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Dear Colleagues,
I'm currently researching the relationships between participation in creative-cultural activities, the mental well-being of individuals and the influence of this link on the individuals' work/study performance.
To do so, I developed a questionnaire which combines already validated and well-known scales into a unique framework.
However, to proceed further with this investigation, I need thousands of answers to the questionnaire to perform statistical analyses properly.
Thus, I would be immensely grateful if you could spend a few minutes of your time completing the questionnaire (https://forms.gle/J5ey26y5nmFbEfhE8) and if you could share your observations and suggestions with me.
Thank you in advance for your precious help!
Regards,
Luna
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Methodologically, efficient questionnaire Luna Leoni ! Success 1
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Today AI is emerging rapidly than ever. When it comes to production we have so many arguments about how to add artificial intelligence or where to add artificial intelligence. Even to monitor the production performance we still do it manually. Image processing AI to gather from live video data needs a lot of processing and great quality infrastructure. What do you think about monitoring production performance, can we use Image processing technology, and how to make it more precise?
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At its core, AI image processing is the marriage of two cutting-edge fields: artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision. It's the art and science of bestowing computers with the remarkable ability to understand, interpret, and manipulate visual data—much like the human visual system. Imagine an intricate dance between algorithms and pixels, where machines "see" images and glean insights that elude the human eye.
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I would like to carry out a training study using gamified cognitive tasks. The main goal is to keep the training session engaging. Any suggestions? Many thanks.
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In one study of my PhD thesis I used the PsychoPy. It is free and very user-friendly.
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Anyone here who is interested to do a project about the impact of macroeconomics variables on bank performance
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Good evening Prof. I would like to indicate my interest in the subject area of your research collaboration, especially the Macroeconomic Variables.
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I found that, latches can capable to hold the correct data even the data changes slightly before the falling edge of the clock.
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Denis' answer is correct. Sequential cells can have negative hold properties. This is counterintuitive at first (we tend to think of hold as time after a clock edge, not before an edge), but it is entirely possible and does not cause any problems.
This is not the same as having a negative hold timing during Static Timing Analysis of a full design, which would for sure be a problem.
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We are finalizing the experimental design of a new study and researching the best tests to evaluate performance in wrestlers. If there are any specific tests for wrestling, I would appreciate. I would be very grateful if you could offer some suggestions.
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Dear Dr. Akaras! Congratulation! It is a good idea to explore and research!
As a young rsearcher I have some opinions. 1) Which characteristics of the athletes you need to measure (technical-tactical, psychological or other. 2) If psychological aspects I reccommend SCAT test, If pysiological featuries you should some tools of equipments. If technical-tactical profile, there some approaches to measure.
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What is the major difference between the pre-layout and post-layout simulation?
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Generally the main difference is the difference in performance of the circuit. However it depends on the circuit you care about. In some cases parasitic resistance is much more important than cap i.e. the voltage drop across power line is dominant over degraded GBW because it may jeopardize the proper operation of the circuit. Also in some cases parasitics act for your favor i.e. current mirrors and the parasitic capacitance on the gates acts like decap.
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Hello Researcher, If we have ensemble model which apply different Association mining algorithms such as Apriori, Terius and Clustering Algorithms such as K-Means, Cobweb on same dataset, I want to analyse which algorithm is better among all. Is there any automated simple way to compare the performance of above Association mining and Clustering algorithms based on accuracy , time etc in Weka tool?
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I am analysing the relation between productivity and quality in hospitals, using performance indicators. The number of hospitals is not big, below 45 per year. Is it possible to broad research on multiple years using same hospitals more than one time? Certiainly, that will harm assumtion on independent observations. However, I am sure that that there is no (systemati or planning) intervention in order to change hospital performances.
What do you think about my approach?
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Looking to study the culture of an academic campus and its impact on the performance of faculty.
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I think measuring impact generally should proceed from how the researcher wishes to define performance. Impact of anything, so to say, on a corporate entity's performance of can always be viewed from the points of: (financial indicators), profitability, return on investment, return on asset, sales or turn over growth. Other areas could be market share, resilience, industrial harmony, corporate image corporate social responsibility perception, and what not. The identification of the performance index or indices will determine the theoretical framework to adopt. The theoretical framework explains the transmission mechanism that links corporate cultural attributes to the chosen measure of performance and should therefore influence the types of data to be ferreted or sought. It must however be noted that corporate culture is rather nembulous with many possible and sometimes conflicting connotations. What this means is that the researcher may also need to identify his/her cultural contend.
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I don’t think that the textbook scaling equations can be used for fair comparisons for recent nodes.
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It is not wise to compare an opinion with a research pair. You do not need to add you But sentence!!!
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Hi all, I am looking for some general feedback and information from those that have experience using handheld/portable systems? I am looking at the prospects of using an off the shelf system from the likes of Bruker/Agilent/B&WTek/Anton Paar. I have formed a list of systems but wanted to hear some real-world experience in terms of use/ease of measurement/data transfer and anything else useful. Many thanks in advance.
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Hi Liam Kelleher , I´m also interested on these Raman devices, and I had done some tests, mainly to study their capabilities in combination with SERS substrates. At the moment I have tested the Bruker and B&WTeek systems, with bad results (no signal or very low one at best). The Anton Paar spectrometer is being used by Isabel Pastoriza's group at Vigo University, they have a EU project and Anton Paar is a industrial partner. They also deal with SERS sensors in combination with that handheld raman. The project involves the detection of toxic gases, so the challenge is big.
All these systems are mainly designed to deal with raw materials in factories. They also have an use identifiying chemicals in pharmaceutical preparations or for drug identification in customs. The good thing is that they can perform the analysis without removing the sample from the container, making it easy and fast the process. They rely on normal Raman signal excited by a red or IR laser in all the cases I have seen at least (632nm or 1064 diode lasers). Most of them, for instance Bruker and Anton-Paar include a library of standards, which is clearly useful. All of them include some adapter head to hold a spectroscopy cell or a vial. The B&Wtek include a fiber optics guide that finish in a handheld head that allows to reach tiny or very localized areas. This head includes a lens with 10mm focal distance that is encased in a stainless steel tube so that you just have to place the tube in contact with the sample and the focal distance is there. Many groups working with art or conservation of artworks use this equipment successfully. The one I tried was the I-Raman Plus, it is a portable device, but still quite bulky, thought the fiber optics guide lets you bring the laser light and detection to the areas of interest easily. This device needs a laptop to visualize the spectra, new versions include a screen that simplifies the things.
Handheld instruments that show the spectra are more useful, from my point of view, but most of them require a external device to visualize the data.
About the issues with SERS substrates, I think the main problem is the lack of control of the focal distance and the lack of microscope objectives to focus the laser and collect the Raman signal (the Numerical Aperture). Focusing would be difficult when you have to hold the instrument with your hands, so using objectives would be useless unless you can keep the instrument stable (mecanically holded). Note that my SERS substrates are solid structures, and the problems refered could be avoided when you deal with plasmonic nanoparticles in solution, where the place you focus your beam is not so relevant.
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I am doing text mining on the performance on research for development interventions in low income countries. I need some standard dictionaries and typologies to map the content of the paper in a standardized way. Can you the international standards you are aware of? Thanks in advance.
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applied, unapplied, Economically feasible, Not economically feasible,
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Dear play goers, actors, directors, critics and researchers on theatre, how would you read and interpret Elizabethan dumb shows?
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Jinan F. B. Al-Hajaj Hello and thank you so much. I definitely agree with you. Indeed I have recently read one article going exactly in the same sense of your insightful idea of comparison between the dumb show and silent cinema. The idea of theatrics is also very interesting.
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I need to find a data set to compare Smartphone (iPhone, Samsung, Nokia) performance. I searched in Kaggle, data.world, but couldn't find. Anywhere I can download a dataset(CSV)?
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Use crowdsourcing to collect data.
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I am currently working on a project (Correlation Between the Time of ADHD Diagnosis and Performance) for my principles of research course and I am having trouble locating/ accessing a document that mentions or lists the questions/criteria used to assess their patients.
In my research, I would be using a modified version, as I only need this scale to give an empirical definition to the word performance.
The origin of the PSP comes from Morosini et al. Development, reliability and acceptability of a new version of the DSM‐IV Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS) to assess routine social funtioning.
I am unsure if they include the observation criteria within their research, as the journal is hidden behind a paywall.
I have a survey already created: https://forms.gle/bssi9tTYntYm58oA8 though, it will not be completed until I am able to add in the criteria for assessing the participants performance levels.
I would appreciate any feedback on my survey, tips on how to effectively collect this data and proceed with this research, and of course any links to the original testing criteria. If none are available, I would also appreciate anyone who would be able to help me come up with efficient questions that would assess a persons performance.
Thank you!
Edit: I have found the questions that I need and have completed the survey. Thank you all for your help and feedback.
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The PSP is a 100–point single‐item rating scale, subdivided into 10 equal intervals. The ratings are based mainly on the assessment of patient's functioning in four main areas: 1) socially useful activities; 2) personal and social relationships; 3) self‐care; and 4) disturbing and aggressive behaviours. Operational criteria to rate the levels of disabilities have been defined for the above‐mentioned areas. Excellent inter‐rater reliability was also obtained in less educated workers.
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Hello,
I was currently reading a study about the relationship between corporate social performance and financial performance.
There I read, that the KLD ratings are publicly available. Is that true? I can`t find information about that on MSCI.
Anyone having experience with this?
Thank you!
Best Regards
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Have you been able to retrieve the data?
I am looking for observations regarding the S&P 500.
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Gaston
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Say I am interested in examining individual differences in cognition and behavior and am interested in how specific survey scores and parameters predict/covary with performance on a task. How would I analyze this data based on the literature?
Are there conventional methods for analyzing differences in psychological phenomenon across individuals? Is that exactly what uni/multivariate statistics is for? Or are there alternative methods? Are there where advanced statistics comes in?
Is it more compelling and/or informative to analyze individual differences in a single subject design, an aggregate model/submodel (GLM), or as a dynamical system?
What does the basic and current literature say? What papers or books explicitly discuss this?
Thanks,
JD
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I do recommend to take into consideration AI methods. More specifically machine learning methods like k-NN --- stands for k nearest neighbors --- might bring deeper insight into your problematic.
What I recommend is to study similar problems already resolved by this method and similar ML methods and try to understand the way of implementation into your specific problem.
The best way to tackle the problem is to use Python and relevant libraries that already contain all necessary ML methods. When you are novel in the field, try to find someone around you who us familiar with Python programming. He/she can speed up your learning curve substantially.
Some review papers on this topic would be an excellent start.
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Hello all,
I would like to perform a hydrological analysis using RCM (CORDEX) data that need to be downscaled and bias corrected prior to application. I need an advise on which tool I could use to perform this.
Thank you
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Hi All,
CMhyd is handy for bias correction of GCMs and RCMs.
Simple and effective. Can be applied for both netCDF and ASCII format.
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I want to setup a 4 nodes (each one with 4 cores) Raspberry pi cluster and install quantum espresso on it for simulations. Does anyone know how good it works compare with core i7 PC computer for simulating nanostructures?
any test on it?
thanks
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1 Rasphberry pi 4b have 235GFLOPS
I think , 4 rasph have 0.9 TFlops?
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I'm currently thinking about "what topic" can impact the performance of startups. Basically correlating the "topic" and the performance to see if the "topic" can help build the startups. In addition, how do I measure it (the impact on performance)?
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Dear Colleagues and Friends from RG,
I propose to add to this discussion considerations on the following important issue:
Crowdfounding as a form of financing innovative, technological startups.
For the purposes of analyzing the issues of the dominant forms of financing innovative, technological startups, I formulated the following thesis that crowdfounding is now becoming one of the forms of financing innovative, technological startups. In order to verify the above research thesis, I propose to continue discussions in the field of financing innovative, technological startups and in answering the following question:
Is crowdfounding becoming a popular form of financing innovative, technological startups?
Below are particularly important determinants of financing innovative and technological startups. The conclusions of this discussion in key aspects of the discussed issues confirm the formulated research thesis. To the above discussion I would like to add the following conclusion formulated as a summary of my previous considerations on the topic: Dominant forms of financing innovative, technological startups.
In recent years, more and more often, innovative and technological startups have been using new forms of crowdfunding, equity, crowdfounding and other forms of financing available via the Internet for innovative investment projects with high investment risk. Due to the high level of investment risk and difficulties in assessing technological and product innovation etc., a significant number of banks avoid financing innovative, technological startups. Commercial lenders, including lending banks, usually do not provide 100% financing. capital necessary to implement a specific business venture, because in this financing formula the lender or lender bears the full and very high credit and / or investment risk. However, there are financial or para-financial institutions, loan funds, subsidies from state public funds, the so-called business angels that grant loans sometimes as much as 100% financing business ventures. This way, among other things, certain types of innovative, technological startups that have high development potential are financed. These types of financing for innovative, technological startups are burdened with a high level of investment risk that the investor accepts in full.
In the following years, the development of internet and financial innovations can be significantly determined by the use of blockchain technology in the field of improving data transfer security systems on the Internet. Blockchain technology can also be used to secure online settlements and social payments, including financing innovative projects, new ventures developed by technological startups, and financing the development of open innovations through e.g. crowdfunding. Perhaps in the online accounts will also be used in the future critical critics. Perhaps in the future cryptocurrencies will be displacing traditional currency from online financial transactions between fintechs, financial institutions, innovative startups, online technology companies operating social media portals and their clients, and between users of these portals. The development of all of the above-mentioned ICT information technologies, advanced data processing technologies Industry 4.0 and technologies facilitating financial operations on the Internet and ensuring a high level of security of internet data transfer. The development of technological innovations, ICT information technologies, advanced information processing technologies co-creating the current technological revolution Industry 4.0, financing through crowdfunding, securing online transactions with blockchain technology, increasing the use of cryptocurrencies in these settlements, etc. These can be important determinants of the development of innovative, technological startups operating on the Internet and factors of development of the knowledge-based economy in subsequent years.
Some technology companies operating in the field of ICT and new online media are also planning to develop blockchain technology in cryptocurrency applications. For example, the social media Facebook site also announced the creation of its own critical currency called Libra, which users of the portal will be able to pay for various services available through Facebook. Some investment funds invest their financial capital in some cryptocurrencies. Another issue determining the development of open innovations that are used on the Internet are technologies typical of the current technological revolution, Industry 4.0. The current technological revolution referred to as Industry 4.0 is determined by the development of the following advanced information processing technologies, which include, among others: Big Data database technologies, cloud computing, machine learning, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, Business Intelligence and other advanced data processing technologies Data Mining. The technologies of advanced information processing listed above are finding more and more applications in various fields of industry, production of goods and provision of services.
The number of industries, branches of economic activity and sectors of the national economy is growing, in which advanced information processing technologies typical of the current fourth technological revolution known as Industry 4.0 are used. ICT information technologies and advanced information processing technologies co-creating the current technological revolution Industry 4.0 have in recent years been a key factor in the emergence of new technological innovations and other applications applicable in various branches of the national economy. These innovations are becoming the main factor in the development of innovative startups and technology companies operating on the Internet. In macroeconomic terms, on the other hand, these technological and other innovations are an important factor in the development of modern knowledge-based economies and may have a significant impact on the economic growth rate of a developed and developing economy. I described these issues in my publications, which are available on the Research Gate portal. I invite you to scientific cooperation.
In my opinion, startups developing innovative business ventures based on innovative technologies or innovative products, services, innovative logistics, etc. are financed through crowdfounding and other forms of social external financing of investment projects available on the Internet. For this type of investment projects it is difficult to obtain financing from banks in the form of traditional loan, credit and para-credit instruments. Most banks have not yet developed multifactorial models of analysis and precise measurement of credit risk for this type of innovative investment projects planned for implementation by startups characterized by a high level of innovation, low fixed capital and a short history of functioning on the markets.
Often, emerging startups develop innovative technologies and / or products, services offered, etc. Then there is the risk of innovation. Due to the high level of risk, it is difficult for startups to find banks that would be willing to credit the implementation of a planned innovative business venture. Specialized investment funds deal with external financing of innovative startups. In addition, more and more often, innovative, technological startups use new forms of crowdfunding, equity, crowdfounding and other forms of financing available via the Internet for innovative investment projects with high investment risk. Investment funds financing the development of innovative startups implement an investment policy taking into account the bankruptcy statistics of newly established startups. Well, they choose startups with high business growth potential and high prognosis for successful implementation of an innovative business venture.
For example, they choose 10 startups to finance their development, assuming that at least half of these 10 startups will fail within 2 years of their creation, 2 or 3 startups will survive this period and will operate for at least several years but with poor business results and only 1 startup will achieve great success, high level of growth and after a few years the investment fund will be able to sell shares in this startup with high profit. In connection with the above, the key issue is to improve models for estimating the risk of bankruptcy of newly created startups and to develop the state's economic policy supporting the development of innovation, including creating conditions for the development of innovative startups. This is particularly important in knowledge-based economies where innovation and entrepreneurship are an important production factor.
In line with the above, in my opinion crowdfounding is now becoming one of the forms of financing innovative, technological startups.
Best wishes.
Dariusz Prokopowicz
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There have been many articles on psychological traits in the organization, and almost all of them have emphasized the effect that personality traits have on the performance of the organization. But in practice some organizations ignore or even disrespect the personality traits of employees. What do you think is the solution to pay more attention to the personality of the employees and thus improve the performance of the organizations?
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In the trait activation theory, if tasks activate personnality traits with situational cues, than it means that work environement fit the worker's personality. For exemple, if you want to activate conscientiousness trait than the task must have caracteristics relevant for this specific trait (like a task that demands discipline or order). When task and personality are a fit than the individual will feel more useful and relevent to the work place, and he will perform better.
I hope i helped you a little bit and i'm sorry for my english :)
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Dear Scholars,
For the time being, my colleagues and I are working on a paper which investigates the relationship between Strategic Sustainability Orientation and firm performance by considering Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Environmental Management as mediating factors. Accordingly, I have explored the literature profoundly but unfortunately have not found any related papers. Have you ever found any articles incorporating the aforementioned factors simultaneously?
Looking for your valuable suggestions.
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We are currently working in a similar topic with an article under review now. But we have presented some advances in Conferences. Have a look to my profile:
The role of CSR in foreign entry mode choice: are local and global pressures important?
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I am interestet in simulating the distribution of energy from sea waves onto a shore line.
Ex. Helmholz would do the job I think as we can approximate sea waves with ordinary wave equation for shallow water, but this is to slow for the purpose.
Thank you.
Ivar Bratberg
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Hi Mashia
thank you very much for the link.
Ivar
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How do Business Intelligence (BI) and Big Data (Business) Analytics (BDA) contribute towards designing Strategic Performance Management Framework?
Kindly share your comments, thinking and any relevant research on it. Thanks in advance.
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Dear Deepak Verma:
Congratulations and thank you so much for asking this most valuable question with all of us! In that regard, Business Intelligence (BI) and Big Data (Business) Analytics (BDA) may contribute towards designing Strategic Performance Management Framework with the idea, which focuses on the deep and height increase in the tools, methods, and processes that lead to provide facilities for mechanical organization, which are called business intelligent. In this way, I believe that it might provide us with very good tools that entrepreneurs may utilize for business model enhancement as well as for nature principles, rhythms, or cycles. However, we must combine both Business Intelligence that collects data from the past and Business Analytics that allows us to build a clearer vision of the future. In any case, both tools can be complemented to develop a detailed analysis of the business and future of a company in order to make better decisions.
Warm regards,
Javier
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Hey everyone,
I'm reading the "Stability- and performance-robustness tradeoffs: MIMO mixed.." and I need to simulate everything.
I would like to know if there is a space/place where the Matlab code has been shared, so that I can simulate the reported results as I need.
Is the paper code available anywhere?
If anyone could help, I would be immensely grateful!
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You can find a lot of shared simulink simulations and Matlab codes here in Matlab File Exchange.
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Very important question to avoid surprises...
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Interest, endurance and seriousness, from the application documents you can determine if the student is serious or not.
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How is performance of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) as compare to other machine learning or artificial intelligence technique? How is ANN's performance measures? Particularly, in the field of engineering applications.
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Can be measured by using random data set for testing or by using a real data set. Anyway, this data set differs from the data set that used for learning ANN.
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After applying SMOTE technique to my imbalanced dataset, the performance of my classifiers used actually improved. Now the question to ask is how does this technique(SMOTE) affect the nature of my data to improve the performance of my classifiers ? I would appreciate answers with references
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First, please, read attached article, which compare accuracy of different methods under different imbalanced Data Sets. The methods are Random Undersampling, Random Oversampling, Cluster-based Oversampling, SMOTE, etc. On the important conclusions, that SMOTE hasn't better accuracy, you really can use more simple method !
Second, question for you : How do you perform Cross-Validation and Test Data Set Evaluation ? There ate two possibilities:
1. To use SMOTE (or some other method - e.,g., Random Oversampling) for FULL Learning Data Set. In this case during Cross-Validation each time both current Training DS and current Validation DS will be essentially differ from original. So, obtained CV estimations will not be correct.
2. During Cross-Validation for Validation Set to use part of the original (without SMOTE using) data set. In this case your CV estimations will be correct.
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 I used ROA, ROE, profit margins, and sale rate as measures for organizational performance. However, I am looking for intervals for each measure as i dont want to make an open question and respondents will be reluctant to answer it.
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Some types of products and services are promoted in advertising campaigns in various types of media.
Some are advertised mainly in traditional media and others, or mainly in new online media.
Considering the dynamic development of internet marketing, the question arises whether there are already specific types of products or services that are mainly advertised in new online media?
One of the dynamically developing types of internet portals providing specific information services are social media portals, ie YouTube, Facebook, Tweeter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+, Pinterest, Snapchat and others.
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There are many literature that disscuss the lean production system to operational performance. However, I find a lack of literature that investigate Lean Production and Individual Performance.
Interestingly, lean production system is derived from Toyota Production System, which discuss the human factors as the most important things. Thus, this question remained in my mind and I want to see if there is any correlation between Lean Production and Individual Performance (Related to human factor).
I am really appreciate if you can give me a slight enlighment regarding this question.
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interesting. Following
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I need article which are published in refereed Journals.
Keywords
Corporate Governance
Islamic Corporate Governance
Sustainable Financial Performance
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You may read article published in the following Journals;
Journal of Islamic Marketing
International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management
Journal of Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance
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I need to know if the number of hidden layers effect the performance and accuracy of a neural network, in other words does the increasing in the number of hidden layers of a neural network increase the accuracy but decrease the performance or there is no rule for that? Thanks in advanced
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Theory says that with only one hidden layer you can approximate any continuous function in a compact domain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theorem). So you could use only one layer and try more and more layer and you will see the accuracy will improve on your training data, but you have to keep the number of parameters (thus the number of neurons) as lower as possible to have a good generalization and good performance on validation data. For non compact domain I believe that you have to add another hidden layer. Then in theory 2 hidden layers are enough for any problem. Therefore more than 3 hidden layers will not be trained properly with classical learning algorithms (such as Backpropagation). These considerations are valid only for multi-layer perceptron network.
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What indices can be used to measure the performance of the battery chargers used for EVs?
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Power factor shall be 1 and efficiency >95%, THD <5%.
charger should withstand the ambient temperature >50 DegC or depends on the place where you want to use the charger.
Cooling of the charger shall be good.
Charge profile shall meet the battery requirements (Voltage, Current etc.)
Ability to work with monitoring systems using OCPP protocol.
Modular construction (depends on the charger size).
User interface i.e. touch screen, push button, emergency switch etc.
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In order to test the hypothesis of my thesis I need to find or create a database of start-ups, microentreprises, SMEs.
I would need in this database to have the name of the founder and the email adress of the company.
The goal is to analyse the possible correlation between the founder's human captial and the performance of his company.
Thanks a lot for you answers
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There are a number of datsets available look at OECD, Unesco, Federation of Small Business. Gem as identified above.
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How can I compute CI or any other measure of precision for within-subject performance?
Assume a participant is conducting a task where s/he has a 1/10 probability of being correct by chance. I want to test whether the performance of this participant over a series of trials is better or equal to chance. I want to also be able to say something about how certain I am in this being better or equal to chance. Moreover, assume the mean performance over 100 trials is 60% correct. I also want to give confidence intervals for this value.
Any references to papers discussing different possibilities are very appreciated.
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Jochen, what you are describing sounds appropriate for comparing two observed proportions. But the way I read it, 1/10 is the expected proportion according to a null hypothesis. If one was going to perform a test rather than compute a CI, I think it would be a binomial test, with H0 specifying that Pi = 0.1. Using Stata's -bitesti- command, I get this result for the 60/100 example that was given (copy to text editor and view with fixed font to make the output align properly):
. bitesti 100 60 0.1
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100 60 10 0.10000 0.60000
Pr(k >= 60) = 0.000000 (one-sided test)
Pr(k <= 60) = 1.000000 (one-sided test)
Pr(k >= 60) = 0.000000 (two-sided test)
note: lower tail of two-sided p-value is empty
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what are the key ratios to measure the financial Performance of a Banking Company?
thanks in advance
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ROA, ROE and NPM: mostly used. But then they’re market based measure of performance such as EPS
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I'm studying C/P issue and now applying a multi lineer regression model to my project. I added some variable such as ROA and debt to equity ratio as financial variables and size and age as corporate control variables. In addition my dependent variable is ROE. I choose the Denison's Organizational Culture Model for the corporate culture variables and added them in a row, finally added organizational culture itself to the model. I wonder how I can get and assembly the results in a discussion section and whether this model may be enough for my analysis?
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Dear professor Samaeizadeh,
Thanks for sharing your paper with me. It sounds very successful paper. Congratulations. But I use regression analysis instead of CFA or SEM. Also I prefer hard financial indicator for financial corporate results. So as to my financial variables, they are just different from yours and established to regression analysis.. This is a secondary way for me. Maybe I yield to another topic for this method. Thanks for sharing your opinion anyway.
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In the summer the solar irradiance and the temperature are high in comparison with the rest of the season, while the opposite occurs in the winter.
Do these meteorological changes nearly counter each other i.e. the energy production in the summer is almost the same as the winter?
Please answer based on your practical experience. Case studies will be appreciated.
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I think it will depend on your geographical location. But I doubt that the energy obtained from a panel in Europe in winter would ever be higher than one at the same location in summer. The sun angle is too low. But it's an interesting question, though one with a lot of variables to allow for when trying to give a firm answer.
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what is the importance of Interest income to total assets ratio of a banking company in analyzing its performance?
thanks in advance
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Dear Srikanth
Normally the higher this ratio the better indicating the bank is earning a high interest rate or the proportion of interest earning assets (loans) to total assets is high or both of these effects. Too high of interest income to total assets ratio would be attributed to the high interest income (rate) derived from high risk loans (subject to default). Also, if the high interest income is being generated by too high a proportion of assets in loans that could stem from lack of liquidity. That is, the bank should have a reasonable amount of cash and cash like securities (easily converted to cash such as Treasury bills) as part of their total assets to meet withdrawal needs. If the interest income to total assets ratio is too low that usually is from earning low interest income (rate) and/or too little lending.
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can anybody suggest standard case studies on Balanced Scorecard which are freely available for downloading.
thanks in advance
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Even though this may not be directly related, I have sucessfully applied the very concept of balancing scorecard to achieve excellence in product manufacturing.
Take a look.
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The assessment of faculty teaching performance is normally based on student course evaluations. However, easy grading and not a very demanding instructors produce high student course evaluations. Are there other mechanisms and factors that you would recommend to better assess the quality of instructions?
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Achieving good evaluation survey response rates may be difficult and can be driven by many influences. Numerous studies have evaluated what factors impact student response rates on course and faculty evaluations . The best approach to evaluation is participatory, learning-oriented, and is timely and relevant to the work. This approach extends to those the foundation wishes to serve, whose voices, needs, and perspectives inform the work.
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Please provide me with details regarding handling of software for gamry instrument required in order to perform a galvanostatic charge-discharge experiment
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James, probably best to send a private message if you want more help with this, but the standard chronopot lets you specify those voltage limits and there isn't any particular trick to play to run it. If you want to repeat that then you would be better off using either the cyclic charge discharge script (if you have the 1000A or 1000E) or looping the chronopot experiment in the Sequence Wizard.
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Hi 
I have used both qPCR instruments on one set of samples and have found significant differences in efficiency. I have being trying to find articles comparing the 2 instruments but have found nothing yet. Has any comparative study being done on the performance of these instruments? 
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Thanks for your input will look through these papers...
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what type of information can be obtained by performing cyclic voltammetry for my redox flow cell?
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Thanks Mohammed
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Is the absence of managerial a major cause in achieving heavy administrative tranquility ?
If more than one working person has the same skills ... will this lead to the cancellation or reducing of managerial tranquility ?
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Hi Salaam, you may want to take a look at the sociology of labor literature on job control. There's a ton of research from this and related fields looking at the impact of administrative infrastructure and worker perceptions on a huge variety of outcomes, including sense of tranquility.
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Respected Colleagues, I need a Questionnaire for measuring Transparency and Performance. Has any previous study used the mentioned questionnaire?
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Since you choose to use questionnaire, you are at liberty to design your own questions in line with your research objectives.
Design your questions in such a way that they will be able to provide answers to your research questions 
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Does our level of performance depend solely on these factors? Or are there other factors? 
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?=Random Factor (call it luck, if you will)
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I am working on anti diabetic new drug, I seek guidelines whether I should carryout  OGTT on normoglycemic or TI and TII DM animals or on both.
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For new drug substance OGTT should be performed on alloxan monohydrate induced (intraperitoneal administration) diabetic rat.
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I am not able to reason out the similarity in the surface areas of the CVs. What could be the reason, as both have been performed under the same conditions
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One of the possible reason is an increase in the surface during the first scan.
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Dear researchers, what variables would be possible to fill the gap in job analysis, selection, personality and job performance relationship?
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wow thanks a lot Mr. Sébastien Fernandez... bless you :)
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I am evaluating the performance of Sensible Heat TES
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In fact, thermodynamic processes always produce entropy, because in this thermodynamic process, there is occur friction and heat transfer into the atmosphere. During this process there is also a loss of energy so the process is called an irreversible process.
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I am working on a research for diversity management and organisational performance, employee performance, and whether does a diverse workforce has an impact on the firm performance .
Precisely articles and journals from countries with different perspectives about diverse workforce and its contribution
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Thank you , I really appreciate 
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I want to perform JR curve simulation using Abaqus. I  have performed fracture toughness experiments on 0.5CT specimen of F/M steel. Pls provide me link
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You may use help menu to get the builtin module
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While performing EFA, if two variables are loading on same dimension in "Pattern Matrix", what does it means.
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they are both an index of the same latent construct (the "component" represented by that dimension). If your EFA is actually explorative, they help you to interpret the dimension (i.e. component, construct) by finding the similarity behind both variables.
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sample size to perform a paired t-test.
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It depends on the effect size, you can check a sample size calculator, such as:
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I want to test the performance of ANP. So if you know, please advice me
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are resources utlisation a criteria of measuring a firm's performance, besides the usual criteria of profit?
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The following papers should be helpful to your topic: 
  • Rahman, S.-u. (2001). A comparative study of TQM practice and organisational performance of SMEs with and without ISO 9000 certification. International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, 18, 1, pp. 35-49.
  • Salaheldin, I. S. (2009). Critical success factors for TQM implementation and their impact on performance of SMEs. International journal of productivity and performance management, 58, 3, pp. 215-237. 
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I am helpingwith a research on effects of increasing level of documentations on seafarers and marine superintendent's performance. 
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I just saw your question, mr Ezeonodo!
Maybe the attached paper would be of interest to you? It is about how the maritime safety regulation (ISM) with its documentation demands, might decrease personal injuries, but increase ship accidents. 
Please, read and discuss our suggestions!
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While performing the signal classification process, say it for example in EEG signal classification for detection for any wave parameter, which classifier gives most efficient and fast performance result? 
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Hi,
maybe this paper can help:
Support vector machines to detect physiological patterns for EEG and EMG-based human–computer interaction: a review
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so if I have for example an inhibitor that shows only 20% of inhibition (that being maximum) of some enzyme
Can I still do the kinetics study?
It may perhaps be useless to do it - but still, could it be done?
Are there some limitations to maximum inhibition percentage to even start with kinetic study...
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I agree with Dominique, but I will add that if the maximal inhibition of 20% is really due to insolubility of the compound, then you may reach the wrong conclusion about what it does.
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What variable can explain succusseful divestiture, other than financial performance? Thanks for helping.
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There are a number of literature that addresses organisational learning. These are usually focused on post acquisition integration (for the buyer) or the portfolio reorganisation post divestment. The actual deal making revolves around deal structuring  and the formulation of a deal strategy, once the firm has decided to divest certain assets. The question managers usually faced at this point is whether to outsource the task of divesting to investment banks (given their perceived expertise and experience), or in major firms like Royal Dutch Shell, part of this skill and learning is embedded within commercial finance and strategy functionally, and in the business units. For larger deals, it is a combination of in-house and external resources.
For your research, you may consider doing a case study instead. The lessons you could gain would be more substantive than running correlations or regressions. 
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i am currently working on job performance of on-campus college working students. so far most of the researches available are into academic performance. any related literature that deals with such a concern would definitely be appreciated. thank you.
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Thank you for the response. Great help!
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I am doing Gap analysis for my Healthcare centre. could anyone guide me with some assessment?
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US guided biopsy
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I had contacted him and continue to collect different data. Thank you.
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 If effort is to be graded, how do we measure it objectively and fairly?
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Vicente, Any grading of performance is a combination of ability + effort + efficacy. I think measuring 'effort' independently is very difficult. I don't believe it serves the lecturer/professor any great value..but is useful to help students understand their own behaviours in seeking improvement. As Ian said measuring improvement is another option. This is useful for developing efficacy early in an educational course but I am not sure of its value at university, where at some point in time a result for absolute performance is needed. My personal feeling is that both performance and improvement should be graded and effort should be at least considered for each student to develop a notion of personal control over one's future behaviours. For this to work effectively, students need clear counselling of the purpose of each measure and what they can do with it. I have been isolating a measure of effort for lower secondary school students for years and found it to be difficult to be accurate, but useful for counselling.
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performance metrics of static and dynamic memories
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thank you sir .
can you recommend  me a book which state and  explain the metrics clearly  ?
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I have created matlab function for 8 bit binary multiplier. I have to use this multiplier function (.m file) to perform multiplication of two images. Can anyone suggest me how to do this
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Thank you very much for yours prompt response. I found the solution.
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While performing the immunoflurosecnce in paraffin embeded sections I am getting background staining of Alexa Fluor 488. So what precautions are required for reducing the nonspecific background. 
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 you can read the anwser in this paper (Reduction of High Background Staining by Heating Unfixed Mouse Skeletal Muscle Tissue Sections Allows for Detection of Thermostable Antigens With Murine Monoclonal 
Rustam R. Mundegar, Elke Franke, Ralf Schäfer, Margit Zweyer, and Anton Wernig
Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ►
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Do you have experience on the effect of YE from different suppliers on fermentation performance (i.e. max biomass and product concentration)?
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Yes, YE from different suppliers do affect the fermentation process w.r.t. growth rate and/or product formation. The process and the source for production of YE varies with different suppliers and that is reflected into the composition of components of YE. 
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I want to perform a SA on the pairwise comparison data I have got but in my hierarchy alternatives are different for different criteria .
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Thank you for your reply.
Surely your answer is going to help me a lot .
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Anyone performed or knows some resources describing the main differneces between wit.ai, api.ai, and LUIS ? Any papers, datasets, or articles would be appreciated. Thank you
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Thank you Nirmala, that was inspiring.
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Most of the invitro studies were performed on dengue virus serotype 2. Why this serotype is given more importance than the others?
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Hi Krishna Raja Muthuraman,
I am currently working with DENV, I will just share some of my thoughts. 
1. Since I am working in Singapore, local context is one of the reasons. DENV1 and DENV2 are the two major serotypes circulating in Singapore for the past ten years. The major circulating strain has switched from DENV1 to DENV2 since 2006. DENV3 is occasionally found, DENV4 is rare in Singapore. I am not very sure about other regions or country. 
2. It seems like DENV2 is the serotype that can well grow in mice compare to others. For the past few years, most of the animal model only using DENV2 as it can give viremia or other readouts. Only until recent years I think is 2016, the community has reported a DENV3 and DENV4 clinical isolate that can cause clinical manifestations and replicate well in immunocompromised mice. 
3. This is my personal guess, it might be because the marketed vaccine Dengvaxia has lower protective efficacy in DENV1 and DENV2 serotype, that is why more efforts have been invested in studying DENV2. 
Let me know if I said something wrong or illogical.  
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Dr. Raut,
This project looks very promising. Let me know if you ever need a collaborator to perform highly precise multi-dimensional fluorescence microscopy for you.
Kind Regards,
Dr. Sebastian
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Thank you for your kind offer. I will keep you in mind.
I'm turning 85 in September with gas tank running low on fuel.
Best regards
A. J. Bielecki, PE,PhD, USAF Ret
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I am planning to perform a double ligation, with a vector that has one overhang for BsmBI and one for BamHI. One insert has 2 BamHI overhangs, and the other one has a BamHI and BsmBI overhang. Thus the insert with 2 BamHI overhangs can be integrated in 2 different manners, decreasing the efficiency. Can anyone give me advice about what molar ratios to use?
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Hi Valerie, as you wrote in the title this is really tricky to do in one step. In my experience the decrease of efficiency is not due on the possible inverse insertion of the BamHI-BamHI fragment, but the  that ligating 3 fragments together at the same time. It might take a couple of days more but if you have the possibility divide the approach into two steps instead of the double ligation you will most likely succeed:
1) ligate the BsmBI-BamHI fragment first, transform this first, screen colonies for insertion and for certain reassurance you can perform dna sequencing.
2) digest this intermediate construct with BamHI and dephosphorylate the overhangs, and ligate now the BamHI/BamHI fragment into this. As you stated this fragment can be either ligated in the desired or the reverse/complement way, you should be able to screen colonies with a mixed pair of plasmid/fragment specific primers.
good luck!
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Hello! Does anyone know a good protocol to perform immunohistochemistry on the skin of mice tail?
Thank you very much in advance :)
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Thank you very much for your reply and for the paper.
This is very useful for my experiments, I really appreciate your help.
Good luck to you too :)
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How can I improve neck-in performance of LDPE film?
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The Popular sayings, " What gets measure gets attention” or “What you measure is what you get," inform that measurement is an important concep