Does anyone know how to quickly sterilize soil?

How to identify that the books are indexed under SCOPUS or web of science?

Is it necessary to have book to be indexed in SCOPUS or web of science?

Thanks for your suggestions.

I have performed a qPCR test to check my primer efficiency. I got the rough data now which I have opened with Design and Analysis software 2.5.1. It is quite confusing and I am relatively new in operating this software post qPCR run. I would be grateful if you someone can provide me instructions on this software for beginners, especially related to the primer efficiency test.

Thank you in advance.

Hi, I have been struggling with a weird issue for my RNA samples. I used the Qiagen RNA plus mini kit. For some reason no matter how careful I am with the washes, when I measure the RNA, I get really low values for the 260/230 ratio, on average around 0.5 or below. I follow all the steps suggested in the kit.. I thought that it must be the Ethanol which causes such ratios so I try to adequately dry the column with an extra spin.. but that does not seem to help.

I checked the quality of my RNA on the Bioanalyzer and it seems the quality is fine. Even the yield of RNA from my samples is decent .. ( I grow cells in 6 well plates ).

I transfected Hela cells with GFP-tagged protein in corning-3603 black clear bottom 96-well plate and tried to use biotek cy3 microplate reader to detect GFP flurorescence intensity with excitation filters 485 BP and emission filter 528 BP. However, I found the background flurorescence in non-transfected wells was even higher than which transfected with GFP, so how can i reduce this background flurorescence? Or any other plate suitable for my assay? Thank you very much!

Hi, we aim to "quantify" cultural ecosystem services from urban forests of our study area (Karlsruhe, Germany). We know that cultural ecosystem services are difficult to quantify as they are often qualitative and have intangible significance. Our approach is to first do a detail survey on public and stakeholders' perception and preferences on selected cultural ecosystem services using questionnaire survey and Likert's scale of response. Then, we want to use our data from the questionnaire survey to develop a scoring systems. Do you know any method which can be helpful to us? Or, do you know how to valuate cultural ecosystem services? In addition to questionnaire survey, we also have data from urban forest plots on forest structure and composition. We followed the guidelines from i-tree-eco software's handbook and UFORE model developed by the US Forest Service (David Nowak). We will really appreciate if you can provide us some literature or provide some suggestions on methods to quantify cultural ecosystem services.

I need to know before I send a manuscript to either of these journals. Thanks

What is the best software for canopy estimation analysis using images from hemispherical camera?

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I was looking for a thread on Bentham Science Publishers on RG but could not find any.

I recently got an invitation fro the Current Environmental Engineering journal to act as a guest editor. In the email (see below), there was no mention of the group to which the journal belonged. I had to search the Internet for quite a while to eventually find it belonged to Bentham Science Publishers. This publisher appears to be quite questionable and Jeffrey Beall listed it as a potential predatory publisher.

Have you had any encounter with Current Environmental Engineering or Bentham Science Publishers yet? What do you think of them?

Thank you very much to you all for your valuable contributions which will benefit to us all.

Here is the email in question:

23 August 2019

Dr. M. Ertz

LaboNFC

Universit du Qubec Chicoutimi

555

Boulevard de l\Universit

Canada

Dear Dr. Ertz,

Current Environmental Engineering (CEE), is in the process of appointing Executive Guest Editors. This journal publishes in all areas of environmental sustainability, disaster risk reduction and management, decision and policy making. We would like to propose your name for the position of Executive Guest Editor of Current Environmental Engineering.

The peer review of the articles may be arranged by the guest editor, provided that the list of referees for each article is pre-approved by us. The reviewers should be neutral experts with H-index of above 15. The guest editor would be expected to provide us with at least two referee reports of each article. Publication of thematic issue would be facilitated by the use of our state- of- the- art, article processing system.

The Executive Guest Editors will be entitled to the following benefits:

If this position is of interest to you, please let us know. If you are interested, then kindly send us your brief CV and a list of your recent publications. Kindly also indicate the field of the journal relevant to your area of research.

In case you are not interested in the position of Executive Guest Editor, then you are welcome to submit a general article that fits in to the Aims and Scope of the journal.

We look forward to hearing from you in this regard.

Sincerely,

M. Alam

Director (Publications)

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