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72,020 | I would like to send an email to a paper author, but I'm not sure how to address them.
The author is not a professor,
their google+ profile says "Network Engineer" (in an important network company BBTW).
As far as I know has a degree and has several publications like articles, conference papers, RFC's.
I'm a Master ... | [
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"text": "Default to \"Dear Mr. [last name]\" (assuming you're sure the person is male). If you're not sure the person... | 2016/06/28 | [
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72,024 | I graduated from what is known as a "Hogeschool" in Belgium. When trying to explain this term on English websites, I've always used the term "University College" or "College", However, I'm not sure what terminology to use. Wikipedia doesn't have a Dutch article that's linked from "College", and "Hogeschool" is referred... | [
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"text": "Apparently this is the same kind of institution as the German \"Fachhochschule\", which is usually translated as \"uni... | 2016/06/28 | [
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72,035 | I have a colleague who is very new to this country (USA). His English leaves a lot to be desired, to the point that it often actually hinders communication. I think he's trying to learn, but it's obviously hard.
Sometimes in an email, there will be a few mistakes that are fairly glaring, even if I get what they're try... | [
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72,037 | I wish to go to Japan for a semester-long research internship in the field of robotics. I am a Canadian citizen.
However, I am having a hard time finding what funding I can actually apply for.
I know the JSPS fellowships are out of question as they only apply to postdocs.
MEXT fellowships are out as well because they... | [
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"text": "Here are few funding sources may help you to study in Japan.\n\n**Scholarships for International Students in Japan:**\... | 2016/06/28 | [
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72,060 | I am a student of Pure Mathematics interested in Linear Algebra and Abstract Algebra. I was browsing the Internet for good research topics containing both a flavor of linear algebra and also having some real life applications when I came to learn about **Spectral Graph Theory**.
I have searched for professors who are ... | [
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"text": "It depends if you seriously want to stay in academia after or not. \n\n* If you just want a PhD diploma, you will ... | 2016/06/29 | [
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72,092 | I know there's alot of questions on S.E. about dropping out of graduate school after having started. My position is similar, but also different:
I was accepted into a prestigious university's program for a PhD in Computer Science earlier this year. I am expecting to be fully funded for up to 5 years, the school and pr... | [
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"text": "The [April 15 resolution](http://cgsnet.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/CGSResolution_May2016.pdf) is a commitment that... | 2016/06/29 | [
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72,094 | Summary of my situation:
I'm early in my 4th year as a PhD student (Cell Biology), and I think I want to quit. My program is 5-7 years, so I have at least 2 years left or I can drop out and claim a Master's and say that I have an extra year of experience since I qualified a year ago.
I have an exciting project that I... | [
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"text": "Talking to other people including mentors is always a good idea.\n\nIt sounds like you're having trouble handling the st... | 2016/06/29 | [
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72,100 | How useful is a PhD if my final career goals don't involve leading my own research lab? In a perfect world I would like to end up as a bioinformatics programmer/analyst in a lab or a core facility to help other people with their projects rather than work on my own. (This is what I'm already doing, actually, but I fell ... | [
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"text": "Looking at your situation, I would say that if you have no intention of teaching and no interest in co... | 2016/06/29 | [
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72,106 | So I am considering pursuing a PhD in robotics (or a related field) after spending a year in the industry. I want to make an informed decision about my career path and be reasonable about things. The thing is, frequently when presented with a potential reason for why graduate education is a bad idea, I seem to dismiss ... | [
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"text": "I have a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and work at a university, but I'm not really on a traditional academic tr... | 2016/06/29 | [
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72,114 | We teach a large graduate class with many teaching assistants (TAs), who are involved in grading 4-5 assessments (each contains a large amount of code, and a 4-page report corresponding to the solution).
Each time we grade, it takes an extremely long time-- we first carefully create a rubric, based upon which the TAs... | [
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"text": "I am not entirely sure if this is an \"answer\" or a \"comment\" but I'll supply it as an answer.\n\nFirst off, I'... | 2016/06/30 | [
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72,124 | Is it considered bad style if I have a section with multiple subsections and start my text only in the subsection (no text below the section heading)?
>
> 1. Section
> ----------
>
>
> ### 1.1 First subsection
>
>
> This is where the text starts …
>
>
> ### 1.2 Next subsection
>
>
> This is where the text go... | [
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"text": "I think there is no black and white answer here. I think in books it is uncommon to have no text below chapters and st... | 2016/06/30 | [
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72,135 | I am doing my master's in Software Engineering at a German university. I had been told that the seminar presentation influences the final grade more than the contents of the seminar paper.
But the irony is I work more for the contents of the paper (about 2 months) than the presentation (about 5 days). Why is it so?
... | [
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"text": "Presentations generally involve a discussion with the panel, questions from the audience, and even heated debates. ... | 2016/06/30 | [
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72,141 | So my first paper from my undergraduate research just got published! Yay!
However: I am still stressed out: What if there were any mistakes? I did my undergraduate research in a psychology lab, all other coauthors have a psychology background. I myself got very interested in mathematical modeling and took many math cl... | [
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"text": "I think you are probably right: it seems unlikely that mathematical statements and proofs included in the supplem... | 2016/06/30 | [
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72,148 | My girlfriend (let's call her Jese), who is a graduate student, got approached by a person of influence in Jese's industry (call her Olilabatp) who is currently working towards her PhD. Olilabatp asked Jese to "help" her write her literature review and she will receive monetary compensation. Jese, wanting to make a goo... | [
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"text": "The only ethical way I can think of requires three steps from Olilabatp:\n\n1. checking if the university... | 2016/06/30 | [
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72,149 | Can I use the data of Friends TV show transcript in my thesis for analysis and publish my paper/findings. Does the usage of TV show transcript data for analysis and construction of new script based on the original script come under fair use of exception in US copyright law ? Can you please advise me on how to proceed f... | [
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"text": "The description of your activities that you have provided, using a 'script' from a popular TV sh... | 2016/06/30 | [
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72,164 | Is it considered plagiarism if in the abstract, only key authors of frameworks used were cited and other peripheral concepts mentioned in the abstract were not cited but were cited in the body of the study? | [
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"text": "That is not plagiarism. Only when you don't cite the relevant source materials at all, plagiarism comes into pla... | 2016/07/01 | [
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72,173 | I am a junior faculty member at a research university. I am working with postdoc A on a project. Postdoc A's PI, Dr. B, works in the same university, but is affiliated with another department. Prior to starting the project, postdoc A and I have agreed that we would work on the project during their spare time. We did no... | [
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"text": "1. It is likely not legally binding that postdoctoral activity must go through the supervisor, especially not if th... | 2016/07/01 | [
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72,175 | Which factors determine whether academics get paid when they give interviews in the media (or other kind of media appearances, e.g. debates)?
I am mostly interested in the field of computer science, and English-speaking venues.
I am also interested any statistics giving some insights on how frequently academics get p... | [
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72,180 | I recently reviewed a paper (general applied mathematics context). During the review, I realized that the fairly general ideas introduced in the paper can potentially be applied to a specific problem in a similar context. The authors did not mention this application in their paper, so I suggested to add a short comment... | [
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"text": "You can't ethically do anything based on ideas from this paper until it is made public (by the authors ... | 2016/07/01 | [
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72,182 | **Some background:** I'm currently about to finish my first PhD year (in a 4 year program) in complex geometry and I'm really struggling with it because I have to learn a lot of new mathematics essential for the area and which are completely new to me. My background is not completely in mathematics. I did my bachelor i... | [
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"text": "There is one piece of advice that seems particularly important to give: **do whatever is needed to enjoy work... | 2016/07/01 | [
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72,186 | I am a starting PhD student and my advisor got a research grant funded, and I am supposed to do the project. I have been supported by my family in the hope to find funding. well, the professor said that all the money from the research grant went to the department and so I am not getting any. Could that scenario happen?... | [
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"text": "Yes. The funding can only be used for the purposes for which it was obtained. Unless the funding explicitly includes... | 2016/07/01 | [
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72,217 | Would this idea be too sensitive / too much information / generally a bad idea?
For example, I have a friend who is doing her computational biology PhD at a strong U.S. program, and her main research is about the illness of one of her family members, whom she unfortunately lost recently.
I have also heard of special... | [
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"text": "I do not have experience with specifically applied maths, but in general, there is no problem at all with conducti... | 2016/07/02 | [
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72,227 | Few papers use DOIs in the reference section (example below). What are the downsides of using DOIs when listing references?
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A typical [example](http://aclweb.org/anthology/N16-1011) from one of the main conferences in the natural language processing field showing no DOI:
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"text": "There's no downside for me, but finding them can be challenging. I just looked at several recent downloaded art... | 2016/07/02 | [
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72,241 | I am an incoming PhD student. Before I applied, I chose a particular school because it had a specific PI. (Of course, this is not a good idea, but I did not know better at the time.) The PI is very famous in my field and was extremely excited about having me in his lab, going above and beyond to get me to work in his l... | [
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"text": "> \n> My present excuse is \"I am questioning my interest in sub-sub-subfield X \n> and want to do rota... | 2016/07/02 | [
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72,244 | For example for an undergrad CS/ECE course, say Intro to Computer Networks, there are about 5 textbooks published by the top 15 publishers in the last 20 years. Why aren't there way more textbooks, since there are probably tens of thousands of people (academics) who have the necessary knowledge to write such a book.
I... | [
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"text": "In my experience, reason (1) is less important than reason (2). Publishers will publish a book if they think t... | 2016/07/02 | [
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72,252 | I've been spending the past three years as an autodidact for computer science and physics, in lieu of a degree. Main reason for this being that high school classes bored me, so I did poorly in them, and there were no CS classes available at the time. I decided at the age of seventeen to begin learning CS and pursue an ... | [
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72,276 | Is it possible or legitimate to pursue two distinct research interests in the same discipline in the context of an advanced academic career (PhD and beyond that)?
For example, can I have two research interests the one concerning History of Economics and the other concerning Mathematical & Computational Economics in a ... | [
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72,289 | I have just completed the third year of an integrated master's degree (a three-year undergraduate degree plus an additional year of study at a master's degree level, with the final degree being an MPhys) in Astrophysics at a UK university. This summer I have to decide the topic of my final year dissertation, which coun... | [
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"text": "Don't ask us.\n\nContact your favourite three prospective universities for your cosmology PhD. Better stil... | 2016/07/04 | [
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72,309 | I have observed in the "author ***guidelines***" of journals, that results and discussion may be requested as
* distinct `"results"` and `"discussion"` sections,
* or as combined `"results & discussions"`.
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"text": "I hate it when a journal decides to stretch you on a [Procrustean bed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes#C... | 2016/07/04 | [
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72,310 | I am writing a paper in math. In that paper, I need to quote several theorems/propositions from a classic textbook on the subject. All of them are quite standard results, but I am not sure what are the original sources for those. The book didn't say that either (unless it's a quite famous theorem, then it would have a ... | [
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"text": "I'm not sure how things are done in math, but if these theorems are \"quite standard\" and common knowledge,... | 2016/07/04 | [
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72,316 | This is my first time teaching mathematics. I've been giving lessons based on a certain textbook which contains excellent exercises (not just the exercises, but the order in which they appear leads one to discover mathematics for yourself). However, the textbook has a solutions manual, and I am certain that if the sour... | [
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"text": "I can think of the following potential ethical issues, some more easily mitigated than others:\n\n* **Misleading oth... | 2016/07/05 | [
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72,334 | I'm writing my thesis in English. English is neither my or my advisor's mother tongue. I'm now doing some corrections that were suggested. Some of them refer to the content of my thesis and some of them refer to the language.
**How should I deal with the suggestions that are obviously wrong?** For example suggesting I... | [
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72,337 | I'm curious to know if anyone has any experience with conducting a tenure-track job search during the summer for positions in the US. I've noticed jobs posted from late May through early July. What's the timeline for hiring decisions this late in the cycle? Should I expect a typical interview / campus interview / offer... | [
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72,339 | I'm finishing my fourth year of a Ph.D. in mathematics. I have enough for a dissertation, and by the end of the summer, I will probably have enough for a very nice dissertation. And I plan to finish next year.
I also a couple of published papers not directly related to my thesis, and a few projects that might bear fru... | [
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72,341 | People always consider universities like Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial College etc. among the best universities on the planet, with centuries of experience in research methodology. One would assert that their policies to conduct 1-year master programs (versus their 2-year counterparts at rest of the world, specially nort... | [
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72,360 | So, I understand good grades in high school, you use your GPA with your application to college. Once your in college, is there any reason, like putting your college GPA on your resume, to get anything greater than a C(unless to fulfill prerequisite grades)? | [
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72,367 | I am interested in the differences between levels of professorships in the countries:
* USA
* UK
* China
* Germany
I read [the Wikipedia Article about Professorship in United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professors_in_the_United_States#Visiting_professor) but as far as I can tell - in the end - both take up ... | [
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72,370 | I just noticed a weird aspect about [this paper](http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12073) (which was of interest [here](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/76339/why-are-pear-shaped-nuclei-possible/76340#76340) and recently came up again [here](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/266308/do-pear-shaped-nuc... | [
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72,376 | **Context:** As PhD candidate, I'll have my first journal paper ready to submit around July 15th. My lab will be closed due to summer break for 5 weeks from July 23rd to August 29th. I will not work full-time during this break, and my supervisors/co-authors might not respond to their emails. Moreover, I won't be able t... | [
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72,381 | My undergraduate studies were in the area of applied mathematics and statistics and I am interested in doing postgraduate studies in the area of mathematical biology. But when I looked into different courses offered by universities, there are so many other areas that look similar to mathematical biology. It would be a ... | [
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72,394 | Unfortunately, the admission website of a university I am interested in applying to does not list the minimum score required on the GRE math subject exam.
Does anyone know the minimum score requirement for this exam when applying to graduate schools to study mathematics? | [
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72,405 | I am preparing a paper for a conference. At some point, I want to show that one area is gaining more interest over another area. Do you think that using a google trend diagram as a supportive (not the main) evidence is a good idea ? My area of research is web information systems. | [
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72,406 | I recently submitted an article. After review process, I added all suggested changes to the article and now it is longer than formatting restrictions allow.
It is a conference article and any extra pages are charged. That extra page contains only some references. My question concerns the extent to which I can modify m... | [
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72,407 | We published paper *A* before. Now, we are writing the camera-ready version of paper *B*, which is closely related to paper *A*. Therefore, we currently reused around 50% of the related work section from paper *A*. Would this be acceptable? Thanks! | [
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72,419 | I am mathematics undergraduate student interested in joining the workforce out of undergraduate (quant finance and data analysis). The past few summers I have been participating in pure math research programs (REUs), and I am struggling to write a résumé section for the REUs.
If any mathematicians are reading this, m... | [
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72,430 | I am currently pursuing my PhD in computer science at a mid-rank US institution (ranked 50 in US-news graduate computer science ranking). Assuming I have a decent publication record and good references. Would I have better chances of securing a postdoc position if I applied to openings in the US or would I have better ... | [
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72,433 | More specifically in finance/economics. As I understand it, spending at least 5 years in the program is highly beneficial if one intends to work in academia. However, if aiming for industry positions instead some would argue that it might not add as much value as the forgone salary would justify.
This leads me to my q... | [
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72,444 | Institutional Background
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I'm currently taking a programming course as part of my computer science studies at a rather small German university.
The course is done by the professor, who's holding the lecture, and three assistants who do the lab with us, prepare / correct the assignments and upd... | [
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72,449 | I recently submitted a paper for publication. I was amazed to read the tone of one of the reviewers.
Previously, it was read by a pair of peers. I am completely sure that they would tell me if they found something wrong with the manuscript. Instead, their comments were positive.
This reviewer did not address *any* sp... | [
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"text": "Getting angry reviews that, in your opinion, fail to understand your work is normal. It's sadly part of the territory.\n... | 2016/07/07 | [
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72,471 | For starting a new problem I generally need to look for work already published through [Google Scholar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Scholar). For example, recently I came across an equation, the `Pochhammer-Chree` equation. When I type this equation name in the Google Scholar tab, a large number of publication... | [
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72,482 | Is it considered to be plagiarism when a researcher translates a little-known paper from another language and uses this text, without citing reference, as his own? I understand that to use results of someone’s research work is ethically improper but does it carry a real punishment? | [
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72,506 | Next month (August) I am supposed to go back to the US to continue my math PhD programme in a Public State University. I hold a TA position as everybody does in my department. Nobody, I say again, nobody holds an RA position. My duties, as equal to almost everyone, are two recitation sections of 60 students each. Every... | [
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72,514 | I am interested in the field of combinatorics and I would like to track new papers in journals on combinatorics (mainly the top of this list <http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=2607>).
How should I do that? For example, Journal on Graph Theory has email alert service but with some of the others I do not... | [
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72,528 | I am a master's graduate from Iran. I received an admission offer (PhD in business) from one of the reputable universities in England but I don't have scholarship yet.
My question is: In addition to internal scholarships(I mean the university's) What are external scholarships I can apply for? i.e. If the university do... | [
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72,535 | >
> Assume that you are applying for a certain position and they require a proof that you master a given language at a [certain level](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages).
>
>
>
Are there websites where you can fill out tests and obtain a certificate? | [
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72,539 | Many conferences in my field (theoretical CS) are organised as follows. They are run by academics, as an endowement, scientific association, or some other not-for-profit organization. Each year, submission and reviewing are done on some platform like Easychair, producing a list of accepted papers. The authors of these ... | [
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72,550 | Recently I submitted minor revision to springer journal. For 3-4 days, the status of my manuscript status was showing to be `Editor Assigned` and after that status changed to `Under Review`. Now status of manuscript is changed to `Editor Assigned` again. What is meaning of this change ? | [
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72,555 | Is the topic research for a post-doc position supposed to be more general than the research conducted towards a PhD degree? Or rather the opposite? | [
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72,557 | I started to write my own literature review today for my master's thesis and I found a very good paper which sums up/overviews the history and concept of the specific topic I am writing about. Usually I track down each cited source to read the original and paraphrase it in my own words. However and with that paper as a... | [
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72,560 | There are several universities which have a staff profile page on their websites. Lecturers usually list their academic qualifications, work experience, the modules they teach and the papers they have published there.
1. Since the page is public and qualifications and work experience are private information, can a lec... | [
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72,567 | I recently received a memo stating that I am not allowed to ask for doctor's notes when students are absent from class, as this is allegedly a violation of privacy rights.
If this is the case, then how can a faculty member legitimately verify that a student who claims to have missed an exam or other activity as a resu... | [
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72,580 | Question
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One is supposed to be devoted to pure mathematics. Is it beneficial for one to pursue a master degree before applying a math PhD in the United States?
Backgrounds
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The question is due to the harsh situation of undergrad students who are outside the U.S. and want to apply for a pure math ... | [
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72,581 | I have noticed personally a tendency toward hyperbole and dare I say anti-intellectualism within American society, along with of course a marked polarization along ideological fault lines.
Is it ethical for a professor, seeking to shape a more informed and open-minded citizenry, to dock points from students who argue ... | [
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72,586 | My question has to do with the proper etiquette for notifying a personal contact on a faculty search committee that I am applying to. The question is based on the perspective of U.S. institutions.
**Background:**
I am a doctoral student about to go on the job market. Several months ago at a conference, a colleague f... | [
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72,599 | I understand that this topic is a bit vague, but if someone could give me a pointer in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.
I'm currently an American undergraduate taking part in an internship at a Japanese engineering university in a professor's research lab for the summer. I have no prior experience w... | [
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"text": "What counts as research is a matter of opinion, and ultimately, up to the community of researchers who do research in tha... | 2016/06/27 | [
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72,614 | I am really confused by the difference between *Hochschule* (university of applied sciences) and *(Technische) Universität* ((technical) university) in Germany, especially with respect to the master’s degree.
What is the main difference and features?
Can a master graduate from Hochschule have a chance to do PhD like ... | [
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72,615 | I coded the methodology based on the paper ["Free Water Elimination and Mapping from Diffusion MRI"](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19623619) and I am curious if I am legally bound to take permission from the authors or the journal in making the code open source on Github? | [
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72,620 | I will be starting my PhD in Mozh this fall. I have diverse interests including philosophy, history and economics, but I concluded that a PhD in Mozh would be most useful in the real world. I wanted to hear people's thoughts on Nassim Taleb's strategy for graduate school, which can be summarized as follows: "get passin... | [
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72,623 | Having a good scientific idea and writing a good paper out of it are the most important steps in order to publish in high-ranking journals, but they are not the only steps needed. The other steps are writing a good cover letter (to convince the editor) and good answers to referee reports, if needed (and this is almost ... | [
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72,627 | My university's subscription is really limited (I come from Lebanon). I never found any paper related to my research or essays using the database that my university is subscribing to; even the basic pioneering papers in business. Yesterday, I started writing my master's thesis and the very basic papers behind my topic ... | [
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72,636 | I'm about to enter a math PhD program at a pretty good school, but the job market for research university professors has been terrible as far as I can remember (since the late 2000s recession). I hear many stories of hundreds of excellent candidates applying for one or two openings.
Older professors tell me it wasn't... | [
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72,652 | I am a 3rd year mathematics undergraduate(see my math se account), and I think I am well positioned to go into academia, and I am willing to do anything to make it happen.
I also have a desire to show my love for America, and I can't think of any unequivocal of doing this other than joining the military.
Many of my c... | [
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72,667 | I am checking plagiarism of my master thesis. It comes out 32 percent. So upto what level of plagiarism is accepted?
My master thesis is on the topic of homomorphic encryption in Cloud and I uses turnitin online service for plagiarism checking.
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72,669 | While writing my thesis, I have encountered the following situation:
My thesis is based on the work of Gourieroux *et al.* (1993) who, as part of the text, cites another paper, Gourieroux and Monfort (1992). In the references to the 1993 paper this paper is listed as having been published in "CREST-Départment de la R... | [
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72,672 | [because this is potentially relevant, I'm a 37 y/o male]
Being the end of the semester, I've had a bunch of students come to my office hours to ask questions about things I'm responsible for. Among them, there have been a small number of female undergrads that have shown up wearing the kind of clothing that I think i... | [
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72,674 | As the background, I am a graduate student in high energy physics, mainly theoretical physics. Recently, I have sen that there are a few scholars who don't put the preprint versions of the paper in the preprint servers such as arxiv. I must add the fact that for many of the journals the self-archiving of the preprint i... | [
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72,678 | I am currently co-organizing a conference targeted at young researchers (mostly PhD or post-doctoral people). All talks are to be done by these younglings. However, there are only around 10-15 scheduled talks, while we expect at least twice as many people.
*What kind of activity can we set up so that the attendees who... | [
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72,680 | As some of you may have heard, Berars Oheme recently published a paper in JAMA describing the US health care reforms ([link](http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2533698)). First of all, I am not trying to start a discussion on the validity of the content of the paper.
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"text": "* **Authorship**: This one is messy. The [JAMA instructions](http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2021... | 2016/07/12 | [
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72,696 | I have been involved in two volunteering groups for the past two years and I'm not sure If I should ever mention it in the SOP/CV.
Should I mention it in one or both my SOP and CV? Also, how detailed should I write on the type of activity/nature of the work/vision/reasoning/accomplishments, etc.
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72,703 | Impact factors exist to quantify the "impact of a paper."
Does a similar metric exist for quantifying the pace of change (obviously determined by quantity of high-impact factor papers) in a particular field (physics, in particular)? | [
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72,709 | In preparation for future PhD work I came up with some ideas & protypes for software components that might later become scientifically relevant, both from a CS and application viewpoint. My natural reflex to having a working proof of concept for an idea is to put it on Github under GPL.
However all (or most) of my co... | [
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72,730 | I recently graduated from PhD and right now I am working in a consulting company. My manager asked me to write a proposal to get public funding to do research. The topic is computer science and semiconductor industry. Since the company is located in Germany, I can apply for funding institutes in Germany and Europe. How... | [
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72,735 | I recently received a review of my paper from a journal. Two referees suggested some changes and one referee just rejected the paper claiming that this study was not necessary. The editor decided a major revision. I revised my paper and two referees appreciated the rebuttal and paper while one referee still rejects.
N... | [
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72,737 | [The NSF now allows](http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf15001/sigchanges.jsp) their funding to be used to pay for childcare expenses for scientists attending conferences in the United States. I take it that this means that organizers of NSF-sponsored conferences can offer to reimburse the childcare costs o... | [
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72,741 | The problem is pretty much the title. I have a bachelor and master degree in applied math. I have been assigned a small problem to start with, from a professor (who is considered very good in my field) who is willing to give me a reference, which in turn I need in order to apply for a PhD position. Our common goal is f... | [
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72,751 | I very recently submitted a manuscript to a journal and found that I had mislabeled y axis on three panels of a many panel figure (put relative activity (%), instead of fold change in phosphorylation). Additionally I noticed that instead of PIP2, I put PIP3 in a signaling schematic. do you think the paper will be rejec... | [
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72,755 | In some subfields of Computer Science, usually the order of authors in papers indicate the importance of contributions of authors to a paper. I am currently contemplating the possibility of pursuing a PhD degree. Accordingly, my question is, when applying for PhD positions, do admission committees consider (and if so, ... | [
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72,756 | I was wondering if there still exist universities (in the US or in Europe) where one can obtain a PhD in Philosophy by only presenting an original and well-developed work around a subject or an author. | [
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72,764 | For example, when discussing red-black trees in lecture, is it appropriate to use the phrase "Black Nodes Matter?"
The proof that red-black trees are balanced relies heavily on the property that each downward path originating from a node contains the same number of black nodes. Given this, I am wondering if it is appr... | [
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72,797 | I'm going to be teaching my first course in the fall semester, and I've been trying to think of ways to make the homework benefit the students. One thought I had was to have the homework be due the week following its assignment for full credit, at which point partial solutions would be posted to the course site, or at ... | [
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72,800 | I have seen far too many people that just cannot or are unwilling to learn due to the subject being rather uninteresting or boring. They tend not to want to learn things they don't understand because it requires effort and dedication.
For example, people wanted me to teach them how to create robots, android apps, gam... | [
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72,801 | Is it unethical for someone to proofread/edit your cover letter?
Because then it's not fully your work anymore. It could be helpful, but I am asking if it is ethical towards the hiring professional? You wouldn't state that someone improved your work, but you are acting as if it is all yours. | [
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72,809 | I have few papers already published in certain journals which cannot be uploaded on [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/) due to copyright issues, now is it legal to upload my own version of the paper formatted in LaTeX or in other words the manuscript I sent for publication that was not typeset for journal pub... | [
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72,827 | I am planning to take the GRE Subject Test in Mozh. I have ADHD and would like to request accommodations.
I live in a first world country now but used to be based in a third world country. In this third world country I was seeing a resident psychiatrist.
I am about to have a new psychiatrist who is not a resident.
T... | [
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72,833 | I'm working on improving the contents of a university level introductionary course.
Has there been done any research on the impact of lecture slide quality on student learning?
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72,854 | I am a PhD candidate with one child (18 months) and one year left in the PhD. My husband and I want at least one more child. I am trying to learn about the relative pros and cons of having a child during the summer after defending vs the summer after my first year on the tenure track. I don't feel 100% confident that I... | [
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72,885 | I have been making an integrated approach and its program on modelling the joint distribution of wind speed and direction (<https://github.com/cqcn1991/Wind-Speed-Analysis>). And I'm trying to publish a paper to get more attention on it.
However, my supervisor is not very familiar with the field I'm in, and I want som... | [
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72,887 | I submitted my paper to ICANN2016 conference in which we could choose among the possible options of "poster" and "oral" presentation at the submission time. I submitted for the oral category and received the acceptance notice as a "full paper" to be in the proceedings, but no info on the type of presentation (oral/post... | [
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72,898 | I'm going into my third year of university, and the past year (my second year) was a very bad time for me. I was admittedly overzealous, and quickly exhausted myself with my research work, overloading with courses, and my campus job.
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"text": "Be frank (and brief) and ask up front if they will again work with you on your project. Whatever the response,... | 2016/07/17 | [
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72,901 | I'm updating my CV and need advice regarding publications. I am formerly a Professor of Human Services and Counselor Education. I am not currently in academia, but am a licensed counselor in private practice... just updating the CV to be prepared for possible future opportunities.
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