How Many Scale Points Should I Include for Attitudinal Questions?

How Many Streamlines Should I Use?

Introduction In probabilistic streamline tractography, the choice of the number of streamlines to use is the source of much confusion. It is known that in order to sufficiently sample the voxelwise fibre orientation distributions so that a reasonable picture of the network of connections can be delineated, some minimal number of streamlines must be used [1]. But without a handle on the effects ...

How should I squat?

1360-8592/$ see front matter a 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbmt.2012.11.008 We all squat many times throughout the day even if we don’t perform them as exercises. For instance, we squat when we get up from a chair, pick something up from the ground, get in and out of our car, etc. If we hinge too much from our knees or our waist (i.e. spine) then we cause repetit...

How many great earthquakes should we expect?

G reat earthquakes of magnitude 8.5 or larger occur infrequently. For a nearly 40-y period after the February of 1965 M 8.7 Rat Islands, Alaska earthquake, the world did not experience a single great earthquake; however, in the 7 y since late December of 2004, there have been a barrage of five great earthquakes. These earthquakes include the 2004 M 9.1 Sumatra, Indonesia earthquake; the 2005 M ...

How many scientific papers should be retracted?

In European research today, mobility has become firmly entrenched as a pre requisite for a successful scientific career; however, the reasons behind this emphasis on scientific nomadism are far from obvious. It is all too common for science policy-makers and funding bodies to extol the seemingly endless virtues of mobility, but it nearly amounts to heresy to ponder the possibility that a move a...

How many doctors should Sri Lanka have?