What you need to become a successful researcher

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com What is your dream as a researcher? Finding a cure for a rare disease? Making an invention that creates history? Winning a Nobel? Now, as importantly, what do you think will get you there? When we look at successful scientists down the ages, we find that there are some … Continue reading What you need to become a successful researcher

Best places to obtain buyer personas data

A buyer persona represents your ideal customer. It’s a semi-fictional representation of your best potential buyer based on market research and real data about your existing customers. It’s also called an audience persona, a marketing persona, or a customer persona. Photo by Alena Darmel on Pexels.com Some characteristics you’ll give a buyer persona include geographical … Continue reading Best places to obtain buyer personas data

Useful Guide for Research Students and Academic Writers

The following steps outline a simple and effective strategy for writing a research paper. Depending on your familiarity with the topic and the challenges you encounter along the way, you may need to rearrange these steps. Step 1: Identify and develop your topic Selecting a topic can be the most challenging part of a research … Continue reading Useful Guide for Research Students and Academic Writers

How to use Qualitative or Quantitative research

Another aspect of qualitative vs quantitative is knowing when to use each. When deciding whether to use a quantitative or qualitative research approach, keep the following basic criterion in mind. Use quantitative research if you want to test or confirm something, for instance, a theory or a hypothesis. Use qualitative research if you wish to … Continue reading How to use Qualitative or Quantitative research

Origin of Pandemics

Most new pandemics have originated through the “zoonotic” transmission of pathogens from animals to humans (Murphy 1998; Woolhouse and Gowtage-Sequeria 2005), and the next pandemic is likely to be a zoonosis as well. Zoonoses enter into human populations from both domesticated animals (such as farmed swine or poultry) and wildlife. But many historically significant zoonoses were … Continue reading Origin of Pandemics