What do you think of "publish or perish"?

Publish or perish is becoming increasingly a concerning issue for academics in some countries. Especially non-English speaking countries who struggle to achieve the requirements of their demanding...

07 August 2017 8,135 35 View

Can reinvestment of profits be a solution to business growth?

Growth has been a major concern in recent years, especially in the context of the current crisis. Yet diverse solutions and recommendations have been tried. Reinvestment is rarely discussed as a...

11 December 2014 4,234 26 View

What do you write in your participant observation diary?

Researchers conducting participant observation often take a lot of notes in the hope that it would be useful to them at a given point in time. Such notes vary according to the level of grabularity...

06 July 2014 4,075 20 View

How do you define a literature review in a doctoral dissertation?

I find that many definitions of a literature review are unsatisfactory, descriptive and normative. Hardly any of the available definitions discuss the actual process. The descriptive set of steps...

06 July 2014 6,993 15 View

Can China rival the US as an innovation powerhouse?

China has done remarkably well in terms of economic growth, yet there is much speculation as to whether it can sustain such growth. On the other hand, the US has been struggling to achieve the...

03 April 2014 8,300 22 View

Is biology in the 21st century what physics was in the 19th century?

In recent years we have witnessed some breakthroughs in biology with significant progress being made, similar to the progress of physics made in the 19th century. Furthermore, it seems that with...

03 April 2014 2,537 17 View

Is intuition liable to cultural influences?

I thought it would be interesting to get to know some views on intuition from different cultural background. Any views would be greatly welcome.

03 April 2014 9,487 24 View

Can you cite working papers?

Working papers are often referred to as "grey literature" and aren't peer-reviewed. I guess, they represent a form of scholarly writing since they are a form of publication, even though their...

03 April 2014 3,346 8 View

Is the use of new technology causing a generational divide?

Current generations make extensive use of new technologies such as mobile phones, PCs, the internet and its associated tools, playstations, etc. These technologies were absent when the parents of...

03 April 2014 4,011 7 View

Should higher education be expensive, affordable or free to everyone?

Britain has recently tripled its university tuition fees, which have increased from 3000 to 9000 Pounds Sterling. The general trend in the anglo saxon world is that higher education costs a lot of...

03 April 2014 8,207 37 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

What SPSS analysis should I run with one IV (with two levels) and two DVs?

Hi, I am trying to figure out which test would be most appropriate to run for the following question: Is there a difference in task blood pressure between smokers and non-smokers? There are two...

01 March 2021 8,235 2 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

How to choose ANN number of hidden layers and nodes?

Hello, Could you please share any interesting research explaining how to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes per layer in case of regression problems using ANN? Thank you, any help would...

01 March 2021 6,200 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

How could I take into consideration the weights of observation in a system of seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) in rstudio?

I build a model of 4 regression equations (probit and OLS) in R studio. I need to take the weights of observations into consideration. While it is simple to do so for every regression equation,...

27 February 2021 1,233 1 View

Mediation path analysis - Can I run two seperate models?

I am wanting to run a serial mediation model with 2 x IVs, 2 x MVs, and 3 DPs (all continuous). Is it problematic to run 2 different models for each IV, keeping the MVs and DPs the same in each...

27 February 2021 5,681 3 View

SEM or Multiple Regression for an analysis without Latent Variables?

Hello, I have three hypothesis to test, all with the same IV. I am testing if the effect of the IV on the first DV is mediated by awe. I am then measuring whether the effect of the IV on a...

26 February 2021 8,399 5 View

Can random sampling have inclusion criteria?

As random sampling means that everyone in the population have an equal chance to be chosen, can it have inclusion criteria? My research participants have been chosen based on the inclusion...

26 February 2021 6,905 10 View