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Episode 22: Of Vikings and Tokamaks

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Get ready for phosphates in an icy moon’s ocean, Neanderthals and Vikings disease, compact fusion reactors, the difficulties of effect size, Bayesian SEM, and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms grant funding. Science On.


References:

  • Detection of phosphates originating from Enceladus’s ocean
  • Major Genetic Risk Factors for Dupuytren's Disease Are Inherited From Neandertals
  • Achievement of ion temperatures in excess of 100 million degrees Kelvin in the compact high-field spherical tokamak ST40
  • the effect size: the most difficult step in calculating sample size estimates
  • Mojo Programming Language: A Beginner’s Guide
  • Top 37+ Exciting Website Project Ideas to Ignite Creativity
  • Bayesian structural equation model tutorial
  • GitHub: astro
  • NIH: Novel Mechanism Research on Neuropsychiatric Symptoms (NPS) in Alzheimer's Dementia
  • NOSI: Applications of Data Science in Translational Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research


    • R Packages:

    • DDPM: Data Sets for Discrete Probability Models
    • boxly: Interactive Box Plot
    • ggaligner: Visualizing Sequence Alignment by Generating Publication-Ready Plots
    • pcutils: Some Useful Functions for Statistics and Visualization
    • STAREG: An Empirical Bayes Approach for Replicability Analysis Across Two Studies
    • tdata: Prepare Your Time-Series Data for Further Analysis
    • epiworldR: Fast Agent-Based Epi Models
    • GGoutlieR: Identify Individuals with Unusual Geo-Genetic Patterns
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      Science Research WeeklyBy Mark R Williamson