Does anyone know what kind of insect this is?

The flower was found from a Hydrangea species in my garden. These little bugs were found hiding within the flower. Do you know what they are?

11 August 2019 3,037 8 View

Estimating power for different techniques?

Have anyone estimated the power of an analysis with Gpower from data of pilot studies?. I used three different sampling techniques (underwater visual census, baited cameras and fish traps) to...

02 February 2017 6,991 2 View

Can anyone give me tips on the T7Megascript kit?

I'm trying to get in vitro transcribed RNA from a linearized plasmid, using the T7 MEGAscript kit. After the reaction I run a few ul on a 1% gel to check my RNA, but sometimes I get no RNA product...

10 December 2014 6,946 3 View

What is your opinion on quantifying double labeled immunofluorescence markers or adjacent slides IHC?

Like to know other researchers opinion on quantifying some immunohistochemical/immunofluorescence data, I double labeled some markers using IF on FFPE tissue samples, I also have the adjacent...

11 June 2014 9,438 4 View

How can you transfect exosomes obtained in vivo with microRNAs or antagomiRs for subsequent in vivo applications?

We isolated exosomes from culture supernatants using the ultracentrifugation method. Could anyone suggest how to transfect these exosomes and purify them for consecutive administration in vivo?

25 March 2014 766 3 View

Pitfall traps in testing macrofauna composition and abundance

01 January 1970 7,000 6 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

02 March 2021 0 0 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

Is it possible to do piezoelectric coupling in ANSYS-APDL or COMSOL between tapered substrate and rectangular piezoelectric patch?

How to do Piezoelectric coupling in ANSYS-APDL or COMSOL between tapered substrate and rectangular piezoelectric patch? Piezoelectric coupling between the rectangular substrate and rectangular...

02 March 2021 9,833 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

Joint behaviour in Abaqus is not captured well?

I am working on roof joint and trying to simulate the behaviour in Abaqus. I am successful in running the model but the final graph does not follow the experimental curve in the negative direction...

01 March 2021 6,661 3 View

How to show arrows over the streamlines in CFD-post?

I follow this to make streamlines like the photos attached below: (software- CFD post-processing) First I plot the 2D streamline over a surface "streamline 1". them I plot a vector by the...

01 March 2021 8,668 3 View

Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS?

I need to model masonry and reinforced concrete minarets for my MSc thesis. Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS? (Or any other program for just...

01 March 2021 736 3 View

Can Virtual Servers (remote dekstop manager) run heavy ANSYS Fluent CFD simulation ?

I have a virtual machine. My host Pc specs are not that good thats why i went for virtual servers. so basically my host pc has 8gb of ram with nvidia quadro k2200 4Gb DDR5 GPU ,processor intel...

01 March 2021 8,415 1 View

How to increase mesh quality of a cfd model in ansys fluent?

How can one improve mesh skewness, orthogonality, aspect ratio?

28 February 2021 7,730 3 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