Is publication political, who you know or consequent to genuine quality?

For creative writers only. I had a student who although published abroad could not get published in the UK. Although her detective novel was published, she was told by a male agent that only male...

05 July 2020 1,933 41 View

YAMC can be used in the endothelial cell tube formation assay?

YAMC (conditionally immortalized mouse colon epithelial cell line) can be used in the endothelial cell tube formation assay in the study of in vitro study of angiogenesis?. Appreciate your...

02 June 2020 7,318 2 View

Are the morals (sic) of a writer, artist or scientist part of their overall assessment?

Does it matter if Picasso was driven by destructive maschismo in his relationships, Oscar Wilde employed rent boys, Einstein was promiscuous (maybe) when heralding their different achievements?...

07 April 2020 1,410 6 View

Calculating batch testing sample size?

Hi all, I'd like some advice on some statistics. I am producing a device in batches of 50. I require a particular property of the device to be above 1.88 for it to be considered a pass. I...

26 July 2018 7,822 3 View

Is academia just a way of presenting knowledge and does it therefore deserve its status?

Academic training is lengthy but often resolves into specific ways to present knowledge and information. This requires ability but does it require great ability. When I did my first degree I...

06 July 2018 8,345 13 View

Do drugs that affect the brain's serotonin actually work or is it just wishful thinking on the part of doctors?

Serotonin is a hormone. The chemical name is 5-hydroxytryptamine and it is a monooamine neurotransmitter Biochemically, serotonin is derived from tryptophan a primary amino acid, and is a...

04 April 2018 9,084 15 View

Do teachers need, or possess, knowledge outside the curriculum?

Many teachers merely teach the curriculum possessing no outside knowledge of the subject. As they rarely research they don't need to perhaps, but does that mean that they are therefore...

23 March 2018 5,360 72 View

Is it necessary for leaders to always act ethically?

Few leaders act ethically, but act according to political necessity. Is that necessarily wrong except when leaders are actively corrupt or pursue violent ends? Isn't it important for leaders to...

26 January 2018 9,002 43 View

Are there different kinds of intelligence involved in writing a great novel, inventing a new product or service, understanding cosmology, etc?

In many ways, writing a novel, creating art, and scientific discovery seem to require different faculties, although clearly some attributes must be the same. In terms of intelligence (most IQ...

04 January 2018 1,740 7 View

How does climate change affect migratory fishes ??

Climate change and challenges faced by aquatic biota.

22 December 2017 2,795 8 View

How to find ground truth value for accuracy assessment of generated Digital elevation model?

I want to ground-truth value (other than the DGPS survey) for the accuracy assessment of the digital elevation model for Indian region imagery. I want to compare the generated DEM elevation value...

15 January 2021 1,242 6 View

What is your understanding about death ?

Do you think of it as a part of life, as a disease without a cure, as a way of immortalization, as a way of transformation, as a way to freedom..or something else. Is it good or bad? We all know...

22 December 2020 2,041 37 View

How to validate a saved model with ground truth image in python?

I want to extract a particular landform from a satellite image, for that I used hog feature extraction and svm classification for the same. Then I saved the model. I want to validate this model...

26 November 2020 1,825 2 View

Which time-serie model is good when using concatenate data?

I would like to make a model using sequence datasets. As I've searched that , many LSTM, RNN tutorials use long-sequential data such as weather in 1950-2020. However, my datasets are short...

24 November 2020 808 3 View

Can I validate digital image processing results without ground truth data?

Hello. I'd like to know if there's any way to validate digital image processing results without having to take ground truth data. Example: I have processed Landsat-8 imagery and I want to validate...

19 November 2020 6,652 10 View

Do mature (virgin) forests take up carbon, if there is no net increase in biomass?

I seem able to get any answer I please just by searching a little more. Where is the truth? Concerning untouched Amazon rain forest, when people measure carbon flux, do they include the carbon...

27 October 2020 2,546 4 View

Qualitative Comparative Analysis: How to treat multiple set of produced intermediate solutions?

04 October 2020 7,682 0 View

What is the difference between using the ground truth image and the annotated image in image segmentation?

What is the difference between using the ground truth image and the annotated image in image segmentation?

22 September 2020 3,737 2 View

How many raters/annotations are necessary to obtain a valid and good ground truth for text analysis?

We want to have 10,000 sentences judged according to emotional criteria (valence, arousal, etc.). Computer science often uses a few raters (2-5). In other disciplines ten or more raters are used...

25 August 2020 2,737 2 View

What is a good pretext task for self supervised lane detection in autonomous driving?

I have been looking into self-supervised methods in computer vision. For example Digging Into Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation which looks at three consecutive frames of video, tasks a...

23 July 2020 8,232 1 View