How could we get rid of NPM in academia?

I do not believe adding a lot of eager counting bureaucrats improves neither teaching nor research quality. Good suggestions to reverse the NPM evolution in academia. M. Alvesson et. al. suggests...

06 July 2018 6,841 0 View

Do we need a new research community internet platform?

Some of my colleagues argue that Researchgate or Academia.edu are good for information on research (sharing and searching) while these platforms do not offer the really interesting part of...

10 November 2017 1,813 53 View

Why are mathematics so difficult for most students?

I have been teaching subjects involving math for many years (more than 30), Operations Research, Probability and Statistics, Micro- and Macro Economics, Game Theory - to name a few. Almost always,...

07 August 2017 1,489 24 View

Is your best paper the most cited one?

Many of us tend to be surprised when we after some time observe that the paper we thought should be our best is hardly cited while some other (maybe insignificant one) 'gets popular'. My most...

04 May 2017 5,155 28 View

Bug in RG read calculations?

The attached picture makes no sense to me, but of course, I am getting old :)

04 May 2017 9,015 11 View

Do you feel, after a review process, that the original version of the paper was better than the published version?

I often (of course not always) get this feeling after a long and tiresome review process that the published paper often is significantly worse than the original. I do not like this feeling, and...

04 May 2017 4,567 17 View

Is it sensible to reward good research by using citation counts as a metric?

In Norway, the government suggests to add citation counts as mean of measuring research quality, What do people out there think of such a suggestion?

02 March 2017 7,495 14 View

What is the impact of game theory in economic theory?

Judged by the topics for recent Nobel prices in economics, it seems as one year is going to macroeconomics, the other year to microeconomics - maybe a reasonable distribution. Looking at the...

02 March 2017 4,360 7 View

Did you read this paper?

08 September 2016 493 4 View

Would Sanders have been a better candidate then Clinton?

I have a certain feeling that when a 'protest' candidate finally is running for white house, and his opponent belongs to the 'establishment', the 'protest' candidate might have a really good...

05 June 2016 5,646 3 View

Is there a deep reason for using the squared modulus of the wave function as the probability density of the existence of the particle?

I think we were all surprised at the first time we got to know quantum mechanics that the squared modulus of the wave function is the probability density of the existence of the particle? The role...

28 February 2021 6,282 9 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

Physical-chemical formation of stalactites/stalagmites. what promotes the formation/growth of these structures?

I know, or think I do, the basic idea behind these natural structures, as from what I know they form due to water dripping from the top leaving a salt deposit behind. But started to wonder about...

22 February 2021 1,400 4 View

Is there a suitable way to confine cell attachment area inside a multi-well plate?

Are there any types of cylindrical cell culture inserts that are designed to confine cell seeding area? Say, if I'm using a 12 well plate (3.5 cm^2/well), but only want to seed cells in the middle...

22 February 2021 7,127 4 View

How can a reference point be fixed to an attachment point in Abaqus?

I am currently trying to copy an assembly feature, that is present in an old version of the model I am using, onto a new model. The feature is a reference point that is fixed to an attachment...

16 February 2021 8,872 2 View

How to determine the significance of "diagonal" contrasts in two-way ANOVA interactions on SPSS?

Hi all, I'm running a 2 x 2 between-subjects ANOVA with the setup in the attached image (kindly refer to JPG attachment). I understand that calculating simple effects involves determining...

09 February 2021 547 3 View

Whether L version and D version peptidesshould have identical NMR, especially in the state of self-assembly?

Whether L version and D version peptides should have identical NMR, especially in the state of self-assembly have to have identical NMR? How to use HRMS to confirm L version or D version...

01 February 2021 6,756 4 View

How to interpret multiple bell shaped curves in Kratky plot?

Hi, I'm trying to analyze a Kratky plot generated from my SAXS data. I am seeing multiple bell-shaped curves in my Kratky plot and I am not able to find any source to get relevant info on this...

20 January 2021 2,474 1 View

How to edit a post hoc Kruskal Wallis test in SPSS that has generated an unreadable table?

I have gathered field data about birds at hanging feeders. One question I am trying to answer is is the proportion of time spent being vigilant at the feeders the same in all species. I have run...

07 January 2021 8,445 4 View

How to increase the attachment of the HEK293t cells to the glass coverslips or cell dishes?

Hey guys, I always have problems with the attachment of HEK293t cells to glass coverslips while doing IFA. They are so easy to detach from the coverslips while washing. The coverslips are already...

30 December 2020 8,381 3 View