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

Is there a typical range in the power spectrum that each person has during a rest measurement? Moreover, are there differences between men and women?

Is there a typical range in the power spectrum that each person has in the individual brain areas (19 electrodes, 10-20 system) and frequency bands (theta, alpha, beta gamma) during a rest...

13 January 2021 5,660 3 View

Can you slightly adapt a measuring scale without damaging it's validity?

I am trying to research Agency in dreams, and seeing as there is isn't a specific scale to measure dream agency, I thought about adapting a known agency scale. For example the item "I Feel in...

09 January 2021 3,657 3 View

What is the new in new year 2021?

2020is finished and was very hard for millions now how to welcome new year.now what is our wishes in new year e year 2020 has been an unpredictable ride through the pandemic, protests and many...

01 January 2021 1,200 5 View

What role do men and women play to combat climate change?

During climate change women and men perform different roles to combat the climatic events

30 December 2020 1,781 3 View

Is there any bias if a survey that uses stratified random sampling , only has1.6% of men?

I am a student and the study I am appraising is to find out the barriers and facilitators of implementing evidence-based practice.

22 November 2020 6,423 1 View

Has anybody used computational linguistics-based, AI-assisted analytics for their research like the covid-19 study below?

16 November 2020 8,316 3 View

How do we interpret the following gender differentiated data?

Hi, We are analyzing data and have found the following finding. The results show that men and women hold equal responsibilities for many aspects of forest management and decision making in the...

27 October 2020 6,399 4 View

Why the same variable would be a significant predictor and sometimes not?

My question is about logistic regression. Why the same variable would be a significant predictor and sometimes not? For example, I have an outcome (obtained mammogram at least once ) when I...

13 October 2020 3,631 2 View

How do I test for gender differences in Spearman rho correlations?

I want to explore if there is a gender difference in a correlation between two ordinal items. I have calculated spearman rho within gender for the items, but I now need to test if the correlation...

09 October 2020 970 13 View

Do family demographic processes link socioeconomic status to men's physical health?

Previous literature suggests that lower socioeconomic status (SES) men through higher family sociodemographic pressure and lower capacity of stress control, compared to higher SES men, are more...

08 October 2020 2,740 1 View