What degree of missing data in a particular case/participant results in Expectation-Maximisation no longer working?

I'm dealing with a mediation model and am using the PROCESS module in SPSS. Due to SPSS and PROCESS being limited in the imputation methods - being unable to handle multiple imputation - the other...

02 March 2021 4,362 1 View

How to classify strictly upper triangular matrices by similarity?

Let F be a field. Consider U, the set of n times n strictly upper triangular matrices in F. For X, Y in U, we call them similar if there exists some S, which is non-degenerate and upper...

01 March 2021 2,957 8 View

How much cell pressure and back pressure should I apply to start for triaxial test for different types of soil?

We have recently purchased a triaxial test instrument (MATEST) for testing different types of soil. After installing software, we are facing a issue of saturation where the samples does not...

23 February 2021 7,194 4 View

What is the difference between the supplementary cementitious materials and alkali-activated concrete?

18 February 2021 9,188 3 View

For displacement control test, what is the relation between stress intensity factor and crack length?

There are two plates with horizontal center crack, one with crack length of a with the other with a+da. The bottoms are fixed while the tops are under the same displacement load. For intuition,...

11 February 2021 9,543 2 View

Formulate model for one integer optimization?

I am working on one optimization problem. the model with two states, the transition between the two states based on one threshold value (L = 5, which L< 5 -> Normal state, L== 5 ->...

11 February 2021 4,045 3 View

Difference between Second-harmonic generation and Two-photon absorption?

Hello Dear Researchers, I am confused about the Difference between Second-harmonic generation and Two-photon absorption? Can anyone describe the two phenomena briefly in the physical picture? What...

24 January 2021 9,912 5 View

Spatial thinking and geographical reasoning: what are their conceptual differences and interrelations in teaching geography?

I am conducting a state-of-the-art analysis of these concepts. If you have contributions, please, send me.

17 January 2021 1,123 3 View

Which kind of GPC solvent can be used to dissolve both lipid and salt?

I want to find a GPC available solvent to dissolve both lipid (DPPC, 2 mM) and salt (NaCl, 100 mM).

14 January 2021 3,805 2 View

Is it possible to publish a paper contradicting Einstein's special relativity in any Journal?

I just developed a new theory on electromagnetic and plan to publish in a Journal. The findings are purely through strict mathematical derivation without any disputable assumptions and also...

13 January 2021 1,558 5 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

SDS page software for analysis?

I did sds page to determine the difference in protein expression between 3 types of vaccine , but i don't have scanner or densitometer available. . so i wonder if there is a software to analyze...

02 March 2021 6,270 3 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

What is recommended for solid domain in ANSYS FLUENT?

Should I mesh the solid domain ? or should I use wall thickness? or Shell conduction? for Heat Transfer between two fluids of a Heat Exchanger. what is recommended?

01 March 2021 9,785 3 View

How to choose ANN number of hidden layers and nodes?

Hello, Could you please share any interesting research explaining how to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes per layer in case of regression problems using ANN? Thank you, any help would...

01 March 2021 6,200 3 View

How can i resolve the "final solutuin is not converged" error in Comsol for my heat transfer simulation??

I have been trying to simulate heat transfer problem in Comsol 5.5 for long time but it always throw an error stating: "Failed to find a solution. Maximum number of Newton iterations...

28 February 2021 8,626 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

How could I take into consideration the weights of observation in a system of seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) in rstudio?

I build a model of 4 regression equations (probit and OLS) in R studio. I need to take the weights of observations into consideration. While it is simple to do so for every regression equation,...

27 February 2021 1,233 1 View