Is it possible to obtain a negative cronbach alpha?

Good evening everyone. If a questionnaire has 4 factors measuring different constructs as for example CAMI questionnaire measuring attitudes toward the mentally ill that has four factors:...

18 February 2021 3,223 3 View

How to calculate visual angle of a visual stimulus?

I am currently trying to figure out how to calculate the visual angle of some visual stimuli I used in an experiment. I think I have all of the information I need to calculate this. One is a...

15 February 2021 3,189 2 View

Having trouble with qPCR amplification plots. My curve's never seem to reach a plateau. Any ideas?

The parameters of the curve all seem acceptable, typically reactions results are above 0.9852, -3.1 to -3.6 slope, and 90-110% reaction efficiency. The results seem to be what I would expect from...

04 February 2021 1,138 3 View

How to make sure self-ligation of a linear plasmid?

I want to ligate a linear 1.7kbp plasmid with the EcoRI sites at two sides, but when I use the quick ligase kit from NEB to test the ligation efficiency it is hard to ligate it. Is there anyone...

08 December 2020 3,442 3 View

What effect does light have on the SLS plant tissue decelluarization process?

does it speed it up?

29 November 2020 6,168 3 View

What is exact impact of pH on preparation method of nanoparticles? why some nanoparticles are synthesized in ACIDIC pH while others in alkaline pH?

I am trying to prepare Cerium oxide nanoparticles. literature suggested the acidic pH of the reaction. what is the reason? what is the mechanism if so

28 November 2020 8,825 2 View

Estimate / Predict remaining useful life of a bearing without data of previous failure?

Hello, I am trying to write a program in Matlab to estimate the remaining useful life of a bearing without data of a previous failure. Do you think this is possible? I was thinking to use the...

27 November 2020 9,863 3 View

Significant degradation of RNA in RNAlater storage at 4C for longer than a month?

I misread the amount of time that RNA was stable in RNA later at 4 C as several months instead of a month. I have e zebrafish samples that have taken me a 2 months to collect and they have been...

23 October 2020 8,085 3 View

Two way ANOVA with non normal data?

Good afternoon everyone. I would like to know your oppinion or advise for the following: I would like to compare the results of a variable measured with a likert scale. I have two (or three)...

19 October 2020 4,564 4 View

Comparing two independent groups with very different sample size?

Hello eveyone. I would like to know your oppinion on the following. Do you think that it is adequate to compare two groups with very different sample size and non normal sample distribution? for...

19 October 2020 8,475 4 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

Any research paper call for publication related to management or finance or economics?

It should be standard journal (Indexed)

01 March 2021 8,379 1 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

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

How to run raise regression in R?

if anybody know how to run raise regression in r, and raise parameter selection, please help me

24 February 2021 8,199 1 View