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As far as I understand, theory of planned behaviour (and similar approaches) is usually used to investigate binary decisions (yes/no). But are there approaches drawing upon TPB (or similar...

09 November 2020 1,645 5 View

Is it possible that cat owners have higher immunity for COVID-19?

In a paper deposited in BioRxiv entitled: "Susceptibility of ferrets, cats, dogs, and different domestic animals to SARS-coronavirus-2" the team from Harbin Vet Institute intentionally infected...

04 April 2020 3,630 21 View

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10 June 2019 6,662 4 View

Primary and secondary effects of shrinkage in composite steel-concrete beams?

In Eurocode 4 the primary and secondary effect of shrinkage are introduced. What is the scientific definition of these effects? Are the primary effects of shrinkage related only to deflections...

11 March 2018 9,620 1 View

Are there empirical studies of EU farmers' time allocation?

I am looking for empirical studies (questionnaires, interviews, econometric analyses...) that study time allocation by farmers, preferably in EU countries. I am less interested in time allocation...

20 February 2018 5,529 6 View

What is the relation of the elastic modulus of concrete in tension to the elastic modulus in compression?

21 April 2017 237 6 View

Any advice on MCMCglmm - G-structure phylo effect interpretation?

Dear all, In our romance with MCMCglmm package in R a question arose which we have trouble addressing. How to properly interpret the "strength" or importance of the phylo effect in our model...

03 January 2016 1,622 3 View

Yesterday I found something strange in one of our cell cultures.. Maybe someone can recognise this and could tell what it is?

29 December 2015 7,466 12 View

How to generate least square means from MCMCglmm model for phylogeneticly corrected data in R?

Dear all, We are struggling with producing presentable graphs based on our MCMCglmm models.Our data includes information on body size and how it changes with respect to different components of...

22 December 2015 5,201 2 View

Does the energy of a Byers-Yang type system change on adding magnetic flux quanta?

What happens if one adds magnetic flux quanta into a Byers-Yang type system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byers-Yang_theorem)?The wavefunction does not change according to the gauge transformation...

20 October 2014 8,442 3 View

Does the phylogenetic tree making tool IQTREE use evolutionary placement algorithm?

For my master thesis I am conducting a phylogenetic research and for this I'm using tools like MEGA, IQTREE, FigTree, etc to make a phylogenetic tree. I wanted to know if IQTREE integrates the...

14 February 2021 1,541 2 View

Is there an alternative to PGLS that considers phylogenetic signal when calculating the estimated value?

I have been working on a study trying to estimate body mass in mammals using a skeletal proxy in R. My dataset has high phylogenetic signal (Pagel's Lambda = 0.9) and I am interested in removing...

26 January 2021 6,997 3 View

Question regarding investigation of the nature of bacteria: whether it can cause human diseases or not?

Hi all, Considering that one has the whole genome sequence (annotated) of a bacterium and wants to know if it has the potential to cause human diseases, what steps would you recommend...

26 January 2021 8,732 3 View

Are phylogenetic independent contrasts still used in biology?

I have a regression equation in which I am curious if the amount of scatter around the regression line is driven by phylogeny. I know there is a lot of phylogenetic signal because Pascal's lambda...

22 December 2020 937 1 View

EDGAR - How to add Whole genome sequence of the strain (novel) to EDGAR comparative genomic tool for comparison?

Hi all, I am interested to do a comparative genome analysis using EDGAR comparitive genomic tool. I have a novel bacteria whose genome sequence was obtained by us and now I was to do compare this...

10 November 2020 3,489 3 View

Which methods (or modern programms) are used to assess the biodiversity of highest vascular plants?

27 October 2020 240 3 View

R package for GLMM with phylogeny (but not for community composition)?

Hello, I have a dataset derived from a multi-species experiment that I carried out. I have 30 different plant species from several families and 3 geographical groups. I applied 6 different...

26 October 2020 874 3 View

How can I perform pairwise protein alignments using BLAST, but without search?

I have a set of about 1000 homologous protein sequences with high diversity across various genera and families. What I need is to perform BLAST alignment of each possible sequence pair and obtain...

25 October 2020 1,199 5 View

What are the genetic/physiological differences between deep water rice cultivars of North-Eastern India from that of South East Asian Countries?

Deepwater rice cultivars found in various regions around the world have their own differences. Please mention how the deepwater rice cultivars of North-Eastern India varies from that of Southeast...

23 October 2020 1,333 3 View

Has anybody used XLSTAT software for phylogenetics/Phylogeography?

Need a detailed tutorial on XLSTAT ( Input type format, output file, drawing conclusions etc) Unable to find online.

07 October 2020 6,764 4 View