What are the (extrinsic) factors that influence the citation rate of a research article?

Dear RG members, Excluding the (intrinsic) factors such as quality and content of an article, what are the extrinsic factors/predicors that influence the citation rate of a research article? Is...

07 January 2021 3,410 3 View

Should I take sample from surface or subsurface for soil analysis?

I am currently doing my final year project on Geochemical analysis of peat samples. I will be looking at parameters such as major and trace elements plus anions and cations. Should i take samples...

27 November 2020 6,668 18 View

Hi. How can I carry out mediation analysis on AMOS without all items loading onto each construct? Should I calculate the mean and proceed?

Hi, I am trying to run mediation analysis on AMOS. In the tutorials there are no items loading onto a factor which is not the case for the development of a measurement and structural model. How...

23 October 2020 4,240 8 View

How to find gR(t)=normalized shear modulus?

I want to use relaxation test data in abaqus. Abaqus wanted terms like gR(t)=normalized shear modulus at time (t) and long term normalized shear modulus to find prony series. can you help me in...

21 August 2020 317 1 View

Can anyone suggest a book regarding Power Quality Disturbances Classification Using Signal Processing Techniques?

Power Quality Disturbances with Synthetic Data Classification using specially wavelet transform signal processing Techniques in MATLAB

04 August 2020 4,011 3 View

How to read pulsar raw data file which is in .dat format ?

I am currently working on pulsar observation, but i am facing difficulty reading pulsar raw data file which is in .dat format, I want to read the header information of the data file and then want...

01 August 2020 9,179 2 View

How extract favorite features of a signals using wavelet analysis in MATLAB?

Please can anyone explain in MATLAB that how extract the main features of signals via DWT or WPT?

14 July 2020 6,162 5 View

How to detect Methanogens using Flow Cytometry from wastewater?

Hi everyone! I'm trying to identify methanogens from wastewater using flow cytometry . Any idea on how to go about it? which stains or flurochromes we have to use? how do we go about isolation of...

24 June 2020 3,906 4 View

How to apply wavelet transform to PQDs ( Power Quality Disturbances) in MATLAB?

I want to know the procedure for apply wavelet transform to PQDs in MATLAB software,

30 April 2020 3,280 5 View

Number of Antennas for Massive MIMO (Commercially+ acc. to 5G Standardization)?

Currently, most of the reports show that the no. of Tx/Rx antennas for mMIMO (commercially deployed and tested) are upto128 (64T64R-TDD etc). Does anyone knows: 1. What is the number of Tx/Rx...

19 March 2020 3,987 8 View

How vaccines of covid 19 work?

Millions ask how vaccines of covid 19 be successful and safe, its here to explain generally how vaccine of pfizer work ,mRNA vaccines teach our cells how to make a protein that will trigger an...

28 February 2021 2,723 4 View

Problem with shRNA transfection. Why are only two plates getting contaminated instead of all?

I transfected my LNCaP-WT cells with 3 shRNA plus their NTC two weeks ago and split two puromycin selected cell plates on Friday last week(Feb 26). I checked for GFP in the cells, and they all...

28 February 2021 4,949 3 View

Best plasmid could be used as a standard curve for AAV titration?

I have been trying to have a good AAV titration for my production and I have tried different plasmids to set up as a standard curve but each one behaves differently. i am trying to use ITR for...

23 February 2021 5,167 3 View

How to control the variants vof covid 19 in second and third waves?

A the world find means to control covid 19 by vaccination ,new variants came to spread and make the world in fear and danger, to understand the conduct of these variants, es constantly change...

21 February 2021 3,080 6 View

Surprisingly low antibody titers against SASRS-COV-2 RBD in hamsters compared to mice?

21 February 2021 6,958 2 View

How to get the heading of real-time credit card dataset ?

I am working with the Credit card dataset. I am aware of the fact that the Banks and financial institutions do not share the dataset with third-party companies or researchers. I just need to know...

18 February 2021 9,186 3 View

Will SARS-CoV-2 Spike be broken into S1 and S2 by denaturing conditions?

Hello, I am performing a western blot of my SARS-CoV-2 Spike-pseudotyped lentiviral particles. I denature my virus by adding concentrated virus to 2X Laemmli buffer at 1:1, then boiling for...

17 February 2021 4,844 4 View

How to calculate the TCID50 when the highest CPE is 50% or less?

I am doing TCID50 to measure progeny virus and some treatments protected the cells in a way that the highest CPE observed is 50% or less. How should I do the titre calculation in that case? Thank you!

16 February 2021 8,768 1 View

How to estimate/know plant virus concentration to make a standard curve in ELISA after serial dilution?

Hello, I am trying to know tomato virus titer/concentration in samples and I will perform serial dilution of the positive control. I wanted to ask How to estimate/know plant virus concentration to...

13 February 2021 6,534 4 View

What are the possible effects of COVID -19 Vaccine/s on the persons already recovered from the disease?

Persons recovered from COVID -19 are having antibodies against the virus inside their bodies. They are having T cells already sensitized to the antigens of the virus. If they are vaccinated (may...

12 February 2021 4,106 22 View