Why do researchers believe data on rodents can be extrapolated onto humans?

This is a constant when proofs are offered for monoamine hypothesis. I read an, on the surface, interesting, technical paper only to discover the data is about mice- although ostensibly the...

11 December 2018 3,848 0 View

Does supply create its own demand?

Ok. An old question put out 200 years ago by Jean-Baptiste Say, and one usually answered with a 'no'. But can you make a reasonable try at arguing 'yes' strongly and convincingly?

07 August 2018 4,387 15 View

The Golden Rule for Teachers?

I came across this on my linked in site. The question really references the Student Centred Approach to teaching. The above concludes that the Golden Rule involves: Putting yourself in your...

07 August 2018 3,717 23 View

To what extent did the USA cause the collapse of the British and French Empires after World War 11?

During the 2nd World War, President Roosevelt's Atlantic Charter had committed the USA to dismantling the British and French empires in Asia, although not to dismantling their own. Roosevelt had...

07 August 2018 7,707 10 View

Do you rely on authority heuristics when considering a subject?

How many believe a judgement or point of view simply because it comes from a professional or from someone endowed with intellectual or political (in its widest sense) authority? If you are told...

06 July 2018 7,230 5 View

Is intelligence overrated?

Although intelligence is purveyed as a requisite quality how does it really help towards success, for example, happiness and quality of life. Is there something to be said for stupidity? Are...

06 July 2018 5,585 90 View

Is academia just a way of presenting knowledge and does it therefore deserve its status?

Academic training is lengthy but often resolves into specific ways to present knowledge and information. This requires ability but does it require great ability. When I did my first degree I...

06 July 2018 8,980 14 View

What is the overall effect of International Students?

Does their presence in host countries, usually in the West, aid the host countries or their own country more? Do millions of students learning and training in other countries aid globalisation? Do...

06 July 2018 3,159 17 View

Have any of your original professors/lecturers done outstanding work in their discipline and are now celebrated?

I wonder how many ever succeeded but remained big fish in a tiny pool, happy to be under half-lit lamps throwing occasional light on them and their work.

06 July 2018 1,480 1 View

Do you believe Foucault was right to hold that madness is merely a construct?

Is madness just an idea developed as a consequence of the constitution of a prevailing notion of rationality, as Foucault examined in Madness and Civilisation. The development of Normalcy, an idea...

06 July 2018 2,262 7 View

What is the state of the drug inside solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs)?

I am a little confuse with the mechanism of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). The main point of encapsulating drugs into SLNs is because some drugs have low solubility in water. Therefore, SLNs...

01 March 2021 3,703 3 View

How does an antibody have full intact antibody + half antibody?

Hello, I was just wondering how does a antibody have full intact antibody + half antibody? Is it because of the drug conjugation?

28 February 2021 1,577 1 View

How to compare 2 samples recruited with different sampling methods?

If I want to compare characteristics of 2 groups of patients, one group is recruited from a random sample of the general public while another group is from a sample with a fixed gender (male to...

26 February 2021 3,526 3 View

How do I choose contrasts in SPM8?

I am learning how to use SPM for PET and PET-MR analysis, but I haven't found any great resources that explain how contrasts work. I have a series of PET images where our hypothesis argues that...

24 February 2021 1,534 2 View

Does anyone have any ideas why drug-resistant malaria is increasing in Southeast Asia even when those drugs are no longer used?

When dealing with bacterial toxins, there are three varieties of microbes that develop in your petri dish: toxic, resistant, and susceptible. Initially, there are only toxic and vulnerable...

21 February 2021 6,084 5 View

What is the most prevalent drug related problem in the developed countries?

Detecting the drug related problems is an important step in the pharmaceutical care plan

21 February 2021 5,421 3 View

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19 February 2021 8,647 3 View

How to find if Qualitative and Quantitative (discrete) variables have a relation?

I'm going to do a brief research about the dependance between the number of cases of Covid-19 and sex( male/female) . One of the requierements is to use inferential statistics to test the...

18 February 2021 7,092 11 View

How to improve dissolution of neosome?

I have made neosome from herbal drug. Neosomes are stable. But I face problems in dissolution. I used minimum ratio of 1:1:0.25 ( Drug:span 60: Cholesterol and GMs. Now how can I active better...

17 February 2021 3,584 1 View

How to determine the drug loading and the drug release capacity of a polymer micelle using UV spectroscopy?

Currently, I am working on PLA-PEG copolymer micelle for the drug delivery system. I have seen several papers where some researcher talks to centrifuge the drug-loaded micelle to separate the...

13 February 2021 5,822 7 View