Global management market of courses & marketing to improve quality in Pt Treatment or science or mainly Bureaucracy?

12 October 2020 9,272 1 View

SEM: What does CFI = 1 & RMSEA = 0 indicate in over-identified models?

I'm suspicious about "perfect fit" in my SEM path analysis, with fit indices of CFI = 1 and RMSEA = 0 which I would expect from an just-identified model. However, since I have 3 degrees of...

08 August 2020 1,492 4 View

AC/DC inverters: Are there any standards or laws regulation DC output on the AC Grid?

Hi, we are working on internal specifications on On-Board Charger for Battery electric vehicles. We have seen some field failures on older generations. We are suspecting that e.g. PV AC/DC...

15 December 2019 6,887 1 View

How to test unidimensionality for polytomous data with IRT-models in R?

I would be thankful if someone could give me a short breakdown on how to test unidimensionality of polytomous data (likert-scale) using IRT-models in R. As it is my understanding that the...

22 November 2019 6,730 7 View

How do you optimize your research design for questionnaires with large item pools?

While developing a questionnaire to measure several personality traits in a somewhat unconventional way, I now seem to be facing a dilemma due to the size of my item pool. The questionnaire...

30 May 2019 2,633 4 View

What factors generally improve inter-rater reliability?

I'm developing a questionnaire to assess observational data in an area of research which is notoriously prone to low inter-rater reliability. Hence, I'm looking for factors in questionnaire design...

03 December 2018 4,006 3 View

Machine learning in economic research?

What is your take on machine learning as an applied method in economic research. is it a game changer or will it not impact your approach to research?

22 July 2018 7,401 5 View

How to use a geographical (GIS) time-dependent dataset as boundary condition in Comsol?

I want to apply a time-depended geographical dataset (format: "Lon,Lat,Time,Data") as boundary condition in a Comsol model. How can a achieve this for an instationary simulation? I know that...

21 May 2018 7,783 3 View

Is there any way to statistically test control samples with parent material?

I want to statistically test the relative gene expression of precision cut liver slices with the gene expression of their parent livers. I have 14 samples from 3 different parent livers that I...

09 March 2018 4,517 4 View

What is the average magnitude of correlations between common personnel selection methods?

Looking for recent (preferably meta-analytic) findings that yielded estimates of the proportion of shared variance among common personnel selection methods such as structured and unstructured...

11 December 2017 1,946 3 View

Where can I find life cycle inventory or assessment of non woven materials?

Dear network, I am looking for the LCA or LCI or at least the energy balances of the non woven fabrics process for my master project, in specific for natural fibers, yet I have found...

02 March 2021 9,662 1 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

How to choose ANN number of hidden layers and nodes?

Hello, Could you please share any interesting research explaining how to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes per layer in case of regression problems using ANN? Thank you, any help would...

01 March 2021 6,200 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

Any specific pipeline or parameter to analyse total transcriptomics study of brain tissue samples?

I have two groups of brain samples, control and treated for example. It was total RNA nova seq sequencing. I tried all the available pipeline like: star+rsem+deseq2, Hista+stringtie+cuffdiff,...

27 February 2021 356 6 View

How could I take into consideration the weights of observation in a system of seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) in rstudio?

I build a model of 4 regression equations (probit and OLS) in R studio. I need to take the weights of observations into consideration. While it is simple to do so for every regression equation,...

27 February 2021 1,233 1 View

Can random sampling have inclusion criteria?

As random sampling means that everyone in the population have an equal chance to be chosen, can it have inclusion criteria? My research participants have been chosen based on the inclusion...

26 February 2021 6,905 10 View

Do you kow of any database containing data on retention time, log P and polarizability for a large number of molecules?

Hi, I am a chemistry undergraduate doing my dissertation project on HPLC. In my project, I need to predict the HPLC retention time of 20 aromatic molecules, the calibration set. To do this I will...

24 February 2021 2,602 1 View