Can publishing a prepublished research as a new book chapter be acceptable in the academic world?

Research papers are in brief, book chapters are in detail. Can publishing a prepublished research as a new expanded book chapter be acceptable in the academic world?

19 March 2020 6,221 9 View

Why does the universe expand despite self-gravity?

We are in an expanding Universe as per the big-bang cosmology. Does it really mean that the outward thermal pressure now beats the inward gravitational pressure in the Universe? What is the exact...

14 March 2020 4,196 37 View

What are the different projects launched with a strong mission to make knowledge globally free?

What are the different projects launched with a strong mission to make knowledge and its resources globally free so that unprivileged and underprivileged scholars could pursue higher education in...

28 December 2019 9,526 3 View

How can we prevent ear-problems often encountered by passengers after a flight journey?

The vertical atmospheric air pressure differences encountered during flight journeys often create ear-problems well realized by passengers after landing. How can we prevent them easily?

26 November 2019 9,015 12 View

What is the significance of dynamical system analysis in cosmology and dark energy study??

What is the reason that we modify our system as dynamical systems while studying dark energy? And further, what is the criteria for choice of the dimensionless variables x,y,z.??

29 September 2019 7,687 1 View

How to get low energy model Hamiltonian of a material from DFT calculation?

I need to find the low energy model Hamiltonian for a material (semimetal). I heard that this is possible by using Wannier90 clubbed with VASP or QE. It would be very helpful for me if someone...

18 September 2019 6,649 2 View

What are the additional advantages that a Fano resonance possesses in comparison to normal dipolar resonance in Optical systems?

Fano resonance is a distinctive spectroscopic behavior in many optical systems. There're certain differences in terms of physics and behavior of Fano resonance compare to dipole resonance which is...

30 May 2019 4,244 2 View

What is the best process for estimating Triclosan from sediment samples?

What is the best and easiest protocol for extracting Triclosan from sediment and further estimation using HPLC, GC-MS or LC-MS? Please suggest some easy and dependable protocol.

15 March 2019 2,007 4 View

Do electrons and protons have independent minds to decide the directionality of gyromagnetic effects?

We have mind. We are made up of matter. Does matter have its own mind? Do electrons and protons, which are the building blocks of matter, have independent minds to decide the directionality of...

25 February 2019 2,405 3 View

Will any expert recruit me as a postdoc under his/her supervision in the field of bioenergy or waste water treatment? Will you please share this?

I, Dr. Rachan Karmakar, have done my Ph.D. in 2018 in the field of energy and environment. My areas of specialization are as follows- 1. Biofuel production and characterization 2. Analysis of...

15 January 2019 9,065 5 View

Why CNN algorithm performs well in Network Intrusion Detection based on some recent resources?

Most of the papers have compared different hyperparameters such as layers, initializers, activation function, and optimizer algorithm in the CNN algorithm for detecting network intrusion. This is...

24 February 2021 4,578 4 View

How to manage western blot for proteomics data validation?

Hi Everyone, I am a bigginer in western blotting and I am trying to use it for validation of my proteomics data. I have: two regulated proteins with molecular mass of 40 and 73 kDa one control...

23 February 2021 6,671 4 View

Can i quantify protein concentration in sds page?

I have to quantify a mixture of proteins. But I can not quantify its concentration by any protein detection methods as the values fluctuate. Can i quantify the protein concentration by sds page?

22 February 2021 215 2 View

How do I collect online measures in a same-different task?

The same-different task requires to subjects to indicate whether a pair of stimuli seen or heard are the same (say AA or BB) or different (say AB or BA). Researchers often collect offline measures...

20 February 2021 9,226 2 View

I can detect my protein but the encoding DNA sequence has stop codons within. Should I ignore the stop codons?

I constructed a synthetic DNA library (scFv, VH-VL orientation) with a 3' reporter and 8x histag. I cloned and expressed this gene following which I performed an ELISA. The ELISA results suggested...

19 February 2021 7,006 5 View

MVN, how to conciliate contradictory results from Multivariate normality and Multivariate outliers test?

Dear colleagues, I'm working with Path analyses in lavaan and MVN packages. There are some results that for me are confusing and features from the MVN that I do not know how to set. My dataset is...

18 February 2021 190 3 View

Has anyone encountered any problems with abm good microRNA primers for quantification of mature miRNAs?

I've been trying to quantitate mature microRNAs in 293T cells with and without 'X'. 2ug of total RNA (isolated by Trizol method) is converted to cDNA using All-in one microRNA cDNA synthesis kit...

17 February 2021 8,986 2 View

How to convert isotrophic Deriche filter into anistrophic?

12 February 2021 5,889 6 View

(western blot) can methanol damage my antibody signal?

I accidentally rinsed with methanol after adding my primary antibody to my membrane. I noticed after ~10 seconds and immediately replaced it with PBST (3x15 min washes). Will my antibody signal be...

12 February 2021 5,824 3 View

What is the reason, we got both test and control band on LFA in negative sample?

I am working on Lateral flow assay for virus detection by carbon conjugated polyclonal antibody. We got a high intense band in both test and control line on LFA in negative sample used as buffer....

11 February 2021 6,558 2 View