How to polish the samples which are very prone to oxidation for metallography?

I am trying to polish the rare earth based sample for SEM analysis. But the sample is getting oxidized immediately . Can anyone suggest a way to polish these kind of samples?

27 January 2021 4,699 2 View

How do we solve optimization problems involving a maxima or minima in the objective function ?

I am trying to solve a multi-objective optimization problem using the Pyomo library in Python. The objective function includes operational optimization of an electrolyzer for hydrogen production...

11 January 2021 8,018 3 View

Any researchers working on Mucuna pruriens with respect to tissue culture?

15 November 2020 8,675 1 View

How can I confirm that a gene is downregulated in cancer cells through PCR?

A particular gene (gene A) is reported to be downregulated in cancer cells as compared to the normal cells. How can you prove this with the help of PCR?

27 September 2020 5,292 4 View

Why my absorbance values are in negative for antioxidant assay by dpph method ?

plant extract stock is 10 mg/mL from which I pipetted 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 200 uL and made up to 3 mL using methanol then i added 1 ml of 0.004% dpph solution (dissolved in methanol) incubated in...

02 September 2020 1,218 2 View

Is 5ug/ml puomycin works for Huh7 cell lines?

I am trying to make KO in Huh7 cell line but after transduction even at 5ug/ml concentration Huh7-Ctrl cell haven't died. Could someone please recommend me the working concentration of Puromycin...

17 August 2020 5,427 2 View

How can I find the relation of cancer stem cells and tumor microenvironment?

in Gastric cancer both cancer stem cells and tumor microenvironment prevents the action of therapeutics and drugs. a. How can I find a co-relation between them? b. How can i evaluate their role...

06 May 2020 6,428 7 View

What should be the best Performance Metrics for SVR Model ?

I am getting the following results for my SVR Model using Python's Sci-kit library : SVR RESULTS - C AND GAMMA PARAMETERS OPTIMIZED BY GRID SEARCH RMSE = 0.17050234208788798 MSE =...

08 February 2020 6,017 2 View

Salicylic acid is poorly soluble in water, I dissolved in 65% ethanol but it is forming precipitation on storage. What to do? Which solvent is best?

It dissolved in 60-65% ethanol but after few hours if storage at 4 degree Celsius it is forming precipitation

19 January 2020 5,092 9 View

In plasmid DNA isolation, potassium acetate re-anneals the plasmid DNA. How exactly does this happen? And why it doesn't happen for chromosomal DNA?

Alkaline lysis method

10 December 2019 2,472 2 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

What is the characteristic length to determine the Reynolds number for the scattered turbulent fluid flow?

Dear all, I just saw this example in FB on the difference between laminar flow and turbulent flow. The flow from a pipe hits the sink and scattered. The flow from the pipe is characterized as...

02 March 2021 1,999 5 View

Is there a deep reason for using the squared modulus of the wave function as the probability density of the existence of the particle?

I think we were all surprised at the first time we got to know quantum mechanics that the squared modulus of the wave function is the probability density of the existence of the particle? The role...

28 February 2021 6,282 9 View

How do you mesh a thin solid in Fluent?

Hello, I have used the shell function on SpaceClaim to create thin solids for the model I am studying. These are contained within an enclosure for my study. I chose this approach as it avoids the...

24 February 2021 8,856 3 View

No streamlines present in a small region inside a flow. This means exactly what?

No streamlines present means whether the flow is getting obstructed there and the velocity inside the region is zero? Or else, the fluid is trapped inside that region with a nonzero velocity?...

22 February 2021 5,249 10 View

Are there any open-source datasets containing physiological information about exercises to be used for an OR-model?

I have just recently started a new "weekend project" in addition to my master's studies and I am looking for a data-set. I would like to use some Operations Research to design an optimal gym...

22 February 2021 8,023 1 View

The most suitable method to calculate the stress intensity factor in the presence of contact between the crack lips?

I'm trying to study cracked structures under a compressive load taking into account contact between the crack lips. I would like to know if the method of extrapolation by displacement remains...

21 February 2021 8,694 4 View

Staining methods for skeletal muscle fiber typing?

does anyone know the best method to differentiate and quantify rapid fatiguing and fatigue resistant muscle fibers? the old method form the 1980's uses ATP staining which is quite labor intense?

21 February 2021 6,483 3 View

Can anyone help with an Accurate Diffuser Expansion Loss formula for rectangular shaped diffusers in turbulent flow regime?

I have tried Idelchik's Handbook of Hydraulic Resistance 4th Edition (2007 page 300) formulas and across some range the formulas are reported valid for, the law of conservation of energy is...

20 February 2021 2,504 1 View

How to visualize stress in a coating defined by "Skin" in Abaqus?

Hello All! I'm trying to model a contact between a coated substrate and a tip in Abaqus. The coating is ultra-thin compared to the geometry of the substrate. So I defined the coating using the...

16 February 2021 1,594 3 View