRs) are important components of eukaryotic genomes; they have both structural and functional roles: (i) they form essential chromosome structures such as centromeres and telomeres; (ii) they modify chromatin structure and affect tran...
Background/Objectives: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) poses a substantial global health threat, particularly impacting infants and vulnerable pediatric populations through severe respiratory morbidity. Methods: We developed a novel adenoviral vect...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), comprising two distinct types, HIV-1 and HIV-2, remains one of the most significant global health challenges, originating from multiple cross-species transmissions of simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) in the e...
An effective therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, as an adjunct to newly developed directly-acting antivirals (DAA), or for the prevention of reinfection, would significantly reduce the global burden of...