Environmental impacts, life cycle assessment and potential improvement measures for cement production: a literature review

DA Salas, AD Ramirez, CR Rodríguez… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cement constitutes one of the primary building materials. As cement manufacturing involves
the use of large amounts of raw materials and energy, an issue that arises is the necessity …

Life cycle methods to analyze the environmental sustainability of electricity generation in Ecuador: Is decarbonization the right path?

AD Ramirez, A Boero, B Rivela, AM Melendres… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
Electricity is the main energy carrier in today's society and plays a vital role in a sustainable
future. Based on the Ecuadorian experience, the goal of this study is to analyze the …

[HTML][HTML] The role of higher education institutions in the implementation of circular economy in Latin America

DA Salas, P Criollo, AD Ramirez - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Circular economy (CE) describes a sustainable alternative approach to the current linear
economy system. It is a growing topic among scholars, practitioners, and decisionmakers; it …

Preclinical characterization of selective phosphodiesterase 10A inhibitors: a new therapeutic approach to the treatment of schizophrenia

…, C Proulx-Lafrance, MJ Majchrzak, AD Ramirez… - … of Pharmacology and …, 2008 - ASPET
We have recently proposed the hypothesis that inhibition of the cyclic nucleotide
phosphodiesterase (PDE) 10A may represent a new pharmacological approach to the treatment of …

Life cycle assessment of geopolymer concrete

DA Salas, AD Ramirez, N Ulloa, H Baykara… - … and Building Materials, 2018 - Elsevier
The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of a Geopolymer Concrete (GC) was elaborated after
scaling up the Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) from laboratory scale to industrial scale. The most …

[PDF][PDF] Kinase-mediated RAS signaling via membraneless cytoplasmic protein granules

…, S Menon, TA Nguyen, J Debnath, AD Ramirez… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK)-mediated activation of downstream effector pathways such
as the RAS GTPase/MAP kinase (MAPK) signaling cascade is thought to occur exclusively …

[PDF][PDF] Electron microscopic reconstruction of functionally identified cells in a neural integrator

A Vishwanathan, K Daie, AD Ramirez, JW Lichtman… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Neural integrators are involved in a variety of sensorimotor and cognitive behaviors. The
oculomotor system contains a simple example, a hindbrain neural circuit that takes velocity …

Prospectives for the development of a circular bioeconomy around the banana value chain

…, S Pérez-Martínez, AD Ramirez - Sustainable Production …, 2022 - Elsevier
… Another way to valorize banana waste biomass is through anaerobic digestion (AD), a
biological process in which the organic substrate is decomposed by different microorganisms …

Label-retention expansion microscopy

X Shi, Q Li, Z Dai, AA Tran, S Feng, AD Ramirez… - Journal of Cell …, 2021 - rupress.org
Expansion microscopy (ExM) increases the effective resolving power of any microscope by
expanding the sample with swellable hydrogel. Since its invention, ExM has been …

[HTML][HTML] The environmental profile of clinker, cement, and concrete: a life cycle perspective study based on Ecuadorian data

DM Petroche, AD Ramirez - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Concrete is the most-used material in the construction industry, and the second most-used
after water. Cement is the main component of concrete. A total of 8% of global CO 2 …