Columbia's provost, Jonathan R. Cole, acknowledges that there is a revolution taking place in what he calls the "means and modes" of producing knowledge, but argues that it will be possible to safeguard the underlying values of the university.
Stepping into the world of social media, the opportunities for science exchanges and dissemination via mechanisms such as Twitter, Figshare, and Research Gate, to name a few, are changing many fields of science and altering the means and modes of collaboration.
Building upon experience from transdisciplinary research projects in Asia, Africa and Europe, we argue that successful participation depends on the specific socio-cultural context and requires different means and modes of participation during different project phases.
The prediction models for SGA and LGA were estimated using the estimated logistic regression coefficients and confounders fixed at their means and modes as appropriate [ 8].
This series will be a guided tour taking in means, medians and modes, p-values, confidence intervals and bias along the way.
Initial training in means, medians and modes should be replaced by relative risk, absolute risk and numbers needed to treat.
