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

Has anyone succeeded in capturing uranium atoms in a fullerene structure?

Additional questions are: What are the encapsulating atoms? How difficult was the process and what rates were achieved? What factors most seriously affect the economics?

20 February 2021 3,134 5 View

How to phrase semi-structured interview questions using IPA without biasing superordinate themes?

Hello, I am preparing a semi-structured interview schedule for an interpretative phenomenological analysis study on marginalized individuals' career experiences as impacted by COVID-19. The aim...

19 February 2021 9,099 2 View

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19 January 2021 6,848 4 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

How much does radiative heat transfer effect thermal conductivity of materials and how to compare calculations to experirment?

I am calculating the phonon contribution to thermal conductivity for 4 perovskites (BaZrO3, BaSnO3, BaHfO3, and KTaO3) with relatively wide bandgap. When I compare my results for BaZrO3 to the...

27 December 2020 3,232 3 View

Proper method for assessing model invariance following Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and preceding 2x2 between-subject analysis?

I have produced a good-fitting, reliable baseline model according to CFA. The model contains several factors each loaded by several categorical (ordinal) items. I ultimately intend to analyze the...

15 December 2020 1,668 4 View

How to Reinstall Operating System for a TA Instruments 2910 DSC?

Hard drive crashed on an old windows 2000 that was used to control a TA Instruments 2910 DSC. Installed new hard drive and I am trying to figure out where I can find the software/operating system...

17 November 2020 2,467 3 View

Communities based websites do they serve a purpose?

I'm asking and posing this question as it forms a part of my final project year. I building an ASP.net community-based website coupled with an Oracle database and I'm looking for feedback,...

17 November 2020 7,852 1 View

How can I solve Error: "The coupling service failed to start" during simulation ANSYS 2Way FSI?

Hello, I am dealing with error during lounching 2 Way FSI in ANSYS Workbench. Setup of the Fluent is ok (stand alone I am receiving expected results) and FEM uses Transient Structural. Once I run...

11 November 2020 3,816 4 View

Have someone successfully used the ER alpha (Santa Cruz sc-8002) antibody in immunostaining ?

Santa Cruz now recommends this new antibody (F-10) but I can't find a publication using this reference. I'm working on human et non human primate hypothalamus and so far, it doesn't work. Is...

02 March 2021 10,003 2 View

Energy minimization in LAMMPS using NVT ?

How do I do energy minimization in lammps with NVT ensemble ? I am using the following command and it does not seem to work. It stops at extremely high energy and gives me the error zero search...

01 March 2021 2,294 3 View

How can you bring two structures together to create an adhesive bond in LAMMPS?

I have created an Ice 1h crystalline structure and an Aluminium substrate structure and equilibrated both at 250K. Now I need to bring them together in a way that an adhesive bond is created....

01 March 2021 3,325 2 View

Does any one can help me choose a reasonable basis set for intermediate metal ions interactions with guanine (i.e Fe2+, Mn2+, Cu2+ and exc.)?

Hello every body Does any one has any idea to help me choose a reasonable basis set for intermediate metal ions (i.e Fe2+, Mn2+, Cu2+ and exc.) interactions with guanine or other DNA organic...

01 March 2021 6,187 2 View

How to identify what type of fillers are in a polymer?

Hello everyone, I have some PHAs blended with fillers and nucleating agents, yet I don't know what kind of fillers or nucleating agents. The producer has shut down and there's no way to get in...

24 February 2021 1,356 8 View

In frequency domain alpha band(8-16hz), beta band(16-32hz), gamma band(32-64hz), sub-band(64-128hz) are same as LL,LH,HL,HH in wavelet decomposition?

I am working on single trial motor imagery data i.e. EEG data. I am following a paper which has a dataset from BCI challenge IV (dataset 2b). After removing noise and extracting all the data from...

23 February 2021 5,503 1 View

MVN, how to conciliate contradictory results from Multivariate normality and Multivariate outliers test?

Dear colleagues, I'm working with Path analyses in lavaan and MVN packages. There are some results that for me are confusing and features from the MVN that I do not know how to set. My dataset is...

18 February 2021 190 3 View

Is it possible to obtain a negative cronbach alpha?

Good evening everyone. If a questionnaire has 4 factors measuring different constructs as for example CAMI questionnaire measuring attitudes toward the mentally ill that has four factors:...

18 February 2021 3,223 3 View

Any information about dinitrosalisylic acid reagent end point color stability ?

I work on estimation of alpha amylase activity using dinitrosalisylic acid reagent If i put the reagent to stope the enzymatic reaction and allow the reagent to react with the produced reducing...

17 February 2021 7,402 4 View

Why do we need to neutralize the charge of the system by adding ions before we proceed to energy minimization step in GROMACS ?

I am learning MD simulations using GROMACS and while I was doing a protein in water MD simulation a doubt raised. I was following the steps mentioned on the tutorials page and it said The system...

15 February 2021 5,514 4 View