Time-loops. Do major Elsevier Journals manipulate Impact Factors at large scale?

Have you ever wondered about time-loops? How is it possible to publish a paper today that is published in December 2020? Have a look at the Journal of Cleaner Production. The issue in progress is...

09 August 2020 3,336 30 View

Can you give me references for psychological research on congential heart disease?

I am starting to work in the area of psychological counseling of children and young adults with CHD. I would be very grateful to get information on seminal psychological work in this area.

17 June 2018 6,820 5 View

Can anyone help me with the ID of this billfish (Istiophoridae) vertebrae?

26 March 2016 2,897 3 View

Context dependence of an epitope tag - any suggestions?

Epitope tags are often considered fool-proof methods to avoid having to raise your own antibodies, and we have tried to use epitope tags to compare the abundance of receptors and ligands in vivo....

31 October 2013 3,564 5 View

Do you know features that describe high-dimensional data sets? (Inspired by Tukeys Scagnostics for 2D)

Like describing the density, shape, etc. of point clouds in scatterplots it would also be valuable to have a feature vector that helps estimate interesting properties of high-dimensional datasets....

29 October 2013 7,042 2 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

What is the most reliable source to get Impact factor of journals?

Source to get Impact factor of journals

01 March 2021 6,654 2 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 View

Which group formation theory do you recommend for projects that aim to bring together entrepreneurs for training for regional development?

I would like to have ideas about which theories of group formation are suitable for entrepreneurial training projects, with the aim of creating bonds, building trust, and collaboration for...

28 February 2021 4,223 2 View

Can anyone help me with the administration of the "Mind the Gap" Scale for satisfaction with transition to adult care?

We are working on a study focused on adolescents' transition to adult care and are looking for a validated measure for satisfaction with the transition. So far the only measure that we have came...

28 February 2021 2,338 1 View

The reason that the culture of white fungi Contamination with green mold(Trichoderma), the culture autoclave at121 for 15 min. What is it?

Is the period to autoclave not enough? The inoculation in a hood and flame and UV and alcohol.

27 February 2021 9,356 3 View

Which index or sites are reliable in determining of plant species?

There are many indexes when determining plant species: Plants of the World Online (POWO), International Plants Names Index (www.ipni.org), The Plant List (www.theplantlist.org) and others. But...

26 February 2021 3,404 10 View

No amplification data for qPCR on MxPro?

I have set up a qPCR run on MxPro with SYBR green and ROX as a reference, however, when I go to the analysis section the program seems to only collect data for the dissociation curves and not the...

25 February 2021 8,039 1 View

Problem with ligating 2.8 kb insert into 8.5 kb plasmid?

I am trying to clone 2 copies of the same mammalian gene into the pSF-CMV-Ub-Puro Ascl (contains HindIII, KpnI and NheI cut sites) plasmid. This is what the final product is supposed to look like...

24 February 2021 6,310 3 View

Can the problems of overfitting be solved without cross validation?

For an overfit data set the cross validation error will be much bigger than the training error. Is it true or false?

23 February 2021 3,616 2 View