How to compare means of continuous data with zero-inflation and skew?

I have two groups (unpaired) of plant biomass measurements and want to know whether there is a test that can be used to determine statistical significance where assumptions are not violated. The...

18 February 2021 1,258 4 View

Fluo 3-AM in pancreatic beta-cells?

Dear all, I'm trying to understand if a molecule of my interest (capable of inducing glucose-stimulated insulin secretion) determines an increase in intracellular calcium levels in the presence of...

16 February 2021 453 2 View

Are there commercially available fluorescence-tagged Influenza A virus?

30 November 2020 9,445 1 View

What tests for: 1. differences between continuous variables when grouped with different categorical ones; 2. significance of potential relationships?

Hello. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions in terms of what exploratory analysis to carry out for my dissertation with the following data. I measured N=26 participants pre and post an...

09 August 2020 5,256 5 View

Wavy looking bands In western blots?

Hello everybody, from some time, I keep having waving bands in the lower part of my gel, like the proteins are not running on a flat front. I cast my own gels and run them at 90V at the beginning...

26 May 2020 937 3 View

SURVEY - how people changed attitude toward green spaces & urban forests during the COVID19 quarantine?

https://vub.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5bSsVfI1g1VgI7j While shaking our society and turning our way of living upside down, the COVID19 pandemic is also putting the relation between nature...

15 May 2020 2,339 8 View

Direct Input of the Occupation Matrix?

I'm implementing the Occupation Matrix Control scheme (OMC) in VASP DFT+U calculations via direcct input of the Occupation Matrix. This requires an external input file (OCCMATRIX) containing the...

17 March 2020 1,921 1 View

Glycerol topology/structure for GROMOS87/Berger forcefield?

Hello all, I need the topology /structure file of the glycerol for the GROMOS87 forcefield. Is some repository available online or do someone know how can I derive them by myself (maybe some tool...

12 March 2020 8,858 2 View

How to interpret moderating effect in PLS?

I am running a Partial Least Squadre Path Modelling in R and I have a Moderating effect (explained by one scalar variable) between my exogenous x and my endogenous y. The only variable that...

25 February 2020 8,022 4 View

Recombinant protein for antibody neutralization?

I need to understand if an antibody I'm using is specific or not. The antibody is not validated. In immunoblotting, the antibody detects a prominent band at the right molecular weight and two...

29 April 2019 4,752 4 View

Binary Logistic Generalized Linear Mixed model in SPSS. Is it doable?

I want to analyses the proportion of swimming sperm of three species of fish in two salinities. To analyse the proportion of swimming sperm in a Generalized Linear Model, I would use a Binary...

03 March 2021 2,297 3 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

02 March 2021 0 0 View

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test Fluorescent Compounds Other Than Fluorescence Spectrometers ??

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test The Efficiency Of Fluorescent Compounds Other Than UV Spectrometers ? Suggestions Would Be Appreciated !

02 March 2021 5,785 3 View

How to accurately quantify chitin?

Hi all, I have been working on the quantification of chitin in insect samples and feed for a while but I can notice that the quantification methods (e.g. exposure to HCl, NaOH, and weighing sample...

01 March 2021 1,843 2 View

Can someone suggest a way to prepare slides to observe under confocal microscope for observing fluorescent tagged proteins??

I am growing the cells on coverslips and transfecting the fluorescent tagged protein directly on them. Then i want to observe these cells under confocal microscope. Currently i am just using...

01 March 2021 6,142 3 View

How to define tie constraint between rigid body and another part in dynamic explicit model of Abaqus?

Hi dear researchers I connected a rigid body into the part of my structure by tie constraint and then I added displacement to rigid body, in static general step every thing is fine and these two...

28 February 2021 3,442 2 View

Good morning research fellows, Has anyone worked with senna alata plant extract on any kind of fish?

Literatures on the piscicidal effect of sennaa alata is scanty. if you have any related litrature either in the bark, leaves or roots used as treatment to any aquatic organism please kindly help...

28 February 2021 9,138 2 View

Why does intensity drops as concentration increases?

Is there any reason for decrease in fluorescence emission intensity of HSA,BSA when increase the concentration ?

28 February 2021 3,653 4 View

Experimental Design: How deal with pseudreplicates with immunological and clinical-chemical paramaeters?

Hello everybody, I am investigating the influence of a toxinon various clinical-chemical and haematological parameters in fish. I have three treatments (control, low dose, high dose) in my...

24 February 2021 1,243 1 View

Hi i want to ask that in order to find out LC 50 (96 hours) of particular toxin for fish. Should we keep the animals with food or without food?

if we expose the fish after acclimatization to particular toxin in order to find out LC 50 (96 hours).Should we keep the fish off feed or with feed for that duration. Some literature show that...

24 February 2021 357 2 View