What is the status of bread making and more bakery foods with the use of insect flour/powder?

Insects have been consumed by human diet since prehistoric times. At present, the idea of looking at insects as food has been getting traction worldwide, also in response to increasing food...

03 March 2021 6,223 5 View

What is the best method for removing power-line interference (PLI)?

In the paper A wavelet-based method for power-line interference removal i... we propose a new method for removing PLI. This method consists in identifying the ECG and noise frequency range for...

29 December 2020 9,233 3 View

How to reconcile two sets of qPCR data from the same sample but acquired with different parameters (Ta, primer cc., etc.)?

17 November 2020 4,272 3 View

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Hello! I'm currently studying the influence of adding a mass in a cantilever tip, near to a bifurcation. In order to do it, I simplified a model of the cantilever to a 1DOF...

06 November 2020 3,843 3 View

FTIR new peak assignment Ge np coated with Oleylamine?

Dear All, I've been synthesizing Ge nanoparticles using OAm as a solvent/capping agent. Now I'm in the process of assigning the FTIR peaks of my samples. I've assigned almost every peak in the...

02 November 2020 4,227 2 View

What are the main taxa of above ground arthropods in a silvopasture system in the tropics of Latin America?

Beside dung beetles, I would like to learn more about the diversity of arthropods in silvopasture systems where livestock are kept on rotation. Also what about arthropods diversity in similar...

31 October 2020 6,632 1 View

Can I perform a Benjamini Hochberg FDR correction over p values from different tests?

I'm performing statistical analysis on a time series data, comparing the average amplitude (y axis) between three groups on every 50 ms (x axis). The time series is 1200 ms long (so in total 24...

21 October 2020 3,269 3 View

If sustainability is taught at your university in what department the sustainability course/s is housed? What focus/i has the course/s?

Sustainability is a multidisciplinary field and thus, I am interested in learning what emphases are given to sustainability courses in curricula at universities around the world.

19 October 2020 5,621 11 View

What are the basic to state-of-the-art methods for INDOOR temperature interpolation from sparse measures?

Hello, I'm about to start a new industrial project in which we want to estimate (interpolate) the INDOOR temperature at unknown 3D positions in possibly complex 3D room geometry based on sparse...

28 September 2020 4,137 3 View

Communicating though Python module PyVISA to Keithley sourcemeter and nanovoltmeter, GPIB address?

Currently I am working on the acquisition of electrical contact resistance, for which I will be using a Keithley 2400 sourcemeter and a Keithley 2182a nanovoltmeter. Both of the instruments are...

23 September 2020 4,959 2 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

The Shannon's index is inversely proportional to Simpson's index (1-D)?

I'm having a problem with my bloxplot with Shannon's and Simpson's indexs. The value of Shannon for my Community 1 indicating higher diversity (in relation of the Community 2), but have lower...

26 February 2021 3,033 9 View

How to use Remote sensing and GIS applications for mapping the available medicinal plants within the locality/municipality?

Hello, I'm very interested in mapping and managing the conservation of the Philippine traditional medicinal plants, in which I think is very helpful in the field of medicine for further analysis...

21 February 2021 374 5 View

Where can I find raw quantitative datasets on ecosystem services?

I'm an Undergraduate student on the search for a research topic which has to involve any ecosystem service(s) and a response to environmental change. I'm looking for raw quantitative data sets (I...

19 February 2021 5,911 2 View

Any recommendations for methods to analyze elephant space-use (using GPS) and correlating this with changes in NDVI?

For my Masters I am looking into elephant space-use and its effect on vegetation change. I have elephant GPS collar data and was going to use Google Earth Engine to obtain NDVI values. I would...

16 February 2021 7,097 3 View

How to consider effects of rapid warm adaptation in modeling of ecological impacts of warming?

I would highly appreciate it if my fellow ecologists (biologists) provide their opinion on the thoughts below [esp., shortly tell us which path may be more effective, if they know another way, if...

15 February 2021 3,642 6 View

Extraction of DNA from insect samples conserved in silica gel?

Hi everybody, can anybody suggest how to extract DNA from insect samples conserved in silica gel (in my case, mosquitoes)? Does anybody know a commericial kit which does that or a particular...

10 February 2021 3,392 4 View

MAD or boxplot to detect outliers in non normally distributed data for latency and distance in animal cognition?

I am studying animal cognition and I have data about animals' latency to approach a cue and animals' distance from the cue in a test. Data are not normally distributed and when I do scatterplots...

04 February 2021 503 3 View