How to scale up forest carbon stock assessment from plot scale to regional scale?

The research focuses on the mangrove forest ecosystem. Then it will conduct biomass and carbon stock estimation at the plot scale? How to scale up forest carbon stock assessment from plot scale to...

29 December 2020 1,421 3 View

Get PMID from PubMed automatically?

Dear experts, I got first author, publication year, journal, and paper title in separate columns of a Google Sheet. Are there ways to crawl PubMed and automatically get the PMIDs of the listed...

23 December 2020 3,949 4 View

Find your publication rankings here, how does it compare to other rankings?

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21 December 2020 5,817 1 View

Why is ashing of certain organophosphorus compounds problematic?

When subjected to conventional ashing (i.e. residue on ignition through use of a furnace and noble metal crucible), compounds ArC(=O)P(=O)Ar2 [Ar = aryl] give ash values of a few percent %w/w...

12 August 2020 690 3 View

[HBV DNA] Getting smear instead of bands. Why?

I extracted HBV DNA from serum (frozen, stored at -80 degree). I used Qiagen's HotStarTaq Plus PCR Kit to amplify the region encompassing the preS1, preS2, S gene. the product is 1373bp long.The...

25 May 2020 8,715 1 View

How can I extract all-time Twitter contents using keywords, without Premium or Enterprise API?

I would like to analyse Twitter contents, the words in the mentions, the locations of the Tweets, how many re-tweets and favorites, the trending, etc, based on keyword searches. I see that many...

06 April 2020 5,531 5 View

What is the appropriate OD/wavelength (spectrophotometer) for measuring bacterial growth in broth?

Hi all, I am working on growing actinomycetes in broth and to measure its turbidity in indicating the presence of growth. Why are we measuring optical density of bacteria at 600nm in general?...

18 September 2018 1,697 7 View

Alpha-TC1.6 cell culturing methods?

We have recently started culturing the alpha-TC1.6 cell line in our lab, however it took more than two weeks for the cells to grow to 50% confluence upon initiation, despite following what has...

16 August 2018 4,061 3 View

How to use python to do "for each 365 data, print the largest 18 value?

I have a text file which shows the daily temperature of a specific location in 20 years. Therefore, there are total 365x20=7300 data. What should I do in python if I want to print only the largest...

27 April 2018 6,731 4 View

How can extract required data for Meta-analysis?

May I know how to extract required data for meta-analysis? For example, the inclusion criteria of our review is only limited to participants over 60 years of age. How can we extract data from the...

24 March 2018 7,001 2 View

Homeopathy is within the reach of most of the financial class?

Greetings. I personally have taken homeopathy medications and found it effective in curing. I do not know if it is effective in all kinds of diseases, but it is within the financial reach of all...

02 January 2021 9,904 5 View

How do I use the OCB-C of Fox and Spector?

Dear For my Master I'm writing a thesis about OBC. In my research I plan to measure OCB of app-workers (employees under algorithmic management). If I use the 10 items of the Fox and Spector...

18 December 2020 3,235 5 View

How best is to compute the internal reliability of a CPTED elements scale which is made up of binary coded responses?

I develop a CPTED elements audit and site assessment checklists questionnaire consisting of about 43 questions to be answered in the (yes=1, no=0) setup. I want to compute the internal reliability...

19 November 2020 6,286 11 View

Why is the corporate world and academia deluged with phenomenon of the "Peter Principle"?

Sorry, I have witnessed the Peter Principle running rampant in corporations and running twice as rampant in the academic world. Please explain.

11 November 2020 8,240 2 View

Recommendations for adolescent Stressful (Traumatic) Life Events Checklist?

Greetings! I am working on a research project that includes adolescent stressful life events as one of the variables. As an instrument to measure this construct, I found the Life Events Checklist...

20 October 2020 7,890 5 View

Plant checklists for Borneo and Sumatra?

Dear RG Community, Can someone please give me references to publications (or online websites) that include plant checklists (vouchered if possible) for Borneo and Sumatra? Thanks in advance, Zach

20 September 2020 6,202 4 View

Are there any technical guidelines for developing checklists in medical and public healthcare?

Checklists are vastly used and there is published literature on their effectiveness in medical care. However, is there any published literature on how to design effective checklists in healthcare?

07 September 2020 9,914 3 View

Is there a tool to assess the quality (or review) a book chapter (Critical Appraisal)?

I was wondering if there is a QA tool (or a review checklist) that could be used for critical appraisal of book chapters.

13 July 2020 5,582 1 View

Can we use Ebird Personal Checklists as standard Journal References?

05 March 2020 2,002 7 View

Why traditional (protein/antigen based) vaccines don't trigger a cell mediated immune response ?

Companies like Moderna are working on mRNA based vaccine as they can trigger both cell mediated as well humoral arm of immunity. But why traditional protein based vaccines can't trigger sufficient...

02 March 2020 4,132 3 View