What is the detection limit of ED-XRF technique for transition metals in silicon ?

Hi everybody, please, can someone tell us if the transition metals (W, Fe, Ni, etc ...) in silicon destined for solar cell manufacturing can be detected by ED-XRF technique. Note that the...

18 February 2021 6,231 4 View

What are the applicable reinforcement learning based control methods for systems that have control delay?

I am studying the experimental application of reinforcement learning (RL) based control methods. For that reason, I modeled a nonlinear system without delay and trained the RL agent. In this...

02 February 2021 7,999 3 View

How to get the insoluble fraction of PK digestion for mitochondria?

I am trying to check for some proteins if they are located in the inner or outer mitochondria membrane after treating the cells with a neurotoxin. I am using PK to digest the mitochondria, but I...

27 January 2021 5,145 2 View

How can I produce Alpha-monopropionin and Alpha-monobutyrin in lab scale?

I understand that glycerol should be reacted with propaoiocic acid to produce monopropionin and with butyric acid to produce monobutyrin , if you can help with the reaction conditions based on 1...

13 January 2021 1,151 4 View

What is the appropriate period for indexing an article in the Scopus database?

Dear RG members The indexing of a published article in the Scopus database may depend on several factors. The issue is that my colleague and I have published separately two articles in the same...

16 December 2020 4,361 19 View

I need equations to calculate the activity of the enzyme glutamanase and basic phosphatase in soil and plants?

I need the rates for calculating the mentioned enzymes after the laboratory work. I have trouble calculating and extracting the activity of the mentioned enzymes in soil and plants because of the...

03 November 2020 8,601 1 View

How can I know that a variant is novel?

I found a variant which is not reported in gnomAD or ExAC, but still has an rs. Should I consider it as a novel variant? when can I say that ceratin variant is novel?

15 October 2020 9,539 3 View

Do you have any qualitative or quantitative methodologies for evaluating gender equality plans in HE?

I am collating evaluation methodologies. So, broader methodologies for inclusion in my report are also welcome. Please also indicate the preferred citation for the evaluation methodology.

14 October 2020 4,266 7 View

How can I obtain a thin film of PDMS liquid?

I would like to prepare a thin film from of PDMS liquid. My current attempts with solvent casting, then let it dry for 24 hr at room temp. after I tried to recuperate and it doesn't work. Any...

08 October 2020 8,745 4 View

How to compare the effect of changing single amino acid in a protein in a 3D model structure using Swiss-Model?

I run sequening on a sample and found a pathogenic variant. Then I draw a 3Dprotein model on Swiss-Model for the wild type protein and the mutatnt protein. I don't know how to comment on things...

05 October 2020 579 4 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

What do you know about biotechnology art?

What do you know about biotechnology art?

02 March 2021 1,653 3 View

Which is the best place in the world for the plant biotechnology research?

I am searching for a good place for the Post Doc,

02 March 2021 4,053 3 View

Ester cleavage conditions?

Hi all, I need to cleave the ester in Ethyl 2-amino-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylate to make the carboxylic acid and retrieve the product from solution to use in downstream applications of linking to...

01 March 2021 8,766 3 View

Which bacteria are suitable for quorum sensing screening?

I want to find a quorum sensing inhibitor from plant extracts. Klebsiella pneumoniae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. I looked for these strains...

01 March 2021 7,675 3 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

How to remove fatty material from plant extract?

The resultant solid was partitioned three times with 250 ml of petroleum ether (40-60/c) to remove any fatty material and evaporated to dryness.

28 February 2021 9,464 2 View

Good morning research fellows, Has anyone worked with senna alata plant extract on any kind of fish?

Literatures on the piscicidal effect of sennaa alata is scanty. if you have any related litrature either in the bark, leaves or roots used as treatment to any aquatic organism please kindly help...

28 February 2021 9,138 2 View