What is the best way to quantify our research efficiency? Publication, patent, award,deliverables, success stories, personal/group satisfaction....?

Dear esteemed Research Gate colleagues! What is the best way to quantify our research efficiency? Publication, patent, award, deliverables, success stories, personal/group satisfaction....Or any...

05 June 2019 908 15 View

In academicresearch, how a methodology can be good, perfect and influencing to the overall outcome?

Any academic research needs a sound hypothesis, proper methodology, mindful statistical analysis, rational and logical interpretation leading to a satisfying conclusion. All the above individuals...

04 May 2019 4,932 7 View

What is the nature of "satisfaction" for a researcher? When and how can it be achieved? How long does it last?

Researcher's satisfaction is related to the quality of research in some way or other. Some researchers become satisfied on performing the research work, some on its publication in a good journal,...

02 March 2019 7,188 10 View

Are there any statistical or other corrective tools to avoid individual bias, if any, on the part of researcher both for lab and field experiments?

Personal bias is unavoidable in research. It may be in the form of selectivity of materials, methods, tools, time, place, season, mood, uniformity of sampling and many other things. Are there any...

01 February 2019 2,870 6 View

Cancer : Can herb/plant based medicine has the answer?

Still today cancer poses the greatest and the most significant threat to human life. Probably the maximum amount of money has been utilized for the research towards finding any cure or remedy for...

01 February 2019 2,824 15 View

Actual observation (data) or the procedure of statistical analysis of data .....which one is more important in a field/lab-based research study?

Observation/data plays a crucial role in any kind of research study, in general and scientific research, in particular. But some people claim that the real skill exists in analysing those data...

31 December 2018 9,706 9 View

How can artificial intelligence be used for successful biomedical research?

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are accelerating the domain of activities along with tons of possibilities for a range of industries, including biomedical research and...

31 December 2018 7,239 7 View

How popular is GM(genetically modified) fish?

So far, genetic material (DNA) of jawless, cartilaginous and bony fishes only could have been altered using genetic engineering techniques. Are there any more initiatives that have been made or...

11 December 2018 895 7 View

If God is in front of you and you have only a minute, what 3 desires you would like to request him to fulfil?

Keeping aside all debates, about existence of God, differences in opinion and cultures.......just to know all good desires within you and all RG friends.......I would like to get response on the...

09 October 2018 7,711 5 View

What would you like and ready to give unconditionally?

It is often believed that the present day world is that of "Give & Take." We are programmed to expect something for the one (kinds or services) we are giving/offering....., by default. But...

09 October 2018 3,373 28 View

How climate change will influences human and animal behavioral change?

The role of climate change influencing the human behavior as well as economics interest

01 June 2021 0 0 View

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

How UAV or drone can be beneficial to better estimate crop yield?

As we know, crop yield estimation has been done traditionally with farmer's expert knowledge, deductive sampling in representative areas, and remote sensing with satellite imagery. Farmer's Expert...

01 March 2021 3,468 3 View

What are the harmful effects of these extreme rainfall on the health of newborns? What are the reasons for that?

Extreme rainfall associated with climate change is causing harm to babies in some of the most forgotten places.

01 March 2021 5,647 4 View

Analysis of CRD two factor using R studio ?

Hello everyone. I have conducted the research on post harvest longevity of tomato crop using plastic packaging and different doses of chemicals as two different factors. The design of experiment I...

28 February 2021 8,189 3 View

How to arrange coordinates and extract climate dataset out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files?

Have a nice day everyone, I'm stuck in extracting datasets out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files because the latitude ranges from -3*10^6 to 3*10^6 and longitude ranges -5,9*10^6 to 5,9*10^6. Plus, the...

28 February 2021 912 3 View

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

Hi biologists and biogeomorphologists, I want to characterize vegetation plots on a transect that follows a successionnal gradient from a river bed to a mature forest. Ecologically, I am...

26 February 2021 5,720 2 View

Where i will get the Desmodium and Napier grass seeds?

26 February 2021 975 4 View

Could the "incoming radiation (net radiation)" values be negative?

Could the "incoming solar radiation" values be negative? What is the difference between "global solar radiation" and "incoming solar radiation"? Which one might be measured negative values?

21 February 2021 7,726 9 View

Is the box plot of climatic indices better illustrate from daily data or annual data?

Hello, I hope you have a good time. I work on a research project about temperature indices. Due to the high number of indices, I only work on tables and maps on an annual time scale. In other...

19 February 2021 9,742 2 View