How to Balance Bench work with Reading and Writing?

I am a second-year grad student. I am finding it difficult finding time to read literature and write (things like qualifying exam, thesis, grants). I find myself so busy with bench work that I...

01 March 2021 3,325 4 View

Is BRSV ("bovine respiratory syncytial virus") less susceptible to RNA degradation than SARS-CoV-2 when thawing a sample?

I've noticed that when thawing long-frozen samples (3-4 months at -20 C), most of the SARS-CoV-2 virus does not remain intact, but that the surrogate appears to. Has anyone else noticed this?

09 January 2021 4,168 7 View

Can you centrifuge and re-suspend a cDNA sample?

I am woking with very low concentrations of RNA in an attempt to run a qPCR analysis. Given this, I am going to attempt to synthesize cDNA without diluting my sample, and in two different,...

12 December 2020 3,247 3 View

Is the "Releve" method still standard protocol for plant community sampling and percent cover estimation?

I am not a botanist but need to estimate the average percent vegetation cover of my study area. I have researched this and found articles that use the "releve" method for determining plot size...

22 September 2020 5,676 6 View

How to accelerate Langevin dynamics simulations for bead-spring polymer chain models?

I'm running simulations for a bead-spring polymer networks using LAMMPS. I need my simulations to reach biologically relevant timescales of at least a few milliseconds. However each simulation...

14 September 2020 2,954 1 View

Convex Optimization for Deep Learning?

Is there such a thing as convex optimization for large deep learning networks? Is there a way to guarantee convergence? Has anyone looked into this?

06 August 2020 5,384 4 View

What happens in post-secondary education when instructors don't use traditional grades?

I am looking for empirical studies that examine the use of non-traditional grading in higher education. This means NOT using A-F grades during a course (even if, at the conclusion of the course,...

09 June 2020 1,519 6 View

What is the role of journals' reviewers? Should they be absolute judges?

- Ask questions where they are not sure/convinced about a statement/conclusion VS reject a statement/conclusion where they 'think' it is not correct? - Provide suggestions to improve a...

21 May 2020 2,624 7 View

Looking for immunologist or virologist to help with literature-based study for COVID treatment. Can you help?

On the side, I doing some research (literature-based) on a particular treatment that may help for COVID-19 symptoms but I need someone with a stronger medical knowledge base with expertise in...

29 April 2020 8,098 11 View

Female Soccer - Small sided games - Does training intensity reduce when elite players train with non elite ? or senior players with lower ages groups?

Hi , Im wondering does anyone know of any papers detailing the effects to training intensity of small sided games when the group is of mixed performance levels i.e( professional& semi...

18 December 2019 6,495 1 View

Database of European Football Players Salaries ?

Hello everyone, I am interested in writing about a dissertation about the wages of the football players of the 5 main leagues in Europe. I wanted to know if someone had an up to date data base...

17 February 2021 8,847 3 View

Loss of biodiversity its impact on terrestrial ecosystem?

I need research papers with problem statement as well as research questions in respect of the above mentioned topics

04 February 2021 2,240 15 View

Where can I find data sets containing the average mass of terrestrial predators and their prey?

For my final year thesis I require data on the average body mass of terrestrial predators and their prey. I have come across many papers which have used such data sets however, the data is not...

04 February 2021 8,348 3 View

Can anyone help me to separate my phenolic compound in TLC with any new solvent system ?

My Compound is Leaf powdered Methanolic extract which is showing good phenolic compounds upon dipping in FeCl3. -My problem is phenolic compounds are not eluting with any common solvent system.

22 January 2021 4,693 7 View

Suggest best performance evaluation metrics for image segmentation?

Good morning everyone. As a part of my research work, I designed a network that extracts the leaf region from the real field images. when I search about performance evaluation metrics for the...

10 January 2021 9,581 30 View

Easy and effective method to visualize fungal mycelium inside leaf tissue?

Is there any easy and efficient method to visualize the fungal mycelium inside infected leaf tissue using light microscoopy? Please share protocols which can be performed using limited resources...

03 January 2021 4,217 2 View

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01 January 2021 5,831 1 View

Are there only winners in the world of exism?

BREXISM finally is over and they got a trade deal with europe now, but exism left the UK poorer according to the news Brexit is finally done. It will leave the UK...

23 December 2020 4,071 6 View

New Covid virus came to Europe, Australia then spread other part of the world, do you think that previous vaccine will effective for recent virus?

New Covid virus came to Europe, Australia then will spread other part of the world, do you think that previous vaccine will effective for recent virus?

21 December 2020 4,256 15 View

Can someone help me find a way to quantify leaf shape?

I 'am looking for a most simplified formula to quantify shape of leaves mathematically which will help me to categorise plants based on leaf shape.Earlier,I tried with some image processing...

10 December 2020 2,386 5 View