Why do researchers believe data on rodents can be extrapolated onto humans?

This is a constant when proofs are offered for monoamine hypothesis. I read an, on the surface, interesting, technical paper only to discover the data is about mice- although ostensibly the...

11 December 2018 3,848 0 View

Does supply create its own demand?

Ok. An old question put out 200 years ago by Jean-Baptiste Say, and one usually answered with a 'no'. But can you make a reasonable try at arguing 'yes' strongly and convincingly?

07 August 2018 4,387 15 View

The Golden Rule for Teachers?

I came across this on my linked in site. The question really references the Student Centred Approach to teaching. The above concludes that the Golden Rule involves: Putting yourself in your...

07 August 2018 3,717 23 View

To what extent did the USA cause the collapse of the British and French Empires after World War 11?

During the 2nd World War, President Roosevelt's Atlantic Charter had committed the USA to dismantling the British and French empires in Asia, although not to dismantling their own. Roosevelt had...

07 August 2018 7,707 10 View

Do you rely on authority heuristics when considering a subject?

How many believe a judgement or point of view simply because it comes from a professional or from someone endowed with intellectual or political (in its widest sense) authority? If you are told...

06 July 2018 7,230 5 View

Is intelligence overrated?

Although intelligence is purveyed as a requisite quality how does it really help towards success, for example, happiness and quality of life. Is there something to be said for stupidity? Are...

06 July 2018 5,585 90 View

Is academia just a way of presenting knowledge and does it therefore deserve its status?

Academic training is lengthy but often resolves into specific ways to present knowledge and information. This requires ability but does it require great ability. When I did my first degree I...

06 July 2018 8,980 14 View

What is the overall effect of International Students?

Does their presence in host countries, usually in the West, aid the host countries or their own country more? Do millions of students learning and training in other countries aid globalisation? Do...

06 July 2018 3,159 17 View

Have any of your original professors/lecturers done outstanding work in their discipline and are now celebrated?

I wonder how many ever succeeded but remained big fish in a tiny pool, happy to be under half-lit lamps throwing occasional light on them and their work.

06 July 2018 1,480 1 View

Do you believe Foucault was right to hold that madness is merely a construct?

Is madness just an idea developed as a consequence of the constitution of a prevailing notion of rationality, as Foucault examined in Madness and Civilisation. The development of Normalcy, an idea...

06 July 2018 2,262 7 View

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02 March 2021 932 1 View

APA 7th In-Text citations with two references with three authors with the same surname, but four different author?

I have an issue with APA 7th in-text citation. II have two papers where the first three authors are the same, and the fourth is different. I am using the Mendeley desktop app, and automatically it...

02 March 2021 790 3 View

Where can I find life cycle inventory or assessment of non woven materials?

Dear network, I am looking for the LCA or LCI or at least the energy balances of the non woven fabrics process for my master project, in specific for natural fibers, yet I have found...

02 March 2021 9,662 1 View

How Download/Extract citations of 1 given year ALL my publications in Google Scholar?

If you google this you find a lot of smart guys explaining you how to download 1 year of citations of 1 single paper of yours (or anyone else). I mean 1 year of ALL my papers. or ... ALL years or...

01 March 2021 1,121 9 View

How can I edit suggested publications?

Hi there! I regularly receive suggestion about papers and authors that are totally out of my area. Does anybody know how I can fix this? Thank you!

01 March 2021 9,574 4 View

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

01 March 2021 8,087 3 View

Any research paper call for publication related to management or finance or economics?

It should be standard journal (Indexed)

01 March 2021 8,379 1 View

Could anyone tell me what is the range of submillimeter wave?

There is confusion regarding the submillimeter-wave range. Many papers specify its range from 300GHz but some also consider its range from 100GHz. If I design an antenna on 122ghz what would I...

01 March 2021 516 7 View

Any research papers for extraction of nutrient deprivation on macroalgae? Analysed by HPLC-UV and GC/MS. Possibly from macroalgae genus Rhizoclonium?

I am doing my thesis on the nutrient deprivation on the macroalgae Rhizoclonium sp. I will be analysing the levels over a period of roughly 5 days by HPLC-UV and GC/MS. I will be using seawater as...

28 February 2021 6,477 1 View

How to highlight novelty in your research paper?

I have come up with a method and had written a paper on it. Paper got rejected by a journal stating that there is no theoretical novelty. I am kind of confused on why the novelty that I am able to...

28 February 2021 2,393 8 View