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Am I uploading or downloading?

Until very recently, I "uploaded" items FROM my computer to the net. I "downloaded" things TO my computer from the net. Recently, I have seen these terms used the other way around! What's correct?

07 August 2018 8,560 0 View

Would Turkey ever go to war against Israel, or vice versa?

The war of words between the political leaders of these two countries continues to heat up. Would either side ever consider war itself to be a viable option?

06 July 2018 1,757 3 View

Does criticism of the policies and activities of the Israeli government constitute anti-Semitism?

I am NOT questioning the right of Israel to exist. Rather, I just wonder if reasonable criticisms of the policies and actions of the Israeli government constitute anti-Semitism. Some Israeli...

06 July 2018 3,921 2 View

Are human beings able to contemplate their own nothingness?

Many people seem able to accept that they came from nothing. Most seem happy with the notion that they express their being during the time that they are alive. But very, very few are willing to...

06 July 2018 4,180 7 View

The greater your ability to reason, the less facts you need?

Some minds seem to demand endless factual, or definitional input to provide a decision or an explanation. These outcomes often seem less convincing than those provided by high quality reasoning...

06 July 2018 6,108 17 View

How do they calculate RG scores?

It's a mystery to me! Multiple author work seems to give each author the same value as a single author piece. Some people with few contributions get far higher scores than regular publishers. Some...

06 July 2018 1,948 30 View

For health reasons, should government set a minimum price for alcohol and junk foods?

In many countries--especially in the developed world--people harm their own health with too much alcohol and/or too much junk food. Does the government have a duty to lower consumption of these...

05 June 2018 8,096 14 View

Do we get our political beliefs from the media we watch and read, or do we watch and read media that supports our existing views?

A question I was asked decades ago. Still not sure of the correct answer!

05 June 2018 5,782 7 View

Apparently Google AI can predict when you will die, if death is of natural causes. Would you want to know?

Don't ask me how they do it, but they do!

05 June 2018 4,152 2 View

Does it really matter if young children play with toy guns?

In my childhood all us good "cowboys" carried toy guns. Twenty years ago, the next generation did exactly the same. None us have turned into mass killers, or any type of killer at all. Prince...

05 June 2018 875 0 View

Does the circuit modeling for planar monopole antennas using Foster canonical forms give good approximation?

Hi researchers, I am searching for some accurate way to do the circuit modeling of planar CPW-fed monopole antennas. I have gone through the literature where mostly circuit modeling is done using...

28 February 2021 7,016 1 View

Why cannot world and community leaders be gentle? Where did ethics of care go?

The whole world is in a mess and paused. We all are tired of seeing hypermasculinized and destructive leaderships all around us. This world has seen enough of the aggressive patriarchal social...

23 February 2021 292 7 View

Alternative to mediation analysis?

I am currently working on my dissertation and want to explore the role of competence as a mediator between the effect of colour of clothes on voting intention (focus on Western countries)....

21 February 2021 8,609 1 View

The Role of Town Planners in CAV Use?

Colleagues and I are about to begin a project investigating the role of town planners and local authorities in establishing the introduction of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). What...

21 February 2021 2,247 3 View

Color of spiro-ometad film?

What does the color of a spiro-ometad film indicate? I got purple, green, red, even black color of the spiro film. Is there anything we can get from the preliminary color analysis(e.g. oxidation...

21 February 2021 1,831 4 View

What is the most prevalent drug related problem in the developed countries?

Detecting the drug related problems is an important step in the pharmaceutical care plan

21 February 2021 5,421 3 View

Any information about dinitrosalisylic acid reagent end point color stability ?

I work on estimation of alpha amylase activity using dinitrosalisylic acid reagent If i put the reagent to stope the enzymatic reaction and allow the reagent to react with the produced reducing...

17 February 2021 7,402 4 View

Negative result on natural product sample cholinergic assay?

i have been doing cholinergic assay on natural product and for some of the samples, i get negative value for the inhibition activity. can anyone help me explain the meaning of the negative value...

17 February 2021 4,118 1 View

Has anyone performed a colorimetric RT-LAMP assay using Lucigens LavaLAMP kit?

Hi there, my lab recently opted to use LavaLAMP from Lucigen instead of the Warmstart kit from NEB. However, Lucigen has yet to create a colormetric kit for RT-LAMP, and adding phenol-Red (pH...

17 February 2021 5,399 1 View

What is the actual chemistry going on between iodate and ascorbic acid?

I am studying biochemistry at university, as part of the course we do several titration experiments. In our handouts, we were given the following half equations: IO3- + 6H+ + 4e- I+ +...

16 February 2021 8,731 1 View