Does the new SARS-CoV-2 variant, which was recently identified in the UK, affect testing and vaccines?

A new coronavirus variant was recently identified in the UK. It is defined by a set of 17 mutations. One of the most significant is an N501Y mutation in the spike protein that the virus uses to...

29 December 2020 7,726 6 View

What does "failed to evaluate variable" in Comsol Multiphysics may mean?

I've designed a capacitor with dielectric material inside to study the electric field. However, Comsol gives me only some options for the materials. I've tied for example air, glass, silicon, but...

10 December 2019 3,562 2 View

COVID-19 testing

Testing for SARS-CoV-2 can be for individual or public health, and it can be performed in specialised laboratories, at the point of care, or in the community. Also, samples can be collected from...

01 January 1970 8,484 3 View

What is the evidence for extending the dosing interval of COVID-19 vaccination?

Medical officers in the UK recently announced that the second doses of the COVID-19 vaccines should be given at the end of 12 weeks rather than in 3-4 weeks, which was the initially planned...

01 January 1970 1,361 1 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

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

How to choose ANN number of hidden layers and nodes?

Hello, Could you please share any interesting research explaining how to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes per layer in case of regression problems using ANN? Thank you, any help would...

01 March 2021 6,200 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

Genome-wide gene identification protocol ?

Is there any book chapter/book, webpage or research article available to understand genome-wide gene identification?

28 February 2021 8,095 1 View

How to improve and implement WBAN MAC and Radio modules under Castalia 3.2 ?

Hello researchers, Hello Castalia3.2 researchers I am a beginner with Castalia, I work on optimization of RFID systems used in wireless body networks. I simulated a WBAN with 10 nodes and one...

28 February 2021 400 1 View

How could I take into consideration the weights of observation in a system of seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) in rstudio?

I build a model of 4 regression equations (probit and OLS) in R studio. I need to take the weights of observations into consideration. While it is simple to do so for every regression equation,...

27 February 2021 1,233 1 View

I want to performe MALDI-TOF MS for bacterial identification, I would appreciate it if anyone can tell me the matrix solution preparation protocol ?

based on what I've studied on multiple papers, for peptide and protein identification Alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA) is an appropriate matrix to use, I also know that the CHCA powder...

26 February 2021 6,799 3 View

Can random sampling have inclusion criteria?

As random sampling means that everyone in the population have an equal chance to be chosen, can it have inclusion criteria? My research participants have been chosen based on the inclusion...

26 February 2021 6,905 10 View