Good sites to recruit survey participants on a grad school student budget?

Any good recommendations for participant recruitment for online surveys on a grad school student budget?

02 March 2021 4,293 4 View

What is the stability of 2 3-dihydroxyquinoxaline in acidic water?

I'm developing a UHPLC assay, and the fluorescent product is 2,3-dihydroxyquinoxaline. The reaction to produce this requires hydrochloric acid (about 1.2 M). Will storage in this acidic...

20 February 2021 5,820 4 View

What is the best way to improve the working potential window of a solid electrolyte?

My solid polymer electrolyte shows low bulk resistance show quite a low bulk resistance. However, the potential window (obtained from LVS) is very small. Please how can I improve the operating...

31 January 2021 3,340 9 View

What is the best procedure for measuring the pH of aqueous colloidal systems?

There has long been a debate among my colleagues about measuring the pH of aqueous colloids. As I see there is no general truth in the matter, so I ask this question below. What is the best and...

31 January 2021 8,203 3 View

Is carboxymethyl cellulose a better electrolyte host polymer than methyl cellulose and cellulose acetate?

I want to prepare a cellulose-based biopolymer solid electrolyte by solution casting technique. However, choosing the right cellulose derivative has been my major challenge. Among the many factors...

30 January 2021 5,355 3 View

How can I implement a Generalized Estimating Equation method on spatially autocorrelated time-series data?

I used Generalized Estimating Equations (geepack in R) on my regularly monitored (twice a year) plant abundance data in grid cells to evaluate their trends of density. Since these are time-series...

26 January 2021 3,833 1 View

How to extract isodose lines from radiotherapy dose cloud into masks that can be overlaid on images using python?

I'm able to load a dose cloud into python as a numpy ndarray using pynrrd. The next challenge is to extract isodose lines (like V50%) to create masks (bitmap images) that I can overlay onto other...

19 January 2021 8,503 2 View

How to calculate percent of identity in aligned RNA sequences with a sliding window ?

Hello, I aligned some RNA sequences to identify if some part are similar. I would like to represent my result with the similarity in y-axis and the alignement in x-axis. I want to calculate this...

13 January 2021 7,833 3 View

Which peak should I consider when calculating ZIF-8's crystalline size from XRD?

Hello, Using the Scherrer's equation, one could calculate, roughly, the crystalline size of ZIF-8. However, I am confused as to which peak in the XRD pattern should be taken for the calculation?...

10 January 2021 8,633 3 View

Bio Rad CFX96 Touch Real time PCR System?

Dear friends I would like to ask about your experience with the instrument (Bio Rad CFX96 Touch Real time PCR System) and its performance. Also I would like to know if this version need...

29 November 2020 2,166 5 View

How to analyze a particular region of my simulation box in GROMACS?

Hi, I am using GROMACS 5.1.4 to simulate water in contact with a surface. I am only interested to calculate some properties of water near the surface. Let's say at a distance of x nm from the...

03 March 2021 9,989 2 View

How to get onecolumn document from standard IEEE ACCESS LateX template?

I have prepared a manuscript in IEEE Latex template, but for some purpose, I need to prepare a word file as well (detailed format is not required). Compared to two column .tex file, one column...

02 March 2021 1,830 3 View

How can the modification of garden soil cause global warming?

Hello, I am working on a soil project and I found a primary research article that tests how the modification of agricultural soil can cause global warming, using a thermal collector, however I...

02 March 2021 7,161 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

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01 March 2021 1,290 2 View

What is recommended for solid domain in ANSYS FLUENT?

Should I mesh the solid domain ? or should I use wall thickness? or Shell conduction? for Heat Transfer between two fluids of a Heat Exchanger. what is recommended?

01 March 2021 9,785 3 View

How can i resolve the "final solutuin is not converged" error in Comsol for my heat transfer simulation??

I have been trying to simulate heat transfer problem in Comsol 5.5 for long time but it always throw an error stating: "Failed to find a solution. Maximum number of Newton iterations...

28 February 2021 8,626 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

How can I convert .vesta file to a .cif file?

I've used the "export data" option in Vesta software to convert my unit cell into a cif file however when I use that cif in atomsk it shows error such as "can't read the position of atom 0". If I...

28 February 2021 4,966 3 View

How can we use a hybrid element in Abaqus Dynamic/Explicit for impressible materials?

Hi, all! How can we use a hybrid element in Abaqus Dynamic/Explicit for impressible materials? I have not find the choice for explicit element in Abaqus CAE. I am wondering whether it is possible...

25 February 2021 9,936 2 View