How do you feel about paying Open Access Publishing Fees?

It seems that each week I get invited to submit a manuscript to some open access journal. Then comes the reality, and it is a massive publishing fee. Some journal have the open access as an...

02 March 2018 2,625 8 View

How do you separate doing research from politics?

This was just published on a possible murder "for doing research". http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42821199

31 December 2017 2,259 1 View

Converting data into ranks: what really happens?

I admit that I have been converting raw data into normal scores or normal quantiles for further analysis. There are many supporters of such a ranking methodology and there seem to exist many more...

10 November 2017 5,615 5 View

When would you keep the intercept?

In a simple linear regression sometimes the intercept is not significant, and the question is whether you would keep the intercept term or not. What would influence your decision? The sample size?...

09 October 2017 6,411 27 View

How can we compare regression models with transformed response variables?

07 August 2017 318 5 View

What is the Altmetric Score for your last published manuscript? Do you even care for it?

I am curious how you view the importance or lack of importance of the Altmetric Score for the dissemination rate of your published article. Is it important or maybe useful or should researchers...

07 August 2017 9,324 4 View

To recent Ph.D. recipients or Ph.D. students: Do you wish you had taken more statistics courses?

I recall how I felt about some statistics courses which I did not take in my Ph.D. coursework in Statistics, and I while I was happy to have graduated then with a Ph.D., I sometimes wished I had...

02 March 2017 9,359 8 View

Do you publish articles with Master's students?

It is not easy to publish articles in peer reviewed journals in Mathematical Science. If you work in a department that includes a graduate program at the Master's level and at the Ph.D. level....

02 March 2017 460 2 View

Did you face a struggle whether you work with the government or industry, versus joining a university as professor?

What was your experience in making the decision which area to pick for employment?

10 November 2015 4,848 0 View

Do you allow graduate students to work as a group on some research projects?

I have bene experimenting since a few years with an alternative options to a Master's thesis option or the non-thesis option in mathematical sciences. We offer a two-course sequence on research in...

09 October 2015 9,774 6 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

20 June 2021 0 0 View

How climate change will influences human and animal behavioral change?

The role of climate change influencing the human behavior as well as economics interest

01 June 2021 0 0 View

flexibility of polymers chain

effect of double bond on the flexibility of polymers

07 April 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

Formulation of polymer color flakes

I am writing to request some information for making polymer color flakes. I would appreciate the help.

17 March 2021 0 0 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View