What analysis to choose with a large neste dataset and clearly skewed or kurtotic distributions?

Hello! I have a dataset of n=3000 nested within 8 countries with approximately 200 or 400 responses in each country. I originally planned to perform multilevel modelling with 4 dependent variables...

02 March 2021 6,865 1 View

Which isomer of xylene do you use in hystology ?

Which isomer of xylene do you use for the preparation of histological tissue sections - meta para or ortho?

02 February 2021 833 4 View

Can we re-freezing of brain tissue homogenates?

Hello! We use homogenates of mouse brains for our aims (determination of cytokines by the ELISA method). After removing the brain, we freeze the tissue in liquid nitrogen, then store it for a...

19 January 2021 5,203 1 View

What is a functional blocking assay for an antibody fraction?

I will be grateful if you could explain me or give a reference where I can read about: - What steps a functional blocking assay could include? - Are there other possibilities to prove presence...

17 November 2020 3,032 3 View

Should antibodies against the receptor binding domain of a spike protein bind to a complete spike protein?

The receptor binding domain of the coronavirus spike protein has been expressed in Escherichia coli. Antibodies were obtained to the purified protein. These antibodies do not recognize the spike...

13 October 2020 327 5 View

How to perform overlay from different experiments in FACS Diva?

Dear colleagues! I am in desperate need to do overlay data collected on different days in FACS Diva (need to compare some markers expression levels on different days of cell growth). The settings...

28 July 2020 1,779 3 View

How to correctly choose population strata and interpret results for the detection of loci under selection from RADseq data using Bayescan?

I am working on the analysis of fungal populations sampled from 12 geographic locations using RADseq data. The dataset contains 7439 polymorphic loci with ~10 snps per RAD locus (75,482 snps...

19 May 2020 643 3 View

Good entry literature on philosophy and/ or ethics of technology?

Hello, I am searching for a good introduction or overview on the topics, methods and research of philosophy or ethics of technology (separately). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Hallo, suche...

23 April 2020 5,096 1 View

What will be the real consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on corporate credit rating?

We know that with Basel all banks adopt a rating system to evaluate their loans and to calculate their regulatory capital. companies have always had problems with the rating calculated by banks...

08 April 2020 9,034 7 View

Editing experimentsl and control cells with the lentivirus, I have prevailing signals from cell immune response on virus. How can that be?

Hello everybody! We have modified cells with the lentiviral construction and then analyzed the result by RNAseq. I've made gene set enrichment analysis in R-package fgsea. And obtained the result,...

03 March 2020 9,876 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