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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

What keeps journals from switching to a "publish, then review" model of publishing?

A few scientific journals have started implementing a "publish, then review" model of publishing. It is explained well in this article: Implementing a "publish, then review" model of...

13 January 2021 5,449 2 View

Is there any project for a new translation of Freud's 1895 Entwurf einer Psychologie into English?

I'm far from being a Freud expert, but, my feeling is the 1950 translation by J. Strachey is in many ways outdated, when not misleading (starting form the very title of the essay, the awful choice...

10 December 2020 7,005 2 View

What is the main difference of diluting HCL in methanol as opposed to water?

I am hoping to determine the mass per unit area (as per DIN 50938) of a black oxide coating. I use water to achieve the required 1mol/l hydrochloric acidic solution, but a fellow lab had used...

06 December 2020 4,806 1 View

Linear Mixed Models for repeated measures - how can I restructure my data set when some variables are only collected at baseline?

Hello, I plan to perform a linear mixed model analysis to look at change in cognitive function over 5 follow up waves. I am interested in looking at how this change is influenced by dietary and...

27 November 2020 5,087 3 View

Mendeley profiles will be removed in December. What will be of the reader counts from Mendeley as early impact predictors?

Elsevier announced that Mendeley profiles will be discontinued from December. There is a study (Mendeley readership counts: An investigation of temporal and... ) that confirms the value of...

01 November 2020 4,832 4 View

Assessing MCMC convergence by matrix-parameter?

Hello everyone, I need to assess whether a MCMC chain (implemented in BayPass 2.2) has reached convergence and, as far as I know, in order to check it, I must look at the posterior distribution of...

27 October 2020 6,170 3 View

Searching for reliable antibodies for the adrenergic receptors alpha1D and alpha2A for western blotting?

Dear all, I am looking for reliable antibodies for the adrenergic receptors alpha1D and alpha2A, to use in Western Blotting on human skeletal muscle tissue. Anyone with experience with good...

25 October 2020 9,421 2 View

What is the best way to start and develop a scientific collaboration?

What advice would you give to a young researcher who has to develop his/her ability to produce collaborative scientific work?

22 October 2020 5,934 8 View

Temporal noise analysis CMOS APS?

I was reading the paper "Analysis of Temporal Noise in CMOS Photodiode Active Pixel Sensor" but I am a bit puzzled about noise calculation during integration. In particular, can someone explain...

15 October 2020 9,597 3 View

Would fecal samples stored at -20C for over a year impact metagenomic analysis?

Dear All, I have access to some rodent fecal samples that have been stored at -20C instead of -80C. Anyone have experience with the impact of stowage condition on comparative metagenomic analysis...

01 March 2021 2,512 1 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

The Shannon's index is inversely proportional to Simpson's index (1-D)?

I'm having a problem with my bloxplot with Shannon's and Simpson's indexs. The value of Shannon for my Community 1 indicating higher diversity (in relation of the Community 2), but have lower...

26 February 2021 3,033 9 View

Is IMPACT FACTOR justified in case of Taxonomy?

There is huge pressure of getting good impact factor on scholars now a days. On the other hand Taxonomy is a very dry subject and the concerned papers can only get citation in same group of organism.

26 February 2021 5,851 1 View

Any recommendations for methods to analyze elephant space-use (using GPS) and correlating this with changes in NDVI?

For my Masters I am looking into elephant space-use and its effect on vegetation change. I have elephant GPS collar data and was going to use Google Earth Engine to obtain NDVI values. I would...

16 February 2021 7,097 3 View

How to consider effects of rapid warm adaptation in modeling of ecological impacts of warming?

I would highly appreciate it if my fellow ecologists (biologists) provide their opinion on the thoughts below [esp., shortly tell us which path may be more effective, if they know another way, if...

15 February 2021 3,642 6 View

What is the correct common name for Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris?

There are two extant species of Hydrochoerus: Hydrochoerus isthmius, the lesser or Panamanian capybara, and the genotype species H. hydrochaeris. The latter is the more common species of capybara,...

11 February 2021 3,494 14 View

Help with Amyloid beta detection protocol (western-blotting)?

Hi everyone, I am a first year PhD student working on amyloidosis. I would like some tips and tricks to crack efficiently my current nightmare, i.e. the western blotting of the Amyloid beta and...

11 February 2021 2,513 3 View

Can anyone recommend a scale to measure Bloom's taxonomy of learning styles?

I am looking for recommendations of scales (in English or Spanish) to measure learning styles according to Bloom's taxonomy of learning. Thank you in advance!

09 February 2021 1,419 8 View

Which is the most accepted taxonomy in Resistance to Change literature?

I am searching for a well accepted taxonomy of resistance to change and in terms of its underlying causes/roots.

04 February 2021 497 3 View