Graphosoma lineatum (Pentatomidae) in N- Africa?

26 August 2016 6,470 3 View

Can I test my hypothesis by using answers from a struture qualitative telephone interview?

hey everybody, I am very conflused of how to do so. I have collected data from qualitative interviews, and build different profiles that are visiting museums, based on their motivation. So far so...

29 December 2020 9,334 4 View

Please suggest latest published standards on museum collection storage & maintenance. Has COVID brought any significant changes in the protocol?

What is the level of compliance to these published standards in textile museums and what is the impact of this compliance on museum budget and infrastructure?

28 December 2020 757 2 View

Can we DNA barcode dry Museum insect specimens?

I am an student of entomological field, I am interested to work on DNA barconding of beetles, I have some fresh collection and some Museum specimens as well. I am not much clear that whether...

30 November 2020 7,248 14 View

What do you use to avoid insect collection infestation?

At the museum we are currently dismissing Paradichlorobenzene and Naphtalene. we are looking for other effective chemical or similar.

21 October 2020 9,553 11 View

Calibration of radiocarbon and luminescence ages?

The radiocarbon ages (say for the Holocene) is calibrated to Before Present (1950) by using calibration curves and with software such as OXCal. If you use other dating methods such as U series or...

28 May 2020 3,759 13 View

Is it possible to remove pollen from museum bee specimens?

I have recently extracted genomic DNA from some museum bees for sequencing, and from first look there appears to be some pollen DNA in the extract. I've had a Google but can't find anything...

25 May 2020 8,423 2 View

How and where do I get a reflective essay reviewed and published?

I spent the past few months interning as an independent researcher at the Field Museum in Chicago. Here, I spent my time observing the design procedure that leads up to the creation of a...

23 May 2020 770 10 View

How to model in Arena Rockwell that all entities must clear their tails at the end of the simulation?

I am modeling the flow of visitors during a working day in a museum. The main problem is that I don't know how to model in Arena Rockwell the fact that all entities must clear the queue at the end...

20 February 2020 9,457 1 View

Looking for a book- "Radiocarbon dating practices at ANU" by Gupta and Polach ?

I am looking for a book "Radiocarbon dating practices at ANU" by Gupta and Polach, published in 1985. Can anyone please provide the link or source from where I can get this book? Thank you

13 February 2020 6,525 2 View

Any suggestion for the amplification of Wingless in old collection samples?

Hello to everyone, I'm trying to amplify nuclear markers from old museum specimens of beetle (not very old, sampled 10-15 years ago) , I thought on the Wingless fragment, it's obviously a hard...

11 December 2019 5,630 3 View