What is your opinion of "emotional intelligence" as a modern management tool?

Dear friend, what is your opinion of "emotional intelligence" as a modern management tool? Are there positive practices in your countries and in your institutions with its study and implementation?

14 December 2020 3,867 90 View

Statistical power analysis and sample size required to conduct Latent Class Growth Analysis ?

Hi, I'd like to conduct Latent Class Growth Curve analysis in order to explore inter-individual differences in the evolution of my variable. How could I estimate the a priori sample size...

27 November 2020 5,057 9 View

Same convergence indices and covariances using lavaan ML or MLR estimator?

Hi, I run CFAs with the lavaan package under R and I use the MLR estimator that fits the characteristics of my data. When I use the "summary(fit)" command, the fit indices for the MLR estimator...

18 November 2020 652 3 View

Is there a database of photos with insect pollinators on flowers of plants?

I would like to know if there is a database of photos with insect pollinators on flowers. The insects must be located on flowers of plants. I am interested in pollinators encountered in Europe,...

04 November 2020 2,219 6 View

Conducting CFA ith non normal data?

Hi, I'm looking for recommandations/articles to run Confirmatory Factor Analysis with non normal data. I've already used the WLS estimator using RStudio. Does anybody know methods for...

21 October 2020 4,340 3 View

How to run and evaluate Bayesian CFA model fit using R ?

Hi, Does anyboby know an R tutorial to run a Bayesian CFA and recommandations concerning the model fit evaluation and adjustment indexes of this type of analysis? I need to run a Bayesian CFA...

06 October 2020 5,819 2 View

How to run ESEM in R to evaluate structural validity of a questionnaire?

Hi, In order to validate psychometric properties of a questionnaire and more precisely the structural validity, the esem package :...

26 August 2020 4,397 3 View

What is the best European Table for food's amino acid composition ?

Hello dear network, I'm looking for a European composition table (if possible) to know the amino acid content of food. Do you have any ideas? Thanks you !

12 July 2020 5,494 2 View

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My colleagues study plant-pollinator networks. Insect (pollinator) identification is a task that requires a lot of effort. I would like to know if there are already good enough trained or...

21 April 2020 5,410 1 View

How is it possible to measure a electrical current created by an electron beam on an aluminium volume?

Dear , I am writing regarding GATE. Indeed, I wish to find a solution of the following problem: I realise, on GATE, the bombardment of electrons on an aluminium volume and I wish to collect...

24 March 2020 2,471 1 View

Is IMPACT FACTOR justified in case of Taxonomy?

There is huge pressure of getting good impact factor on scholars now a days. On the other hand Taxonomy is a very dry subject and the concerned papers can only get citation in same group of organism.

26 February 2021 5,851 1 View

Uncertianiny in using dry or wet basis in mixing a sediment with fuel oil?

Hello I'm currently working on a topic related to studying the anaerobic biodegradation of TPH in marine sediments. In this work, sediment should be mixed with fuel oil to a concentration of 20 g...

24 February 2021 9,839 3 View

Standard curve shifting over time. How do I stabilise the ELISA?

24 February 2021 1,365 3 View

How can I selectively dry etch Ti on a polymer substrate?

24 February 2021 5,378 1 View

How to reduce static electricity of powder after lyophilization?

I am working on synthesizing and then purifying peptides using the SPPS system. After purification of the peptide, the peptide powder is obtained using a freeze dryer. When measuring the powder,...

22 February 2021 10,099 5 View

Plant research: Watering uniformity/consistency. How important is it?

Trying to gather insight from an unresolved discussion with a colleague here, and either the available literature surrounding this topic and/or my keywords in search of are lacking. Context:...

21 February 2021 6,389 3 View

How do you integrate the 'friction' variable Xi in the Nose - Hoover Thermostat in order to apply it to a molecular dynamics simulation?

Everything tells you the derivative of Xi, but not how integrate the value to implement it into a simulation. How do you do this?

21 February 2021 6,481 1 View

How to implement boundary conditions in Abaqus contact problems?

Hello I am trying to simulate crawling motion of a bilayer beam using Abaqus. Kind of similar to this: https://youtu.be/os-Z3ucoFpA I am using multiphysics enabled (diffusion, deformation,...

20 February 2021 2,916 1 View

How does a freeze dryer destruct your solid sample?

Several times I lost my sample during freeze drying. There was no solid or powder in the vial after freeze drying. I'm sure sample contained solute because i took its NMR spectrum. I covered the...

15 February 2021 6,749 2 View

Can i use the " weight moisture" ( humidite ponderale in French) of plants to describe their efficiency in using water?

Weight moisture is : water content/ dry weight , if for example it is 4 it means that this plant have for each 1gam of dry mass 4 grams of water. can i use this to interpret the plant use of...

14 February 2021 5,784 1 View