Why are processed foods cheaper than non-processed, particularly in the UK?

04 May 2016 3,908 7 View

Why is there a lack of priority given to research into hormonal contraceptives?

02 March 2016 4,922 3 View

How much of an impact do scientific papers that were retracted (for whatever reason) have on science and research?

Waste of funding, incorrect information being cited by other papers etc.?? any examples.

31 December 2015 9,980 0 View

Whose fault is it when a scientific paper is retracted? Whose fault when a fraudulent paper isn't retracted fast?

The scientists? Publishers? Peer-reviewers?

31 December 2015 8,717 1 View

Why does it sometimes take so long for published scientific papers to be retracted?

Such as the mmr vaccine scandal.

31 December 2015 949 1 View

What are the ways in which scientific papers are investigated, leading to their possible retraction?

Why does it sometimes take so long?

31 December 2015 7,582 2 View

Is there science behind gender inequality?

Can sexism boil down to science in any way? Or is it society bias?

10 November 2015 4,603 6 View

Why has freedom of information in some countries lead to governments being more secretive with their data?

09 October 2015 6,589 2 View

To what extent is the media responsible for the public thinking that stem cells will be the cure for everything?

02 March 2015 3,710 6 View

How are induced pluripotent stem cells formed?

I know that they are adult cells that are reprogrammed to act like embryonic stem cells, but how exactly does it work? What are the benefits of these types of stem cells as opposed to other types;...

02 March 2015 8,909 6 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

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

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

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature)?

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature-based reflection)? Thank you for your time and for...

03 March 2021 2,870 3 View

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

Can NFL theorem be valid in infinite search space in ML?

NFL theorem is valid for algorithms training in fixed training set. However, the general characteristic of algorithms in expanded or open dataset has not been proved yet. Could you show your...

01 March 2021 1,189 3 View

Does anyone know how to plot my station to a section plot on Ocean Data View (ODV)?

I made a vertical section plot with WOA .nc file on ODV, and now I want to plot my stations (csv. file) in it. Does anyone know how to import my points to the section? They are two different...

01 March 2021 3,610 1 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

How to arrange coordinates and extract climate dataset out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files?

Have a nice day everyone, I'm stuck in extracting datasets out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files because the latitude ranges from -3*10^6 to 3*10^6 and longitude ranges -5,9*10^6 to 5,9*10^6. Plus, the...

28 February 2021 912 3 View