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71,268 | Currently I am on the second year of my PhD. I started more than a year back and I doing phd in basic science and I am not from basic science.
My problems are:
I don't cope with the ideology people have in my work station. So, I ended up having issues with them.
I lack quiet a bit of knowledge on the subject area. ... | [
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71,288 | I am a 6th year Ph.D. student in the sciences. The typical duration of a Ph.D. in my program at my institution is 5 years. I am months away from finishing the last component of my research; however, issues have arisen.
I am having strong doubts that my advisor cares about my success in my future career. In addition, ... | [
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71,296 | In my country, in order to teach mathematics (or any subject) to college students one doesn't have to have a PhD. Just a good academic record in the masters level of one's subject and one must clear a (reasonably difficult) national level teachers eligibility test in one's subject. Having a PhD and research publication... | [
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71,301 | Last year, I wrote a 10 page term paper for a geology class that focused on the geochemistry of certain rock deposits. I received an A on the paper. This year, I'm taking a geochemistry class at a different university and have to write another thesis paper. This assignment has the same criterion as the other paper did ... | [
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71,302 | I really can't understand why an inexperienced PhD student should be allowed to review a research article written by researchers of considerably more experience and expertise.
How do journals/editors select referees for submissions? | [
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71,304 | *This question relates to the potential withdrawal of the UK from the European Union, a.k.a. [Brexit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_withdrawal_from_the_European_Union).*
I am an Italian citizen, and I will start a (funded) PhD in the UK in September.
Right now I don't need any particular documents to ... | [
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"text": "Even if British people opt for Brexit, it will take time. According to Refs. [1] and [2], it will take years for the... | 2016/06/14 | [
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71,322 | I work as a research scientist, and I am about to write up the work I've been doing for the past year. I have done all of the big data formatting, set up, edited and run a complex ecosystem model, wrote analysis code, calculated the statistics, produced graphs and map outputs. My manager wants me to pass the final grap... | [
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71,323 | I'm a senior PhD student at an American university. I have found over the course of my degree that my mood has largely been influenced by how well my research is going. If I make a small break-through then I feel great - conversely, if I am struggling or have gotten stuck on something then it completely takes over me a... | [
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71,347 | Recently my supervisor received review request from very reputed journal of Elsevier and he passed it to me because he is not much familiar with the field in which paper was written, but as I was independently doing work in that field so I think he was right passing it to me for review.
So on what basis the editor of... | [
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71,368 | This may be a bit of hair-splitting, but maybe there is a proper way to do this: In my thesis I present an external application. I want to give a literature reference to the application and a reference to a screenshot. What comes first, the literature reference or the screenshot reference?
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71,373 | Is it possible publishing original work in math research without having an adviser?
I had some thought of matrix multiplication which I posted in this forum which wasn't welcomed that well, I plan to publish it in the arxiv.org but I also want to publish in a journal.
I tried looking for advier for my MSc thesis in P... | [
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71,375 | I am a math postdoc, and about to start applying for tenure-track (research oriented) jobs soon. Besides writing 2 papers with my Phd advisor while I was in graduate school, all the papers I wrote since then (about 10 papers) were single authored papers. As I start to think about applications for tenure-track position,... | [
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71,408 | Suppose that I have submitted a paper to a journal, and I have a list of suggested changes from the referee.
Then, let's say I put the article in the appropriate format and make the suggested changes, but I still want to make some additional changes.
Perhaps I want to be a little more exact with my wording in certa... | [
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71,427 | I have good reason to believe that political party X engages in harmful practice Y more than other political parties. The numbers stack up, it fits into the theories presented in other papers, and so on. Content-wise, I believe there is enough for a paper on the topic.
However, I am concerned about the long-term caree... | [
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71,429 | It seems that US universities usually provide a link to the professor of the applicant, and let him/her directly upload the recommendation letter to that link, meaning that the student would have no access to it. However, when applying to Masters programs offered by German universities, I am surprised to see that they ... | [
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71,431 | I spotted a serious inefficiency in our algorithm, which was already published. Basically, we have an algorithm to encode a problem A into a formula X. But we later found that we can encode into a formula X', which is equisatisfiable, but with much less (up to thousand) of variables.
This change is very trivial in log... | [
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71,435 | I'm applying to graduate programs in Biomedical Engineering. The University of Pennsylvania application says the author of one letter of recommendation must be a faculty member who is familiar with the candidate's scholarly abilities. In layman's terms, does this mean they want a letter from a faculty member who has se... | [
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71,447 | I am working toward a PhD degree and my major involves lot of mathematics. The problem is that my basis of math is not very strong but after putting a lot of time I can understand the theorems, lemmas, corollaries in the published papers. Sometime I wonder should I start learning the basics again or should I read the r... | [
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71,453 | I want to cite a [paper](http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0034-4885/72/7/076901/meta) that has a lot of authors. The list of authors take up half a page in my reference list, and considering the prospect of paying for extra pages, I would like to shorten it, if possible. Is is okay to shorten the author list? ... | [
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71,457 | I use Mendeley to organize and view articles (pdf files). It is almost good, however I wish something similar with one additional feature. A software to make a link for every reference **in the Reference section of any article I read (not my own articles)** and when I click on the link it searches the web for it, or if... | [
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71,462 | I am currently writing my bachelor thesis and since my results were really good, my advisors encouraged me to write a paper about it. The paper was accepted at an international conference and will get published and in the corresponding journal.
I've really invested much time in the paper and the results, thus my thesi... | [
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71,465 | I am not happy with my master thesis grade. I wrote down my master thesis in a company. I had three supervisors in this 6 month period, two of them from university and one of them from the company. I worked three days of the week in the company (my task is implementing of an app) and other days I focused on my report. ... | [
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71,466 | How popular is research in computational neuroscience, or computational medicine in (mainland) Europe? I'm aware that INRIA in France does some good work, but do you know any other such groups and what kind or topic of research do they so? Many thanks! | [
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71,469 | Preliminaries
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I am giving my first lecture at university. The topic is about Big Data and takes 40 hours (1 hour = 60 minutes). I am wondering how to test the students. I am at this university for the first time and I have no idea how full the student's schedule is and how good they are. I am also not su... | [
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71,492 | Recently, I have got an Lecturer position in a UK University. However, when I got the offer letter, it said that "The appointment is for a fixed-term of five years, with the possibility of subsequent transfer to a continuing appointment." It seems to me that this is not a permanent position.
I am wondering how much p... | [
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71,508 | As a reviewer, what are some obvious signs to you that a paper is low-quality? | [
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71,513 | What are the major differences between a thesis and research paper literature review? Despite the volume of literature citations between thesis and research article what are the other major differences? | [
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71,517 | * I'm currently a Postdoc at Research Institute I.
* I had a paper accepted at a conference. The conference will be in two months. I'm the single author.
* Next month I'll start working as a Postdoc at Research Institute II.
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71,523 | Assume I am involved with a work and the lead author is writing a paper. However, after every draft version, I see that not all my comments are well addressed in the revised version. I expect that if the comments or major suggestions are not addressed, then some explanation must be given. During the previous conversati... | [
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71,530 | I am going to apply for a PhD in mathematics in north Europe. During my high school and undergraduate years, I was also a semi-professional athlete, and I retired when I was a graduate student to focus on my studies. I think being an athlete at a high level tells many things about a PhD student. A high level former ath... | [
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71,536 | While doing research in statistics, sometimes I came across complex integration that I can't or don't want to solve analytically.
Is it okay to use Mathematica to solve the integration and use the result in my research? Do I need to report this in the academic article? My qualm is that perhaps I am *supposed* to be ab... | [
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71,538 | I’m not a native English speaker and want to get a better grip on the nuances of the term *science.*
In my native tongue, the word I’d use for *science* also refers to humanities and the social sciences. However, I’ve lately been getting the feeling that some people use the term only to refer to the natural sciences (... | [
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71,551 | The past year, I've been reading a mathematical manuscript from a well-known university on a particular well-known, graduate curriculum subject. The manuscript language is not English. One can imagine a manuscript on, e.g., Algebra in, e.g., Spanish in the form you usually give it to your students before you hand it ov... | [
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71,552 | Inspired by the question [Does the term “science” encompass humanities and the social sciences?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/71538/546), I would like to ask a question that has been in my mind for decades.
Does "Science" include Mozhematics? Or, put in another way, is Mozhematics part of Science?
What I unde... | [
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71,563 | Similarly to how a Postdoc researcher is a researcher, I think that a PhD student should be considered a researcher. Especially when:
* A salary is obtained for the research that is done as part of the PhD studies. Per definition, I would say that students pay, they are not paid.
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71,567 | There is a large database maintained by a group of scientists. This group of scientists have made a considerable effort to get many other scientists to contribute to this database, and make it available to other researchers, on the condition that to access some of the data, some data contributors may request authorship... | [
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71,582 | When I give a talk (e.g. in a department seminar) it is more convenient for me to sit down, since my body is more relaxed and it is easier for me to concentrate in the talk.
But, I have been told that sitting down makes me seem less serious, and it is more professional to stand up while talking.
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71,600 | While working on my thesis in neutron imaging I got an idea for a new approach to data analysis, involving Machine Learning solutions that are not available at the moment (please note that I am a physicist, with little computer science background). I spoke about it with a few colleagues and I got good feedback, even if... | [
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71,616 | I've sorted out a list of professors from few Canadian Universities and I've sent customized emails after reading their papers and detailing in short on why I am particularly interested in their research and how it relates with my goals. This took a lot of time for just one email. Most have replied by saying they don't... | [
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71,618 | I applied for a PhD position and I was invited to give a talk about my Master thesis, but I didn't get the position, because:
1. Maybe my talk wasn't as good at it could be- I wasn't ready with my thesis then and I made some mistakes. I guess I could work on that.
2. My current thesis advisor probably didn't give me ... | [
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71,620 | I might collaborate with an old supervisor in the future and would like to keep in touch. Is it a good idea to send an email to him about the progress I've made in my career? Also, what's the best way to approach this? I feel like emailing just to talk about myself is a bit narcissistic -- is it? | [
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71,628 | I have, since completing my PhD (in pure mathematics), worked in both non-academic and post-doc positions. I am brushing up my CV, and I would like some advice as to how one should detail non-academic work. My non-academic work has been quantitative, but otherwise entirely unrelated to my field of academic expertise, s... | [
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71,636 | Can someone please help me get an insight into the use of images, specifically paintings from the 16th to 18th century that reside in churches, museums, etc., and how can one use them in a PhD dissertation without falling into copyright issues?
I am aware there are different options. For instance it is legal under Ger... | [
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71,638 | There are so many debates and criticisms around the topic of publishers, who are accused of charging excessive fees for access when all the work of the journal is done for free by academics. But why don't some of the big journals just go independent and open access? What do publishers actually provide as a benefit?
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71,647 | I am wondering if It is appropriate to contact the university and let them know that I will be in the area if by chance I am under consideration. We are moving back to our home state and my husband will be taking a tuck load there. I can join him or not. They stated that they would begin looking at applications on June... | [
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71,667 | I am applying for a postdoc position, and one of the required documents is a covering letter. Internet has models and templates and guides for such letters in rich supply. One thing, however, strikes me as strange: they normally contain the address. At first glance, maybe it is to be expected that a letter should have ... | [
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71,680 | A couple of colleagues and I were thinking about publishing a book in engineering. I have heard repeatedly that people who go with a traditional publisher don't get any royalties, they transfer the copyrights, and on top of that, the book ends up being sold for a lot of money (which is something we're against as people... | [
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71,681 | I am pretty confident that I will be getting answers pointing out that this is something too specific and should/will be decided by my university and that a general answer does not exist. But anyway, I just want to have an idea.
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71,686 | Pretty straight forward. I am starting to apply to grad school and I was discussing possible projects with some (grad student) friends of mine. When I mentioned something in particular one of them said "that might even be too good for a Master's, sounds more like a PhD..." Then he also went on to say that I could use p... | [
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71,693 | Some time ago I heard a talk in which the speaker mentioned some theorem. I needed this theorem for another paper I wrote. I looked for this theorem in the relevant literature (which I know quite well), but did not find it. I emailed a question to the speaker, he confirmed that the theorem is correct, but did not suppl... | [
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71,699 | Based answers to [Is Academia.edu useful?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/44632/is-academia-edu-useful) it seems that there are some legitimate reason why many people would prefer not to have academia.edu account.
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"text": "use inspect element (ctrl + shift + i). find (ctrl + f) the link with this word >>amazonaws.com<< . you need to... | 2016/06/22 | [
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71,701 | On a form for a job application, I am being asked to list, among others, what “service lectures” I have given. What exactly is meant by that? What does, or does not, count as a service lecture? | [
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71,708 | I have recently noticed that for one of my papers [Web of Science](https://webofknowledge.com/) shows that it is cited in a paper from totally unrelated area. This looked strange, so I checked the paper and found out that it does not cite my paper. (One of my coauthors has the same initials and surname as author of som... | [
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71,709 | I am early in my career (postdoc) and don't get many papers to review. Thus when I do, I try to put in the work, do a good job, and write a constructive report that is actually useful to the authors. This is the story of how a report I wrote got ignored.
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71,734 | I was a part of a project course for about four months working as a team member in one of the teams, the project was extremely hard for all of us, but we were working real good together keeping up, but out of three of us, one was being a bit lazier than the other and usually me and one other of team members was doing m... | [
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71,738 | I'm an undergraduate physics student in EU.
I created a politics related android app that is to be released soon. Nothing fancy; I was just practicing a bit with GUIs and various programming tools.
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71,739 | Is it inappropriate to share a proof of a manuscript online, such as ResearchGate? The manuscript is part of a large special session in a journal that currently has no publication date yet.. | [
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71,744 | I know it has a lot to do with who is graduating and how many students the professor has already, but I just want to get a feel of how this process works. Do professors take in 1-2 students each year until they don't have any more room? and then wait for some to graduate before taking in more?
Someone I want to work w... | [
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71,748 | What usually happens if the typesetting process for a paper puts it overlength? I imagine if the conference has an extra page charge, this will be applied; but if the conference has a hard maximum limit for pages and the paper is squeezed to fit it, and the typesetter makes some formatting changes that puts it over the... | [
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71,750 | I know this might seem like I'm worrying about something too early, but I am a rising sophomore (undergrad) that is anxious about independent research. I am currently in a physics lab right now that I think is decently interesting. However, my current role is helping out the grad students and postdocs with their projec... | [
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71,761 | Recently, I have noticed that I have been visiting Wikipedia more and more frequently for finding information on technical materials that I need for my work and research. Over time, I have noticed that many entries on Wikipedia are well-referenced and reliable and also, I have found it rather comprehensive, at least in... | [
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71,765 | I go to community college so our professors aren't busy with lab research. They're still busy people though and I wish to respect that.
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71,781 | About one year ago, I submitted a paper to a top journal in my field. After waiting for 4 months, the manuscript is rejected with one positive, one negative, and a neutral (including many revise suggestions) comments. There is one common comment: the manuscript is too long. Nevertheless, the editor kindly suggested tha... | [
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71,798 | I am terminating in these days the first year of my PhD in computer science. As I come from a different field, I spent the first semester doing courses, and most of the second in posing the basis of the thesis project: we have a couple of results, still nothing actually published, and only one paper waiting for approva... | [
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71,800 | In my country, re-examinations are a common thing. Basically, if you miss your exam for whatever reason (or, if you do not pass), then you get an extra chance, under the same circumstances, and if you miss that one as well, you get one last chance.
My question is, is such a protocol normal? Are other countries also do... | [
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71,805 | **Question**. I'm going into my third year as a PhD student in oceanography, and due to my interest in law, I'm considering applying to the concurrent PhD/JD program at my university. I’m wondering whether this might damage my future prospects as an academic scientist.
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71,807 | As LinkedIn is a network of professionals, there is a great scope for sharing one's professional expertise in the form of a short piece (or otherwise write something to influence a cause).
Most posts are well researched (often hyperlinked to relevant sources) and reflect the writer's knowledge and experience in a par... | [
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71,810 | I am working to get a PhD, maybe next year this time around. Currently, this is my second year. I have published 3 papers. All of them are not about one problem but consider different problems. My strategy to find a research idea/problem is given below.
1 - Read papers whose titles are either interesting or I have som... | [
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71,815 | I am almost at the end of writing my Ph.D. thesis. I study in Germany, the language of the work is English and my mother tongue is Turkish. The doctoral study was a result of an international project, in which Turkish cooperation partners have also participated. I want to write the abstract section in 3 languages (Engl... | [
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71,817 | I'm about one year into a math Ph.D. program. With some scientific computing background in undergraduate and master study, my research interests are in numerical analysis/PDE or probability. All of them are analysis orientated.
Recently I took (written) qualifying exam in several subjects, and passed all of them. Howe... | [
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71,820 | I'm writing my masters thesis and have the following formatting problem: should I restate acronyms once for each new large section?
When I for example introduce the term "evolutionary psychology" (which has the acronym EP) in the introduction, I state the acronym so the sentence reads like:
>
> ...has roused signifi... | [
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71,841 | Assume that a student has a continuous involvement in any community of Stack Exchange.(consider 1,000+ reputation).
Does It has a positive impact to mention this involvement in order to show you are passionate about that field? I am asking this because the Statement of purpose has a great impact on your MS/Phd applica... | [
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71,845 | My name is Unvbzej and I am going to graduate in July with MSc in physics from one of major Polish universities. Last holidays I thought a lot about my future and what transferrable skills I have that could get me a job after graduation. I identified that two main are:
* ability to code (a few courses related to numer... | [
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71,853 | I have friends who went to pretty good universities (world top 10), and I would love to apply too after my Masters although I am not sure how realistic this is, as I also had some personal problems during my undergraduate degree affecting my grades. However, I feel bad every time I think about it and realise that my un... | [
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71,854 | July 2015 : We four authors (Sibio, Alex, Hiric and Mark) have submitted a paper in July 2015 and transfer of copyrights to the Journal A. Alex was corresponding author and I am Mark the 4th author.
October 2015: The paper got accepted and published also appeared online.
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71,861 | I am an undergraduate student in mathematics, and I will be starting my third year of university in the fall. I recently attended an NSF "Research Experiences for Undergraduates" (REU) program.
Unfortunately, the program did not go well for me. I can't engage with the material at the proper level, and I've accomplishe... | [
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71,863 | I hold a M.Sc. in Finance from UK and currently live in Toronto, Canada. I want to Co-author research paper(s)/article(s) with a professor/PhD academic and get the paper published in good journal. I want to do this on volunteer basis to gain experience of conducting high quality research and publication. Is this possib... | [
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71,874 | She was a really nice professor and she wrote me a good recommendation letter that resulted in a lot of good results with applications. Recently, this professor died from brain cancer, which was a fast and shocking death for me.
Tomorrow is the deadline for a grant. What should I do? Is it professional to use letters ... | [
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71,880 | If you carefully and adequately paraphrase and quote in a given school assignment or a master's essay or thesis (i.e. act ethically), should you use a software or a website to check for plagiarism? Is there a need for such an act? You know, 'just in case'? | [
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71,887 | I am writing my masters thesis. My instructor told me not to use "I, we, us, his, her, he, she" in the thesis anywhere. Are all these words prohibited in thesis writing?
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71,896 | Occasionally I need to refer to my master's thesis itself in its text, e.g. in the sentence "These rules are sufficient to compute any differential in this \_\_\_\_".
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71,902 | Why do some publication venues prefer TIFF over some vector formats?
[Example](http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/authors/figures.html):
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> Most figure file formats are acceptable, although TIFF is preferable.
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71,905 | Over my career as a student, I have found that traditional 'Bricks and Mortar' schools are not conducive to a proper learning environment for me, so I switched to home-school for 10th grade\*. I have/am learning the equivalent of regular high-school courses, but on a deeper level, and at a faster pace. I also added in ... | [
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71,909 | I have just completed an article in which results are interpreted by means of 3D-plots; there are almost 15 plots in my article. Since plots could have a major impact on the reviewers’ decision, I am little worried about the colors used, which are actually very bright. Do the colors used in my plots really matter? If s... | [
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"text": "Some people will tell you that colors shouldn't matter because only data should matter. Those people are wrong. \n... | 2016/06/26 | [
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71,916 | My book is about a theory that is based upon existing theories and recent experiments in biology. Since biology is not my main field, and since my theory is interesting to the general public, I self-published my book.
The response to my book has been good.
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71,925 | Currently I am not in a good relationship with my research advisor and I do not think it will be good as previously. So I decided to change my research advisor if it's possible. Would you guide me how I can find another research advisor? Is it possible to have two PhD advisor? | [
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71,948 | I have submitted a manuscript to a journal, but after 14 months they have not given me any answer while I have sent email to them many times. Now, What can I do?
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71,958 | I finished preparing a math paper, and am now trying to decide where to submit it.
I read [How do you judge the quality of a journal?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/101/how-do-you-judge-the-quality-of-a-journal),
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71,961 | I'm teaching a course that introduces linguistic field methods. We have fewer lectures than a typical 3-credit course, but the students have ‘lab’ sessions eliciting data from speakers, and they're expected to work a lot on their own.
Analyzing the data requires the use of specific linguistics software. The software d... | [
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71,965 | I wonder if there are any arguments for or against the use of "some of us" in a research paper. In a paper by "(myself), S. E. Cond, and A. U. Thor" about an "Update on previous research", I wonder if it would be OK to write
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71,970 | Are there any known Universities that refuse to pay for paywall access (for moral, intellectual, inability to pay, or other reasons) to academic journal articles? | [
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71,977 | I am a postbac working at a national lab. I have a project that is funded through an outside source, but my PI and postdoc informed me that they need me to spend the next two weeks completing a series of repetitive experiments they don't have the time to do for an alternative project. These experiments are required to ... | [
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71,981 | Is there evidence that Universities network administrators are aware of, or actively tracking student and/or staff usage of free online journal article databases such as Sci-Hub or LibGen?
My question is not meant to address any legal issues. I am merely asking about knowledge of student and staff usage by network adm... | [
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71,985 | Do postdocs in the United States get raises in general? (Is this different for postdocs hired under specific grants vs postdocs hired through departments, such as in mathematics?) If there are raises, how are they determined? | [
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71,986 | I initially got rejected by the two schools I applied to (horrible pGRE scores, lackluster GRE scores, and only did research at my undergraduate institute), but then I got an NSF fellowship, and was almost immediately accepted by both schools.
I feel a little hurt by the whole acceptance process. I feel like I was ess... | [
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71,990 | I recently received the reviews for an article I submitted a few months back to a journal. Reviewers did not comment on the results proved; i.e., they did not indicate the presence of any errors in the proofs. They only commented on grammar mistakes, which I need to correct. They also mentioned that the revised manuscr... | [
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71,991 | I recently finished a vector calculus course in which I received an A and I'm considering asking my professor if he would write a letter of recommendation for me when I begin applying for grad school. My biggest problem is that I did not perform well on the first exam. It was a "wake up call", so to speak, and due to g... | [
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"text": "* You did well in the course. Your less than stellar performance on your first exam should not stop you from asking ... | 2016/06/28 | [
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72,005 | I'm in the process of responding to my first peer review (major revisions). There seems to be a lot of advice out there, (even some stuff here: [How to write good Response Letters for the reviewers](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/4928/how-to-write-good-response-letters-for-the-reviewers)) but there are st... | [
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"text": "Variations are possible, but I have found that the following seems to be a fairly typically form of a response to ... | 2016/06/28 | [
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72,010 | If I were asked to review a paper,
under what circumstances would I be expected to decline out of a conflict of interest?
Could I review a paper for someone...
* I have collaborated with N years ago?
* Who I am currently collaborating with, but we have not yet published a paper together?
* Who is currently or was once... | [
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"text": "The answer to your question depends on context. I find three key elements to the decision of whether or not to dec... | 2016/06/28 | [
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72,014 | I have prepared all answers to all the queries raised by reviewers in major revision. Would it be ok if I respond to both reviewers in single pdf file in following format:
>
> **Reviewer #1:**
>
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> Query 1: Reviewer's first query.
>
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> Author response: This is my explanation.
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>
> Query 2: Reviewer's second ... | [
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"text": "As a reviewer I have no problem with all the responses in one document. In practice I will quickly scroll dow... | 2016/06/28 | [
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