In PRIMER, is it possible to downweight certain taxa in multivariate community datasets to reflect uncertainty around identification??

I have a dataset with about 80 different species. As usual, some species are very easy to identify with certainty whereas others are more difficult, which means that I am less certain of my...

03 March 2021 8,066 4 View

How to get onecolumn document from standard IEEE ACCESS LateX template?

I have prepared a manuscript in IEEE Latex template, but for some purpose, I need to prepare a word file as well (detailed format is not required). Compared to two column .tex file, one column...

02 March 2021 1,830 3 View

Gel electrophoresis result for total RNA samples, 1.5 Agarose gel was used, How to improve the integrity of RNA?

Gel electrophoresis, RNA degradation, RNA extraction from fresh tissue

02 March 2021 5,433 5 View

How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

Hello, I would like to ask how to grow E.coli which resists 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin. I have tried many methods by using low salt Luria-Bertain(LB) agar plate. However, no colonies grow. Let...

01 March 2021 2,027 2 View

OpenBCI eeg--has anyone used them?

I'm looking to try out an off-the-shelf EEG set for some exploratory work. Curious if anyone has used the OpenBCI, and how much set-up work is required. I've heard they are more difficult to get...

01 March 2021 4,128 3 View

How to remove DCU and HOBT from my reaction?

I am doing a acid and a chiral amino alcohol reaction using DCC and HOBT in DCM or THF? Can anyone suggest me how to remove DCU and HOBT from a reaction mixture??

28 February 2021 2,153 1 View

1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.

28 February 2021 3,640 3 View

How to eliminate Steady state error from Reinforcement learning genetic algorithm code?

The following code (see 1st 2 images attached) is used to produce PID controller values that are designed to control the system (G). The code finds the PID controller values (noted as k) by using...

28 February 2021 6,560 14 View

B-mercaptoethanol (BME) protocol?

Hi everybody, I have been running a multiplex IHC which allow me to stain the same tissue with different markers (Primary Ab + Secondary conjugated Ab) (AF487, AF555, AF647). Since I would like to...

27 February 2021 5,028 2 View

What is the suitable range of Sulfur content and Viscosity of Heavy fluid Oil that used in Kiln?

What is the disadvantages of high sulfur content to the ceramic burning process? and what is the effect of outranged viscosity?

24 February 2021 8,219 2 View

Why would adding one variable to a regression make other variables go from insignificant to significant?

I am regressing stock market participation (binary variable equal to 1 if an individual owns equities and 0 otherwise) on debt and a bunch of control variables using a logistic regression. debt is...

14 January 2021 6,451 1 View

What is the scenario for the gold price?

What do you think about the further growth of gold price? Do you think that the upward trend is coming to an end? Or may be we observe a temporary turbulences caused by the US presidential...

23 September 2020 1,344 4 View

Datasets on different type of loan?

I have trouble looking for a dataset that will have different kinds of loans (such as loan to value, prepayment, debt to income, etc...), including especially forbearance. I have tried kaggle but...

12 September 2020 4,947 2 View

Which model to use if you I have both panel and cross sectional data for my dependent and independent variables?

I am testing the effect of macro and firm-specific variables on the leverage of SMEs. So I have both, panel data for SMEs and cross-sectional data for macro variables, as my independent variables...

05 August 2020 968 8 View

Which metric is the best to measure a country's exposure to debt?

For example, I am familiar with the debt to GDP ratio and the debt servicing to revenue ratio. I was wondering if they are other metrics out there and which is most preferred.

29 July 2020 4,808 7 View

Can I use these proxies for External public debt to Gdp, External private debt to Gdp, Domestic Public debt to Gdp, Domestic Private Debt to Gdp?

19 December 2019 8,028 3 View

How can valuation effects on different international hold asset types be esimated?

I am currently assisting on a research on cross border capital flows. A common problem seems to be that both the acquisition of assets and valuation effects determine the cross border asset...

06 July 2019 6,934 3 View

Fixed or Random effect in Panel Data Analysis?

Dear all, I am running panel data analysis and facing some difficulties. My goal is to find out drivers of firms' decision on leverage. I am using Eviews software for my analysis. My data has 9...

06 July 2019 943 9 View

How to make non.fin.corp.debt to GDP ratio stationary?

Hi! I am trying to use a stationary non.financial corporate debt to GDP ratio on some level basis (differencing would not be possible) in R. How to make the ratio stationary? I tried STL and...

05 June 2019 8,689 4 View

Can anyone help me in explaining the results where our dependent variable is in percentage and independent variables are in ratio?

For example: ROA (%) = 0.25 + 0.15 (Debt/Equity) +0.25 (Market to Book ratio) + e

04 May 2019 9,440 8 View