What is the best remotely sensed imagery for detecting invasive plant species in partially open forests?

If I wanted to detect a small (up to 3 m in height) invasive plant species growing within an open canopy pine forest (around 50% canopy closure), and differentiate it from other plant species...

31 December 2015 2,322 9 View

Any suggestions on using content analysis for assessments of historical documents?

I want to compare an old manuscript on sustainability to something more modern. Does anyone have any suggestions on using content analysis for doing this, as both documents are very long.

31 December 2015 2,614 10 View

Has anyone used a variable tabu state?

Just wondering. It seems that in my example problems a variable tabu state, up to some maximum, helps the process avoid cycling and produces better solutions. Any papers on this subject are welcome.

11 December 2015 6,511 0 View

What are the main factors for adoption of new technology?

About 15 years ago, based on personal experience, I suggested that the adoption of new technology (GIS at that time) by an organization would be based on the availability of four relatively equal...

11 December 2015 4,321 0 View

Does anyone have an example forest plan from Africa, Asia, or South America that they can share?

11 December 2015 2,288 5 View

Any thoughts on asking graduating students their impressions of sustainability?

For your consideration, from a forestry perspective, I often pose to students during their oral examinations or thesis defenses a question on sustainability. The main purpose is to see what...

11 December 2015 4,918 5 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

What degree of missing data in a particular case/participant results in Expectation-Maximisation no longer working?

I'm dealing with a mediation model and am using the PROCESS module in SPSS. Due to SPSS and PROCESS being limited in the imputation methods - being unable to handle multiple imputation - the other...

02 March 2021 4,362 1 View

Can NFL theorem be valid in infinite search space in ML?

NFL theorem is valid for algorithms training in fixed training set. However, the general characteristic of algorithms in expanded or open dataset has not been proved yet. Could you show your...

01 March 2021 1,189 3 View

How to eliminate Steady state error from Reinforcement learning genetic algorithm code?

The following code (see 1st 2 images attached) is used to produce PID controller values that are designed to control the system (G). The code finds the PID controller values (noted as k) by using...

28 February 2021 6,560 14 View

Centrality measures computation in Biblioshiny/ Vosviewer?

26 February 2021 7,279 2 View

How could I process data in RCT to include it in meta-analysis?

I'm in the process of doing a meta-analysis and have encountered some problems with the RCT data. One of my outcom is muscle strength. In one study, I have three different measurements of muscle...

25 February 2021 7,603 3 View

How to handle studies which report perfect effect sizes in a meta-analysis using Pearson's r?

I'm in the process of updating a meta-analysis and in one of the new studies, effect sizes are reported as Tau-U. Two of the effect sizes are reported as Tau-U = 1.00. I am using Andy Field's...

24 February 2021 2,265 3 View

Does anyone indicates a site or a book of "Meta-analysis for dummies"?

24 February 2021 2,755 4 View

Is it the right method to transform path coefficients into correlations before meta-analysis?

We all know it is possible to get path coefficients from correlation matrix (e.g., PATH ANALYSIS I: INTRODUCTION (ecu.edu) ). Using a simple solver on a spreadsheet, it is therefore possible to...

23 February 2021 8,366 3 View

How can I homogenize this data to make a meta-analysis?

Hi, I am doing a review and hopefully meta-analysis for my Master thesis but I have the following problems: - Some studies only give the difference between end trial and baseline data and other...

22 February 2021 1,115 4 View