Does anyone simulate the supercooling phenomenon of the PCM (COMSOL)?

I have a heat transfer model in the thermal bath (temperature changes in the range 23-33degC), in which a vial with PCM material is immersed (melting temperature is 28degC). During the heating...

03 January 2021 3,548 2 View

My Wright-Giemsa Stain on macrophages isn't showing any cytoplasm, just nucleus. Any tips to improve my staining?

I'm pretty sure they are mostly macrophages since after a 2 hour incubation in M199 they are stuck with pseudopodia. My slides just aren't pretty enough for me. I'm using Fisherbrand Wight-Giemsa...

13 December 2020 5,475 3 View

Any suggestions to avoid the break of resin slices (Technovit 7100) on the microtome blade?

Hi everybody, I am beginning with the inclusion of biological samples (fish larvae) in resin (i.e. Technovit 7100). I am experimenting some troubles during the cut at the microtome (I would like...

16 November 2020 2,373 3 View

How to obtain promoter sequences?

Hi dear fellows, I would like to perform ChIP-PCR on the promoter sequences of genes, but I am not quite sure how to design primers for the promoter sequences. Can someone please help me? My...

20 September 2020 7,371 6 View

Recommended packages or references to combine regional climate models and Holdrige life zones with R?

I want to use R to make regional climate models to analyze changes in Holdridge's life zones. I haven't used R in a long time so I'm kind of outdated and would like to read some references that...

01 July 2020 1,728 4 View

What strategies to use to make distance classes more attractive to students?

In times of pandemic, distance learning has gained strength. What can teachers do to make distance classes more attractive to students?

23 May 2020 8,148 22 View

In your opinion, are bibliographic review articles important and should they be published by scientific journals?

Some journals do not accept review papers because they consider that the theoretical framework is the basis of a research, and not the research itself. Other magazines already accept and encourage...

20 May 2020 7,841 50 View

Metabarcoding fungi in lake sediment cores - advantages/disadvantages of ITS and 18S?

In my PhD, I want to analyse fungal communities in lake sediment cores from Siberia. One of the performed experiments will be a metabarcoding of the fungi. Therefore I am evaluating primers at the...

05 May 2020 3,920 1 View

Which species do you recommend for ecotoxicological tests of industrial effluents containing hydrocarbons?

The question aims to know what types of species are most used in ecotoxicological tests of effluents from industries in the oil sector.

26 April 2020 5,382 21 View

How can I include a second order term in the model?

My hypothesis is that the functional diversity of fish (responsible variable) increases until an optimum level of a gradient of habitat structural complexity (predictor variable), but decreases...

01 April 2020 9,569 4 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

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

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

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature)?

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature-based reflection)? Thank you for your time and for...

03 March 2021 2,870 3 View

What degree of missing data in a particular case/participant results in Expectation-Maximisation no longer working?

I'm dealing with a mediation model and am using the PROCESS module in SPSS. Due to SPSS and PROCESS being limited in the imputation methods - being unable to handle multiple imputation - the other...

02 March 2021 4,362 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

Sutter electrode holder leaking after applying positive pressure. How to fix?

I am using a Sutter electrode holder for my patch clamp experiments, but I'm having trouble keeping positive pressure inside my electrode due to a leak out of the back of the holder. I have added...

02 March 2021 5,829 1 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

Can NFL theorem be valid in infinite search space in ML?

NFL theorem is valid for algorithms training in fixed training set. However, the general characteristic of algorithms in expanded or open dataset has not been proved yet. Could you show your...

01 March 2021 1,189 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