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67,790 | I had an interview at a university for a tenure track position. They decided not to give me an offer, but I met a professor there (for the first time) that supported me as a candidate. This professor saw my application, went to my talk, and was not on the search committee, but participated in my campus visit.
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67,800 | Is there some webpage with a collection of thousands of theses of undergraduates, graduates, and PhD students from all kinds of sciences and where they are freely accessible like on ArXiv or (mostly) adsabs.harvard.edu? | [
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67,802 | A paper describes a computational method for solving a problem, and we made a significant improvement to the method and applied it to a new case study. Is it appropriate to publish a response paper?
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67,811 | Not too complicated of a situation -- I'm graduating with my bachelor's degree (Mathematics) in a couple weeks, but to support my wife, I'm going to get a job for a while before looking at attending a master's program. The soonest I am considering starting a master's degree would be something like Fall semester of 2017... | [
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"text": "Explain this situation to each of the few professors you plan to ask for letters of recommendation from, and ask wh... | 2016/04/28 | [
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67,821 | If some measure of quality improves to 150 % of its original value in a study from condition A to condition B, would it be most appropriate, in terms of scientific writing (computer science specifically), to describe that as:
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"text": "The following may seem a bit nitpicking, but such details are what separates the wheat from the chaff:\n\n* > \n> ... | 2016/04/28 | [
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67,826 | I was looking at submitting to a conference where the call says:
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> completed work only
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Q1: Now what exactly is considered completed work here?
1. That I have already submitted that paper to journals and put a pre-print/working paper version of it online?
2. That it is a complete write-up (i.e. not just... | [
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67,841 | I recently completed a postdoc at a prestigious R1 university, in a high profile lab. My publication record is not prolific, but those that I have published as first author are well respected journals, and a handful of middle author publications in top journals as well. I have a consistent teaching record throughout my... | [
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67,858 | I am close to graduating and am going to an assessment center for a very large tech company. One thing we need to do is hold a presentation about one of their products.
I want to stand out a bit from the crowd and show that I spent a lot of time on this presentation. So I had the idea of drawing my own characters and ... | [
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"text": "In general, the person talking to your slides should be you, not a cartoon character. \n\nNow, I've seen things l... | 2016/04/28 | [
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67,861 | I've been having doubts about the progress I've been making during the start of my PhD. About 2 weeks before I was due to go abroad for a placement at another lab I raised these concerns with my supervisor and they traveled the length of the country a week later to meet me in person to help with how I was feeling.
Now... | [
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67,887 | *This question is about Computer Science firstly, I don't know if it applies to other domains*
I am a PC member of some international conference in my field. I got a large number of papers to review, so I need to find subreviewers for many of them. Most of the time I would give the paper to a colleague that I know wou... | [
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"text": "*I am a CS guy and can answer this question.* \n\nYes of course. That is what conference chairs do perhaps. As you to... | 2016/04/29 | [
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67,891 | Does the submission number in any way influence the way a paper is treated?
For instance, is it likely that an early submission will be picked up by a member of the program committee, rather than being handed over to a subreferee? When I'm going through a list, I do have a tendency to be more concentrated on the firs... | [
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67,897 | When my supervisor pitched the PhD to me, it was all about analyzing "big data". I had BSc/MSc experience in wet-lab biology (mainly culturing cells), however I wanted to branch out into Bioinformatics since I am, and always have been, fairly good at programming in C, and data analysis in general.
I chose this particu... | [
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67,907 | I have been reading a sample PDF of a book by a professor at a research university published in 2007 on the publisher’s website. For some reason the book’s title was not included in the PDF’s footer (as it should be) so I had to google a passage from the book with the hope that Google Books would provide me with the ti... | [
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67,920 | I asked a professor from my online graduate degree to write a letter of recommendation. It was when I first started looking at graduate school, so was not prepared with what you would usually want to give a professor, especially one you had never met in person. The exchange went like this
Me: "Dr. XXXXX,
I was a stud... | [
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67,926 | I have a problem...Once folks learn my academic specialty within the medical sciences and of my strong background in statistics, they often want to form a collaborating - mostly they want me to conduct analyses, develop the study methods, write methods, results and discussion sections of their manuscripts. All this in ... | [
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"text": "Our institution, and many others Faculties of Medicine, have statisticians fully employed. Please make sure if your... | 2016/04/29 | [
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67,937 | ### I've heard that you should wait 15 minutes for a professor who is late to a class, before leaving.
Some of my classmates have said that the 15 minute rule is only for professors without PhD's, and that you must wait at least 20 (and up to 30) minutes for professors that do have PhD's.
The PhD part seems silly, bu... | [
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67,939 | I am a high school sophomore student who is very passionate about the subject of number theory and college level calculus. However, I am currently only in the high school class of precalculus/trig. The paper contains material beyond high school calculus, but am afraid that it would not be good enough for an actual arXi... | [
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67,944 | I have heard from three professors internally at my school that my master's thesis will likely not be looked at by Phd admissions committees - these professors are frequently on the admissions committee at our Department, too - and that at most my abstract or graphs / pictures might be looked at very quickly or not at ... | [
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67,948 | I am taking a graduate class requiring that I submit a paper to a journal at the end of the semester. The professor sent out an email informing us that we can either hand off a copy of the paper in an addressed envelope to her, which she will then mail, or email her a copy of the submission receipt if we submit the pap... | [
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67,959 | I'm teaching a course that has two exams which together form a large part of the students' grades.
On the first exam, the mean score was very high (~90%) with the majority of students scoring over 80%.
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67,963 | I know somebody who works in a department that discourages giving students A's. Basically, a few years ago, there was a professor giving everybody A's. The department was labeled as a "vacation spot" at the university. This led to a hardline stand on giving A's that is in effect to this day. If a teacher gives too many... | [
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67,972 | Yesterday I received an email that I have to give a two minute scientific presentation as part of an interview for a masters program on this coming Monday. Now I am really struggling whether I have to include scientific data in my presentation or that I can explain a concept. My time is very limited. The email just sta... | [
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67,988 | My wife is defending her thesis soon, and in her department, defenses are open to the public. I will be there along with several of her friends/colleagues. Her mom also wants to come to the defense. In terms of her committee's perception, I could see this being viewed as weird or maybe unprofessional. Then again, it co... | [
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68,024 | Once you have tenure, presumably you're never going to have to search for a job again. However almost all professors have a CV on their website, and fairly recent ones. Why? They already made it. | [
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68,028 | This semester I participated in an independent study with a professor and one of his/her PhD students. In this independent study, I spent a very substantial amount of time building (coding) things to facilitate the research being performed by the professor and his/her PhD student. However, I did *not* perform any actua... | [
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68,032 | Writing letters of recommendation must be a fine art. Culture across fields and countries vary wildly in almost any respect, and this is likely to the case for LoR.
How/when do professors learn how to appropriately convey the value of the person they recommend?
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68,051 | I'm writing a longer paper for a course as part of a final project. The paper is on a topic we didn't cover in class and is obviously intended as a way to let me teach myself something we didn't have time for. As such, I'm using other people's ideas for my paper nearly every single sentence. I'm unsure of the conventio... | [
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68,053 | I have the privilege of teaching composition. This requires me to read several dozen papers in a given class. I have rubrics but no matter what I have to sit down and read the papers word for word in order to assess them. They're not long papers (about 10 pages), but I still have to read them.
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68,059 | I'm working on a formal paper about programming languages. I am going to talk about two intentionally difficult languages, brainfuck and JSFuck. Should I leave the names as they are, or censor the names? (e.g. brainf\*\*k, JSF\*\*k) | [
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68,078 | I am writing a paper where I am talking about the [SSE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions) and [AVX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions) instruction sets. For a hardware feature like an instruction set, I am wondering how to figure out what is an appropriate citation to use, ... | [
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68,088 | There is a well known result from 60 years ago that only ever has its result quoted these days. I found a 20+ year old MS thesis that had a very clear mathematical derivation of the result from first principles, although it doesn't have any (meaningful) citations.
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68,091 | I was guided by a Post-Doc for my undergraduate thesis, but the one responsible for all and offering the thesis was a Professor, who I only talked to when discussing the thesis, agreeing to it, and the explanation of the grade in the end. Who of both would be the one to ask for a letter of recommendation?
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68,093 | I'm not sure if there's a word or phrase for a "reverse bibliography", but that's what I'm looking to put on my website - a list of other papers that have cited my own work. The goal is to show that my work has had influence and has spread beyond just the paper itself. Is this common in academia, or is it only common t... | [
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68,102 | Suppose that I am reading a marketing book and, while reading a specific chapter, I find like there are 10 footnotes with most of them related to specific examples or specific numbers; in other words, most of the information presented in the chapter are not cited and, judging by the context and contents, such informati... | [
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68,107 | Tomorrow I have my master's project defense. So, I will be presenting and defending on my project "Course Advising System".
I just noticed that tomorrow is a National Teacher Appreciation Day. Is it a good idea to put one slide after "Questions and Comments" section in the presentation?
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68,111 | I'm an undergraduate about to finish my first year of undergraduate research in CS. This past year has been mostly engineering-based as I learned how things worked in terms of implementation.
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68,113 | There is a student at a university of a friend of mine who has Asperger's Syndrome, which is a milder form of Autism. My friend, who is a teacher there, has told me that the student mostly does OK work but he is not always aware of socially acceptable behavior.
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68,121 | A year ago a professor at my department and her grad student had plagiarized a journal paper and published it. The paper was retracted, and the journal published a clear notice that it was due to serious fraud, as several paragraphs and the results were stolen (verbatim) from a previously published paper.
However, it ... | [
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68,127 | Recently, I have read new papers and seen new different approaches and the very interesting physical effects in alternatives to general relativity, and I think I see a bit of ideas for future papers, but I don't have any expertise in these approaches, I have published papers only in general relativity(from physics poin... | [
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68,132 | First of all sorry if I commit any mistake in this question, I read all the instructions but it´s my first one on this useful site:
I am finishing some diapositives for a PhD current status conference, and I thought about these image as the last one:
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68,142 | I'm an undergraduate about to finish my first year of undergraduate research in CS. This past year has been mostly engineering-based as I learned how things worked in terms of implementation.
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68,148 | I am writing a paper that relies heavily upon some important work done some 10 years ago. The paper was well received gathering well over a 100 citations and is a must mention within my niche field. I would like to reference the paper as seminal as in "so and so, et. al., in a seminal paper..." but am not sure that wou... | [
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68,158 | I am working on a manuscript of a project that I am first author on, and am wondering whether it is proper to include person X. X has been gone from the lab for 3 years, and none of her data is in the manuscript or really informed the conclusions. However, my experimental design (for one figure out of 8) is very simila... | [
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68,164 | I'm a new PhD student, wrapping up my first year of coursework. To date, I haven't published any papers, and my body of work is essentially null. For this semester's class project in one of my courses, my professor has tasked me with using the IEEE format for papers and using the following sections to describe my proje... | [
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68,169 | I will be teaching a course which is made up of 13 weeks of classes
in the Fall of 2016.
Unfortunately, I will also be travelling in the middle of the semester
to a conference in the US from my home university located in Asia.
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68,176 | I am writing an essay and I have previously written and submitted an essay to a different professor about a similar subject. Would it be considered plagiarism if I copied my own exact sentences from my previous essay? | [
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68,191 | One of the most criticized aspects of the current publishing scheme, is that academics do pretty much all the work for free and publishers get the money.
Why don't people just charge a fee when contacted by a publisher to referee an article?
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68,204 | A colleague of mine had an excellent PhD project and she published good papers during her PhD. When I asked her to give me her PhD thesis, she told me she can't because her PhD project was confidential (commercial, military, ...).
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68,215 | I will be on the job market, again, next year. I am looking for a position that emphasizes teaching. I wrote a new teaching statement each year for the past two years since I just graduated with my Ph.D. last year, and I am relatively new to teaching, my teaching philosphy continually changes.
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68,230 | Since almost everything I have found is something I pulled from a source, how do I write my essay without citing basically every single line?
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68,246 | In the time when I submitted a paper to a journal " Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology", ISSN: 2040-7459, they indicated in their website that the journal is indexed in scopus but now is not, so i checked scimagojr.com for information and i found that the Coverage is: 2009-2014.
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68,250 | I tested a hypothesis using some observational data, but did not find support for the hypothesis (the difference was not significant at the p < 0.05 level). I subsequently realised that the inclusion of a certain subset of individuals was dubious, since there was some doubt over their measurements. I filtered out those... | [
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68,258 | I am an undergraduate student who is looking forward to work in theoretical physics in the future and therefore, I chose a project advisor who is a string theorist. But since, my grades are average and I failed his QFT course (which I am going to repeat anyway), he believes that I may not get a PhD position if I contin... | [
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68,269 | Does study abroad help enhance a PhD candidate's profile or does it not carry much weight at all? Let's say I took "regular" coursework while on study abroad for a semester, like a core course and not something research-focused.
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68,271 | If having some questionable aspects in the thesis - like not elaborated and rather simple theoretical models -, that did not influence the whole work and results, but might still arise the thought "Why didn't the student know/do better here?", can this have a negative influence when applying to some graduate school? | [
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68,274 | The journals *Science* and *Nature* seem like they are basically the flagship journals for most of the hard sciences, such as biology, physics, or chemistry. Is there an equivalent high-caliber journal for general engineering? For example, if somebody discovers a new algorithm that revolutionizes robotics (and is so pr... | [
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68,276 | Does anyone have any good advice for obfuscating one's writing style when reviewing papers? I have a fear that I would inadvertently use the same turn of phrase in a referee report as in some published work, thus revealing my identity, and I'm curious if there is a good general practice to follow to mitigate this as mu... | [
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68,281 | When I give students readings (articles, textbooks, etc), they sometimes literally come to class with entire pages colored yellow with a highlighter. I cannot begin to understand how they discern that everything on a page is of equal value to know.
As such, I would like to know of some suggestions for how to teach my... | [
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"text": "**Don't.**\n\nDunlosky, Zotn, et al. \"What works, what doesn't.\" *Scientific American Mind 24.4* (2013... | 2016/05/06 | [
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68,304 | There are weekly homework assignments based on a textbook. We will finish each problem set and hand that in every two weeks.
Since the assignments are straight out of the textbook, it is very easy to get a copy of the textbook solution manual from online sources.
As an undergraduate student, if I try the problem my... | [
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68,307 | I had a paper accepted at a conference in theoretical computer science. However while revising the final version I found an error in the proof of an important lemma. Although I believe the error is fixable, It will require some effort. I will not be able to fix the error before the deadline for the final version.
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68,308 | I had submitted a manuscript to an Elsevier Journal in February 9, 2016. Usually it takes time of around 1 week to get the manuscript number assigned something like XXXX-D-16-XXX and status changes from "Submitted to Journal" to something else like "With Editor".
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68,329 | On StackExchange, some people use their real names, while others hide behind a username.
I was wondering, **do hiring committees look at a candidate's StackExchange account and consider the candidate's activity on these accounts?**
I know committees look at my website, they openly mention this during interviews. They... | [
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"text": "As Dan Romik said, anyone can look up anything on Google, so a StackExchange account would possibly be looked at. But... | 2016/05/07 | [
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68,331 | I am a 4th year Electronics engineering student studying in India. I applied to Master's of Science in computer science programs (I wish to change fields) offered by 11 universities in the US, but my application was rejected by all 11 of them.
One of the important factors (correct me if I am wrong) that I consider is ... | [
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68,332 | I was recently checking one of my paper for similarity. However, TURNITIN checked the similarity against the papers present in student repository in its database. Surprisingly, the paper which matched 72% from the student rep is the same one which I had checked few days back. Now, the similarity comes around 81%.
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68,334 | Other than obvious aspects such as being legible, clear, and understandable (at least in theory) are there any mainstream conventions for flowcharts in research papers? I'm talking about scientific based flowcharts which give an overview of the entire thrust of the paper.
For instance:
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68,339 | I have two options for my masters thesis (theoretical physics), Professors A and B. A is senior and globally renowned. B is very junior but appears to be making a strong impact in the field.
When it comes to applying for PhD positions, how important is my supervisor? I'm aware that A giving me a strong letter of reco... | [
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68,346 | Last semester, I took class A and loved the material. It was a subject I excelled in and professor A' was someone I understood well.
I thought it was perfect to take the course 2A and make A' my thesis advisor, but this entire semester, he missed many classes (due to sickness and/or being the Chair of our department)... | [
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68,352 | I am a PhD student focusing in psychiatric genetics, hoping to become a professor someday. It is my understanding that a lot of the PhDs in my field end up working in schools of medicine in positions that are 80-100% soft money (even though they are tenure-track).
That sounds... terrifying. You're not a clinician so y... | [
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68,361 | It may sound an insincere question but bear with me, please.
I am just starting to write my thesis. I got some good publications along the way, and I have a couple under review which I hope will get accepted in tier 1 journals. So the question is, does the thesis in itself add a lot of value to my Ph.D.? Or is it nec... | [
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68,369 | I am a little concerned and need your help. I am applying for a master program abroad. However, I am enrolled in another master program and still have two semesters to finish. I am not sure what to say on my CV: should I mention that I have completed two semesters and want to quit it or should I not say anything about ... | [
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68,388 | BACKGROUND
I am an engineering graduate student at a good American university, funded as a Research Assistant (RA). The lab and professor rely heavily on my day-to-day work.
My PhD research is going nowhere and I am far less interested in obtaining a PhD compared to one year ago. Most importantly, my wife wants me t... | [
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68,394 | I employ an incremental approach for my PhD research. In other words, at first, I propose a method to solve a problem and publish a paper about it. Then, I update my method by either improving its performance/optimality or adding more features so that it can handle more cases and I keep publishing papers reporting my p... | [
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68,395 | I am curious to know why we call a research paper, a "paper" in the singular form...?
People put a huge effort in writing this "paper" ... when you talk to an outsider (non-academic) about a "paper" they think its just a single paper. It is very funny. | [
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68,396 | I'm currently writing my thesis in mathematics and in the introductory part I want to give a brief overview over a field I'm not very familiar with. There are some results in the book I'm reading which are stated as exercises for the reader, which I'd like to include as theorems in my thesis. I don't want to prove them... | [
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68,408 | I am trying to publish my paper for almost two years, after two major revisions it has been rejected by an editor of an international journal. My field of study is geophysics. They complain about the English, and that does not make any sense because my paper was read by my American friend. Last time one of the reviewer... | [
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68,412 | I have been a visiting researcher to fulfil my Ph.D. and to do the experimental step of my Ph.D. A month ago I understood that my host professor stole my Ph.D. topic and idea and he is writing a proposal about my project and wants to apply for a grant for it. I come here to do some cooperation with them but he stole it... | [
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68,419 | I'm currently 2/3 of the way through a degree program, and am continually shocked and dismayed for what my school is passing off as higher learning.
* The books, which are almost all made in house, are full of typos and basic factual errors.
* Professors are late to chats and routinely do not respond to emails, requir... | [
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68,437 | Services like Google Scholar can provide you with the h-index of a given author *at present*. Is there a way or a service that provides a *time series* of the h-index (or the number of publications) as a function of time, or even provides a plot of this time series? | [
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68,440 | We recently received comments from the reviewers after revision. Comments were positive, one reviewer asked us to do an experiment. EES status says its minor revision, editor's email do not say it's a minor revision and he insists we do this experiments. Ending the email, he writes we would be glad to reconsider the re... | [
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"text": "\"Minor revision\" only means \"in principle accepted\" if it's an \"accepted with minor revisions\". However, these mino... | 2016/05/10 | [
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68,446 | Often I have found that research students who have learned to do experiments have not learned to use software to handle their data effectively. It's not within my power to insert the appropriate training into their prior education. Teaching people to program or use software is not within my area of expertise or a prior... | [
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68,463 | I am currently checking proofs for a Bwrungor article. The editor has asked us to provide permission details for all figures.
One of the figures is a screenshot from a software product, as found in the front page of the product's website. We use it to exemplify typical interfaces found in these types of products, and ... | [
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68,467 | I just came across quite a big problem for an interpretation my professor puts forward in her recently published book (a book containing original research in the humanities, not a textbook). I am not 100% sure, but I am pretty sure that I am right.
The error is not a factual error, but an error that concerns the logi... | [
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68,487 | I'm currently studying (Undergraduate) Physics in a University where, regardless of their department, every student must take some English, Turkish and History courses, which I don't want to attend. Turkish and History courses are non-credit but not English, so it affects my GPA. Moreover, I will take violin, astrophys... | [
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68,497 | I am working on a graph theory paper with two of my friends. The problem stated in the paper is solved by me. However, our supervisor professor pointed out that in all of the graph theory journals (and other mathematics journals as well), names of authors are sorted by an alphabetic order which puts me in the third pos... | [
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68,510 | I am an assistant professor at a lower-tier research university. Recently I learned that my university and department have a dysfunctional system for reading and evaluating applications to our Ph.D. program.
There is no way to read the applications online, or indeed to collect all the applications together in one plac... | [
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"text": "Who decides how the application process is handled? If it's decided in your department, then I'd think you h... | 2016/05/11 | [
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68,529 | One of my professors is quite enthusiastic about teaching the subject. He often deviates from the main content and gets lost in details vastly beside or beyond the matter at hand - which is interesting, though not immediately helpful.
Effectively, this means that he regularly fails to complete the day's chapter. To co... | [
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68,532 | Putting aside the issue of obviously automated inquiries, what should I do with personalized emails I receive from students asking to be my PhD student? Assume that I know the student is not going to become my PhD student any time soon, possibly because there are no vacancies currently. In particular, I am interested i... | [
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68,540 | Short version: a potentially upcoming 5-authors maths paper already have authorship dispute drama. I am not among the 5, but I believe I found the solution to the part they got stuck on. Should I tell them?
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Full story:
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68,541 | How exactly do Mozh theses/dissertations work?
Is it fair to assume that the work involves trying to prove something? What happens if you can't?
I did a thesis in Computer Science, and though my results weren't great, I still had something to show. I learned from it and had a plan for future work.
But if you have X ... | [
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68,550 | One of my graduate students, doing their PhD in another university, is doing quite well. Recently, he told me that he is having a tussle with his supervisor on communication of his work to a specific journal. His supervisor insists he submit his research to a very high profile journal, but my student does not believe t... | [
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68,563 | Recently my research paper got major revision in which one of the reviewer ask me to look again at the results I have derived without pointing to any specific item of results. I have double checked my results and all results found to be correct and now I am confused that what actually reviewer is trying to say as he/sh... | [
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68,570 | So, my advisor works in a group style, meaning we have these weekly meetings, where all of his PhD students and RAs are present. We plan the work ahead and set aims, but these aims are always very general and non-specific.
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68,573 | **Background / My problem:**
I believe to have found a substantial error in my professor's original research. After getting [answers to my previous question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/68467/found-mistake-in-my-professors-book-tell-her-or-publish-if-so-how), I emailed her about it, but she was dismis... | [
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68,584 | Is there a list of libraries which are included in the Scopus database?
I am working in the field of Human Computer Interaction and searching for a list of included libraries (e.g. ACM, AIS and so on). | [
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68,589 | Is it right practice to place "Dr." before name of PhD degree holder? What is reason for placing such "Doctor" label before name? | [
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68,593 | I see people here often use the term 'top-tier' when referring to journals/conferences. Is it used to refer to the top publications in terms of metrics like the impact factor? Or is it used to refer to venues which are traditionally highly-regarded but not necessarily having high impact factors? | [
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68,599 | What is the difference between bursary, scholarship and fellowship funding?
Is a fellowship more prestigious than a scholarship which in turn is more prestigious than a bursary? | [
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"text": "These three terms essentially mean the same thing. Bursary is the term for scholarship used in the UK. Normal... | 2016/05/12 | [
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68,605 | Often while reading a paper, I will see a citation that that seems more relevant than my current one. I'll switch to the new paper, only to experience a similar feeling. Or maybe I need to look something up on Wikipedia. An hour later, I'll still feel as if I didn't really **digest** anything. I will have skimmed 2-4 p... | [
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68,607 | What concerns/worries a potential PhD supervisor might have when he/she sees an application from someone who already has a PhD and applying for the second one? The fields of study are distantly related (engineering - physics).
What questions should be addressed in the initial letter by the applicant?
The first PhD is... | [
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"text": "Here are the concerns *I* would have:\n\n* Is this person seriously going to spend another N-years getting a second doct... | 2016/05/12 | [
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68,618 | First, my question is **not** about how to write a good a paper, since there are already many guidelines on the internet, e.g. [this one](http://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/paper-writing.html).
What often happens to me is: I designed algorithm, did all the experiments, and got good results. Now, I only need to write ... | [
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