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

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

PLS-SEM generalizability issue?

I'm developing a readiness assessment model regarding contractors' preparedness for a specific activity, in order to do so, a survey study was carried out and the data analyzed with PLS-SEM to...

24 November 2020 399 1 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

How can I compute reliability taking into account repeated measures data, contemporary groups, and removing parent average effects?

I am a little bit confused about how to calculate reliability for EBV of each animal using the BLUPF90 program; taking into account repeated measures data, contemporary groups, and removing parent...

13 August 2020 4,862 5 View

What are these bioclasts?

I'm having trouble identifying the round bioclasts indicated by white arrows. Could they be transverse sections of the elements indicated by black arrows? If so, could they be some kind of spicule?

22 July 2020 8,595 13 View

When a protein is phosphorylated, how does the band look like in western blotting?

A super basic cell biology question for cell biology people. I will try to measure protein phosphorylation, and I will do western blot to see whether the phosphorylation occurs. If phosphorylation...

07 June 2020 8,995 4 View

Is possible to run models with catergorical response variable and random factors?

Dear all, I would like to know if is possible to run a model with a categorical response variable plus some categorical predictors (and its interactions) and a random factor in R? If yes, any...

26 March 2020 1,221 3 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

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

can I treat waste water containing solvents and alcohol with electrocoagulation?

there are solvents and alcohol in the waste water of a factory that produces disinfectants. Increasing this waste water requires very serious operations. Can I treat this waste water with...

27 February 2021 2,609 3 View

Gas sensor response and recovery time independant of flow rate and chamber volume?

I am trying to obtain the response and recovery times for my gas sensor device. It appears the the response/recovery times are primarily dependant on the flow rate of the gas I inject into the...

26 February 2021 1,511 3 View

How vulnerable is water and wastewater infrastructure to cyber terrorism in an age of IoT?

Im looking for any papers, reports,articles, links etc on information on How vulnerable is water and wastewater infrastructure to cyber terrorism in an age of IoT.

24 February 2021 2,750 4 View

What is the best etching method for Mg-Ca alloy?

I have used Picral etchant (4.2 g Picric acid, 10 mL Acetic acid, 70 mL Ethanol, 10 mL distilled water) but it didn't work. Is there any alternative?

21 February 2021 2,558 5 View

Do the introduced salts (NaOH/ HCl) influence the spectroscopic shifts of the fluorescence excitation-emission matrix?

During the resin (XAD-8) fractionation of wastewater salts (NaOH or HaCl) are used for acid or base elutions/pH adjustments. Since the amount of introduced salt is minimal, so is it required to...

08 February 2021 9,489 2 View

What is the best visualisation solvent for xylooligosaccharides using TLC?

I am interested in using TLC to detect non-linear xylooligosaccharides. What would be the best visualisation solvent? Would aniline phthalate solution be suitable? I have also seen people...

02 February 2021 7,748 3 View

Are any database collected cell penetrating anticancer peptides ?

Dear researchers, Anticancer peptides(ACPs) with cell-penetrating properties can enter to cytoplasmic space of cancer cells and induce cell death. but, I could not find the database that...

29 January 2021 707 3 View

Is it possible to economically reuse the heat content of water vapour that is generated during quenching of continuous casting of steel?

A huge amount of water is evaporated to cool down and solidify the liquid metal strands coming out of bottom of CCM mould. The steam contains significant latent and sensible heat energy, besides...

26 January 2021 3,446 4 View

Can anyone help me to separate my phenolic compound in TLC with any new solvent system ?

My Compound is Leaf powdered Methanolic extract which is showing good phenolic compounds upon dipping in FeCl3. -My problem is phenolic compounds are not eluting with any common solvent system.

22 January 2021 4,693 7 View