Methodological confusions regarding deductive and inductive reasoning, hypothesis and theory test?

Hi Colleagues- What do you think about the following methodological issues: 1. Is it methodologically wrong to formulate quantitative research questionnaire based on inductive reasoning? 2. Is it...

21 February 2021 4,634 6 View

How the standard hydrogen electrode value is convertible into reversible hydrogen electrode?

As much I remember +0.0592*pH, as I am working on CatMAP, so my voltage values are in SHE, not RHE.

18 February 2021 1,685 3 View

Train-test split numbers for YoloV3/V4 models?

Dear Research Community, What are the common numbers (in percentages) for splitting the image dataset for training a Yolov3/V4 models? Is there a formal research on this question? Azmyin

08 February 2021 647 3 View

How are the anchor sizes defined in YOLOv3 and YOLOv4?

Dear research community? How are the anchor sizes defined in the cfg files of YOLOv3 and YOLOv4 object detectors? For example from the Yolov4 cfg file...

22 January 2021 4,504 1 View

What are core advantages of 2nd & 3rd generation panel data techniques over the 1st generation techniques?

I am interested to know about the difference between 1st and 2nd and 3rd generation panel data techniques.....

31 December 2020 7,204 7 View

How to construct a combined contour plot of two different text files in python?

As I constructed sperate contour plot for each methane and ethanol but now I wanna draw a combined plot for methane/ethanol ratio (for selectivity purpose)?

30 December 2020 4,531 1 View

Technically is there any difference between policy implications and policy recommendations?

Usually we use the two terms interchangeably in our articles but whether is there any technical difference between them?

26 December 2020 185 18 View

Modeling several ODE in matlab to create a system?

Please I have 4 groups of 8 sets of differential equations that I want to use for simulations. Each set has 8 differential equations to form a group. Each group is coupled with another group...

14 December 2020 8,193 10 View

What are the tools and techniques for making Custom dataset for YOLO?

Dear Research Community. I am new to the field of deep learning based object detection techniques. At this time, I am working on a project which will not use front-facing camera to detect people....

13 December 2020 957 3 View

What devices can an independent researcher use to study plant electrophysical signals, plant bioacoustics, Action Potential, Variation Potential etc?

I have heard of the Plant Spikerbox from Backyard Brains and trying to acquire it. I want to study the electrophysical changes in common plants as Chilli, Tamarind, Papaya, etc due to...

04 December 2020 6,308 2 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

How to remove fatty material from plant extract?

The resultant solid was partitioned three times with 250 ml of petroleum ether (40-60/c) to remove any fatty material and evaporated to dryness.

28 February 2021 9,464 2 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

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

How to increase solubility of Poly acrylic acid in Dioxane solvent?

I am working with Polyacrylic acid (100.000Da) and instead of water, I need to use another solvent (dioxane) to dissolve PAA. However, because of the high molecular weight, it's quite hard to...

25 February 2021 2,225 5 View

How to calculate Z (the number of molecules in a unit cell) for calculating theoretical density?

I am trying to calculate the theoretical density of my ceramics materials. I use the formula below to calculate the theoretical density: Theoretical density = (Molecular weight x No. of molecules...

24 February 2021 3,823 2 View

How can I verify my centrifugal fan design for electric motor cooling?

I have radial blade centrifugal fan design which will be mounted on exhaust side of electric traction motor. The fan will be mounted on same motor shaft inside the housing. How can I verify that...

23 February 2021 2,390 3 View

Thermal reduction of graphene oxide.?

I am trying to reduce graphene oxide by thermally but I have no proper information regarding this. Can any one help me regarding the details about temperature and time for the reduction of...

23 February 2021 4,155 4 View