What causes the white coloration in shelf fungi?

During late June of 2020, I had picked some relatively fresh Schizophyllum commune. By the time I got around to examining them, they had become dried and shriveled. I placed the point of...

02 December 2020 4,193 3 View

Is there a proper citation for the human genome assemblies?

I am currently writing up results from a study that utilized the hg19 [Genome Reference Consortium Human Build 37 (GRCh37)] for analysis and I have not been able to identify a way to cite this...

24 November 2020 9,960 2 View

Professional Engineer's Code of Ethics: What & How To Assure Compliance?

Historically, the subject question has been met mainly with "After The Fact" assertions. Yet when one learns of the infrastructure failures . . .bridges, tunnels, pipelines, highways. . . it...

11 November 2020 3,574 3 View

Parsing error in autodock vina?

I'm trying to use autodock vina, and I received the following error for the ligand file when running the configuration: "Parse error on line 26 in file "15.pdbqt": Unknown or inappropriate...

21 October 2020 7,245 1 View

How do we use adjusted prevalence rate (aPR) in a meta-analysis?

Hi, I am doing a meta-analysis using Review manager determining association between increase in pollutant concentration and the risk of a particular disease. Majority of outcomes are reported as...

20 October 2020 10,012 3 View

How can I calculate prevalence ratio on Stata?

Hello, Our study aimed to estimate the stress prevalence among health professionals who works on pre-hospital services. The dependent variable was the presence or absence of stress (dichotomic...

16 August 2020 9,595 5 View

Q1. What changes have been observed in the professional lives of our CE graduates ? Q2. What CE academic programs have developed?

In June 1995, the culmination of some 3 years or so of preparation, led by professor Dr. Jim Yao, Texas A&M, resulted in an "ASCE Education Conference" in Denver, CO. At the end of that...

12 August 2020 1,069 3 View

How can I delete a document and replace it with proper text?

I have added a new document to my documents but found it was the wrong file. How do I delete the current document so I can replace it with correct one.?

03 August 2020 292 1 View

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16 June 2020 2,168 1 View

Native English speakers and/or PIV intermediates: Could you check the wording of my PIV tool...?

Hello everyone, I have made a free PIV tool for Matlab in English, but I am not a native speaker. I would like to make the tool as clear as possible because it is used quite often. Could someone...

09 June 2020 5,449 3 View

How two melting peaks in DSC of polypropylene can be merged into one crystallization peak?

The figure shows DSC cooling (blue) and 2nd heating (green) curves (step: 10 K/min) for a commercial sample supplied as Atactic Polypropylene (APP). The heating curve illustrates two major...

03 March 2021 5,857 3 View

Standard curve shifting over time. How do I stabilise the ELISA?

24 February 2021 1,365 3 View

How does the injection volume impact LLOQ and ULOQ in regression analysis (LC-MSMS)?

Hello, I have run into an issue that has sparkled a debate at work: is the LLOQ/ULOQ impacted by injection volume under the following circumstances: 1) Same dilution factor of all samples 2)...

23 February 2021 9,159 3 View

Using the Pfaffl method: Is it possible that the ratio of the calibrator does not equal 1?

Hi all, I have a question regarding calculations using the Pfaffl method. I have 3 groups per experiment: 1 control group (calibrator) and 2 treatment groups with 6 to 7 biological repeats per...

19 February 2021 8,351 2 View

XRPD Quantification - Building a calibration curve of drug excipient?

I am aiming to utilise XRPD to quantify a drug excipient within a drug product and have been having a little trouble building the calibration curve to allow for this quantification up until this...

10 February 2021 6,145 3 View

Gain and offset values in Sentinel-2 L1C?

Hello everyone. I have been trying to apply radiometric calibration on Sentinel-2 L1C images (bands 2,3,4 and 8), but every time after layerstacking I come across this error: "Calibration...

28 January 2021 7,160 1 View

How can you confirm new liquid FTIR cell fits calibration?

We have an FTIR instrument which was calibrated in transmission/absorption mode using a set of cells for different ranges of D2O concentration. One of the cells at high range broke and the new one...

16 January 2021 4,791 2 View

How to measure Tg (Glass Transition) in lyophilised sugar/protein matrices using DSC?

I have been attempting to measure the glass transition temperature of various amorphous powders consisting of sugar/protein mixtures and have had little luck. I typically use a scanning rate of...

13 January 2021 10,022 3 View

Standard addition calibration without blank matrix available?

I have a problem of analytical chemistry. We are working on a spectroscopy technique (FTIR) for the quantification of a mineral phase in complex matrices. We intended to use chemometric techniques...

12 January 2021 7,739 1 View

How does the dilution of matrix-match calibrators impact the ionization in LC-MS/MS?

Greetings. I would like to get opinions from the experts for the improvement and optimization of multiple drug confirmation by LC-MS/MS. 1. One of our method calibration curves follows the...

10 January 2021 9,559 2 View