What are the applicable reinforcement learning based control methods for systems that have control delay?

I am studying the experimental application of reinforcement learning (RL) based control methods. For that reason, I modeled a nonlinear system without delay and trained the RL agent. In this...

02 February 2021 7,999 3 View

What is the best way to encode categorical variables in datasets with many features and avoid increasing dimensionality of the dataset?

I am working with a large dataset that has many categorical variables with many classes in each variable. I want to encode the categorical variables without increasing the dimensionality of the...

31 January 2021 6,986 3 View

How to get the insoluble fraction of PK digestion for mitochondria?

I am trying to check for some proteins if they are located in the inner or outer mitochondria membrane after treating the cells with a neurotoxin. I am using PK to digest the mitochondria, but I...

27 January 2021 5,145 2 View

How can I produce Alpha-monopropionin and Alpha-monobutyrin in lab scale?

I understand that glycerol should be reacted with propaoiocic acid to produce monopropionin and with butyric acid to produce monobutyrin , if you can help with the reaction conditions based on 1...

13 January 2021 1,151 4 View

What is the appropriate period for indexing an article in the Scopus database?

Dear RG members The indexing of a published article in the Scopus database may depend on several factors. The issue is that my colleague and I have published separately two articles in the same...

16 December 2020 4,361 19 View

If you have the authority to distribute COVID-19 vaccine to which age group or career would you begin with?

Would they be an A: elderly B: women want to be pregnant, C: health care workers, D: immune compromised E: military servants, F: or others? Please specify

14 December 2020 1,108 61 View

I need equations to calculate the activity of the enzyme glutamanase and basic phosphatase in soil and plants?

I need the rates for calculating the mentioned enzymes after the laboratory work. I have trouble calculating and extracting the activity of the mentioned enzymes in soil and plants because of the...

03 November 2020 8,601 1 View

How to test an automatically annotated dataset for sentiment analysis?

Dear all, I have annotated a dataset of 7200 tweets with three sentiment classes: positive, negative and neutral. After training and testing multiple classification models with 6000 training +...

17 October 2020 8,501 3 View

How can I know that a variant is novel?

I found a variant which is not reported in gnomAD or ExAC, but still has an rs. Should I consider it as a novel variant? when can I say that ceratin variant is novel?

15 October 2020 9,539 3 View

Do you have any qualitative or quantitative methodologies for evaluating gender equality plans in HE?

I am collating evaluation methodologies. So, broader methodologies for inclusion in my report are also welcome. Please also indicate the preferred citation for the evaluation methodology.

14 October 2020 4,266 7 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

What are anisotropic electrical and optical properties of a semiconductor due to?

In some materials, properties such as band gap, thermal conductivity differ along different crystallographic axes. What are the basics?

01 March 2021 1,923 3 View

Any research papers for extraction of nutrient deprivation on macroalgae? Analysed by HPLC-UV and GC/MS. Possibly from macroalgae genus Rhizoclonium?

I am doing my thesis on the nutrient deprivation on the macroalgae Rhizoclonium sp. I will be analysing the levels over a period of roughly 5 days by HPLC-UV and GC/MS. I will be using seawater as...

28 February 2021 6,477 1 View

1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.

28 February 2021 3,640 3 View

Necessary tube lenght to cool Natural gas in a dry-ice cooling bath?

I have a tank which contains natural gas at 250 Bar and 293 Kelvin. I want to cool the gas in a dry-ice cooling bath to about 195 Kelvin. The gas will flow in a copper-tube through the bath with a...

27 February 2021 8,128 1 View

Exit velocity of natural gas from pressurized tank?

Hi Guys. I'm a mechanical engineer and have a bit trouble, would be very glad if you could help me with my questions. I have a pressurized tank which contains Natural Gas at 200 Bar and 293...

26 February 2021 6,253 3 View

Gas sensor response and recovery time independant of flow rate and chamber volume?

I am trying to obtain the response and recovery times for my gas sensor device. It appears the the response/recovery times are primarily dependant on the flow rate of the gas I inject into the...

26 February 2021 1,511 3 View

Why do a weight decrease for thermal degradation in nitrogen gas condition?

Hi all The question is related to TGA(Thermogravimetric analysis). Thermal degradation easily understood but why do samples weight decrease? altough just binding is broked, the weight of...

26 February 2021 1,100 5 View

Can thermal cycler machines be problematic during PCR?

Hi, my question is about the heating of thermal cycler machines and I hope some of you had experienced a similar thing previously. There are two thermal cycler machines in the lab(BioRad) and for...

26 February 2021 4,777 4 View

Why do the air flow results vary totally when adding scalar in CFD ?

Dear All, We are using Autodesk cfd to calculate the air flow in a single sided naturally ventilated room, where air flow depends only on buoyancy due to temperature difference between inside and...

25 February 2021 9,602 4 View