Submitting to arxiv before submitting to a journal?

Hello, everyone! Just wanted to know if I can first submit my paper to arxiv before I submit to a journal in elsevier. Hoping to find a clear answer. Thank you!

12 January 2021 5,266 3 View

What crossover operators can be used for a GA that finds suboptimal positions for a set of buildings?

I'm currently working on my undergraduate thesis where I develop a genetic algorithm that finds suboptimal 2D positions for a set of buildings. The solution representation is a vector of real...

11 January 2021 9,835 4 View

What are the best references for an approach to teaching Differential Equations?

Differential equations are known to be potential tools for modeling and predicting recurrent phenomena in time and space, whether simple or more elaborate models. In this sense, how to approach...

18 December 2020 1,750 3 View

Best purification method for recombinant protein in BL21?

Hi I need to purify a recombinant protein (IL6 21kDa). It's been produced in E.coli BL21 with a T7 expression vector, but it does not have a tag as yet. I was thinking of adding a his-tag and...

09 December 2020 2,200 8 View

Recombinant Interleukin 6 western blot, non specific bands?

Hi I've been trying to produce some recombinant human Interleukin 6. I sub-cloned the gene for human IL6 into a Promega T7 Flexi vector (native gene no tag yet) and confirmed sequencing and...

09 December 2020 2,340 4 View

How does one subset time series GPS data to to 1 hour intervals?

I have time series GPS tracking data from a number of individuals, all with varying time between locations (i.e. certain individuals recording at 15 minutes intervals, others at 20 minutes or 1...

06 December 2020 9,038 3 View

How many journal articles should come out of a doctoral thesis?

Is it normal if I publish my doctoral thesis into only one journal article (since my doctoral thesis will be data-heavy and theory-light)? Or are doctoral theses expected to be equivalent to 3-4...

01 December 2020 3,803 14 View

Can the potential of LIPIDMICS improve the diagnosis and understanding of metabolic changes in various neurodegenerative disease (PD, HD, AD, MS, etc?

08 November 2020 7,209 1 View

Can I compare data from ion exchange membranes with data from ion exchange resin when determining nutrient supply rates in soils?

Hi everyone, I am trying to decide if I can compare nutrient supply rates between two different methods of collection. Method A uses ion exchange membranes and method B uses ion exchange resin in...

23 September 2020 4,535 1 View

Popular image segmentation quality measures ?

Evaluation metric to assess superpixel based algorithms

13 September 2020 5,793 13 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

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

What is recommended for solid domain in ANSYS FLUENT?

Should I mesh the solid domain ? or should I use wall thickness? or Shell conduction? for Heat Transfer between two fluids of a Heat Exchanger. what is recommended?

01 March 2021 9,785 3 View

Heat exchanger with liquid Nitrogen as coolant?

I want to cool Natural Gas from 195 Kelvin to 138 Klevin in a heat exchanger by using liquid nitrogen as the coolant medium. When entering the heat exchanger, the liquid nitrogen will have a...

01 March 2021 6,450 5 View

How can i resolve the "final solutuin is not converged" error in Comsol for my heat transfer simulation??

I have been trying to simulate heat transfer problem in Comsol 5.5 for long time but it always throw an error stating: "Failed to find a solution. Maximum number of Newton iterations...

28 February 2021 8,626 3 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

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

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