Faculty of Science: Recent submissions
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Managing Soils for Recovering from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published 2020The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global food supply chain and exacerbated the problem of food and nutritional insecurity. Here we outline soil strategies to strengthen local food production systems, enhance their ...Article -
Dynamic tracking with model-based forecasting for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic
Published 2020In this paper, a susceptible-infected-removed (SIR) model has been used to track the evolution of the spread of COVID-19 in four countries of interest. In particular, the epidemic model, that depends on some basic ...Article -
COVID-19 in the United States: Trajectories and second surge behavior
Published 2020This paper introduces a mathematical framework for determining second surge behavior of COVID-19 cases in the United States. Within this framework, a flexible algorithmic approach selects a set of turning points for each ...Article -
Ribonucleocapsid assembly/packaging signals in the genomes of the coronaviruses SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2: detection, comparison and implications for therapeutic targeting
Published 2020The genomic ssRNA of coronaviruses is packaged within a helical nucleocapsid. Due to transitional symmetry of a helix, weakly specific cooperative interaction between ssRNA and nucleocapsid proteins leads to the natural ...Article -
Wild birds as reservoirs for diverse and abundant gamma- and deltacoronaviruses
Published 2020Wild birds interconnect all parts of the globe through annual cycles of migration with little respect for country or continental borders. Although wild birds are reservoir hosts for a high diversity of gamma- and ...Article