Should we be teaching mindfulness in schools?

Very interestingly, research studies show what makes one successful in life (measured by happiness - that also include having a purposeful life, loving relationships, resilience, productivity,...

04 May 2018 4,788 3 View

How significant is a learning culture in an organisation?

The significance of a learning culture (in an organisation)! "Positive cultures are always cultures where people are open to learn. On a daily basis, leaders can establish a learning culture by...

04 May 2018 5,050 4 View

What would be the limitations/constraints of contemporary education systems?

Having faith in people but not in the education system that exists- many of the systemic issues are presented in a very innovative and compelling manner! Should we force fish to climb trees?...

04 May 2018 4,138 0 View

Is loneliness a problem? If so how significant could it be?

How severe can be loneliness as an epidemic in our societies? "Loneliness is a growing health epidemic. We live in the most technologically connected age in the history of civilization, yet...

03 April 2018 4,094 2 View

What Would be the Significance of Listening to Internal Voices or Becoming Self-Aware in the Process of Human Development?

03 April 2018 1,109 2 View

How important is cultivating purpose at work/school?

Why should we make our work meaningful to the best possible level - even by running the extra mile? The way to motivate ourselves! This can even be applied to our learning as well - learn not...

03 April 2018 9,606 12 View

How significant would be inspirational leadership?

Inspirational leadership! It goes beyond managing the day to day tasks towards a (higher) common purpose! Shouldn't any leadership always have to be inspirational in order to be effective? "The...

03 April 2018 4,640 7 View

What could be the human cost of what we don't know (about human potential and development)?

The human cost of what we don't know! A very important issue to raise and pursue at least now, rather than later! "We wish for a world where ALL children can actualize their potential without...

03 April 2018 6,010 3 View

How could we better prepare first year college students for challenges ahead?

Excellent development in the higher education towards positive futures - a new course for the first year college students - initiated by The Center for Health Minds of the University of...

02 March 2018 3,447 3 View

How can we use the phenomenon of neuroplasticity for revolutionising education systems?

The ability to train the adaptive brain with good habits yielding individual well-being and the greater good of our societies following the neuroscientific research revelations on neuroplasticity....

02 March 2018 9,228 4 View

What is your perception on using visual analysis or quantitative approaches to evaluate data from single-case research designs (n of 1 trials)?

Results of single-case research designs (i.e., n-of-1 trials) are often evaluated by visually inspecting the time-series graph and computing quantitative indices. A question our research team is...

03 March 2021 687 1 View

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 View

PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 2 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

Can Ethovision store the generated data and video recordings directly to NAS system?

The size of data generated by Ethovision is huge. Having NAS system for data storage seems to be a good option, I am wondering whether Ethovision can directly store the data to the NAS system...

27 February 2021 6,350 2 View

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View

Can thermal cycler machines be problematic during PCR?

Hi, my question is about the heating of thermal cycler machines and I hope some of you had experienced a similar thing previously. There are two thermal cycler machines in the lab(BioRad) and for...

26 February 2021 4,777 4 View

Calculating volume of DNA required from DNA concentration?

Hi I am a bit confused. They are asking me to find out the volume of DNA required in ul (a total of 30-100 ng for genomic DNA) from the DNA concentration in the nanodrop reading which was 404.8...

26 February 2021 5,029 2 View

How to make a time series imputation benchmark ?

Hello ! In a work, I have to benchmark different algorithms to fill in missing values in time series. I insist on the fact that this is imputation and not forecasting. In my case, I have access...

24 February 2021 7,470 7 View

How to interpolate from a time-series database ?

Hi, I am having trouble with a problem, in the field of Optimal Control and the generation of optimal time-series. Let's consider a system, whose dynamics are represented by dx/dt =...

24 February 2021 9,105 2 View