Prefilled Equipment Baseplates - How To Get A Superior Equipment Installation For Less Money

Lecturepg. 131This paper outlines a new void-free baseplate installation method that saves over 30 percent of the installation costs, when compared to traditional two-pour grouting methods. Common field installation problems are discussed, and new insights are presented to show the causes and corrections. For installations utilizing cement based grouting systems, the paper shows how to greatly improve the bond between the grout and baseplate, when using the prefilled method. A new installation technique is also introduced that utilizes a thin-pour epoxy grout system. When coupled with a prefilled baseplate, this new technique will greatly reduce the total installed cost for machinery baseplates. A complete breakdown of the installation costs is provided to justify the cost savings

Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology

The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology was an initiative to independently replicate selected experiments from a number of high-profile papers in the field of cancer biology. In the end 50 experiments from 23 papers were repeated. The final two outputs from the project recount in detail the challenges the project team encountered while repeating these experiments ('Challenges for assessing replicability in preclinical cancer biology': https://elifesciences.org/articles/67995), and report the results of a meta-analysis that combined the results from all the experiments ('Investigating the replicability of preclinical cancer biology': https://elifesciences.org/articles/71601). The project was a collaboration between the Center for Open Science and Science Exchange with all papers published by eLife