Is it morally correct for journals to request article processing charges?

I know publishing houses spend lots of money to prepare, publishing and hosting published manuscripts. But considering the fact that they don't pay authors for their manuscript, as well as they...

05 June 2019 2,942 1 View

What's the best drug consumption date?

There is a pharm crisis taking place in my backyard. Recent a cough syrup entered the pharmaceutical market but with manufacturing date of 8th March 2019 and expire date of 20th March 2020. The...

01 February 2019 5,273 1 View

Should I play it safe with hard to discuss estimate parameters?

Three out of five of my covariates in my logistic model are significant but can only find explanation/ interpretation for one of the significant ones. Should I only discuss the one and leave out...

07 August 2017 5,455 2 View

Should people from Zikka virus affected countries be initially quarantined??

Zikka virus is spreading across south america and the US and this is not a good sign for global public health. During the ebola outbreak in 2014 people coming from countries where the ebola...

01 February 2016 6,945 20 View

Should we use odds ratio or relative risk when calculating Vaccine Efficiency in trials?

Can someone tell me why OR is used instead of the RR for most vaccine trials? Definitely those trials are prospective cohorts design but browsing through publications including those of CDC on vac...

08 September 2015 1,621 8 View

Will test-stats result for two sample and One Way ANOVA F-test have identical result in terms of P-value?

31 December 2014 880 7 View

Can one consider coefficient of correlation and covariance between two variables a form of measure of association?

I am doing a study to determine whether syndromic data can be used to predict the case fatality rate in an epidemic. I have come to realized that determining the coefficient of correlation and...

11 December 2014 4,050 17 View

Is there an article on syndromic surveillance of ebola outbreak?

One main way for containing ebola outbreak and spread is through active surveillance. proper data reporting and monitoring has worked in past outbreak. Does someone know of any publication that...

10 November 2014 7,168 3 View

Does anyone see any link between Leon Dash's Rosa Lee novel and the ecological determinants of health behavior?

Most people like myself who have gone through Leon Dash's Rosa Lee novel only see the role of racism and poverty. Could there be other issues the novel is portraying which I am not seeing??

10 November 2014 5,165 0 View

Is he patient zero?

Consider doing an epidemic study and have collected data on the index/primary case. Three months thereafter you are told of someone who died four months prior to the start of your study and with...

09 October 2014 5,077 5 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

After a reference from Int J Body Compos Res, can any body help?

Hi, I am after the reference below, my library says it cannot obtain a copy either locally or internationally, any help appreciated! Chris Wang ZM, Heshka S, Wielopolski L, Pi-Sunyer FX, Pierson...

03 March 2021 6,193 1 View

Irradiation data for JAPAN?

Hi, Could you help me to get the latest (2019, 2020) solar resource data for a particular site in JAPAN? PV GIS and NSRDB data are not in reach to JAPAN, I'm looking for some other database for...

03 March 2021 961 3 View

What techniques can I use to determine the miscibility of polymer blends?

The term miscibility refers to the single-phase state in thermodynamics. I do not mean the compatibility of different components. To determine the miscibility I know several techniques such as...

03 March 2021 4,107 4 View

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View

Shall I skip the measurement model in SmartPLS?

Hello everyone, I had run a mediation model in SmartPLS using questionnaires that were already validated among my statistical population. A professor who edited my paper -though she is not...

01 March 2021 3,052 3 View

What is involved in morphological changes of SEM images of a substance?

In the sem analysis of CaCO3 nanaoparticles, the morphology images showed spherical shaped particles but the proposed morphology for these type of nanoparticles is trigonal. I prepared the...

01 March 2021 1,960 4 View

Joint behaviour in Abaqus is not captured well?

I am working on roof joint and trying to simulate the behaviour in Abaqus. I am successful in running the model but the final graph does not follow the experimental curve in the negative direction...

01 March 2021 6,661 3 View

How to define tie constraint between rigid body and another part in dynamic explicit model of Abaqus?

Hi dear researchers I connected a rigid body into the part of my structure by tie constraint and then I added displacement to rigid body, in static general step every thing is fine and these two...

28 February 2021 3,442 2 View

Does the circuit modeling for planar monopole antennas using Foster canonical forms give good approximation?

Hi researchers, I am searching for some accurate way to do the circuit modeling of planar CPW-fed monopole antennas. I have gone through the literature where mostly circuit modeling is done using...

28 February 2021 7,016 1 View