Can anyone provide examples of publications from the general surgical literature that they think are poor, or redundant, explaining why?

07 August 2015 3,049 0 View

What is your preferred treatment for symptomatic chronic (>3 months) radiation proctitis?

Current literature remains scarce, varied, and bereft of high level evidence to support one single treatment with good, long-term outcomes. Some popular drug treatments continue to be used off...

08 September 2014 1,291 0 View

How can I edit suggested publications?

Hi there! I regularly receive suggestion about papers and authors that are totally out of my area. Does anybody know how I can fix this? Thank you!

01 March 2021 9,574 4 View

When is it unnecessary to change organisational culture?

As a former management practitioner, I recall a generally accepted view that changing organisational culture is difficult, so you should only attempt it if the organisational change that you are...

27 February 2021 2,595 8 View

How to increase solubility of Poly acrylic acid in Dioxane solvent?

I am working with Polyacrylic acid (100.000Da) and instead of water, I need to use another solvent (dioxane) to dissolve PAA. However, because of the high molecular weight, it's quite hard to...

25 February 2021 2,225 5 View

How can I separate Gertrud Pfister's profile and the profile of Gerald Gems?

we are co-authors of several publications. But I am the only and single author of most of my publications which are based on my own research. How can I separate the profiles?

21 February 2021 4,582 3 View

Why use both bead beating and enzymes (lysostaphin and lysozyme) for DNA extraction from sputum samples?

Hello, I have read in a few publications that to extract total DNA from sputum samples, both bead beating and enzymes are used to disrupt the cells. Bead beating is supposed to be efficient in...

18 February 2021 3,360 2 View

Change of First name?

In some publications you refer Deivid Chica (with Barranco) but the true first name is Maria Dolores Chica , in spanish Ma. Dolores Chica. Before I answer yes is an author Deivid Chica, but...

18 February 2021 5,004 3 View

How to perform Kaplan-meier survival analysis in SPSS?

Hi everyone, This is my first time of attempting to run survival analysis. I have a data on patients with End-stage Kidney Diseases (ESKD). I would want to run survival probability by treatment...

16 February 2021 2,647 3 View

Can we Use a Dataset having no captions to train an image captioning model?

Actually I want to train a medical image captioning model but the dataset on which I want to train this model does not have captions/reports for the images. So can we use such dataset to train an...

14 February 2021 7,021 2 View

How should I compute a new variable with z-scores?

I would like to create a new variable using 4 different measures: hIndex (range: 1-47), # of publications (range: 0-111), and 2 other measures (range: 1-7). I changed all of these variables into...

09 February 2021 4,866 3 View

Do you know any reporting tool, guidelines for credibility assessment tool used for studies/publications with Artificial Intelligence?

I want to conduct a Systematic Review and assess the quality of methods used/proposed by researchers. I found out that scientists often utilize QUADAS for that...

05 February 2021 8,743 5 View