What is the correct common name for Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris?

There are two extant species of Hydrochoerus: Hydrochoerus isthmius, the lesser or Panamanian capybara, and the genotype species H. hydrochaeris. The latter is the more common species of capybara,...

11 February 2021 3,494 14 View

Is there an alternative to PGLS that considers phylogenetic signal when calculating the estimated value?

I have been working on a study trying to estimate body mass in mammals using a skeletal proxy in R. My dataset has high phylogenetic signal (Pagel's Lambda = 0.9) and I am interested in removing...

26 January 2021 6,997 3 View

Are phylogenetic independent contrasts still used in biology?

I have a regression equation in which I am curious if the amount of scatter around the regression line is driven by phylogeny. I know there is a lot of phylogenetic signal because Pascal's lambda...

22 December 2020 937 1 View

What is the cause of abnormal breathing in anaesthetized rats?

Is anyone able to tell me why my anaesthetized rats often do a 'double breath', or diaphragmatic breath, like a hiccup (see video). This often begins after 1-2 hours under anesthesia, and can...

06 December 2020 2,514 5 View

Problems detecting miR-155 with Advanced Taqman miR kit?

18 October 2020 9,880 3 View

Control miRs for RNA extracted from FFPE DLBCL samples?

04 August 2020 1,195 1 View

Can the magnetic permeability and electric permittivity of the vacuum be modeled as the quantum vacuum magnetization and polarization, respectively?

If the magnetic field permeability and electric field permittivity of the quantum vacuum at a point in spacetime may be understood as the effective vacuum magnetization and vacuum polarization,...

04 June 2020 7,655 2 View

What sample size do I need if my total population is 195 (countries in the world)?

Hi everyone, (Please excuse the ambiguity within the question - protecting my idea) I recently discovered some indexes which I and colleagues would like to see if scores on these indexes across...

02 June 2020 3,960 11 View

What is the best way to do immunohistochemistry on perfused gut tissue from rat?

We have recently collected perfused whole mount sections of the rat gut, containing the duodenum, ilium and colon. Following perfusion the sections were cut longitudinally but kept all in one...

02 April 2020 328 3 View

Has anyone had issues with automated plagiarism detectors and pre-prints?

I've heard of automated plagiarism systems provided by many journals nowadays picking up on similar content in published abstracts from conferences etc. and since these automated systems are a...

21 March 2020 4,304 4 View

Can NFL theorem be valid in infinite search space in ML?

NFL theorem is valid for algorithms training in fixed training set. However, the general characteristic of algorithms in expanded or open dataset has not been proved yet. Could you show your...

01 March 2021 1,189 3 View

Tooth extraction and subsequent dental implant placement in Sprague-Dawley rats induce differential changes in anterior digastric myofibre size and ?

01 March 2021 7,254 3 View

How can I represent SDS-PAGE results for machine learning analysis?

I am trying to classify and analyze the results of an SDS-PAGE based array for bacterial detection using machine learning, but I have trouble finding the best way to represent the results with...

27 February 2021 9,176 3 View

Is there an open source free software for text mining and sentiment analysis?

I am looking for a free software for text mining and sentiment analysis for my research on customer review mining (it involves calculating polarity of attributes,opinion oriented information...

25 February 2021 1,920 6 View

Suggest me some trending topics for phd research in text mining/AI/machine learning?

My master's research is in info retrieval and text mining. I would be grateful if you could help me to select a good topic for my phd research proposal.

24 February 2021 393 14 View

What is/are the best ML classifier(s) for Sentinel2 images?

Hi I am trying to segment a sentinel2 image. At this stage, I want to run a binary classifier that assigns each pixel to either farm or non-farm pixel. For this purpose, I have 4 10m bands...

15 February 2021 3,596 9 View

Do you know of an informal caregiver of a person who has recently received a bone marrow transplant?

We are conducting a pilot study of an intervention for informal caregivers of persons who have recently received a bone marrow transplant in the US. If you know of anyone who might be interested,...

13 February 2021 9,174 1 View

Can we have constructs of Cronbach alpha value with more than 0.9 in social science research? What is recommended in this problem?

My study consists of a conceptual framework with seven constructs measured in seven point Likert scale. According to pilot study, only three constructs have Cronbach alpha value more than 0.9...

12 February 2021 9,368 2 View

Which and How to use teaching strategies and procedures to effectively integrate the four skills while teaching English Language Online?

As an inexperienced teacher in the field of online teaching, I have the fear of unconsciously ignoring one of the skills while focusing on not ignoring the other! Therefore, I wish to make use of...

09 February 2021 5,101 4 View

Can you remove a publication from me?

I thought it might be mien from decades ago when I did research in math, but it is not mine.

03 February 2021 7,712 4 View