How trustworthy is evidence based research as applied in the natural sciences and the social sciences?

In medicine, I think evidence-based research and - crucial, this - evidence-based practice is quite robust. Insofar as social scientific veracity is concerned, the wide range of variables does...

08 September 2017 8,085 6 View

How can anyone worth a million dollars or so in countries where the poor earn less than a living wage call themselves socialists?

04 May 2017 3,537 13 View

Is the concept of "wicked problem" semantically adequate?

A few years ago, I reviewed the manuscript of a good article in which "wicked problems" were of central concern. Despite my best efforts, I was unable to figure out why the term "wicked"...

08 September 2016 2,397 1 View

Do objective morals exist?

I am writing a book on social pedagogy and social justice. I believe it is justifiable to regard some moral statements as irrefutably correct; transcendental, if you will. Such statements operate...

08 September 2016 9,205 0 View

Is investment in Big Tobacco bereft of all morals?

07 August 2016 254 3 View

Is the concept, psycho-somatic, an oxymoron?

If the brain is anatomy and the mind is physiology (debatable, of course) then surely the diagnosis of psychosomatic disorders is an oxymoron. This forces the question of whether or not mind can...

07 August 2016 3,137 35 View

Is it justifiable to use data for moral purposes if the data collection is immoral?

What comes to mind for me here is the debate on the use of arguably (?) life-saving medical data collected by Nazi doctors in concentration camps.

07 August 2016 8,425 73 View

Is predictability of future trends feasible in social science?

Popper did not think so. However, I think that social scientific predictions can be plausible if long established prior and contemporary trends (income inequality as a predictor of variable...

06 July 2016 2,364 6 View

How, in detail please, is the RG score calculated?

Could anyone please explain to me why, for the past month or so, even though my reads keep on rising, my RG score has dropped by - if my estimate is correct - from around 35. 2 to about 33....

05 June 2016 7,539 1 View

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04 May 2016 7,522 2 View

Anyone plz suggest relevant topic for research in image processing+Deep learning.?

I have selected brain tumor images ...but now found that already lots of research done n this topic.

03 March 2021 5,774 3 View

What kind of food stuff increase the potentiality of human brain?

There are different kinds of food stuffs which we intake daily according to our requirements. Carbohydrate, protein, fat, mineral, vitamin, water are mainly working for the growth and development...

01 March 2021 831 2 View

Any specific pipeline or parameter to analyse total transcriptomics study of brain tissue samples?

I have two groups of brain samples, control and treated for example. It was total RNA nova seq sequencing. I tried all the available pipeline like: star+rsem+deseq2, Hista+stringtie+cuffdiff,...

27 February 2021 356 6 View

Can Ethovision store the generated data and video recordings directly to NAS system?

The size of data generated by Ethovision is huge. Having NAS system for data storage seems to be a good option, I am wondering whether Ethovision can directly store the data to the NAS system...

27 February 2021 6,350 2 View

Can MicroRNA cross the blood brain barrier?

In diseased conditions, many genes and gene products are visible in the bloodstream. So my question is whether we can find traces of microRNA which is involved in disease and disorder in blood serum?

24 February 2021 7,064 3 View

Can the problems of overfitting be solved without cross validation?

For an overfit data set the cross validation error will be much bigger than the training error. Is it true or false?

23 February 2021 3,616 2 View

How to manage western blot for proteomics data validation?

Hi Everyone, I am a bigginer in western blotting and I am trying to use it for validation of my proteomics data. I have: two regulated proteins with molecular mass of 40 and 73 kDa one control...

23 February 2021 6,671 4 View

Are there any open-source datasets containing physiological information about exercises to be used for an OR-model?

I have just recently started a new "weekend project" in addition to my master's studies and I am looking for a data-set. I would like to use some Operations Research to design an optimal gym...

22 February 2021 8,023 1 View

Do you have papers on hindlimbs myology of birds to share?

Hi all! My work team and I are looking for papers on muscular descriptions of the hindlimbs of birds (extant and extinct) that include the intrinsic muscles of digits. Any help will be more than...

22 February 2021 8,330 6 View

Are there any databases for gene co-expression or expression pattern clustering?

I am currently working on gene clustering based on co-expression pattern in mouse brain. The problem is I do not have some solid way to test my result. Are there any suggestions for databases...

22 February 2021 4,374 3 View