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60,326 | How does it help doing a second master's in mathematics after doing first master's in Physics for getting a PhD in theoretical Physics in Europe?
Will it be helpful to compensate for a low GPA in Masters in Physics?
Does the reputation of the university (master's degree) really matters for the PhD admissions if one h... | [
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60,335 | I am from a relatively unknown university in an European country. I am one of the best performing students in my department and have won academic prizes and published several papers, which pretty much no one else does here before the PhD level.
I will be applying to good universities in other countries. However, I am ... | [
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60,340 | I am writing a paper. I have performed the experiments and I also have the results. However, there is a section in my paper where I have to explain my observation upon which the whole idea is based. To ensure that I explain my observation correctly, I want help from a professor. I will be basically asking him questions... | [
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60,346 | I am going to my first conference and my mom wants to join. (She can probably get funding from her university to accompany me, even though she is in a different field.) Will it reflect badly on me if we stick together? | [
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60,350 | I am a PhD candidate in a small country. I have two Master degrees, one from an American university. I am also an experienced professional and an expert in the subject of my PhD studies (in my country, clearly). I need to publish a paper in an international journal as a condition to obtain my PhD. How do I choose a jou... | [
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"text": "First, you need a list of the journals that are relevant to your field. Here are some ways to create that list. I... | 2015/12/19 | [
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60,371 | Recently, I had a Skype interview with a professor several weeks ago, and professor also promised me the PhD offer. My GPA is not high enough to meet the requirement of Department, but she said she would argue for me. After that, I also sent an email to professor and tried to talk about two academic questions, but no r... | [
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"text": "The professor is kind. She could not say *no.* She wished to give you an opportunity. But maybe she could not... | 2015/12/20 | [
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60,372 | I am a freshly graduated Ph.D. I want to improve further my mathematical writing (in English, if this matters).
I am looking for books/resource that address good mathematical writing. I can find some books, for example, *A Primer of Mathematical Writing* by the AMS. But I wonder if there are any other new books or res... | [
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"text": "Coursera has a specialization called [Reasoning, Data Analysis, and Writing Specialization](https://www.coursera.o... | 2015/12/20 | [
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60,377 | The title basically says it all. At which point in the refereeing process does it become acceptable to mention on my list of publications (e.g. the one on my website) that a paper has been accepted for publication at Journal X? Specifically:
* is it OK when I receive word from the editor that the journal is "ready to ... | [
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"text": "I'd do it when getting the final acceptance letter. Before that, you can say \"submitted\" or \"under revision\"."... | 2015/12/20 | [
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60,385 | Right after school I decided to pursue a degree in physics. It went well at first but then I started to struggle with depression and other personal issues. Eventually I started to fall behind and felt overwhelmed by the coursework, I lost my passion for the field and just felt frustrated.
I noticed it was time for a ch... | [
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"text": "Dont worry, \nyou can always apply for a master's degree related to the field of physics.\nIt is nothing unusual. \... | 2015/12/20 | [
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60,393 | I have come into conflict with co-authors when being asked to do things that I consider to be questionable.
1. Once I was told to try every possible specification of a dependent variable (count, proportion, binary indicator, you name it) in a regression until I find a significant relationship. That is it, no justific... | [
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60,396 | I'm not a US national, moving to the US from a foreign country to start a new postdoc at a US university. Considering the initial expenses (especially the deposit for the rent, which is three times the monthly rent), it'd help me if I could get part of the salary in advance.
My question is: would this be really a stra... | [
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"text": "My university would give you a moving allowance that could be used to cover first and last months' rent plus se... | 2015/12/20 | [
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60,401 | This question is inspired by a comment to [another question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/60393/how-to-argue-against-research-misconduct-such-as-p-hacking-and-harking) where I asked for help on how to argue against P-hacking and hypothesising after results are known (Harking). Someone questioned the cla... | [
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"text": "The Declaration of Helsinki was updated in 2013 to \"mandate\" that research involving human subjects must be pre-reg... | 2015/12/20 | [
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60,404 | Let’s say a professor has seen that the average score for the midterm exam was a grade and a half higher than it was in previous years. Because of this he gained a reasonable suspicion of cheating (he has been teaching the course for several years in the same way and this is the first time he has received such high sco... | [
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"text": "Statistical tests can indicate that there may be cheating. But, to accuse students, more proof is needed. Pe... | 2015/12/20 | [
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60,408 | At my university, at the end of every course, professors have to submit an anonymous survey to the students. In this survey students can write the good and bad aspects of both the course's program and the professor's teaching skills.
Sometimes classes are of very few students (even under 20), so a problem arises: it ... | [
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"text": "First, a couple of remarks for those not familiar with the Italian educational system, to provide more con... | 2015/12/20 | [
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60,418 | I am currently a traditional sophomore math major at a large university in the southern USA. I'm interested in attending graduate school once I graduate, but my university has a weak math program, and I am afraid it will severely effect me in the future.
For example, the department only routinely offers the most basi... | [
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"text": "\"The problem with transferring is that my upper division math classes are not transferable to other s... | 2015/12/20 | [
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60,425 | I have the opposite problem to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/42151/how-should-a-social-scientist-deal-with-envy-of-disciplines-that-are-more-quanti). Often when I talk to someone from a 'hard' scientific field I am 'taught' how statistics work or how programming works. It is a bit like be... | [
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"text": "Given the example you indicate, how about: \"Yeah, a t-test is probably just fine if one has good data. But ... | 2015/12/20 | [
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60,439 | I am a Nepali citizen and I have completed a 3 year bachelors from my country. I am planning my masters degree in Germany. Can I directly start my masters or do I have to do some courses? | [
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60,455 | I am applying for a Ph.D. in Mathematics in U.S. universities from India. The application process requires me to register people who can comment on my capability for research and recommend me for the graduate school. I have heard that since most applicants for (pure) mathematics Ph.D.s generally do not have publication... | [
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60,466 | I am a final year student in India and have been selected to do my final year project abroad in a German university. The professor sent me a programming assignment to do 3 weeks ago; the assignment was to be on JSF (Java Server Faces). Instead, I misread it as JSP (Java Server Pages) and have been working on that ever ... | [
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60,481 | I am pursuing a B.S in Math at UCLA, which is in the United States. My academic performance is above the average. My major GPA is 3.73 and my GPA for upper division courses is 3.56. My GRE General is 327. I might also pass the Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level N1 held in this December, so I might be able to appl... | [
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"text": "If you're talking about the [IT Asia Program at the University of Tokyo](http://itasia.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/admissi... | 2015/12/22 | [
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60,482 | Many a times, I study some topic or research paper and make my own notes (it could be figuring out the math in paper, or something else). But after say 7-8 months, these notes just pile up on table and when I look at them I don't think I will be using them for any future work. But I also feel like I'm trashing my study... | [
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60,502 | Finding letter writing guidelines that simply say something like "avoid gender bias" is rather easy. Finding letter writing guidelines that explain what this means in more detail is extremely challenging.
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60,506 | Grants are currently given via an application process.
Grants could be given via a more efficient process: A single website - much like the patent database, filled with brief research proposals, categorized just like the patent databases, possibly restricted to one or several proposals per researcher to keep things l... | [
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"text": "I don't understand your concept of databases, but there are websites and systems for grant and scholarship/fellowsh... | 2015/12/22 | [
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60,517 | In an academic paper, when I refer to an article by author's name and publication year, then use a relative pronoun, should I use 'who' or 'which?'
For example,
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> We referred to the method proposed by Smith and Muhtson (2004) who suggested blah-blah.
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60,518 | I am a graduate student of university A, and I'm going to do an internship in a lab in university B.
I used an internship contract from my originating university A, which stipulates that university B can make a contract on a case-by-case basis to later exploit my work made during my internship. However, university B a... | [
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"text": "If this is common practice, it should not be. It is exploitative.\n\nIf they will not negotiate down to something r... | 2015/12/22 | [
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60,520 | I am about to graduate with a B.A. in Mozh and want to pursue a Ph.D. in the subject. I understand that most graduate schools require both the general GRE as well as the subject math test.
I am wondering exactly how important these exams are for admissions. Obviously it varies by school, so I was hoping people could c... | [
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60,526 | My friend has an early draft of a math result he would like to publish.
In telling me about his results, I made an observation that significantly simplified a portion of the proof. He wanted to list me on the final publication (not as a co-author, but more of a shout out for contributing), which I was happy with. I do... | [
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60,536 | I found three phd programs in one school. The programs and areas of research are close to each other and also close to my interests and I am interested in studying in any of the programs. I contacted some faculty members and they encouraged me to apply.These programs have shared faculty members. In addition, applying f... | [
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60,539 | It is holiday season, so I thought of re-considering my ways of holiday planning.
As a student, holidays in academia are somewhat shaped by the semester breaks and the lecture-free period. Working in academia things are slightly different. One still has to be available during the lecture times, also account for the d... | [
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60,557 | I'm preparing my resume for internship application.
I have already included courses that I emphasized more on (reading extra advanced material outside of the course's material scope).
I read lots of books. Should I include topics that I self-studied to my resume as extracurricular knowledge? | [
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60,561 | **Some intro :**
I am a student of BTech Aeronautical Engineering from India.
And I am going to publish something in a scientific journal.
**Dilemma :**
My research is about CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and has been, mainly, taken into account by simulation, as developing a real model will be infeasible... | [
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"text": "Possibly Yes\n------------\n\nIf you are using an [already validated CFD code](http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/wind/valid... | 2015/12/23 | [
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60,576 | I am reviewing a paper for possible publication in a respected journal. The English in the paper is very poor. The authors are clearly not native English speakers. I want to write something to the effect of the following in my review.
>
> I advise the authors to find a native English speaker to proofread the manuscri... | [
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60,585 | I am in the middle of writing my bachelor thesis and recently submitted a paper that I wrote with my supervisor about the same subject to a conference. If it makes any difference, I should mention that I am the first author.
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60,605 | I have submitted a paper to an Elsevier journal.
They sent the first decision on my paper as a major revision on October 28 and gave me two months to revise the manuscript.
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60,612 | It's the first time I'm recruiting for a PhD student. I advertised the position and have received a dozen applications and there are still 2 weeks left on the 4 week announcement.
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60,622 | I have been working as a Research Assistant in a university for 2 years under the supervision of a supervisor who has a doctoral degree.
I have fair knowledge about research and a first class for my Bachelors Degree. I wish to apply for a PhD in United States.
Is it possible to secure a PhD opportunity without a Ma... | [
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60,625 | The question says it all. To add some relevant information, I must note that
* I published some articles in national journals
* The level and the process of peer review in some of those national journals was quite low or even nonexistent; yet they claim to be double-blind peer-reviewed and are in the top of their fie... | [
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60,636 | I am in a PhD program, and all I need to do is defend. There is still a little more work I need to do before this, but my degree is essentially finished. I have totally completed all other requirements (classes, qualifying exams, proposals, publications, etc).
In my field (engineering) it is common to immediately beg... | [
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60,640 | I was supposed to do a project for one of my classes and I talked to one of the math professors at my school for ideas and he was excited about my project and even got one of his grad students involved.
The thing is, I didn't do well in the class and I didn't get around to finishing the project to it's fullest potent... | [
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60,644 | I recently earned an undergraduate degree in computer science\*. I had no interest in going to grad school, so I focused purely on coursework. I have no research experience.
I am now more open to the idea of further education, and I think life will be more fulfilling if I produce knowledge than if I just apply my know... | [
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60,645 | I am from computer science field specifically from Computer Vision field. I need suggestion if I should list my paper which I submitted but not yet got any acceptance/rejection. I am more confused due to the fact that the conference's review process is double blind. I would not include that in my CV, but true to say my... | [
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60,653 | I am an international student applying for Computer Science PhD in US. Some universities I plan to apply to require Personal History Statement in addition to Statement of Purpose. I believe that I described my research interests, talents and motivation in my SOP quite well. I happen to be pretty "diverse" person as wel... | [
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60,654 | **TL;DR:** Is it normal that the theory sub-community and the applied sub-community of a single research field to have different goals and different standards for peer review - to the extent that the research field itself suffers?
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60,663 | I am teaching my first non-examinable graduate course this Winter term. This course is for students ranging from Masters' students to PhD students in Pure Mathematics and is a course for students to see a topic that is a bit more specialised than the typical qualifier type course.
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60,672 | Suppose that our friends Aluke and Bob are both academicians (*academician*: a member of the faculty of a college or university) in universities A and B respectively.
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60,676 | I have an affinity for Germany, and I've heard a lot about the growing value of international experience, so I'm entertaining the possibility of applying for an MS at a German institution. However, I'm afraid that leaving the US to study aerospace engineering is a bad idea because the US leads the aerospace industry (N... | [
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60,679 | I am considering submitting a single author paper to a computer science conference that would be very expensive for me to attend based on travel costs alone. If accepted, is it realistic to expect that I could find some grant or other means of covering the entirety of the cost? I really cannot afford it on my own. The ... | [
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60,683 | I am a PhD student in Management, at Autonomous University of Barcelona.
While working on my thesis, I found that there is no piece of code or software related to a specific but important topic of efficiency analysis and benchmarking. I am really eager to invest part of my time and write a package in R in order to he... | [
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60,684 | The issue of authorship is often a thorny issue in academia, so I’d like to ask for your insight into the authorship in the following situation:
My advisee’s MA thesis is mainly and originally based on a new idea from me. We worked together to refine the idea and turned it into a thesis. I worked closely with him, spe... | [
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60,697 | I have been approaching PhD applications under these assumptions:
* The focus is mostly on the letters of recommendation.
* Every admitted applicant has several letters that make a convincing argument that the he would be an extremely successful researcher in the given field.
* These letters are only credible if they ... | [
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60,700 | I am a male graduate student in natural sciences at a public university. I want to simplify my life a little bit by wearing the same outfit (more or less) every day. (Obviously I would have multiple copies to be hygienic.) I tend to wear untucked casual button-downs with some casual khaki pants and sneakers. Would this... | [
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60,709 | Journals like CVPR (IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) have a peer-reviewing process. Depending on the journal (or the publication published after a conference - is that also called a journal?) one might simply know that all articles were peer-reviewed.
However, those reviews are not publicly ... | [
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60,727 | In the mainstream publishing model, it can take more than a month from the time a manuscript is submitted to the time reviewers are assigned to review it. I feel this is a bit unfair as editors from these publishers generally require reviewers to submit their recommendation within a month from the time they agree to re... | [
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60,758 | [This question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/41687/what-is-behind-the-indian-undergrad-research-experience-spam) asking if the subject of current question is spam or not serves as the motivation for further, seeking solutions. As can be seen from the answers and comments, the emails from undergraduate s... | [
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60,767 | I have been supervising a female PhD student for a couple of months. She is the first female PhD student I am supervising and got the position on merit.
My view is that her gender does not/should not change anything in how I supervise her or what I expect from her, the rationale being that doing so might ultimately h... | [
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60,771 | I'd like to apply for an MBA (sick of working in IT and want to change) but seemingly every university I look at requires multiple letters of reference, one of which from a current supervisor.
Is there any way to get around this requirement?
I have zero trust in my current boss, and given that writing the letter woul... | [
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60,774 | This is a quite broad question, to which I have some personal answers, but I think I need more different perspectives.
I am not talking about evaluating a peer's submitted work as a referee, but about evaluating applications ranging from small grants or sabbaticals (which have to be applied to at least in France) to t... | [
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60,775 | this is about a phenomenon often seen, but I came across a probably more prominent example recently, so I thought I'd ask for the community's opinion.
Here's **the situation**:
In the past semester's exams there was a question in computer architecture asking for X, and I, and many other students, answered Y, which con... | [
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60,778 | My thesis supervisor is not reviewing my thesis. I wanted to discuss for my three years degree the development of my 3D engine (Computer science thesis). I mailed to the professor about my intention, he wanted to see me for a brief meeting (June) where I explained him what's different in my work and a short roadmap of ... | [
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60,786 | Suppose I have envisioned a concept that I am fairly certain has been explored before. I can describe its nature and its characteristics, but I do not know the formal name of the concept, nor its history and prior development. My objective is to formalize my research by identifying the concept’s formal name and basing ... | [
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60,788 | Lately I've been wondering if I should drop out of a PhD program (in economics).
After graduating with a bachelor's degree, I desperately wanted to know more about the field, and I enrolled in a PhD program. I passed qualifying exams without any problems, and it's time to do research.
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60,801 | I took a Theory of Computation class years ago through my university's math department that I really enjoyed and found interesting. If I wanted to further pursue study/research/specialization with Theory of Computation what what kind of Ph.D program should I be looking for? Computer Science or Mozh. I am leaning toward... | [
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60,810 | I was using a Web service I particularly like the other day, and noticed that they have a referral program. (More specifically, [UsabilityHub](https://usabilityhub.com/), but the details of the service itself aren't important.) So then this hypothetical scenario came to mind.
Suppose I'm slated to teach a class, and d... | [
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60,829 | I've been asking a lot of questions on here lately (my apologies to the admin for that), but I've become very worried about my future as I've had a terrible semester.
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60,836 | I hope I don't sound like I'm complaining, and I understand professors and academics are humans. My question is more of one of inquiry rather than venting. I have e-mailed a few professors for certain professional opportunities. This is not my first time doing so, and I am familiar with proper e-mail etiquette and how ... | [
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60,839 | We obtained a report for the last academic year. A shocking revelation was that the capacity utilization\* of lab equipment, laboratories, instruments and machines is only 37%. Everyone seems to be happy with this result, most of the comments are that science can't be lucrative and researchers cannot be forced to work ... | [
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60,853 | I received some advice from two researchers, which were helpful at the time. So, I mentioned the researchers in the acknowledgements section of my paper’s early version.
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60,874 | My apologies in advance if this questions is better suited to be migrated elsewhere.
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60,879 | I'm a sophomore at a Canadian university studying mathematics. Since near the end of first year, I've thought about attending graduate school for some mathematics field (this could also be because I don't know what else I can do with my degree/knowledge).
I'm thinking about it now, however, and I've noticed (through ... | [
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60,887 | I have recently got another citation, which brought my citation count to three. Even though I am proud of my three citations, others may find it funny or pitiful. So I am having doubts whether I should make my Google Scholar profile public and share my achievements with the world. Most profiles on Google Scholar I clic... | [
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60,890 | I use a long term (e.g. "artificial neural network") more than once in the abstract of a paper. Is it best to introduce the abbreviation (e.g. "ANN") after the first occurrence, or repeat the non-abbreviated term each time? | [
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60,900 | We (including my teacher) designed a new algorithm in computer science and my teacher proved that it is good enough about its time complexity, but I'm not sure about that and worry that the proof be wrong.
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60,903 | While giving a presentation there is one person in the audience (**X** a PhD student and a friend) asking all sorts of questions, even unrelated ones. They are also eager to answer questions of others while just in the audience. **X** attends almost every talk in the department (info from colleagues) and shoots out his... | [
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60,908 | My new Primary Investigator, who is well respected in her field, gets really nervous when talking to me for some reason. We are the same gender and both married so it's not a problem of that sort... This does not seem to happen with any other student, who she has a really good relationship with, but when talking to me,... | [
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60,916 | Also, if an undergrad does research during the school year, are they expected to be as productive as someone working during the summer? Do professors calibrate their opinions of students to account for how many hours a week they've said they could commit? | [
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60,939 | How to share data accompanying a research paper? I know there exist some places to share datasets, but sometimes I would like to share data that are not data set (e.g. experiment parameters, results, etc.), and add a pointer in the research paper to the online location of the data. The data size typically range from a ... | [
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60,944 | I have to write a review of an edited volume and wonder what the best approach would be to cite individual papers, to which I refer. The review is for a bulletin rather than a journal and the format is quite open. I want to give enough info that the reader can locate any chapters of interest but think that putting the ... | [
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60,946 | Should mathematics PhD students work through all of the past exams, if, say, the department makes the last 20 years of exam questions available to students?
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60,952 | Should one always write a cover letter when applying for faculty positions, even when not explicitly asked for in the job post?
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60,955 | The academic year starts somewhere in the middle of the normal calendar year in almost all schools. Even if the courses are divided into semesters, the Fall term is essentially considered to be the beginning of a new academic year. It is also true for the financial year in most places.
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60,961 | Six years ago, I published a review (survey) paper about a topic in my field.
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60,972 | Due to some personal reasons, I didn't get to complete my semester end project. So I copied my friend's project and submitted it without major changes (I know I was a fool to do that). Now we are caught and my TA told us that both of our scores will be zero. I have begged the TA to give my friend his score, at least. I... | [
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60,981 | I have been adopting [flipped classroom strategies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom) (in upper-level chemistry classes ~20-30 students), but I often get feedback from students that they want me to "just go back to regular lectures" and that they perceive the flipped classes as more work.
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60,984 | **Disclaimer** After I have read the title, I have understood that it might be misleading. I do not mean that being a teaching staff or administrative staff is somewhere to be stuck with. For starters, I want to be involved in the academia as a scientist, and scientists are not so much valued in my country.
I am at a ... | [
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60,991 | **Context**: I've applied for several tenure-track positions. I have one or two favorites, but I'd gladly embrace any of them, basically because I only applied to good universities, with good programs, in good cities.
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60,995 | I realize why plagiarism is morally wrong and punishable. This is not a question about why it is wrong.
This question is about why plagiarism is dealt with so harshly compared to other violations. This might be because I'm uninformed but [as per this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/24055/i-plagi... | [
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61,010 | This may be an issue of me not understanding the university/college teaching approaches in other countries. It was prompted by this question about student complaints - [How to adopt flipped classroom strategies without student complaints?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/60981/how-to-adopt-flipped-classroo... | [
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61,011 | I am an undergraduate student of software engineering, second year now, in a foreign country. My family's economic background isn't very strong; so I need to work in a restaurant for part time job in order to balance my personal finance. Recently, I got so much involved in my job that I stopped paying much attention to... | [
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61,022 | I have been following a professor whose research I really like. To simply illustrate the impact of his research, let me quote a quote from Quanta Magazine:
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61,024 | I wonder why most publication venues don't systematically make the LaTeX source for published papers available? (which implies systematically asking authors for the LaTex source)
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61,035 | One of the graduate schools I'm applying to asks if I would like to be considered for admission even if they can't fund me. Would it hurt my chances of receiving funding if I checked "yes?" | [
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61,038 | Researchers on education must have thought about this, so I hope to find some directions here. Suppose that I am grading students on a scale from 1 to 10. If I have *no prior knowledge of the ability* of the students but have obtained their test scores (let's say from 1 to 100).
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61,054 | What are some examples of visually appealing papers, preferably with a two-column layout?
Basically, this is for a publication that is aimed at a more general public and should be appealing and approachable but at the same time, I'd like to maintain academic approach, structure and feel to it.
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61,075 | I am finishing up my thesis and am currently focusing upon the conclusion. There I have a section on future work.
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61,082 | I have a tenure track job offer from school S. This school appears to have a two-stage strategy to negotiate a low salary with candidates. Early in the process, HR discusses the salary range, [MIN, MAX]. At a later stage, when the first candidate is chosen, in the first step HR will negotiate with candidate, to a mutua... | [
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61,086 | I was graded unfairly in a communication class. I participated more than some students yet the professor said she couldn't remember me speaking out in class. I asked her if she has any record on that and she said it would be hard for her to record if everyone speaks out
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61,089 | I wonder whether titles in the reference section be in title case, given that the publication venue's style files and publication instructions do not specify.
For example, which of the following should I use?
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> [Collobert2011] Ronan Collobert. 2011. Deep learning for efficient discriminative parsing. In *Internati... | [
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61,109 | It is quite common for me to receive emails from the editors of a journal asking me, before or after the referees have given their approval, to review and improve my English. Then, the editor suggests a professional English editing service for this purpose.
My question is: Is this common practice, independently on the... | [
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61,131 | Generally, it is a requirement to add CV in the graduate application, where they suggest to add professional experiences, journal articles info and research works details.
The problem is that, I don't have any journal papers and also I didn't do job. I did a project in masters and I have experience to do thesis works... | [
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61,134 | I'm thinking of applying for a PhD in Quantum Computing at Oxford. Suppose I later on decided that academia wasn't right for me. Would such a title still be useful for looking for jobs in different fields or would it be a waste of 3 years that would make me 'overqualified'? | [
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