Why do so many studies show no benefit for SMBG ? eg: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2630691

Self monitoring of blood glucose is so useful in the clinical context. This persistent negative result of studies is counter intuitive. How do people explain this disparity?

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Ethics Boards: A Help or a Hindrance?

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COP24: Another example of Political failure?

Why do our politicians keep on failing us like this? Should politicians be subjected to a mandatory psychometric test , an IQ test and an enforced retirement age of 65 years?

01 January 1970 6,768 3 View

Cars for the environment

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01 January 1970 2,501 20 View

Climate Change: Time to change strategy?

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Toxic work environments: What would you do?

-Choices: -Suck it up and wait for colleagues to suffer? -Talk out and risk your livelihood? -Walk away and retain your sanity?

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Has modern Journalism deteriorated in quality?

Our capacity for quick access to news events has improved dramatically, due to the ubiquitous Smartphone camera. But have other elements of reporting declined in quality? - Delayed stats, even...

01 January 1970 677 3 View

Should Growth Hormone be used to increase height in healthy children?

Height has social value. Many studies show that taller people earn more and are more successful. Some societies value height as a beneficial social characteristic So, should we be giving growth...

01 January 1970 2,139 1 View

Why are people drawn to 'Game of Thrones'?

Game of Thrones is a popular movie series It contains elements of violence, war, social and personal warfare and human intrigue Why are we drawn to this mixture of elements? What does it say...

01 January 1970 8,694 3 View

ResearchGate and Collaborative discussions

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error in running a model in Abaqus

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error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

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MGL tools

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i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

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How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 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

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

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Is there any test to determine the cardiovascular risk of patients with obesity? from the perspective of obesity?

We found tests to determine cardiovascular risk taking into account lipid profile, blood pressure, age, history of diabetes, other laboratories. But when weight is involved, there is a paradox. I...

02 March 2021 6,036 1 View

Is SSRN e-Journal Scopus indexed?

I have publication in SSRN. I want to know whether it is Scopus indexed? Does it show impact factor? What is its ISSN No.?

02 March 2021 4,565 3 View