Is anyone working on a project focused on immigrants/newcomers working in the hospitality industry and how they have been impacted by COVID?

The on-going Covid-19 pandemic has had devastating economic effects on many industries. However, few have suffered to the same extent as full-service restaurants. Numerous studies have shown that...

24 February 2021 9,496 4 View

Mice dying after tagging and tailing?

Most of my job duties revolve around mouse colony maintenance and genotyping. Our protocol for tagging and tailing is probably not dissimilar to most institutions, I take a 2-5 mm tail snip and...

11 November 2020 6,604 2 View

Is there any harm to eyes for using alcohol based hand sanitizer/ handrub?

With increasing COVID-19 infected cases worldwide, people around the world are practicing strict personal hygiene against infection. Alcohol-based hand sanitizer was one of the best sellers,...

22 September 2020 3,006 12 View

When is radiological imaging indicated for COVID-19 cases?

COVID-19 is mainly a respiratory disease that affects the lung, although other organ structures with endothelium seems to be affected too. When should we do imaging? What is the aim of the...

22 April 2020 471 1 View

How to deal with selection bias from lost to follow-up for research under COVID-19?

Many of us are doing ongoing prospective research, yet COVID-19 has paused our work for a while or even months because of the city shut-down. There is an unexpected huge increase in lost to...

12 April 2020 7,650 4 View

Is UVC effective against coronavirus?

Under COVID-19, healthcare facilities requests a lot of sterilization to prevent hospital transmission of the disease. Bleach solution and many other disinfection agents may not be effective...

03 April 2020 9,275 5 View

Is COVID-19 helping psychiatric gambler to overcome the addiction?

Under COVID-19, many human activities are suspended, public entertainment places are closed down. Football legends are almost fully cut off worldwide. The targets for gambler to bet are less and...

03 April 2020 1,023 10 View

Are there ways to turn some electronics on hand to a ventilator?

Ventilator is running out of supply under COVID-19, especially severely ill patients require non-invasive or even invasive ventilator support. When there is outbreak of COVID-19 locally,...

01 April 2020 5,105 15 View

Mystery of the h-index, more = better?

Working in the research field, you will be weighted by your h-index. However, publications might not be cited by others despite your hard work. Do you think we should publish only citable research...

24 March 2020 6,289 9 View

I forgot to collect descriptive data and I have closed data collection for my dissertation. What should I do?

I am a novice writer working on my dissertation. As I started setting up data for analysis, I realized that I did not collect descriptive data. This was anonymous and there is no way to collect...

08 March 2020 1,359 14 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 compare 2 samples recruited with different sampling methods?

If I want to compare characteristics of 2 groups of patients, one group is recruited from a random sample of the general public while another group is from a sample with a fixed gender (male to...

26 February 2021 3,526 3 View

Standard curve shifting over time. How do I stabilise the ELISA?

24 February 2021 1,365 3 View

How does the injection volume impact LLOQ and ULOQ in regression analysis (LC-MSMS)?

Hello, I have run into an issue that has sparkled a debate at work: is the LLOQ/ULOQ impacted by injection volume under the following circumstances: 1) Same dilution factor of all samples 2)...

23 February 2021 9,159 3 View

Do you consider undergoing a structure literature review / Meta analysis and getting numerical findings sort of quantitative method?

I am looking for a classification of the research methods included in literature review papers or Meta analysis ones .

22 February 2021 1,131 4 View

Can I do two kinds of mixed method in explanatory research?

Dear distinguish professors and scholars, I have a research in measuring two kinds: think tank capacity and research impact on policy. Can I do two kinds of mixed methods in order to find, "Is...

20 February 2021 6,897 1 View

Using the Pfaffl method: Is it possible that the ratio of the calibrator does not equal 1?

Hi all, I have a question regarding calculations using the Pfaffl method. I have 3 groups per experiment: 1 control group (calibrator) and 2 treatment groups with 6 to 7 biological repeats per...

19 February 2021 8,351 2 View

How to analyse a (perceptual) study using differing/comparable sets of stimuli?

I plan on running an online perceptual experiment that has, let's say, 100 unique video stimuli altogether. Since these are too many to be rated by every participants, I would like to present the...

15 February 2021 7,444 2 View

How to analyse a split-plot design in stata ?

I have run an split-plot design experiment evaluating the efficacy of a treatment (with 3 whole plots and 4 sub-plots), and I am planning to analyse the collected data in Stata. However, I do...

14 February 2021 7,800 7 View

How to estimate/know plant virus concentration to make a standard curve in ELISA after serial dilution?

Hello, I am trying to know tomato virus titer/concentration in samples and I will perform serial dilution of the positive control. I wanted to ask How to estimate/know plant virus concentration to...

13 February 2021 6,534 4 View