Have any of your original professors/lecturers done outstanding work in their discipline and are now celebrated?

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I wonder how many ever succeeded but remained big fish in a tiny pool, happy to be under half-lit lamps throwing occasional light on them and their work.

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Why do researchers believe data on rodents can be extrapolated onto humans?

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Does supply create its own demand?

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The Golden Rule for Teachers?

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To what extent did the USA cause the collapse of the British and French Empires after World War 11?

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Do you rely on authority heuristics when considering a subject?

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Is intelligence overrated?

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Is academia just a way of presenting knowledge and does it therefore deserve its status?

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What is the overall effect of International Students?

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Do you believe Foucault was right to hold that madness is merely a construct?

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In the UK, there has been an increase in university numbers. Do you think degrees are the only way forward?

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What techniques can I use to determine the miscibility of polymer blends?

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Your thoughts on the spherical densiometer to estimate relative species canopy cover?

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What kind of institutional environment do entrepreneurs need to achieve happiness?

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Any interests in participating to an experiment in space?

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How much costs direct reduction of nitrogen on farmland in terms of lower crop yield?

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It is easier to knockdown a gene than overexpress a gene when generate a stable cell line?

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For acid treated montmorillonite clays what will be the result of surface area?

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Which is the appropriate statistic test to examine the relation between students' affective state and academic performance?

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Hello friends, happy evening !! I am just wondering if you would know where I can find the (ALTS) altruism scale by S.N.Rai and S Singh to download ?

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How to analyse multiple Likert scales?

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