Is there a classification scheme for rock cavities or caverns with respect to their size and shape?

The range of forms and sizes of cavities in rock is very big. Is there a classification scheme for rock cavities regarding their size and shape?

02 March 2021 4,511 3 View

Cloudy/high background western blot - can anyone help me?

Hi everyone! I try to detect VDR protein (~48 kDa) using Western Blot. After SDS-PAGE using 10% MP TGX Stain-Free Gel from BioRad I transferred the protein onto an metOH activated PVDF membrane...

23 February 2021 6,266 3 View

Do head direction cells necessarily encode in an allocentric reference frame?

According to the vertebrate literature, I got the impression that head-direction cells are always anchored to an allocentric reference frame. This can easily be tested with freely moving animals....

27 January 2021 3,821 3 View

Which variables can be used to increase/decrease the grain size of czochralski-grown polycrystalline silicon?

Which variables (such as pull speed, melt temperature, annealing temperature/duration, cooling rate, etc.) affect the grain size of czochralski-grown polycrystalline silicon? In what direction...

10 January 2021 2,204 6 View

How do I justify the use of fish scales to synthesize a nano filter?

Good day. I am doing a studu on the use of fish scales to create a nano filter. This is aimed at potentially solving the face mask problem brought about the pandemic. This is what I know so...

09 January 2021 8,907 5 View

Calculating Intercoder Reliability for 3 coders with 7 categories across 6 texts?

How would you calculate inter-coder reliability (Kappa coefficient?) for the following scenario: 6 texts coded across 7 categories (codes) by 3 coders?

23 December 2020 2,324 3 View

What is the best method to check interaction between a drug and a protein ?

Hi, I would like to know the best method to check the interaction between a proteine (cruzipain, cysteine protease) and a drug. It has been purposed to our project to evaluate protein-drug...

30 October 2020 7,209 3 View

Is It possible to design Affinity Chromatography Column with the Drug of your choice ?

Dear, I am interesting in Drug /cellular partner interaction analyzed by High Performance Affinity Chromatography (HPAC). I ask The question and I open a topic to know if It is possible to...

13 October 2020 7,504 3 View

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10 October 2020 3,407 2 View

Do you agree that one of the advantages of the Boundary Element Method is that it easily addresses Incompressible Materials (Poisson's Ratio = 0.50)?

When modeling incompressible materials via the Finite Element Method (FEM), typically the plane formulation that is displacement based fails when Poission's Ratio = 0.50, which is a standard...

08 October 2020 7,058 1 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel, etched for revealing retained austenite, any help for clarifying?

Hello everyone. Given microstructure image belongs to a 12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel (annealed and tempered). The sample was etched with picral (100 mL ethanol and 4 g picric acid). I...

02 March 2021 4,119 3 View

Why Austenite grains in steel show much more twinning than ferrite grains?

It is oftentimes said to be a distinctive metallographic trait that differentiates a fully austenitic and a fully felly ferritic steel without etching that might distinguish between two. Why...

02 March 2021 728 2 View

Joint behaviour in Abaqus is not captured well?

I am working on roof joint and trying to simulate the behaviour in Abaqus. I am successful in running the model but the final graph does not follow the experimental curve in the negative direction...

01 March 2021 6,661 3 View

Does anyone know how to plot my station to a section plot on Ocean Data View (ODV)?

I made a vertical section plot with WOA .nc file on ODV, and now I want to plot my stations (csv. file) in it. Does anyone know how to import my points to the section? They are two different...

01 March 2021 3,610 1 View

How Can I bring as much common elements in steel as possible to calculate stable phase(s) in OpenCalphad?

As I was tweaking step-by-step OpenCalphad6 Macros step1.ocm involving phase and thermal property calculation of a High-speed steel, I could not incorporate more than 6 elements in the steel...

01 March 2021 8,840 1 View

Does anyone know an alternative product for cardiac Troponin T antibody for Immunofluorescence (Thermo # MA512960)?

We have been using Thermo Fisher anti-cardiac Troponin T antibody for immunofluorescence staining in FFPE mouse heart sections but it was recently discontinued. The literature shows it to be the...

01 March 2021 4,937 1 View

I need to accelerate corrosion in steel parts that are used in a salt-water environment. Is there a technique for doing so?

I have a structure that employs d-ring swiveling tie-downs that corrode during use and become "frozen". I have sample swivel assemblies that I wish to corrode to see if I can free them using one...

01 March 2021 3,739 3 View

How to assign different material properties to each element in Abaqus ?

Hello, I am writing a python script to generate my model and write the input file. The problem is I have 1000 elements in my mesh and I want to assign different material properties to each...

01 March 2021 9,511 3 View

Concrete compressive strength databases?

I am looking for datasets similar to this one: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Concrete+Compressive+Strength I am looking for concretes with different types of aggregates (Recycled,...

27 February 2021 6,801 3 View