How do you name this geometric shape?

Dear friends: The graph of the equation f(x, y) = 0 gives rise to many interesting curves in the plane for different choices of the function. One such choice of f(x, y) led me to the...

01 February 2018 7,113 9 View

What is emotional eating?

Emotional eating is defined as overeating in order to relieve negative emotions (Source: Wikipedia). What are the causes for emotional eating? What are the disorders associated with emotional...

06 July 2016 7,085 1 View

What are the health benefits of Triphala?

Many Amazing Health Benefits Of Triphala Churna (Maansi) [See link] Triphala is not a standalone kitchen species or herb. Triphala is, in fact, a combination of two Sanskrit words, Tri: three and...

05 June 2016 9,080 4 View

What bad habits may raise one's diabetes risk?

Recently, I read an interesting article about 10 bad habits that raise one's diabetes risk (see attached link). Summary of the article. Sipping Sugary Drinks Skipping Breakfast Skimping on...

05 June 2016 5,843 18 View

What is i-10 index?

While we all know about h-index, I understand that there is also an i-10 index. I understand that i-10 index is created by Google Scholar and used in Google's My Citations feature. i10-Index = the...

04 May 2016 1,796 16 View

What are the health benefits of Karela?

01 February 2016 7,361 11 View

What are the Best and Worst Food for Type 2 Diabetes?

I have given a good web-link that details what are the best and worst food for type-2 diabetes patients. These food are listed under the following...

01 February 2016 594 9 View

What exactly are gravitational waves?

Some excerpts from the big news on gravitational waves.. "The first direct detection of gravitational waves is without doubt one of the most remarkable breakthroughs of our time. The Advanced Ligo...

01 February 2016 4,164 1 View

Can a lack of sleep be a cause of diabetes?

Some of the recent studies have suggested that improving sleep quality in diabetics would have a similar beneficial effect as the most commonly used anti-diabetes drugs. Many of my friends who are...

31 December 2015 1,489 38 View

What are the applications of social informatics?

Social informatics is the study of information and communication tools in cultural or institutional contexts. In some Engineering Conferences, I see papers presented on social informatics with...

11 December 2015 6,383 6 View

Physics: Why do we describe light by referring to its wavelength, but microwaves and radar pulses by referring to their frequency?

In physics, the description of the properties of light generally refers to its wavelength (nm), while in the range of microwaves and radio waves we refer to the frequency of a signal (e.g. kHz or...

03 March 2021 1,682 3 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

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View

What analysis to choose with a large neste dataset and clearly skewed or kurtotic distributions?

Hello! I have a dataset of n=3000 nested within 8 countries with approximately 200 or 400 responses in each country. I originally planned to perform multilevel modelling with 4 dependent variables...

02 March 2021 6,865 1 View

Why almost every element would be metallized in sufficiently high pressure and low temperature?

(This statement is from wikipedia, BTW). What is so special about metallic bond that is limiting high-P low-T state of a matter (as long as individual atoms exist, not white dwarf of neutron star...

02 March 2021 3,309 2 View

What is the density for pva electrospining?

I'm Juan Carlos, a high school student who is working with electropinning, I made an electropinning machine with a 21g needle and a 30kv high voltage source and the distance between my needle is...

28 February 2021 298 3 View

Should we reduce the standard unit of length to 0.31951540592 meter ?

The reasoning behind this question is to align the ratios of the proton potential in energy per charge to the speed of light in distance per time. As these two dimensions appear to be related,...

27 February 2021 947 7 View

How to plot the probability paper of Gumbel distribution using R programing?

In R-studio, there are many commands of Gumbel package. Arguments are also different. I`m asking about the alpha parameter of the Copula which must be greater than 1. If this is the one used to...

25 February 2021 5,229 3 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

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