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  • Answer added in Applied Linguistics
    189 Is it ethical to use the same data set to write more than one paper?
    By Paul Bailey · American College of Greece
    Ru-Jeng Teng · Medical College of Wisconsin
    Dear Jose: I feel your pain. 
  • Answer added in Biological Control
    1 Currently i am having some trouble to analyse our data that we conducted. The summary of trial is given below
    By Touhidur Rahman · Department of Agriculture and Food
    M. Mostafizur Rahman Shah · Northwest A & F University
    Mr. Touhidur Rahman, I think you can easily analyse these data with the sofware SPSS. First devide the orchards as 1, 2, .....7 then compare with each... [more]
  • Answer added in Food & Nutrition
    3 How do I analyse the influence of taste perception / taste evaluation on the relation between BMI and food intake?
    By Hans Feenstra · Hogeschool The Hague
    Russell Keast · Deakin University
    A number of groups are working on this type of question around the world. We published a paper on sweet taste, food consumption in the Journal of Foo... [more]
  • Answer added in Maternal Health
    45 Should oxytocin be administered before or after placental expulsion?
    By Niraj Mahajan · Topiwala National Medical College & B. Y. L. Nair Charitable Hospital
    Let me me an intermediary here, and a devils' advocate. You both may be both right and wrong. Apologies if I offend anyone or my 2 bobs' worth is unne... [more]
  • 12 Is there a Taq (or other DNA polymerase enzyme) that can be used to amplify large fragments (20 - 30 kb) and does not have 5'-3' exonuclease activity?
    By Fernando Hartwig · Universidade Federal de Pelotas
    Jose Antonio Cruz Gutierrez. · Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán
    Hi, I think you can use Clontech's Klen Taq-1 polymerase, it can reach at 25-40 kb 
  • Answer added in Animal Breeding
    11 Are there certain species that exhibit both polyandry and polygyny?
    By Micheas Taguibulos · Ateneo de Manila University
    Very Good Stuff Ian; interesting, informative and helpful. I think that not only I am grateful for the perspective you offer in your contribution. 
  • Answer added in Fuel Cells
    1 Tafel plot for ethanol electroxidation
    By SAI SIDDHARDHA R · Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
    Chaitanya Kumar Kanukula · National Institute of Technology, Warangal
    Dear Sai, First I would like to know the metal, which you are doing experiment on it. Tafel plots are used in potentiodynamic polarization studies. S... [more]
  • Answer added in Alzheimer's Disease
    7 Do you consider the Mini-Mental State Examination to be a helpful interpretation of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease?
    By Melissa Murray · Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Julian Manrique · Universidad del Valle (Colombia)
    All the reasons that the participants above had exposed (poor sensitive for high education background, low puntage tendency for the most elder) make m... [more]
  • Question asked in MKL
    New Mkl
    Recently, I have been editing a code. It need to use mkl_c.lib and libguide.lib of Math Kernel Library. But I do not find them at internet. need hel... [more]
    By Gang Zhang · Shenyang University of Technology
  • Answer added in Cell Culture
    64 What are alternatives to using gelatin as a coating for adherent cells on glass slides?
    By Christopher Sarsons · The University of Calgary
  • Answer added in Cancer Biology
    2 How to enrich side population? What percentage of SP lost their stemness after few days culture?
    By Md. Hafiz Uddin · Seoul National University
    Md. Hafiz Uddin · Seoul National University
    Hi Peter, I am trying to isolate side population from ovarian cancer cell line using flow cytometry. The percentage of SP is very low. So why I am thi... [more]
  • Answer added in Heat
    1 Looking for publications on heat resistance of bacterial biofilms, both containing vegatative cells only and those also containing endospores?
    By Clifford Holmes · Baxter International Inc.
    Edgarjoe Perez · Metropolitan Autonomous University
    Hi clifford, I Hoppe that this link, can helps you Best Regards, let me now if you requiered some paper 
  • Answer added in Nanoelectronics
    20 Why are the source drain and gate current the same in organic transistors?
    By Mir Waqas Alam · University of Toyama
    Mir Waqas Alam · University of Toyama
    Thanks to every one for there comments . i have attached the paper with same work . only i am using Ta2O5 as dielectric. @Arunandan Kumar I dont k... [more]
  • Answer added in Thin Layer
    7 How to clean dust-like pollutant from thin film?
    By Firman Mangasa · National Chiao Tung University
    Atindra Shukla · Dharmsinh Desai University
    There are several options. A simple sonication in IPA in clean room would help. If your thin-film coating is robust on substrate another option would... [more]
  • 1 What is the best protocol to be used while characterizing functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes using FTIR?
    By Huseini Patanwala · University of Connecticut
    Takuji Ogawa · Osaka University
    Usually, 1650cm-1 absorption is C=C bond of the carbon nanotubes and not OH stretching of moisture. OH stretching is around 3300 cm-1 which can also b... [more]
  • Answer added in Higher Education Research
    120 How can you actually measure learning gain produced by a particular learning strategy beyond student assessment?
    By Carola Bruna · University of Concepción
    Sandra Cecconello · Community College of Allegheny County
    Sorry to butt in here specifically since the aforementioned response was not addressed to me and my response really has nothing to do with the researc... [more]
  • Answer added in Cancer Biology
    9 Which specific patient population with prostate cancer should undergo surgery: Are there biomarkers that identify patients who need surgery
    By Fatih Uckun · University of Southern California
    Fatih Uckun · University of Southern California
    Dear Constantine, A couple of remarks/thoughts: 1. In regards to sexual dysfunction: After ADT x 6 months followed by IMRT, use of androgen patche... [more]
  • Answer added in Quantum Chemistry
    33 Can anyone tells me how to reduce time for calculation in gaussian ?
    By Kapil Dhaka · Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani
    Takuji Ogawa · Osaka University
    If you mean you want to shorten the calculation time, with the same computer resources, with the same basis set size, the tips are: (1) Define the sym... [more]
  • Answer added in Medicinal Plants
    2 What is the mechanism involved in phosphomolybdenum antioxidant assay?
    By Aastha Shori · Banasthali University
    Imtiaz Ahmad · Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
    So simple :) 
  • Answer added in Video Processing
    11 How many Feature Detection And Descriptors are there?
    By Robert Munnoch · The University of Hull
    Khalid El-Darymli · Memorial University of Newfoundland
    Sounds great! I came across couple of surveys/references on features/descriptors. Two of them are provided below. If I can remember/find the other ref... [more]
  • Answer added in Numerical Modeling
    15 Which techniques do you propose to me?
    By N. Yilmaz · T.C. Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi
    Venkata Palakiti · Indian Institute of Technology Madras
    it is depending on the solver. If you can able to use LINGO optimization software, there is a facility you can convert any dimension of data into 2 di... [more]
  • Question asked in long noncoding RNA
    New best publication of how to detect new lncRNA in mice?
    i need to find some very good papers about how can we detect/ find new lncRNA in mice. 
    By Faiza Rao · University of Science and Technology of China
  • Answer added in Correlation Analysis
    1 How to test the significance of difference between zero order and first order partial correlations?
    By Rakesh Pandey · Banaras Hindu University
    Venkata Palakiti · Indian Institute of Technology Madras
    Independent two sample t-test is suitable for this problem. Ho: No difference between zero order and first order partial correlations Ha: there is di... [more]
  • Answer added in Plant Genetics
    25 Removing PCR inhibitors POST-extraction?
    By Joshua Thia · University of Canterbury
    Dr (Mrs.) Kamalakshi · Government of Tamil Nadu
    PCR inhibitors can be removed by adding more of DNA polymerase or DNA template may be diluted or add additives to the PCR r eaction like BSA or Beta... [more]
  • Question asked in Microbial Biotechnology
    New What are the GMO-related legal aspects in strain engineering for microorganisms used for food products?
    I've been told that, for example, people use genetic engineering to generate strains that have the desired properties, analyze what changed, and then ... [more]
    By Peter Enyeart · University of Texas at Austin
  • Answer added in Watershed Hydrology
    17 What is the most effective way to fill the missing hydrological data?
    By Dol Raj Chalise · South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
    Omm Bazrafshan · University of Tehran
    We can use from regression method between missing time series ( x : dependent station) with time series (independent station: y) also, the first we ... [more]
  • Answer added in Marine Ecology
    8 zooplankton and hysteresis
    By Albert Keim ·
    Azubuike Chukwuka · University of Ibadan
    All the best Albert! 
  • Answer added in Academic Writing
    482 How far are scientists willing to go to publish their rejected articles or scientific reviews?
    By Alessandro Diana · Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève
    José Jacob · Instituto de Moléstias Cardiovasculares
    I am tired about this question. this is a joke!