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It has been reported that climate change has drifted from its norm in an unprecedented manner since the 1950s. What is the effect of such a climate change on global water resources and world's...
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Online learning may be considered as an ideal solution for full-time professionals since they can earn a college degree without having to commute to a campus or attend face-to-face classes;...
06 June 2017 6,355 30 View
It is estimated by some Google advanced algorithms that there are currently 129,964,880 books in the entire world. The majority of these books are paper-based. An electronic book a.k.a. eBook is a...
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Academic ranks are used in colleges and universities to represent hierarchical structures found amongst scholars. A very commonly used structure is the Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate...
06 June 2014 5,292 36 View
Learning is a complicated process whereby an individual acquires knowledge or skills via study, experience, or through being taught. Learning has occupied the mind of scientists, mathematicians,...
05 May 2014 7,297 30 View
The precise steps to be taken in research & development remain ambiguous to certain individuals, particularly to novice researchers, who had no previous exposure to this process; e.g., BS and MS...
05 May 2014 6,339 27 View
Scientific evidence is a form of evidence that serves to either support or counter-support a scientific hypothesis. This type of evidence is expected to be empirical in nature and commensurate...
05 May 2014 1,285 41 View
Merriam Webster dictionary defines time as "the thing that is measured as seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, etc." Another definition of time found on Google is "the indefinite continued...
04 April 2014 682 29 View
Authorship is a mean of giving credit and assigning responsibility for intellectual work. Although some standards have been established by research institutions and peer-reviewed publishing...
04 April 2014 7,097 9 View
A conflict of interest occurs as a situation whereby an individual or an organization is involved in one or more interests, with the possibility of corrupting the motivation. What is your take on...
04 April 2014 1,868 14 View
We often work on R&D projects that evolve in time using the same literature review and the same materials and methods; yet, when we publish our incrementally progressing work we have to repeat...
04 April 2014 6,660 19 View
What do you know about Ibn Sina (980-1037), aka Avicenna, a historical physician - born in Bukhara the capital of the Samanid Persian Empire - famous for his role in the advancement of medicine?
04 April 2014 5,725 29 View
When does comatose take place? What are the chemical and electrical imbalances that lead to comatose? How does an individual recover from comatose? When to unplug an individual in comatose?
02 February 2014 7,002 1 View
Faculty members within universities contribute to the development of the future citizens of the globe, and they deserve to be dignified in several aspects, one of which is a rewarding...
02 February 2014 1,504 9 View
With the advent of technology, industry is more and more looking for the high tech engineer. What are the Characteristics of the Engineer of the 21st Century?
02 February 2014 9,382 5 View
There are certain medical conditions when an individual requires life support - such conditions vary in their nature; for example, in terminally ill patients, or in people who become accidentally...
02 February 2014 7,412 12 View
Sigmund Freud, the founding father of psychoanalysis, first became aware of the implications of dreams in psychoanalytic therapy when he comprehended that in the process of free association, his...
02 February 2014 9,191 5 View
The purpose of sleep has been studied for centuries, yet it is remains not very well understood and is the subject of ongoing research. What is intriguing is the fact that most people spend one...
01 January 2014 7,085 44 View
This question is not about the classification of memories, but rather on the latest findings about the physiological nature of memory, such as the molecular mechanism of intermediate memory or the...
01 January 2014 10,144 46 View
According to the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, it is estimated that in the year 2040, the world population will reach 9,038,687,000. Will the world economy be...
01 January 2014 4,205 22 View
Humans spend a lifetime gathering information and building knowledge; but, what happens to this wealth when a human dies? Are information and knowledge genetically transferred across...
12 December 2013 9,219 36 View
It has been quite some time since the Arab Spring erupted and we have seen the domino effect it created - It was a novel trend in the history of revolutions that made perfect use of social...
12 December 2013 1,284 50 View