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In the 1918 flu pandemic and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, second waves were worse. There are hypotheses for this but my question is whether it's always the case for novel pandemic agents. More...
21 April 2020 7,945 1 View
Much has been said about the CFR for COVID-19. However, what is clear so far is that it varies greatly from country to country. Mainly because the pathophysiology of this disease depends on many...
18 April 2020 10,137 11 View
Hi! In my attempt to write the review of related literature (ROL) of my master's thesis, I decided to have this subsection on the epidemiology of my outcome. As I look for studies on this, there's...
15 April 2020 6,297 1 View
These days many of academic teachers around the world have switched to e-teaching due to current epidemiological situation related to SARS-CoV-2. This is a great challenge to both students,...
01 April 2020 2,382 5 View
Although in electronic media many predictions about COVID-19 abound, is there a scientific prediction when the this pandemic would die down? Would this time come when it has affected 50-70% of the...
28 March 2020 3,412 7 View
I am a psychologist interested in getting a single number to quantify "flattening the curve"---one value for each of 50 geographical areas (states) in the USA. For my purposes, I want to know...
24 March 2020 9,039 4 View
I am not an epidemiologist, nor am I studying epidemiology, this is a question born of sheer curiosity due to current events. I understand (more or less) the principle behind the basic...
20 March 2020 9,756 3 View
In the current pandemic situation, it is not possible to completely avoid a psychiatric patient carrying COVID-19 or being directly symptomatic. In addition, medical priority is to help anyone....
20 March 2020 4,764 10 View
Hello everyone Which software is suitable for calculating Cochran - Armitage trend test?
18 March 2020 9,727 4 View
I want to use multivariate logistic regression for disease association (binary outcome) of HLA genes. I want to control effect of coexisting alleles of ethnicity haplotypes. Imagine that I have...
17 March 2020 3,890 5 View
Is it appropriate to compare rates of (for instance) tea consumers among patients admitted to a hospital with some disease, with rates of tea consumers in general population in the same country?...
12 March 2020 5,835 3 View
Dear researchers In your opinion, when is the peak number of cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)?
09 March 2020 9,554 15 View
We need to calculate k linear and k later from the sigmoidal curve.
27 February 2020 8,969 0 View
What do you think about the outbreak of coronavirus? Will the outbreak stop in China soon? Will there be an effective vaccine soon? Does the international community succeed in controlling it? What...
14 February 2020 9,009 61 View
02 February 2020 7,301 48 View
I am currently completing the synthesis for a systematic review on the impact of the use of wireless devices and mental health. The systematic review looks at quantitative studies only. Due to the...
17 January 2020 10,027 3 View
Hi, As the research field is really competitive, so what are the skills recommended for a Ph.D. student to learn while doing a Ph.D.? For example, I am doing a Ph.D. in environmental health...
14 January 2020 6,818 26 View
01 January 2020 3,985 3 View
The survey dataset I'm currently working on has "branching", where for example respondents that answer that they did not receive subsidies for item A, will not answer questions about item A, and...
09 December 2019 4,985 2 View
Is there any current post doc opening in the field of molecular immunology in tuberculosis?
09 December 2019 4,025 0 View
Irrigated (e.g: 20-25% of the available water holding capacity is supplied)
21 November 2019 8,241 12 View
I am looking at gene expression in two sample groups (cases and controls) using qRT PCR. What should the sample size calculation be based on? thanks
11 November 2019 7,132 3 View
Aural cholesteatomas (CA) usually occur as late complications of chronic otitis media. They are usually unilateral, a point not addressed by conventional theories of CA formation. If indeed they...
03 November 2019 8,990 0 View
The website version is already available but it is time consuming to feed manually. The software is in need very urgent. Please let me know ASAP.
24 October 2019 550 2 View