Theoretical computer virology ? is still alive ?

HI Everyone! I am asking to know by you, expert in cybersecurity and mathematics, if Computer virology (the one of Cohen and Andler) is still an active field of research. That research made in...

08 February 2021 7,613 6 View

In opensees is the ReinforcingSteel material sensitive to units of measure?

20 January 2021 7,043 2 View

How do I organize items to repeated surveys for quantitative and qualitative analysis?

Hello fellow researchers! Newbie here :) I created a survey with open-ended and Likert-type questions. The survey was administered nine times to the same people using google forms. I plan to...

01 January 2021 3,921 3 View

Is there a better library or function for plotting CFA with many observed variables in R?

Hello! I'm kind of new in using R for doing EFA, CFA, and SEM. I just followed a guide to perform CFA on my data to see how my context fits the ITC-SOPI model in a VR photo-based tour. I used...

23 December 2020 1,679 2 View

Best way to validate CRISPR-Cas9 editing efficiency?

I'm trying to obtain genetic KO in my cell line of interest using Lentiviral-mediated CRISPR-Cas9 delivery system. I would like to test more than one unpubblished sgRNA targetting a couple of...

10 August 2020 1,324 4 View

How to convert .txt into plink files (ped/map or bed/bim/fam)?

I have a huge oncoarray_genotype_XXXX.txt file with 11.7 GB size. I would like to convert this file into adequate files for analyzing in plink software. However, I could not find how to conduct...

08 July 2020 9,302 2 View

How to evaporate Methyl Acetate, and purge added Ethanol?

To use an inhibitor, prepared and sold in a methyl acetate solution, I need to evaporate the aforementioned solvent and exchanging to ethanol or DMSO. I will do that with a gentle nitrogen stream....

01 March 2020 6,947 3 View

SPSS, data with 5 replicates. How to generate the variables-data sheet?

I am trying to analyze some results obtained from lipidomics. The experimental setup was as follows: 5 replicates, 3 conditions (1 control, 2 treatments). I have thus 5 numerical values per each...

08 January 2020 3,526 3 View

How to solve multicollinearity problem in mixture design?

Due to its own nature mixture design models (mainly with interactions) presents multicollinearity problems, some authors declare that a combination of forward stepwise and step backward stepwise...

05 January 2020 1,136 3 View

Tools for measuring patient experience in real practice?

I am interested in different tools that have been implemented in real practice for measuring patient experience (not patient satisfaction), for instance in Spain a questionnaire called IEXPAC is...

02 December 2019 6,609 8 View

Physics: Why do we describe light by referring to its wavelength, but microwaves and radar pulses by referring to their frequency?

In physics, the description of the properties of light generally refers to its wavelength (nm), while in the range of microwaves and radio waves we refer to the frequency of a signal (e.g. kHz or...

03 March 2021 1,682 3 View

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test Fluorescent Compounds Other Than Fluorescence Spectrometers ??

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test The Efficiency Of Fluorescent Compounds Other Than UV Spectrometers ? Suggestions Would Be Appreciated !

02 March 2021 5,785 3 View

Is there any effect of different colours of light (white, red, yellow, blue etc.) on the rate of photosynthesis? If yes, why?

Light is inevitable for the process of photosynthesis reaction. Naturally sunlight plays the vital role for this process. Light may be of different colours like white, red, yellow, blue etc....

02 March 2021 7,890 2 View

How to accurately quantify chitin?

Hi all, I have been working on the quantification of chitin in insect samples and feed for a while but I can notice that the quantification methods (e.g. exposure to HCl, NaOH, and weighing sample...

01 March 2021 1,843 2 View

Can someone suggest a way to prepare slides to observe under confocal microscope for observing fluorescent tagged proteins??

I am growing the cells on coverslips and transfecting the fluorescent tagged protein directly on them. Then i want to observe these cells under confocal microscope. Currently i am just using...

01 March 2021 6,142 3 View

RIA. How to measure?

When you use RIA, with a control the unknown sample with antibodies, you bare in mind the binding sites of the antibodies. However you still need to measure labelled antigen (radioactive) and not...

28 February 2021 2,133 3 View

Why does intensity drops as concentration increases?

Is there any reason for decrease in fluorescence emission intensity of HSA,BSA when increase the concentration ?

28 February 2021 3,653 4 View

In an eye with Tyndall, does each dot correspond to an individual cell?

When you observe the presence of Tyndall in an inflamed eye: Does each of the small floating dots correspond to an individual cell or to an aggregate of cells? Does a conventional slit lamp have...

27 February 2021 6,326 2 View

How to evaluate unsupervised clustering metrics when some elements do not have a cluster label in the result?

I run algorithms like HDBSCAN and MeanShift, and compare them with K-means and GaussianMixture. The first two algorithms do not return cluster labels for some elements in the dataset. My question...

27 February 2021 428 3 View

Quantifying leaking DNA from bacteria - what's the secret?

Hi, all! I need to determine if my treatment causes membrane damage in bacteria (S. aureus and E. cloacae), but I cannot use a fluorescent probe such as PI and similar ones because my compound is...

24 February 2021 2,006 2 View