Where can I find life cycle inventory or assessment of non woven materials?

Dear network, I am looking for the LCA or LCI or at least the energy balances of the non woven fabrics process for my master project, in specific for natural fibers, yet I have found...

02 March 2021 9,662 1 View

Unable to detect a truncated protein variant, but I can observe a truncated cDNA from Sanger?

Hi, so basically... I am trying to mimic a clinically observed condition wherein a frame-shift mutation happens only at one allele of the patients, giving rise to a truncated variant which evades...

17 February 2021 1,130 6 View

Do you have information about synthetic diamonds and their environmental impact?

I am doing a deep research on the comparison of the process of extraction of natural diamonds and synthetic diamonds, and their environmental impact I would appreciate you could share your...

19 January 2021 1,359 3 View

Are normality checks required for large sample sizes?

07 January 2021 6,360 2 View

Code: JavaProp Automation for MATLAB?

Hi Mr. Waugh! I'm using your code for JavaProp Automation for MATLAB on my thesis. How can I correctly reference it? Thank you!

09 December 2020 8,316 1 View

Nonparametric equivalent to ANOVA block design or two way anova?

Hello everybody. I am dealing with the analysis of an experiment where I want to compare a variable after measuring it in several cells of three plants per treatment. My hypothesis is that the...

18 July 2020 7,015 2 View

Does anyone know trait-based ecology approaches to define spatial boundaries or limits for decision making?

Dear colleagues. Does anyone know of any work in which the criteria of functional traits of plants related to hydrological ecosystem services (e.g., hydrological regulation, drought mitigation or...

03 June 2020 9,036 3 View

Is Analysis of Similarity (ANOSIM) sensitive to differences in sample size?

Hi there. I want to compare 10 small forest landscapes on which different harvest designs were applied and see how much their attributes (structure, species, soil moisture...) differ. ANOSIM seems...

29 March 2020 5,826 4 View

How to perform a Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney step trend test for seasonal data (in R) ?

Hello, I would like to perform a Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney step trend test on a time serie of environmental data, taking into account the seasonality (as my serie cover 30 years with several...

02 March 2020 3,653 3 View

Any suggestion of bibliography in a wide sense (papers, guidelines, systematized experiences) about "male" parenting (fathering)?

Any suggestion of bibliography in a wide sense (papers, guidelines, systematized experiences) about "male" parenting (fathering) and in special in the context of children and adolescents with...

23 February 2020 8,306 3 View

I am interested in medicinal chemistry field, which books are highly recommended to learn from?

I am at the beginner level in drug design and drug discovery, and I am interested to learn more about this field. Which books are highly recommended to start from and gives me all essential...

02 March 2021 8,437 2 View

Is there a method of determining feed digestibility without the need to re-pellet the feed?

I am aiming to determine the ADC values of a commercial fish feed, but I do not have a steam pelleter or extruder available to me. Ideally, the pellets could be coated with some inert marker....

28 February 2021 7,967 3 View

How to empty large intestine in mice ?

Hi all I am working on colon-targeted drug delivery for which I kept mice fasting for 6h using fasting grills during scotophase (dark period). I observed liquid fecal content in the cecum and...

23 February 2021 7,701 2 View

Can I use a protein-devoid condition as my negative control in ELISA?

Hello, I am running a sandwich-type ELISA where I am trying to inhibit a protein-protein interaction using small molecules. For each experiment, I determine my Z' (Z-prime) to determine the...

23 February 2021 7,429 1 View

How does the injection volume impact LLOQ and ULOQ in regression analysis (LC-MSMS)?

Hello, I have run into an issue that has sparkled a debate at work: is the LLOQ/ULOQ impacted by injection volume under the following circumstances: 1) Same dilution factor of all samples 2)...

23 February 2021 9,159 3 View

Can two EC50 values with different hill slopes be compared?

Hello, I fit a classical dose response curve Y=Bottom + (Top-Bottom)/(1+10^((LogEC-X)*HillSlope)) to my data (not related to inhibitors etc). The model I use is purely qualitative but it fits...

23 February 2021 8,155 5 View

Alginate and silk fibroin hydrogels toxic to cells?

Hello, I asm currently working with alginate and silk fibroin hydrogels. I prepared a blend of alginate and aqueous silk fibroin (straight from dialysis) and resorted to ionic crosslinking to...

23 February 2021 8,249 2 View

Which alginate is best for making gel for wound dressing application?

We are looking into utilizing alginate as a gel coating on an HDPE substrate for drug delivery. I would like to ask the community about their experience with alginate and which commercial sources...

15 February 2021 4,319 4 View

Any natural extract (that is easily available) or any drug combination triple which i can use against gram negative?

I'm working on gram negative i want to use any natural extract (plant extract) or triple drug combination against its biofilm formation.

14 February 2021 1,403 3 View

Should the AUC in a concentration-time graph of a subcutaneous implant be roughly the same for poeple?

I have 2 concentration time curves of a subcut drug implant. the first group has a peak around the 50 day mark where as the second group does not. Both groups received the same implant by the same...

10 February 2021 2,305 3 View