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I use gmail everyday on my phone and have not bothered with downloading its app. It is pointless as I get a good enough experience on the browser and I do not want to deal with updates.
And native apps are good for things like Microsoft Office or things you expect to use offline and frequently. But if you make me download an app for Facebook or gmail and get me to update it every now and then, I will get pretty annoyed.
Only useful for browser games, tv and adult entertainment but that is pretty much it.
Got rejected. Am a lone founder. They watched my video for the full time so I have that going for me. My website's front page wasn't pretty at all so that probably worked against me.
I was at a top 10 grad school till 2 months ago. An assistant professor here wrote a paper which was a minimalist increment over her PhD work. Something you would expect to see in PlOs One but got published in Cell. I know of people in lesser ranked and less prestigious schools who have trouble getting more impacting papers accepted.
I agree it would be a lot easier and plausible for the biomedical sciences and for material/organic/inorganic synthesis. Certainly the theory work will be done by scientists and the design of experiments. Hmmm I wonder for people developing equipment if we could write a whole bunch of plugins that allow a robot to construct different modules of equipment from raw materials and a built-in 3D printer. Again theory and design by the scientist but won't have to spend hours building and testing each component. There are very few scientists I have met or heard speak, and I am at a top 10 grad school, that are doing any method/technology development that are a huge leap from pre-existing science and technology.
Give the rat a label that binds specifically to those tissues and guide the robot to the tissue using that. Self-guided robots to be used in surgery are being developed and if I remember currently there is one available for a very minor form of neurosurgery that involves sticking a very thin needle into the skull. What you need a robot for is very much possible and FYI they will be able to do it with better precision and less contamination.
From what I understand X-cart and Magento already address this with PayPal and quite possibly Stripe. And if you're coding your own website you might as well use Stripe's API.
These are all great but not realistic given the current competition and the academic mindset I have seen here. Many of my fellow graduate students consider robotics to be the future of how science will be done as most, if not all, of the work done in the lab can be done by robots. We need cheap and open-source liquid handling robots with a well documented platform. The labs of the future will not require man labor except but to think and that means scientists will be ask to publish a standardized protocol file with any plugins they used and all other labs will have to do is run that file and provide the materials. That will make replication incredibly easy and cheap.
Just dump the leaves in the ocean. Biodegradable and the salt came from the ocean anyways. The leaves if too concentrated will intake a lot of water and their cells burst. Or the leaves won't be too concentrated and will be eaten by nature.