What is the appropriate period for indexing an article in the Scopus database?

Dear RG members The indexing of a published article in the Scopus database may depend on several factors. The issue is that my colleague and I have published separately two articles in the same...

16 December 2020 4,361 19 View

How about self-publishing with Amazon ?

What are the cons and pros of self-publishing of scientific books with Amazon ? Does it worth from the proficiency and royalties point of view ? Is it important for the author to be highly...

10 October 2020 4,521 2 View

How to reduce excess pore water pressure when i am modelling using PLAXIS 3D?

I'm verifying a field embankment supported by ESC monitoring data using plaxis 3D and i'm trying to reach the field values using the available data from soil tests performed, yet the excess pore...

10 September 2020 5,740 9 View

Is there any free software that can facilitate the prediction of the fragmentation acquired from the mass spectroscopy?

Dear RG members The analysis of the mass spectrum of an organic compound is not an easy task and needs high expertise. Is there any free software that can facilitate the prediction of the...

04 August 2020 8,021 15 View

How can we differentiate between academic and predatory journals?

Dear RG members According to my institution, publishing in a journal that is predatory by itself or its publisher is a big mistake. So, what is the robust identifier that differentiates between...

31 July 2020 6,638 94 View

What are the Criteria of Storing Natural Gas in Reservoirs?

Natural Gas can be stored underground in 4 types of reservoirs: 1- Depleted Gas 2- Depleted oil 3- Aquifer 4- Salt Cave. What are the criteria that help decide the suitablity of one reservoir for...

04 July 2020 3,329 4 View

What is your opinion about the updated Citescore methodology applied by Scopus?

Dear RG members What is your opinion about the updated CiteScore methodology applied by Scopus for the calculation of the CiteScore of 2019? Are you with this new methodology or not? Is this...

29 June 2020 7,762 6 View

How can I removed the solvent from my product?

In the synthesis of certain 7-hydroxycoumarin conjugated by an amide bond with 5-fluorouracil, the used solvent (DMSO) has distilled off under reduced pressure. The product was still sticky and...

15 June 2020 9,529 20 View

Asking for full data about daily recovered covid-19 cases by country?

I'd like to have an Excel sheet of daily recovered covid-19 cases (by country). Is there any website can provide it?

08 June 2020 5,627 4 View

Concerning SN1 reactions, which is the strongest nucleophile?

Dear all In the SN1 reactions, which one is the strongest nucleophile: methanol or ethanol? And why?

05 June 2020 2,193 20 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

How to choose ANN number of hidden layers and nodes?

Hello, Could you please share any interesting research explaining how to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes per layer in case of regression problems using ANN? Thank you, any help would...

01 March 2021 6,200 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

Genome-wide gene identification protocol ?

Is there any book chapter/book, webpage or research article available to understand genome-wide gene identification?

28 February 2021 8,095 1 View

How to improve and implement WBAN MAC and Radio modules under Castalia 3.2 ?

Hello researchers, Hello Castalia3.2 researchers I am a beginner with Castalia, I work on optimization of RFID systems used in wireless body networks. I simulated a WBAN with 10 nodes and one...

28 February 2021 400 1 View

How could I take into consideration the weights of observation in a system of seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) in rstudio?

I build a model of 4 regression equations (probit and OLS) in R studio. I need to take the weights of observations into consideration. While it is simple to do so for every regression equation,...

27 February 2021 1,233 1 View

I want to performe MALDI-TOF MS for bacterial identification, I would appreciate it if anyone can tell me the matrix solution preparation protocol ?

based on what I've studied on multiple papers, for peptide and protein identification Alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA) is an appropriate matrix to use, I also know that the CHCA powder...

26 February 2021 6,799 3 View

Can random sampling have inclusion criteria?

As random sampling means that everyone in the population have an equal chance to be chosen, can it have inclusion criteria? My research participants have been chosen based on the inclusion...

26 February 2021 6,905 10 View