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Big Data analytics and earth's history ?

How Big Data analytics has helped to reconstruct the history of our earth

03 October 2023 7,661 1 View

Which technique to remove sulphates from contaminated soils or dredged sediments?

I am looking for a paper on the removal of sulphates levels in soils or solid wastes (dredged marine sediments) by plants and/or bacteria. I find several passive techniques that treat DMA...

22 June 2022 4,251 7 View

Calibrating and correcting climate models?

Extended/edited from an early question for clarity. I have temporally high resolution outputs of modelled climate data (model x, spanning 0-5000 ka. Low spatial resolution 0.5 degrees). Compared...

21 February 2022 6,116 3 View

BIOME-4 and R?

I'm creating a loop in R to create the dependent variables that go into BIOME4. Within the loop, I would like to run BIOME4 using the newly created climate variables and then retrieve the BIOME4...

25 January 2022 8,233 0 View

Late Miocene (~8-5 Ma) climate rasters?

I'm looking for global rasters/geotiffs/netcDFs for monthly precipitation, temperature and NPP for the Late Miocene. Is there a database, similar to WorldClim or PaleoClim, for Miocene climates?

25 January 2022 3,798 7 View

What is the best method to treat a glass slide with APTES to make surface hydrophobic? Currently I have found that adding water into solution helps?

I am trying to ensure I have the correct protocol. I need my channels to be hydrophobic. Thanks for any help. It will be greatly appreciated.

19 January 2022 841 2 View

How to stop sperm cells clumping during fixation?

I've been optimising a flow cytometry protocol to assess intracellular proteins in human sperm. Most published methods describe fixing with 4%PFA after washing and pelleting the cells. I am...

06 September 2020 3,071 2 View

Understanding the theory of quarter wavelength coatings?

I remember asking this as an undergraduate physics student and got the answer "it's a property of light", so maybe things have changed in 40 years... So coatings cause reflections at the surface...

30 May 2020 7,957 9 View

Which R Data Envelopment Analysis package will let me define targets?

I want to deine targets for DMUs with a DEA model with one or two inputs and two outputs. What R package would you recommend, and how are the targets extracted? Thanks for any help.

12 October 2019 3,796 4 View

Using ImageJ to measure area of expression of two fluorescent markers together?

Hi, I have been using ImageJ to measure the area of fetal ovaries, with Cleaved Caspase 3 and mvh/ddx4 expression for my IF. mvh is the green channel and CC3 is on the red channel. I haven't had a...

24 June 2019 3,760 3 View

Feedback defines the constitution of an organism?

“Here is a thought experiment. Let's place Rodolpho Llinas's jarred-brain on top of a body (Fig. 1). I bet Llinas would argue that his jarred-brain retains its own consciousness, and the android...

11 August 2024 2,483 1 View

Self-Organizing Superorganisms—as envisaged by Nenad Sestan (2018)?

The rate of glucose consumption by the neocortex is reduced by over 80% during anesthesia (Sibson et al. 1998), which disables the synapses (Richards 2002) that are inundated by glial tissue (Engl...

08 August 2024 3,118 0 View

What condition of Kirat Rai's participation in politics before and now in Nepal?

The political participation of the Kirat Rai community in Nepal has evolved significantly over time: Historical Context Historically, the Kirat Rai people, like many indigenous groups in Nepal,...

05 August 2024 5,950 1 View

Measuring the Intelligence of a Species?

Larger brains, which typically contain more neurons, store and transfer more information (Tehovnik and Chen 2015), but the precise relationship between number of neurons and information has yet to...

05 August 2024 1,238 2 View

How can i do multivariate Time Series forecast using MLP, ANFIS and LSTM?

I need the python code to forecast what crop production will be in the next decade considering climate and crop production variables as seen in the attached.csv file.

05 August 2024 2,977 3 View

The Curse of Evolution and Complexity?

Brain and body mass together are positively correlated with lifespan (Hofman 1993). The duration of neural development is one of the best predictors of brain size, and conception is the best...

05 August 2024 6,247 3 View

Need help with my research project on open source SIEM and machine learning?

Hello everyone, I am currently working on a research project that aims to integrate machine learning techniques into an open source SIEM tool to automate the creation of security use cases from...

04 August 2024 3,196 2 View

Swimming/space travel depends on the proprioceptive muscle spindles?

When the entire neocortex is ablated in rodents, although they are still able to swim, all the limbs move continuously and asynchronously (Vanderwolf 2006; Vanderwolf et al. 1978). Normal animals...

03 August 2024 835 3 View

What are the limitations and challenges of using machine learning for predicting concrete compressive strength in practical applications?

Machine learning (ML) has shown great potential in predicting the compressive strength of concrete, an important property for structural engineering. However, its practical application comes with...

03 August 2024 2,546 2 View

Some new emerging problems on application of RL for scheduling in IoT networks?

I have seen plenty of existing works on applied Reinforcement Learning (RL) policies for optimized scheduling in IoT networks including Q-learning, DQNs, and the newer ones including PPO for...

01 August 2024 8,754 2 View