Is online instruction an adequate substitute for in person instruction?

During the current COVID-19 crisis, many universities are substituting in person courses with online instruction completely in fall 2020. Students are not pleased. University administrators have...

23 May 2020 9,772 14 View

If using polymers for flocculant in a waste water treatment plant how often should they have a tox test done?

A wastewater treatment plant is adding dual polymer do reduce TSS, as per their permit they must do tox tests for this. How often and which tests should be done? Thanks

18 March 2020 4,416 3 View

Why is methanol fixation performed at -20C?

Historically I have always used formaldehyde fixation of cells for immunofluorescence, but lately I have had to use methanol. All of the methods I have found state to do this at -20C, but none of...

17 January 2017 6,736 3 View

Large cells present in NCTC clone 929 and LN-229 tissue culture. Can anyone suggest what they are?

I have noticed these cells which seem considerably larger than the majority of the cells in my tissue culture flasks for NCTC clone 929 and LN-229 cells. The media for the flasks looks normal and...

26 September 2016 1,646 3 View

How do you extract torsion angles from PDB files?

Hi, I have some high quality PDB files I want to extract the torsion angles from to assemble some Ramachandran plots by residue. I understand the PDB file structure and I know how to use the...

11 April 2016 8,270 3 View

Does a frequently cited article trump the journal's reputation in which it is published?

When a paper is cited frequently but is published in a lesser-known journal, these biases can cause real problems for tenure and promotion committees, department heads and deans when they evaluate...

19 July 2014 592 42 View

How many revisions does it take to produce a top academic article?

Publishing an academic article can be a painstaking multi-year commitment for both author and journal editor (review board too)--even for lesser known regional journals. Some journal editors...

11 June 2014 6,896 50 View

What is the best way to cite a ReasearchGate comment in an academic paper?

There are a lot of writing style manuals for different academic fields (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and others). However, some comments on ResearchGate seem worthy of scholarly citation. How...

11 June 2014 9,260 68 View

Should writing a textbook have equal weight to writing a top tier article?

In terms of merit pay, promotion, and or tenure consideration, should the author of a textbook have equal weight as the author of a paper published in a top tier journal?

19 May 2014 4,334 24 View

How climate change will influences human and animal behavioral change?

The role of climate change influencing the human behavior as well as economics interest

01 June 2021 0 0 View

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

What are the harmful effects of these extreme rainfall on the health of newborns? What are the reasons for that?

Extreme rainfall associated with climate change is causing harm to babies in some of the most forgotten places.

01 March 2021 5,647 4 View

When is it unnecessary to change organisational culture?

As a former management practitioner, I recall a generally accepted view that changing organisational culture is difficult, so you should only attempt it if the organisational change that you are...

27 February 2021 2,595 8 View

How can we theoretically calculate Elemental analysis(percentage) of atoms in covalent organic framework?

For example in one research article the Elemental analysis values of COF-TpPa-1 ( Triformylphloroglucinol (Tp) (63 mg, 0.3 mmol), Paraphenylenediamine (Pa-1) (48 mg, 0.45 mmol) are as follows...

24 February 2021 1,265 6 View

Is there any teachers based in UK who would like to take part in my study?

24 February 2021 4,833 3 View

What does it require to be ready for e-Commerce in developing countries?

Most developing countries are not ready for e-Commerce? What dimensions and indicators are there to measure e-commerce readiness of a nation? Please share framework or model and evaluation...

22 February 2021 8,132 6 View

Can I do two kinds of mixed method in explanatory research?

Dear distinguish professors and scholars, I have a research in measuring two kinds: think tank capacity and research impact on policy. Can I do two kinds of mixed methods in order to find, "Is...

20 February 2021 6,897 1 View

Is the box plot of climatic indices better illustrate from daily data or annual data?

Hello, I hope you have a good time. I work on a research project about temperature indices. Due to the high number of indices, I only work on tables and maps on an annual time scale. In other...

19 February 2021 9,742 2 View

How to select therorical or conceptual framework for any proposed qualitative research work?

Hi, I am conducting an exploratory research with qualitative in-depth interview approach to understand the impact of COVID_19 in health systems response to burn care in India. Since, this is a...

19 February 2021 4,562 4 View