Can random sampling have inclusion criteria?

As random sampling means that everyone in the population have an equal chance to be chosen, can it have inclusion criteria? My research participants have been chosen based on the inclusion...

26 February 2021 6,905 10 View

Hye All, Greetings, How can i get surface run off water data?

this is for my thesis project, so this is the title of my thesis, the effect of land use on hydrological components in Muar, Johor, Malaysia any ideas, guidance, and suggestions all? Thank You, :)

02 February 2021 265 5 View

What is the difference of FTIR for functional properties and structural properties of protein?

I need to send my sample to outsource laboratory and how can i tell them that i want to run the FTIR for structural properties of protein? is there any differenece between FTIR for functional...

15 January 2021 8,992 1 View

What's the correct way of treating ordinal variable as continuous in regression?

08 January 2021 920 16 View

Does low pHPZC (Zero point charge) indicates higher negative charged surface ?

I found that, there is a difference in pHPZC value when higher impregnation ratio of acid on adsorbent surface. Lower pHPZC value when higher ratio of acid impregnation and adsorption performance...

05 January 2021 7,224 3 View

Why do I see many vacuoles on my cancer cells?

I am currently growing BICR31 cancer cells for conditioned media collection, and as I passaged it I have seen many bubbles/vacuoles - like structures. Cells were healthy during the first split...

05 January 2021 2,320 5 View

How can be the Virus COVID-19 become mutation?

The current situation the virus become mutation, but there were information that zero percent case in Wuhan?

31 December 2020 2,457 4 View

Why does activation process called as activation? what does the term means actually?

I'm referring to activated carbon activation. Activation process does increase the surface area and functional groups content in activated carbon compared to biochar and raw biomass. But I'm...

30 December 2020 6,514 1 View

What is the good water absorption value for construction materials (brick, mortar etc.)?

According to many construction standards such as ASTM, a good construction material should have a water absorption value within 20%. However, if we compare with many water absorption values (from...

26 November 2020 8,538 8 View

What sample extraction/ preparation needed prior HPLC test?

I want to screen the presence of plastic additives in a few water samples using HPLC-UV. I am very new to HPLC, and after doing a reading on the sample preparation for HPLC, I found there are a...

19 November 2020 2,724 4 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 View

What are anisotropic electrical and optical properties of a semiconductor due to?

In some materials, properties such as band gap, thermal conductivity differ along different crystallographic axes. What are the basics?

01 March 2021 1,923 3 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

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Does anyone have the experience of using Taq Man probes in the QIAGEN Rotar- Gene qPCR machine?

01 March 2021 5,311 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

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 View

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View

Why do a weight decrease for thermal degradation in nitrogen gas condition?

Hi all The question is related to TGA(Thermogravimetric analysis). Thermal degradation easily understood but why do samples weight decrease? altough just binding is broked, the weight of...

26 February 2021 1,100 5 View