How deep into the sediment do marine/riverine oligochaetes live?

I am working with intertidal muddy sediments. In one of my sites the sediment was extremely muddy (high % of silt), oxic layer was shallow, and there were a lot of oligochaetes. I would like to...

14 January 2021 7,269 4 View

Do you consider that rose bengal chloramphenicol agar is suitable to isolate and count fungus?

Someone knows about a specific law or regulation which mentions the use of the rose bengal chloramphenicol agar is suitable to isolate and count fungi. Perhaps, someone has done a research about...

07 January 2021 5,325 5 View

PLS-SEM generalizability issue?

I'm developing a readiness assessment model regarding contractors' preparedness for a specific activity, in order to do so, a survey study was carried out and the data analyzed with PLS-SEM to...

24 November 2020 399 1 View

How does climate change affect birds (shorebirds)?

I m recently investigating the impact of climate change on shorebird population trends, I would like to know what is the impact of fluctuations in variables such as sea surface temperature, global...

10 November 2020 9,293 15 View

How to plot predictions from a cox model with interactions, in R?

29 October 2020 2,605 1 View

How can I compute reliability taking into account repeated measures data, contemporary groups, and removing parent average effects?

I am a little bit confused about how to calculate reliability for EBV of each animal using the BLUPF90 program; taking into account repeated measures data, contemporary groups, and removing parent...

13 August 2020 4,862 5 View

What are these bioclasts?

I'm having trouble identifying the round bioclasts indicated by white arrows. Could they be transverse sections of the elements indicated by black arrows? If so, could they be some kind of spicule?

22 July 2020 8,595 13 View

When a protein is phosphorylated, how does the band look like in western blotting?

A super basic cell biology question for cell biology people. I will try to measure protein phosphorylation, and I will do western blot to see whether the phosphorylation occurs. If phosphorylation...

07 June 2020 8,995 4 View

Is possible to run models with catergorical response variable and random factors?

Dear all, I would like to know if is possible to run a model with a categorical response variable plus some categorical predictors (and its interactions) and a random factor in R? If yes, any...

26 March 2020 1,221 3 View

Are you interesting in "Determination of the HSPs and the Hansen sphere radius with the aid of the solver add-in of Microsoft Excel?

I am pleaded to inform you the following communication of Springer Nature Dear Author, We are pleased to inform you that your article "Determination of the Hansen solubility parameters and...

17 March 2020 916 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

What is the state of the drug inside solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs)?

I am a little confuse with the mechanism of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). The main point of encapsulating drugs into SLNs is because some drugs have low solubility in water. Therefore, SLNs...

01 March 2021 3,703 3 View

Is there any one who can provide a donation of HPV detection and genotyping kits in exchange collaboration fors?

Warm greetings My name is Ayichew S. and I am doing my Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology (on Human papillomavirus). At this stage, I have almost completed a clinical sample Cervical swabs)...

25 February 2021 1,660 3 View

Is there any one who can provide a donation of HPV detection and genotyping kits in exchange collaboration forms?

Warm greetings! My name is Ayichew S. and I am doing my Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology focusing on Human papillomavirus). At this stage, I have almost completed a clinical sample (Cervical swabs)...

25 February 2021 3,612 3 View

What urea buffer can i use for biotagged protein extraction from streptavidin beads?

Hi all, I have been doing research on biotagged LDB1 proteins in Mel cells. I purify the proteins using M280 streptavidin beads. The yield is very low so I've been trying to optimize it by...

24 February 2021 5,749 3 View

What is the biochemistry of acidic solvents for phenolics extraction in strawberry?

I am using the Folin-Ciocalteu method for analysis of total phenolic content in ripe strawberries. I've read several protocol that suggest a methanol/H2O/formic acid (80:19:1) extraction solution....

22 February 2021 6,560 3 View

Protocol for membrane extraction E. coli?

Hello! I am interested in determining whether a poly-unsaturated fatty acid I have engineered E. coli to produce is being incorporated into the membrane of the cells or if it is simply a free...

21 February 2021 7,447 2 View

How to overcome convergence issues in concrete arch models?

Hi, I have modelled a three-span arch bridge with soil fill over along with pedestals. The FE modelling is done in LUSAS with HX8M solid elements (i.e. 3D solid modelling). The non-linearity is...

20 February 2021 1,346 2 View

Using 1D CNN for pixel classification in an image?

I have a 3D Image of size 100x100x100. I have features (feature dimension 25) extracted for each pixel by considering a small pacth around it. So the input to 1D CNN is 100x100x100x25 reshaped to...

17 February 2021 941 4 View

Solid Phase Extraction of drug product containing nanoparticles ?

Hi Everyone, I am trying to develop an SPE method for the vaccine which contains Matrix-M (saponin Quillaja Saponaria ) which is in nano-particle form and size is around 40nm. These nanoparticles...

16 February 2021 1,389 2 View