What are some underexplored theories and concepts in Activated Carbon as A Water Filter?

Hi, me and my team mates are currently planning to pursue the topic of Activated Carbon from Coconut as a Water Filter. And we would like to ask for your suggestions and knowledge on what specific...

22 February 2021 6,569 3 View

What are some underexplored theories and concepts in Activated Carbon as A Water Filter?

Hi, me and my team mates are currently planning to pursue the topic of Activated Carbon from Coconut as a Water Filter. And we would like to ask for your suggestions and knowledge on what specific...

21 February 2021 7,561 4 View

What properties of water shall be analyzed and evaluated to test the effectiveness of activated carbon?

I would like to ask what other properties of water (pH and such) shall be analyzed and evaluated to test the effectiveness of activated carbon from filtering the contaminants present in the water?

20 February 2021 9,422 8 View

Who are the possible experts I can reach out to regarding the reseach topic: Activated Carbon as Water Filter?

Hi! Me and my team mates are currently new in doing a research study. We do not have any previous experiences in research. And we just wanted to know what type of experts (the field they in) can...

19 February 2021 9,596 4 View

Best loss function for special classification problem in neural networks ?

Hello, I've build a Conv1D model to classify items into 6 categories (from 0 to 5). (simplified example) I use therefore a CrossEntropy loss function that penalizes the errors with high...

19 January 2021 3,199 1 View

Anybody to help me with Code source for DOUBLE CONCAVE FRICTION PENDULUM BEARINGS Please?

Hello, would you please share the codes for Base Isolation of structures using Double Concave Friction Pendulum Bearings? I am doing a related research but as I am just a beginner in MATLAB, I...

18 January 2021 6,683 1 View

Are normality checks required for large sample sizes?

07 January 2021 6,360 2 View

Who created the NAMI Self-Care Inventory (SCI)?

The SCI questionnaire for measuring domains of self-care appears in several places on the internet and scantly in the literature. There are no published validation studies or...

02 December 2020 6,848 1 View

Are there any interesting areas of research yet to be studied with rice viruses?

I'm currently in the process of coming up with a research pitch for a lab to be funded here in the Philippines. Rice is quite the common crop in the South East and its diseases are commonplace....

23 November 2020 5,194 4 View

Has anyone used Colwell's EstimateS software to measure beta diversity of marine fishes?

I recently just found out about this statistical software and am interested to learn more about how this can be applied in marine fish ecology. Any leads on relevant literature would be most helpful.

15 November 2020 6,960 2 View

How does Scientist/RG community evaluates a case study article and the impact of it on a researcher career?

An article that is published as a case study in the SJR listed journal. How much value is added to a researcher career? How it is evaluated by a scientific researcher/University admission...

02 March 2021 9,661 3 View

How to remove the residual PDMS on the silicon mold?

Incompletely cross-linked pdms are difficult to remove.

01 March 2021 798 3 View

Is it possible to obtain a negative cronbach alpha?

Good evening everyone. If a questionnaire has 4 factors measuring different constructs as for example CAMI questionnaire measuring attitudes toward the mentally ill that has four factors:...

18 February 2021 3,223 3 View

Can bio-decomposer be a successful alternative to reduce residue burning?

To maintain the proper crop plan most of the times there is not enough time to make the field ready for the next crop. In this particular context , can bio-decompser be a solution? What about...

16 February 2021 7,068 24 View

What are backpropagation formulas for residual neural networks?

14 February 2021 4,194 3 View

Charmm/GROMACS Residue 'ZN' not found in residue topology database?

I am trying to do some MD simulations of a protein with zinc ions. I am trying to use a charmm forcefield (I have tried 2017 and 2021) and Gromacs. I get an error when doing pdb2gmx Residue 'ZN'...

12 February 2021 9,367 2 View

Is there any difference between "SEP" as a non standard residue and phohophorylated serine?

I am trying to run a molecular dynamics simulation for a ligand that contains a "SEP" residue. also, I am preparing my files using Charmm-GUI using charmm36 ff, but it says that it will rename my...

31 January 2021 6,321 1 View

Can I use video interview excerpts from others in public domain (YouTube, Vimeo, etc) for my empirical analysis?

Dear community, I am currently writing my master's dissertation. As a part of the method, I have to include views (interview) of experts for the empirical analysis. The problem is I have not...

31 January 2021 3,438 3 View

Having the moderator continuous or dichotomous? Using MANOVA or the Process macro (Hayes)?

Hi community! Currently finalising my Master thesis research. I manipulated my independent variable to have three conditions. Originally, I proposed a 3(3 conditions of independent v)x2...

30 January 2021 7,821 6 View

How to calculate the error terms in 2-way mixed ANOVA?

30 January 2021 4,684 4 View