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There is some evidence that anti-HIV antibodies can destroy infected cells by binding to HIV envelope on the cell surface and activating NK cells, monocytes, macrophages, etc. via their Fc receptors.
05 May 2017 5,893 3 View
After reading the editorial published in Nepal Journal of Epidemiology by Dr. Shrikant I Bangdiwala, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of...
04 April 2016 5,782 15 View
ICTs are very useful for the better health of the population.
11 November 2015 6,582 3 View
There are several cohort studies published in reputed journals without sample size calculation. Please share ideas on cohort studies then the budding researchers will get proper knowledge about...
09 September 2015 6,715 4 View
Recently, Medical Council of India made a dicision to not accept the manuscripts published in a e journal for the promotion of faculties in the medical colleges of India. Is it a wise dicision? Is...
09 September 2015 4,639 7 View
Now a days Survey Monkey API is very common and several researchers prefer this for their data collection. Whether it will be a representative sample?
05 May 2015 7,802 6 View
I would like to forecast the and predict the earth quake in Nepal. A devastating (7.9 ritcher scale) earthquake hit Nepal in the area near Barpak, a mountain village between capital Kathmandu and...
05 May 2015 8,115 14 View
Please read the attached report of Tech Anon on May 15th, 2015.
05 May 2015 4,126 3 View
Most of the Institution consider PubMed indexed articles for the evaluation of employees. EMBASE is also a very good indexation in comparison with PubMed.
03 March 2015 8,066 5 View
As a journal editor i used to see the manuscripts with Incidence and Prevalence for the studies with sample size 20, 30, 100 etc. Is it better to use percentage or pattern instead of Incidence,...
03 March 2015 4,883 6 View
Some times geometric mean and harmonic mean should be used instead of arithmetic mean in medical data analysis.
01 January 2015 7,403 8 View
Recently Forbes staff reported that ResearchGate Wants To Be Facebook For Scientists. ResearchGate is improving day by day. It also gives the career guidance to the researchers.
01 January 2015 7,140 0 View
Nowadays, it is very common to see medical researchers using pirated SPSS software and reporting in the material and methods part SPSS software used. Actually they have used pirated SPSS software....
12 December 2014 7,958 7 View
Evidence based medicine should be popularized in developing counties.
11 November 2014 7,809 3 View
Is there any similarity in Pretest and Pilot Study
10 October 2014 1,766 16 View
Recently many of the researchers use logistic regression predicted value probability for finding the combined effect of two or more diagnostic test [Test Variable] in ROC analysis. Is it a good idea?.
07 July 2014 6,571 8 View
Most of the reputed medical journals are keeping this as mandatory. Developing country journals are not following this. Are the authors responsible or the editors?
03 March 2014 8,179 20 View
BMJ Surgery Authors guidelines include a sentence saying that if the sample size is less than 30 then report with the numbers, not percentage. What is the reason behind this?
12 December 2013 1,558 13 View
I have recently done a workshop on Tableau Software of Tufts University for Microsoft Excel Data Analysis. It gives very good graphs etc.
11 November 2013 8,854 87 View
There are several conferences with abstracts published in a souvenir, which will be lost in the long run. Is it a better idea to publish conference abstracts in an indexed journal where they will...
10 October 2013 3,159 4 View
There are several manuscripts accepted in journals with methodological errors (Improper Study design, sample size, inclusion exclusion criteria, research question). These all lead to a useless...
10 October 2013 4,584 7 View
We are organizing a international conference on research methodology and Scientific Writing. Whether the symposiums and plenary sessions should be focused on research ethics or the research...
10 October 2013 9,054 16 View
The International Conference on Research Methodology and Scientific Writing aims to provide knowledge that allows research scholars, teachers and practitioners to achieve the research goals and...
09 September 2013 7,862 3 View
Some scientific conference organizers look at the potentiality of the person who will be selected as chair person not the "Designation". I respect Professors. But, why Associate and Asst...
09 September 2013 2,860 24 View
Statisticians of medical colleges are involved in data analysis and interpretation of the results part of the manuscripts. The result part is the core of any research article but most of the main...
09 September 2013 3,644 55 View
A recently published article Medications for Anxiety: A Drug utilization study in Psychiatry outpatients from a Tertiary Care Centre Of Eastern India. SIDDHARTHA GHOSH, Swati Bhattacharyya, Amit...
07 July 2013 7,012 23 View
Two men with HIV have been off AIDS drugs for several months after receiving stem-cell transplants for cancer that appear to have cleared the virus from their bodies, researchers reported on...
07 July 2013 4,001 3 View
Journals from Nepal: 1. Kathmandu University Medical Journal 2. Journal of Nepal Health Research Council 3. Journal of Nepal Medical Association Respected Scientists, Please share your...
07 July 2013 8,990 78 View
The withdrawal of almost 90 fraudulent studies by a German anaesthetist is one of the biggest medical research scandals of recent times. Jacqui Wise examines what happened and what lessons have...
03 March 2013 2,975 22 View
Most journals are very particular about written consent. But is it necessary to take written consent in the descriptive studies? Sharing your knowledge and vision about this question will not only...
03 March 2013 9,845 94 View
Most teachers are familiar with the taxonomy introduced by Benjamin Bloom in 1956 to classify learning objectives. The three widely used domains carry the labels cognitive, psychomotor and affective.
02 February 2013 6,736 2 View
Maximum 10 indexed journal publications needed for promotion to Professor. So what is the use in publishing 100 papers?
02 February 2013 752 17 View
Is it correct to use logistic regression when chi-square test is not significant (p>0.05)?.
02 February 2013 4,726 48 View
Sometimes BMJ reviewers reject the articles because of poor statistical analysis. If the data of a manuscript submitted can be analyzed with advanced statistical techniques, then the editor will...
02 February 2013 652 79 View
Some Universities only accept research articles for promotion and posts, not books. Is this correct?
01 January 2013 8,038 13 View
There will be tremendous amount of retrospective data available in all the institution but why the preceptors choose cohort studies instead of Case control studies even though they know 3 years...
01 January 2013 846 4 View
Several institutions from developing countries like Nepal don't have a single statistician or any personel from community medicine in the research and ethical committee of the medical institution....
01 January 2013 8,193 89 View
There are several Conferences with the aim of achieving Millennium Development Goals through universal access. How much it will contribute?.
01 January 2013 1,167 3 View
Prevalence of HIV in Nepal is 0.5 but in some places in Nepal people don't go to hospital and IDU is very common. Can we rely on the sentinel surveillance data and epi model? There is no study...
01 January 2013 2,911 2 View
In Nepal, most of the hospital's records are disposed of after 5 years, so data is also disposed of. Is it correct to do this? Should it be made electronic? Should Bio-statisticians play a role?
01 January 2013 5,993 10 View
Most of the medical colleges community medicine department from Nepal does not teach systematic review in detail. So most of the students and budding doctors do not know about cochrane systematic...
01 January 2013 6,601 2 View
How can the quality of abstracts be assessed for giving scholarships?
01 January 2013 7,232 20 View
Now a days it is mandatory to report the reliability of the questionnaire if we are targeting a good journal.
01 January 2013 9,297 1 View
If the data is not following Normal Distribution then the researcher has to proceed with Non Parametric Tests.
01 January 2013 5,865 13 View
Most of the college teachers join the college immediately after their post graduation with out BEd or MEd.
12 December 2012 1,934 4 View
Knowledge of Statistics is very important to do a good research.
12 December 2012 8,891 12 View
Whether the non parametric tests are designed properly?
12 December 2012 218 6 View
Whether the Medical Associations should focus on the welfare of the people
12 December 2012 5,883 5 View
Is it necessary to make a person HOD only considering his experience and old or Research works, Additional qualifications and Caliber.
11 November 2012 9,116 13 View
Most of the researchers do sample size calculation from review and literature. Is it acceptable?
11 November 2012 3,062 9 View
http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/NJE/article/view/5575
11 November 2012 5,101 20 View
