In teaching English as a Foreign Language, how much of the class should be about culture?

31 December 2019 6,180 6 View

Should smartphones be banned in the classroom?

Research shows abundant advantages of using technology for learning... But use of smartphones during class time often means text messaging and other distractions from what is actually going on in...

05 June 2018 8,926 10 View

What are your summer projects?

Many people think that university professors and researchers do not work during their summer vacation. But we know that summer is when faculty do projects that are too time consuming during the...

05 June 2018 3,025 10 View

What do you think of the new ResearchGate app?

The app was released for iOS in May 2018, but I have heard very little about it. Do you use it? What do you think?

05 June 2018 4,742 2 View

How do you stay organized and focused during Finals Week?

Final Test Week is here for my school, and rapidly approaching for many faculty members. It includes a huge crunch of test-giving and test grading, plus many other end-of-the-semester tasks....

03 April 2018 2,228 11 View

Tips about preparing a conference paper for a journal?

I have a conference paper that was published in the conference proceedings that I am planning to expand for a journal submission. I am already planning to change the title and expand the length...

02 March 2018 8,123 3 View

How do we crowd-source political persuasion?

Right after the 2016 US election, we heard a lot about the "echo chamber" that saw a lot of people talking about issues in social media, but mostly to people of similar beliefs. Why did neither...

31 December 2017 1,550 2 View

How is "Engagement" changing in Social Media?

31 December 2017 5,995 4 View

Can "flipped learning" be applied in an online course, or is it only something for the conventional classroom?

I will be teaching online classes on the spring semester. Students prepare by reading the textbook and watching online videos, then in the learning management system (LMS) they use discussion...

11 December 2017 9,511 4 View

IS COLD weather evidence for Global Warming?

I believe that cold weather CAN be the result of global warming and the resulting climate change, as explained in this blog...

11 December 2017 9,074 60 View

SDS page software for analysis?

I did sds page to determine the difference in protein expression between 3 types of vaccine , but i don't have scanner or densitometer available. . so i wonder if there is a software to analyze...

02 March 2021 6,270 3 View

Which are the most recent implications of ESL Academic Discourse in language teaching?

Language teachers at UTP (Language Department) are increasingly interested in the role of academic papers in the development of language (English) teaching practices. Research papers in Academic...

22 February 2021 1,388 4 View

What should a smart water system look like?

Our team is designing a smart water C&C dashboard for a smart city initiative. As we look into the current smart water system landscape, we couldn't reconcile to a definitive solution that...

16 February 2021 1,094 3 View

Can you suggest a good domain identification tool?

I am working on a project to identify sensitive information from text and I am looking into the below categories: -adult content -health -politics -crime Can someone suggest an open source tool...

16 February 2021 4,844 4 View

How to disaggregate country data into city ones?

I'm using a number of indicators in my research which are not available at a sub-national level. Is there a reliable method for disaggregating the country data into city ones? (preferably with a...

16 February 2021 6,861 3 View

Are you looking for a quality online conference on teaching and learning technology?

This large international conference will be held online this year due to COVID. I am submitting a paper to the Technology Enhanced Language Learning track (8). It is about a topic I have never...

15 February 2021 1,975 15 View

What are the popular techniques for pre-processing measurement data in Smart Grid/Power System?

The data collected from various measurement devices often contains erroneous values - such as noise, missing values, etc. What are the popular techniques for pre-processing measurement data in...

14 February 2021 4,642 2 View

Do you know of an informal caregiver of a person who has recently received a bone marrow transplant?

We are conducting a pilot study of an intervention for informal caregivers of persons who have recently received a bone marrow transplant in the US. If you know of anyone who might be interested,...

13 February 2021 9,174 1 View

Can we have constructs of Cronbach alpha value with more than 0.9 in social science research? What is recommended in this problem?

My study consists of a conceptual framework with seven constructs measured in seven point Likert scale. According to pilot study, only three constructs have Cronbach alpha value more than 0.9...

12 February 2021 9,368 2 View

What is the Greedy windowed algorithm description?

Hi Dear Ph. D., I have carefully read your paper on anomaly detection in smart meters. Unfortunately, the research does not decribe the greedy windowed algorithm, neither its complexity, nor the...

10 February 2021 2,462 3 View