At least how many papers must full professor in a year?

There are dozens of professors at the universities who does not produce single scientific paper in a year. To be very soft, it looks to me not good. Some has an arguments that they are making very...

11 December 2017 1,777 7 View

Are there scientific fields which can be discussed as not important and are their fields very important?

My opinion is that NO. Like all organisms in the environment has their specific role in ecosystem, all scientific fields has their specific role in science development. I hear many times that some...

11 December 2017 2,506 2 View

Does the number of Citation and number of publication matter for scientist?

Many Academician (the highest level of scientists) and researchers in Georgia think that number, quality and citation does not matter. All this is not important and important is to "conduct...

31 December 2016 1,717 10 View

Dear Colleagues could you let me know ongoing studies on Bombyx mori as a model organism?

10 November 2016 7,199 1 View

What can be a problem in extracting DNA?

We are trying to extract DNA from different wild bees. All individuals are collected with same methodology (pantrap), then preserved in Ethanol and then dried and mounted on pins. Material was...

03 April 2016 5,061 4 View

How much DNA is enough after PCR to be cleaned for Sequencing?

After extracting DNA and running PCR we got very low quantity of DNA. Some of them had no band and some had very unclear band. After measuring on Nano-drop we saw that some samples which has no...

11 December 2015 692 11 View

How to value a scientist? Are the Impact Factor and citations always adequate for this matter?

As different fields of science differ with their scope, methodology, public and politic interests, Impact Factor for suitable journals in each scientific field acts accordingly. Scientific fields...

31 December 2013 1,833 46 View

Is Artificial increase of IF and Citation Index possible?

As the administrators, Universities, foundations and etc. pay attention to the IF and CI (Citation Index), some our colleagues adopt to this. And they create adaptive method how to increase their...

31 December 2013 1,295 5 View

Insect migration or accidental dispersal?

As far as I know, from the papers until now I have read, all they are telling me the stories about accidental dispersal, and it has been repeated many times. To me migration means, the organism is...

11 December 2013 8,568 3 View

Can an insect fly 1000 km over sea?

It's known that some insects can migrate quite far on land, but can they fly such distances over sea? How many days will they need to cover this distance without stopping?

11 December 2013 6,088 28 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

Is Journal of Agricultural Research a predator?

it is published by Juniper

28 February 2021 354 4 View

How to eliminate Steady state error from Reinforcement learning genetic algorithm code?

The following code (see 1st 2 images attached) is used to produce PID controller values that are designed to control the system (G). The code finds the PID controller values (noted as k) by using...

28 February 2021 6,560 14 View

LEDs on Vis Light photo degradation of MB water sol via N doped TiO2 in a mini flume?

Good day to all, I have no experience with light emitting diodes. I am building a glass mini flume to demonstrate the photo degradation of Methylene Blue in water running over self cleaning...

26 February 2021 4,026 5 View

CGA 300 Regulator for CO2 cylinder?

Has anyone ever tried to deliver CO2 with a CGA 300 regulator? I know that a CGA 320 regulator is standard for CO2. The issue is that I currently do not have any free CGA 320 regulators. I also...

25 February 2021 3,292 3 View

How to interpolate from a time-series database ?

Hi, I am having trouble with a problem, in the field of Optimal Control and the generation of optimal time-series. Let's consider a system, whose dynamics are represented by dx/dt =...

24 February 2021 9,105 2 View

What is this fern?

Please help me to identify this fern species. Thank you in advance.

24 February 2021 2,435 5 View

Must a control group to be in the same semester that a experimental group for a study in education?

Hi everyone, I'm researching about mobile learning in higher education. Due to the small number of the students in the semesters, I cannot have a experimental and control group together. I'm...

22 February 2021 3,653 11 View

How to constrain genetic algorithm input u?

My real system (buck converter) can only take an input of 0 to 1 (duty ratio) and I need to constrain the system so the controller action keeps within this bounds. How can I do this? The code for...

22 February 2021 2,125 3 View

How to use Remote sensing and GIS applications for mapping the available medicinal plants within the locality/municipality?

Hello, I'm very interested in mapping and managing the conservation of the Philippine traditional medicinal plants, in which I think is very helpful in the field of medicine for further analysis...

21 February 2021 374 5 View