Is self citation unethical and cannot be accountable?

There are evidences self citation is found in research articles and treated as unethical. There are cases where the article published previously has information that are relevant to the present...

01 February 2019 4,487 14 View

Is any plagiarism checkers available for non-English medium and is it possible ?

As I understand there are many plagiarism checking softwares available for the content in English however is also another threat to check similarities/duplications in non-English contents. In...

01 February 2019 8,357 1 View

Is ranking of the institutes in a country of having free education encounter problems for lowering them without any reason ?

Ranking of institutes depends numbers of sources and one of which is quality education. However ranking depends on the graduate performance, human and infrastructural resources and for a better...

11 December 2018 235 1 View

Most of the researches in applied sciences do not have an outcome of any application viz. a product or commercialization, How do we entrust this?

Most of the researches in applied sciences do not end up with an application - developing either a feasible technique, a product or commercialization. Instead the results and conclusions are...

31 December 2017 6,930 3 View

Will it be possible for a person involves in supervising large number of students for M.Phil and Ph.D alone at a time? Is there a limit with reasons?

Some people especially in selected disciplines supervise large number of students ( eg more than 20 students) at a time for M.Phil and Ph D degress ? Its totally depends on the amount of time the...

03 April 2017 9,116 3 View

Is there any research findings or evidence that show pesticides are the direct cause for cancer?

As we know the increased incidence of cancer is related with the use/application of enormous amount of pesticides to the crops. Though it is claimed here and there but finding a strong evidence...

07 August 2013 5,704 6 View

Why Fusarium sp is not being used as biocontrol agent commercially although there are many records about its potential on insect control?

Fusarium sp in general is believed to be a complex group of fungi and main cause of plant diseases like Panama wilt, and other wilt or rot. However there are good research reports claiming the...

07 August 2013 4,928 6 View

Is breaking down of research problem of PhD acceptable and to request undergrads to do the pieces of work?

Is it wise to breakdown a PhD and MPhil research works in to pieces and giving to Uuergrads to carry out the research and after completion the results are incorporated in the PhD and MPhil thesis....

07 August 2013 2,570 12 View

Does the applied research bears the responsibility in its application or being in the journals as a high quality research article?

There is a debate among researcher in the applied field that the research findings should carry the message that can be applied and the results should be benefited by the society. Instead few...

06 July 2013 761 1 View

How do the researchers screen out the inappropriate and low quality mushrooming journals?

Can someone suggest a mechanism to screen out unauthenticated mushrooming journals and to assist the researchers to publish their works in appropriate journals.

06 July 2013 5,498 14 View

What is the best way to keep an anaerobic chamber anoxic in the absence of hydrogen?

I'm a graduate student who works with an anaerobe, so I often work in an anaerobic chamber. I've been working on an assay that involves the steady-state of the quinone/ quinol pool. Anoxic...

03 March 2021 2,971 1 View

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 3 View

How do you write a simplified C block code of this average-current control on PSIM?

This is a Buck (step-down) Converter and I am new to this program. I need to program with simplified C block and I actually don't know what to do. Can anyone show me how to do this? Or at least...

02 March 2021 8,233 1 View

Good sites to recruit survey participants on a grad school student budget?

Any good recommendations for participant recruitment for online surveys on a grad school student budget?

02 March 2021 4,293 4 View

Do you know good and user-friendly programs to measure plant quantitative traits?

For my research i will need to measure plant quantitative traits (especially leaves area and roots length, but would be nice to add some more information). I recently discovered...

01 March 2021 5,035 2 View

How to model the battery pack in PSIM or PSCAD?

Hello, I have simulated a single battery cell using Thevenin equivalent circuit. For a battery pack, I have a large number of cells connected in series and parallel connections. Is there any way...

28 February 2021 2,116 1 View

Is there a recitation score bank system for fair evaluation and assessment of student recitation?

In actual and virtual class, even if there is rubric for recitation, students may still fail to receive fair grades or scores. Others are active in recitation and others are not or others may fail...

26 February 2021 8,387 3 View

Is it possible to set a breakpoint at a specific DYNAMIC instruction using the GNU Debugger (GDB)?

Using GDB, it is straightforward to debug and monitor a target program by setting a break-point at a specific instruction, since the instruction addresses are known. However, we have two...

24 February 2021 1,598 2 View

Implementation of chance-constrained optimization problem via scenario approach?

23 February 2021 7,826 2 View

Do you think there is cognitive oversaturation in the current pandemic? What impact can this have? And other manifestations?

Dear colleagues, Do you think there is cognitive oversaturation in the current pandemic? What impact can this have? And other manifestations? The question is mainly aimed at adolescents (pupils,...

23 February 2021 7,796 4 View