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89,137 | It is (of course) a rule that the speaker's affiliation appears alongside their name in their presentation at a conference.
What's the best practice in the case of no current affiliation? Did you have personal instances, either as speaker or audience?
(Please note: The question is not about publications, which has ... | [
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89,141 | I am considering submitting my paper to both a computer science journal and arXiv. No version of the paper has been published in any conference or anything at this point.
* Is this going to be an issue with the journal?
* Should I hold off submitting to arXiv?
* If this is journal dependent, how do I find out about t... | [
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89,158 | I am a decently good student (3.8 gpa, 4th year undergraduate). I have gotten A and A- in all major courses (except a B- right as I transferred), but I have a concern. I have Asperger Syndrome and dislike social encounters and crowds; therefore, I have always done my work in solitude and avoided interaction with peers ... | [
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89,178 | One requirement in academia, especially as an early career scientist, is the the willingness to study or work in different countries.
Personal motivation for the question: Apart from the professional side (having a job, developing as a researcher,...), the positive aspects of going abroad are clear to me: I really en... | [
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89,179 | I started studying my PhD with a federal scholarship that was supposed to sustain all my expenses and allow me to study without the need to work. Long story short, between family and mortgage payments money was scarce. My relatives helped with some of the expenses, but after 2.5 years, there were just too many pressure... | [
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"text": "**Don't worry, this is a very understandable situation. You should just be honest about it.**\n\nI don't think the fact... | 2017/05/08 | [
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89,183 | I am on a committee tasked with advising my university's Information Technology office on institutional needs and issues regarding IT. They are pretty knowledgeable about how to support the university's general administrative IT requirements (office applications, business IT infrastructure, securing personal data, etc)... | [
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"text": "> \n> **What special IT resources or support are commonly needed for academic research?**\n> \n> \n> \n\nThat is... | 2017/05/08 | [
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89,184 | I'm a grad student who will be teaching a course for the first time over the summer, and I'm not sure what the convention is on allowing a student to "sit in" on the class (that is, attend class without being registered, not getting credits, etc). If a student asks before class for permission to do so, is it to my disc... | [
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89,192 | I have a BA degree in sociology, but during my studies I got interested in programming and development. I would like to continue and do my MA thesis in a Computer Science University, and maybe, try to incorporate sociology and CS in my final thesis.
If I do it the other way around, going to sociology MA but try to get... | [
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89,214 | I'm looking to get feedback from students fairly seamlessly during a lecture. I know that there is a reluctance to raise one's hand (if part of a large audience), and my experience of such polling attempts (as a student) has been to break up the flow of a lecture quite considerably. Personally I don't want to get into ... | [
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"text": "An example of what you are looking for is a system called [ARSnova](https://arsnova.thm.de/blog/en/homepage/). I... | 2017/05/09 | [
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89,229 | We recently submitted a paper to a conference. However, I just noticed that one of the collaborators have copied three paragraphs from another paper of mine, though that part is not our main contribution.
He claimed that he has written that part, and he showed his work, but he has forgotten to apply the changes to the... | [
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"text": "First, deal with your collaborator, then notify the conference asap. If they figure it out and you then are like \"oh,... | 2017/05/09 | [
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89,231 | I am writing my thesis and I have decided to add a list of glossaries to explain certain terms. I decided to copy most definitions for these terms from [here](https://pascal.computer.org) because I believe they are best explained there. This site, SEVOCAB provides definitions by the IEEE for international standards in ... | [
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89,238 | I am in the final stages of writing my first paper, in dynamical systems. The paper is purely theoretical but I use Mathematica for some images and graphical simulations (none of the actual results depend on a computation by Mathematica). The paper will be presented in a conference, where I will show some of these simu... | [
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"text": "You generally don´t need to \"cite\" the software you are using. (Would you \"cite\" Word/LaTeX for writing the p... | 2017/05/09 | [
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89,239 | I spend a lot of time peer-reviewing paper submissions to conferences, workshops, and journals in my field. Sometimes I end up getting assigned a paper that I had already rejected from another venue. Usually the authors of the resubmission have at least attempted to address the flaws pointed out in the past reviews. Bu... | [
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89,268 | Im doing a paper where i use a system to combine rules and algorithms from different studies to form a complete program. The ideas were combined and i made a program from that combined idea, now th program itself was made by me and I used solutions which are not exactly the same such as using shortcuts and other functi... | [
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"text": "Combining various things to form one new thing is valid research. If your algorithm is a hybrid of 2 others, you ne... | 2017/05/10 | [
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89,269 | I am a junior undergraduate computer science student at a small engineering school. For the last term I have been paid as a teaching assistant for one of the more difficult courses in the CS curriculum. Because this is a small school, that means that I am basically a public tutor in our CS labs for about 10 hours a wee... | [
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"text": "Short version:\n\n**Encourage them, definitely encourage them.**\n\nLong version:\n\nFirst of all I have to say that ... | 2017/05/10 | [
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89,272 | One of my PhD objectives involves an evaluation of the suitability of an emerging technology for deployment in geographical area (where it has not yet been deployed before -- mainly because it's new). I have been asked "Why evaluate this tech? Why not the others?"
I have found this tech to be significantly superior to... | [
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89,276 | I am reading a paper in which the author cites his paper in a very explicit form. The reformulation of one of his sentence in the paper was in this form:
>
> I have already made this point in a few papers, within a general
> framework in (Some Name) (1996) and in a related
> framework in (Some Name) (1999).
>
> ... | [
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89,283 | i had submitted an assignment requiring distributed code to achieve a fairly complex application. Since this was my first attempt I took help in the form of tutoring , demos of particular libraries and discussed solutions but did not directly copied any work or passed someone's work as mine . I took the the help of my ... | [
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"text": "* Plagiarism: Passing of work by someone else (also partially) as your own. You didn't hand in your tutor's soluti... | 2017/05/10 | [
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89,295 | For my dissertation, I have decided to create a program which involves multiple mini games such as a snake game, tic tac toe, maze game and a puzzle game.
Although, I liked programming, I struggled when I started developing my game project. For this reason, I decided to use Youtube and follow tutorials on how to do t... | [
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"text": "If you make it clear to readers what your original contribution is and what you got from other sources (and name tho... | 2017/05/10 | [
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89,307 | I am from the Netherlands.
I have seen quite a few threads which address the question of whether or not it is acceptable to address a professor by their first name. However, none of them seem to address the point of whether it is still permissible to refer to them as Mr/Mrs X?
For example, if you know that someone's ... | [
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89,314 | I have strong suspicion that one of the professors regardless of the professional relationship we had was not very nice in the recommendation letter. This is after knowing him at a personal level and how perfectionist and judgmental he is of other people. But let's not get into why I chose him to write my recommendatio... | [
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89,343 | I was under the following situation and I'm not sure which would have been the right way to handle it.
I was refereeing a paper. I suggested that the authors could cite a very recent paper which was uploaded on a repository (so, not official publication but publicly available nevertheless) that *could* have solved one... | [
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89,346 | I understand that reviewers are quite busy and have not only a single paper to review. But, no matter how busy someone is, it should not take more than 2 minutes to reject a review request.
*How did I get this question to my mind?*
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89,361 | I am in the process of writing my bachelor thesis, but my mental health has been in very bad shape lately, although I'm starting treatment soon. I am confident that it already had an effect on my productivity, and I can see the treatment procedure also affecting my productivity in the future. It was therefore advised t... | [
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89,362 | How do academics manage to do research when they are lecturing and running courses, helping students, writing up assignments and tests, marking assignments and tests, supervising graduate students, going to meetings, doing admin, having personal lives, etc. ? | [
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89,366 | I'm about to graduate from a terminal masters program in the United States. The most prominent PhD program I've gotten into has been at Trinity College Dublin. I want to go into U.S. academia rather than Irish academia, but the PhD programs I've gotten into the U.S. have been second-tier.
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89,371 | I am a M.Sc. graduated from a developing country and I recently got admitted for PhD in one of the reputed universities in Canada (rank 20-30th world-wide), say university A. In fact, because of the compulsory military service I could not exit the country with an M.Sc. admission letter, so I ended up applying for the P... | [
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89,379 | one of the two tasks of my master's thesis, is to look into existing knowledge that deals with the overarching topic, summarize the knowlegde and discuss whether that knowledge can be applied to solve the specific problem. The specific problem is solved primarily with a numerical approach, this is the main task of my t... | [
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89,400 | I was invited to a campus visit for a faculty position at a university in the U.S.
The visit will include a job talk, a class presentation to students, meeting with faculty members, meeting with the dean of the school and meeting with the provost from the university’s president’s office. This is by no means not a small... | [
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89,409 | I want to send an article to a math journal. As with many others, that journal wants a cover letter, which should include the author's affiliation.
I'm still a high school student and my school isn't in the U.S.
How should I write my affiliation?
My school's name is hard to translate to english, should I write its na... | [
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89,419 | What are my best options when a reviewer misunderstands my work and asks for an unreasonable improvement? She was very clear that this was a major issue and that she would only accept the paper under this "improvement".
1. Should I withdraw the submission?
2. Should I write to the editor and try to convince him that t... | [
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89,420 | I know a professor in my university that I was close to when I was an undergrad, not in a academic setting, but in a social setting (church in my case). I did not take his class, but I do know that he is close to many other undergraduates in the social circle, and many of them do take his class.
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89,430 | My situation is as follows. I started a PhD 5 months ago in a reputable university. However, I am not happy with my lab and supervisor and do not want to spend 4 or more years here. I shared my thoughts with my supervisor and he told me it is better to stay one or more years and finish with a MSc than quitting now, and... | [
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"text": "**Look for other opportunities *whilst* still continuing with your PhD.** Hopefully you find something by th... | 2017/05/13 | [
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89,436 | I submitted a paper for publication in a journal indexed by Scopus. Before acceptance, I sent an e-mail requesting withdrawal of the paper because the review process took longer than expected. I did not receive any reply. Later, I received an acceptance notice with two major problems.
1. They requested publication fe... | [
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89,440 | For applications of virtually any kind, it is stipulated that an offer may be rescinded or even during a course, a student may be taken off, if any false information is discovered in their application.
However, suppose for a graduate program a student asks a professor to write a recommendation, and whether knowingly o... | [
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"text": "Few cases ***can*** happen (probability will decrease as we go from case to case).\n\n1. (They don't find out) n... | 2017/05/13 | [
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89,444 | One conference has accepted my paper, but I'm unable to follow publisher format for one page, I have to change some margins for this page.
Actually I've to insert a table and table is slightly bigger in size so I have to change margins and I've tried almost all the possible ways to fit it in that page and I've only on... | [
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89,455 | I know there are quite some questions about business cards, but as far as I can see they are all about professors, PhDs, and so forth. I have finished my Bachelor's degree in Germany and I am currently taking my Master's (computer science).
Although there is a certrain trend in Germany (especially in STEM-related fiel... | [
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89,457 | I am looking for a master’s position. I emailed a professor and we arranged a meeting on Skype, where he said that he would send me a project on which I should work for two months. I agreed and afterwards I sent him an email and thanking him and asking for the project.
One week later I emailed him to read my mail whic... | [
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89,462 | Recently, I am looking for a master position so that I had to send emails to professors.I was wondering if you tell me when is the best time to send an email? morning or afternoon? could we send mail on weekends Saturday and Sunday? | [
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89,465 | I have submitted my dissertation recently (in mathematics), and I have a position for a postdoc which I will start around October.
In the meantime, one of my friends and I have been working on some projects (some of which we began nearly a year ago), and prepare to write some papers. At least one of them we expect to ... | [
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89,476 | I have published an article on arXiv. I associated person X as co-author whereas he didn't contribute at any step of the paper. Note that he is not registered as owner of the article on arXiv and I didn't give him the password to access as author.
When I wanted to submit the paper to a journal, X began to do some hara... | [
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89,478 | Simply, what do you expect from a good bachelor's thesis? | [
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89,482 | This seems like a vague question, but please bear with me before voting to close it:
Often times, when searching for a good textbook on a particular subject (mostly mathematics or physics), I see users who confidently suggest multiple textbooks on this same subject. ([Here](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/... | [
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89,501 | Details are very important here:
I interviewed for postdoc positions at 2 labs (same university), and received offers from both.
I accepted the offer from lab "A", and when I declined the offer from "B", the PI told me that they were sorry about my decision, and that they would still like to invite me make a presen... | [
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"text": "Give the presentation.\n\nThere is no problem here (to be honest, I'm struggling to work out why you would think... | 2017/05/15 | [
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89,506 | I am in a unique situation. My supervisor and two other professors I approached for recommendation letter have asked me to write the my own recommendation letter and they will sign it.
Is it ethical and common practice?
How can I handle this situation? I already requested three of them multiple times, but alway... | [
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89,509 | When writing academic and scientific literature, are there any good guidelines to when you can omit defining an industry standard abbreviation? Are there any guidelines to where you can draw the line? When looking the this up I found a few sources like [this blogpost](http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/abbreviations/) t... | [
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89,511 | I prepared a course (more specifically, I created some material for the kick-off meeting and an outline for the contents that would have been addressed if the course would have taken place), but there were too few students participating in the kick-off meeting, so I cancelled the course.
How should I deal with this fa... | [
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"text": "I'm pretty sure this isn't the answer you want, but I don't think you should mention it in your CV. You have no p... | 2017/05/15 | [
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89,513 | I have seen some tenured professors at top ranked universities move to lower ranked universities. Why do professors do this? At lower ranked universities there are less resources and the graduate students are weaker. | [
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89,519 | I interviewed for a lecturer position a month and a half ago, and was told that the decision would be made about one month after my interview. I was also told that I would be informed either way, but have yet to hear back. A week ago I sent a follow up email, asking if a decision had been made, but didn't receive a res... | [
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"text": "You won't accomplish anything by sending another email. The department hasn't forgotten that they inte... | 2017/05/15 | [
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89,522 | It is mandatory that manuscripts that are TeX/LaTeX-based must be submitted along with all source files, which includes the `tex` document, images and supplementary files (like CSV files) required to generate the PDF.
According to [arXiv's TeX FAQ](https://arxiv.org/help/faq/whytex), this sort of submission does not i... | [
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"text": "> \n> is it *really* true that this does not make plagiarizing data easier than the simple PDF submission?\n> \n> \... | 2017/05/15 | [
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89,538 | *Note: This question is aimed at "in general, in the United States, given the laws (including FERPA) and typical practices of US Universities".*
I'm wondering if my schools' departmental advisers can give my grades to faculty members without my permission. Say a faculty member is talking to the department advisers abo... | [
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"text": "Faculty are almost always bound by rules governing their access to student records. For example at my univers... | 2017/05/15 | [
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89,540 | I've seen clickers/pollers/etc. used in classrooms for many things, such as evaluation and assessment and agile/contingent teaching.
**What other uses are there for clickers in the classroom?**
To clarify: I'm looking for a *list* of constructive uses for classroom teaching. | [
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"text": "Possible uses\n=============\n\n### Assessment\n\n* *How many of my students already know what I'm about to teach... | 2017/05/15 | [
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89,573 | I'm currently graduating with a M.S degree in Mathematics and looking into applying to PhD programs in Mathematics this Fall.
My GPA overall is in the 3.90+ range. Course grades are either A- or A. About 30% of them are A- with two or three courses I would assume to be critical.
I was wondering how PhD admissions v... | [
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"text": "You could take a small hit on them, but I suspect it will not be a huge issue, especially if it's really true that y... | 2017/05/16 | [
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89,596 | **Context:** I am writing a thesis that is divided in a few parts (e.g. "Context and motivations", "Literature review", "Experiments", etc.).
Each part starts with a 100-200 words-long introduction (or preamble) that links the new part with previous content, introduce purpose of this part, as well as give an overview ... | [
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89,599 | I have an example demonstrating the solution produced by a popularly used software package is not the optimal solution, despite the software claiming that it is. Several recent papers published from my lab have used this software in their evaluations, and I know it is extensively used in the research community to solve... | [
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89,602 | I am a college student who is currently enrolled in a class where the professor posts lecture videos online with ads enabled. I was wondering if this is legal; the professor is being paid by the university to lecture, but is also making money from ads on his lecture videos. | [
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89,604 | For example, if you are talking to another researcher from a foreign university, how do you ask him or her what title would he or she be preferred to be called by?
"What's your preferred title" sounds too formal.
"What do you like to be called" sounds too informal.
"Can I call you by your first name" sounds too dema... | [
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89,606 | I received an email from one of my professors today and I am not sure if I should respond or not. The email contained the grade I received on a paper as well as my grade going into the final. I am not sure if I should reply with a simple "Thanks" or if I should just let it be. Also, the email was sent about 6 hours ago... | [
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89,612 | This is not in any way relevant to me, I'm just interested. What would happen if you chose a PhD thesis to work on, and halfway through someone somewhere in the world who was also doing a PhD in the same field published their thesis, which just happened to be the same research that you were doing. Would your research s... | [
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89,629 | If you are on a hiring committee and find out that one of the applicants is someone you have had a past romantic relationship with, should you recuse yourself? | [
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"text": "I will almost guarantee that your university has a Compliance office. [Here's the one for my university](http://www.cmu.... | 2017/05/17 | [
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89,632 | I am a PhD student in mathematics. Talking to some colleagues on my department I wrote a paper whose subject lies somewhat beyond the interests of my advisor. I gave a talk on it on a couple of seminars.
Unexpectedly I was invited to give a talk on a conference in another country. I have a feeing that my advisor migh... | [
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89,652 | I am preparing to send my first paper to a springer journal (journal of computational neuroscience), in the instruction author there is an instruction say **Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter**. I think that the abbreviations in the abstract are known for the neuroscience ... | [
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89,653 | I'm confused when it comes to writing learning outcomes. When searching online I become more confused.
How can I understand how to write good learning outcomes.
The same for me when it comes to the syllabus, I don't know how to start writing it. | [
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89,661 | I accidentally included a source in my bib, that I didn't end up using in my paper. So basically it included a pointless source that has no info or quote included in the paper. Will this look bad or will I get docked for it? | [
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89,669 | Suppose that a student joins a graduate program with supervisor A. The supervisor has a bad reputation in the research group with a history of not caring for his students, e.g. professor goes to sabbatical on a regular basis and does not skype with his students, replies to emails from students in 5 minutes, does not he... | [
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89,672 | So I'm a citizen of non-English speaking country, but my master's program in STEM field is fully conducted in English. Should I provide TOEFL/IELTS results when applying for a PhD program in USA or Europe? I accept that it may vary and depend on a university and country, but what should I expect in common? | [
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89,688 | When acting as a referee, I frequently find that some of my papers could be relevant to the paper I'm reviewing (let's say, in a tangential manner). Is it reasonable to suggest the author take a look at my paper, or should I avoid this at all costs due to the risk of revealing my identity and sounding that I'm shopping... | [
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89,692 | I am from one of the top UK institutions studying mathematics. I am under the impression that UK universities tend to have a larger cohort (~150 per year) than US but perhaps I am wrong.
I would like to know is there any difference ranking 1st, ranking in top 5 or ranking in top 10 when it comes to PhD applications es... | [
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89,693 | Why do sites that host papers such as IEEE's not have a comments section for each paper? Sometimes there is something that needs to be added, corrected or clarified by the community but as far as I know there is no such a thing... or is there? | [
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89,699 | In the United States, are the startup packages offered for tenure-track positions at research universities typically significantly different for the assistant and associate professor levels?
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89,700 | To start with, let me confess a sin that I have committed a few years ago. A friend of mine asked me to proofread several of his papers before sending them for publication. After helping him several times without expecting anything in return, he offers to included me as one of the authors of another paper after I proof... | [
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89,704 | I've been on a couple of research projects with a few professors and have had some success recently and plan to do more collaborative work through the end of this calendar year. One student is constantly leeching off of me and imposing himself, such as wanting specifics about my work, specifics about private meetings b... | [
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89,712 | How to properly label graphs that can be dimensionless?
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89,727 | It is possible to purse an online PhD in mathematics? Even though I am already 40 years old, this is the dream I have. I am a full-time teacher, and because of economic reasons I cannot give up my job to dedicate my entire time to work on a PhD. It would be great if there was an online program, but I was not able to fi... | [
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89,732 | If just received second doctoral degree, how does one sign their name at the end of an email or other correspondence. Would it just stay Dr. So and So or be Dr. Dr. So and So? | [
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89,739 | I got invited for an interview for a PhD and they asked me to prepare a short presentation of ten minutes about an aspect of a previous research and what skills it gave me to tackle this phd project.
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89,767 | My adviser is writing a book for a course in computer science he will be teaching next fall and I will be the teaching assistant for that course. He wants me to review the book and go through the problems and give him feedback on both.
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89,779 | If a PhD student (hard sciences like math, physics) decides to work in industry after graduation, are publications important?
For transition to industry, what are the most important factors to take note of during one's PhD?
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89,780 | Is it true that Tier-1 schools in the US use an automated GPA filter before an application is even reviewed. Especially for international students?
If so, how does one go about getting past it and having their application reviewed? | [
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89,783 | This is not a specific LaTeX question, hence why I post it here.
I am typing a report for a project. I use multiple sections of a handbook (say, page 113-116, a bit later 389-390, etc.). What is the proper way to deal with this? Should I include a separate citation for each? I've looked at the [IEEE editorial standard... | [
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89,784 | I am doing an integrated BS-MS in Biological Science from an Indian university and currently am in the 6th (post-final!) year. In this MS part of the program, I am supposed to take a few grad level classes and mainly focus in research. I also need to pass 8 *MS thesis* courses (worth 3 credits each), in which my superv... | [
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89,793 | My professor has submitted a letter of recommendation for me for graduate program admissions, and has listed that I did X and Y (specific activities) under him, when I was only involved in doing X. He shared the letter with me after he submitted it, that's how I know.
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89,806 | I finished a humanities Ph.D. about a year and a half ago, with an exceptionally unsupportive committee and dysfunctional department. I've had some short-term contract/freelance work since, but my search for more stable employment (including alt-ac and adjunct work) has really been discouraging, and I'm looking for som... | [
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89,809 | I want to make a *direct* comparison between my simulation result and a published picture of other people's experimental result.
There are a lot of morphological features of similarity, which are difficult to describe by words only, and it should be better to simultaneously put the two results in my paper instead of s... | [
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89,810 | I am a PhD candidate in the school of enginerering.
This question is about my dissertation literature review.
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89,819 | I have written an essay last year, as a personal exercise. I now have a course at uni on the topic and could basically just hand in this essay now, the topic fits perfectly. I have also never submitted this essay to any other course or so.
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89,834 | In The Computer Journal I was looking at the [Instruction to authors](https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/pages/Manuscript_Preparation_Submission) page, I did not understand the below instruction-
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89,842 | We have Science homework due tomorrow and it's basically a *"fill in the boxes"* homework about energy in Microsoft Word. Well, my friends and I quickly realised that the teacher had put all of the answers in white font in the boxes. So, all we need to do is change the font to black and there's our homework.
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89,844 | Teaching at least two courses is necessary in my institution.
Because of a very busy schedule and lack of time for doing my other academic duties for the next semester, I am thinking about teaching multiple sessions of the same course (in the same day) for the next semester. The course is the freshman calculus if that ... | [
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89,848 | Do I lose copyright if a journal accepts my paper and publishes it? Can I send my paper to colleagues, or is this *technically* illegal if they do not have access to the journal via their institution (or haven't bought it themselves)? (whether people do this anyways is a different question).
In short, is there anythin... | [
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89,849 | An example: I've been using some suitcase, mostly (but not only) for traveling to conferences. Gradually, the wheels have wore out, and in my last trip I was walking over some gravelly road for a while and they're now completely busted. There are also small tears in a couple of places. So, for a trip I took last week, ... | [
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89,867 | I am in a science class in which we have to write lab reports. Lab reports count for a significant part of our grade. I was working on my lab report but before I got to check over my calculations, a peer of mine mentioned the results he got. I realized that my results were different and saw that I had a very dumb calcu... | [
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89,882 | I am going to do a presentation about academic ethics for my class, and one of the themes are conflict of interest. As of now I have found only generic examples, such as research done with corporate funding, but never concrete examples. In addition, most concrete examples, I presume, are dull and minor. So are there an... | [
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89,883 | I'm a biology PhD student (25, female). I've recently handed in my thesis after a long struggle but I've not defended yet. In short I've had a really bad experience with my supervisor and my PhD and want to get out of academia altogether but I don't know how. I don't want to quit before my thesis defense but I don't kn... | [
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89,885 | How common is for good and high quality research papers to contain 1 or 2 paragraphs of copy paste from previous papers of the same researcher?
Is this common or it's a red flag of low quality research?
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89,903 | What should a grad student do during summer? | [
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89,912 | I am not sure this forum is the right place for this question, but I'm pretty sure it would quickly be closed at MathOverflow.
There is a well-known mathematics journal called "International Mathematics Research Notices", published by OUP. It's almost invariably cited as "Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN" [sic] or similar, w... | [
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89,920 | I know someone who recently got the fellowship and unfortunately everyone else in his circle of friends and colleagues are complaining that he got an amount of help and input from his advisor that they feel was unfair. (He was the only fellowship winner in his group.) My friend is currently feeling like crap because of... | [
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89,926 | Several Master theses in my department contain a CV of their author. I don't really see the point in doing that - anyone you're sending your thesis to that would need your CV, you'll probably be sending your CV already anyways. So why do people do that?
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"text": "Here in Austria it is common practice to add it to your masters thesis and it's mandatory at most universities in a Ph... | 2017/05/24 | [
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89,938 | I want to post my manuscript to bioRxiv before submitting onto formal journals, but I still have several concerns:
1. Can I claim I am the first for the discovery by posting my findings on bioRxiv ?
2. Similarly, is it a feasible way to prevent others from publishing ealier than me on the same topic ?
3. Are there any... | [
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