Why does exogenously applied iron salts cause leaves to become greener under sufficient iron conditions?

Do iron salts increase photosynthesis, or do they increase the size of chloroplasts, or cytochromes when iron is sufficient? In other words, is greening-up functional or structural under these...

26 January 2021 9,584 4 View

Why do my fibroblasts under hypoxia conditions proliferate slower than the same fibroblasts under normoxic conditions?

I am using healthy control lung fibroblasts in a 96 hour experiment with two drugs (nintedanib and Pirfenidone) and vehicle controls for both. I have both hypoxia (approx 1% O2) and normoxia...

12 January 2021 6,260 1 View

Mitigating future academic stressors during pedagogical development and instructional design?

Greetings from Vancouver, Canada! My doctoral research is going to begin soon. Because the instance of higher education students in Canada, and elsewhere, has been on the rise for more than a...

11 November 2020 2,600 3 View

How do you calculate the substrate concentration of an assay in enyzme kinetics given the volume and the buffer volume at a given 6mM of the enyzme?

In an attempt to plot the michaelis- menten curve, it requires the initial rate as the y-axis and the substrate contration as the x-axis. Now how do you get the substrate concentration of the...

25 October 2020 1,702 3 View

How to crystallize curcumin from ethanolic turmeric extract?

I'm having difficulty recovering curcumin from my ethanolic extract. I tried reducing its solubility in the solution by slowly adding water, but the solid just crashed out of the solution in very...

03 September 2020 3,020 5 View

Trace metal speciation?

I am carrying out a research to assess the ecological risk associated with the speciation of trace and toxic metals in floodplain suspension. Bearing in mind that the reducible, oxidizable and...

18 August 2020 4,333 4 View

What technique can be used for imaging wet hydrogels?

I'm working on alginate-based hydrogels and I want to observe the microstructures (porosity, roughness, etc.). The hydrogels were produced by gelation in aqueous calcium chloride. SEM is out of...

30 August 2019 2,863 4 View

What is the best way to hold AFM cantilevers during piranha cleaning?

Hi, I'm trying to use piranha to clean cantilevers (silicon and gold coated SiNi) but I find that bubbles form on the cantilever chips and cause them to start to float or flip over, potentially...

24 March 2019 8,787 1 View

Is rice bran oil good for frying?

I am considering rice bran oil for frying to replace canola oil due to its benefits. I noticed difference in the consistency of the food, in this case the quality of caramel and its adhesion to...

29 May 2018 1,311 1 View

Can somebody assist me by giving me standards for fumonisins for my MSC project?

I am a Master of Biotechnology student at Kenyatta University, working on a project on determination of Fumonisin FB1, FB1, FB3 and FB4 on maize samples. I would like to use HPLC technique of...

30 October 2017 2,079 3 View

What are the most reliable approaches to extract key continuous frames from a video, with complete automation?

I have an input video, of skin (from a microscope that means it is magnified such that blood capillaries are visible). The idea is to extract 15 sec of continuous frames from a video of 1 min,...

02 March 2021 2,735 2 View

What is the standard protocol in doing replicates for C. elegans lifespan assay on solid media (thru worm picking)?

I would like to know what is the standard protocol in the number of worms per plate and number of plates per concentration of extract X in a lifespan assay done in solid media and not automated...

23 February 2021 9,933 1 View

Room Occupancy Calculation ?

15 February 2021 1,997 6 View

Nuances in the digital twin concept. Opinions?

Hello everyone, I am currently working on the state of the art of the digital twin concept, and after seeing the categorization made by Kritzinger, W. et al. (2018) [Digital Twin in...

14 February 2021 2,107 3 View

What Research is yet left in the field of Automation and Unemployment?

I have been through a number of journals and Research Papers. I wanted to get an idea as to what new areas are still left to be researched in "Will Automation lead to unemployment or it will lead...

09 February 2021 9,332 4 View

Business strategy research thesis topics for IIoT Platforms?

Hello, I am a Master in Management student currently interning at a leading Industrial Automation company. I need to do a business strategy thesis which brings together the fields of IIoT...

04 February 2021 7,315 3 View

Permanent Fluid temperature initialization in Ansys Fluent?

Dear researchers, I am coupling Design Optimization with ANSYS Fluent in Workbench 2020 R2. I can do the analysis. I am patching the initial Temperature values of the zones. However, the patch...

28 January 2021 4,265 2 View

Does anyone knows a tool (GOMS based or other) to automate calculation of task completion time?

Hello good human, really hope that you are doing well. I have been reading "The Psychology of Human Computer Interaction" by Stuart Card et al. They have introduced one of the ground breaking...

11 December 2020 7,269 3 View

Code: JavaProp Automation for MATLAB?

Hi Mr. Waugh! I'm using your code for JavaProp Automation for MATLAB on my thesis. How can I correctly reference it? Thank you!

09 December 2020 8,316 1 View

What are the social and economic effects of computers in automation and robotics?

computers are everywhere and they have many impacts but what are the main effects of the use of computers socially and economically

09 December 2020 9,676 3 View