What is the general cyclic energy degradation factor for plain concrete at material level in stress strain curve?

Plain Concrete subjected to cyclic loading get reduction in its stiffness and strength with the every cycle of loading. What is ratio of energy enclosed in one hysteresis loop to adjacent...

10 February 2021 1,051 1 View

The Akaike information criterion of the random forest model ?

Please, how to calculate the number of model parameters of the random forest model to determine the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) using this following expression: AIC = n * log(MSE) + 2 *...

27 January 2021 816 6 View

Suggest me some satellite image datasets used for crop yield estimation?

I have my synopsis presentation and i have to provide details about 2-3 datasets that I can use in my research. Topic is crops Yield estimation using satellite images. suggest me what I can write?...

13 January 2021 1,675 3 View

What is the reason of suddenly increasing the concentration while evaluating the photocatalytic performance by RhB dye degradation?

I am doing a photocatalytic performance evaluation by RhB dye degradation. I am facing a problem which is: After achieving the absorption -desorption equilibrium, I checked the concentration and...

04 December 2020 3,922 20 View

Edu assay by spectrophotometry means?

Dear all, Have any one performed edu assay by spectrophotometric means ? I'm looking for a kit for that purpose. I have Chinese kit for this purpose, I followed their protocol but the result is...

24 November 2020 1,766 3 View

Either SEM analysis are enough to justify the morphology and micro structure of activated carbons? or I should go for TEM analysis as well?

While I was discussing my nitrogen adsorption isotherms in the context of micropore, mesopores, total pore volume for activated carbon samples prepared from waste materials, I received a review...

13 November 2020 1,971 3 View

How can we measure dissimilarities between two images layout? Like alignment of button, text box, text overlapping?

I want to extract dissimilarity information of two images layout. Wanna check text, button, and text box alignment, text overlapping, and more other layouts difference. how we do that? any tool,...

25 October 2020 7,190 7 View

Any suggestions of bioinformatic tools to identify/predict the effect of mutations observed on the function of proteins?

04 October 2020 1,552 4 View

How to Determine LD50 of a test compound by Lorke's Method if your mice (mus musculus) dies at the lowest concetration i.e. 10mg/kg?

I have used Lorke's method of determining LD50 of my test drug. The lowest dose according to this method is 10mg/kg and my mice died at this dose within the 30 minutes of IP injection. Does that...

22 September 2020 9,959 3 View

How to do MTT for non-confluent cells?

Hi everyone, I'm doing MTT assay to test the cytotoxicity of 4 candidates on the BT-474 breast cancer cell line which rarely becomes confluent. started with 3K/well, 5K/well, 6.5K/well left the...

12 September 2020 3,034 8 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel, etched for revealing retained austenite, any help for clarifying?

Hello everyone. Given microstructure image belongs to a 12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel (annealed and tempered). The sample was etched with picral (100 mL ethanol and 4 g picric acid). I...

02 March 2021 4,119 3 View

Why Austenite grains in steel show much more twinning than ferrite grains?

It is oftentimes said to be a distinctive metallographic trait that differentiates a fully austenitic and a fully felly ferritic steel without etching that might distinguish between two. Why...

02 March 2021 728 2 View

Can anyone share his experience regards Smoothing in origin?

I am working on TiO2 composite material and the results of XRD have a lot of small/junk peaks and while I apply a smooth filter in Origin then the other characteristics peaks disappear so anyone...

26 February 2021 8,183 3 View

What is role of toluene and stearic acid in ball milling for powder ? In what weight percent we should add this to powder?

I am doing ball milling operation of Aluminum and silicon carbide powder. I am pretty confused about what should be added as process control agent ? what is role of toluene as PCA and stearic...

12 February 2021 5,205 3 View

XRPD Quantification - Building a calibration curve of drug excipient?

I am aiming to utilise XRPD to quantify a drug excipient within a drug product and have been having a little trouble building the calibration curve to allow for this quantification up until this...

10 February 2021 6,145 3 View

How much quantity of water I have to add for wet milling of aluminosilicate refractory powder?

I want to mill Aluminosilicate refractory powder. I have 7-micrometre aluminosilicate refractory powder and I am going to do wet milling. I want to know how much water to be added to the wet...

07 February 2021 2,829 2 View

What could be the reason for XRD pattern starting from very high counts/intensity at 3 degree 2 theta?

I am working on XRD analysis of the clay minerals from the sea sediments. My XRD pattern shows very high counts at the start of the XRD pattern (3 degree 2 theta) which is very unusual. The counts...

31 January 2021 4,493 9 View

For Carbon-emission free steelmaking by electrolysis with nonoxidizable electrode in EAF, what would be electrode material?

While CCS can be employed along with a conventional Carbon-efficient EAF steelmaking process (especially from iron ore) or even Hydrogen or hydrocarbon can bee passed through central electrode,...

30 January 2021 3,378 1 View

What are the thermodynamic and kinetic similarities and differences among dendrite formation during solidification of metals, ceramics and polymers?

Basic dendrite formation of metallic alloys are explained by thermal and constitutional degree of supercooling and most-supercooled band of liquid somewhat ahead of solidification front that...

30 January 2021 8,450 2 View