With increasing water shortage are the drought resistant plants going to be a solution for food production?

In many areas in the world the lack of water parallels the desertification.Is the creation of new drought resistant plants going to solve the problem for the world nutrition or do we have to...

20 August 2020 8,561 7 View

In our body we have a total of 1,5 kg bacteria. What are their specific functions if any?

There are some 1000 different species of microorganisms in our body. Most of them are in the gut (Escherichia coli). It seems that everybody has its own bacterial "finger print".

19 May 2019 3,425 4 View

Are birds the last descendants of dinosaurs ?

In the past years, in China they have discovered small dinosaurs with what looks like feathers

13 May 2019 5,158 9 View

With time, is it conceivable that biopesticides are going to replace (to a large extent) chemical pesticides?

As a radical solution to save and protect ecosystems some advocate the bioprotection of plants (use of pheromones, transgenic plants, use of microorganisms, hyperparasites, and proper soil...

29 April 2019 6,608 14 View

What are the best ecological solutions to the problem of weed resistance to conventional herbicides ?

It is apparent that many weed species become resistant to herbicides. This is a big challenge for monoculture farming.

25 February 2019 9,699 14 View

Arable land is diminishing while population is incresing, is the vertical agriculture a good solution to increase the production of vegetables?

I think that such a solution for the production of vegetables could be of benefit in peri-urban areas What is your opinion or do you have other suggestions?

01 February 2019 3,020 1 View

Corona and Liberty - what can we do to prevent fear and control over the virus boarders?

Daily news from all around the world are feeding fear because we hear a lot about death, control, containment-mechanisms and suffering accoring to COVID-19. Following the media we see a lot of...

01 January 1970 7,038 60 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 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 to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature)?

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature-based reflection)? Thank you for your time and for...

03 March 2021 2,870 3 View

Do I need to do linear regression before running mediation analysis using PROCESS MACRO by Hayes ?

I just wanted to check if I need to run a linear regression separately if I am using PROCESS MACRO to run mediation analysis. Thank you.

02 March 2021 4,359 3 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

How to normalise data on OPM package from R Studio ?

Good afternoon, I recently used OmniLog from BIOLOG for my experimentations : I tested the metabolism of different strains on 2 types of plates. I have 16 strains of 3 different groups...

02 March 2021 3,584 1 View