Can random sampling have inclusion criteria?

As random sampling means that everyone in the population have an equal chance to be chosen, can it have inclusion criteria? My research participants have been chosen based on the inclusion...

26 February 2021 6,905 10 View

Hye All, Greetings, How can i get surface run off water data?

this is for my thesis project, so this is the title of my thesis, the effect of land use on hydrological components in Muar, Johor, Malaysia any ideas, guidance, and suggestions all? Thank You, :)

02 February 2021 265 5 View

What is the difference of FTIR for functional properties and structural properties of protein?

I need to send my sample to outsource laboratory and how can i tell them that i want to run the FTIR for structural properties of protein? is there any differenece between FTIR for functional...

15 January 2021 8,992 1 View

What's the correct way of treating ordinal variable as continuous in regression?

08 January 2021 920 16 View

Does low pHPZC (Zero point charge) indicates higher negative charged surface ?

I found that, there is a difference in pHPZC value when higher impregnation ratio of acid on adsorbent surface. Lower pHPZC value when higher ratio of acid impregnation and adsorption performance...

05 January 2021 7,224 3 View

Why do I see many vacuoles on my cancer cells?

I am currently growing BICR31 cancer cells for conditioned media collection, and as I passaged it I have seen many bubbles/vacuoles - like structures. Cells were healthy during the first split...

05 January 2021 2,320 5 View

How can be the Virus COVID-19 become mutation?

The current situation the virus become mutation, but there were information that zero percent case in Wuhan?

31 December 2020 2,457 4 View

Why does activation process called as activation? what does the term means actually?

I'm referring to activated carbon activation. Activation process does increase the surface area and functional groups content in activated carbon compared to biochar and raw biomass. But I'm...

30 December 2020 6,514 1 View

What is the good water absorption value for construction materials (brick, mortar etc.)?

According to many construction standards such as ASTM, a good construction material should have a water absorption value within 20%. However, if we compare with many water absorption values (from...

26 November 2020 8,538 8 View

What sample extraction/ preparation needed prior HPLC test?

I want to screen the presence of plastic additives in a few water samples using HPLC-UV. I am very new to HPLC, and after doing a reading on the sample preparation for HPLC, I found there are a...

19 November 2020 2,724 4 View

Precipitate after adding laemmli buffer to protein solution containing Potassium Acetate?

Hi, I am running a size exclusion chromatography experiment with a buffer containing Potassium Acetate as a salt. I analyse these fractions through SDS-PAGE. After boiling my SEC fractions in...

01 March 2021 2,622 3 View

How to prepare electrolyte of NaClO4 salt for Na-ion battery? Any problem with this salt?

Hello, I am trying to make anode for Na-ion batteries. I have no experience with preparation of the electrolyte for any batteries. NaClO4 salt are available and I am planning to use EC:PC as...

21 February 2021 8,132 1 View

What is the actual chemistry going on between iodate and ascorbic acid?

I am studying biochemistry at university, as part of the course we do several titration experiments. In our handouts, we were given the following half equations: IO3- + 6H+ + 4e- I+ +...

16 February 2021 8,731 1 View

Does any one have experience with Autoclavable cell culture media (RPMI 1640/DMEM)? Does it work well?

12 February 2021 2,958 1 View

How to determinate of molecular structure of salt into the liquid?

I need to determine the open formula of our complex, presumably consisting of sodium tungstate Na2WO4 and aluminum sulfate Al2 (SO4) 3. Our problem is that with an increase in the concentration...

11 February 2021 5,821 1 View

How do I change g/l into mM for bacto agar. I am trying to get the millimolar content of sodium and chloride percentage in bacto agar. How do I do it?

I am doing a salt tolerance-related experiment and for that I need to relate my salt levels to that in bacto agar. I don't want my salt concentrations to increase due to already salt content...

09 February 2021 4,158 1 View

Why does sodium metabisulfite generate turbidity when mixing with sodium hydroxide?

When I tried to mix a sodium metabisulfite solution with sodium hydroxide solution, the mixture solution quickly became turbid. Before mixing both were clear solutions. Please help explain the...

03 February 2021 8,075 2 View

I want to extract engine oil from a soil sample,please how much amount of anhydrous sodium sulphate am i going to add to 10kg soil?

Engine oil extraction from contaminated soil,10kg of contaminated soil+20ml of dicholoromethane+? of anhydrous sulphate

01 February 2021 9,509 1 View

Working with insect primary cells in cell medium and in saline solution?

I work with insect primary cells, which I let grow in TC100 insect medium. For fluorescence measurements I have to discard medium (because of its fluorescence properties) and give a saline...

28 January 2021 3,867 1 View

How to change medium of a protein or peptide mixture?

Hi everyone! I am purifying a peptide from a mixture of proteins. The peptide (3 kDA) is in a solution containing a high concentration of urea and imidazole. I would like to be able to change the...

27 January 2021 4,055 4 View