What are some good recommendations for free software that could be used to quantify video data on juvenile fish behavior and swimming activity?

Ideally I would like to use free software that can be used with a Macintosh. My objective is to quantify individual swimming patterns from 2-dimensional video data. I would like to collect...

16 March 2020 7,635 3 View

What are 5 topics surrounding virtual reality I could write about in an essay?

I am writing a paper and would like some helpful ideas on what to talk about when it comes to the advancement of virtual reality.

17 September 2018 9,034 6 View

How do you calculate the Thiele modulus for complex reaction schemes?

Imagine that there are multiple parallel and series first-order reactions. Which reaction is used to represent the reaction rate in the Thiele modulus equation for a sphere, sqrt(k*a^2/D) on pg 46...

18 September 2017 9,093 2 View

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05 September 2016 1,180 3 View

Do I need isolate CD4 positive cells by MACS first for IL-22 intracellular staining in mouse MLN lymphocytes?

Recently I'm working on detecting IL22-producing CD4 positive cells in mouse MLN by flow cytometry. However, after using PMA/ionomycin plus GolgiPlug neither 4 hrs or 6 hrs culture, IL-22 positive...

01 September 2015 778 3 View

Selective reduction of a nitrile to an aldehyde in the presence of an ester?

I'm attempting to reduce a aliphatic nitrile to an aldehyde, but not reduce a nearby ester. I've found the Stephens Reduction (though there is little recent literature) and other Pd/C methods with...

12 January 2015 623 3 View

Which of the Covid-19 Vaccines would elicit the best immunoprotection and why?

I want to know which of the available Covid-19 Vaccines would elicit the best immunological response and why

02 March 2021 1,388 3 View

Can Ethovision store the generated data and video recordings directly to NAS system?

The size of data generated by Ethovision is huge. Having NAS system for data storage seems to be a good option, I am wondering whether Ethovision can directly store the data to the NAS system...

27 February 2021 6,350 2 View

Experimental Design: How deal with pseudreplicates with immunological and clinical-chemical paramaeters?

Hello everybody, I am investigating the influence of a toxinon various clinical-chemical and haematological parameters in fish. I have three treatments (control, low dose, high dose) in my...

24 February 2021 1,243 1 View

Looking for advices and tips to improve the staining and the gating strategy in human blood?

Hi, I am staining a human blood with CD19, CD3,CD14 and CD16. My gating strategy in FlowJo goes like this: - First, I gate a general population SSC-A VS FSC-A => Then gate for single cells, =>...

21 February 2021 5,724 4 View

Does anyone have a stack of images of action potentials or abnormal brain scans?

I need a stack of black and white .jpeg/.tiff/.jpg/.png images across time of either action potentials, neurons firing, or brain scans (comparing disease and normal brain, disease progression,...

09 February 2021 2,648 3 View

Help needed: How to map AA, AG, and GG genotypes on to polymorphism information?

Dear Colleagues, I am new to genes and genotyping and I need help. I am trying to figure our how AA, AG, and GG genotypes map on to A1 for DRD2/ANKK1 Taq1A polymorphism(rs1800497) and Val or MET...

02 February 2021 3,861 3 View

Does the pre-synaptic neuron location in a cortical map influences the spatial position of its synapses in the dendrite of the downstream neuron?

Are functional maps in the cortex used by the brain to carry out computations or are they just a byproduct of wiring minimization? A key element to answer this question is to know if, when...

26 January 2021 1,118 8 View

Lighting for open field test behavior assay?

I am currently setting up our lab's behavioral space to run the open field test in rats, and I am trying to figure out how to set up lighting to evenly illuminate the open field chamber (a 90 cm x...

26 January 2021 1,399 3 View

Can you apply graph theoratic functional connectivity analysis to study cognitive processes under external stimuli?

Can functional connectivity analysis using Graph Theory (Hub-ness, clustering coefficient, etc) be applied to study cognitive processes? I felt most of the analysis to study the brain after...

25 January 2021 4,575 3 View

What is the half-life of TNF-alpha in vitro?

I'm designing a low-grade chronic treatment with this cytokine and I'm wondering how regularly to change the culture medium based on the half-life of the protein in an in vitro environment....

24 January 2021 5,988 2 View