Statistician wanted for collaboration?

Statistician required for collaboration on a research project. The project sought the opinions of medical imaging professionals about providing a preliminary image evaluation to referrers....

01 May 2019 9,048 5 View

How does one compute confidence intervals for the difference between two binomial proportions in SPSS?

I have a relatively small data set of 135 subjects. These are categorized in two dichotomous variable, type of health care and sex. I can use a Fisher's Exact test to determine if sex is...

05 March 2019 3,847 5 View

Schema therapy , Personality disorders , Older adults . What more can we learn from older patients of PD BPD to enhance therapy ?

I am currently in early stages of qualitative research design in the areas of perceptions and exploration of older adults . I am looking at investigating older adults with personality disorders...

19 February 2019 7,117 5 View

Non-parametric tests: PermANOVAs, or Kruskal-Wallis test?

Hello, Because my data has non-normal distributions, I understand I need to run non-parametric tests. My data includes multiple samples from several distant collection sites. Under what...

22 January 2019 5,467 5 View

Funding is a major problem for me. Is it less costly to check for pathogens in ticks via PCR or antigen/antibody match?

I am unclear if antibody tests can be conclusive in a tick or even if it is possible to test. If so, what are the limitations once the ticks have been collected. Limits such as temporal limits,...

08 January 2019 1,642 7 View

What evalues are recommended for BLASTing fungal sequences?

Hello, I'm using the command line to NCBI BLAST fungal DNA sequences (Table-C1, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279684/). The default evalue is 10.0, but one paper I'm following used...

17 November 2018 1,031 3 View

Bacteriophage CE6 wanted - can anyone help?

I have been trying to get a sample of bacteriophage CE6 (which expresses T7 polyemerase) for protein expression studies. The lysogenic form of this is the (DE3) you see in genotypes of cells used...

14 November 2018 2,954 3 View

Grouping read IDs by sample names, and sorting samples into separate fasta files?

Dear colleagues, I pooled together dozens of samples into one library, and sequenced them together. This yielded millions of reads, with the sequencer assigning each unique read-IDs. While the...

08 October 2018 5,513 4 View

What are acceptable thresholds when using BLASTn on fungal DNA sequences?

Hello, I'd like to know your opinions on identifying fungal DNA sequences using the BLASTn with regards to Max Score, Total Score, Query Cover, E-value, and Identity match %? What are common...

06 July 2018 9,896 1 View

Similarity thresholds for fungal OTUs?

Hello, I understand there's disagreement regarding the similarity threshold for fungal OTUs, be it 95%, 97%, or 90-99%. In the literature, anyone of these threshold may be cast as adequate or too...

01 June 2018 3,308 4 View

How to analyze a particular region of my simulation box in GROMACS?

Hi, I am using GROMACS 5.1.4 to simulate water in contact with a surface. I am only interested to calculate some properties of water near the surface. Let's say at a distance of x nm from the...

03 March 2021 9,989 2 View

How to get onecolumn document from standard IEEE ACCESS LateX template?

I have prepared a manuscript in IEEE Latex template, but for some purpose, I need to prepare a word file as well (detailed format is not required). Compared to two column .tex file, one column...

02 March 2021 1,830 3 View

How to compare different concentrations of nanoparticles for characterization from ICP-MS?

I took measurements of different concentrations of 15 nm and 5 nm Au nano particle solutions. I'm trying to determine which concentration I measured gives the best reading overall. I also...

02 March 2021 7,626 1 View

How can the modification of garden soil cause global warming?

Hello, I am working on a soil project and I found a primary research article that tests how the modification of agricultural soil can cause global warming, using a thermal collector, however I...

02 March 2021 7,161 3 View

Does anyone know how to plot my station to a section plot on Ocean Data View (ODV)?

I made a vertical section plot with WOA .nc file on ODV, and now I want to plot my stations (csv. file) in it. Does anyone know how to import my points to the section? They are two different...

01 March 2021 3,610 1 View

Does anyone know to clarify these changes?

01 March 2021 1,290 2 View

Any research papers for extraction of nutrient deprivation on macroalgae? Analysed by HPLC-UV and GC/MS. Possibly from macroalgae genus Rhizoclonium?

I am doing my thesis on the nutrient deprivation on the macroalgae Rhizoclonium sp. I will be analysing the levels over a period of roughly 5 days by HPLC-UV and GC/MS. I will be using seawater as...

28 February 2021 6,477 1 View

How can I convert .vesta file to a .cif file?

I've used the "export data" option in Vesta software to convert my unit cell into a cif file however when I use that cif in atomsk it shows error such as "can't read the position of atom 0". If I...

28 February 2021 4,966 3 View

I want to performe MALDI-TOF MS for bacterial identification, I would appreciate it if anyone can tell me the matrix solution preparation protocol ?

based on what I've studied on multiple papers, for peptide and protein identification Alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA) is an appropriate matrix to use, I also know that the CHCA powder...

26 February 2021 6,799 3 View

How can we use a hybrid element in Abaqus Dynamic/Explicit for impressible materials?

Hi, all! How can we use a hybrid element in Abaqus Dynamic/Explicit for impressible materials? I have not find the choice for explicit element in Abaqus CAE. I am wondering whether it is possible...

25 February 2021 9,936 2 View