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Looking for candidates for 1-year (+1) Post-doc at University of Milan (Italy) on METs. Background microbiology, fermentation, biodegradation, METs?

Expertise in Microbial electrochemical technologies MFC Microbiology Fermentations Biodegradation

10 November 2015 5,084 5 View

How to normalise data on OPM package from R Studio ?

Good afternoon, I recently used OmniLog from BIOLOG for my experimentations : I tested the metabolism of different strains on 2 types of plates. I have 16 strains of 3 different groups...

02 March 2021 3,584 1 View

How to plot the probability paper of Gumbel distribution using R programing?

In R-studio, there are many commands of Gumbel package. Arguments are also different. I`m asking about the alpha parameter of the Copula which must be greater than 1. If this is the one used to...

25 February 2021 5,229 3 View

Bayesian decision trees and bayesian regression trees in Python and/or R?

I am looking for implementation of bayesian decision trees and bayesian regression trees in Python and/or R.. Do you know if the existing libraries support this

23 February 2021 6,689 3 View

Fictitious Boundary Meshing Method (FBM) in Commercial FEA software?

Is it possible to implement FBM in a commercial FEA software package, such as FEMLAB, COMSOL, or open source software like Moose?

22 February 2021 2,968 1 View

Are there packages (R or Python) for simple models (bucket?) to assess soil water content?

Hi everyone. I am researching droguht effects on soil water drought. I am looking for already implemented functions in R or Python to estimate soil water content from precipitation,...

21 February 2021 2,084 1 View

ANCOVA controlling baseline in RCT - how to perform power analysis and sample size estimation?

Hi, I have a simple question. I am hoping to perform a power analysis/sample size estimation for an RCT. We will be controlling for baseline symptoms, and using post-treatment or change scores as...

19 February 2021 2,648 23 View

MVN, how to conciliate contradictory results from Multivariate normality and Multivariate outliers test?

Dear colleagues, I'm working with Path analyses in lavaan and MVN packages. There are some results that for me are confusing and features from the MVN that I do not know how to set. My dataset is...

18 February 2021 190 3 View

Would you please recommend a function in R software that could be used with FUNGuild output to merge different rows that have similar guilds?

Dear colleagues, I have an output of FUNGuild tool (ASVs abundance in different samples and assigned to guilds) and would like to merge the ASVs that had similar ecological guilds using R...

16 February 2021 4,292 7 View

How to remove the species data from rda data frame in R (only remain the sites/samples point)?

Dear everyone, When I using the rda function in r, I met this question. As you can see in the figure, there are a lot of deep blue points which refers to the species. But I would like remain...

15 February 2021 8,982 2 View

How to find out or construct(?) the right priors from data of previous experiment to use in a bayesian glm?

I have the following equation, Eating choice (Yes/No)~ Box type (A/B/C). So the question is whether a certain box type affects eating choice in groups of dogs. The eating choice of each member in...

10 February 2021 6,024 9 View

David Charles Wright-Carr

Thank you for sharing this petition, Andrea. It would be nice to hear about any reactions of results on this thread. Perhaps people could post similar initiatives here. The open access movement is vital for the future of academic research.

Louis Brassard

Thank you for making me aware of this petition which I signed. It is really the way to go now. Why should pay high fees for accessing and contributing to science?

Cesare Sala

Thank you for sharing this petition which I signed. The principles of the free circulation of knowledge, supported by the Open Access movement, are an example of the change and democratisation of the system of scientific communication.