What is the main advantage of using observer based fault tolerant controller(FTC) for sensor fault tolerance?

I am working on FTC for handling sensor faults in the system. I have read about observer-based FTC schemes which use error threshold-based logic between the states and estimated states. If a...

10 January 2021 5,771 2 View

Can a luenberger observer (even a modified version) be effective for a nonlinear affine system?

I want to know whether a luenberger observer or a modified form of it be effective for estimating the states of a system of the following forms: 1. x_dot = f(x,u,d); y = x 2. x_dot = f(x,u); y =...

20 December 2020 1,392 4 View

Is there any software for calculating hit bias (HB), missed precipitation (MP), and false precipitation (FP)?

I have a time series of two rainfall products. For error decomposition analysis, I have to calculate HB, MB and FB. Is there any software for calculating these variables.

27 November 2020 980 2 View

I'm looking for cell culture models for Alzheimer's by targeting amyloid beta peptide, tau protein, bace 1 enzyme ; can anyone give me details please?

I want to target particular protein/peptide/enzyme by cell culture methods. I would also like to know screening methods for cell cultures to analyse and diagnose the drug effect on particular...

24 November 2020 7,255 5 View

Can someone help me in designing off-MPPT mode in a Standalone DC Microgrid?

I am working on voltage control of a Standalone DC Microgrid consisting of Single PV source, a battery and loads. The PV is interfaced through Buck converter to the DC bus, the battery is...

01 October 2020 7,071 2 View

How to scale the time frame of battery operation in MATLAB?

How can we make the rating of a battery in MATLAB/Simulink to Amp-sec instead of Amp-hour? I have tried with reducing the factor of 3600 to 1 inside the battery block. Is this approach completely...

03 July 2020 4,017 4 View

Why a colorimetric assay is usually not in green?

Various colorimetric assays we use are blue/purple/pink/red but not in green shades. Is there any particular reason for this?

30 May 2020 5,834 1 View

Can someone suggest me a good resource to get the information on design of Adaptive controllers like Model Reference Adaptive Control in MATLAB?

Please suggest me a good source to learn the design of adaptive controllers like MRAC. Resources related to the implementation on MATLAB platform and for Power electronic converter systems would...

01 May 2020 7,422 3 View

What are some physical methods to determine binding affinity of a protein?

What are various options available while determining the binding affinity of a protein to it's target? In my case the target is also a protein. Are there any standard physical methods to...

09 March 2020 8,053 8 View

How to calculate setup time and hold time of a memory circuit in CADENCE Spectre Simulator?

Dear all, How to calculate setup time and hold time of a memory circuit in CADENCE Spectre Simulator?. We have designed Content Addressable Memory (CAM) using 45 nm technology in CADENCE Spectre...

05 January 2020 9,460 3 View

How to store Fusarium oxysporum for long period in simple methods ?

31 January 2021 1,832 17 View

Has anyone had weird polybrene toxicity during viral transduction?

Hi, I'm transducing Ly1 and L363 cell lines using our standard protocol for retroviral transduction. The cells are successfully transduced as evidenced by GFP expression. However, after 4-5 days...

26 January 2021 4,071 3 View

Did I dilute my supernatant too much so cytokines will be below the limit of detection on a Luminex assay?

I am performing an experiment analyzing the cytokine production of macrophages in response to viral infection. I recently harvested and cultured peritoneal macrophages from mice. I plated these...

17 January 2021 5,516 3 View

Could one suggest a common formula for Penicillium Chrysogenum spore counting by spectroscopy? and also its nm?

I am working with this strain but I do not have the formula for spore counting. please just suggest a spectrophotometric method.

05 January 2021 4,308 3 View

Can forward and reverse sequences of PCR products be entirely different from each other?

Dear All, The forward and reverse sequences obtained from the PCR products are not identical at all. Can I still make the contigs for doing BLASTn? Individually both sequences are showing the...

22 December 2020 5,280 5 View

Can alcohol feeding treat respiratory infections in birds?

In discussion with some farmers and colleagues, I came to know that poultry birds are fed alcohols to enhance their production/performance and treat the respiratory infecions. Is there any...

13 December 2020 4,700 17 View

IHC-P staining of the viral infection in the mouse pancreas?

Hi, I'm trying to stain a viral infection of the pancreas in paraffin sections of adult (3 month old) BALB/c mice. Prior to starting my histology analysis, I have titrated the organ to confirm...

10 December 2020 2,198 3 View

Is coronavirus affects children or not?

It has been seen that many deaths of older people happened due to coronavirus, younger was found infected and then recovered yet no any case or less cases or children affected by coronavirus was...

06 December 2020 5,012 18 View

Could anybody provide insights the best tools to create a custom database for taxonomy assignment of metagenomic data?

I am interested in the different tools that can be used to create custom databases for targeted sequencing and how to trim the databases based on the amplicon size? Also, should custom databases...

02 December 2020 3,105 3 View

How can chemistry help fighting COVID-19?

Chemistry is frequently termed the "central science". As such, chemistry is expected to play a major role in fighting the coronavirus. For example, hand sanitizers and drugs are all based on...

30 November 2020 4,983 17 View