What degree of missing data in a particular case/participant results in Expectation-Maximisation no longer working?

I'm dealing with a mediation model and am using the PROCESS module in SPSS. Due to SPSS and PROCESS being limited in the imputation methods - being unable to handle multiple imputation - the other...

02 March 2021 4,362 1 View

Has anyone succeeded in capturing uranium atoms in a fullerene structure?

Additional questions are: What are the encapsulating atoms? How difficult was the process and what rates were achieved? What factors most seriously affect the economics?

20 February 2021 3,134 5 View

How to phrase semi-structured interview questions using IPA without biasing superordinate themes?

Hello, I am preparing a semi-structured interview schedule for an interpretative phenomenological analysis study on marginalized individuals' career experiences as impacted by COVID-19. The aim...

19 February 2021 9,099 2 View

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19 January 2021 6,848 4 View

Why do my fibroblasts under hypoxia conditions proliferate slower than the same fibroblasts under normoxic conditions?

I am using healthy control lung fibroblasts in a 96 hour experiment with two drugs (nintedanib and Pirfenidone) and vehicle controls for both. I have both hypoxia (approx 1% O2) and normoxia...

12 January 2021 6,260 1 View

Why is Statement of Problem one of the most challenging part of academic research? Why do supervisors pay more attention to it instead of methodology?

Some MSc and Ph.D. supervisors are having a lot of issues with understanding the Problem Statement of their students' research works. Sometimes, it leads to complete rejection of the whole...

04 January 2021 3,574 6 View

How much does radiative heat transfer effect thermal conductivity of materials and how to compare calculations to experirment?

I am calculating the phonon contribution to thermal conductivity for 4 perovskites (BaZrO3, BaSnO3, BaHfO3, and KTaO3) with relatively wide bandgap. When I compare my results for BaZrO3 to the...

27 December 2020 3,232 3 View

Proper method for assessing model invariance following Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and preceding 2x2 between-subject analysis?

I have produced a good-fitting, reliable baseline model according to CFA. The model contains several factors each loaded by several categorical (ordinal) items. I ultimately intend to analyze the...

15 December 2020 1,668 4 View

How to Reinstall Operating System for a TA Instruments 2910 DSC?

Hard drive crashed on an old windows 2000 that was used to control a TA Instruments 2910 DSC. Installed new hard drive and I am trying to figure out where I can find the software/operating system...

17 November 2020 2,467 3 View

Communities based websites do they serve a purpose?

I'm asking and posing this question as it forms a part of my final project year. I building an ASP.net community-based website coupled with an Oracle database and I'm looking for feedback,...

17 November 2020 7,852 1 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 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

When making a phylogenetic tree, do I need to concatenate the chromosome and the plasmids for my reference?

This is such a basic question but I come from a non-bioinfo group so I keep getting different answers. I was wondering if when making a phylogenetic tree whether you have to concatenate the...

14 January 2021 2,492 2 View

Are international conferences a dying species?

In our discipline (chemistry), annual meetings of the American Chemical Society (ACS) used to be mega-events with up to 20,000 participants. The current one will be virtual, and the organizers...

06 January 2021 1,882 5 View

How can I build one phylogenetic tree for an arthropod community when I had known their scientific names?

I am working on the phylogenetic analysis for communities of plants and arthropods. A standardized protocol of building phylogenetic tree for plant species list that was widely used in studies....

29 December 2020 181 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

Could anybody provide insights the best tools to create a custom database for taxonomy assignment of metagenomic data?

I am interested in the different tools that can be used to create custom databases for targeted sequencing and how to trim the databases based on the amplicon size? Also, should custom databases...

02 December 2020 3,105 3 View

How can I get Genbank accession code given the scientific names?

Hello! I now have a complete list of about 23k plant species that I want to check if Genbank has the sequencing data for a phylogenetic analysis later, and I am really new to the topic. Is...

02 November 2020 4,450 3 View

Can you recommend me tree databases?

Hi. I have slight experience in searching phylogenetic trees, normaly I use TreeBASE or Dryad but some papers that I found doesn't have the resulting trees in these databases or there are genetic...

26 October 2020 582 3 View