Is there a misperception/misuse of the term Big Data?

Although the term "Big Data" is well defined in terms of Vs and Cs, I often find research papers that use it without a clear indication of what exactly they refer to: the size of the data being...

03 April 2018 6,935 22 View

Should the UK exit the EU?

Much is being talked about nowadays regarding the UK exiting the EU. What might be the main economic/political/social implications of such event? What could be the impact on the EU?

03 April 2016 9,162 3 View

Can scientific knowledge be considered the same as public knowledge?

09 October 2014 6,091 3 View

Formation of desired values in students: Can the University do something about it?

It is widely accepted nowadays that the quality of educational training depends not only on the professional knowledge and skills developed through the university curriculum but also on the values...

06 July 2014 1,731 1 View

How do you define quality of education?

I have recently engaged in few talks with some of my graduate students and it was interesting to note how many of them believed that empathy was one of the crucial determinants of the quality in...

05 June 2014 9,967 10 View

What do you think of grading the class participation?

In recent days, grading the class participation (CP) is becoming a kind of cumbersome, that, too, in spite of many models for assessment, including clear rubrics for evaluation. We often hear...

04 May 2014 4,134 14 View

What is the difference between Hadoop and Data Warehouse?

I have read a couple of articles which are trying to sell the idea that the organization should basically choose between either implementing Hadoop (which is a powerful tool when it comes to...

04 May 2014 249 16 View

Is the Cloud a safe environment to store confidential data?

It is pretty much common nowadays to store, process, or transmit data by means of a Cloud. Whatever the Cloud of your choice might be (public or private), you expect the Cloud provider to provide...

03 April 2014 7,876 7 View

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03 April 2014 2,356 1 View

Adopting Big Data just for the sake of it?

Recently, I have come across couple of pieces of news in which many are complaining about the fact that they have trouble in convincing their clients to adopt Big Data as a new approach in their...

03 April 2014 4,446 5 View

Can't recognize exact phase and PDF card no of Silicon carbide in XRD?

We have deposited silicon carbide on carbon substrate using one PVD technique. Due to amorphous behavior of SiC at low deposition temperature, we performed heat treatment of those films at...

22 February 2021 2,072 3 View

Which Journals would you advise to submit a Letter which briefly talks about neurosurgical treatment of neuro-oncological patient during Sars-COV-2?

Possibily not an open access journal which does not add any publishing costs once being accepted. Thank you in advance

09 February 2021 717 6 View

How to do mono formylation of N,N-diethyl-3-methoxybenzamide?

I have attempted the formylation of the above mentioned compound using a very well reported protocol using secondary Butyl Lithium and TMEDA at - 78 degrees Celsius. I have done it quite a few...

08 February 2021 2,793 2 View

How to estimate the extent to which the FE domain should be meshed with explicit elements in Explicit-Implicit Time integration procedure?

I am developing a MATLAB code for shock problem and want to divide the FE domain into explicit and implicit elements (region of domain at vicinity to shock is meshed into explicit elements and...

15 January 2021 1,968 2 View

Any reference to learn numerical methods for Viscoelastic compressible fluids(oil) (CFD)?

I am developing a solver to simulate compression of oil in shock absorber filled with viscoelastic compressible oil. The model will consider the loss due to viscosity which will decide the...

15 January 2021 1,707 1 View

Which antimicrobial test will be suitable to determine antimicrobial activity of silver nanoparticles?

There are some journal articles that reported well diffusion method to determine the antimicrobial activity of silver nanoparticles. Meanwhile, some reported disc diffusion method. Which method is...

06 January 2021 7,123 4 View

Self-care as a psychotherapist?

Need journal articles

31 December 2020 3,067 2 View

How to decide which conference to attend?? and how to transform the conference paper into a journal article??

What are the things to be considered before deciding on a conference?? How to decide, as titles can be misleading sometimes. Advice on how to get the most out of a conference would be...

29 December 2020 4,391 14 View

What are some of the differences between a research article and a review article?

What are some of the differences between a research article and a review article? Thanks in advance for your replies!

29 December 2020 2,066 26 View

Did COVID-19 really impact the review process of journals in the second half of 2020? If yes, then how and how much?

Did COVID-19 really impact the review process of journals in the second half of 2020? If yes, then how and how much? Share your thoughts!

22 December 2020 8,681 8 View