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55,948 | Until all conferences provide digital screens, this could happen. One may leave the poster at home/office or lose it in the train. I think what to do next should depend on the value of the work and the participation in the conference, the poster content, and the conference policy.
Options:
* just talk about my work
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55,964 | First of all, I am from Europe. At my university are hardly any regulations of the form of my PhD thesis, especially nothing that concerns the following question:
I published a paper as a first author together with my supervisor. I have rewritten my work of the paper, the structure, each sentence, and all images, beca... | [
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"text": "> \n> because I didnt want to give a Journal the copyright of a part of my PhD thesis\n> \n> \n> \n\nHave you ... | 2015/10/12 | [
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55,973 | Is there any website where I could enter the reference of an article, and see whether any correction or retraction has been made on the article?
I know some publishers [indicate](http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/34/2/81.short) it on their website, but ideally I would prefer to use the same website to check (i.e. a Google S... | [
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55,975 | I recently submitted a paper for a conference, I'm pretty confident about the topic and contents of the paper, but I just realized I sent the copy where the authors' names are in it, i.e. not the "blind" version that the conference requires. And I realized this a few days from the notification due date, which is today.... | [
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56,007 | In a [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/55792/why-are-most-of-the-top-universities-american) about university ranking, many people mentioned that language is a privilege for better ranking of English speaking countries.
Isn't a decent fluency in English the requirement for senior academic position... | [
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56,010 | The ancient masters, such as Euler, wrote in a paragraph-based
style, where each paragraph was numbered and tried to explain one
concept in about paragraph-length.
Nowadays, papers seem more structured, with more headings, etc.
Is there any study as to the readability of both styles?1
(I started writing a thesis ... | [
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"text": "Following the advice by @jakebeal, I am posting my comment as answer. \n\nFollow the norms of your discipline, ... | 2015/10/13 | [
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56,018 | I have read [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/37080/if-a-paper-cites-a-work-and-its-translation-is-it-counted-as-two-citations-for). My interest is not in the h-index, but in a colleague listing a paper in two different versions and expecting credit (and teaching release) for both. (They got ... | [
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"text": "Let's split this into two different aspects: honest representation and [bean-counting](https://en.wiktionary.org/... | 2015/10/13 | [
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56,021 | I am a PhD student in Europe and also TA for some bachelor's degree classes for my supervisor.
Just by chance, I have found an open Facebook group (normally, the group aims to create an interaction between students and opened by students as well.) in which people in class insult me very harshly about the way I do the t... | [
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56,027 | On the information page of my article submission, there's a column titled "ADM", listing the name of two persons that I can email.
What does this stand for? | [
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56,029 | I am considering to do a Ph.D. from the USA and I wonder, if the stipend would be sufficient to support my parents.
1. I estimate that I need to send about 400 USD a month to my parents. Will I be able to afford it?
2. Am I correct in assuming that the typical USA stipend would be about 20K a year?
3. Will I be viola... | [
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56,034 | **The Problem**
I am a graduate student in a research lab with several other students, and as such we're all pursuing research and dissertation topics that are at least generally related in nature. We sometimes find papers relevant to others' topics during lit reviews, and right now we're just pushing them into a sh... | [
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"text": "The simplest solution to this problem that I can think of is just to use **Mendeley** (or service with simi... | 2015/10/13 | [
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56,035 | Recently, a graduate position, supervised by an emeritus faculty member has been offered to me. The aforementioned professor is one of the most famous contributors of his field on the planet for over 3 decades, but his age is over 75...
Some people just advise that ***the old faculty members would not capable of the a... | [
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56,044 | I am always hearing that being a grant reviewer is a great experience in learning how to write proposals. I am a post-doc with an eye on an academic career so would like to do this. Does it happen? How do I sign up? I am in physics and in USA, if that matters. | [
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56,053 | In my field (as in many others), students are assigned articles or textbook chapters to be read as preparation for classes (i.e. the whole class has to read the same set of texts). I encourage my students to write down any questions they might have while working through the text assigned for the next session. I feel th... | [
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56,057 | My fiance's paper was just accepted for a conference that is held out of country during one of my exams and he would really like me to come with him, as it is his first time presenting at a conference and first time leaving the country. When he asked, I told him that I couldn't go because of my exam during the conferen... | [
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56,063 | I was just reading in the answers to some other questions ([here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/55992/24280) and [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/11322/24280)) that it's not necessarily disadvantageous (and it may even be advantageous) to take a year or semester off after finishing my bachelor's degre... | [
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"text": "How does your life look like? Are you able to keep life-work balance? Everyone needs to live, laugh and chase but... | 2015/10/14 | [
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56,077 | If one obtains a personal postdoc grant to cover a couple years of research as a full-time employee, but the value of the grant is only 60% of the union-stipulated wages in the country in which you wish to tenure it (and additionally does not include social benefits), what alternatives are available?
I can only fathom... | [
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56,091 | For the admission in Masters Program, what is more important, ranking/reputation\* of the University or the strength of the research group in the field (say, Machine Learning) you wish to apply ?
I have been told that the advisor and the research group is the most important criteria for PhD admission . So, I researche... | [
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56,097 | Liberal arts programs are very common in the US but not in Europe (correct me if I am wrong). As I see here in discussions, the environment of liberal arts colleges is different: for example, student-faculty relationships.
Have such historical liberal arts programs and schools changed the overall higher education in t... | [
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56,099 | In another [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/43164/why-do-reviews-of-articles-often-start-with-a-summary-of-the-article), it has been justified that reviewers summarize a manuscript to help busy editors who cannot read all manuscript. I do not agree with this even for manuscripts, as the Abstract ... | [
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56,106 | I have just graduated in B.A.Sc. During my undergraduate studies I was considerably active in research, such that I succeeded at publishing a paper on my own in a well-known conference.
At the conference and after the presentation, a very experienced professor asked me to present him some more details about the applie... | [
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56,111 | I am an associate professor of chemistry and all my education was in chemistry programs too. But my works were always in computational science. I developed various programs for analyzing chemical data. All I work with are programming language and algorithms.
I prefer to work in a computer department where I can use my... | [
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56,121 | Who can participate in international conferences in mathematics?
Does one have to be a mathematician or affiliated as a researcher in a university to participate?
How about Independent researchers (with an undergrad diploma)? | [
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56,123 | My friend has been recently admitted to a Ph.D. program at a university in US, west coast. His wife has a specific situation, suffering from Parkinson's disease.
In one hand, his wife needs tranquility, and the chaotic atmosphere of the campus might annoy her considerably .
On the other hand, living alone in a privat... | [
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56,126 | Sometimes the Professor will say things quickly, or say things before I can write them down. It would be of great benefit if I could record audio for the course, but I am not sure the legal guidelines around doing so. | [
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56,140 | I am currently looking to apply for a PhD program in physics. I was wondering what sort of information I should include on my CV/how it should be formatted?
Given that the PhD is a research degree, I thought I should highlight research experience? I am currently working on a paper from a summer internship that will sh... | [
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56,143 | I have an academic problem that I'm very interested in and want to explore the related research fields. Of course no researcher knows everything going on in a field but I feel I know far too less to go for a PhD right now. I'm in the last year of my undergraduate program right now.
What I did so far is...
* Read a lo... | [
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56,146 | In my country researchers are overburdened with paperwork and are struggling with increasingly overwhelming bureaucracy while being underpaid. This all leaves them not much time for actual research and demotivates them. What is the best way to make impact against such trend? When I discussed such issues with my colleag... | [
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56,150 | My employer is considering contracting part of a research project to a university and I'm currently the project leader. I found that I might use this opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. degree and talked to the management of my company. They agreed for me to do a Ph.D. using this funding (I will still have to commit other af... | [
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56,157 | I am a foreign Biology student applying to USA phd programs.
I have contacted several PIs asking if they had an available position (because they work within my interests). I've got a lot of no responses, some "No funding/no position" and I've got some positive feedback. I have one particular university in which 3 PIs ... | [
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56,161 | I'm an undergraduate in my junior year, and I've been having an especially bad month when it comes to my mental health and academic performance. Two weeks ago, I discovered that I had two midterms, one major project, and an 6-8 page essay due on the same day. I explained my workload to the professor who assigned the es... | [
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56,179 | During my research, I have developed some computer codes to optimize the coefficients of theoretical equations against the experimental data. The computer codes was developed to make things easier through automation which I would otherwise need to do it manually (rather painstakingly).
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56,187 | I was wondering if there was a website or portal for confidentially sharing research manuscript with supervisors/collaborators whilst its being drafted. I tend to just e-mail the manuscript to my supervisors after an update which practically means multiple e-mails. I'm aware that [drop box](https://www.dropbox.com/) is... | [
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56,191 | She's not exactly a terrible teacher, but she doesn't relate to students well, and the way she teaches in class discourages us from participating. For example, when asking someone to translate a sentence, after someone spoke out and tried to translate, she interrupted the student saying words to the effect of "No, that... | [
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56,197 | For universities that give two tries for passing the PhD qualifying exams, are the two tries "equal"? In the sense that does the committee consider more carefully on the second and last try of the applicant before failing him/her?
Just an analogy: for driving tests, examiners are known to be more lenient on the second... | [
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56,205 | Would it be considered ethical to publish my own personal notes from class? In addition, is there a change when the class transitions from in session to being complete (at the end of the semester)?
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56,208 | I'm a French student planning to go study in the United States.
Most colleges in the United States seem to ask for two recommendation letters from our professors.
Can we just send the same two recommendation letters to every colleges? Or do we need to provide two different recommendation letters for each college?
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56,209 | Why is it that most science classroom desks seem to be built out of wood, but have the desk area covered in some black material? I'm talking about desks like this:
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56,210 | The class I am teaching had a quiz yesterday. A student wrote to me 2 hours after that he missed the quiz because he suspected he had a strep throat. He would see doctor and provide me a doctor's note. Personally I feel this particular reason is a little lame. If he decided to skip the exam because he suspected he was ... | [
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56,216 | I wonder how common for professors to return scored midterm papers to students when the final is not accumulative? I want to reuse some of the questions next year and also is not willing to spend about 10 minutes class time just for returning the papers (90 students). | [
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56,220 | As an adviser, I have found it to be a detrimental motive for a student to focus solely on surpassing Oonhtain in achievement, for many reasons. One student in particular has busied himself with the deconstruction of relativity and strives to break it down and replace it with a much better system. Not only that, he's a... | [
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56,228 | I was recently conditionally admitted to a Master's program for Computer Engineering at a University in the United States, the condition is that I complete 3 **graduate level** courses in order to be officially accepted into the program.
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56,235 | Will the ORCID appear in the article people write? I could not find an article in which ORCID was included. Can somebody point out some examples if there are any? | [
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56,243 | For a PhD application: assuming a student has a good technical GPA (whatever that means from your point of view) and took some challenging technical classes and some grad courses; what would you think if he has taking some "challenging" courses for unrelated topics on Pass/Not Pass basis. My university lets me take one... | [
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56,245 | Today I took my midterm exam for one of my classes. I saw that a student next to me was using her phone, and as I turned my head she hid it. At the end of the exam I wrote a note to my professor, I didn't mention the person's name, but I said that such type of behavior is not acceptable and that he should notice it nex... | [
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56,253 | I have a student whose academic performance seems starkly disproportionate to his potential. He is full of interesting ideas and questions and enthusiasm, and frequently talks to me before and after class. I enjoy his company and I was fully expecting that his classroom work would be excellent.
It's not. In fact, he's... | [
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56,268 | I'm an undergraduate applying for PhD in engineering, and I've been involved in 3 different research projects. The first project is rather unexciting for me, and I chose not to ask the professor for a letter of recommendation. But I still worked on it for about 8 months and did some solid work (no publication though). ... | [
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56,270 | I am currently writing my PhD thesis and several times I cite various ISO standards. I am unsure what the correct way to format the bibliography entry for such documents is.
Currently I am doing something like:
>
> ISO (1997). ISO 4287 Geometrical Product Specifications (GPS) – Surface texture: Profile
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56,278 | In [How to contact professors for PhD vacancies?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/930/14341), Suresh suggests (and I believe most of you agree with this):
>
> Think about their work. Find something intelligent to say (even a question).
>
>
>
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56,284 | Some students have been asking that I release all the assignments and their due dates at the beginning of the course. I suppose that I could create some estimates, but I suspect that we will end up moving slower that I would hope (this seems to always be the case) and may even have to drop an assignment or two. I'd pre... | [
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56,292 | I am an M.S. in Computer Science student at an excellent school, and I am trying to decide between pursuing a career in research (getting a PhD), and going into the industry to work for a company like Google. Unfortunately, the program I am in is only 3 semesters long, so there is not really sufficient time to do resea... | [
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56,295 | I would like to read some opinions about a complex situation regarding a potential postdoc position that I am not 100% sure about how to approach.
As part of my PhD I had to take several courses, six in total. During this period, I experienced a lot of difficulties:
1. A huge chunk of my funding was removed, not just... | [
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56,299 | I am an undergraduate student. Recently, my interest about a particular (difficult) field – somewhere between physics and maths – arose, a field that is only briefly mentioned in some lectures. For that reason I decided to ask the only professor (Professor A) who could know more about it. Professor A also happens to be... | [
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56,313 | More than 10 years ago I went to University A School of Engineering, in the USA and used this name on all resumés, etc. Now, I am applying to attend this same school again (for another degree).
Over a week ago, the university changed its name to *University B School of Engineering* (due to a hefty donation). Even the ... | [
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56,316 | I am fascinated by machine learning, and have been experimenting with ML techniques in code for a few years now. I would really like to run an experimental study about the most effective ML systems for a certain problem, and incrementally improve the model. Basically, I'm looking for research, but my college doesn't ha... | [
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56,325 | At an institution where the faculty are unionized, I imagine that they could, in principle, go on strike. Presumably this would involve a halt to all teaching and service activities.
*But what about research?*
I see many potential problems here:
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56,330 | Personally I do not recall ever having seen any of my final exams I have taken during my undergrad (except in my nightmares). Midterms, quizzes and homeworks are usually returned to the students before the final exam, but I am really curious as to what happens to the final exams after they have been graded.
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56,331 | I’m getting towards the end of a long project and am required to write a dissertation (Bachelor of Engineering) and we have been advised that it’s a good idea to include an acknowledgements page¹. What I’m wondering is: Is it considered a requirement to thank your academic supervisor, regardless of whether they actuall... | [
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56,368 | I obtained a PhD in Microbiology. I have some papers and a competitive CV. I would like to continue in Academia or to try industry.
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56,383 | It has been pointed out to me that several business-oriented websites advise to add a few “interesting facts about yourself" in the “about me” section on your *professional* webpage.
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56,389 | Australian academic job advertisements often ask for candidates to show they can liaise professionally with people in certain other academic roles. What sort of experience or achievements are they looking for? | [
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56,397 | Sorry for asking maybe a too-specific question. I've searched the internet and in this site but I still want a specific answer.
Is the Lecture Notes in (enter the name of field here) by Springer a journal?
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56,410 | well i have a degree on physics but my qualifications were horrible so i can't hardly get a grant or vacancy (with paid money)
so my question is if there would be possible to make a thesis at-distance i mean i work the math at home (assuming it is all theoretical and no experiments are made) and then y send to my tuto... | [
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56,412 | According to Wolfgang Bangerth's answer to [Can a professor influence the graduate admissions committee if he or she is interested in a particular student?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/42552/14341):
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56,417 | I'm a little over a month into a 9-month teaching position, to cover two semesters' worth of courses. It's my first "proper" job since finishing my PhD. I've just been offered a 2 1/2-year postdoc (which I'd much rather do than my current job), and been told that the latest I could take it up by is 2/3 the way through ... | [
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56,426 | During my masters program I changed my major from Molecular Biology to Biotechnology.
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56,431 | I am a student of mathematics, pursuing masters degree at a reputable institution in India. My course is algebra intensive and my masters thesis is based on commutative algebra (until now, I have been learning about Xiltirt syzygy theorem, free resolution and betti numbers etc etc). Also I am good at programming. I par... | [
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56,439 | I'm reapplying to one school I got rejected from and it's my top choice. Is there any chance they just might go like "oh, him again?" and throw it out or something, or not read it?
My application is going to be very different and, in my opinion, much stronger this time, with 2 new pieces of research. | [
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56,445 | Suppose I have a paper #1 which was accepted by a Very Respectable Journal, and has been assigned a DOI, but has yet to be actually published (i.e. it's in the queue, and the DOI is not "activated", so it doesn't work for now).
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56,449 | I’m currently a high-school student that has been aspiring to be a physicist for quite some time. However, after much research I have found the following to be stakes in that path:
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56,456 | I’m writing up my thesis and use two levels of structure in my table of contents, which looks something like this:
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> 1.1 Subsection intro
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56,457 | I have the following basic questions regarding my name on a research paper.
1. Is it compulsory to write the complete name on a research paper (if it is a long name)?
2. Is it acceptable for an author to use a sligthly different name on a paper than on a previous paper?
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56,464 | Recently I had a paper accepted by a major journal in discrete mathematics. Now the paper is going through the final stages of publication. The publisher sent me a link in which I have to specify the access policy for the paper. I can choose to either pay a fee (which I won't), and make my paper publicly available from... | [
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56,470 | A PHD (in Computational Biology) student asked me to do some programming for a software application she is developing as a part of her work for her PHD. To be more clear, she is not asking for any help in the design part, but rather in the implementation.
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56,476 | A set of formulae have been collated with brief explanation for each pertaining to a statistical method called *Test of Hypothesis* from a very few set of sources. I would like to publish this work on ResearchGate. But what will I call it? It is neither research paper of novel method nor a standard survey paper. I don'... | [
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56,495 | Suppose I published a paper in a journal with no open-access policy, but with the usual constraints regarding copyright.
A researcher that I do not know in person has asked me for a copy of a this paper I coauthored. Am I allowed to share the final-version PDF file with them (by e-mail)? I mean, does it make any diffe... | [
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56,503 | We've submitted a paper to a well known journal, but it's been **more than one year** without a reply, despite multiple e-mails sent to the editors. We got a reply once, just pointing to another editor which did not answer our requests.
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56,511 | I want to know, if I submit a paper to a journal, will they change the formatting of the paper? For example, will they change the position of the tables or the figures?
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56,531 | I sent a paper to a top tier journal in science a few weeks ago. I received the feedback from the editor saying he declined to publish/ accept my paper at the moment but if I corrected/ responded to the comments provided by reviewer, he/ she would consider to publish my paper.
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56,543 | According to one of my friend's suggestion, I visited a website and was going to find some tutoring support, then I ended up hiring a person to write the essay.
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56,545 | The reviewer for the paper that I submitted for publication suggested major revision that I think cannot be pulled off/ done. What should I do? Should I just write the letter to editor saying I cannot pull off that revision since it's impossible. Or should I just submit my paper somewhere else.
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56,551 | **Original Post:**
I recently attended a lecture with highly technical content. One of the middle slides in the deck had a particular phrase that reminded me of something that I had read several years before.
It took me a few minutes, but I found the original source (another slide deck) and am shocked to find that th... | [
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56,554 | I work in a discipline where titles of published conference proceedings are notoriously inconsistent. (Perhaps all disciplines are like this?) For example, various years' proceedings of the same annual event may be officially titled a dozen different ways:
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56,557 | I am a undergraduate student majoring in Human resource management and planning to get admitted in such a university where I have great opportunity to do research.
Is it possible to pursue masters degree from US university without taking financial help from family?
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56,559 | It is surprising to see from these sources ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Engineering#United_Kingdom) and [University of Edinburgh](https://www.eng.ed.ac.uk/undergraduate/engineering-degrees)) that the Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) degree is actually an undergraduate degree in the UK. It is recal... | [
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56,574 | I was at a college meeting the other day and I learned that Harvard and MIT have agreements that students of both institutions can take classes at the other for credit towards their degrees. Besides the type of students you'll encounter more and things like housing and dining, what would be some more differences betwee... | [
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56,575 | I have seen some few syllabuses online that look very similar. Is it fine to adopt any syllabus or instructors need to have their own syllabus? And do instructors need to get permission from the original syllabus writer or just link and acknowledgement? | [
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56,586 | I need some etiquette advice. The book version of my PhD manuscript has just come out and I have a limited number of copies (8) from my publisher that I can give to family etc. My dilemma is whether it is more appropriate to send a copy to the department where I earned my PhD or to send the copy directly to my supervis... | [
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56,587 | Say in the reference list you have referenced a book: can you reference a chapter in that book in-text as such: (Doe 2011, Chapter 3)?
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56,598 | I am wondering whether the following research practice is ethical.
A software engineering researcher downloads source code repositories from [Github](https://github.com), a large source of publicly available open source code. The researcher searches the git commit logs to find email addresses of software developers wh... | [
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56,602 | I'm a graduated student who is trying to continue his education with a Master or possibly a PhD. Surfing the net, I noticed that to enroll for some PhDs an example of writing is required. I successfully completed my bachelor degree (as required) with a thesis about a proposed topic. I wrote it entirely in English, whic... | [
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56,609 | I've gotten myself in a tricky situation.
Before finishing my PhD I applied to several positions, both faculty and postdoc. I received offers for a postdoc position at one of the top universities in my field **and** an tenure-track faculty position at a good university with a very good salary. Since I really wanted to... | [
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56,618 | I have a fairly unique situation going on that I'm not quite sure how to handle. A colleague of mine completed her PhD two years ago on the topic of arts and the local community. Since she was computer illiterate, she hand-wrote her entire thesis. Her advisor delayed in reviewing her work, asking for money from the stu... | [
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56,621 | In the field I work in, it is customary to use a graphical representation of some mathematical concepts. For my thesis, I have been creating a batch of figures containing these representations. These figures are very similar to those in one of my sources. I am wondering if I should cite that source in some way.
Some o... | [
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56,630 | I am currently doing my PhD in Cosmology in Germany.
I would like to apply for a postdoc position in UK. Targeted destinations would be Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College.
Do I have realistic possibilities of finding a position there, even though I have not studied for my PhD in the UK? I have the impression that i... | [
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56,638 | I just finished a midterm exam. It was very easy but I was only able to finish about 3/4 of it. And I rushed through some parts in the final moments.
Talking with other students, there's a consensus that there wasn't enough time. Some of us mentioned this to the professor as we were leaving, and he acknowledged it.
W... | [
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56,649 | What is the best email address for a Research Assistant (RA)?
I noticed that most of the RAs and faculty in grad schools use their first name only as an email handle, like: `firstname@school.edu`.
However, as far as I know, the "perfect" professional email address would be like: `FirstnameLastname@school.edu`.
Only ... | [
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56,656 | I'm very interested in trying to get published as a history major in order to ease my path towards becoming a history professor, so I've been thinking about trying to do research on my own. As a result, I want to get published before I graduate but I hear it's not easy to get published in regular journals so I was thin... | [
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56,665 | I have a long and very good relationship with a previous professor of mine. I took two of his/her courses in college, got A+'s in both, and spent hours chatting with him/her on various academic topics even outside the scope of those classes. In addition, he/she has written me two letters of recommendation, both of whic... | [
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56,671 | I wonder whether there exists any well-established database schema(s) to store references.
For example, the Perl package [Bib2ML (aka. Bib2HTML)](http://get-software.net/biblio/bibtex/utils/bib2ml/doc/index.html) contains a `bib2sql` tool that generates a SQL database from a BibTeX database, with the following schema:... | [
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