Is it possible to isolate/detect Japanese Encephalitis virus from Bird droppings?

Migratory birds are likely to transport JE viruses from an endemic area to a non-endemic area. Screening their blood would be the best method to detect JE virus in them. However, it is not...

03 April 2015 9,876 13 View

Can anybody suggest an international conference/symposium/seminar on mosquitoes/mosquito-borne diseases in 2015 (Europe or US)?

I would like to present a paper on mosquitoes in an international seminar in 2015 (After August) preferably in Europe or USA.

10 November 2014 5,947 2 View

Is Homeopathy a real science or pseudoscience?

Many of homeopathic explanations of the potency of the drugs do not look compatible with modern science. For example the increasing potency of homeopathic drugs with increasing dilution.

10 November 2014 4,876 2 View

Which is the currently accepted/recognized scheme of mosquito classification?

06 July 2014 2,748 21 View

Can somebody identify this insect?

It is a biting fly. Could be a midge.

04 May 2014 3,246 18 View

Can anybody suggest the best acaricide to control Haemaphysalis nymphs and larvae?

We have tried to eliminate ticks which infested a backyard garden in a house but failed.

04 May 2014 6,482 3 View

Do you have the habit of eating insects in your country?

I am doing a survey on the habit of "eating insect" all over the world.

04 May 2014 639 10 View

Anybody participating in the 8th International Congress of Dipterology at Potsdam, Germany?

It will be held from 10-15 August 2014: http://www.icd8.org/

02 March 2014 9,611 0 View

Can the smell of blood attract mosquitoes?

I am thinking of making a mosquito trap with anticoagulant treated animal blood as an attractant.

02 March 2014 7,793 21 View

Are there any repositories for novel ideas?

Many people could have novel scientific ideas in their mind but do not have access to suitable facilities to test the ideas. It would be a great loss to humanity if these ideas die with those people.

01 February 2014 6,484 0 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

20 June 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 3 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View