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When someone says “Time is Money” they are also referring to what is called economic cost. Economic cost is the cost of deciding to do one thing over another. Why time equals money, but money may...
04 April 2018 7,421 98 View
U.S.'s gun crisis. Everyone was so shocked and horrified by Las Vegas attack News. 59 people were killed and at least 527 were hurt Sunday night when Stephen Paddock rained gunfire on...
10 October 2017 309 72 View
Current US presidential election forced me to ask this question. As we walk around we are faced with all kinds of liars: politicians, combative locals who don’t want to tell you where the bad guys...
10 October 2016 5,977 88 View
Is it Euler’s identity eiπ + 1 = 0 where e is Euler's number (2.718), the base of natural logarithms, i is the imaginary unit, which satisfies i2 = -1, and π (3.14) is the ratio of the...
05 May 2016 1,746 80 View
To Ban or Not to Ban (cell phones, tablets and iPads) in classroom , What's Your Policy?
04 April 2016 2,027 88 View
Without prejudges, Eiffel Tower is perhaps the most famous monument in the world, and the icon for Paris and France, If not, what do you think is the most famous monument around the...
03 March 2016 4,050 89 View
People who are studying Humanities (philosophy, ancient and modern languages, literature, ...) have declined steadily since the 1970s. Why? Recently, I read in Internet about Republican...
03 March 2016 1,955 66 View
The reasons politicians often lie is because the public doesn't want to hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Why do they get away with lying? Why do we let them lie to get...
03 March 2016 10,145 92 View
Why? Do you have an example? Should it be no law on loving a person?
01 January 2016 3,384 89 View
When reading Newspapers, watching the News or looking at Internet, it can often feel as if the world is a very sad place, with the headlines delivering a conveyor belt of bad news, tragedy and...
12 December 2015 9,625 24 View
Nowadays, candid/spy/hidden cameras are used in TV to make prank based shows. Are these shows funny? I found some of these more of humiliation than practical joke/prank. Actually, these TV shows...
11 November 2015 3,564 41 View
Many experimental results never see the light of publication day. For a large number of these, it comes down to the data being “negative”, i.e. the expected and/or wanted effect was not observed....
11 November 2015 4,666 87 View
According to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data (attached PDF file) the following jobs are among the 10 deadliest jobs in USA: 1. Logging workers, 2. Fishers and related fishing...
11 November 2015 459 30 View
The issue goes beyond old worries during the Cold War that the Russians would tap into the cables — a task American intelligence agencies also mastered decades ago. Could it halt the instant...
10 October 2015 3,303 21 View
Water productivity concerns with producing more food, income, livelihoods, and ecological benefits at less social and environmental cost per unit of water used. Water productivity (WP) is defined...
08 August 2015 6,708 26 View
Should not the abstract remain self-contained? What about citing figures or tables in it?
06 June 2015 6,571 90 View
Our future is not inevitable. What is possible, what changes and what is unvarying? What do you think?
06 June 2015 9,254 86 View
Accuracy means getting a result that is close to the real answer. Precision means getting a similar result every time you try. But there is still ambiguity in the usage of terms "Precision" and...
06 June 2015 6,531 35 View
Is it talent? Definitely "NO", as there are many people out there without any discernible talent, yet they do succeed sometimes! For instance, if you look at the field of acting, you will find...
01 January 2015 4,163 90 View
Integrity, morality and ethics are widely understood to provide standards of ‘correct’ behavior. How do you define these phenomenon? How do you differentiate between them?
01 January 2015 7,237 94 View
The world has warmed lately and we are behind most of that warming (e.g., via CO2 from fossil fuel burning). How hot will the greenhouse world be in next few decades? Unless a rapid shift away...
01 January 2015 8,005 66 View
When we ask this question from relatives, friends, colleagues, ... they would probably give different answers such as 'Happiness for everyone", “No more killing of innocent people and world...
12 December 2014 553 90 View
In his interview with BBC on December 2014, Stephen Hawking the author of "The Universe in a Nutshell, (2001)" has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could end the human race. Machines that...
12 December 2014 8,996 91 View
Traditionally, gold has been more attractive than bank deposits, stocks and bonds. Even now, the investors are investing in the gold more. Why the gold and the dollar generally trend in opposite...
12 December 2014 2,506 30 View
Please compare greenhouse to open-field cultivation. Some consumers equate the phrase “open-field” cultivation (OFC) with natural products. What is your preference and perception on the final...
12 December 2014 929 41 View
Do you know a story about "Rich Man and Poor Man"? I am interested to know fables (short stories) about the rich man and poor man. I mean short stories that can illustrate (comapare and cotrast) a...
11 November 2014 3,715 27 View
It's the age old question! There are several reasons why people choose to move into a house or apartment. Personally, I have lived in both, but I prefer a house. Some people prefer to live in a...
11 November 2014 2,999 71 View
Philosophy and science are two studies and domains. Science and philosophy have always learned from each other. However, many people think that these domains are contradictory concepts to each...
11 November 2014 6,125 78 View
When analyzing specific results in business, sports and investing it is often difficult to distinguish what share of the outcome was attributable to skill and what share of the outcome was...
11 November 2014 8,163 72 View
Innovations have always been the major catalysts behind humankind’s success. Some of these breakthroughs brought about immediate change, while others laid the groundwork for important developments...
10 October 2014 3,642 85 View
By just typing some 'Keywords' into Google we don't get reliable results. Should we be suspicious of other works on the web, when we cite new articles in our manuscript? Sometimes academics will...
10 October 2014 8,151 44 View
Fate and destiny are synonyms, meaning something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing or that which is inevitably predetermined. Fate and destiny are often used...
09 September 2014 1,661 84 View
This year, Iran is facing dangerous water crisis as arid temperatures rise with the encroaching summer season. As summer presses and temperatures rise, water scarcity in Iran is becoming a...
09 September 2014 2,068 96 View
Environmental problems have global impacts. They are very complex and are interrelated with socio-economic factors, too. Problems like climate change and global warming, water and air pollution,...
09 September 2014 4,231 34 View
When I follow an interesting question I am interested to learn something new from the answers without having to look at links, other websites, etc. Rarely will the link provide the necessary...
08 August 2014 994 90 View
At what age you have the most popular you'll ever be? Study says (Please see the link below) the most friends we're ever going to have at any given point is 80 in the last year of our Twenties at...
08 August 2014 5,546 76 View
Those who support bullfighting say it is a tradition, part of Spain’s culture. It is not considered a sport; rather it appears in the art and culture pages of the Spanish papers. Those who oppose...
08 August 2014 9,574 79 View
The concept of DIKW hierarchy, (i.e., transforming Data, to Information, to Knowledge, to Wisdom) has been utilized in numerous DSS and by various industries. Stenmark [1] says: "It has often been...
07 July 2014 891 19 View
I think that it is acceptable If no harm is caused to them and it is necessary (absolutely beneficial) to conduct such experiments. Alternatively, can animal experiments provide reliable...
07 July 2014 10,024 88 View
Over the years we have made a few wrong decisions in selecting journals to publish papers that we have written. Few times, I could not publish my paper in the journal I initially attempted for,...
07 July 2014 3,859 57 View
Addiction to online computer games has been described as being just as powerful as a drug addiction! Even our kids may not be to that point, their excessive computer usage could lead to more...
07 July 2014 9,578 55 View
Both of these functions (genfis1 and genfis2) take a set of training data as input, and based on that create an initial fuzzy inference system (FIS). This FIS can then be optimized by Matlab's...
06 June 2014 9,631 20 View
If I am asked by some students: "what is the single most important discovery in all of mathematics?" I would quickly answer "Fourier Series" without hesitation! I believe it is one of the most...
06 June 2014 2,353 71 View
Various rules/protocols are being practiced by different universities and publishers for authorship and ordering the authors in a new publication. For instance, in papers published by MSc or PhD...
05 May 2014 10,077 22 View
Are you a good mentor? I want to be a better mentor (guide) to my graduate students. I want to help my mentee develop their own ideas. I think I am not doing it well. What you suggest to me? How...
05 May 2014 3,197 15 View
There are straightforward analogies between electrical, mechanical, acoustics, thermal, hydraulic and fluid systems which are intuitive and useful. Sometimes, we use them as we teach mechanical,...
04 April 2014 7,126 1 View
Effective teaching of undergraduates begins with freshmen. Therefore, teaching and advising 1st year students is very important. During the first few semester students take basics courses and...
04 April 2014 5,751 11 View
How should we represent the inputs? Can we use nonlinear activation functions such as logsig or tansig on them or data must be expressed by thresholding a continuous function first?
03 March 2014 7,020 0 View
Can you suggest some technical analysis software for stock markets? It should make use of some machine learning like ANNs and/or optimization techniques such as Genetic Algorithm to provide future...
01 January 2014 2,814 3 View
Technical analysis of stock markets gives forecasts and even advice for trading on the basis of past prices. It does so without considering ‘fundamental analysis" i.e., the underlying economic of...
01 January 2014 6,930 12 View
I want to develop a stock market forecaster in Matlab based on technical and fundamental analyses. Is there any real-time stock market predictions toolbox for Matlab or must I do it from the...
12 December 2013 1,394 9 View
In all classifiers, the number of data points needed to adequately represent a dataset with a high number of features grows exponentially. This is known as "curse of dimensionality". Under such...
12 December 2013 9,530 4 View
There is no widely-recommended technique for feature selection. Commonly used techniques applicable for image processing purposes are PCA, correlation-based, GA and sensitivity analysis. This is...
11 November 2013 2,585 44 View
Normalization is done to map the data to a uniform scale. For instance, when the inputs to ANN are on widely different scales, normalization is normally used to get the same range of values for...
11 November 2013 5,108 10 View
In designing classifiers (using ANNs, SVM, etc.), models are developed on a training set. But how to divide a dataset into training and test sets? With few training data, our parameter estimates...
10 October 2013 3,658 10 View
I am often faced with the question of "what are the advantageous/disadvantages of ANN over conventional statistical techniques?" by newcomers interesting to apply ANN in their research. As we...
10 October 2013 8,502 6 View
Elsevier journals check against potential plagiarism (for newly submitted manuscript) by the originality detection software such as iThenticate. Is there any publicly available software or program...
09 September 2013 2,125 53 View
I know that the processing period for the publication of the open-access article is relatively short, but it has the high processing fees of publishing. What happens to copyright issues if we...
09 September 2013 4,484 8 View
I am interested to create Apps for Android to identify the authenticity of food by image processing. I wonder if anyone is aware of similar ideas or how to start coding. Is it possible to install...
09 September 2013 947 2 View
It is a trend to use information technology to lead the development of modern agriculture. According to FAO, the world will need to produce 70% more food in 2050 than it did in 2006 in order to...
01 January 1970 5,133 94 View
