How much time do you spend for reviewing the papers sent to you?

As a reviewer, how much time do you spend for reviewing the papers sent to you?What factors influence that period?

05 June 2017 8,505 12 View

What do you expect from a programming language /software tutorial ?

03 April 2017 7,589 8 View

How important data visualization is in your scientific work?

Could you please share your opinion and experience in DATA visualization of your scientific paper?What kind of tools do you use to visualize your data ?

10 November 2016 8,195 0 View

How do I calculate the reliability indices of a network using OPF?

How can we calculate the Expected energy not supplied in a network because of network component failure? How to calculate the probability of each event?

31 December 2015 4,353 1 View

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11 December 2015 6,364 1 View

How would you encourage your students to learn a new coding language?

11 December 2015 1,460 4 View

Authors names or paper's content ? Form or the content ?

Which one is more important In your community ?

10 November 2015 8,784 1 View

Blind review of papers , yes/no?

01 February 2015 5,337 9 View

How much does hosting capacity worth for distribution network operator ?

The worth of hosting capacity in distribution networks in $/MW

01 February 2015 7,501 3 View

How to answer the comments of my paper's reviewers?

Specially when they are wrong

31 December 2014 7,405 3 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View

What are anisotropic electrical and optical properties of a semiconductor due to?

In some materials, properties such as band gap, thermal conductivity differ along different crystallographic axes. What are the basics?

01 March 2021 1,923 3 View

What test should I use to compare two or three means, if data is not normally distributed but sample size is > 30 in each group?

I personally feel this as a most confusing question. As per my understanding, if sample size is > 30, and sample is skewed, we can still use paramteric approach, as it will follow Z...

01 March 2021 1,587 6 View

Can polymer concentrations be calculated based on the number average molecular weight?

Hello, I spin-cast two different polymers onto wafers and measure their height as a function of initial concentration. For polymer A, I have the weight-average molecular weight (Mw) as well as...

28 February 2021 7,882 2 View

Distribution of particles in metal matrix?

How would define the "good" and "poor" distribution of particles within the matrix. Is there a quantitative solution to assess the distribution of the particles, which then having denotation of...

28 February 2021 7,397 8 View

1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.

28 February 2021 3,640 3 View

Why do a weight decrease for thermal degradation in nitrogen gas condition?

Hi all The question is related to TGA(Thermogravimetric analysis). Thermal degradation easily understood but why do samples weight decrease? altough just binding is broked, the weight of...

26 February 2021 1,100 5 View

Can thermal cycler machines be problematic during PCR?

Hi, my question is about the heating of thermal cycler machines and I hope some of you had experienced a similar thing previously. There are two thermal cycler machines in the lab(BioRad) and for...

26 February 2021 4,777 4 View

How to increase solubility of Poly acrylic acid in Dioxane solvent?

I am working with Polyacrylic acid (100.000Da) and instead of water, I need to use another solvent (dioxane) to dissolve PAA. However, because of the high molecular weight, it's quite hard to...

25 February 2021 2,225 5 View