I also use supervised ML to find relationships and trends, such as structure-property relationships, which are important in materials and nanoscience. This includes classification, where we have a discrete label. Say we already have different categories...
Geiger Countersare widely available these days during normal times, and extremely hard to find during emergencies. For those who are shopping for Geiger Counters there has never been a better time to buy one than today, but it is a good idea to ask yourself some questions before you buy. D...
DEP uses several monitoring tools designed to measure direct biological response to the water quality improvement or decline in springs. Rapid periphyton surveys (RPS) are conducted to assess the extent and abundance of attached algae (periphyton) and evaluate the autecological information associated w...
algae live in the skin tissue of the polyp and produce the coloured pigments which make coral reefs so visually spectacular. When this partnership breaks down the polyps expel the algae, which leads to the "bleached" effect. Although the polyp does feed using its tentacles to snare food, the...
Samples taken for pathogen testing every 3 months (blood, feces, nasal swab, inner ear exudate).Regularly cohabitate GF rabbits with LF rabbits to transfer intestinal microflora then add to SPF group.Bioexclusion at room level. Pest-management, food sourced from reputable dealer (certified laborat...
Someone recently asked me “How do SPRI beads work” and I realised I was not completely sure so I went to find out. My lab uses kits. Lots and lots of kits; kits for DNA extraction, kits for PCR, kits for NGS library prep and kits for sequencing. Kits rock! But understanding what...
The first step is to get a weight for each taxa in a sample to identify what should be altered and the importance of each. With shotgun samples, there may be over 7000 different taxa.The simple first step is to just do a lookup compare to ranges for each taxa (assuming there is ...
Made in the likeness of a manta ray, the AlgaRay is a solar-powered robot designed to reduce carbon emissions by allowing seaweed to sink down to the seafloor and decay. To do this, the 32-feet-long yellow drone scoops up batches of brown algae and dives 135 meters below the surface,...
To maintain workable diffusion distances, an organism must have many small cells instead of one large cell. So, an alien would be multi-celled if it is larger than a microbe. (We would not expect to find a light-years wide, single-celled organism like that portrayed in the original Star...
our liver, is cigar-shaped and dark – and it can spin. As the squid moves around, the gland remains constantly upright, like a kind of biological compass needle. Hunters peeking up from the ocean’s depths, trying to find their prey, will have to spot the needle-like tip of the ...