Is being fashionable worth the negative impact on the environment?

While social convention dictates that we wear clothing, should we be destroying the environment for it?...

11 December 2018 2,632 8 View

Higher Education: If you could give yourself advice about your education and career path before you set foot on it, what would it be?

For me, I would have taken more classes that were specifically labeled as Statistics classes and not under the program track (though they were very helpful but they don't count if you want to...

05 June 2018 1,785 2 View

Open Access Books?

Many publishing houses are pushing Open Access leaving the author/subject matter expert without compensation. Is there a moral obligation for the educated to volunteer a year or more of their...

01 February 2018 9,965 1 View

How can faculty improve supported funding opportunities without sacrificing research objectives?

06 July 2016 5,960 15 View

Should teachers stop grading on a curve?

02 March 2016 7,123 26 View

Introduce or not to introduce your prior published work into new articles?

Different journals have word limits that force cuts in new documents and preliminary information is often times already published in a previous document. Is it acceptable to introduce your own...

06 July 2015 8,373 0 View

Would you like to collaborate on a medical device regulatory book contracted through a reputable organization?

03 April 2015 3,231 9 View

Editing/Resource/Rewriting Co-Authorship?

If you edit and substantially rewrite a paper to make it publishable, including the addition of resources, should you get co-authorship even if you are paid for editing?

08 September 2014 3,545 10 View

What is your opinion on the sampling methodology for statistical analysis using SEM?

08 September 2014 7,797 10 View

In today's push for collaboration across multiple specialties, is it necessary for an editor/peer-reviewer to be a SME in your topic?

Conditions to be accepted as an editor require the ability to generate new concepts and a certain level of experience measured by the H-level. Journals are also expected to arranges for subject...

01 January 1970 8,137 12 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

Binary Logistic Generalized Linear Mixed model in SPSS. Is it doable?

I want to analyses the proportion of swimming sperm of three species of fish in two salinities. To analyse the proportion of swimming sperm in a Generalized Linear Model, I would use a Binary...

03 March 2021 2,297 3 View

Guidelines for survey (question type) analysis?

Hi. Please tell me what guidelines should i need to follow for questionaries' type research work in India. It is not hospital based work, we are conduction basic institutional based qualitative...

03 March 2021 2,037 3 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

What test should i use in comparing the correlation between categorical and continuous variables?

Dear all, I have the variable (Surgery duration) represented by values in minutes and the variable (preoperative neuropraxia cases) represented as (Yes/No) values. I want to compare these two...

03 March 2021 5,427 5 View

Logistical regression using SPSS for a dichotomous dependent variable, with an independent variable of 1, 2, 5 and 10 seconds?

I have an experiment with 28 participants The independent variable is the times 1, 2, 5, and 10 used as the cross hairs during a task These 4 times were tested using 4 different blocks, each...

03 March 2021 9,692 2 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

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View