Do your students rely on Wikipedia and YouTube as a source of information?

With the current availability easy access to information online, students in higher education and school education are more in favour of checking online resources such as those on Wikipedia or...

06 July 2018 7,561 9 View

Is it necessary to publish in Web of Science (ISI) listed journals?

Is it necessary to submit your work to journals listed in Web of Science rather than indexed in PubMed, or Scopus? Will publication in journals with impact factor determine the influence of your...

06 July 2018 6,416 13 View

Do you have "dissection" as part of teaching and learning anatomy in your medical curriculum?

With the changes introduced in medical curricula, many schools have reduced or omitted "dissection" and replaced it with other teaching and learning means such as computer-aided programs, 3-D...

05 June 2018 9,975 8 View

How did you handle rejection of a submitted publication?

Rejection of a submitted publication is not good news, particularly for junior researchers such as PhD students. The worst is when you receive two rejections in a week. How did you handle such...

05 June 2018 1,838 8 View

What do students in PBL do in tutorial 2, do they present their learning issues as powerpoint, or do they construct knowledge on the whiteboard?

In the second tutorial in PBL students discuss their learning issues as a group so that they comprehend the different aspects related to the case. However, in some schools students distribute...

05 June 2018 7,904 4 View

What are the advantages and disadvantages of an outcome-based curriculum?

Many schools have moved to an outcome-based curriculum, my question is, based on the experience you have at your school, what are the advantages and disadvantages of an outcome-based curriculum?

05 June 2018 8,165 6 View

What type of assessment do you use in assessing students in the problem-based learning (PBL ) component?

If your school has a PBL program, what type of assessment do you have in place to assess students in this component? Do you use more than one tool? And does this assessment contribute to the...

05 June 2018 6,259 5 View

Have you ever faced a challenge or a conflict with one of your students, how did you handle such situation?

Sometimes tutors face a conflict with one of the students, mainly when teaching a graduate student, how did you handle such situation? Are their educational principles behind the actions you have...

05 June 2018 9,250 0 View

As a problem-based learning tutor what was the most challenging situation that you have faced?

During interaction with students in small groups in PBL we may face challenging situations, do you recall any challenging situation that you have faced as a tutor, would you like to share this...

05 June 2018 4,731 1 View

Why do some students find it difficult to contribute to the discussion in problem-based learning tutorials?

Not just in tutorial one, where students need to identify problems, generate hypothesees and rank each hypotheses, but in tutorial two, some students prepare their learning issues, however they...

05 June 2018 2,812 3 View

What are the values needed for gabor filter's parameter for cifar10 data?

Hi, I implemented a code to gabor filter cifar10 data but the images after being filtered and stacked are not clear like the original images. I think the problem is in the way I am using the...

03 March 2021 6,317 1 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

01 March 2021 8,087 3 View

Is it necessary to report effect size (ES) in statistics of biomedical research given that we already report p values routinely?

Pls share your thoughts

01 March 2021 7,330 4 View

Which reagent is best among 'Dimethylglyoxime" and "Dithiothreitol" for spectroscopic determination of Nickel ?

What I think is Dithiothreitol. As it is water-soluble and does not form a precipitate. But, the thing is it contains sulphur which is quite hazardous to aquatic animals.

01 March 2021 8,374 4 View

How to highlight novelty in your research paper?

I have come up with a method and had written a paper on it. Paper got rejected by a journal stating that there is no theoretical novelty. I am kind of confused on why the novelty that I am able to...

28 February 2021 2,393 8 View

What is the value of Conference Review Paper?

How much value does a review paper carry in a higher study aspirant student's profile which is presented in a Peer Reviewed Scopus Indexed conference?

27 February 2021 2,068 3 View

Centrality measures computation in Biblioshiny/ Vosviewer?

26 February 2021 7,279 2 View

How to identify what type of fillers are in a polymer?

Hello everyone, I have some PHAs blended with fillers and nucleating agents, yet I don't know what kind of fillers or nucleating agents. The producer has shut down and there's no way to get in...

24 February 2021 1,356 8 View

Is it mandatory to specify Subjects Combinations in Generalized Linear Mixed Models (SPSS)?

Hi all, I have data with two levels: lets think of the classic example of students and schools. When running the analysis in SPSS and selecting the Random Effects, we can select (we can or we...

24 February 2021 7,379 4 View