Can I use VIC TaqMan assays on a qPCR machine set to HEX filter?

I am trying to run a TaqMan assay where my housekeeping probe is labelled with VIC. I do not have access to a qPCR machine with VIC specifically defined, but HEX is recommended as a substitute. Is...

18 August 2019 9,174 4 View

Was there a historical Adam?

In view of modern science, I realize that Adam could not have been the first human being. But was there still a historical Adam who served as the first theologically significant human being (i.e.,...

22 July 2018 7,265 92 View

Does absolute power corrupt absolutely?

To put it in philosophical terms, is there a feasible world where a libertarian free human has absolute power but does not become totally corrupt?

17 June 2018 2,655 79 View

Is intelligence or wisdom more useful?

I'm also wondering how you differentiate the two concepts.

13 May 2018 5,599 88 View

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I'm interested in both personal better/worse and societal better/worse.

13 May 2018 9,422 62 View

If every neuron in a human was accurately simulated in a computer, would it result in human consciousness?

Why or why not?

01 April 2018 1,334 80 View

How do we know if what appears to be true is true?

This is a key question in epistemology.

18 March 2018 9,478 69 View

Do you think there is an essential connection between the morality of an action and the morality of the intentions behind it?

Why or why not?

16 February 2018 2,473 15 View

How would a psychological egoist explain what appears to be an altruistic action?

Why or why wouldn't you find the psychological egoist's explanation plausible?

16 February 2018 1,499 6 View

What justifies our treatment of animals?

Is it reason, intelligence, superior nature, rights, or something else?

13 February 2018 2,684 20 View

Open Source IoT Simulators supported by Machine Learning?

Dear Research Gaters, Let me first add context to the question. I am looking to simulate the waste management system and resources of a city. The hardware devices I need to simulate include,...

21 February 2021 2,333 4 View

How to correctly choose the number of solution intervals when preforming harmonic analysis in ANSYS?

Good day, I design the rail-wheel geometry and the harmonic frequency ranges between 20-10kHz with 500Hz solution intervals and the results makes sense. Most of the time on the related literatures...

19 February 2021 3,190 3 View

How to create the context-mechanism-outcome configuration (CMOc) in the realist methodology?

In the realist methodology (especially by Raymond Pawson et al), the CMOc is a common structure to explain what works, for whom, in what circumstances, and why? I'm always asked about the...

08 February 2021 2,792 1 View

How to generate MATLAB code from ANFIS model?

Dear scholars, I was wondering how can I generate MATLAB code of an ANFIS (FIS) model? I need to integrate my ANFIS (FIS)/Fuzzy logic system into another MATLAB code to render optimizations. Do...

04 February 2021 6,098 4 View

Please ,How can I correct this kind of error?

27 January 2021 4,815 5 View

Any suggestion on literature in Cyber Crime against children?

dear all I am looking for on literature in Cyber Crime against children.

11 January 2021 5,099 5 View

Compare to prevalence before and after covid in population studies?

Dear researchers, I have a prevalence of some diet habit in relatively large narrow population of children 13 years old in 2019 and 2020. Logically they are different population. However, since...

10 January 2021 3,170 9 View

Diabetic patients and religiosity?

How to convince a poorly educated diabetic patient, of high religiosity, who believes that complications will definitely occur with the will of the God however he does

29 December 2020 2,304 4 View

Will programmable logic controllers (PLCs) be replaced by IOT devices as the latter become more reliable?

Will programmable logic controllers (PLCs) be replaced by IOT devices as the latter become more reliable?

29 December 2020 255 6 View

Is There an Equation for the Determinant of a Matrix?

The definition, that I have learned, of the determinant of a matrix is a set of instructions on how to calculate its value. This definition can be put in equation form if we keep track of odd...

25 December 2020 4,800 13 View