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What may be the confounding variables for communal violence in minority people?

Hi, I am doing a research on communal violence in minority people. I am looking whether there are confounding variables in my research situation. Thank you in advance.

05 July 2020 8,835 5 View

Is Thomas Elsaesser's media archeology compatible with Strauss and Corbin's grounded theory?

I want to undertake an investigation from Thomas Elsaesser's epistemological perspective to think about a certain historical period. In the research design, I wanted to use the principles of...

02 July 2020 449 0 View

Who works on dogmatism in Political Theory?

Dogmatism is a rigid, uncritical adherence to beliefs, doctrines and theories. I am convinced that we encounter dogmatism very often in political theory and the history of ideas. Yes, perhaps...

23 June 2020 10,001 1 View

Measures of tail weight and comparing distributions based on their tail weight?

What are the limitations of using the "limiting density ratios" method to compare the tail weight of two distributions? (when will this measure not work ?) What are the disadvantage of using the...

10 June 2020 5,760 0 View

Would the United States War Plan Red have succeeded?

In the late 1920s the US War Department devised a plan to destroy the British Empire. American troops would invade Canada and the Caribbean to draw out the British Navy, which they then intended...

04 June 2020 4,613 4 View

Can anyone help?

I am critiquing a recruitment policy document: its genesis, ideological stance, procedures, implementation and problems, etc. I am focusing on issues like the lack of consistency in the procedures...

28 May 2020 4,399 0 View

How has diplomacy enhanced international secuirty?

Hi, I am currently writing an essay surrounding this topic and I am finding it hard to give a general understanding of how diplomacy can enhance security. While I have many concepts such as...

21 May 2020 3,328 0 View

How to conduct an a priori power analysis to determine sample size for a mediation analysis with more than two mediators?

Hi everybody, I am writing because I need some advise on how to conduct an a priori power analysis to determine the sample size for a model that has several mediators. I will be conducting an...

15 May 2020 2,729 0 View

Does the Cheng weishi lun favor Sthiramati's interpretation? If so, where and why is this seen or how can I find out?

Some scholars (e.g., Francis H. Cook, Three Texts on Consciousness Only, p. 3) hold that Xuanzang decided to champion Dharmapāla's interpretation of Vasubandhu's Thirty Verses, choosing to use...

12 May 2020 523 0 View

Bootstrapping without process?

For my thesis research I use logistic regression to investigate whether Z mediates the relationship between X and Y. Unfortunately, Process (Hayes) does not work. I think my dataset is too big (it...

08 May 2020 4,752 0 View

What are sound Climate change indicators for IWRM?

climate change indicator for riverbasin management plans

25 April 2020 978 0 View

What hypothesis test would i need to conduct?

Hi there! I am currently conducting a hypothesis test and I am unsure which tailed test would help support my claim. I am testing median income and poverty rates. I split the group into above and...

23 April 2020 298 3 View

Will the Corona virus become a watershed point in the future of international relations ?

Will the Corona virus become a watershed point in the future of international relations such as September 11, 2001, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of World War II. ?

16 April 2020 4,831 3 View

What are the variables for analyzing e-participation and how to collect data from different levels of e-participation?

I am trying to understand how e-governance measures and initiatives implemented in a given country have promoted the electronic participation of citizens in public policies.

14 April 2020 3,847 0 View

What is is the research communities (particularly statistics, mathematics and decision sciences) view of Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR)?

I am seeking clarity on any papers or any peer-reviewed work that conclusively discusses the FAIR methodology. I would appreciate any rigorous quantitative analysis of the approach.

08 April 2020 7,289 3 View

Who has the ISSP Data National Identity of 1995, 2003 and 2013?

GESIS does not give access to the ISSP at the moment and I would like to work with it. I want to analyse data of Germany. I need the following data: International Social Survey Programme:...

27 March 2020 9,155 1 View

Methodology Ideas for Research Project Proposal on African Union?

HI everyone, For one of modules on my course, we are expected to produce a 3,000 word dissertation folder on a possible topic that we might use for our actual dissertation in final year. I have...

18 March 2020 1,273 3 View

Are estimates available of rates of participation of U.S. citizens in various forms of political activity beyond voting?

For a class I'm preparing to teach, I'm looking for (estimated) data on the numbers of U.S. citizens who engage in political activities beyond voting, such as 1. volunteering in campaigns, 2....

08 March 2020 8,508 3 View

Can we use content analysis to backward trace from a regulation or policy to identify what or who influence it?

From literature reviews, there are two directions to assess the impact of research on policy: forward tracing or research impact assessment; and backward tracing or research use assessment. Newson...

06 March 2020 6,915 9 View

How to detect anguillid herpesvirus 1 in healthy carrier eels without sacrificing individuals?

I am trying to find a detection method of anguillid herpesvirus 1 that does not need to sacrifice animals in order to assess the health status of the endangered wild populations of European eel....

05 March 2020 1,541 0 View

What are the social and environmental impact of financial institutions and how can we manage it??

Managing the social and environmental impact of financial institutions

27 February 2020 6,855 2 View

How to do Modeling using IRENA for SAXS measurements at higher Q e.g. 3A-1 in order to calculate PSD?

I have been using IRENA before and had no problem with modeling up to Q=1 A-1 but I'm not at all able to fit modelling tool with recent results done at Australian Synchrotron purposely to reach...

25 February 2020 7,794 0 View

How do I correctly combine the GEM dataset with the GLOBE dataset?

I would like to combine the GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) dataset (observations from 2002-2015) with the GLOBE Phase 2 aggregated observations (study from 2004 - Entrepreneurial culture)....

19 February 2020 7,244 4 View

Automating truseq library prep on biomek 4000 --> library widening?

Dear network we are in the process of automating truseq library prep on biomek 4000. as such, the robot does what we ask it to do - transferring right volumes to righth places. when comparing hand...

17 February 2020 5,695 2 View

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