How to Improve Your PowerPoint Slides with the Rule of Thirds

This week I found a not so old but int resting article on "rule of thirds" that summarizes how to improve our powerpoint slides

just have a look, if you really want to improve your presentations

rule of thirds powerpoint

rest next week!!!!!!!!!

Fingerprint Books

Hi there, this week I am going to post some rare (but free) books written by the pioneers of the fingerprint field.
Although these e-books are freely available at clpex.com, but I am posting direct links from which you can download very easily. All are in pdf format.
 Many people see fingerprint science as old fashioned and sort of obsolete (only in India) and this field is not the first choice for research as well. So, this effort is especially for our freshers as well as researchers just to make them feel that this field is one of the most exciting realms of forensic science.

1895, Sir Francis Galton, "Finger Print Directories"
1900, Sir Edward R. Henry, "Classification and Uses of Finger Prints"
1892, Sir Francis Galton, "Finger Prints"
1893, Sir Francis Galton, "Decipherment of Blurred Fingerprints"
1905, Dr. Henry Faulds, "Guide to Finger- Print Identification"
1908, Sir Francis Galton, "Memories Of My Life"
1912, Dr. Henry Faulds, "Dactylography, or The Study of Finger-Prints"
1915, Dr. Henry Faulds, "A Manual of Practical Dactylography"
1916, Sir William Herschel, "The Origins of Finger-Printing"

1957, FBI, "The Science of Fingerprints; Classification and Uses"


Download them and enjoy!
Cheers

Secret to good presentations

Hi folks,
I have been very busy lately but its time to update my blog
Everyone of us give presentation, whether at postgraduate level or doctorate level or any other level of life.
We want to give effective presentations whether on the academic front or on any other public front.
Here's a website, which tells all the secrets to be a effective public speaker giving fantastic presentations.

Presentation Zen

Just follow this website, hope you will not be disappointed.
Enjoy while i come with more!

PowerPoint Presentations Templates

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1803-1882, Poet and Essayist

During the last few, during many presentations be it of class room level or the conference level, students (academicians as well) thrive hard to make their presentations effective. Templates for power point presentations are an important element, audience and speaker always want something new

In this article, i giving a link in which there are more than 50 templates for power point presentation, which you can use in your presentations and make them worth.

Here is the link, its its in few parts and are zipped, but very easy to download
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CD 2
CD 3
CD 4
CD 5

There is another link on how to present effectively and comfortably
Effective Presentation Tips

Here, is an update
Eight Secrets for Impeccable Presentations
Download here

enjoy the power point
and happy presentations!

Scientific poster(s) services for students and researchers

I have been visiting a few scientific conferences in which a common problem is being noticed time and again. Lack of awareness amongst the students regarding design of their research posters.
So, this time i have decided to give you all links to some good websites which can help us out in making excellent research presentations.
One of the most elaborate links which gives us enough information is here
Poster advice

Some commercial organizations also give you services like poster presentations. Although, all are based in United States but still they give free downloadable templates , which we can use and personalize accordingly
link 1
link 2
link 3

All these organizations charge a hefty amount of money, but in case you want to make your research posters look more professional, you can contact us and we will design your research posters to your liking, get them printed and mailed to your address at very nominal charges. In addition, we will also be able to give scientific tips to make your presentations better than ever.
You can contact me at gagandeepsingh2@gmail.com for all you queries.

Presentation at IWRABF, 2010 (Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad)

 Presentation on Poroscopy at Allahabad, India

CHEMISTRY at its best

Hi Folks,
We all know chemistry is mother of all sciences and we often encounter simple situations while doing research, literature survey like search for chemical structure, molecular weight.
There are certain tools available on the net which can help us to perform these simple tasks with relative ease.
I am listing some links about all aspects of chemistry information we might require for our research purposes

Chem Diagrams
ChemSpider
Chemistry Computing
Chemistry Web Book

ACD/ChemSketch 12.0 Freeware Link

Just give it a try, Surely these are good

Learning SCIENCE by Scitable

A free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science.

Scitable currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. As you cultivate your understanding of modern genetics on Scitable, you will explore not only what we know about genetics and the ways it impacts our society, but also the data and evidence that supports our knowledge. 

 

This is a very very good source if you want to learn something about science.

Here's a link, just try it 

you will not be disappointed

SCITABLE

microPHOTOGRAPHIC Marvels

Of course its sunday and a day to just put your legs up and think about life, but just read this one
For all the scientific researchers, photography fascinates all of us in one way or the another. One really catchy aspect of the photography in scientific respect is of photomicrography.
Here's a link for all of us who are really intrested and curious about the scientific photography at really the smallest possible level
check it out, i am sure you will definitely like it
eye of science

ENJOY!

Searching the deep web (things you could not find by normal internet search)

Search engines such as Google, Yahoo or Alta Vista index over a trillion pages on the World Wide Web, but many of the results from queries can be useless or irrelevant. There is, however, another part of the web that common search engines don't reach. The "deep web" (also know as the "hidden web", "invisible web" or "Deepnet") is estimated to be many times larger than the "surface web".
The deep web contains information that isn't indexed by a search engine. For instance, databases generate results on the fly, and do not have searchable pages. The deep web also holds academic studies and papers, scientific research, government publications, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online card catalogs, articles, directories, many subscription journals, archived videos, images and more.

There are multiple ways to find information on the deep web. It isn't hard, and anyone can do it.

Just try these few links and get amazed by what we can find

GENERAL SEARCH
Archive
Clusty

DATABASE SEARCH
Complete Planet
Geniusfind

REFERENCE MATERIAL SEARCH
Library Spot
Infomine
IPL

Sometimes abbreviations do matter...........

Whenever we write some research paper, sometimes while doing the most exhaustive part i.e. adding references, we have to include the abbreviated form of the journal names. Here are few links, which might help you with the problem in case you face it. I have tried to give number of links so that the range of inclusion of almost all the journals increases manifold.

Abbreviations 1
Abbreviations 2
For biological journals
CAS Core Journal List
Web of Science

I hope it helps a little bit!
CHEERS

Next Level of PUBMED

PUBMED is probably the most used and authenticated search engine for searching literature in biological and physical sciences.
PubMed is a free search engine for accessing the MEDLINE database of citations, abstracts and some full text articles on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains PubMed as part of the Entrez information retrieval system (source: Wikipedia).
Although, we can get a lot of search results and abstracts but sometimes we need summary of results for a particular keyword. For example if a search for keyword "fluorescent in-situ hybridization" , we can get results in the PubMed but what if we need to know the summary of all the results i.e. how many papers, authors classified in a proper way.
Here is a website that comes as solution to all the problems "THE MEDSUM: The Medline Summary tool" (Thanks to M.J. Galsworthy). MEDSUM provides a literature-summary interface to PubMed. It can generate "profiles" of authors or journals; or it can be used for status-of-literature data generation for review papers or grant applications.

Just give it a try, you can access this website at
MEDSUM

Its a very simple online tool to use but still if you want a tutorial, heres a link for that also
MEDSUM TUTORIAL

Hope you use the system and enjoy your research
till next time
Cheers

Here we go

Hi Folks!
Scientific research is a must for developing society and its effective form can do wonders for us. A very essential element for good scientific research is the individuals producing the same. In the present era where computers rule the roost, we as researchers cannot make out without using the various elements of computers. In the last decade or so, as the computer technology has improved gradually, their role in aiding research is significant.
Research at any level, be it of postgraduate level or doctorate needs science and technology. Various technological tools includes internet searches (almost all the good publishing houses have already gone online), software of any type etc. are available and keep coming up.
Google remains the most common answer to the question regarding what we do to do literature search. But, most of the times in Google we are not able to get the desired results due to ineffective combination of keywords (most important). In addition, daily new literature search tools are coming up and we lack simply because of our ignorance about such sites. We through this site will try to come up with new links every week which can make your research effective and speed it up, also.
Another major problem is the factors associated with images such as increasing the contrast, color correction, organizing multiple images in one photographic plate, enhancing the exposure etc. Indeed these are simple problems which can be sorted by different software such as Adobe Photoshop, Coral Photopaint and Image Pro Plus. These are the software with which we can do wonders with our experimental images in a legible and ethical way. Keeping in view this problem, we will be posting tools and tutorials by which we can do all these things pretty easily. In addition, we can also provide very cost effective services for all the scientific image processing.
You can also address to us specific scientific article requirements or any related problems.
I hope this endeavour of ours will help all the fellow researchers.