How to highlight novelty in your research paper?

I have come up with a method and had written a paper on it. Paper got rejected by a journal stating that there is no theoretical novelty. I am kind of confused on why the novelty that I am able to...

28 February 2021 2,393 8 View

How to use 5 by 5 or 7 by 7 kernel size for a deep learning network with 3 by 3 kernels?

I am using a U-Net architecture with Xception net as encoder . The visual area of the segmentation mask is very small and after training, it is giving a lot of false positives. I am thinking of...

20 September 2020 1,968 2 View

Is it fair to use augmentation only on classes with less samples?

I am training a model, where class distribution is unbalanced. So, I thought of applying augmentation technique, to improve the performance. I am wondering,is it fair to apply augmentation only on...

18 November 2019 5,292 8 View

How do you interpret Blastn results with 0 % query coverage and 100 % identity?

I have a blasn result for a whole genome sequence of a species against a particular gene nucleotide sequence that encodes a protein. For these results the e-value is a bit high but I have 100 %...

05 November 2019 3,504 1 View

Why do the DICOM files loaded through viewer are looking different than images loaded using python library?

I am working on DICOM images of chest X ray images. In this, when I load the image in DICOM viewer, the images are having good contrast ratio. And when I load the same DICOM in python using...

05 August 2019 6,708 3 View

How to compare edge enhancement in images?

I have developed a method using which the edges in images are get enhanced. Which evaluation metric shall I use to state that edges in image are improved or not? I am working on brain tumor images.

04 January 2018 8,521 9 View

How we can use Raman's spectroscopy in wood science to improve our research?

If we use raman's spectroscopy what things we can identify from wooden samples, composition of wood, chemical constituent of wood, cellulose, nano cellulose and what things we can use?

24 August 2017 1,039 3 View

Mixed semiconductor oxide (ZnO-TiO2) vs monooxides (ZnO or TiO2)

13 August 2017 4,515 3 View

How to perform spectral clustering for large size images?Does parallel computing can solve the issue of scalability?

I am working on Spectral clustering with the matrix size of 57600 by 57600. But,it fails throwing 'memory error'. It works for 8100 by 8100 matrix. Can using parallel computing approach help to...

14 February 2017 6,908 3 View

How to use sparse matrices effectively in python?

I am using large matrices in my research. The size of matrix vary from 3600 by 3600 to 57600 to 57600. The matrix are sparse in nature. But, despite using sparse matrix from scipy the computation...

15 December 2016 5,730 4 View

Adherance of Polyaniline coating over stainless steel?

Is the electropolymerisation of polyaniline coating over stainless steel (SS) via Cyclic voltammetry technique is really adherant? Else how to improve the adhesion of the coating, whether any...

01 March 2021 8,220 2 View

How to remove the residual PDMS on the silicon mold?

Incompletely cross-linked pdms are difficult to remove.

01 March 2021 798 3 View

Is there a method of determining feed digestibility without the need to re-pellet the feed?

I am aiming to determine the ADC values of a commercial fish feed, but I do not have a steam pelleter or extruder available to me. Ideally, the pellets could be coated with some inert marker....

28 February 2021 7,967 3 View

How to immerse bricks in wax ( for coating ) ?

Do we immerse the bricks horizontally or vertically ? #bricks#waterproofingsurface#civil#engeenering#chemicalengineering#wax#parafinwax

28 February 2021 6,685 2 View

For gelatin coating for culturing HUVEC.Should the gelatin be made in sterile water or PBS? Do I need to autoclave the gelatin soln after making it ?

I want to use 0.1% gelatin. Should that be made in PBS or sterile water? Should I autoclave the gelatin soln after making it in water/PBS?

28 February 2021 274 2 View

Why is my platinum counter electrode getting dirty during electrodeposition?

I am conducting anodic electrodeposition of MnO2 onto a stainless steel substrate, using a platinum strip as a counter electrode. This is done galvanostatically, with the current held between 5...

27 February 2021 1,829 3 View

What pH condition required to coat APTES on silica coated Fe3O4?

It's a hydrolysis reaction, which may produce by either acid or base-catalyzed reaction. so can anybody help me with this, which condition is suitable for this reaction?

26 February 2021 1,760 8 View

What is the best surface to culture cells isolated from a skin biopsy?

Hello, recently I am having some difficulties with maintaining the cell culture of primary cells isolated from a skin biopsy (normal and malignant). The coating of culture plates with Matrigel (a...

26 February 2021 6,151 2 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

How does charge on working electrode changes with rising potential?

During performing CV of a GCE or modified GCE, we rise the potential in the first half of the cycle and reduce it in reverse half. During the first half, what is the nature of charge on GCE or...

25 February 2021 7,994 3 View