Would fecal samples stored at -20C for over a year impact metagenomic analysis?

Dear All, I have access to some rodent fecal samples that have been stored at -20C instead of -80C. Anyone have experience with the impact of stowage condition on comparative metagenomic analysis...

01 March 2021 2,512 1 View

What are the pros and cons for mice versus rats?

Hi Everyone, I am designing a pilot study using rodents to assess the effects of simulated space environments (radiation + altered gravity) on microbiome and immune system. I have limited...

24 February 2021 1,825 3 View

What should be the duration of exposure to simulated space environments with Rodents?

Hi, I am currently working on a pilot study to get some data related to the impact of long duration spaceflight to the microbiome and the immune system. I plan to use rats and simulate...

22 February 2021 592 1 View

Any interests in participating to an experiment in space?

Hello, The UN Office of Outer Space Affairs has a program called access to space for all that enables institutions to have hands on expertise related to access to space. There are three elements...

22 February 2021 7,980 3 View

Best novel method to optimize 3D geometry and its fluid?

Do you have any idea what is the best method to optimize 3D geometry and its fluid without linking the code with fluent (or any flow solver) ? In order to find the best 3d geometry and decrease...

10 April 2020 9,321 1 View

How can I claim that a particular As-bearing mineral is present in a soil sample by XRD analysis?

How can I claim that a particular As-bearing mineral is present in a soil sample by XRD analysis? How many and which peaks of the miranal should be matched with XRD pattern of the soil sample?

19 January 2020 3,152 3 View

How to dissolve insulin in high concentration?

Hello, I need to prepare a high concentration solution of insulin (20 mg/mL, i.e. around 520 U/mL). I tried dissolving in 0.001 M HCL (pH 2-3) and the result was a milky turbid solution, slightly...

26 November 2019 5,879 3 View

Is there a way to induce solid gelatin to expand?

I was preparing histological sections from a sample containing solid gelatin, when we started cutting the sections, the gelatin evidently expanded (after wetting the block surface), is there an...

04 November 2018 8,156 6 View

How to compute electric current in comsol corona discharge?

17 July 2018 4,327 4 View

How can maintain cancer stemcell in stemness mood when I work with them?

I want to know about situation that cancer stem cell remain stemness and undifferentiated?

07 September 2017 2,671 3 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature)?

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature-based reflection)? Thank you for your time and for...

03 March 2021 2,870 3 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

Does anyone know how to plot my station to a section plot on Ocean Data View (ODV)?

I made a vertical section plot with WOA .nc file on ODV, and now I want to plot my stations (csv. file) in it. Does anyone know how to import my points to the section? They are two different...

01 March 2021 3,610 1 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

How to arrange coordinates and extract climate dataset out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files?

Have a nice day everyone, I'm stuck in extracting datasets out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files because the latitude ranges from -3*10^6 to 3*10^6 and longitude ranges -5,9*10^6 to 5,9*10^6. Plus, the...

28 February 2021 912 3 View

Is there any Machine Learning/AI algorithm that lets you predict with incomplete features without missing value imputation process?

For instance, the model is trained with A,B,C,D,E features to predict F target. Then, I want to make prediction on a new data, but with only A,C,D,E is known without doing missing value imputation...

28 February 2021 1,556 6 View