After a reference from Int J Body Compos Res, can any body help?

Hi, I am after the reference below, my library says it cannot obtain a copy either locally or internationally, any help appreciated! Chris Wang ZM, Heshka S, Wielopolski L, Pi-Sunyer FX, Pierson...

03 March 2021 6,193 1 View

Does anyone have any ideas why drug-resistant malaria is increasing in Southeast Asia even when those drugs are no longer used?

When dealing with bacterial toxins, there are three varieties of microbes that develop in your petri dish: toxic, resistant, and susceptible. Initially, there are only toxic and vulnerable...

21 February 2021 6,084 5 View

Why do irreversible inhibitors only affect Vmax and not Km?

So I've been wondering why irreversible inhibitors only affect maximal velocity and not Km? Is there a...

19 January 2021 2,509 1 View

In the Venusian atmosphere why doesn't Nitrogen which is much lighter Carbon Dioxide float to the upper regions?

Carbon dioxide on Earth weighs 44 g/mol and has a density of around 1.98 kg/m3, about 1.53 times that of air. Nitrogen gas weighs 28 g/mol and has a density of 1.2506 g/L. During limnic eruptions...

15 January 2021 8,733 4 View

What type of cellular structures are these likely to be?

I have immunohistochemistry slides of human subcutaneous fat biopsy, with skin attached. Most of the structures are self-evident - skin, adipocytes, microvessels in transverse section (revealed by...

03 December 2020 4,238 7 View

Mata-analysis question: How to deal with multiple outcome scales used within individual studies?

Dear all, thanks for the help in advance. I am performing a met-analysis. Most of the studies included report the same outcome using multiple scales e.g. MMSE or CDRS. What is the best way of...

30 October 2020 8,629 5 View

Glucose dehydrogenase interference with glucokinase assay?

Hello all, I'm currently working with undergraduate student-researchers (there are no graduate students at my university) to purify and characterize the drug targetability of glucokinase from pig...

25 October 2020 3,553 7 View

What is the minimum number of timepoints for markov models?

For those who frequently work in markov models, I am interested in knowing the minimum number of time points/observations to get stable estimates of parameters. I have some follow ups, too:...

24 September 2020 9,659 3 View

How best to address statistical differences when there is no difference in the independent variable?

If an experiment includes, say, two groups and Condition 1 is identical between groups but Condition 2 differs between groups, what is the best course of action if one finds a significant...

17 September 2020 9,731 7 View

Can you re-use ethidium bromide post-stain solution more than once, or does ethidium bromide need to be added fresh each time?

When post-staining agarose gels in an ethidium bromide / water bath for 10 minutes, my labmate says she can re-use the post-stain solution 2-3 times before she has to add more ethidium bromide (at...

04 September 2020 680 3 View

Do I need to do linear regression before running mediation analysis using PROCESS MACRO by Hayes ?

I just wanted to check if I need to run a linear regression separately if I am using PROCESS MACRO to run mediation analysis. Thank you.

02 March 2021 4,359 3 View

Shall I skip the measurement model in SmartPLS?

Hello everyone, I had run a mediation model in SmartPLS using questionnaires that were already validated among my statistical population. A professor who edited my paper -though she is not...

01 March 2021 3,052 3 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

How can we estimate sample size for a moderated mediation analysis with more than two mediators?

How can we estimate sample size for a moderated mediation analysis with more than two mediators? I am looking for scripts, macros, syntaxes, that allow us to estimate sample sizes for research...

15 February 2021 6,813 3 View

What does it mean if in mediation analysis the indirect effect is significant but is a larger b value than that of the direct effect?

I understand that for partial mediation to have occured the CI for the indirect effect must not cross zero and the b value for the indirect effect should be smaller than the b value for the direct...

14 February 2021 3,273 7 View

Can we have a model where A affects B which affects C but B is not a mediator?

Please suggest any papers in Information Management area that have the model where A affects B which affects C but B is not a mediator? What is this relationship called?

13 February 2021 5,239 3 View

What is the step by step process involved in interpreting the results of mediation analysis done using PROCESS macro?

09 February 2021 7,377 2 View

Is the test of the H1 hypothesis in mediation analysis total effect or direct effect?

There are three hypotheses and I carry out direct effect and indirect effects with SEM. H1: There is a significant positive relationship between A and B. H2: There is a significant positive...

08 February 2021 9,141 3 View

SmartPLS: What should I do if discriminant validity HTMT>0.90?

Dear researchers, I have HTMT larger than 0.9, and I have read the article by Henseler et al (2015) :A new criterion for assessing discriminant validity in variance-based structural equation...

19 January 2021 2,622 4 View