Why does exogenously applied iron salts cause leaves to become greener under sufficient iron conditions?

Do iron salts increase photosynthesis, or do they increase the size of chloroplasts, or cytochromes when iron is sufficient? In other words, is greening-up functional or structural under these...

26 January 2021 9,584 4 View

Why do my fibroblasts under hypoxia conditions proliferate slower than the same fibroblasts under normoxic conditions?

I am using healthy control lung fibroblasts in a 96 hour experiment with two drugs (nintedanib and Pirfenidone) and vehicle controls for both. I have both hypoxia (approx 1% O2) and normoxia...

12 January 2021 6,260 1 View

Mitigating future academic stressors during pedagogical development and instructional design?

Greetings from Vancouver, Canada! My doctoral research is going to begin soon. Because the instance of higher education students in Canada, and elsewhere, has been on the rise for more than a...

11 November 2020 2,600 3 View

How do you calculate the substrate concentration of an assay in enyzme kinetics given the volume and the buffer volume at a given 6mM of the enyzme?

In an attempt to plot the michaelis- menten curve, it requires the initial rate as the y-axis and the substrate contration as the x-axis. Now how do you get the substrate concentration of the...

25 October 2020 1,702 3 View

How to crystallize curcumin from ethanolic turmeric extract?

I'm having difficulty recovering curcumin from my ethanolic extract. I tried reducing its solubility in the solution by slowly adding water, but the solid just crashed out of the solution in very...

03 September 2020 3,020 5 View

Trace metal speciation?

I am carrying out a research to assess the ecological risk associated with the speciation of trace and toxic metals in floodplain suspension. Bearing in mind that the reducible, oxidizable and...

18 August 2020 4,333 4 View

What technique can be used for imaging wet hydrogels?

I'm working on alginate-based hydrogels and I want to observe the microstructures (porosity, roughness, etc.). The hydrogels were produced by gelation in aqueous calcium chloride. SEM is out of...

30 August 2019 2,863 4 View

What is the best way to hold AFM cantilevers during piranha cleaning?

Hi, I'm trying to use piranha to clean cantilevers (silicon and gold coated SiNi) but I find that bubbles form on the cantilever chips and cause them to start to float or flip over, potentially...

24 March 2019 8,787 1 View

Is rice bran oil good for frying?

I am considering rice bran oil for frying to replace canola oil due to its benefits. I noticed difference in the consistency of the food, in this case the quality of caramel and its adhesion to...

29 May 2018 1,311 1 View

Can somebody assist me by giving me standards for fumonisins for my MSC project?

I am a Master of Biotechnology student at Kenyatta University, working on a project on determination of Fumonisin FB1, FB1, FB3 and FB4 on maize samples. I would like to use HPLC technique of...

30 October 2017 2,079 3 View

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View

Irradiation data for JAPAN?

Hi, Could you help me to get the latest (2019, 2020) solar resource data for a particular site in JAPAN? PV GIS and NSRDB data are not in reach to JAPAN, I'm looking for some other database for...

03 March 2021 961 3 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Can you share me how teacher education is managed in your respective national educational system?

I feel that the practice in teacher education in my country is below the expected performance level due to very poor management system. Hope I will learn something from your experiences.

02 March 2021 1,516 4 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

How to choose ANN number of hidden layers and nodes?

Hello, Could you please share any interesting research explaining how to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes per layer in case of regression problems using ANN? Thank you, any help would...

01 March 2021 6,200 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

Genome-wide gene identification protocol ?

Is there any book chapter/book, webpage or research article available to understand genome-wide gene identification?

28 February 2021 8,095 1 View

How to improve and implement WBAN MAC and Radio modules under Castalia 3.2 ?

Hello researchers, Hello Castalia3.2 researchers I am a beginner with Castalia, I work on optimization of RFID systems used in wireless body networks. I simulated a WBAN with 10 nodes and one...

28 February 2021 400 1 View