By which mechanism does potassium hyrdoxide works as an activator in the preparation of activated carbon?

Activated carbon is prepared from biomass using KOH as the activating agent. What is the possible reaction between KOH and the biomass?

14 February 2021 8,095 4 View

Should studies published in predatory journals be included in systematc reviews?

I am conducting a systematic review of intervention, and i observed that one included study could determine the statistical significance of the final meta-analysis. Problem is, that article has...

13 April 2020 922 9 View

OCR system for phonetic (IPA) symbols?

I need to convert manually annotated IPA transcriptions into digital format. Does anybody know of an OCR system able to recognise IPA symbols (even just for English phonemes)?

25 March 2020 5,982 0 View

Is it possible to read the deformation field file produced by SPM during normalization?

If (x,y,z) are the voxel coordinates of a point of the brain scan before normalization, what is its position after applying the deformation field generated during the normalization?

19 February 2020 10,004 3 View

Bibliography on the effect of soils on nectar and sap?

10 September 2019 8,922 4 View

What is the correct phenol red permeability through Caco2 monolayer?

Dear all, I am performing Caco2 permeability experiments using transwell inserts and I am using phenol red permeability assay to verify the monolayer integrity. What is the maximum phenol red...

06 March 2019 6,726 6 View

How much solvent (ethanol) would I need to extract capsaicin (and other capsaicinoids) from siling haba?

Siling haba is a variation of Capsicum annuum var longum. The capsaicin extracted will be tested against aphids to test its insecticidal properties. Someone suggested that I should use 5ml/g or 2g...

12 February 2019 1,373 3 View

How much ethanol do I need in extracting capsaicin from red bell peppers?

The capsaicin recovered will be tested against aphids.

04 February 2019 5,811 5 View

Is anyone aware of studies concerning geostatisics in the environmental field?

I'm looking for studies on environmental analysis carried out by geostatistics

16 January 2019 5,356 4 View

CVD adhesion on silicon substrates?

Dear all, I am currently trying to uniformly deposit organic semiconductor via thermal CVD at low pressure (around 10 Torr), but I sometimes get either no deposition or not homogeneous deposition...

21 October 2018 3,185 4 View

What are some of the research gaps in machine learning and artificial intelligence in africa?

i would to know some of the research gaps in the artificial intelligence field in most african countries.

03 March 2021 6,145 3 View

How to access MSCI KLD Stats and Sustainalytics?

Hello all, I'm currently working on my undergraduate thesis and I'm having difficulties trying to access KLD Stats and Sustainalytics because my campus Airlangga University and apparently other...

02 March 2021 8,525 1 View

Is there any Machine Learning/AI algorithm that lets you predict with incomplete features without missing value imputation process?

For instance, the model is trained with A,B,C,D,E features to predict F target. Then, I want to make prediction on a new data, but with only A,C,D,E is known without doing missing value imputation...

28 February 2021 1,556 6 View

Can Ethovision store the generated data and video recordings directly to NAS system?

The size of data generated by Ethovision is huge. Having NAS system for data storage seems to be a good option, I am wondering whether Ethovision can directly store the data to the NAS system...

27 February 2021 6,350 2 View

What are the important topics in the field of Artificial Intelligence in Business world?

Dear All, I am doing my MS in Electronic Businesses. And I am interested in the AI field and its applications for businesses, its benefits, impacts, etc. What kind of scientific research dominate...

26 February 2021 8,816 6 View

CGA 300 Regulator for CO2 cylinder?

Has anyone ever tried to deliver CO2 with a CGA 300 regulator? I know that a CGA 320 regulator is standard for CO2. The issue is that I currently do not have any free CGA 320 regulators. I also...

25 February 2021 3,292 3 View

What are the patterns of human behavior that lead to COVID-19 infections?

Does data from contact tracing help in establishing patterns of behavior and social interactions that lead to infections? There are cases here in the Philippines where patients have no travel...

25 February 2021 9,002 13 View

Suggest me some trending topics for phd research in text mining/AI/machine learning?

My master's research is in info retrieval and text mining. I would be grateful if you could help me to select a good topic for my phd research proposal.

24 February 2021 393 14 View

Why cannot world and community leaders be gentle? Where did ethics of care go?

The whole world is in a mess and paused. We all are tired of seeing hypermasculinized and destructive leaderships all around us. This world has seen enough of the aggressive patriarchal social...

23 February 2021 292 7 View

How can we improve AI in detecting fraudulent activities on digital payments?

I am conducting a study on the effectiveness of AI towards detecting and averting digital payment fraud. What are the popular AI techniques being adopted in mitigating digital fraud and how could...

21 February 2021 3,888 4 View