Methodological confusions regarding deductive and inductive reasoning, hypothesis and theory test?

Hi Colleagues- What do you think about the following methodological issues: 1. Is it methodologically wrong to formulate quantitative research questionnaire based on inductive reasoning? 2. Is it...

21 February 2021 4,634 6 View

Are there alternatives to the Devarda alloy when estimating nitrogen?

Are there alternatives to the Devarda alloy when estimating nitrogen? devarda alloy is reducing the nitrate to ammonium

15 February 2021 8,838 3 View

Up to what extent website personalization can help in creating urge to buy impulsively?

Up to what extent website personalization can help in creating urge to buy impulsively? The digital transformation is making most of the organizations to go online and start doing business through...

09 February 2021 4,430 6 View

Observation instrument for classroom activity in consecutive interpreting?

Hello everybody My research involves an intervention where an instructor delivers a training course to students. My role as a researcher is to write down observations. Do you have any idea about...

03 February 2021 6,853 3 View

Can anyone help to convert ODK XLS into XML?

We want to conduct a verbal autopsy using WHO adult VA updated tools in ODK. The current version of WHO adult verbal autopsy tools is v1.5.3. I have successfully converted VA ODK-XLS v1.4 into XML...

03 February 2021 844 2 View

What is the best way to encode categorical variables in datasets with many features and avoid increasing dimensionality of the dataset?

I am working with a large dataset that has many categorical variables with many classes in each variable. I want to encode the categorical variables without increasing the dimensionality of the...

31 January 2021 6,986 3 View

May I know how to determine the acceptable intakes for new types of nitrosamine discovered in drug?

Currently only common nitrosaminse like NDMA and NDEA have mentioned the acceptable daily intake. Based on EMA guidance, should refer to ICH M7 chapter 7.5 guideline. I have read but could not...

20 January 2021 522 1 View

What is the best way to define and decide sample size in the case of cross cultural studies?

What is the best way to define and decide sample size in the case of cross cultural studies? I want to decide the number of respondent in two countries which I am considering for my study. One of...

09 December 2020 1,661 11 View

Which MATLAB/PYTHON solver is efficient to solve nondifferentiable nonlinear subproblem?

02 December 2020 2,381 3 View

Dissolution study on nano co-crystals ?

Hi, SO I prepared nano co-crystals and I have done a dissolution study on them, the thing is I'm getting 130% of my co crystals at the end of dissolution which doesn't make sense !! I have...

26 November 2020 8,816 4 View

Energy minimization in LAMMPS using NVT ?

How do I do energy minimization in lammps with NVT ensemble ? I am using the following command and it does not seem to work. It stops at extremely high energy and gives me the error zero search...

01 March 2021 2,294 3 View

Why is the sum of the elements in a row in a Q matrix equal to zero?

When explaining substitution models, the substitutions are expressed as Q matrix. Why is the sum of the elements in a row zero?

28 February 2021 3,864 3 View

Why the CHi^2 is close to zero with a bad fitting but the Rp and Rwp are still high?

I am refining my XRD data using in FullProf program. The intensity of the modulated X-ray peaks is almost flat. I tried to adjust the peak intensities but unsuccessful. What is the reason? I guess...

23 February 2021 2,304 4 View

Can we use a compensation matrix with single staining that the negative population for each single staining is below zero?

Recently we used single staining to make a compensation matrix. But, for each single staining we saw that 13 to 25 percent of our negative population had been shown below Zero. In this situation...

21 February 2021 9,982 2 View

How to compare means of continuous data with zero-inflation and skew?

I have two groups (unpaired) of plant biomass measurements and want to know whether there is a test that can be used to determine statistical significance where assumptions are not violated. The...

18 February 2021 1,258 4 View

What does it mean if in mediation analysis the indirect effect is significant but is a larger b value than that of the direct effect?

I understand that for partial mediation to have occured the CI for the indirect effect must not cross zero and the b value for the indirect effect should be smaller than the b value for the direct...

14 February 2021 3,273 7 View

How to calculate the acceleration/velocity of different molecules in an MD Simulation?

Hi, If I am performing an MD Simulation in which the two groups/molecules are moving in a direction on applying a force on the system, how would I calculate the velocities/acceleration of the two?...

08 February 2021 9,525 4 View

How to improve results of system identification procedure?

Hello, I'm performing system identification of the lateral closed-loop dynamics of a quadrotor. My model receives a setpoint and should return position and acceleration. I've proposed a second...

07 February 2021 9,791 2 View

T-test and Mann-Whitney U test on groups with different sample sizes and variances?

Hello I have 2 groups with different sample sizes of (experts: 5 to 8) and (Users: 28 to 35) answering 21 questions on a 7 points Likert scale about the importance of some dimensions for...

31 January 2021 3,885 7 View

How nessesary is working point zero charges for any adesorbent?

How nessesary is working point zero charges for any adesorbent? I want to know how suitable the surface of the material is good for adsorption. I got SEM and FTIR results and thought those are...

30 January 2021 5,120 2 View