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 obtain confidence intervals in Amos?

Dear all, I would like to know your opinion on the following issue I am struggling with. I am estimating a multigroup model with several factors all correlated among them (they represent...

04 February 2021 1,381 4 View

How do we calculate 95% confidence intervals for RMSE?

I have two datasets (measured and modelled). I want to calculate 95% confidence intervals for RMSE. Cany anyone please help me with this? Thank you in advance

04 February 2021 5,439 6 View

My question is that how can we select the unique peptides ?

Hi all Scientists; I have similar question. Can you please help me in selecting unique/distinct peptides in case of LC-MS/MS analysis? I have done salivary gland proteomes for...

26 January 2021 7,488 3 View

In multi-label classification, how do we find the P values and confidence interval for the performance evaluation metrics?

Hi all, I want to report the P values and confidence intervals for AUC values for two different multi-label classifiers. I got the following article, which is applicable for a binary...

10 January 2021 2,217 3 View

What are the ethics of the teaching profession?

What are the ethics of the teaching profession? There are a lot of ethics that must be provided by the teacher mention it?

05 January 2021 9,535 54 View

P-value of Dirichlet statistics in a closed-form?

Do we have a mathematical formula to compute the p-value of an observation from the Dirichlet distribution in exact sense at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_test?

26 December 2020 8,296 4 View

How do I identify new studies in my area of research?

20 December 2020 4,501 4 View

How to estimate prediction bound (interval) ?

Prediction bounds are relatively important when an interval considering the error of the regression model and not only sampling error comparing to the confidence interval.

13 December 2020 8,617 4 View

How can i perform bootstrap values in R on a dendrogram generated with mixed data (factors and numbers)?

Hello; I have made a dendrogram with mixed data (numbers, ordered factors and factors) using gower distance (daisy function in R) and cluster analysis with ward.D2 (hclust function in R) for a...

10 December 2020 3,950 2 View

How do you interpret a negative Confidence Interval ?

Forexample, Diabetes, out of 427 participants 2 reported to have diabetes, the mean difference at baseline (95% CL) is 4.3(-22 to 31). What does this mean and how do you interpret it?

12 November 2020 4,853 6 View