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85,153 | I came to know from a senior in my lab that he once submitted a paper in Applied Mathematics in one of SIAM journals and the review came after 9 months and the review was like the following:
1. *Reviewer 1*: The problem is well-motivated and the paper contains original results which deserve to be published.
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85,165 | About two years ago I finished my master thesis. At our university we can only choose the topic to work on and mostly it is part of a Phd program.
My topic was a mess because the faulty study design did not allow me to draw any firm conclusions, i.e. I could not answer the research questions directly.
However I disc... | [
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85,171 | How to deal with fellow students who put little effort on their part while solving assignments, and sometimes ask you to spoon-feed them solutions. Lot of times these students end up scoring more on the assignments on average, because I don't generally feel inclined to get any sort of help on assignments, and am conten... | [
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85,180 | Some instructors tell their students to ask the markers about the questions on assignments and exam papers after they are marked. But many markers are not quite familiar with textbook or other teaching material. Who do you think should take the most responsibility in answering students questions on assignments and exam... | [
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85,186 | Today I was introduced in the cafeteria by a professor who I know to someone new by just their first name. Because of admissions season, I thought that the new person was a prospective grad student and I asked, "are you here for admissions?" and the reply was that "no, I just joined as an assistant professor here a mon... | [
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85,189 | Let's say I'm writing a set of notes on a specialized topic, based off of notes from a deceased professor, who he himself had a disclaimer that his notes (theorems, proofs, ideas) were not properly attributed and cited, due to time constraints. What should I do then, if I plan to distribute my notes / post it on a webs... | [
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85,196 | I am an Israeli researcher and am planning to submit my paper soon.
I noticed that an Iranian journal¹ has suitable editors and am considering submitting there. I wonder whether such a journal might accept my submission.
Are there are any general rules prohibiting Iranian journals from accepting submissions from Isra... | [
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"text": "You should simply **ask the journal's editors**.\n\nThere is absolutely no problem or danger, to you or to them, i... | 2017/02/17 | [
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85,197 | I just got a position as assistant professor in the USA. The university I am working at is one of the top 50, according to the U.S. News & World Report. I will be teaching and carrying out high-level research.
However I would love to attend a class in a discipline close to mine, to expand my knowledge. Surely I could... | [
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85,210 | I have accepted a PhD offer from university A. I have informed a not so prestigious university D that they should dismiss my application (they invited me for an interview, offered me to pay the flight, etc.). I am still waiting to hear from very prestigious universities B and C (which, as A, are top 10 in most rankings... | [
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"text": "I think you should withdraw your applications from B and C.\n\nBy keeping your application active, not only ar... | 2017/02/17 | [
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85,215 | Which one will be given more importance? A strong recommendation from a new assistant professor or an average recommendation from senior professor? | [
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85,222 | I applied to maybe 11 doctoral programs in neuroscience and biology last year and was rejected from all of them. So, I became very self-conscious (or even more self-conscious than I had been) about my science gpa and research experience. So, I decided to apply to and enroll in a post-bacc program for those planning to ... | [
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"text": "The grades and recommendations you reap would be more important in your situation, I think. Sometimes a person... | 2017/02/17 | [
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85,229 | I really would like to know how to prevent a plagiarism of your idea or Research Proposal, when it is sent to several Universities and potential supervisors? What can I do if one of the potential supervisors did not respond to me, nor did consider my research important, but later I notice that they are using my idea wi... | [
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"text": "I understand and completely share your frustration here. It feels awful when your application is reject... | 2017/02/17 | [
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85,254 | What do I tell the student in response to a request for graduate school recommendation from an otherwise-qualified student who cheated by copying homework in one of my classes? I am unwilling to write a strong recommendation for this student, based solely on the episode of misconduct. If it hadn't happened, I'd recomme... | [
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"text": "If you are willing to strongly recommend the student for graduate study, despite his past cheating offense, then tell the s... | 2017/02/18 | [
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85,256 | Going through the application process for several Master's Degrees, I have come across universities that ask what other programmes I am applying to on their application forms. It has been [already discussed](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5446/phd-application-asking-what-other-insitution-i-am-applying-to-... | [
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85,262 | I'm a grad student and TA.
I was playing pool on campus and met some people who happened to be in a frat. We played together and they invited me to their frat party. Long story short, I got really drunk and ended up having sex with someone. I didn't realize that they were in my class until the morning (I have a lot of... | [
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"text": "Assuming you are in the United States, **you are currently in an extremely vulnerable situation from a legal and... | 2017/02/18 | [
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85,263 | I am a PhD student in genetic epidemiology. When I started my PhD, I was certain I wanted to be a professor - three years into my degree, I am seriously rethinking that choice.
There are parts of my work now as a grad student that I love -- reading articles, putting what I’ve learned together to design studies, doing ... | [
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"text": "This is my personal experience:\n\n> \n> When/why do people hire research scientists/staff scientists instead of post... | 2017/02/18 | [
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85,268 | Ten years ago my colleagues in a grad program (at a US university) produced a paper but it was never published (in a formal journal or website). It was only distributed by email to the department and friends at other universities. Last week a professor contacts a member of our group requesting for a copy of the paper, ... | [
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85,276 | I am a Ph.D. student in mathematics, and I'm supposed to finish this year. I've been looking for a position next year (not so much in the USA, but mainly in Germany and the UK). While I haven't exhausted all my options, I do feel that maybe it would be a good idea to have a backup plan.
Since I can afford it, I was th... | [
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85,286 | I will begin with a disclaimer, I am not an English native speaker, but I can speak fluent English and understand English in ***almost*** all research papers I read.
However, occasionally I come across some papers published in peer reviewed journals with ridiculously complicated sentence structure using relic non-tec... | [
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"text": "A few things I've seen in my young career:\n\n1. Age – A researcher who is nearing retirement age today would have b... | 2017/02/19 | [
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85,298 | I recently submitted an article to a math journal and got a response
from a reviewer, with an attachment. In it, I have found some good
advice that could improve my article tremendously.
I am a bit suspicious of its accuracy since it could resolve
what I have been working with for some months in a few
sentences.
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"text": "The answer to this kind of questions cannot be absolute or definitive. All depends on details (how much did the r... | 2017/02/19 | [
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85,300 | Initially I asked this question on [math stackexchange](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2149990/is-the-gap-between-lower-and-higher-ranked-graduate-programs-in-math-really-tha) but it seems academia stackexchange is more appropriate place for this.
Note: a question similar to that I'm going to ask was discuss... | [
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85,306 | In research and publications there are database maintains good quality list of journals, Maintaining a reliable good impact factor too. But on the other side there are list of journals who publish anything for money. They give misleading information about their indexing and even some unbelievable Impact factors.
We fi... | [
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85,315 | I have recently joined a research group, where everything was excellent until two weeks of my joining.
My supervisor was very friendly when I met him for the first time at a conference. He was very interested in conducting work similar to mine in his lab. He showed interest in the subject and insisted that I make an a... | [
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85,317 | I'm an undergraduate electrical engineer. I have studied up to 80 percent of a masters in electrical engineering program and have two IEEE published papers. Is there such a thing as a PhD entrance exam that I can take to prove my ability to pass advanced electrical courses and get admitted directly into a PhD in a univ... | [
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"text": "In Germany, it is possible to start your PhD without a master [since 2000](http://www.kmk.org/fileadmin/vero... | 2017/02/19 | [
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85,330 | I am a researcher in Mathematics and I have recently found that it has been published a paper X whose main result is a (very) special case of a result of mine, which has been published more than an year ago. From the journal log, I can also see that paper X has been submitted after my paper has been published.
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85,333 | For instance, there's currently a great deal of attention towards the theory of "spin glasses" in probability theory. But how does a research direction gain its importance so quickly? Does it simply start with one researcher who declares that this research direction should be given a lot of attention? | [
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85,341 | I am writing a report on Fusion energy as an assignment. It contributes to a sperate qualification in Physics which is simply a Pass/Fail. Further studies will often not accept students who do not pass this section.
In this report, I have briefly looked into the current state of electricity generation, including the e... | [
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85,352 | I would like to study for a PhD and hopefully become a researcher. There is nothing I can think of that I would like to do with my life more. However, my social and communication abilities are bad. They are bad beyond the point where it could be dismissed as me being a 'quirky professor'. People assume that if you want... | [
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85,365 | Do American universities typically help male professors transition into fatherhood by offering (paid) paternity leave? If so, what is the standard amount of paid time off that is offered?
Feel free to compare with maternity leave benefits for female professors, but my question is mainly on the availability of paterni... | [
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85,384 | I use a "bonus program" for train tickets, which (allows me to buy tickets with lower fares and) provides for each ticket some "points" which are worth around 2% of the ticket value. I make use of this also when I travel for academic purposes (otherwise the funders would need to reimburse a higher amount). However, for... | [
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85,403 | I am a third year PhD student in a US business school. A this moment I have a couple publications in a totally unrelated field which are not important for my career. Regarding my PhD research, I just submitted my first paper in my field to a journal (we haven't received a response yet). This submission was done using m... | [
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85,405 | With so many first-world universities upgrading their academic buildings with state-of-the-art classrooms that have advanced technology, eg, capability to record lectures and post them on websites shortly after, why don't these universities consider utilizing similar technology to catch in-class cheating on exams?
Imp... | [
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85,417 | I am looking for a PhD position. Sometimes professors give me information about their projects via emails. How can I thank them for their explanation in a polite way, show my interest and impress them? | [
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85,418 | Long story short: Submitted a paper to a very respectable (but not TOP) journal in the TCS community. Received 2 reviews. The one was alright, not extremely enthusiastic but a decent review.
The problem is with the 2nd one: The reviewer failed in the most obvious way to even understand the statement of the problem, an... | [
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85,434 | This question doesn't seem to have an answer anywhere, which makes me suspect I'm missing a fundamental point.
Is it possible to do 2 separate Master's theses on topics related to your degree, but for 1 degree? Are there any benefits to doing so? I'm really not satisfied with the one I'm currently working on. It star... | [
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85,437 | One of the oddities of working in an interdisciplinary field is that PhD programs - and ultimately departments where you would like to work in the future - are often offered under different departments. For my personal example, my field is Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and I have the option to join a PhD program in... | [
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85,439 | Is it useful to add excerpts from teaching evaluations in a teaching statement included in a faculty application?
A fair amount of teaching statements seem to contain some, but since excerpts are typically cherry picked I wonder whether the admission committee cares about them. | [
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85,441 | As a part of a PhD application process I have to give a talk about a project that I did a couple of years ago for an institution I no longer colaborate with.
I was thinking of putting the logo of my current institution in the first of my slides as a support when introducing myself and explaining my background to the ... | [
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85,451 | What are the advantages and disadvantages of taking an Erasmus exchange semester abroad, and will it have an effect when it comes to finding a job? | [
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85,454 | I just graduated with a computer-science bachelor’s degree and accepted a job offer as a data scientist with a well-known company. It is a research role; so I’ll presumably be working towards goals that are also academic in nature.
Now is it possible for me to find an advisor who would be okay with me working full-ti... | [
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85,458 | A group of PhD students and young researchers (where I belong) is preparing a symposium, a single day meeting, for other young researchers, PhD, master and students.
I don't have any previous experience with advertising this kind of events and I haven't received other advertisement, to an event similar to this one, th... | [
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85,468 | I am curious to know if articles posted on [academia.edu](https://www.academia.eu/) can be regarded as scholarly publications? In other words, can someone list them in his/her publication list or resume? This question may be expanded to foster a discussion of what constitutes a scholarly publication in the online liter... | [
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85,477 | This question pops up every time I write an article (in the computer science domain), and I am unable to find a British English style-guide providing a proper answer.
Where should citations be placed within the sentence and its punctuation?
Where to put white space?
E.g., which options are preferable:
1. More coffe... | [
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85,479 | I've got many papers which are not on Scopus, but are picked up by Google Scholar. How do I include all those other papers into Scopus? | [
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85,483 | I am writing my PhD thesis within the natural sciences (ecology), following the typical structure of introduction, literature review, material & methods, results, discussion, conclusion.
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85,485 | I have a paper accepted in an Applied Mathematics journal. My question is that should I submit the accepted version to editors for publication or I can make some minor corrections (for example, some remarks to a Theorem in the paper. ) | [
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85,489 | Say I am person A who has built up some degree of expertise in mathematical topic X. Person B works on mathematical topic Y and realizes she needs a result from topic X. She asks me if I know how to prove this result. I work for a bit and prove this result, which person B works into their paper.
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85,494 | My PhD supervisor is co-editing a Journal Special Issue, in a good journal, even if not top-ranking, with double blind peer-review (three reviewers are asked for the review). And I'm tempted to submit a paper (which fits with the topic of the Issue).
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85,496 | I applied to a junior faculty position in a certain university. They asked me to provide a list of recommenders with the following requirements:
* Each recommender should be a professor.
* No recommender can be someone with whom I wrote a paper.
The second requirement rules out not only my Ph.D. advisors, but also mo... | [
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85,504 | I'm a career professional in the data science field and spent my career focused on information systems and data visualization.
I recently wound up with an adjunct professor role at a local institution. At first things were fine, but now there is a strong pressure for me to publish 'academic works' in scholarly publica... | [
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85,513 | I'm more interested in answers from researchers in the field of computer science/electrical engineering. Having said that, readers in a different discipline observing such phenomenon are welcome to contribute.
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85,520 | I was asked to supervise a team of undergrad students
who are taking part in a case competition.
I decided to look through the competition website
to find out more about what is expected of a faculty advisor.
The website writes:
>
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85,546 | Say I am a British academic, who happens to have a blog, where I comment on my research and other people's research. Naturally, I do not want to infringe copyrights on any type, including intellectual property (IP). Yet, [it seems](https://www.uleth.ca/lib/copyright/content/fair_dealing_week/fair_dealing_vs_fair_use.as... | [
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85,550 | I want to use some images from the wikicommons in my thesis, some images state that 'Attribution is not legally required', but I understand that if I don't cite an image it's as if I'm claiming it as my own.
Let's say I want to use the google logo: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Google_2015_logo.svg>
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85,553 | This pertains to an American university graduate program.
A TA recently surprised me with a proposition to marry her (we've neither dated nor hooked up), so that she could obtain a green card to stay in the United States -- she wants to leave the STEM fields and go into the creative / artsy stuff (eg, dreams of having... | [
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85,563 | I am an undergraduate in my fourth and final year of getting a bachelor's degree. Next year I am thinking about applying to Phd programs in math (in any case I want to take a year between undergrad and grad school). However, I have a very questionable academic record in some respects.
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85,572 | I already have an offer for a TT job at another institution, but I received an inteview offer from a school I'd really like to work for. I was told (twice) that they didn't like two of their first three candidates and that they'd like to inteview me if the one they liked fell through.
They told that they'd have an an... | [
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85,576 | I'm writing a manuscript for a journal that has a word limitation for papers:
>
> Papers should be no longer than about 6500 words to include Figures,
> Tables and References.
>
>
>
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85,579 | I have applied for PhD student positions at different graduate schools.
During most interviews I was asked whether I have applied to other programs, which I affirmed.
One professor also asked me to inform him if I receive offers from other universities.
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85,581 | I am currently enrolled in a PhD program in electrical engineering in Europe (not in my home country). When I enrolled to this program, I was a little concerned about the research group, since it has very few publications about the topic for which I applied (they are not expert in my field). Nevertheless, I applied sin... | [
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85,582 | For the last few semesters, I have taught a graduate-level course (mixture of Master's and PhD students) that has a very substantial data analysis component in which every assignment involves analyzing data based on what was covered in the prior 1-2 week's worth of lectures. The prerequisite is my university's introduc... | [
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85,595 | I'm working on SIMDization and Optimization. I usually do some great jobs. But writing a good article needs a good knowledge of writing skill. I've implemented many programs. I can write and organize the paper. But editing the article take a lot of time for me, because of some silly grammatical mistakes. I just thought... | [
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85,617 | I am preparing the final document of my PhD and I would like to include some kind of identifier to my person – something like a DOI for people. My intention is to to make it easy for the readers of my thesis to get in touch with me and to have a look at my other work. As I don't know at what university I will work in t... | [
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85,623 | Recently I was reviewing a manuscript. I found that few cited papers of this manuscript are not freely available to my institute. So what should I do? Should I ask those papers to the editor? | [
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85,624 | I have found a basic mistake in one of the published paper in a top tier Applied Mathematics journal. I have told my research supervisor about it and he also agrees with me. I found the issue when I was working on one open problem mentioned in the paper. Please suggest what to do. | [
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85,635 | I will soon write a new article with new collaborators (my first paper with other people, I'm in math). For some context, I know one of them well, but I've never met the others in person.
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85,637 | As someone who is just starting to read in the field, I found that most academic papers are quite 'stuffy'. They seem to use a great deal of complicated language and jargon needlessly.
I read [Should academic papers necessarily carry a sober tone?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9396/should-academic-pape... | [
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85,639 | I am a third year undergraduate Computer Engineering and last summer I tried to take a course while occupied with a full-time internship. Due to a work conflict, I missed an exam and failed the class. I retook it the following semester and received an "A". My schools course forgiveness policy replaced it in my GPA, but... | [
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85,645 | I am a M.Sc. graduated in Computer Science and I am going to continue my graduate studies abroad. There is one professor who I am in contact for a few months and now he states that he is willing to hire me as PhD student if he receives good news of the grant proposals that he submitted to funding organizations. However... | [
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85,662 | I'm a new full-time faculty member in the process of finishing my PhD. Because I have not yet graduated, Instructor is the only title I feel comfortable using until I defend.
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85,673 | Is it possible for a student to sit for more than one GRE subject test in one sitting? For instance, back in high school, I was able to sit for multiple SAT subject tests in one sitting. I, along with other students, had the option of sitting 1, 2 or 3 tests of our choice. Is there a similar policy for the GRE subject ... | [
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85,674 | If somebody hold a PhD with good number of publications in high indexed journals and 2-3 years postdoctoral experiences, then is there any kind of research funding to carry out his/her own research as an independent researcher staying at home. If so, then would you please share some of such sources. Will a research pro... | [
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85,679 | I got asked to review a systematic review in a peer-reviewed Pubmed-indexed journal. However, based on the author’s inclusion/exclusion criteria, they only review one article.
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85,683 | My work has been rejected from a conference. I am working on it to get accepted. As the conference is annually occurred, I think at least 6 or more months will be required to make another submission.
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85,694 | A friend with a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Statistics would like to teach math/statistics at a US university which is not research oriented as a full-time faculty member. To do so, it seems like it might be necessary to have a PhD. However, my friend is not interested in statistics research, so she's thinking i... | [
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85,700 | If I had completed work on a certain idea, and would like to have it analyzed from an expert in the field. And shared it with a few professors, to get their opinions on my work... would that mean the university has contributed to my work? And somewhat has rights to the idea? Knowing that I never used the university's r... | [
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85,705 | Has a STEM professor ever been nominated for - or won - an Oscar for their academic research? | [
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85,707 | I know this question may be seen as off-topic here or too trivial but nonetheless I would really like to know the answer. I am in an unique position-unlike most researchers I practically don't care about the impact factor I just want to get my work publish as easy as possible and available for as many people as possibl... | [
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85,715 | Most papers (at least in maths, but I believe this applies to other subjects as well) don't have a table of contents (TOC), but dedicate the last paragraph of the introduction to essentially the same purpose. What's the rationale behind this?
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85,720 | So, I came across this paper in my field (let's call it paper A) and there was a reference for an equation that they had borrowed from another paper (let's call this paper B). Everything well-cited and fine so far. While reading through paper B (the one that they referred to), I noticed that paper A had also copied ove... | [
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85,722 | Suppose there is data that you as an author of a journal article wants to share with the readership of the article (e.g. raw experimental data, code, gold standard / ground truth data).
What would be the best way to do this? Possibilities include:
* Add a footnote that data is available upon request by e-mail.
* Make... | [
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85,755 | I'm a junior hoping to do a PhD. I'm in a graduate level class right now in a different field. I believe almost all the other students are PhD students. The first couple weeks of the course were just barely accessible, though very challenging. Now, however, I really find myself unable to complete the problem sets. Ther... | [
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85,777 | When I started my "quest for knowledge" several years ago I began in an already ill defined-field which was on the borders between science and philosophy but as I progressed I drifted further and further into something I can only classify as "something pertaining to many sciences but not really a part of any one field"... | [
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85,794 | For graduate school classes, if a professor writes his own homework questions and creates his own problem sets, is he required to provide solutions to the homework problems, after the homeworks have been turned in and graded by his teaching assistant(s)? | [
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85,796 | I've recently submitted three papers to the same top journal over a period of two weeks. Can this fact alone impact on the chances of any of the papers being accepted? There is no overlap of content or dependencies among the papers, but I'm a bit worried that it may look odd from the editor's perspective and raise doub... | [
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85,801 | Or is a computer science phd required? Is having a statistics phd a disadvantage for AI research positions or does the research you publish and work on during the phd matter more?
Although artificial intelligence research is interdisciplinary (math+cs+stats+logic, etc), I see mainly computer scientists working as AI ... | [
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85,807 | I was reading that submitting a research article to arXiv gives it better visibility. I was wondering if I can submit a research article that is accepted and published in the IEEE-JBHI, to arXiv? | [
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85,810 | I am writing research paper following the ACM 2-column format in Latex. The conference is limiting the number of pages by only 6-8 pages. So far, my paper has a lot of figures and tables and would be impossible to fit them all in 8 pages.
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85,814 | I received a book proposal review request from Elsevier. Despite some reasons to believe that it is credible, there are a few things that look suspicious to me:
1. A monetary compensation is offered. Is this common, and how does this work in practice?
2. The request is sent from a personal email account.
3. It says th... | [
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85,816 | I have in a few days a scientific conference and I will present my work in the form of a poster. Now I am in the process of looking for models of scientific posters, Please who can help me find some example. | [
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85,824 | A few years ago I graduated from a master program at a university. Since I since then has been working mainly in my own company and with granted projects, I don't have so many references from work life or post university activities, even though it's four years since I graduated.
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85,833 | Effectively as per the questions title, are there grants and fellowships for PhD students past the first year, but before candidacy? From what I have seen, most are intended for first year students (i.e. those with no more than twelve months of study), after candidacy has been achieved, or are finishing fellowships for... | [
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85,839 | From time to time (presumably because I have an academic address, or am listed on a university web site) I get an e-mail like this: "My son will be in your city next month for two weeks. He is interested in your subject. I would like to hire you to tutor him. What are your fees?" I assume it is some sort of scam, since... | [
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85,851 | I'm working on a paper with someone from a different institution. I'm first author.
The data analysis has been done, but there are several ways to interpret the result. I proposed a survey of the population under study as a way to distinguish between mechanisms and his first reaction was that he liked the idea.
I th... | [
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85,853 | I recently emailed a senior professor in a neighboring state, that I've never met, with some comments on his recent paper and pointing to some of my papers with related results. It turns out he was aware of my research and invited me to give a talk at his University. I promptly agreed, but never heard back from him. Sh... | [
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85,856 | I got accepted into the Phd program at a Top 3 university in US.
However, as I have an external scholarship (full funding for PhD study), I have to defer my admission to work at the scholarship sponsor research institute for one year.
I wrote to the department explaining my situation, but was informed that deferral... | [
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85,863 | For journal article, does the number of references one has for an original research work have an influence on the reviewer? Like if I have say 11 references, in such a case, will the reviewer take it for granted that my work is incorrect? | [
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85,875 | In the faculty that I am currently working on we have contacted a Professor who would be giving a workshop in my city. Because of that we have invited him for a meeting for discussing collaboration issues for making research in his area of expertise. Also he would be willing to give a lecture to the lecturers of our fa... | [
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85,891 | I teach math with about two years of experience now. In general I have found that all the cliches about graduate school teaching you "how to research but not how to teach" are true. But I have also found many great resources (at my institution, online, in print, etc.) that are helping me, over time, work through my tea... | [
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85,910 | I have demonstrated that some of the technologies derived from our research are marketable; I have offered services based on them to industry customers and have been paid for that. So as academic research group, I have received income, but which can only be used to buy lab equipment mostly and not for personal use (sal... | [
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"text": "I think [this one](http://www.antoptima.ch/site/en/aboutus/who.html) should count: It's called Ant-Optima and, as th... | 2017/03/03 | [
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