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

what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 2021 0 0 View

what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 2021 0 0 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

Dapi fluorescence protocol for colon cell lines ?

28 February 2021 2,534 2 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

Is is possible to pole with corona poling pellets of the sample material instead of thin films?

As it is highly probable that pellets will have a higher degree of air gaps and voids than thin films, is it possible to pole the samples with corona poling nevertheless? Or is there the...

24 February 2021 1,349 1 View

Cloudy/high background western blot - can anyone help me?

Hi everyone! I try to detect VDR protein (~48 kDa) using Western Blot. After SDS-PAGE using 10% MP TGX Stain-Free Gel from BioRad I transferred the protein onto an metOH activated PVDF membrane...

23 February 2021 6,266 3 View

Have you ever experiencing air vent trouble in fermentation process?

Dear all, My research group is currently working with a 12-litre fermenter. Somehow, if we do the fermentation for more than 20 hours, the process will be more prone to contamination. Our current...

23 February 2021 1,908 2 View

Help with assigning pressure boundary conditions in FLUENT on a large structure?

Hello, I created a very tall tower (>1000m) and applied pressure boundary conditions at the inlet (bottom) and outlet (top) that correspond to the pressure are their relative altitudes....

22 February 2021 9,972 4 View

Protocol for membrane extraction E. coli?

Hello! I am interested in determining whether a poly-unsaturated fatty acid I have engineered E. coli to produce is being incorporated into the membrane of the cells or if it is simply a free...

21 February 2021 7,447 2 View