By which mechanism does potassium hyrdoxide works as an activator in the preparation of activated carbon?

Activated carbon is prepared from biomass using KOH as the activating agent. What is the possible reaction between KOH and the biomass?

14 February 2021 8,095 4 View

Should studies published in predatory journals be included in systematc reviews?

I am conducting a systematic review of intervention, and i observed that one included study could determine the statistical significance of the final meta-analysis. Problem is, that article has...

13 April 2020 922 9 View

OCR system for phonetic (IPA) symbols?

I need to convert manually annotated IPA transcriptions into digital format. Does anybody know of an OCR system able to recognise IPA symbols (even just for English phonemes)?

25 March 2020 5,982 0 View

Is it possible to read the deformation field file produced by SPM during normalization?

If (x,y,z) are the voxel coordinates of a point of the brain scan before normalization, what is its position after applying the deformation field generated during the normalization?

19 February 2020 10,004 3 View

Bibliography on the effect of soils on nectar and sap?

10 September 2019 8,922 4 View

What is the correct phenol red permeability through Caco2 monolayer?

Dear all, I am performing Caco2 permeability experiments using transwell inserts and I am using phenol red permeability assay to verify the monolayer integrity. What is the maximum phenol red...

06 March 2019 6,726 6 View

How much solvent (ethanol) would I need to extract capsaicin (and other capsaicinoids) from siling haba?

Siling haba is a variation of Capsicum annuum var longum. The capsaicin extracted will be tested against aphids to test its insecticidal properties. Someone suggested that I should use 5ml/g or 2g...

12 February 2019 1,373 3 View

How much ethanol do I need in extracting capsaicin from red bell peppers?

The capsaicin recovered will be tested against aphids.

04 February 2019 5,811 5 View

Is anyone aware of studies concerning geostatisics in the environmental field?

I'm looking for studies on environmental analysis carried out by geostatistics

16 January 2019 5,356 4 View

CVD adhesion on silicon substrates?

Dear all, I am currently trying to uniformly deposit organic semiconductor via thermal CVD at low pressure (around 10 Torr), but I sometimes get either no deposition or not homogeneous deposition...

21 October 2018 3,185 4 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

APA 7th In-Text citations with two references with three authors with the same surname, but four different author?

I have an issue with APA 7th in-text citation. II have two papers where the first three authors are the same, and the fourth is different. I am using the Mendeley desktop app, and automatically it...

02 March 2021 790 3 View

I can detect my protein but the encoding DNA sequence has stop codons within. Should I ignore the stop codons?

I constructed a synthetic DNA library (scFv, VH-VL orientation) with a 3' reporter and 8x histag. I cloned and expressed this gene following which I performed an ELISA. The ELISA results suggested...

19 February 2021 7,006 5 View

How do I check the quality of my viral RNA prior to metagenomic sequencing?

I am doing metagenomic sequencing without enrichment for an RNA virus. After my RNA is extracted from the blood I am doing library prep with the NEBNext Ultra directional RNA library prep kit for...

16 February 2021 5,101 2 View

What is the best free corpus software for counting words?

It is a pragmatic study of tweets for some political leaders and I need to count the words are phrases used by each of them. Thanks.

15 February 2021 5,897 3 View

How to remove the species data from rda data frame in R (only remain the sites/samples point)?

Dear everyone, When I using the rda function in r, I met this question. As you can see in the figure, there are a lot of deep blue points which refers to the species. But I would like remain...

15 February 2021 8,982 2 View

How to find statistical data of EEG signals?

Hi all, I hope everyone is doing good. I am working on Machine Learning, I am working on EEG data for which I have to extract statistical features of the data. Using mne library I have extracted...

29 January 2021 6,686 1 View

How can I solve this problem with agarose gel DNA purification of bigger (1-4kb) fragments ?

Hi everyone, I perform a PCR + Restriction Digestion (single cut, same at both sides) over a metagenomic library. After that, I am trying to purifiy DNA fragments between 1-4kbp long from the...

24 January 2021 2,190 5 View

Difference between groups or association between variables? Can I ask both questions for a given set of variables?

I am new to statistics and trying to analyse my quantitative data. I am referring to "https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/other/mult-pkg/whatstat/" and "Laerd statistics" for the choice of statistical...

24 January 2021 4,533 4 View

Is PV array not available in MATLAb 2020a simulink?

I have MATLAB 2020a. PV array is not present in the simulink library. Can anyone please explain if the name of module has been changed or is it not available anymore? Is there any way to add PV...

24 January 2021 7,962 5 View