In your view, is the world doing enough on climate change?

Decades of rising emissions continued to do what scientists have long warned they would: make the world hotter. Indeed, the 2010s mark the decade when the impacts from climate change became...

01 January 1970 7,760 15 View

What is your prediction on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on society in the future? AI has aroused both fear and excitement. Any thoughts?

01 January 1970 3,965 8 View

A Question to full professors working in academia: As a percentage of total working time, what is your actual time commitment to research work?

Recent Surveys in universities world wide where professors are required to teach, conduct research, and provide services to the university and link with the industry, indicated that professors...

01 January 1970 5,789 7 View

What do you think will be the Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the future of workplace?

AI is the intelligence exhibited by computers and software representing the third era of automation. AI is currently used in robotics, machine learning, analytics, decision-support, and virtual...

01 January 1970 9,660 6 View

In your view, What Will the University in the year 2040 Look Like?

The future of higher education predicts artificial intelligence, analytics, augmented and virtual reality, robotic telepresence and cyber defense will be driving forces in digital-learning at...

01 January 1970 6,289 4 View

What are the best lessons you have learned during your work in the industry which could be useful in the business world?

Life is a continuous learning experience. Throughout our lives we keep rising and falling, picking up important lessons along the way. Some of these lessons come from work experience In the...

01 January 1970 8,947 3 View

In your view what are the major engineering challenges in the next decade?

An very nteresting article to read on important challenges facing engineers in the next decade. https://www.euroscientist.com/what-are-the-biggest-engineering-challenges/ I would appreciate...

01 January 1970 10,022 1 View

DO you think that Chinese outperformance of Americans in science will continue in the following years?

A prove to the above statement is documented in the article given at the following link https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/05/data-show-why-china-science-research-is-booming/ do...

01 January 1970 156 2 View

Can you give examples on how your scientific research affected the world in your community, city, country or the world around you?

01 January 1970 1,178 3 View

To Geotechnical Engineers: What was your most challenging real world construction related problem In the past decade and how did you solve it?

It is always useful to learn from others experiences they encountered in solving challenging Real world problems, and to learn from their past successes and failures. Experience is the best...

01 January 1970 700 7 View

What are the values needed for gabor filter's parameter for cifar10 data?

Hi, I implemented a code to gabor filter cifar10 data but the images after being filtered and stacked are not clear like the original images. I think the problem is in the way I am using the...

03 March 2021 6,317 1 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Is it necessary to report effect size (ES) in statistics of biomedical research given that we already report p values routinely?

Pls share your thoughts

01 March 2021 7,330 4 View

Which reagent is best among 'Dimethylglyoxime" and "Dithiothreitol" for spectroscopic determination of Nickel ?

What I think is Dithiothreitol. As it is water-soluble and does not form a precipitate. But, the thing is it contains sulphur which is quite hazardous to aquatic animals.

01 March 2021 8,374 4 View

How to identify what type of fillers are in a polymer?

Hello everyone, I have some PHAs blended with fillers and nucleating agents, yet I don't know what kind of fillers or nucleating agents. The producer has shut down and there's no way to get in...

24 February 2021 1,356 8 View

Is it mandatory to specify Subjects Combinations in Generalized Linear Mixed Models (SPSS)?

Hi all, I have data with two levels: lets think of the classic example of students and schools. When running the analysis in SPSS and selecting the Random Effects, we can select (we can or we...

24 February 2021 7,379 4 View

Do you think there is cognitive oversaturation in the current pandemic? What impact can this have? And other manifestations?

Dear colleagues, Do you think there is cognitive oversaturation in the current pandemic? What impact can this have? And other manifestations? The question is mainly aimed at adolescents (pupils,...

23 February 2021 7,796 4 View

Is it possible that Cancer cells could survive in heparinized blood for 48 hours?

Hi everyone, I am just wondering if we incubated 200 microliter of whole blood with 50 microliter of cancer cells(1bout 5000cells) do you think that cancer would survive for 48 hours?

23 February 2021 3,840 3 View

How to minimise the risk of being abused the profile of potential participants tagged in a social media post?

Dear colleagues, I got this one in one project I did ethics review. It's great to hear about your thoughts/experiences. "Doing an open recruitment online (i.e., via Facebook) requires public...

22 February 2021 3,322 3 View

What type of SPSS analyses should I use for my Dissertation?

I'm currently working on my Dissertation and I'm trying to think of the best analyses that I should use for my study. I'm using three questionnaires for this and two different groups, 1st group...

22 February 2021 1,351 4 View