How deep into the sediment do marine/riverine oligochaetes live?

I am working with intertidal muddy sediments. In one of my sites the sediment was extremely muddy (high % of silt), oxic layer was shallow, and there were a lot of oligochaetes. I would like to...

14 January 2021 7,269 4 View

How to estimate the standard deviation of the carbom emission of a company producing many different products?

I am aware of the portfolio theory in general but want to know of a journal or author especialized in this issue.

14 January 2021 7,566 2 View

Do you consider that rose bengal chloramphenicol agar is suitable to isolate and count fungus?

Someone knows about a specific law or regulation which mentions the use of the rose bengal chloramphenicol agar is suitable to isolate and count fungi. Perhaps, someone has done a research about...

07 January 2021 5,325 5 View

How does climate change affect birds (shorebirds)?

I m recently investigating the impact of climate change on shorebird population trends, I would like to know what is the impact of fluctuations in variables such as sea surface temperature, global...

10 November 2020 9,293 15 View

How to plot predictions from a cox model with interactions, in R?

29 October 2020 2,605 1 View

Is there a way to make Facio (GUI for FMO) work on Mac OS Catalina?

I am trying to use the FMO (Fragment Molecular Orbital) method which works to make large (thousands of atoms) molecules more palatable for ab initio computational quantum-chemical calculations on...

29 September 2020 4,896 2 View

Are you interesting in "Determination of the HSPs and the Hansen sphere radius with the aid of the solver add-in of Microsoft Excel?

I am pleaded to inform you the following communication of Springer Nature Dear Author, We are pleased to inform you that your article "Determination of the Hansen solubility parameters and...

17 March 2020 916 3 View

Flow cytometry multicolor panel builder software tool that scans all commercial antibody databases?

Does anyone know of a web app or software for designing polychromatic flow cytometric panels that's able to scan all commercially available primary conjugated flow cytometry antibodies (i.e. from...

13 December 2019 7,047 4 View

Which will be a suitable matrix for a graphene oxide characterization by MALDI-TOF?

Is it possible characterized graphene oxide by MALDI -TOF? If it is, which will be a suitable matrix for do it?.

07 November 2019 6,298 3 View

Different peak lengths in qRT-PCR melt curve?

Hi, we are performing qRT-PCR assays, we did a triplicate under the same conditions and run the melt curve analysis. We obtained a single peak, but the height was different. Anybody knows why...

09 October 2019 2,303 5 View

What degree of missing data in a particular case/participant results in Expectation-Maximisation no longer working?

I'm dealing with a mediation model and am using the PROCESS module in SPSS. Due to SPSS and PROCESS being limited in the imputation methods - being unable to handle multiple imputation - the other...

02 March 2021 4,362 1 View

Can NFL theorem be valid in infinite search space in ML?

NFL theorem is valid for algorithms training in fixed training set. However, the general characteristic of algorithms in expanded or open dataset has not been proved yet. Could you show your...

01 March 2021 1,189 3 View

How to eliminate Steady state error from Reinforcement learning genetic algorithm code?

The following code (see 1st 2 images attached) is used to produce PID controller values that are designed to control the system (G). The code finds the PID controller values (noted as k) by using...

28 February 2021 6,560 14 View

How to constrain genetic algorithm input u?

My real system (buck converter) can only take an input of 0 to 1 (duty ratio) and I need to constrain the system so the controller action keeps within this bounds. How can I do this? The code for...

22 February 2021 2,125 3 View

What is/are the best ML classifier(s) for Sentinel2 images?

Hi I am trying to segment a sentinel2 image. At this stage, I want to run a binary classifier that assigns each pixel to either farm or non-farm pixel. For this purpose, I have 4 10m bands...

15 February 2021 3,596 9 View

Is Genetic Algorithm usage for Motor Conception FEA optimization a good choice?

Hi RG community, Like the title shows ,i was wondering if choosing the GA for this kind of Optimizaiton is a good choice? For example we have a population of 100 (for 7-8 Optimization Variables),...

14 February 2021 1,160 7 View

What will happen when we assume an upper bound of OFV lower than the global minimum OFV ?

if we assume 20 is the upper bound of an objective function (OF) based on permutation a square matrix (nxn) , The minimum value of the OF=22, then we run a random operator to compute the OF by...

14 February 2021 6,056 5 View

How to choose the Hidden Layers Number and RBM Size in a DBN network?

Hello, When using a Deep Belief network (DBN) for images classification, how could we choose the number of hidden layers (number of Restricted Boltzmann Machines) and nodes (RBM size) in a hidden...

09 February 2021 4,618 5 View

Any reference paper with detailing on how to hybradize Q-Learning algorithm with Genetic Algorithm, especially for a variable optimization problem?

I am planning to hybradize Q-Learning algorthm with Genetic algorithm at the population initialization stage, crossover stage and mutation stage. The problem under consideration is a...

07 February 2021 3,123 8 View

Is there any similarity index between two time series?

Hi We have two time series dataset. For example mean daily temperature from two stations. Each of them have 30 data for a month. T1={ t1 , t2 ,... , t30 } T2={ t1 , t2 ,... , t30 } Now we want to...

06 February 2021 6,434 7 View