Seeking ideas for research?

I am looking for empirical research paper ideas in the following themes: Gender parity in education and employment Skills deficit and skills mismatch employability and quality of jobs. It would be...

04 May 2015 6,460 0 View

What is the difference between productivity and efficiency?

01 February 2015 486 31 View

Do you have an example where technology is not displacing labour, yet improving labour productivity?

It has been observed that investment of capital in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) leads to improvement in technology which further increases output. However, at the same time, manual...

01 February 2015 7,839 19 View

How will my results vary if I use rating scores based on their actual scores instead of their z scores when adding two variables?

I have to add 2 variables (for 60 organisations) to get a composite score based on those two variables. One is the age of the organisation (measured in number of years) and the other is the number...

11 December 2014 6,679 4 View

What is the interpretation if marginal product of a sector is lower than that of another but its Average Productivity is greater?

I am comparing productivities of two industries.APK= Average Productivity of CapitalMPK= Marginal productivity of capitalAPL= Average productivity of labourMPL= marginal productivity of labour. 1...

09 October 2014 2,649 4 View

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

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test Fluorescent Compounds Other Than Fluorescence Spectrometers ??

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test The Efficiency Of Fluorescent Compounds Other Than UV Spectrometers ? Suggestions Would Be Appreciated !

02 March 2021 5,785 3 View

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

02 March 2021 3,858 10 View

How Relativistic effects is one reason for lanthanide contraction?

The Lanthanide contraction which is the decrease in ionic radii of the elements in the lanthanide series from atomic number 57, lanthanum, to 71, lutetium, is due to poor shielding of the 4f...

01 March 2021 2,272 4 View

What are the most relevant MSc proposal topics for Petroleum Production Engineering at the moment?

I am a Petroleum Production Engg MSc student at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and I am in the process of selecting a topic for my MSc Engineering Investigation proposal. I would very much...

01 March 2021 7,396 4 View

For modelling epoxy-based matrices (in composites), which model in ABAQUS is the most suitable, Concrete damaged plasticity or Drucker-Prager model?

I am working on developing a micromechanical FE model for predicting kink-band formation in UD composites. To model matrix plasticity, which model, out of Concrete Damaged Plasticity and...

28 February 2021 5,415 1 View

Mixed ANOVA - help?

I'm currently working on a piece which asks to conduct an ANOVA - looking at the effect of sporting group (2 levels), and exercise trials (two trials with six levels). I've computed this all...

27 February 2021 9,626 4 View

Can anyone share his experience regards Smoothing in origin?

I am working on TiO2 composite material and the results of XRD have a lot of small/junk peaks and while I apply a smooth filter in Origin then the other characteristics peaks disappear so anyone...

26 February 2021 8,183 3 View

How to model Supercritical water gasification (SCWG) process in Homer software?

Hi everyone How to model Supercritical water gasification (SCWG) process in Homer software?

25 February 2021 4,075 1 View

How to calculate battery consumption for IoT device?

Hi, everyone I'm working on a privacy-preserving algorithm that will apply to IoT devices. So, I need to measure the power consumption by implementing this algorithm. Any suggestion, advice,...

25 February 2021 8,749 6 View