What are the patterns of human behavior that lead to COVID-19 infections?

Does data from contact tracing help in establishing patterns of behavior and social interactions that lead to infections? There are cases here in the Philippines where patients have no travel...

25 February 2021 9,002 13 View

How can I selectively dry etch Ti on a polymer substrate?

24 February 2021 5,378 1 View

Which factors contribute to instructional resilience in HE?

If you are teaching in Higher Education, please consider participating in our study on Instructional Resilience during Emergency Remote Teaching. We want to learn about which factors have...

19 January 2021 6,759 15 View

How to view the electrostatic potential value of a Gaussian09W result?

Hi all I am able to view the electrostatic potential surface using Gaussview to see the calculating result from Gaussian09W of a small molecule. However, the strength is represented by color. I am...

19 January 2021 5,448 3 View

Statistics Question: Meta-analysis of factorial trials?

Hi all, is it possible to do a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials with factorial design? I would appreciate some guidance/referral to a statistical resource or guide on this. Many thanks.

17 January 2021 4,090 3 View

How would I go about equilibrating the internal humidity of a closed system at 2 different temperatures?

I have a box which is kept at 4C which is enclosed in a ziploc bag. The dimensions of the box are: 18cm x 13.4cm x 4.9cm. The relative humidity of this internal environment is 30% at this...

07 January 2021 6,734 3 View

Blue native page transfer problem?

Hello, I am writing this hoping someone can help me. I am just starting out with BN-PAGE and I have a transfer problem. It seems each time I transfer (2 membranes at a time) in a BioRad wet...

09 December 2020 1,008 3 View

What is the influence of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) in a p-n ternary photocatalyst?

04 December 2020 9,019 2 View

Can I use both coarse resolution (1 km) and high resolution predictors (2 m) in a species distribution model?

I am proposing that a hierarchical approach is used where coarse resolution variables are used to run a maxent SDM and delineate a presence/absence map for my species (tropical conifer tree...

24 November 2020 1,106 4 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

How to quantitative analize the data of TNBS assay for gelatin?

Estemeed colleagues, I found some issues regarding the quantification of the data for TNBS assay. There are different protocols on how to perform that but it is clear to me the "fil rouge" that...

02 March 2021 2,616 1 View

How we can measure Kemp % in wool without using of benzene?

Would you please let me to know about the methods for measurement of medullation and Kemp % on animal? My problem is that the wool sampling and sending to laboratory is not possible. So I would...

21 February 2021 7,260 4 View

How to obtain parameters to run a simulation for benzene using CHARMM forcefield in GROMACS?

I have been reading this paper Soft Matter, 2017, 13, 1904 and in this paper, they simulate benzene in GROMACS using CHARMM. They mention that they performed simulations of benzene using the...

15 February 2021 5,561 3 View

Which non-coordinating solvent dissolves anhydrous Iron(II)chloride?

Hallo, i am looking for a non coordinating solvent that dissolves anhydrous FeCl2 for a synthesis in which i can not use solvents like thf, pyridin etc.. I already tried benzene (no solubility),...

11 February 2021 6,105 1 View

In Michaelis-Menten Kinetics, why K(subscript)On have units (mol^-1)(time^-1)?

where K(subscript)On is the rate of Enzyme (E) + Substrate (S) going to Enzyme-Substrate complex (ES). I think I understand why K(subscript)Off and K(subscript)catalysis have units of time^-1....

11 January 2021 649 8 View

What is the mass% and mole% of water in the 11ml solution?

10 January 2021 127 2 View

Maximum concentration of PhMgCl in THF?

The background of this is lengthy, but in short, I am an experienced chemist with essentially no experience doing Grignard reactions. Most recent literature uses mmol scales @ 0.1-1M...

10 October 2020 9,123 13 View

How to determine the moles of alkali required for saponification of the oil for fatty acid extraction?

I have calculated the saponification value of the oil. Now, what is the calculation to determine the amount of alkali required for the saponification value? How to determine the molecular mass of...

20 September 2020 3,492 3 View

Why Nd-doped PbTe showed much lower BET surface area than Yb-doped PbTe?

Why Nd-doped PbTe showed a much lower BET surface area than Yb-doped PbTe?

20 June 2020 9,793 3 View

Carboxylation of methoxy benzene?

Hi, can anybody suggest me a single step ortho carboxylation of methoxybenzene derivatives. What are the best sets of reagents

07 June 2020 1,043 8 View