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

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

Anyone plz suggest relevant topic for research in image processing+Deep learning.?

I have selected brain tumor images ...but now found that already lots of research done n this topic.

03 March 2021 5,774 3 View

Can we block unwanted images during the x-ray prediction?

i am try to classify the x-ray images. During classification , can i block unwanted images (except x-ray image).

03 March 2021 7,100 1 View

I need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles that are in ~100 nm size and do high resolution TEM to look at mesopores. what grids should I use?

Need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles using the TEM. Also, need high resolution TEM images to see the mesoporous structure. Kindly suggest what kind of grids to use. Thanks, Shatadru

02 March 2021 1,787 2 View

Do I need to strip the PVDF membrane before staining it with colloidal gold?

Dear Colleagues, After running Western blot on PVDF membrane and detection using ECL, I would like to stain my PVDF with colloidal gold to be able to allign the ECL image with total proteins on...

02 March 2021 7,829 3 View

Do you know any MR image dataset?

I would like to research on MR images (0.5T and 3T). Can you please suggest some websites that I can download dataset including both 0.5T and 3T MR images? Thank you.

02 March 2021 7,735 3 View

How to find the mode of classified ocean colour images?

Hello, I have classified 10 S3 OLCI images from the same area (althouth not the same size and/or quadrant) and I would like to do a final image using the mode of the pixel of these 10 images. I...

01 March 2021 9,874 3 View

How to threshold an image despite bright lighting, using ImageJ/Fiji?

Hi everyone, I am using Fiji to determine the percentage of the image covered by leaves, branches, or trunk, but i've encountered some difficulty when the sun hits parts of my image like the one...

27 February 2021 1,194 3 View

Trouble with Charting with Google Earth Engine (Technical)?

Hello. I have a problem with the charting in google earth engine. I created an image collection by combining 5 image collections of five parameters and using ee.Join.inner ( ) and .apply ( )...

26 February 2021 7,084 2 View

Unknown debris sheets observed in cell culture flasks?

Hi, We culture neural progenitor cells in T175 culture flasks coated with PLO-Laminin. We have successfully grown these cells with our protocol for months. Recently, we observed large sheets...

25 February 2021 3,443 4 View

Can a Golgi-stained dendritic spines picture processed by Image J be directly used for publication?

24 February 2021 3,348 2 View