Why am I not able to use all VEP programs for the in silico analysis of avpr1b SNP's?

Good day researchers I am busy analysing the predicted effects of certain SNP's in AVPR1b. When using the VEP prediction programs (SIFT, Polyphen, FATHMM, LRT, Provean, Mutation Assessor, and...

28 February 2021 5,197 1 View

Should we reduce the standard unit of length to 0.31951540592 meter ?

The reasoning behind this question is to align the ratios of the proton potential in energy per charge to the speed of light in distance per time. As these two dimensions appear to be related,...

27 February 2021 947 7 View

What metal thin film houses also do annealing?

Could anyone provide names of metal thin film deposition vendors that also do high temperature annealing, in the range of 300-500 C?

27 December 2020 6,137 3 View

Vacuum freeze drying protocol in human skeletal muscle tissue methods, anyone?

I will be freeze-drying small skeletal muscle samples (~60mg) per sample using a Virtis SP Scientific Benchtop Pro Freeze Dryer. I've had difficulty findings a reference protocol to determine the...

21 November 2020 1,423 1 View

Does anyone freeze samples in GeneJET RNA extraction kit lysis buffer?

For the GeneJET RNA purification kit from Thermo Scientific, does anyone know if you can lyse your sample (suspension cells in my case) in the lysis buffer from the kit and then keep the sample at...

18 October 2020 4,993 3 View

Looking for good/reliable betaine assay kits. Does anyone have experience with such a thing?

I am looking to quantify both human serum and skeletal muscle homogenate betaine concentrations via ELISA or colorimetric assay kits. Has anyone had a good experience with any products...

24 September 2020 4,550 3 View

Accurate curvature estimation of CT-scans (image stack)?

We have multiple CT-scans in the format of TIF image stacks. To get the mean curvature we first transform the stack to a triangular mesh (using Marching Cubes). To make the triangles in this mesh...

03 August 2020 7,921 4 View

Input from experts in environmental survey sampling design on draft sampling design decision tree?

Hi. I am trying to help provide some rough advice for selecting amongst alternative sampling designs to measure bird density or abundance. The surveys are short-term in duration such as for impact...

22 January 2020 2,978 3 View

Test for silicone residue from silicone part?

I have a silicone part that will come in contact with food. It will need to pass FDA tests for hexane extraction of silicone residues. Is there a method I can use to remove uncured material and...

09 December 2019 4,246 3 View

Use Betas Estimated in Original Jones Model in Modified Jones Model STATA?

Hello, I can use the following codes in Stata to generate regression according to original Jones model. gen Jones1991_DA=. forval y = 2010(1) 2015{ forval i = 1(1) 6{ display `i' display `y'...

14 October 2019 6,438 1 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

Hello, I would like to ask how to grow E.coli which resists 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin. I have tried many methods by using low salt Luria-Bertain(LB) agar plate. However, no colonies grow. Let...

01 March 2021 2,027 2 View

Shall I skip the measurement model in SmartPLS?

Hello everyone, I had run a mediation model in SmartPLS using questionnaires that were already validated among my statistical population. A professor who edited my paper -though she is not...

01 March 2021 3,052 3 View

Joint behaviour in Abaqus is not captured well?

I am working on roof joint and trying to simulate the behaviour in Abaqus. I am successful in running the model but the final graph does not follow the experimental curve in the negative direction...

01 March 2021 6,661 3 View

1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.

28 February 2021 3,640 3 View

How to modify Johnson cook equation in ABAQUS?

I wanted to add an extra parameter to the existing Johnson cook equation in the ABAQUS simulation. How to add those extra parameters. Ref: A modified Johnson-Cook material model with strain...

28 February 2021 4,841 3 View

How to find the right number of integration points in second order 3d finite elements?

I am familiar with finite element simulations and numerical schemes like the Gauss Legendre quadrature. I also know that the Gauss integration yields exact values for polynomials up to degree 2n-1...

27 February 2021 6,818 3 View

What could be the reason for not having further low chi square value (better agreement) in my refinement result?

I have tried every combination of parameter changes and after that i have a poor chi square value. I can't get it lower any further. I know there have been a lot of discussion about Rietveld...

26 February 2021 8,480 3 View

Are there lab markers/pens resistant to Roti-Histol?

Hi, I'm looking for a pen/marker to write on the smooth, transparent (non-frosted) part of microscopy slides which does not get washed away by alcohols and most importantly Roti-Histol. I want to...

24 February 2021 9,902 5 View

How to constrain genetic algorithm input u?

My real system (buck converter) can only take an input of 0 to 1 (duty ratio) and I need to constrain the system so the controller action keeps within this bounds. How can I do this? The code for...

22 February 2021 2,125 3 View