SPSS Analyses for Small Sample Size (n=49) ?

Hello everyone, As a part of my mixed-methods thesis, I ran a small survey about neurologists' practice on breaking bad news. I'm relatively inexperienced with quantitative studies, so, although...

20 September 2020 1,351 7 View

Repeated Measures ANOVA with multiple observed variables for each participant ?

Hello everyone, I have 25 participants, spread upon eight treatment conditions. I know so far that I will need to run a repeated measures ANOVA, since all 25P have been exposed to the...

04 August 2019 6,166 4 View

Which is the best (additional) training model for surgery residents?

16 September 2014 6,260 14 View

Is it appropriate to use autologous growth factors at a tumor excision site?

Cancer is probably the first leading cause of breast soft tissue defects that result in a need for reconstruction. Autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has been already used during...

23 March 2014 8,159 8 View

Bronchial stump closure: mechanical stapling or manual suturing?

There is a lack of clinical evidence to either support or counter the superiority of one technique over the other, regarding lower failure rates after lung resection. Furthermore, several...

14 February 2014 5,745 13 View

Medical Students and Barriers Towards Research

Although it is widely accepted that early involvement in research has many advantages for medical students, there is a controversy regarding whether students are actually getting enough research...

01 January 1970 5,508 17 View

How to validate a questionnaire?

Hi everyone, our team has prepared a pretested, structured, and self-administered questionnaire and we would like to validate it so as to further apply it in multiple populations. Which are the...

01 January 1970 6,153 3 View

What is your perception on using visual analysis or quantitative approaches to evaluate data from single-case research designs (n of 1 trials)?

Results of single-case research designs (i.e., n-of-1 trials) are often evaluated by visually inspecting the time-series graph and computing quantitative indices. A question our research team is...

03 March 2021 687 1 View

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 View

PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 2 View

Can NFL theorem be valid in infinite search space in ML?

NFL theorem is valid for algorithms training in fixed training set. However, the general characteristic of algorithms in expanded or open dataset has not been proved yet. Could you show your...

01 March 2021 1,189 3 View

Is there any research regarding how training and development is going to change in the era of Fourth Industrial Revolution?

As the organizations getting prepared for the fourth industrial revolution, to enhance the skills of their workforce what type of changes are necessary and going to occur in the training and...

01 March 2021 3,199 3 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

Which group formation theory do you recommend for projects that aim to bring together entrepreneurs for training for regional development?

I would like to have ideas about which theories of group formation are suitable for entrepreneurial training projects, with the aim of creating bonds, building trust, and collaboration for...

28 February 2021 4,223 2 View

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View

Can thermal cycler machines be problematic during PCR?

Hi, my question is about the heating of thermal cycler machines and I hope some of you had experienced a similar thing previously. There are two thermal cycler machines in the lab(BioRad) and for...

26 February 2021 4,777 4 View

Is it possible to have two luminescence bands of the same peak position but with different intensities in single spectrum??

Hi! If it is possible to have two luminescence bands of the same peak position in a spectrum, what is the reason behind formation of two separate bands instead of one? This phenomenon is related...

26 February 2021 4,963 5 View