Level 1 pre-post multilevel regression: Panel data or ANOVA approach?

Dear colleagues, I am currently teaching myself in multilevel analysis using educational data. I found few to zero literature on basic analysis methods. In my context we frequently use level-1...

17 February 2021 9,378 5 View

Reliable and Valid Instrument for Causes of Medical Errors?

Is there any questionnaire/survey that measures the causes of medical errors? Example: physician negligence vs. systemic issues. Looking for a reliable and validated instrument. Thank you!

15 February 2021 2,874 4 View

Should the AUC in a concentration-time graph of a subcutaneous implant be roughly the same for poeple?

I have 2 concentration time curves of a subcut drug implant. the first group has a peak around the 50 day mark where as the second group does not. Both groups received the same implant by the same...

10 February 2021 2,305 3 View

Software for flow cytometry-like gating of data sets?

I am currently trying to do image based cytometry from fluorescence microscopy images. From the images I extract data such as cell size and a number of fluorescence intensities. Is there any...

09 February 2021 6,278 1 View

Can A. thaliana splice algae genes?

24 January 2021 329 2 View

Does long term preservation (10years) of Collembola in 99% Ethanol affect recovery rate of extraction by flotation?

Hello! I am currently developing an automated counting approach using Fiji to count Collembola from pitfall trapped samples that have been stored in Ethanol (99%) since 2010. I use flotation (tap...

13 January 2021 659 2 View

Co-stain Lectin PNA FITC conjugate with an uncojugated primary antibody?

Hello, I am planning to stain retinal tissue sections for IHC and want to co-stain cones and rods. For this we plan on using a Lectin PNA From Arachis hypogaea (peanut), FITC Conjugate for cones...

12 January 2021 583 1 View

How to use Abaqus USDFLD subroutine to vary stiffness?

Hi I have a problem where I am trying to vary the stiffness spatially across a structured interface. The whole idea is to vary the stiffness vertically, with a bulk stiffness of 8GPa decreasing...

06 January 2021 262 3 View

I really need help with cov-2 pseudotyped lentivirus production. Support?

Hi, i'm desesperate. i'm trying to produce lentivirus usinf BEI resources kit NR-52948. 24 hours after transfection i detect a massive GFP expression in my 293T cells. After 72 hours i filtered...

30 December 2020 9,889 6 View

How can i estimate the total phenolic content from a plant extract?

Suggestions and recommendations are welcome. A protocol used and experience would also be helpful.

25 December 2020 9,807 4 View

Any specific pipeline or parameter to analyse total transcriptomics study of brain tissue samples?

I have two groups of brain samples, control and treated for example. It was total RNA nova seq sequencing. I tried all the available pipeline like: star+rsem+deseq2, Hista+stringtie+cuffdiff,...

27 February 2021 356 6 View

How do you interpret theoretical vs. experimental reaction orders with respect to a reactant?

I recently came across a paper focusing on the hydrodeoxygenation of oxygen-containing compounds. The paper linearized the rate equation in order to determine the experimental reaction order with...

14 February 2021 8,254 2 View

Can I get the design of circular cylinder to fix thermocouple on the surface and cartridge heater in core ?

Respected Scientific Community. I'm interested to carry out experimental studies on a circular cylinder. But even after doing literature review I unable to get the exact design of the cylinder...

10 February 2021 6,221 1 View

What could be an interesting topic for a bachelor's thesis in a finance/marketing/computer science field?

Hi everyone! I would like to write my bachelor's thesis on a topic that's currently relevant in the sphere of finance, marketing or computer science (or if it's possible a topic concerning all the...

08 February 2021 1,300 12 View

Any recommendations for open-source survey form builder, which has option for semantic differential scale questions apart from Likert scale?

Asking this as Google forms doesn't allow multiple items in a semantic differential format.

04 February 2021 5,869 4 View

How to best engender critical thinking in K-12 education?

From my observations, there appear to be three principal avenues to engender critical thinking in education K-12: debate; mathematics, and science. For some students, all three avenues are...

04 February 2021 9,605 7 View

How can I implement a Generalized Estimating Equation method on spatially autocorrelated time-series data?

I used Generalized Estimating Equations (geepack in R) on my regularly monitored (twice a year) plant abundance data in grid cells to evaluate their trends of density. Since these are time-series...

26 January 2021 3,833 1 View

How to prove possibility/impossibility to analytically solve the functional equation f(a ln x^2)/f(x)=x/2a; and how to find out the solution?

This is my very first encounter with functional equation of this kind, and methods of series solution and differential equations are of not much help. The solution to this problem, or at least the...

25 January 2021 6,053 5 View

How to find nature of extremum of a functional? what are the mathematical prerequisites to understand it?

For a function, usually sign of second derivative (and if it is zero, even/odd index of higher order derivative whose numerical value is zero) is enough to detect whether the extreme point is...

25 January 2021 7,703 3 View

What is your raw statistical treatment preference?

Hi, I have raw data from [HG-U133_Plus_2] Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array that I want to process using the Expresso function for Affymetrix microarrays. My samples include tumor...

22 January 2021 1,527 3 View