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  • Question asked in Crystal Engineering
    6 How can I prevent DMF from hydrolysing in Solvothermal conditions?
    DMF is a vital solvent to obtain single crystal metal-organic frameworks but it is hydrolysed in the presence of metal ions even at mild temprature (8... [more]
    By Fatih Semerci · Eskisehir Osmangazi University
  • Question asked in Barium Compounds
    3 What is the role of Barium titanate (BaTiO3) in Electrolumniscence devices?
    I would like to know its working principle. 
    By Vaseem Mohammad (Ph.D.) · Chonbuk National University
  • Question asked in Zooplankton Ecology
    4 How to treat zooplankton samples after sampling (if we want to measure the POC: particulate organic carbon for these samples)?
    We know from the manual that after getting the zooplankton samples from Net, It is needed to filter the samples to remove the salt by distilled water,... [more]
    By Joe Joe
  • Question asked in Adaptation
    6 Do the contained interactions at the individual level generate behaviours that transcend the behaviours of components?
    John Holland in his books on Hidden Order (1995) and Emergence (1998) shows that a small number of rules or laws can generate systems of surprising co... [more]
    By Daniel Courgeau · Institut national d'études démographiques
  • Question asked in 1H-NMR
    35 Shilding and deshilding of NMR
    As we know the aryl protons generally have a more chemical shift's value or they are said to be deshielded by the diamegnatic anisotroty of the ring,... [more]
    By Praveen Saini · BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa
  • Question asked in Microbiology Techniques
    10 Can anyone please tell me the institution offering SEM service for bacterial sample in India?
    I am interested for Electron microscopy for my Bacterial sample. I want information regarding the various institutions in india offering this service ... [more]
    By Ali Asger Bhojiya · Mohan Lal Sukhadia University
  • 1 How to store the cut DGGE band for about 3 days before runing PCR
    The cut bands of DGGE gel are going to be subjected to PCR. These cut bands are in sterile water. After spin downing, the supernatant will be used for... [more]
    By Pardis Fazli · Putra University, Malaysia
  • Question asked in Thin Film Deposition
    20 How to determine a thickness of a spin coated polymer film?
    If one cannot afford techniques like AFM and other Profilometric investigations, how will one find out the thickness of a polymer thin film? Can we gu... [more]
    By Venkatesh Sri · Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
  • Question asked in Haptics
    1 Thermoreceptors: Sensing temperature or heat flow?
    From the thermoreceptors to thermoTRP channels, the literatures typically specify their responding range/characterastics in terms of temperature. I gu... [more]
    By Hsin-Ni Ho · NTT Communication Science Laboratories
  • Question asked in Conservation Biology
    39 Looking for a reliable website with pictures and botanical identification of plants
    I need a reliable source of images (a database or something similar) that contains the image and the identification of some plants. 
    By Rita Lemos · Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
  • Question asked in Critical Care Medicine
    1 Cvp and peep?
    In mechanically ventilated patients, how often and how do you deduce the PEEP value while monitoring central venous pressure via central venous lines?... [more]
    By Raju Pangeni · Patan Academy of Health Sciences
  • Question asked in Anti-inflammatory
    3 Can anyone tell me the best method to evaluate the inflammatory mediators for in vivo study of anti-gout?
    On my proposal research I wrote that in vivo anti-inflammatory effect will be determined in plasma and peripheral white blood cells by using ELISA met... [more]
    By Eldiza Rahmi · National University of Malaysia
  • Question asked in Microbial Molecular Biology
    54 Can anyone suggest companies that sell TA cloning vectors?
    I don't want the entire kit for cloning, instead I wish to buy only the vector i.e. TA cloning vector. Does anyone have any suggestions? 
    By Kashif shamim · Goa University
  • Question asked in Literary Theory
    37 What life changing novels can you recommend?
    I'm doing some studies to see how different influential novels affect people of varying ages and though I have some good titles, I would love some fee... [more]
    By Travis Buechner · University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  • Question asked in Vision
    16 Are there techniques available that can measure the amount of information (e.g., in bit/s) conveyed by the visual (or other cranial) nerves in humans?
    I would like to measure how much information is actually leaving the eye/retina towards the optic chiasm, thalamus and/or occipital lobe. Can you th... [more]
    By Steffen Landgraf · Universität Regensburg
  • Question asked in Differentiation
    5 Has anyone had sucess differentiating PC12 cells in PDMS microfluidic channels?
    I am trying to culture and differentiate PC12 cells in an open-faced PDMS microchannel. I have had success differentiating PC12 cells with NGF in cult... [more]
    By Kirstin Morton · Indiana University Bloomington
  • Question asked in Research Publications
    2 Is an open access journal without any impact factor equivalent to a full research article/ publication? e.g Advances in Microbiology
    Is an open access journal without any impact factor equivalent to a full research article/ publication? e.g Advances in Microbiology 
    By Zaid Pirzada · University of Karachi
  • Question asked in Biotechnology
    7 Could anyone explain how it is understood, sucrose (0, 2, 4% w / v)?
    I use to prepare my medium a weight of sucrose per Liter, but I don't understand when talk me about percent (%) , for example: sacarose 2% w/v. Can yo... [more]
    By Rafael Andres Otero Avila · Universidad de Córdoba (Colombia)
  • Question asked in Medical Image Analysis
    2 Relation between training and testing sets
    What is the impact on the performance of the classifier if training and testing data are not independent, in the sense that what if training and testi... [more]
    By Rakshatha P.K · International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
  • Question asked in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
    4 The trough serum levels of the active metabolite of a drug often follow lognormal distribution in a population. Has the reason been identifed?
    The trough serum levels of the pharmacologically active metabolite of a drug often follow lognormal distribution in a population even when the distri... [more]
  • Question asked in Plant Proteomics
    1 How to elute a protein band of interest from SDS-PAGE or NATIVE-PAGE gel ?
    How to elute a protein band of interest from SDS-PAGE or NATIVE-PAGE gel ? 
    By Dina Barman · North Eastern Hill University
  • Question asked in Muscle Biology
    15 Can anyone suggest references for fiber type distributions?
    I am designing a study to investigate neuromuscular function in two different muscle groups in untrained individuals; one that is predominantly fast t... [more]
    By Neale Tillin · University of Roehampton
  • Question asked in Differential Equations
    211 Are differential equations the proper tool to describe reality?
    Newton introduced differential equations to physics, some 200 years ago. Later Maxwell added his own set. We also have Navier-Stokes equation, and o... [more]
    By Marek Gutowski · Instytut Fizyki PAN
  • Question asked in Geological Processes
    9 Garnet inclusion trails in clinopyroxene
    I found garnet inclusion trails in clinopyroxene, in a garnet clinopyroxenite xenolith. I could not find mention of this in any literature. Is there a... [more]
    By Eszter Badenszki · University College Dublin
  • Question asked in System Engineering
    35 What type of formal methods are available to support software engineering?
    Looking for practical formal methods that are in use today. 
    By Joseph Simpson · University of Washington Seattle
  • Question asked in Programming Languages
    635 Which first language do you think is the best for learning programming techniques?
    I'm a professor from a brazilian university and this question is always made. In different courses, I had already worked with Pascal, Scheme, C and Ja... [more]
    By Carlos Bazilio · Universidade Federal Fluminense
  • Question asked in Oral, Head and Neck Cancer
    31 Why does oral cancer in non-smoking females have a worse prognosis than that affecting male smokers?
    Delayed referral and hence delayed diagnosis are two main factors that worsen the prognosis of oral cancer. How does being a non-smoker female contrib... [more]
    By Najla Dar-Odeh · University of Jordan
  • Question asked in Programming Languages
    27 Is Python a Programming language or Scripting Language?
    I started learning about Python 15 days ago and I'm a little bit confused whether it is a programming language or scripting language. I am thinking it... [more]
    By Salman Beg · National Institute of Science & Technology
  • Question asked in Wireless Communications
    3 Wireless network capacity
    How can the wireless network capacity be characterized with multiple Tx-Rx links with vertical and horizontal co-channel deployment? 
    By Irshad Qaimkhani · University of Waterloo
  • Question asked in Python
    2 Why does the python exe file only flashes a dos window and disappears?
    I have made a GUI in python and made it a standalone. But now when I double click it, there flashes a dos window but the GUI doesn't appears. It appea... [more]
    By Sachin Sharma · IBI Biosolutions