Product lifespan is a fundamental variable in understanding the environmental impacts
associated with the life cycle of products. Existing life cycle and materials flow studies of products…

The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented disruptions to food systems, leading to
both food shortages and food waste across the supply chain. These disruptions have, in turn, …

Despite the adoption of electronic waste recycler certification schemes in the United States,
there remain notable instances in which recyclers might engage in dishonest practices. To …

This article describes how biological ecology models are adapted to analyze the dynamic
structure and function of a consumer electronic product “community.” Treating an entire group …

Widespread human transmission of SARS-CoV-2 highlights the substantial public health,
economic and societal consequences of virus spillover from wildlife and also presents a …

The HIV-1 protease is one of several common key targets of combination drug therapies for
human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. During …

The application of statistical methods to comparatively framed questions about the molecular
dynamics (MD) of proteins can potentially enable investigations of biomolecular function …

Traditional informatics in comparative genomics work only with static representations of
biomolecules (ie, sequence and structure), thereby ignoring the molecular dynamics (MD) of …

While mRNA stability has been demonstrated to control rates of translation, generating both
global and local synonymous codon biases in many unicellular organisms, this explanation …

Oncogenic mutations in the kinase domain of the B-Raf protein have long been associated
with cancers involving the MAPK pathway. One constitutive MAPK activating mutation in B-Raf…