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What are the reliable tools for soil pH and NPK testing?

I have found some tools which would be inserted to the soil, but I'm not sure about its accuracy. Can anybody suggest inexpensive, easy-to-use, accurate soil testing tools/kits?

30 September 2020 1,580 3 View

Are there available scales or questionnaires to measure change management?

Seeking to connect with authors who may want to share their scales or questionnaires to measure change management.

27 September 2020 374 6 View

Carbon content over 100 in a charcoal sample under treatment at 1200 C?

After elemental analysis of the samples, carbon content of the charcoal was 102 (several repetitions were made, but obtained the same values), the equipment was tested with other samples of wood...

02 September 2020 1,971 2 View

Google Earth Engine for Multitemporal analysis (Land Use Land Cover Change)?

Hello. I am reading about Google Earth Engine (GEE) and their applications for vegetation, landcover and agriculture mapping. I am analyzing an area of 20Mha to determine a multitemporal changes,...

01 May 2020 2,059 11 View

Can anyone share with me a detailed protocol for performing a Plaque Reduction Assay to test anti-viral activity?

I am working with a team looking into testing antiviral activity of naturally occurring substances. We have not decided on the specific protocols but I am leaning towards the plaque reduction...

18 April 2020 762 3 View

How to fix ions in a protein during MD visualization?

I performed a molecular dynamics in GROMACS 2019.2 of a protein with zinc fingers (50 amino acids). When I visualize it with Chimera the ions jump everywhere.

05 April 2020 9,401 7 View

Why is there no yellow formation? (Alpha Glucosidase inhibtion assay)?

I'm currently doing the assay for inhibition of glucosidase. 50 uL of extract and 50 uL of glucosidase were incubated for 15 mins at 37 C. Then, 50 uL of 4-nitrophenyl-a-D-glucopyranoside. It...

09 September 2019 1,160 3 View

How do you create a micelle instead of a liposome?

Hello, I trying to create a PEGylated liposome through the post-insertion method. This method uses pre-formed liposomes and incubates them with peptides conjugated on micelles to transfer the...

09 May 2019 4,619 3 View

What antibody is used for the E. histolytica amebiasis antibody test(blood)?

I am trying to see if I can test the serum of infected mice with this antibody

15 January 2019 8,257 6 View

What is the standard number of E. histolytica parasites for cecum injection?

Will be attempting to pass some parasites in vivo (suseptible mice) and was wondering what is considered acceptable in the field.

22 August 2018 3,136 4 View

How to analyze a particular region of my simulation box in GROMACS?

Hi, I am using GROMACS 5.1.4 to simulate water in contact with a surface. I am only interested to calculate some properties of water near the surface. Let's say at a distance of x nm from the...

03 March 2021 9,989 2 View

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View

Why almost every element would be metallized in sufficiently high pressure and low temperature?

(This statement is from wikipedia, BTW). What is so special about metallic bond that is limiting high-P low-T state of a matter (as long as individual atoms exist, not white dwarf of neutron star...

02 March 2021 3,309 2 View

How to modify Johnson cook equation in ABAQUS?

I wanted to add an extra parameter to the existing Johnson cook equation in the ABAQUS simulation. How to add those extra parameters. Ref: A modified Johnson-Cook material model with strain...

28 February 2021 4,841 3 View

Bayesian decision trees and bayesian regression trees in Python and/or R?

I am looking for implementation of bayesian decision trees and bayesian regression trees in Python and/or R.. Do you know if the existing libraries support this

23 February 2021 6,689 3 View

How to formulate Energy minimization in Molecular dynamics simulation for alloys using meam potential?

during MD simulation, the atoms are not moving as per required. The problem (as per my observation) lies in energy minimization technique. upon application of tensile strain in x or y direction,...

22 February 2021 380 5 View

Magnetismic Gravity in the universe?

MAGNETISMIC GRAVITY What is magnetism? Something magnetic has a + and - charge. If 2 + or - are pushed if + and - are pulled. But what is the main reason for this? Why does magnetism have a pull...

21 February 2021 9,538 3 View

Has anyone succeeded in capturing uranium atoms in a fullerene structure?

Additional questions are: What are the encapsulating atoms? How difficult was the process and what rates were achieved? What factors most seriously affect the economics?

20 February 2021 3,134 5 View

How to get the vector of a specific vibration mode in phonon dispersion?

For example, I have this phonon dispersion(Fig. 1), and now I would like get vector of atoms which describes TA1 in P. I know v_sim can show vibrational animation of specific mode, but I do not...

20 February 2021 4,332 4 View

What are the potential shell well and atomic solvation parameters for the boron atom?

I have a protein-ligand docking project. The ligand contains boron atoms that are not detected by Autodock software. To solve this problem, it is necessary to introduce the boron atom to...

19 February 2021 1,236 1 View