How to highlight novelty in your research paper?

I have come up with a method and had written a paper on it. Paper got rejected by a journal stating that there is no theoretical novelty. I am kind of confused on why the novelty that I am able to...

28 February 2021 2,393 8 View

How to use 5 by 5 or 7 by 7 kernel size for a deep learning network with 3 by 3 kernels?

I am using a U-Net architecture with Xception net as encoder . The visual area of the segmentation mask is very small and after training, it is giving a lot of false positives. I am thinking of...

20 September 2020 1,968 2 View

Is it fair to use augmentation only on classes with less samples?

I am training a model, where class distribution is unbalanced. So, I thought of applying augmentation technique, to improve the performance. I am wondering,is it fair to apply augmentation only on...

18 November 2019 5,292 8 View

How do you interpret Blastn results with 0 % query coverage and 100 % identity?

I have a blasn result for a whole genome sequence of a species against a particular gene nucleotide sequence that encodes a protein. For these results the e-value is a bit high but I have 100 %...

05 November 2019 3,504 1 View

Why do the DICOM files loaded through viewer are looking different than images loaded using python library?

I am working on DICOM images of chest X ray images. In this, when I load the image in DICOM viewer, the images are having good contrast ratio. And when I load the same DICOM in python using...

05 August 2019 6,708 3 View

How to compare edge enhancement in images?

I have developed a method using which the edges in images are get enhanced. Which evaluation metric shall I use to state that edges in image are improved or not? I am working on brain tumor images.

04 January 2018 8,521 9 View

How we can use Raman's spectroscopy in wood science to improve our research?

If we use raman's spectroscopy what things we can identify from wooden samples, composition of wood, chemical constituent of wood, cellulose, nano cellulose and what things we can use?

24 August 2017 1,039 3 View

Mixed semiconductor oxide (ZnO-TiO2) vs monooxides (ZnO or TiO2)

13 August 2017 4,515 3 View

How to perform spectral clustering for large size images?Does parallel computing can solve the issue of scalability?

I am working on Spectral clustering with the matrix size of 57600 by 57600. But,it fails throwing 'memory error'. It works for 8100 by 8100 matrix. Can using parallel computing approach help to...

14 February 2017 6,908 3 View

How to use sparse matrices effectively in python?

I am using large matrices in my research. The size of matrix vary from 3600 by 3600 to 57600 to 57600. The matrix are sparse in nature. But, despite using sparse matrix from scipy the computation...

15 December 2016 5,730 4 View

Unknown debris sheets observed in cell culture flasks?

Hi, We culture neural progenitor cells in T175 culture flasks coated with PLO-Laminin. We have successfully grown these cells with our protocol for months. Recently, we observed large sheets...

25 February 2021 3,443 4 View

Is there a suitable way to confine cell attachment area inside a multi-well plate?

Are there any types of cylindrical cell culture inserts that are designed to confine cell seeding area? Say, if I'm using a 12 well plate (3.5 cm^2/well), but only want to seed cells in the middle...

22 February 2021 7,127 4 View

Is there a method for evaluating nanoparticle adhesion to epithelial tissue in vitro?

I want to measure how well nanoparticles can transfect cells based on NP adhesion properties. In the literature I find people do it in animal studies, and epithelial adhesion helps in transfection...

21 February 2021 7,791 3 View

Is there a way to grow biofilm in lab to mimic biofilms in showers and baths? Also, how can I measure it?

Hello, I am new to biofilm research and have a question about growing and measuring biofilms. We want to research the effect of a type of enzymes in breaking down biofilms in showers, baths, hot...

14 February 2021 3,522 3 View

How to improve the adhesion of epoxy coating on steel substrate? Which factor affects?

I am facing a problem regarding a de-adhesion problem with the coating. A brief description of my methodology is given below. I am using mild or Low Carbon steel as a substrate and I polish the...

14 February 2021 2,167 4 View

What are the effects of temperature and Relative Humidity in the dropwise condensation?

Hello Everyone! I was looking for the effects of the temperature and the relative humidity on the dropwise condensation. I was looking for the papers related to it explaining it in deep. I looked...

12 February 2021 4,196 2 View

What is the reason for using Glass Impingers?

Impinger bottles are used at some applications, where the gas is cooled and the condensate is dissolved in a solvent contained in the impingers. I have always seen impingers made of glass. Why not...

03 February 2021 6,959 2 View

Why do my fibroblasts under hypoxia conditions proliferate slower than the same fibroblasts under normoxic conditions?

I am using healthy control lung fibroblasts in a 96 hour experiment with two drugs (nintedanib and Pirfenidone) and vehicle controls for both. I have both hypoxia (approx 1% O2) and normoxia...

12 January 2021 6,260 1 View

My HBMEC cells do not adhere to the plate. What should I do?

I have HBMEC cells that are not sticking to the plate. I already increased the fetal bovine serum concentration, but nothing worked. I have already collected the cells that did not adhere and...

08 January 2021 9,680 3 View

How do I estimate the phase distribution of a dilute solute using vapor pressure?

What is the most fundamentally accurate way to calculate the distribution of a solid between the condensed, vapor, and/or liquid phases? Let's say I have a very small amount of elemental silver,...

22 December 2020 8,060 0 View