Looking for high efficient light sources (Laser, HE LED) for Spectroscopic Ellipsometry?

Conventional light sources have a penetration depth of a few nanometers in metal layers and cannot be used for spectroscopic ellipsometry purpose to measure layer thicknesses of a few 100 nanometres.

27 October 2020 7,663 4 View

Why is fungal/bacterial DNA isolated with Qiagen Powerlyzer Powersoil Kit not stable?

We have isolated DNA with the Qiagen Powerlyzer Powersoil Kit (with addition of Proteinase K) for NGS downstream applications (16SrRNA/ITS2) and encountered the problem that the isolated DNA is...

26 October 2020 7,418 2 View

GHRH/GHRF antibody for rat brain immunohistochemistry?

I'm looking for an antibody (preferably validated) for growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH/GHRF) for immunohistochemistry in rat brains. Do you have any leads? I would really appreciate your...

18 June 2018 5,384 1 View

How can I stain for dead neurons in the ischemic mouse brain?

I am looking for a staining method to label dead neurons in the ischemic mouse brain.I use coronar cryosection from mice which were subjected to transient MCAo and reperfusion. I tried NeuN+TUNEL...

09 June 2016 7,426 3 View

Is it possible to use desert sand as a building material?

Like mortar or concrete? I can not find case studies or articles about this topic?

15 May 2016 8,157 27 View

Is there recent knowledge about social structure within a litter of warthog piglets?

Young warthogs (Phacochoerus aethiopicus) display suspicious light colored bristels at their cheeks. In our view these seem to mimic the prominent tuskers of the adult...(?) I would greatly...

06 October 2015 1,983 4 View

Has anyone ever tried to detect Blue Jets, Elves and Sprites above Volcanic Eruption Clouds ?

Many years back, I attended a special session on Elves, Sprites and Blue Jets at AGU in San Francisco. These are typically observed above severe thunderstorm clouds and are observed at something...

27 August 2015 4,229 2 View

Is Qiagen AllPrep DNA/RNA FFPE kit compatible with Laser Capture Micro-dissection using arcturus capsure HS LCM caps?

08 March 2015 1,823 2 View

Is Indel Realignment recommended previous to Structural Variant Calling?

Is there any experience how GATK's IndelRealignment influences the results of subsequent Structural Variant Calling, e.g. with DELLY? Does Indel Realignment improve the predictions or should be...

27 November 2014 2,300 1 View

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01 January 1970 4,611 15 View

Energy minimization in LAMMPS using NVT ?

How do I do energy minimization in lammps with NVT ensemble ? I am using the following command and it does not seem to work. It stops at extremely high energy and gives me the error zero search...

01 March 2021 2,294 3 View

Why is the sum of the elements in a row in a Q matrix equal to zero?

When explaining substitution models, the substitutions are expressed as Q matrix. Why is the sum of the elements in a row zero?

28 February 2021 3,864 3 View

How can Gamma Ray API units be converted to CPS (counts per second)?

Oil and gas companies run gamma ray tool and take readings in API units while Gamma ray is also noted in cps, so how these units can be converted into each other?

24 February 2021 7,545 2 View

Why the CHi^2 is close to zero with a bad fitting but the Rp and Rwp are still high?

I am refining my XRD data using in FullProf program. The intensity of the modulated X-ray peaks is almost flat. I tried to adjust the peak intensities but unsuccessful. What is the reason? I guess...

23 February 2021 2,304 4 View

Can we use a compensation matrix with single staining that the negative population for each single staining is below zero?

Recently we used single staining to make a compensation matrix. But, for each single staining we saw that 13 to 25 percent of our negative population had been shown below Zero. In this situation...

21 February 2021 9,982 2 View

How to correctly choose the number of solution intervals when preforming harmonic analysis in ANSYS?

Good day, I design the rail-wheel geometry and the harmonic frequency ranges between 20-10kHz with 500Hz solution intervals and the results makes sense. Most of the time on the related literatures...

19 February 2021 3,190 3 View

How to compare means of continuous data with zero-inflation and skew?

I have two groups (unpaired) of plant biomass measurements and want to know whether there is a test that can be used to determine statistical significance where assumptions are not violated. The...

18 February 2021 1,258 4 View

Onset of Photo Oxidation in Polymers?

Hi! I am looking for some specific information in regards to the minimum amount of UV intensity required to begin the photo degradation process in polymers. I understand each polymer is...

15 February 2021 7,703 4 View

What does it mean if in mediation analysis the indirect effect is significant but is a larger b value than that of the direct effect?

I understand that for partial mediation to have occured the CI for the indirect effect must not cross zero and the b value for the indirect effect should be smaller than the b value for the direct...

14 February 2021 3,273 7 View

Could we interpret the intensity of the peaks of the FTIR spectrum correlating to the concentration of some compound?

If we analyze the extract of two plants from the same species (for example) and there are very similarities between the two IR spectra except for the intensity of one peak at the same wavenumber....

05 February 2021 2,630 5 View