What are the most reliable approaches to extract key continuous frames from a video, with complete automation?

I have an input video, of skin (from a microscope that means it is magnified such that blood capillaries are visible). The idea is to extract 15 sec of continuous frames from a video of 1 min,...

02 March 2021 2,735 2 View

Which microtomy technique do you suggest for thin and delicate root sectioning ?And, how to preserve and process the roots before sectioning?

We have thin roots of from 1 year old different species of plants. We are looking into anatomical details of the roots. What's the best method to preserve and process the roots once they are...

23 February 2021 1,898 1 View

Has anyone done Archard Wear Simulation of GFRP Composite Plate in ANSYS with ACT extension or UDF?

I'm looking to do a sliding wear (plate-on-plate) simulation of GFRP composite plates with Archard Wear Model. Any hints or example steps are appreciated.

17 February 2021 1,447 2 View

Which root in this tap root system, in the picture attached, should be used for root sectioning in order to study the root anatomical details?

There are numerous roots in this tap root system. Kindly suggest or share a research paper where I can clarify the doubts as to which root should be chosen for sectioning and for further root...

14 February 2021 1,816 3 View

Possible problem for showing 0.2 sun intensity instead of 1 sun intensity in AAA class Newport solar simulator?

We have a AAA class Newport solar simulator. We changed the Xenon Arc Lamp recently (XBO450W, Make:OSRAM) as the lifetime got over. However, the intensity is coming to be only 0.2 sun instead of 1...

14 February 2021 9,998 3 View

How can I get access of UNAfold tool?

I am searching for tools to construct molecular beacons which shall be complementary to a given sequence. I don't want to design any primers. I found that UNAfold is one such tool which I could...

02 February 2021 9,065 5 View

The peptide synthesized with CTC resin have mass more (+68 Da) than the desired mass of the synthesized peptide. What could be the reason?

I am synthesizing 7 amino acid long peptide sequence with CTC resin, 50oC coupling for 10 min. On cleavage (TFA/TIPS/Water 95:2.5:2.5) I got peptide with good yield. However, It has 68 Da more...

30 January 2021 8,483 3 View

How do we calculate curvature value in ArcGIS?

Hello everyone, I am trying to prepare curvature map in ArcGIS 10.4, using spatial analyst tool. I am using 10 m CartoDem (projected in UTM 44N). I am getting very different value, curvature...

12 January 2021 504 4 View

How can a publish my case report?

I want to publish a case report regarding jejunal diverticula

02 January 2021 7,630 5 View

How can we maintain the two different DC high voltages of same polarity between parallel electrodes inside the vacuum separated by few millimeter?

I am trying to maintain two different high DC voltages of same polarity (either positive or negative) between two parallel electrodes separated by 500 um inside the vacuum. However, what I found...

21 December 2020 1,735 3 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

How to remove the residual PDMS on the silicon mold?

Incompletely cross-linked pdms are difficult to remove.

01 March 2021 798 3 View

The reason that the culture of white fungi Contamination with green mold(Trichoderma), the culture autoclave at121 for 15 min. What is it?

Is the period to autoclave not enough? The inoculation in a hood and flame and UV and alcohol.

27 February 2021 9,356 3 View

What is the most suitable medium of ascomycetes fungi ??

What is the most suitable medium of ascomycetes fungi ??

26 February 2021 4,413 1 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View

Can 5-FOA Diffuse Through Agar?

I am preparing to do a gene knockout in the filamentous fungi Coccidioides posadasii targeting pyrG/URA3 so that 5-FOA can be used for selection pressure instead of traditional antibiotic...

16 February 2021 169 4 View

Any specific reason, how sclerotium rolfsii can grow out of Petridish?

Is it related to nutrition or any other reason? Any other fungus have similar kind of growth pattern?

09 February 2021 4,357 4 View

Where can I find Plasmopara viticola?

Hello everyone, For my research I want to infect Vitis Vinifera leaves with downy mildew-causing fungus Plasmopara viticola. Does anyone know where I could find or purchase this fungi? I am...

04 February 2021 5,720 3 View

How to store Fusarium oxysporum for long period in simple methods ?

31 January 2021 1,832 17 View

Cutoff for asv reads?

I got my fungi sequences back from Illumina Miseq sequencing and I'm wondering how many reads do you use as a cutoff? ie. do you delete anything with less than 100 reads? I can't seem to find any...

28 January 2021 5,646 4 View