What solvent can I used for Paal Knorr reaction between 6-amino hexanoic acid and 2.5 hexanedione?

I am try to make the Paal Knorr reaction between 2.5 hexnedione and 6-amino hexanoic acid, my problem is type of solvent to use, because 6-hexaminohexanoic acid is soluble in water but I am not...

02 March 2021 4,443 2 View

Measurement invariance of a bifactor model with categorical indicators. What is the recommended approach?

I have a bifactor model with categorical indicators: 4-option Likert-type items. One of my research objectives involves testing measurement invariance between two groups. I have been doing it as...

16 December 2020 4,601 2 View

How to concentrate a PCR product before sequencing?

Hi everybody, I'm planning to sequence several phytoplasma strains by doing a nested PCR and cloning the resulting amplicons. Standard phytoplasma universal primers pairs will be used (P1/P7...

08 November 2020 2,155 4 View

Discrepancy protein levels and receptor expression?

I measured the expression of a protein that is a receptor in a panel of cell lines. When I measured the protein levels by Western blot the protein levels were about the same in all cell lines ,...

09 September 2020 6,671 3 View

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24 July 2020 9,872 3 View

Who decides if a paper is submitted or not?

If one of the coauthors of a research paper does not contribute intellectually but financially only to a project, is he/she entitled to call off the submission of the paper?

10 May 2020 2,851 7 View

Does anyone know home range databases for mammals and birds?

I am conducting a study using wildlife traits, however, home range data is limited. Pd. I have already used data from Tamburello et al. 2015, but I still have lots of species without home range data.

30 April 2020 6,608 2 View

IEEE 34 node test feeder in DigSilent PowerFactory?

18 April 2020 1,949 2 View

Can pressured steam carry small biomolecules?

Apparently there is a belief that contaminated steam in the autoclave can contaminate your pipette tips while sterilizing them with biomolecules such as peptides and DNA, and that this can be a...

05 March 2020 1,439 3 View

Narrowband filter before or after sLoreta transformation?

Hello everyone: I was wondering about narrow band filtering the EEG (ALPHA, BETA, THETA) and doing a source analysis with sLORETA in a particular set of ROIs. Filtering before (EEG electrodes...

24 February 2020 538 5 View

Is IMPACT FACTOR justified in case of Taxonomy?

There is huge pressure of getting good impact factor on scholars now a days. On the other hand Taxonomy is a very dry subject and the concerned papers can only get citation in same group of organism.

26 February 2021 5,851 1 View

Uncertianiny in using dry or wet basis in mixing a sediment with fuel oil?

Hello I'm currently working on a topic related to studying the anaerobic biodegradation of TPH in marine sediments. In this work, sediment should be mixed with fuel oil to a concentration of 20 g...

24 February 2021 9,839 3 View

Standard curve shifting over time. How do I stabilise the ELISA?

24 February 2021 1,365 3 View

How can I selectively dry etch Ti on a polymer substrate?

24 February 2021 5,378 1 View

How to reduce static electricity of powder after lyophilization?

I am working on synthesizing and then purifying peptides using the SPPS system. After purification of the peptide, the peptide powder is obtained using a freeze dryer. When measuring the powder,...

22 February 2021 10,099 5 View

Plant research: Watering uniformity/consistency. How important is it?

Trying to gather insight from an unresolved discussion with a colleague here, and either the available literature surrounding this topic and/or my keywords in search of are lacking. Context:...

21 February 2021 6,389 3 View

How does a freeze dryer destruct your solid sample?

Several times I lost my sample during freeze drying. There was no solid or powder in the vial after freeze drying. I'm sure sample contained solute because i took its NMR spectrum. I covered the...

15 February 2021 6,749 2 View

Can i use the " weight moisture" ( humidite ponderale in French) of plants to describe their efficiency in using water?

Weight moisture is : water content/ dry weight , if for example it is 4 it means that this plant have for each 1gam of dry mass 4 grams of water. can i use this to interpret the plant use of...

14 February 2021 5,784 1 View

Why (111) peak of ZeoliteX changes depending on dry or wet?

09 February 2021 6,307 3 View

Why do we wash azolectin with acetone?

I want to prepare liposomes made of azolectin (sometimes spelled as asolectin). I start with the azolectin powder, and many protocols say that I should wash it with acetone (dissolve, centrifuge,...

04 February 2021 2,738 3 View