How do you administer exams for your online classes?

This question is for those who have taught online classes. One of challenges of online classes is administering exams. For face to face classes, an instructor becomes a proctor in a...

04 May 2018 6,962 4 View

What is your opinion of online doctorate degree?

Some universities offer fully online doctorate degrees. Do you think that offering fully online degree is appropriate? or do you think it is just based on a business model (education as a business)?

04 May 2018 939 9 View

What is your opinion on the legalization of marijuana?

03 April 2018 4,047 3 View

Shall a university regulate the use of textbooks, that are authored by their professors, in their classes?

As far as I know, some universities do not allow their professors to use the textbooks written by them in their classes. Or at least they have some kinds of regulations on it. The rationale behind...

03 April 2018 8,316 13 View

Shall convicted felons enjoy the right to vote?

Many states in the United States deprive the right to vote for those who committed felony crimes (serious crimes), and including many other rights as a citizen: holding a public office, public...

03 April 2018 8,950 22 View

What are the ways to know whether or not the analysis with multiple imputations is a better estimate than the one with missing data?

I have a panel data set: 39 countries and 12 years (n = 468). My key variable of interest (Variable A) has missing data, along with other variables, and 387 cases are available out of 468. I have...

02 March 2018 5,214 4 View

Should the department of economics belong to college of business?

I have noticed that the department of economics belongs to the college of business in some universities. However, the same department is not a part of college of business in some other...

02 March 2018 3,434 12 View

Do social scientists in European have less preference in the use of statistical analysis than their counterparts in the United States do?

I am a social scientist (more accurately a criminologist) who works in the United States. A couple of years ago, I submitted my manuscript to a journal in Europe for a possible publication. The...

02 March 2018 3,806 5 View

What may be the ways to prevent a delayed journal article review process?

Each journal has a different review timeline for a manuscript review: as short as one month and as long as three months. It, however, is not uncommon that it takes several months or even longer...

02 March 2018 8,203 10 View

What are the validity and reliability of social statistics in developing countries?

Many researchers argued that statistical data, in general, in many developing countries are not accurate. Thus, the data in developing countries are not directly comparable with those in developed...

02 March 2018 9,629 7 View

What are the values needed for gabor filter's parameter for cifar10 data?

Hi, I implemented a code to gabor filter cifar10 data but the images after being filtered and stacked are not clear like the original images. I think the problem is in the way I am using the...

03 March 2021 6,317 1 View

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

02 March 2021 3,858 10 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

How does Scientist/RG community evaluates a case study article and the impact of it on a researcher career?

An article that is published as a case study in the SJR listed journal. How much value is added to a researcher career? How it is evaluated by a scientific researcher/University admission...

02 March 2021 9,661 3 View

How Relativistic effects is one reason for lanthanide contraction?

The Lanthanide contraction which is the decrease in ionic radii of the elements in the lanthanide series from atomic number 57, lanthanum, to 71, lutetium, is due to poor shielding of the 4f...

01 March 2021 2,272 4 View

Is it necessary to report effect size (ES) in statistics of biomedical research given that we already report p values routinely?

Pls share your thoughts

01 March 2021 7,330 4 View

Which reagent is best among 'Dimethylglyoxime" and "Dithiothreitol" for spectroscopic determination of Nickel ?

What I think is Dithiothreitol. As it is water-soluble and does not form a precipitate. But, the thing is it contains sulphur which is quite hazardous to aquatic animals.

01 March 2021 8,374 4 View

For modelling epoxy-based matrices (in composites), which model in ABAQUS is the most suitable, Concrete damaged plasticity or Drucker-Prager model?

I am working on developing a micromechanical FE model for predicting kink-band formation in UD composites. To model matrix plasticity, which model, out of Concrete Damaged Plasticity and...

28 February 2021 5,415 1 View

Can anyone share his experience regards Smoothing in origin?

I am working on TiO2 composite material and the results of XRD have a lot of small/junk peaks and while I apply a smooth filter in Origin then the other characteristics peaks disappear so anyone...

26 February 2021 8,183 3 View

How to calculate battery consumption for IoT device?

Hi, everyone I'm working on a privacy-preserving algorithm that will apply to IoT devices. So, I need to measure the power consumption by implementing this algorithm. Any suggestion, advice,...

25 February 2021 8,749 6 View