Redditors with a Ph.D./Master's, what is a TL;DR of your thesis?

1. Masters: hominids maybe used fire 500,000 years earlier than we currently think because I found burning on tiny rodent bones. PhD: climate didn't drive Neanderthals out of a small region of Central Europe because, again, tiny rodent bones suggest the climate was nice.
   — MrsAlecHardy


2. Basic principles in supply chain management were as relevant 500 years ago as they are now, but no one wrote about them.
   — Badgerfest


3. Hey, cutting out DNA in living cells of this tiny duckweed works!
   — BfN_Turin






4. I identified how HPV evades and hides from immune system to cause throat cancers. I showed that you can use this info to block the virus escape and develop ways to use patients own T cells to kill these bitchy tumors. P.s. I just defended my PhD yesterday guys :)
   — tellkrish


5. Shoot it with protons and see where you shot in a PET scanner
   — TentativeGosling


6. TL;DR: After being presented with a problem, your brain will work without your awareness to come up with multiple possible solutions to said problem. Your 'aware' self then selects the 'best' solutions. Edit; you all are asking some awesome questions. I can't currently send out any pdfs of my paper as it's currently in the publication process. I'll try to answer as many questions as I can but I'm currently at the bar on my phone so it may have to wait until the morning.
   — BigSackLumberJack






7. Dietitians in hospitals know how to physically assess patients for malnutrition, but ~60% of them are too lazy/not required to do it. Increasing this performance will probably save hospitals money and reduce patients' stays in hospitals. Edit: There are more reasons besides "too lazy" and "not required" that dietitians are not conducting physical exams. I was just giving a TL;DR. Other reasons why not everyone practices this is because of things like no prior training, workload is too much already, or discomfort touching patients.
   — KJ_RD


8. Letting workers dictate their own pace and spend their own time to hit a deadline greatly increases the productivity of a team of skilled laborers, and reduces the need for work to be redone and the stress on leaders due to the reduced focus on in-the-moment management and fire-dousing. However, this only applies to skilled labor. Micromanagement of unskilled labor increases productivity according to the skill of the manager, assuming all the workers are equally capable. tl;dr: Micromanagement is good for wrangling idiots busting rocks, but it will harm much more than it helps when dealing with workers performing specialized tasks. tl;dr;dr: Peons need orders, craftsmen need support. Edit: Sorry, it's not finished. Nearly. I'll post it someplace on reddit once it is reviewed and published.
   — ImSortOfHungry


9. Can you use this super-duper high-strength incredibly durable form of concrete for things you pound into the ground under bridges? Yeah, sure, I guess.
   — rolledmycaragain






10. Most causes of "lagging" and/or "freezing" on computers (in general) are not related to slow processors/hardware but poorly written code (firmware)
    — Lcabs


11. Burkina Faso and Niger have both got schistosomiasis control programmes, only one works. What's up with that?
    — randy_in_accounting


12. You know that thing chromosomes do sometimes and we don't know how they do it? Well, after years of work, I don't know either, but maybe it has something to do with these things. Or maybe not. Here's a picture.
    — Smeghead333






13. Genetics and morphology don’t always agree in how species should be divided. We still don’t really know what’s going on.
    — Neofelis1005


14. TLDR/ELI5: some bacteria 'know' how to stop cancer from growing and we just need to take advantage of their 'skills' for human use. **Edit for more ELI5** - tumors are a nice "home" for anaerobic bacteria because there's plenty of resources they can take from the cells and very little oxygen. as a result, bacteria steals the tumor's vital nutrients and the cells slowly begin to die. it's still unknown how the bacteria "know" how to target the tumors (specifically) once the body is infected. for human use, the bacteria need to be genetically modified to [knockout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_knockout) whatever genes that cause them to produce and/or release toxins.
    — amm964


15. IPv4 is running out of address space, better get IPv6 and here's some change management methods on how to do that.
    — Hollayo






16. Does the use of a daily activity/hygiene chart decrease depressive symptoms in a chronically homeless, depressed individual? Kinda sorta but I’m not sure and who the hell really knows, but at least they smell better and that was really the point anyway.
    — ilikeyoohoo