What is the biochemistry of acidic solvents for phenolics extraction in strawberry?

I am using the Folin-Ciocalteu method for analysis of total phenolic content in ripe strawberries. I've read several protocol that suggest a methanol/H2O/formic acid (80:19:1) extraction solution....

22 February 2021 6,560 3 View

Are there any open-source datasets containing physiological information about exercises to be used for an OR-model?

I have just recently started a new "weekend project" in addition to my master's studies and I am looking for a data-set. I would like to use some Operations Research to design an optimal gym...

22 February 2021 8,023 1 View

How reliable is estimation of copy numbers by absolute qPCR?

Hello, I would like to compare the expression levels of several genes in insects, so I prepared standard curves and estimated copy numbers of each sequence in my samples. But for one of the genes,...

11 February 2021 8,421 13 View

Antibody fragments after Dha (Dehydroascorbic acid) re-oxidation?

Hi, I am trying to re-oxidize the disulfide bridges of an antibody with DHA. I always have some good amount of HL fragments (heavy + light chain fragment), despite varying reaction times, pH,...

31 January 2021 9,495 2 View

Please, any real time simulation tool recommendation for islanding detection and control in DG to me aside MATLAB as it keeps freezing and very slow?

I am currently working on islanding detection and control in distributed generations. I would kindly ask that you recommend a real-time simulation tool that helps me in this study. I have tried...

13 January 2021 3,626 3 View

Can decolonial theory speak to human rights movements?

Decolonial theory tends to avoid the language of human rights due to a concern about who is included in "the human" of human rights. But many struggles today start from the language of human...

20 December 2020 7,896 3 View

Ethanol or Isopropanol for insect preservation?

Hello, I am wondering whether Isopropanol (cheaper) can be used in the same way as ethanol for preservation and storage for molecular and DNA analyses, particularly for insect samples. Any ideas...

29 July 2020 4,994 17 View

Is it okay to have R-Squared or an Adjusted R-Squared to be over 90% in multiple linear regression? Does this raise any suspicion or question?

I ran multiple linear regression by using six IVs to predict household water insecurity in rural Ghana. My output came out with R-squared and Adjusted R-Squared of .981 and .962, respectively....

10 July 2020 5,854 2 View

What is the best program to simulate temperature of the tool tip during turning (Abaqus or Ansys)?

Dear all, I would like to simulate the temperature of a tooltip during turning. What program should I use best? And does anybody know where I can find a template where I can start from? This...

28 June 2020 2,572 3 View

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Hi i would like to know if there are some stat methods to aggregate Results of only one intervention group between different studies of a systematic review. in fact, I want to resume a binary...

12 June 2020 5,184 2 View

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

How to accurately quantify chitin?

Hi all, I have been working on the quantification of chitin in insect samples and feed for a while but I can notice that the quantification methods (e.g. exposure to HCl, NaOH, and weighing sample...

01 March 2021 1,843 2 View

Interested to stain mice tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, anybody has a protocol to recommend?

Interested to stain mice brain tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, appreciate if anyone willing to offer me some guidance or suggestions! Thank you!

28 February 2021 3,951 2 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

Why do my MCFs not form monolayer?

Hello, I am looking for some expertise on culturing MCF7s. I purchased them from ATCC and I have been following all media and culture conditions. Media is EMEM with 10% FBS and 10ug/mL of...

27 February 2021 3,904 2 View

Is there anyone who experienced with cytotoxic effect of Hoescht 33342 dye?

Is Hoechst toxic to cells? In general, it is known as non-toxic. I am working with dsRED MDA-MB-231 cell line. I applied it for my PDMS-based microfluidic platform, for this reason, I incubated...

26 February 2021 9,119 3 View

Why my agarose gel staining sometimes looks not homogenic but like gradient (see the figure)?

I am worried about this overexposure of the upper part of the gel in the picture. Is it possible that this is the result of too much concentration of ethidium bromide? Why is there such a big...

25 February 2021 8,140 3 View

Markers of mitochondrial activity in FFPE tissues?

Hello everybody, Does someone have any experience with assessing/extimating mitochondrial activity on FFPE tissues? Precisely, no TOM20, ATP5B, etc: we are trying to get an approximative idea of...

24 February 2021 4,618 4 View

Can a Golgi-stained dendritic spines picture processed by Image J be directly used for publication?

24 February 2021 3,348 2 View

Is there an appropriate CD8 antibody for IHC-P for staining human breast cancer tissues?

Hello, We are planning on staining Formalin-fixed paraffin breast cancer tissue sections (FFPE) with CD8 Ab via immunofluorescence (Tissue IF). Based on our existing protocol and imaging...

24 February 2021 9,578 4 View