What are the potential metabolic markers for monitoring conditions of growing culture cell lines?

I like to know the possible markers of metabolism in cancer cells such as in monitoring glycolytic, extracellular acidification and oxygen consumption rates, effected by treatment with an extract.

08 September 2019 1,527 1 View

What best method could be used to screen protein expression profile in a cancer cell line upon novel drug testing?

I am studying gene expression profile through analyses of proteins expressed upon treatment of cancer stem cell line with a novel herbal substance (in the extract) to predict gene function in...

07 August 2019 5,634 7 View

Unbearable article publication charges is the main reason for proliferative number of publications in the predatory journals. Yes or No?. Reasons?

There are many factors to think about as possible reasons that give rise to proliferative number of publications in predatory journals. Arguably, article publication charges has been pointed as...

06 July 2019 833 24 View

What should you do when your journal send you a huge payment list after publication, that was not pre-informed before submission?

I want to know people's opinions and how to handle a case of one's journal that had already published their article, indexed it in popular databases, but as a result of their changing publisher...

05 June 2019 6,811 3 View

Is Impact Factor (IF) truly the best metric index in judging the quality of a journal?

So many metrics are currently in-use by various journals to show the quality of their journals. Again, the seemingly most mentioned metric s, Impact Factor (IF) is largely criticized as biased and...

04 May 2019 8,222 15 View

What best advice could you offer a group of authors whose article has been accepted and issue-listed but not published for more than 7 months?

How do you advise a group of authors whose papers already accepted but only listed for several months under ahead-of-print without publication as necessary?

04 May 2019 3,104 6 View

What's the meaning of each of the following terms- Cited Half-Life, Immediacy Index, Eigenfactor, Article Influence used by RG for journal ratings?

These terms (Cited half-life, Immediacy Index, Eigenfactor, Article Influence) are used by Researchgate to measure the impact of any article uploaded on their system. They are also used to rate...

03 April 2019 2,144 3 View

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07 August 2018 383 2 View

What is the difference between these two acronyms, ESCI and SCIE indexes in considering better journal publisher?

v Which of these two indexes really has affiliation with ISI, between Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)? v And what does each of them stand for? v...

06 July 2018 7,195 1 View

Standard deviation (SD) or standard error of mean (SEM): which way to go; what are the factors to consider in reporting?

Which one under- or overestimates significance in the test of association?. Often times, I come across both choices in the selection of SD and SEM as a measure of spread, however, little is...

01 February 2018 4,122 2 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

Why is ethics significant in business and how should one control unethical behavior ?

1. The significance of ethics to business and how to control bad behavior.

21 February 2021 882 14 View

Describe a serious ethical dilemma you have experienced. Use the 12 questions developed by Laura Nash to offer a solution to the problem?

Describe a serious ethical dilemma you have experienced. Use the 12 questions developed by Laura Nash to offer a solution to the problem.

21 February 2021 9,133 2 View

Discuss the extent to which morality in African traditional societies can be classified under the Natural Law theory of morality?

How can one classified African traditional societies under natural law

18 February 2021 7,334 8 View

How to derive equations for a resonant buck converter with ZVS?

I am not understanding how each author is deriving the equations and the working principle. Individual authors are giving their own working principle explanation for different circuit topology....

12 February 2021 496 1 View

How to address mutual causality using Propensity Match Scoring using a panel dataset?

Hello dear researchers. I have a panel data set where I regressed innovation on director tenure. Though, I employed GMM and lag of the director tenure to address the endogeneity and reverse...

08 February 2021 5,809 1 View

How to create the context-mechanism-outcome configuration (CMOc) in the realist methodology?

In the realist methodology (especially by Raymond Pawson et al), the CMOc is a common structure to explain what works, for whom, in what circumstances, and why? I'm always asked about the...

08 February 2021 2,792 1 View

Hello, can you recommend a method to remove serial correlation from path coefficients (standardized regression coefficients)?

I would like to measure the causal effects among variables in a path model, but the variables (time series) may be serially correlated. I'm looking for a method to remove or otherwise manage the...

02 February 2021 210 3 View

Which ethical metrics is expected from an academic who is the owner or the creator of the measuring instrument?

Which ethical metrics is expected from an academic who is the owner or the creator of the instrument? The measurement tool will be applied to adults as an online form and a snowball sample will...

01 February 2021 9,188 3 View

Cross-lagged panel analysis and sample size?

I want to estimate the causal relationship between two latent variables over time using structural equation modelling. both latent variables are measured according to different indicators...

31 January 2021 3,777 5 View