What does it mean if in mediation analysis the indirect effect is significant but is a larger b value than that of the direct effect?

I understand that for partial mediation to have occured the CI for the indirect effect must not cross zero and the b value for the indirect effect should be smaller than the b value for the direct...

14 February 2021 3,273 7 View

Do you know of an informal caregiver of a person who has recently received a bone marrow transplant?

We are conducting a pilot study of an intervention for informal caregivers of persons who have recently received a bone marrow transplant in the US. If you know of anyone who might be interested,...

13 February 2021 9,174 1 View

Is there a solution to this conundrum on freefall into a black hole?

18 January 2021 1,582 3 View

Lipid Force Field with gromacs command pdb2gmx?

I have a pdb file that contains DPPC molecules and other molecules. I want to generate .gro and .top files from this pdb file using the Gromacs command pdb2gmx. I am trying to use the Charmm36...

08 January 2021 3,751 6 View

How do I compare 10 groups of people in age brackets?

I am looking at age of people in 10 distinct groups. The number of persons in each age bracket is noted and there are 10 age brackets. The total number in each group is quite varied but data is...

12 June 2020 5,056 3 View

What sample size do I need if my total population is 195 (countries in the world)?

Hi everyone, (Please excuse the ambiguity within the question - protecting my idea) I recently discovered some indexes which I and colleagues would like to see if scores on these indexes across...

02 June 2020 3,960 11 View

How do you report a three-way ANOVA with robust standard errors from SPSS output?

Hi everyone, I need some help--and I'm hoping that all of you who are better at statistics than me will be able to help the fog lift! Background to my problem: I have done a three-way ANOVA...

19 May 2020 2,103 4 View

When do I remove participants instead of impute data?

I have a data set of around 1630. Some variables are missing in 20% of the sample (the later questions - survey fatigue/drop out). (I'm considering removing 250 participants who didn't answer...

17 March 2020 7,667 5 View

Does anyone know of papers detailing hand-back criteria for P3 infrastructure projects?

Hand-back criteria are those metrics used to measure the condition of a facility before it is transferred back to the owner/client at the conclusion of the concession period.

14 November 2019 8,998 2 View

Will we have a problem with water-soluble polymers as used in , for example, dish washer tablets?

What is known about the degradation of such polymers in the environment?

07 July 2019 3,363 3 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

After a reference from Int J Body Compos Res, can any body help?

Hi, I am after the reference below, my library says it cannot obtain a copy either locally or internationally, any help appreciated! Chris Wang ZM, Heshka S, Wielopolski L, Pi-Sunyer FX, Pierson...

03 March 2021 6,193 1 View

What techniques can I use to determine the miscibility of polymer blends?

The term miscibility refers to the single-phase state in thermodynamics. I do not mean the compatibility of different components. To determine the miscibility I know several techniques such as...

03 March 2021 4,107 4 View

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View

Shall I skip the measurement model in SmartPLS?

Hello everyone, I had run a mediation model in SmartPLS using questionnaires that were already validated among my statistical population. A professor who edited my paper -though she is not...

01 March 2021 3,052 3 View

What is involved in morphological changes of SEM images of a substance?

In the sem analysis of CaCO3 nanaoparticles, the morphology images showed spherical shaped particles but the proposed morphology for these type of nanoparticles is trigonal. I prepared the...

01 March 2021 1,960 4 View

Joint behaviour in Abaqus is not captured well?

I am working on roof joint and trying to simulate the behaviour in Abaqus. I am successful in running the model but the final graph does not follow the experimental curve in the negative direction...

01 March 2021 6,661 3 View

In Molecular Dynamics Simulation, how do I make changes to the force field according to my protein?

Hi In Molecular Dynamics Simulation, how do I make changes to the force field according to my protein? I got this error in the add-ion stage: Fatal error "./ amber99sb-ildn-HHH.ff / force...

01 March 2021 8,747 4 View

How to define tie constraint between rigid body and another part in dynamic explicit model of Abaqus?

Hi dear researchers I connected a rigid body into the part of my structure by tie constraint and then I added displacement to rigid body, in static general step every thing is fine and these two...

28 February 2021 3,442 2 View

Does the circuit modeling for planar monopole antennas using Foster canonical forms give good approximation?

Hi researchers, I am searching for some accurate way to do the circuit modeling of planar CPW-fed monopole antennas. I have gone through the literature where mostly circuit modeling is done using...

28 February 2021 7,016 1 View