Books on Monte Carlo methods?

Hi everyone. I took a basic course on Markov Chains, and know a little about Monte Carlo Stimulations and Methods. But I never got to the part of spreadsheets. If anyone can help direct me to a...

13 February 2021 5,261 3 View

(ORGANISATIONAL FACTORS ) request for study instrument?

i am currently conducting a study to assess bullying behaviors on student nurses during clinical placement . My objective is to explore organisational factors that influence bullying behaviours at...

25 January 2021 8,676 1 View

How to express accuracy of the neural network where the dataset has not been split into two, training set and test set?

In use, the weights obtained are considered with the greatest accuracy when the data set is divided, because the weights are initialized at random and the training data is swapped at random...

19 January 2021 5,714 4 View

Why is the study of neuroethology critical to brain research?

One of the assumptions behind neuroethology is that the brain and the genes that are involved in its development are shaped by the success of the behaviors exhibited by a species so that the genes...

04 January 2021 9,763 6 View

Is it always mandatory to report and test the validity and reliability of a newly developed questionnaire?

Hello everyone! Currently, I am doing an observational, cross-sectional study on knowledge, atittude, and practice towards thalassemia in Indonesia. My area of interest is in population studies....

16 December 2020 3,725 16 View

Will automated killing diminish the error rate by police?

10 December 2020 5,548 3 View

Assay with absorbance/fluorescence readout?

I'm setting up a liquid handling robot and need a simple assay to test it. Ideally I would like to mix 3-4 reagents and have a absorbance/fluorescence readout on a plate reader. It's also possible...

11 November 2020 7,645 3 View

What are suggest articles or books relating to Game Theory?

I am looking for a good couple of reads on game theory, maybe with an historical context. Anything like random walks, or Marvok Process is fine or even, Colonel Blotto, and Prisoners Dilemma. I...

30 July 2020 710 3 View

How to escape local minimum in the training of Convolutional Neural Network?

I am trying to train CIFAR10 dataset on CIFAR10 architecture on MATCONVNET without gpu but my objective function is not decreasing down to 1,665. What may be parameters to tune while considering...

16 June 2020 4,700 8 View

Data transformation to fit a beta regression?

Dear all, I'm intended to model the effects of a number of categorical factors (season, sex, age) on the proportion of lean birds using a beta regression (R-package 'betareg'). The dependent...

12 June 2020 826 2 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

Does anyone have a recommendation for yeast reporter gene plasmid/protocol?

Hi, could anyone recommend a plasmid and/or protocol for reporter gene assay in S. cerevisiae? I want to assess the effect of growth conditions on a transcription factor, so I want to clone it`s...

01 March 2021 210 1 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

Expression cloning by using cDNA,do I need to modify the cDNA first?

I am going to have a expression cloning of mammalian gene by using shuttle plasmid to transforming the E.coli However I don't know I should only inserting the Coding sequence ,or I can...

28 February 2021 5,440 3 View

Problem with shRNA transfection. Why are only two plates getting contaminated instead of all?

I transfected my LNCaP-WT cells with 3 shRNA plus their NTC two weeks ago and split two puromycin selected cell plates on Friday last week(Feb 26). I checked for GFP in the cells, and they all...

28 February 2021 4,949 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

Calculating volume of DNA required from DNA concentration?

Hi I am a bit confused. They are asking me to find out the volume of DNA required in ul (a total of 30-100 ng for genomic DNA) from the DNA concentration in the nanodrop reading which was 404.8...

26 February 2021 5,029 2 View

Did anyone ever try using pLVX-TetOne Plasmid with a copGFP as a selection marker instead of Puromycin?

When using a lentiviral vector for inducible expression of genes using the Tet-On system. In the literature, I saw a widely used of pLVX-TetOne-Puro Plasmid, is there a reason why people prefer to...

25 February 2021 1,011 3 View