ख़ुमार बाराबंकवी की एक गज़ल जो काफ़ी समय पहले सुनी थी जिसे हरिहरन ने गाया था....

मुद्दतों ग़म पे ग़म उठाये हैं
तब कहीं जाके मुसकुराये हैं
इक निगाह-ए-ख़ुलूस की ख़ातिर
ज़िंदगी  भर फ़रेब खाये हैं

मुझे फिर वही याद आने लगे हैं
जिन्हें भूलने में ज़माने लगे हैं

सुना है हमें वो भुलाने लगे हैं
तो क्या हम उन्हें याद आने लगे हैं

यह कहना है उनसे मुहब्बत  हैं मुझ्को
यह कहने में उनसे ज़माने लगे हैं

क़यामत यक़ीनन क़रीब आ गयी है
'ख़ुमार' अब तो मस्जिद में जाने लगे हैं

गज़ल सुनाने के लिये लिंक नीचे दिया है. मजे लें....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S3KYSy0Xi8

How to make a Poster for poster presentation.

Before making a poster for presentation one must know that poster presentation is equally important as the oral presentation, since the duration of the conference is limited so the organizers can not provide everyone to present their research in an oral presentation form.

What is a poster? Poster is a graphically based approach to present a research work. So try to use ‘visuals’ (graphs, photos, charts or tables etc.) in your poster as much as possible.

Design and layout specifications:

(A) size of the poster: 4’ X 3’ (most common type).

(B) orientation (portarit or landscape): Portrait position (long dimension is vertical); landscape position (long dimension is horizontal).

(C) Read: The poster should read from left to right and top to bottom 

(D) Font size: Title- 60 points; Author(s) name- 40; Author(s) affiliation- 38; Headings-40; and All other text-30. (All the font sizes may vary depending on the results; if your results are more than decrease font size).

Note: A and B will depend on the organizers so ask them for the size and orientation of the poster or you may get this information on the conference website.

Make your poster well in advance from the conference date and get it print in mini poster form (ideally on an A4 paper) so that you can check it for spelling mistakes and also get it corrected by your friends or from your supervisor.

Software to make poster: You can either use Microsoft power point; Publisher; Corel draw; Adobe page maker or PosterGenius. My favorite is Microsoft Publisher.

You can get PosterGenius http://www.postergenius.com/cms/index.php.

Poster presentation

During the conference you first contact the conference helpdesk regarding time, venue and board number for displaying your poster during conference. Reach at the exhibition site before the scheduled time. Display your poster and you should remain at the poster site for discussion of your work throughout the scheduled time of the display of poster.

Think About Your Audience

During you poster presentation there are at least three different types of people will visit your poster; this I learn from my experience.

(1) First type of person who comes by and reads the basics about your poster. They will read the title along with the headings, and then they look at your pictures, tables, and graphs. And then they will move on. Actually they are those persons who are looking for some work related to their field of study.

(2) The second type of person is either a converted first type of person (who develop some interest in your poster) or someone who has an interest in your topic or discipline. They will not talk to you much initially but just read most of the text. They may ask you some questions for clarifying any doubt.

(3) The third one is the most interesting type of person that you will encounter. They come to your poster and ask "What did you study?"  (Sometimes even without reading the title of the poster). Now you have to explain the basics of your project. What was the problem?; your strategy to tackle the problem, your materials and methodology, the results and finally the conclusion that you made based on your results.

All the best for your Poster.

PLAGIARISM

The use of this term now a day’s getting more and more common among the scientific community. According to Dictionary.com plagiarism means “an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author”.

Recently, an article was published in Indian Journal of Urology by Panda and Kekre. The authors tried to shed some light on this burning issue. They gave some reasons why the plagiarism occurs and how to avoid them. The most interesting suggestion of them is proper education to the young researchers. The link of the article is -http://www.indianjurol.com/temp/IndianJUrol29287-5722709_013522.pdf.

Here I am suggesting a better way to add the missing citations to your article which might be missed during the writing of the article and it may cause you the victim of plagiarism. The name of the software is Viper, very user-friendly and easy to use. Above all it is totally free and you just need a system and internet connection. The link of the software is http://www.scanmyessay.com/

Simply download it from the above site and install it on your PC and make a user account. Now according to the picture click on the “ADD” button and choose your article file and select article category of the paper e.g. Biology, now click on “SCAN” and wait until the process completed and make changes according to your need.

And one more suggestion don’t rely on Wikipedia because it allows to anyone to edit it.

Optimization of PCR

Optimization of PCR is a tedious and hectic job sometime you get results very early and some time it takes too long time. I was facing the same problem when I encountered with this method. When I read this I found it a simple, fast and reliable method for the optimization of PCR. It is called the Taguchi methods. It is a statistical method developed by Genichi Taguchi to improve the quality of manufactured goods, but now it is also used in engineering, biotechnology, marketing and advertising.

With the use of Taguchi methods, the range of optimal conditions for any given PCR assay may be obtained in very little number of reactions required to optimize several different variables in a classical block titration method.

For example if 4 different variables (like dNTPs, Mg⁺⁺, primer, enzyme or you can put some other variables) are tested at 3 different concentrations each, the titration would need 3X3X3X3 = 81 reactions.

However, using Taguchi methods, only 9 reactions are required.

In this method, the number of reactions (E) is calculated from   E = 2k + 1; where k being the number of variables to be tested.

Now if we increase the number of variables, for example if there are 8 variables, than we need 6561 reactions in block titration method, but only 17 reactions are needed with the use of the Taguchi method. 


Table 1

Table 2

	A	B	C
Primer	7.5	15	30
MgCl2	0.5	1.5	3
dNTPs	50	100	200
Enzyme	0.5	2	5

For more details please see the following article.

Cobb, B.D., Clarkson, J.M. 1994. A simple procedure for optimizing the polymerase chain reaction using modified Taguchi methods Nucl Acids Res., 22(18): 3801-38

Orkut vs Facebook

Some days back I noticed there are either no updates or very few updates from my friends on Orkut. I also noticed that they prefer Facebook over Orkut, so I also joined Facebook. But I still thinking about the same question why people prefer Facebook over Orkut, but I did not find any reasonable answer of the question.

I used Google Trends to find the latest trend, I was totally surprised by the results that the whole world is preferring Facebook over Orkut. 

 

                                                                                 Orkut  

                                                                                 Facebook                                                                          

The same trend is seen in India also

                                                                                Orkut  

                                                                                Facebook

It means the Orkut is loosing its popularity from all over the world

Google should be worry about this and should take some immediate action to solve this issue.

CWG

After a lot of talking about mis management in the organization of the Common Wealth Game (CWG), finally India is ready to host the CWG. The inauguration ceremony of the games will be started after 5 hours. so i request to all the Indians to pray for successful games. 

ALL THE VERY BEST TO INDIA and INDIAN TEAMS

my first blog

everybody is doing blog it influences me very much. from past many months i was thinking to create my own blog. today i started blogging. i hope it will not be a another junk blog in the cyber space.

today when the  rains showers whole area i am writing this blog and enjoying the rain. a very all the best to the farmers.

with this i just started my new blog.