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

Why is Statement of Problem one of the most challenging part of academic research? Why do supervisors pay more attention to it instead of methodology?

Some MSc and Ph.D. supervisors are having a lot of issues with understanding the Problem Statement of their students' research works. Sometimes, it leads to complete rejection of the whole...

04 January 2021 3,574 6 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 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

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

Precipitate after adding laemmli buffer to protein solution containing Potassium Acetate?

Hi, I am running a size exclusion chromatography experiment with a buffer containing Potassium Acetate as a salt. I analyse these fractions through SDS-PAGE. After boiling my SEC fractions in...

01 March 2021 2,622 3 View

What is the most suitable server for predicting protein structures in bacteria?

I have used the i-Tasser several times, however it has been unavailable for several days. I tried the swiss-model, but the output was not very pleasant due to the model used. Is there any other...

28 February 2021 4,521 3 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 View

Are protein samples in SDS compatible with ELISA?

I have used an AllPrep DNA/RNA/Protein Mini Kit QIAGEN kit to extract RNA and protein from my samples. At the end of the protein purification, I resuspend my protein in 5% SDS. Will these samples...

28 February 2021 7,370 3 View

Will a 10xHis-tag prevent anti-MBP from binding to MBP?

I have a protein with a 10xHis-MBP tag on the N-terminus. I'm fairly certain I am expressing my protein, but I'm not getting a signal on my western blot. Is there a possibility that the 10xHis tag...

25 February 2021 8,404 3 View

Unknown debris sheets observed in cell culture flasks?

Hi, We culture neural progenitor cells in T175 culture flasks coated with PLO-Laminin. We have successfully grown these cells with our protocol for months. Recently, we observed large sheets...

25 February 2021 3,443 4 View