Is there any test to determine the cardiovascular risk of patients with obesity? from the perspective of obesity?

We found tests to determine cardiovascular risk taking into account lipid profile, blood pressure, age, history of diabetes, other laboratories. But when weight is involved, there is a paradox. I...

02 March 2021 6,036 1 View

Recommendations on CO2 Resistant Rocking Shaker?

A certain protocol we have developed requires the use of a Rocker/Rocking Shaker in which our dishes with cells are maintained in the incubator. The rocking is essential to the protocol but we...

09 February 2021 3,291 1 View

Does anyone knows about a comercial software to record pressure and temperature during reaction in an Autoclave?

Dear all: Currently I am working with polymerization reaction in a reactor. For this, I need to control temperature, pressure, agitation speed etc. For calculation of rate of polymerization, I...

07 February 2021 355 2 View

Do you consider it is important to vindicate Spanish as language, in scientific issues and publication of scientific articles?

03 February 2021 3,756 4 View

Do we need to keep looking for the fracture angle after the Puck's failure initiation is reached?

Greetings to everyone, Our team is currently working on the development of a VUMAT code in Abaqus for composite modelling using the Puck's failure theory as damage initiation criteria. Currently...

20 January 2021 6,367 1 View

How to calculate the difference in the electron density of a dimer and its monomers?

Hello, I need to calculate the difference of the electron density of a dimer and the the sum of its monomers. I tried G09 without success, even using nosymm in all calculations. The problem...

15 January 2021 9,537 3 View

How to interpret hierarchical regression when a predictor is no longer significant after new variables are added?

Hello everyone: What does it mean when a variable is significant in one step but then in the next step it's no longer significant? For example, in this article...

29 November 2020 7,354 3 View

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30 September 2020 4,903 1 View

How to estimate the optimal cutpoint for a binary outcome in python?

Hello everyone, I have a dataset of diabetic patients which has been used to train an xgboost model in several outcomes such as stroke, amputation, and more. Originally we used the continuous...

21 September 2020 4,970 3 View

Does anyone has achieved the installation of gromacs plugin in PyMol, complete in Linux, with its graphic interface?

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and I have PyMol installed, with a license. But it has been impossible to add the repository ppa:makson96/dynamics. Even downloaded from github, the package with the...

20 September 2020 6,870 1 View

Is anyone working on a project focused on immigrants/newcomers working in the hospitality industry and how they have been impacted by COVID?

The on-going Covid-19 pandemic has had devastating economic effects on many industries. However, few have suffered to the same extent as full-service restaurants. Numerous studies have shown that...

24 February 2021 9,496 4 View

What is the optimum time and temperature of blanching and pre-frying potato for frozen fries?

I am helping a local home industry for developing frozen fries from their local farm. I want to know what is the optimum blanching and pre-frying temperature and time for processing. Please also...

23 February 2021 1,616 5 View

Which microtomy technique do you suggest for thin and delicate root sectioning ?And, how to preserve and process the roots before sectioning?

We have thin roots of from 1 year old different species of plants. We are looking into anatomical details of the roots. What's the best method to preserve and process the roots once they are...

23 February 2021 1,898 1 View

How to successfully revive cells stored at -80 degree C for a year?

I am working on C6 cells along with other neuronal cell lines. We have preserved the cells in 90%FBS and 10% DMSO solution. We are reviving the cells after a year and cells are either not binding...

18 February 2021 4,499 1 View

R/Python package for time-intensity or progressive profiling in sensory evaluation?

Hi I've been looking for a stat package for my sensory evaluation data (progressive profiled which is a multi-timepoint version of descriptive analysis). Is there any available one to...

08 February 2021 9,170 3 View

I'm looking for a PhD scholarship in Food Science and related areas, can anyone suggest me?

I'm looking for a PhD scholarship in Food Science and related areas, can anyone suggest me?

25 January 2021 1,722 9 View

How to distinguish pure and adulterated honey using NMR spectroscopy?

What are the common adulterants in commercial honey? how to identify pure honey and adulterated honey with the help of NMR spectroscopy? Is there any other technique to check purity of honey?

20 January 2021 5,456 12 View

How to preserve wet fungus spore ?

I need to preserve broth culture of wet fungus spore for my further research. Can any one suggest me any solution.

18 January 2021 4,756 2 View

Detection of insect eggs in stored and processed products?

Currently, in order to identify insect eggs in stored or processed products (such as contaminated flour or wafer samples), staining was performed based on the method mentioned in the below...

15 January 2021 6,362 5 View

Does long term preservation (10years) of Collembola in 99% Ethanol affect recovery rate of extraction by flotation?

Hello! I am currently developing an automated counting approach using Fiji to count Collembola from pitfall trapped samples that have been stored in Ethanol (99%) since 2010. I use flotation (tap...

13 January 2021 659 2 View