How to reply to a DebutyEditor for more explanations, after refusing your Manuscript?

The DebutyEditor from a Journal refused directly our Manuscript after peer-review process. In the refusal letter, only the third reviewer is attached, with general comments. How can we ask for...

07 February 2020 862 2 View

Do I need to take into account the different sample sizes when performing false-discovery-rate procedure for multiplicity correction?

EDITED I have a dataset of brain images in which each pixel value corresponds to a measure of neuron activity. The images were taken in different conditions described by three regressors (two...

08 November 2019 8,299 3 View

Are there any guidelines for descriptive review of a biomolecule of interest? Can you link me any already published works about?

I would like to perform a systematic review about a specific biomolecule and its role in cancer. I want to follow a protocol, like PRISMA and Cochrane's handbook for systematic review and...

25 January 2019 8,765 3 View

Are there known antibodies produced when a human is infected with STH (Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, hookworm)?

Are there known antibodies produced when humans are infected with STH (Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, hookworm) and do the produced antibodies differ per helminth? Thanks in advance!

19 September 2017 1,116 5 View

Is there an assay that is able to quantify the degradative enzymatic activity of fungi without isolating the enzyme from the fungi?

18 May 2017 8,694 3 View

How do I make DIY bipolar electrodes and tetrodes?

Do you know about any reference that could help me in fabricating some bipolar or tetrode electrodes? My aim is to measure the LFP / Spikes in deep brain structures in anesthethised rat, I have...

18 February 2015 5,075 2 View

1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.

28 February 2021 3,640 3 View

How to prepare a thin polymer film by post-polymerization/crosslinking?

24 February 2021 2,362 5 View

Is is possible to pole with corona poling pellets of the sample material instead of thin films?

As it is highly probable that pellets will have a higher degree of air gaps and voids than thin films, is it possible to pole the samples with corona poling nevertheless? Or is there the...

24 February 2021 1,349 1 View

How to troubleshoot Electrochromic Films and Electrochromic Devices?

I am trying to characterize an electrochromic system. The system uses ITO electrodes on glass, WO3 as the electrochromic film, and NiO as the ion storage layer. When I deposit NiO and WO3 and...

23 February 2021 9,592 2 View

How to improve the adhesion between germanium and silicon monoxide thin film layers using EBEAM evaporation?

I want to deposit multilayer coating of germanium and silicon monoxide on silicon wafer using ebeam evaporation?

21 February 2021 2,141 3 View

How can I measure the thickness of thin layers deposited on textured glass susbtrates?

I want to measure the thickness of aluminum oxide and titanium oxide layers deposited on textured glass substates. The layer thicknesses are typically below 100nm.

21 February 2021 5,465 4 View

How do I calculate absorption coefficient of my thin film if I dont know the thickness? Or how can I calculate the thickness of my sample?

I have done Uv-vis characterisation of my thin film and have received absorbance and transmittance data. Now I want to calculate the absorption coefficient but I dont know the thickness of my...

21 February 2021 7,148 8 View

How to construct different filler shape in MD simulations?

Is there any way to construct different initial filler shapes like triangle, square, rectangle, pillar, and tube in any simulation software.

20 February 2021 1,750 1 View

Can fractal dimension of thin film surfaces affects the electrons energy states?

As fractal dimension of a thin film surface implies the irregularity in the surface. Is it possible that the energy states of the electrons are also affected by the fractal dimension?

19 February 2021 5,509 3 View

What is the reason film thickness increased?

what is the reason film thickness increased when increased doping concentrations give some reasons The measured film thickness is 156, 282, 394, 548 and 681 nm for 0, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, and 4.5 wt....

17 February 2021 8,987 5 View