Does early COVID 19 treatment matter ?

The SARS-CoV-2 virus spreading across the world has led to surges of COVID-19 illness, hospitalizations, and death. The complex and multifaceted pathophysiology of life-threatening COVID-19...

29 December 2020 7,446 4 View

Is there a paper summarising optimisation techniques and their properties such as convergence speeds ?

I am looking for a document that summarises mathematical results for optimisation techniques : steepest descent, newton and quasi-Newton, their convergence speed in different settings...

19 December 2020 2,908 8 View

Calculation the Pump power needed in a pressurized flow system?

Hi all, I am design now a liquid high pressure flow system to be used up to 50 bar, and I am having some doubts concerning how I can estimate the pump power. Besides the pressure drop in the...

15 December 2020 8,411 1 View

Design of a membrane system to remove CO2 from a flue gas current?

Hi all, I am trying to design a membrane system to remove the CO2 from a flue gas current, and I am having difficulties in finding information. Does anyone have any technical information,...

15 December 2020 3,655 2 View

What part of heart ?

Hello You can see a transversal slice of a mouse heart in microscopie with blue coloration. My question : what part of the heart is it ? how i can recognize difference between histology of...

01 December 2020 1,000 3 View

Can the potential of LIPIDMICS improve the diagnosis and understanding of metabolic changes in various neurodegenerative disease (PD, HD, AD, MS, etc?

08 November 2020 7,209 1 View

What pressures should I choose in a reheated rankine cycle?

09 October 2020 9,117 4 View

How to estimate magnetic permeability of composite materials (Fe and paramagnetic materials)?

Do works exist about magnetic permeability calculation of ferromagnetic composite materials such as SMC or mixe of iron powder and epoxy at lower density of iron than SMC?

14 September 2020 5,591 1 View

Is there an R package for the equivalent of a Mixed ANOVA in permutation ?

Hello, I know there is an R package for permutations with two independent samples...

06 August 2020 495 2 View

I want to measure cytokine levels in mouse spinal cord tissue and I can not decide which method is best, a cytokine array or ELISA?

Hi everyone. So I need to measure different cytokines in mouse spinal cord tissue and I can not decide which method is the best one, a cytokine array or ELISA. Does anyone that has experience in...

26 July 2020 1,757 2 View

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

How to separate water from glycerol solvent in a solvent recovery vacuum distillation column?

I am currently doing my third year design project. I have been assigned to design a glycerol recovery column in vinyl acetate monomer production. The process unit before the recovery column is an...

01 March 2021 9,525 4 View

What is the state of the drug inside solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs)?

I am a little confuse with the mechanism of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). The main point of encapsulating drugs into SLNs is because some drugs have low solubility in water. Therefore, SLNs...

01 March 2021 3,703 3 View

What is recommended for solid domain in ANSYS FLUENT?

Should I mesh the solid domain ? or should I use wall thickness? or Shell conduction? for Heat Transfer between two fluids of a Heat Exchanger. what is recommended?

01 March 2021 9,785 3 View

Heat exchanger with liquid Nitrogen as coolant?

I want to cool Natural Gas from 195 Kelvin to 138 Klevin in a heat exchanger by using liquid nitrogen as the coolant medium. When entering the heat exchanger, the liquid nitrogen will have a...

01 March 2021 6,450 5 View

Why is the sum of the elements in a row in a Q matrix equal to zero?

When explaining substitution models, the substitutions are expressed as Q matrix. Why is the sum of the elements in a row zero?

28 February 2021 3,864 3 View

How can i resolve the "final solutuin is not converged" error in Comsol for my heat transfer simulation??

I have been trying to simulate heat transfer problem in Comsol 5.5 for long time but it always throw an error stating: "Failed to find a solution. Maximum number of Newton iterations...

28 February 2021 8,626 3 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

1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.

28 February 2021 3,640 3 View

Does different dilution factors affect negatively on NH3 reading ?

I have a sample of treated water sample & asked to obtain ammonia conc. in sample using a machine with 5-25 ppm detection range. However, upon testing with different dilution factors, all...

27 February 2021 8,483 3 View