Is there a relationship between stair climbing and the development of knee osteoarthritis?

Many physicians and physiotherapists advise their patients who have knee osteoarthritis whether in earlier stage or late and chronic stage to stop stair climbing and use lifts if available. Is...

06 July 2017 8,407 20 View

What are the reasons of knee cracking in young people who do not suffer from any symptoms?

05 June 2017 5,882 17 View

Is it possible to abbreviate journal name for journals that have not provided an abbreviation?

Hi All Is it possible to abbreviate journal name for journals that have not provided an abbreviation? As I want to submit a paper to a journal and they have requested in the reference list to...

02 March 2017 2,255 3 View

When should funnel plot figures be used?

Is there any minimum number for studies that should be included to create funnel plot figure? Any recommended sources or guidelines to follow would be appreciated!

01 February 2017 2,871 3 View

What are the most valid ranking measures (websites) for impact factor?

I am looking for the most valid measures (websites) that calculate the impact factor! This because the fact that there are several websites, and one site may show a different ranking of impact...

01 February 2017 157 5 View

What is the difference between a completion rate and a response rate in survey studies?

What is the difference between a completion rate and a response rate in survey studies?

11 December 2016 9,463 4 View

Is there any difference between evidence-based practice and evidence-informed practice?

11 December 2016 6,702 2 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

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 is your perception on using visual analysis or quantitative approaches to evaluate data from single-case research designs (n of 1 trials)?

Results of single-case research designs (i.e., n-of-1 trials) are often evaluated by visually inspecting the time-series graph and computing quantitative indices. A question our research team is...

03 March 2021 687 1 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

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

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature)?

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature-based reflection)? Thank you for your time and for...

03 March 2021 2,870 3 View