Brijesh Sathian

51 Questions 71 Answers 0 Followers

Questions related from Brijesh Sathian

Can the antibodies that neutralize HIV would provide effective protection against the virus?

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 5,890 3 View

Whether to replace p value by Confidence Interval?. or to believe on Sir Ronald A. Fisher ?

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 5,778 15 View

What is Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Health? What is the application?

ICTs are very useful for the better health of the population.

11 November 2015 6,579 3 View

Is it necessary to do sample size calculation in cohort studies? If no, then why?

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 6,711 4 View

What is the quality difference in a print journal compared to e journal?

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 4,635 7 View

What is the reliability of the scientific information on the research done by email using Survey Monkey API online questionnaire?

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 7,798 6 View

How can earthquakes be predicted? Which statistical models work best?

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 8,111 14 View

Is it scientifically true, whether the Collider at CERN was the reason behind Nepal earthquakes?

Please read the attached report of Tech Anon on May 15th, 2015.

05 May 2015 4,122 3 View

Whether EMBASE should be considered as equivalent to PubMed Indexation?

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 8,061 5 View

What is the difference between Incidence, Prevalence and Percentage ?

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 4,877 6 View

When will a researcher should use geometric mean and harmonic mean instead of arithmetic mean in medical data analysis?

Some times geometric mean and harmonic mean should be used instead of arithmetic mean in medical data analysis.

01 January 2015 7,399 8 View

Is ResearchGate more or equivalent to any professional scientific associations in concern with the knowledge transfer and career guidance?

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 7,138 0 View

What action will be taken against a researcher who published the manuscript, which has reported the analysis of a pirated SPSS Software?

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 7,956 7 View

Is it necessary to access the knowledge and practice in accessing electronic research-based evidence among medical teachers?

Evidence based medicine should be popularized in developing counties.

11 November 2014 7,805 3 View

What is the difference between Pilot Study and Pre test? Which one should be used for sample size calculation?

Is there any similarity in Pretest and Pilot Study

10 October 2014 1,757 16 View

Is it a good idea to use logistic regression for combining the effects of two or more diagnostic tests and then do the ROC analysis?

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 6,566 8 View

Is it necessary to cite the latest Declaration of Helsinki for ethical statement in medical research manuscripts?

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 8,174 20 View

Is it necessary to report the research findings by percentage and confidence interval when sample size of the study is less than 30?.

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 1,554 13 View

Is it a good idea to use Microsoft Excel as a statistical software package for analyzing the data? Is it acceptable for the journals?

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 8,832 87 View

What is the relevance of publishing conference abstracts in their own journal?

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 3,156 4 View

Debate for ICRMSW2013: Should a manuscript with methodological errors not be considered for publication?

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 4,580 7 View

What should be the main focus of the conference on Research Methodology and Scientific Writing? Research Ethics or Methodology?

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 9,051 16 View

What should be the scientific content, sub themes which are necessary for a Research Methodology and Scientific Writing Conference in Medicine?

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 7,859 3 View

Is it only the Professor who can chair a scientific session in a conference? Why not Associate Professor or Asst Professor?

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 2,855 24 View

Is a statistician qualified to be a co author in a research paper which he has done the data analysis?

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 3,641 55 View

How to stop Plagiarism? What can be done with the article once identified for Plagiarism?

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 7,009 23 View

Could bone marrow transplants cure HIV?

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 3,998 3 View

What are the medical journals which have no publication fee for authors and are PubMed indexed?

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 8,988 78 View

How to stop research misconduct? Is it a big issue? Do ethical committees have any role? [Simple SD (Standard Dev.) caught the fraudulent research]

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 2,971 22 View

What is the difference between written and verbal consent? Which type of study should it be used in?

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 9,838 94 View

Is there any skills to be learned in bio-statistics like, surgery etc?

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 6,732 2 View

Is there any relevance to the count of published articles in the biodata?

Maximum 10 indexed journal publications needed for promotion to Professor. So what is the use in publishing 100 papers?

02 February 2013 749 17 View

How is logistic regression used? What conditions and types of variables should be used?

Is it correct to use logistic regression when chi-square test is not significant (p>0.05)?.

02 February 2013 4,710 48 View

Is it necessary to learn statistics for writing original research articles for publishing in high impact factor journals?

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 648 79 View

For a faculty and researcher, is publishing a book a better opportunity than a research paper?

Some Universities only accept research articles for promotion and posts, not books. Is this correct?

01 January 2013 8,035 13 View

Is it necessary to conduct a cohort study which will not yield adequate information in 3 years time of post graduation instead of retrostective study?

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 842 4 View

Is it necessary to include statisticians in the institutional research and ethical committee for reviewing a manuscript and research proposal?

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 8,189 89 View

Do medical conferences really help to improve and attain Millennium Development Goals?

There are several Conferences with the aim of achieving Millennium Development Goals through universal access. How much it will contribute?.

01 January 2013 1,163 3 View

How reliable is the estimation of prevalence and incidence of HIV done by NACO? Is there any requirement for new procedures?

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 2,907 2 View

Is it necessary to make the medical records data electronic in hospitals in developing countries? What are the benefits?

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 5,989 10 View

Is it necessary to include more systematic review topics in MBBS community medicine curriculam ?

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 6,598 2 View

Is there any standard grading or criteria to review abstracts submitted to a conference?

How can the quality of abstracts be assessed for giving scholarships?

01 January 2013 7,229 20 View

Is it necessary to find the reliability of the number of items in the questionnaire for the Descriptive Studies? How to do it with SPSS?

Now a days it is mandatory to report the reliability of the questionnaire if we are targeting a good journal.

01 January 2013 9,294 1 View

What are the online simple and the best available resources to learn Non- Parametric Tests?

If the data is not following Normal Distribution then the researcher has to proceed with Non Parametric Tests.

01 January 2013 5,862 13 View

Is it necessary to introduce BEd and MEd compulsory for maintaining the quality of Education in Science and Arts college teachers?

Most of the college teachers join the college immediately after their post graduation with out BEd or MEd.

12 December 2012 1,930 4 View

What is a simple and free online websites for learning statistics?

Knowledge of Statistics is very important to do a good research.

12 December 2012 8,887 12 View

Why two groups with same median shows significant difference when using Wilcoxon signed rank test or Mann-Whitney u test?

Whether the non parametric tests are designed properly?

12 December 2012 215 6 View

What is the use of Medical Associations and Societies? Is it only for conducting the Seminars, Workshops and Conferences ?

Whether the Medical Associations should focus on the welfare of the people

12 December 2012 5,880 5 View

How to evaluate a professor? Experience or Research Work or Qualification?

Is it necessary to make a person HOD only considering his experience and old or Research works, Additional qualifications and Caliber.

11 November 2012 9,113 13 View

Is it necessary to do a pilot study for the sample size calculation for any research?

Most of the researchers do sample size calculation from review and literature. Is it acceptable?

11 November 2012 3,058 9 View

Most of the researches reveals community medicine is the least interesting subject in Basic Sciences. How to make Public Health Education Interesting?

http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/NJE/article/view/5575

11 November 2012 5,097 20 View