How do we solve optimization problems involving a maxima or minima in the objective function ?

I am trying to solve a multi-objective optimization problem using the Pyomo library in Python. The objective function includes operational optimization of an electrolyzer for hydrogen production...

11 January 2021 8,018 3 View

Any researchers working on Mucuna pruriens with respect to tissue culture?

15 November 2020 8,675 1 View

How can I confirm that a gene is downregulated in cancer cells through PCR?

A particular gene (gene A) is reported to be downregulated in cancer cells as compared to the normal cells. How can you prove this with the help of PCR?

27 September 2020 5,292 4 View

Why my absorbance values are in negative for antioxidant assay by dpph method ?

plant extract stock is 10 mg/mL from which I pipetted 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 200 uL and made up to 3 mL using methanol then i added 1 ml of 0.004% dpph solution (dissolved in methanol) incubated in...

02 September 2020 1,218 2 View

Is 5ug/ml puomycin works for Huh7 cell lines?

I am trying to make KO in Huh7 cell line but after transduction even at 5ug/ml concentration Huh7-Ctrl cell haven't died. Could someone please recommend me the working concentration of Puromycin...

17 August 2020 5,427 2 View

How can I find the relation of cancer stem cells and tumor microenvironment?

in Gastric cancer both cancer stem cells and tumor microenvironment prevents the action of therapeutics and drugs. a. How can I find a co-relation between them? b. How can i evaluate their role...

06 May 2020 6,428 7 View

What should be the best Performance Metrics for SVR Model ?

I am getting the following results for my SVR Model using Python's Sci-kit library : SVR RESULTS - C AND GAMMA PARAMETERS OPTIMIZED BY GRID SEARCH RMSE = 0.17050234208788798 MSE =...

08 February 2020 6,017 2 View

Salicylic acid is poorly soluble in water, I dissolved in 65% ethanol but it is forming precipitation on storage. What to do? Which solvent is best?

It dissolved in 60-65% ethanol but after few hours if storage at 4 degree Celsius it is forming precipitation

19 January 2020 5,092 9 View

In plasmid DNA isolation, potassium acetate re-anneals the plasmid DNA. How exactly does this happen? And why it doesn't happen for chromosomal DNA?

Alkaline lysis method

10 December 2019 2,472 2 View

What was the need for separation of antibiotic Genes into a special DNA system called plasmids in bacteria?

Plasmids are mainly helping in antibiotic resistance and sometimes in replication. But why are they present as a separate entity in bacterial cells?

10 December 2019 181 3 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

After a reference from Int J Body Compos Res, can any body help?

Hi, I am after the reference below, my library says it cannot obtain a copy either locally or internationally, any help appreciated! Chris Wang ZM, Heshka S, Wielopolski L, Pi-Sunyer FX, Pierson...

03 March 2021 6,193 1 View

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 3 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View

What techniques can I use to determine the miscibility of polymer blends?

The term miscibility refers to the single-phase state in thermodynamics. I do not mean the compatibility of different components. To determine the miscibility I know several techniques such as...

03 March 2021 4,107 4 View

Do I need to do linear regression before running mediation analysis using PROCESS MACRO by Hayes ?

I just wanted to check if I need to run a linear regression separately if I am using PROCESS MACRO to run mediation analysis. Thank you.

02 March 2021 4,359 3 View

12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel, etched for revealing retained austenite, any help for clarifying?

Hello everyone. Given microstructure image belongs to a 12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel (annealed and tempered). The sample was etched with picral (100 mL ethanol and 4 g picric acid). I...

02 March 2021 4,119 3 View