How to Balance Bench work with Reading and Writing?

I am a second-year grad student. I am finding it difficult finding time to read literature and write (things like qualifying exam, thesis, grants). I find myself so busy with bench work that I...

01 March 2021 3,325 4 View

Is BRSV ("bovine respiratory syncytial virus") less susceptible to RNA degradation than SARS-CoV-2 when thawing a sample?

I've noticed that when thawing long-frozen samples (3-4 months at -20 C), most of the SARS-CoV-2 virus does not remain intact, but that the surrogate appears to. Has anyone else noticed this?

09 January 2021 4,168 7 View

Can you centrifuge and re-suspend a cDNA sample?

I am woking with very low concentrations of RNA in an attempt to run a qPCR analysis. Given this, I am going to attempt to synthesize cDNA without diluting my sample, and in two different,...

12 December 2020 3,247 3 View

Is the "Releve" method still standard protocol for plant community sampling and percent cover estimation?

I am not a botanist but need to estimate the average percent vegetation cover of my study area. I have researched this and found articles that use the "releve" method for determining plot size...

22 September 2020 5,676 6 View

How to accelerate Langevin dynamics simulations for bead-spring polymer chain models?

I'm running simulations for a bead-spring polymer networks using LAMMPS. I need my simulations to reach biologically relevant timescales of at least a few milliseconds. However each simulation...

14 September 2020 2,954 1 View

Can features from a feature selection algorithm based on classification be used for regression?

I am working on a regression task where I am trying to predict future values of a stock/resource. At the moment, my model uses a large set of lags as input features and I want to use feature...

31 August 2020 2,409 3 View

Convex Optimization for Deep Learning?

Is there such a thing as convex optimization for large deep learning networks? Is there a way to guarantee convergence? Has anyone looked into this?

06 August 2020 5,384 4 View

What happens in post-secondary education when instructors don't use traditional grades?

I am looking for empirical studies that examine the use of non-traditional grading in higher education. This means NOT using A-F grades during a course (even if, at the conclusion of the course,...

09 June 2020 1,519 6 View

What is the role of journals' reviewers? Should they be absolute judges?

- Ask questions where they are not sure/convinced about a statement/conclusion VS reject a statement/conclusion where they 'think' it is not correct? - Provide suggestions to improve a...

21 May 2020 2,624 7 View

Looking for immunologist or virologist to help with literature-based study for COVID treatment. Can you help?

On the side, I doing some research (literature-based) on a particular treatment that may help for COVID-19 symptoms but I need someone with a stronger medical knowledge base with expertise in...

29 April 2020 8,098 11 View

Is there any rich, publicly available English literary corpus?

Hi everyone. I am looking for a rich corpus in English literature, a one which includes literary prose ( e.g., novels or short stories) . can anyone propose a good one? Best regards Fatemeh

01 March 2021 1,970 2 View

Do anyone here can help us in the field of molecular docking?

We have synthesized various metal complexes with different environment around the metals. Now to see the application of synthesized complexes we need this study also. we are also interested in...

01 March 2021 1,899 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

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

Is there any one who can provide a donation of HPV detection and genotyping kits in exchange collaboration fors?

Warm greetings My name is Ayichew S. and I am doing my Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology (on Human papillomavirus). At this stage, I have almost completed a clinical sample Cervical swabs)...

25 February 2021 1,660 3 View

RNA-seq DEGs downstream analysis and reporting in literature?

I used EdgeR to get the list of DEGs (differentially expressed genes) from my liver RNA-seq experiment. I have done the gene overrepresentation and GSEA based pathway analysis. I am currently...

23 February 2021 8,969 1 View

How was your experience with Biomedical and Biotechnology Journal?

How was your publication experience with BBRJ in terms of peer review and reviewer comments. Did you find it fair and transparent ?

23 February 2021 3,810 6 View

What is the role of work experience in motivating high tech entrepreneurship in Aviation industry?

Related work experience plays a vital role in motivating the Entrepreneurship. But when we talk about high tech entrepreneurship in Aviation industry, we talk about very high investment and high...

22 February 2021 376 5 View

Do you consider undergoing a structure literature review / Meta analysis and getting numerical findings sort of quantitative method?

I am looking for a classification of the research methods included in literature review papers or Meta analysis ones .

22 February 2021 1,131 4 View