How to deal with student's evaluations?

In order to improve own's teaching it is essental to get constructive feedback, The only form this feedback is organized and instituionalized (at the moment at least) is student's evaluation with...

04 May 2018 9,960 29 View

Are there any alternatives to google scholars citations to find my citations?

06 July 2016 9,770 4 View

Strict syllabus or improvisation?

Following the "teaching the subject or teaching students" thread, I want to ask how strictly one should follow a syllabus in order to communicate with student's needs. It's easy to say: let's...

11 December 2015 2,747 65 View

Is it really a standard practice to present the same paper at different conferences?

09 October 2015 5,145 6 View

Are social media influencing academic hiring?

How do social media like RG or academia or even FB influence one's employabilty? Does a RG score count? Are people at Human Resources really checking canditates on google first? And how can we...

02 March 2015 6,550 0 View

How shall we deal with questionable publishers?

We all know publishing houses sending e-mails to everyone who has written a thesis or organized a congress. They offer to publish whatever it is and with no quality controll. Most of them have no...

01 February 2015 6,968 0 View

How to make a journal a peer reviewed one?

I have published a couple of articles in peer reviewed journals. The experiences were quite different. Are there official rules for peer reviewed journals or is it very broad term that can be...

01 February 2015 1,510 1 View

University affiliation or independent scholar?

Should scholars with loose university affiliations present themselves as independent scholars or in connection with the university where the teach and/or research? What's the point in mentioning a...

10 November 2014 5,096 2 View

How to access MSCI KLD Stats and Sustainalytics?

Hello all, I'm currently working on my undergraduate thesis and I'm having difficulties trying to access KLD Stats and Sustainalytics because my campus Airlangga University and apparently other...

02 March 2021 8,525 1 View

CGA 300 Regulator for CO2 cylinder?

Has anyone ever tried to deliver CO2 with a CGA 300 regulator? I know that a CGA 320 regulator is standard for CO2. The issue is that I currently do not have any free CGA 320 regulators. I also...

25 February 2021 3,292 3 View

What are the patterns of human behavior that lead to COVID-19 infections?

Does data from contact tracing help in establishing patterns of behavior and social interactions that lead to infections? There are cases here in the Philippines where patients have no travel...

25 February 2021 9,002 13 View

Can cells be reused after using WST 8/ CCK 8 from Sigma Aldrich?

Hi all, Can cells be reused after I have seed them onto 96 well plates and test them with cell counting kit at OD450 (CCK8) at 12 hours, wash them with PBS x3 and add new media and let them...

24 February 2021 5,072 1 View

Why cannot world and community leaders be gentle? Where did ethics of care go?

The whole world is in a mess and paused. We all are tired of seeing hypermasculinized and destructive leaderships all around us. This world has seen enough of the aggressive patriarchal social...

23 February 2021 292 7 View

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22 February 2021 9,932 11 View

How to perform Haldane correction on SPSS?

I was wondering if anyone knew how to perform the Haldane correction for SPSS (this is the definition of the correction -...

21 February 2021 2,882 1 View

Is it okay to mention you distributed your qualitrics study link through social media sites?

Just want to be clear and know it is okay to say I have distributed the qualitrics link through social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to ensure my target audience is reached in my...

21 February 2021 5,143 2 View

What is the minimum number of exosomes/ml to have a good yield of total RNA for Illumina sequencing?

I am using IZON qEV2 columns to isolate exosomes from 100 ml of cancer cell conditioned medium. in NTA analysis I usually see concentration of 2x10^9 particles/ml. But when I proceed with this...

20 February 2021 6,879 3 View

Any suggestions or recommendations on a good publishing house based on the African for academic books in the field of Communication and media studies?

I am currently working on a book on Public Relations (from an African perspective) and the rationale behind the book is the fact that as instructors in this field, we borrow instances and case...

19 February 2021 2,482 2 View