Why is my platinum counter electrode getting dirty during electrodeposition?

I am conducting anodic electrodeposition of MnO2 onto a stainless steel substrate, using a platinum strip as a counter electrode. This is done galvanostatically, with the current held between 5...

27 February 2021 1,829 3 View

What is the significance of (isolated) high titers of IgG anti GD1a antibodies in an older patient with polyneuropathy?

Remote history of Campylobacter infection with reactive arthritis, and Spitz nevus (UMP). Arthropod exposure in Zika/ChikV endemic area prior to emergence of length dependent, sensory PN with...

18 February 2021 8,719 1 View

Can Qualtrics generate reports for survey respondents that show their answers to selected questions?

I am using Qualtrics for a Delphi survey. Does anyone know if Qualtrics can generate reports that I can send to respondents. More specifically, I want to send respondents a report of their...

13 January 2021 7,976 3 View

What are health and agricultural econmic impact of the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic_acid (2,4-D) in your country?

Dear Research community, I am writing a review about 2,4-D. Google Scholar has identified 11000 publications with this herbicide as a keyword since 01/01/2018. There is plenty for me to read....

29 December 2020 1,145 6 View

What are the ethical considerations when conducting research with students who are paying for a private course?

I'm going to be teaching an online course to minors using game-based learning strategies. I wasn't to make sure I consider ethics considering students (likely their parents) will be paying to take...

12 December 2020 6,497 11 View

No host reference for metatranscriptomics?

One of the steps during the preprocessing of the data from metatranscriptomic analysis is to remove any host reads (host contamination) by comparing to host database. But what if there is no host...

30 November 2020 3,259 2 View

Primer specificity check with primer blast individually or together?

Hi, When checking my designed primers for specificity, what is the difference if I run BLASTn for each primer individually versus together (ie. forward primer separated by 20 "N" then reverse...

03 November 2020 1,421 4 View

To what extent do motorhomes and other large vehicles degrade road surfaces in relation to cars and other light vehicles?

I am studying the effects on the road system of a rural region of a drastic increase in traffic, particularly Motorhomes. My question is this, do motorhomes and other large vehicles have a...

22 October 2020 8,146 3 View

How to calculate pKa's using DFT for a molecule with three acidic hydrogens?

The molecule in question is a molecule with 3 non-equivalent hydrogens. Am I going to have to run the calculations in all of the transition states?

18 October 2020 1,524 3 View

Gibson Assembly Produces Wrong Product?

I have been using Gibson Assembly to insert a 7kB fragment into an 8kB linearized vector. After assembly many colonies form, but colony PCR on the transformation consistently shows a 1.5 kB...

18 September 2020 247 3 View

How to access MSCI KLD Stats and Sustainalytics?

Hello all, I'm currently working on my undergraduate thesis and I'm having difficulties trying to access KLD Stats and Sustainalytics because my campus Airlangga University and apparently other...

02 March 2021 8,525 1 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

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

How could I take into consideration the weights of observation in a system of seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) in rstudio?

I build a model of 4 regression equations (probit and OLS) in R studio. I need to take the weights of observations into consideration. While it is simple to do so for every regression equation,...

27 February 2021 1,233 1 View

Can random sampling have inclusion criteria?

As random sampling means that everyone in the population have an equal chance to be chosen, can it have inclusion criteria? My research participants have been chosen based on the inclusion...

26 February 2021 6,905 10 View

CGA 300 Regulator for CO2 cylinder?

Has anyone ever tried to deliver CO2 with a CGA 300 regulator? I know that a CGA 320 regulator is standard for CO2. The issue is that I currently do not have any free CGA 320 regulators. I also...

25 February 2021 3,292 3 View

What are the patterns of human behavior that lead to COVID-19 infections?

Does data from contact tracing help in establishing patterns of behavior and social interactions that lead to infections? There are cases here in the Philippines where patients have no travel...

25 February 2021 9,002 13 View