Methodological confusions regarding deductive and inductive reasoning, hypothesis and theory test?

Hi Colleagues- What do you think about the following methodological issues: 1. Is it methodologically wrong to formulate quantitative research questionnaire based on inductive reasoning? 2. Is it...

21 February 2021 4,634 6 View

Are there alternatives to the Devarda alloy when estimating nitrogen?

Are there alternatives to the Devarda alloy when estimating nitrogen? devarda alloy is reducing the nitrate to ammonium

15 February 2021 8,838 3 View

Up to what extent website personalization can help in creating urge to buy impulsively?

Up to what extent website personalization can help in creating urge to buy impulsively? The digital transformation is making most of the organizations to go online and start doing business through...

09 February 2021 4,430 6 View

Observation instrument for classroom activity in consecutive interpreting?

Hello everybody My research involves an intervention where an instructor delivers a training course to students. My role as a researcher is to write down observations. Do you have any idea about...

03 February 2021 6,853 3 View

Can anyone help to convert ODK XLS into XML?

We want to conduct a verbal autopsy using WHO adult VA updated tools in ODK. The current version of WHO adult verbal autopsy tools is v1.5.3. I have successfully converted VA ODK-XLS v1.4 into XML...

03 February 2021 844 2 View

What is the best way to encode categorical variables in datasets with many features and avoid increasing dimensionality of the dataset?

I am working with a large dataset that has many categorical variables with many classes in each variable. I want to encode the categorical variables without increasing the dimensionality of the...

31 January 2021 6,986 3 View

May I know how to determine the acceptable intakes for new types of nitrosamine discovered in drug?

Currently only common nitrosaminse like NDMA and NDEA have mentioned the acceptable daily intake. Based on EMA guidance, should refer to ICH M7 chapter 7.5 guideline. I have read but could not...

20 January 2021 522 1 View

What is the best way to define and decide sample size in the case of cross cultural studies?

What is the best way to define and decide sample size in the case of cross cultural studies? I want to decide the number of respondent in two countries which I am considering for my study. One of...

09 December 2020 1,661 11 View

Which MATLAB/PYTHON solver is efficient to solve nondifferentiable nonlinear subproblem?

02 December 2020 2,381 3 View

Dissolution study on nano co-crystals ?

Hi, SO I prepared nano co-crystals and I have done a dissolution study on them, the thing is I'm getting 130% of my co crystals at the end of dissolution which doesn't make sense !! I have...

26 November 2020 8,816 4 View

How can I measure MMP-1 protein activity or protein level from liver tissue?

Instead of checking only the mRNA level, I want to check the active protein level of MMP-1 in Liver tissue from mice. How can I do that?

03 March 2021 1,763 2 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 3 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature)?

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature-based reflection)? Thank you for your time and for...

03 March 2021 2,870 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

Is there any test to determine the cardiovascular risk of patients with obesity? from the perspective of obesity?

We found tests to determine cardiovascular risk taking into account lipid profile, blood pressure, age, history of diabetes, other laboratories. But when weight is involved, there is a paradox. I...

02 March 2021 6,036 1 View