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  • Answer added in Global Health
    3 How about forming a "Public Health Research Community (PHRC)" on researchgate
    By Ravi Upadhyay · All India Institute of Medical Sciences
    Rimante Vaitkeviciute · Griffith University
    I agree with Fahmi, researchgate is doing that already, but definitely we can have our own group if we are allowed. However, I think it is good to hav... [more]
  • Answer added in Clinical Psychiatry
    6 What is an appropriate definition of psychopathology?
    By Neil Krohn · Sr. Analyst, WellPoint, Inc.,
    Larry Carlson · United Tribes Technical College
    Thanks for the clarification, James. It does seem reasonable that the DSM would be a logical place to look for a definition of or criteria for defini... [more]
  • Question asked in Social Software
    New What is Social Debt in Software Engineering?
    I would define it as not quite right a community, to use a parallel from technical debt... but what is this monster? how do we instrument its explorat... [more]
    By Damian Tamburri · VU University Amsterdam
  • Answer added in Soil Physics
    80 How many papers are people expected to publish a year?
    By Owen Fenton · TEAGASC - The Agriculture and Food Development Authority
    Sai Ramani Garimella · South Asian University
    RG seems to be an exciting place. I wish they address the issue of negative score. If a researcher doesn't participate in any discussion for a week, ... [more]
  • Answer added in Inferential Statistics
    1 What is the inference on functional data when it is converted to another data type?
    By Mahdi Rasekhi · Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
    Deborah Hilton · Deborah Hilton Statistics Online
    Hello Mahdi Rasekhi Can you give more detail? Are you converting numerical data for eg into categories such as if values are .3 - .5 then this is cla... [more]
  • Question asked in Emotion Regulation
    New How is possible to clean the unconscious mind? (input, research reference...)
    Psychotherapy practice 
    By William Farfan · Florida International University
  • Answer added in Base Sequence
    7 What is the meaning of subscript numbers in the upstream of a promoter?
    By Sophia Wang · Xiamen University
    Kamel Adwan · An-Najah National University
    ___Upstream______________+1__________down stream__________ +1: transcription start point 
  • Answer added in Statistics
    1 What would be the best test to compare a correlation between EKG finding and Echo parameters ?
    By Aref Bin Abdulhak · University of Missouri - Kansas City
    Deborah Hilton · Deborah Hilton Statistics Online
    Hello Aref Bin Abdulhak Do you have any outcome variables that are the same ? left ventricular hypertrophy yes or no as a suggestion, I don't know th... [more]
  • Answer added in Social Exclusion
    1 Microeconomics and game theory analysis of the underclass and the ghetto
    By Oscar Arias-Rojas · Universidad de Talca
    Roman Bashengezi · University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Let me state two elements: 1. one of the framework of The development theory underline the relation between the center and the periphery; example r... [more]
  • Answer added in Statistics
    1 It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. —John Maynard Keynes
    By Senthamizh Selvan · International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
    Deborah Hilton · Deborah Hilton Statistics Online
    I like this. 
  • Answer added in Statistics
    1 Reproducibility of a medical device
    Deborah Hilton · Deborah Hilton Statistics Online
    Hello Scott, I'm not sure if you'll find a definition there, but I sometimes refer to the electronic statistical textbook that is a link on the favour... [more]
  • Answer added in Wireless Sensor Network
    23 When does data become 'Big Data'?
    By Catherine Muller · University of Birmingham
    K.-L. Du · Concordia University Montreal
    The big data subject has already received thousands of millions dollars of research funding in China these years. The governments are now launching a... [more]
  • Answer added in Advanced Biostatistics
    1 Relative risks and odds ratios: What’s the difference?
    By Fahmi Khan · Hamad Medical Corporation
    Deborah Hilton · Deborah Hilton Statistics Online
    Hello Mr/ Dr Khan, If you go to the favourite links page of my website there is an electronic statistical textbook link which is quite good. Thanks ... [more]
  • Answer added in Material Characterization
    9 Is anyone seen this particle shape before? any suggestion what is could be?
    By Muxina Konarova · University of Queensland 
    Muxina Konarova · University of Queensland 
    Thank you for everyone for your suggestions.. Very useful comments. Diatoms look very similar to my impurity image. Just wonder how it ended up in TE... [more]
  • Answer added in Powder XRD
    10 Application of Sherrer's equation
    By Shaopeng Zhang · Tsinghua University
    Gilles Gauthier · Industrial University of Santander
    Thanks Matteo for the complement, do you have any good reference to quote or program that allow the Whole Powder Pattern Modelling you mention? In whi... [more]
  • Answer added in Applied Microbiology
    13 TA cloning failure with pGEM-T easy vector
    By slimane khayi · Université Moulay Ismail
    Daniel Cohen · University of Pennsylvania
    Just to clarify the earlier comment- didn't realize that you were referring to liquid culture immediately following the transformation step. You shoul... [more]
  • Answer added in Philosophy
    84 Does certainty or absolute truth exist?
    Larry Carlson · United Tribes Technical College
    My lay opinion of the lie of the land is that things are relative. For example I read that there are 5 string theories within the general umbrella of ... [more]
  • Answer added in Academic Writing
    465 Citing Wikipedia?
    By Abdessamad Mouzoune · University Mohammed V Agdal
    Abdessamad Mouzoune · University Mohammed V Agdal
    I shared once with RG “user care” two requests: (1) a function to achieve threads so that one can “stop” a thread he /she initiated without l... [more]
  • Answer added in Laser
    16 We are currently adding magnetic domain imaging to our MOKE magnetometer and we would like to remove laser speckle. What is the best way to do this?
    By Steven Spurgeon · Drexel University
    Tadeusz Szumiata · Kazimierz Pułaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom
    I believe, that high power laser diode would be the best solution. Cograts for nice idea of your experimental system! Greetings. 
  • Answer added in EEG Signal Processing
    5 EEG Signal Processing / Artifacts
    By Kundan Verma · Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University
    Kaleb McDowell · Army Research Laboratory
    Also depending on you conditions the following article may be of interest by Kerick et al. It discusses EEG artifact during riding in a vehicle type ... [more]
  • Answer added in Computer Networks
    3 What do you consider the most important features of a robotic telescope?
    By Tomasz Banyś · University of Lodz
    Anne Archibald · McGill University
    Another feature that can matter is pointing accuracy: I once used a (robotic) telescope whose pointing accuracy was poor enough that you had to take a... [more]
  • Answer added in Math Education
    1 What are somme effective ways to improve non math major students attutudes towards mathematics?
    By Lia Margolin · Marymount Manhattan College
    Stefan Nicholson · Swinburne University of Technology
    I think that a student's attitude to higher mathematics is highly influenced by their primary school experience. Compared to most other subjects, mat... [more]
  • Answer added in Quantum Chromodynamics
    9 Which physical variables are allowed a quantum superposition and what is it they all have in common?
    By Derek Abbott · University of Adelaide
    Derek Abbott · University of Adelaide
    So going back to the spirit of my original question: can we have a superposition of mass? If not, why not? 
  • Answer added in Evolutionary Theory
    1 Natural selection or God?
    By Enrico Perugini · Pontifical Xavierian University (Bogota)
  • 52 Is virtual ground concept a property that arises due to the internal structure of opamps or due to circuit configuration
    By Arun Kutty · Cochin University of Science and Technology
    Derek Abbott · University of Adelaide
    @Cyril. I have only just seen your original question and have not had time to read the long discussion. But I'll will just give you my simple view. T... [more]
  • Question asked in Publication
    New Dear Sir, I am a member of research gate and I want to contact ssome one urgently. Prof. Joshi Narajari University of Los Andes. Venezuela.
    Explain in the letter 
    By Narahari Joshi · University of the Andes (Venezuela)
  • Answer added in Gravity
    295 What could the discovery of the Higgs Boson contribute to our understanding of gravity?
    By Ana María Sánchez Peralta · University of Granada
    Joseph Uphoff · The Institute Of Martial Arts, Journal Of Regional Criticism
    The force of gravity establishes a tensor between kinetic energy at terminal velocity (the Bessel function after acceleration) and isostatic decelerat... [more]