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  • Answer added in Animal Models
    15 How fast does a drug in solution injected i.p. reach the bloodstream?
    By Theodore Kapellos · University of Oxford
    Simon Gebremeskel · Dalhousie University
    I dont work with any of the drugs you are using. But you should consider whether the drug requires bioactivation and if so, which route would help you... [more]
  • Answer added in Natural Product Chemistry
    28 How can I tosylate an hindered secondary alcohol?
    By Ricardo Ferreira · University of Lisbon
    Oliver Schwarz · AnalytiCon Discovery GmbH
    I would go for MsCl before using Tf2O. If the triflate is the only option, I would recommend isolation of the crude material; NO purification attempts... [more]
  • Answer added in Lifestyle
    8 Do you eat in the street?
    By Jorge Rodriguez · University Pompeu Fabra
  • Answer added in Evolution
    32 Are individuals "better" adapted?
    By Lluvia Flores-Rentería · Northern Arizona University
    On that point Roy, assuming that I understand you, I would say that we diverge drastically. For a start, you seem to be conflating two different conce... [more]
  • Answer added in Patch Clamp
    16 Can a vibratome that has previously been used on fixed tissue be used to make live brain slices?
    By Joseph Raimondo · University of Cape Town
    Michel Roux · Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire
    Yes,we are also performing fesh and fixed tisseu slicing on the same vibratome. Considering the volume of tissue and the volume of solution in the sli... [more]
  • Answer added in Material Characterization
    14 Why Is it that the peak observed in single crystal xrd is absent in the powder pattern?
    By Manisha Joshi · Jai Hind College
    Ravi Ananth · Onsight Technology USA
    Cool Manisha! Tappan is right as usual. Would you please describe your sample more? Size, thickness, morphology etc. A photo would be perfect both o... [more]
  • Answer added in Genotyping
    3 How to find the genotype of a mammalian cell line?
    By Amanda Solem · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Question asked in Hardware
    New With the paradigm shift in hardware technology to multicores, isn't a revolutionary, aggressive approach required for software development to harness the gains in the hardware?
    It is of note that serial programs remains a bottleneck even in a multicore environment as Amdahl's law already reveals, hence, with the advent of mul... [more]
    By Goodhead Abraham · Coventry University
  • Answer added in Phase Transitions
    3 What is the surest way to distinguish between displacive and order-disorder phase transition?
    By Tapan Chatterji · Institut Laue-Langevin
    Ana Proykova · Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
    I do not know the substance you are going to measure. That is why I would think of ferroelectric materials, which exhibit both displacive and/or orde... [more]
  • Answer added in Diabetes
    67 Benefits of the "Paleo" diet for health and performance. Are there any? And is it relevant to consider what we evolved to eat?
    By David Hamilton · University of Stirling
    Paul Dessauer · WASUA
    Hi Sydney, You wrote; <<< If you look at the case I chose from my thousands, on www.LifeExtensionOptometry.org you will see an example >>> Sorry, ... [more]
  • Answer added in Critical Care
    17 Do emergency physicians think differently to other physicians / surgeons etc?
    By Paul Middleton · Australian Resuscitation Council, New South Wales branch
    Jeffrey Ho · Hennepin County Medical Center
    Emergency Medicine physicians also become expert at true multi-tasking and "thin-slicing" information. For a book that explains the concept of thin-sl... [more]
  • Answer added in Ticks
    12 Which types of disease occur due to pathogen of ticks
    By Chandrakant Pawar · Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji College, Omerga
    Mahmoud Elhaig · Suez Canal University
    ticks are vector for several pathogens likes blood protozoa (BABESIA, THEILERIA) that are common in Africa, Asia and south Europe and south America. 
  • Answer added in Programming in MATLAB
    2 How subscripted assignment is given for solving non linear equation.
    By Abhinav Varshney · Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
    Markus Becker · Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology
    Yes, its impossible to say what is wrong without seeing the code. 
  • Question asked in Paper Submission Deadline Approaching: 8th International Wor
    New Paper Submission Deadline Approaching: 8th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2013)
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 16-18, 2013 http://www.critis2013.nl Important Dates Extended deadline for submission of papers: June 1, 2013 ... [more]
    By Cristina Alcaraz · Universidad de Málaga
  • Answer added in Veterinary Microbiology
    1 Can Anaplasma marginale infect Sheep (Ovis aries)?
    By Muhammad Kashif · Hazara University
    Mahmoud Elhaig · Suez Canal University
    Sheep, goats, and deer are the natural hosts for A.ovis that may cause mild to severe disease 
  • Answer added in Plant Biotechnology
    2 Ligation Procedure.
    By Sahil Patel · Directorate of Groundnut Research
    Daniel Cohen · University of Pennsylvania
    Different temperatures are used for blunt end vs sticky end ligations. For blunt end ligations, there is no Watson-Crick base pairing to promote DNA f... [more]
  • Question asked in Natural Resource Management
    New Is anyone aware of examples from around the world where subsistence fishers are investing financially in ongoing fisheries management?
    I am working with an artisanal octopus fishery in Madagascar, and the fishers have recently begun to pay a small percent of the income they receive fr... [more]
    By Sophie Benbow · Blue Ventures Conservation
  • Question asked in Drug Development
    New Should serum be added to drug dilutions made in cell culture media ?
    While making dilutions of drug from stock to working I have been using cell culture media , which is without the serum. I used to make the dilutions f... [more]
    By Neha Singhal · International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
  • Answer added in Statistical Analysis
    9 Is inappropriate sampling (e.g., non-random assignment) considered to be major weakness of a submitted manuscript to be accepted?
    By Fathi M Sherif · University of Tripoli
    Mona Ahmed Hassan · King Abdulaziz University
    In this case your study will be just exploratory or pilot study, you cann't do generalization or draw inference about your target group 
  • Answer added in Material Characterization
    5 Can anybody help me in analysing FTIR spectrum of Thin film of LiPON on SiO2 substrate?
    By Mahreen Aslam · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Christos Varsamis · TEI of Piraeus
    This is a complex task since the spectrum should be affected by the interference fringes of your substrate. What is the resolution of your measurem... [more]
  • Answer added in Delusion
    41 What constitutes a "bizarre delusion" that meets Criteria A for a DSM-IV diagnosis of schizophrenia?
    By Neil Krohn · Sr. Analyst, WellPoint, Inc.,
    I like it.... when I looked at belief there was nothing that escaped it. As a human we add belief and meaning to absolutely everything. We even see, h... [more]
  • Answer added in Personality Assessment
    4 What is a mature personality in terms of Big Five factors?
    By András Láng · University of Pécs
    Jonte Vowinckel · Universiteit Twente
    Dear Andras, probably time perspective psychology might be of interest to you. The concept of a so called 'balanced time perspective' might represent... [more]
  • Answer added in Fisheries Science
    20 Is there an example of a subsistence/small-scale fishery that is managed by the fishers themselves, without subsidies, where fish stocks are sustained?
    By Sven Kerwath · Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, South Africa
    Sophie Benbow · Blue Ventures Conservation
    Hi Sven, I work for Blue Ventures a marine conservation NGO based in Madagascar which has been working to involve communities in fishery management s... [more]
  • Answer added in Philosophy
    3 Is everything which we learn or see in our daily lives absolute, or relative?
    By Pritish Kumar · Cognizant Technology Solutions
    Wilfried Musterle · Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
    There exists absolute things (reality) which we don't know but realize with our senses or meters. What happens in this reality we never will know (abs... [more]
  • Answer added in Freshwater Ecology
    1 Is anyone studying or interested in freshwater jellyfish in Australia?
    By Matt Miles · Southern Cross University
    Gisela Fritz · Universität Stuttgart
    Hi Matt, I have been working with the freshwater jellyfish and I still try to keep track of new records. Can you give me more detail on the location? ... [more]
  • Answer added in Methods
    1 can anyone suggest a standard protocol for running DGGE of the metagenomic soil samples for 16 S phylogenetic diversity?
    By Jaya Chakraborty · National Institute of Technology Rourkela
  • Question asked in Epidemiological Statistics
    New What are the ways of handling attrition rate that is beyond what was projected in a proposal?
    How is sample size adjustment done in this case? 
    By Linda Mipando · University of Malawi
  • Answer added in Contamination
    82 Human cancer cell line culture contamination
    By Céline Gonçalves · Universidade do Minho
    Nirmala Jagadish · National Institute of Immunology
    It is mycoplasma only. You can test with mycoplasma detection kit.. 
  • Answer added in Game Design
    2 Good readings about Unity3D
    By Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona · Universidad de Málaga
    Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona · Universidad de Málaga
    Nice slides! Thank you very much. Unity's own tutorials are great, but they are still quite incomplete :-( 
  • Answer added in Cognitive Linguistics
    5 What is the border line between syntax and semantic analysis in dependency parsing technique stack?
    By Alexander Solovyev · Bauman Moscow State Technical University
    Daniel Christen · Independent Researcher
    Rule-Based Semantic Tagging. An Application Undergoing Dictionary Glosses http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3882