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

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

20 June 2021 0 0 View

How climate change will influences human and animal behavioral change?

The role of climate change influencing the human behavior as well as economics interest

01 June 2021 0 0 View

flexibility of polymers chain

effect of double bond on the flexibility of polymers

07 April 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

Formulation of polymer color flakes

I am writing to request some information for making polymer color flakes. I would appreciate the help.

17 March 2021 0 0 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View