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91,432 | It's already been discussed on here [how to find internships/temporary research opportunities at *universities*](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/20260/50609) and also [*when* exactly to do an an internship at a company during one's PhD](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/759/50609), but there doesn't seem to be ... | [
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"text": "From [Nature Neurology Reviews](http://www.nature.com/nrneurol/info/about_aop.html) (bold is my emphasis):\n\... | 2017/06/27 | [
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91,436 | I have developed a framework for describing a phenomenon in organizations and would like to illustrate its use by referring to a case study published by another author. In other words, I would be fitting another study's descriptions to my own framework.
The paper will be published in conference proceedings.
So, is i... | [
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"text": "It is unethical as well as illegal in the following circumstances:\n\n* The contents (texts, figures, results) are ... | 2017/06/27 | [
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91,449 | I am currently working towards a master’s degree in computer science, after which I’d like to pursue a PhD in mathematics. Talking to some professors, it sounds like: If I can get some things published, I’ll have a better shot at getting funding for my PhD.
I’m currently working on a research project that I plan to u... | [
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"text": "If you intend to do a PhD, you have to think long term, and forget about a short-term goal such as getting a single... | 2017/06/28 | [
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91,455 | I am a Ph.D. student, about to finish my thesis draft. My case is a bit special as I didn't receive any guidance from my supervisors. It is very unlikely that they know details about my work, results or even what I propose in my research.
I have submitted three journal papers but I will receive reviews, not before my ... | [
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91,476 | I am an undergraduate in CS and engineering. Approximately a week ago, I sent an email to a professor whose research really interests me. I sent him couple of my questions and confusions rooted from reading his recent papers, but I did not get any response. Consequently, I sent a short followup email to him indicating ... | [
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"text": "Keep in mind a very simple rule: **Professors are human beings**\n\nMany of the questions on this site seem to assume f... | 2017/06/29 | [
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91,486 | My advisor has bred a very competitive lab culture where students frequently compete for power and attention. I am not naive to think this is uncommon, and I suspect many PhD students are by nature very competitive.
My overall question is this: How does one thrive and remain at the top of the pack in such an environme... | [
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"text": "From what you are telling, your advisor has not bred a competitive lab but rather a horde of children. The behavior yo... | 2017/06/29 | [
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91,495 | I had been an active researcher until two years ago and published several papers and reviewed several papers as expected. Two years ago I took a teaching position. I teach 3 classes/semester but most classes meet 4 or 5 times a week, so it actually feels like 4 classes. I also do extensive work with undergraduates. I d... | [
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"text": "There are (at least) three issues here:\n\n1. **Your time**. If you're unable to spend time due to teaching, than th... | 2017/06/29 | [
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91,501 | Competitive programming is a craze among many computer science and engineering students. Is competitive programming important to be a good computer scientist? Thank you. | [
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"text": "All types of practice are valuable, and if competition pleases you, go for it. However, programming quickly and... | 2017/06/29 | [
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91,510 | I was reading a [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.05363.pdf) online, and in a footnote, it read:
>
> The author is supported by NSF grant DMS-0649473 and by a Simons Investigator Award.
>
>
>
Then it hit me, this information is completely useless to me as a reader. Why would I care what kind of funding the autho... | [
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"text": "Several reasons.\n\n* Conflicts of Interest. If you're doing climate change research that's funded by The So... | 2017/06/29 | [
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91,511 | [This question](https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93696/is-it-unethical-for-me-to-not-tell-my-employer-i-ve-automated-my-job?rq=1) made me think about my situation.
After different academic jobs, I took a tenure-track position that I can typically do in 10 hours/week. With the extra time I do hobbies or a... | [
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"text": "It all depends on your contract and your professionalism. If you are hired to work the regular 40 hours/week, then y... | 2017/06/29 | [
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91,526 | Three students and I were assigned a small (~14 hours of work) group project. Because there was no effort on their side to meet and work, my e-mails regarding their progress remained unanswered and from previous experience I know that their quality of work is much lower than mine, I decided to do it myself and already ... | [
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"text": "Personally I would dodge the issue using\n\n> \n> Most of the work is done, but we need to...\n> \n> \n> \n\nI do... | 2017/06/30 | [
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91,531 | My paper has been accepted after several rounds of revisions. The editor him-/herself gave quite detailed comments some of which were quite important. Should I thank him/her personally for the acceptance of the paper and/or his effort(s) (the latter I have done before in my replies to reviews). | [
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91,535 | In general, when submitting to first tier conferences there is a smaller chance of acceptance but also a better reward.
At one extreme, one may only submit his work to third tier conferences and get nearly all of them accepted at the first shot. Alas, especially for younger researchers, the visibility of these will be... | [
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91,547 | I recently faced a problem that is, I took a course at my university last year and got some grade for it, so for further improving it I gave the course this year again.
The course is purely evaluated based on oral exams on the take-home assignments that are handed out.
Coming back to the problem, I registered for the... | [
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"text": "If a student is allowed to register for a class as a \"new registration\" as opposed to a resit and the student atten... | 2017/06/30 | [
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91,556 | I did an MSc in an extremely prestigious university, in mathematics and theoretical computer science. I got an offer to stay there for a PhD, but turned it down. Instead, I enrolled on an MRes + PhD programme at a good but far less prestigious university, in a subject I thought I was far more interested in. I will soon... | [
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91,573 | I’m looking at some friends’ works, at good labs, in good schools, but some of their publications have 10 co-authors – I even found one with 15 co-authors.
I’m sure the lab and its PI(s) are doing well from such collaborative efforts, but at the individual level, are the PhD students being harmed, because the authorsh... | [
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"text": "As mentioned in comments, the normal number of authors on a paper depends heavily on the field.\n\nThe issue with... | 2017/07/01 | [
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91,585 | I received an invitation to review for the [International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1115). I started to analyze the manuscript by reading the title, abstract, introduction, results and discussion and conclusions before assessing the prop... | [
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91,588 | I take a course of which the remarking policy requires students to point out why their marks of exam or assignments are wrong, or they cannot request for a remarking. The professor said it can stop students to ask for more marks for no reason. It is like the markers don't need to tell you why you are wrong, but student... | [
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91,590 | In a nutshell, I'm drawing circles on images for most of my day (more precisely, ROIs around cellular components in fluorescence imaging). I volunteer to do this on weekdays from 10am to 7pm, and I stay late until 9pm once or twice a week to finish the day's set of images when it's considerably large.
I'm spending at ... | [
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"text": "You need to first be clear with yourself about your expectations of your volunteer activity and then communicate it wi... | 2017/07/01 | [
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91,598 | I need to read an article that is in Russian.
The article is located [here](https://www.impan.pl/pl/wydawnictwa/czasopisma-i-serie-wydawnicze/fundamenta-mathematicae/all/57/2/79427/dopolnenie-samonakruchivajuschejsja-ploskoj-krivoj), and the [PDF](http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/ksiazki/fm/fm57/fm57110.pdf) is freely downlo... | [
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"text": "Find a student who is fluent in russian and pay them? I've translated (relevant parts of) german arcticles for my US c... | 2017/07/01 | [
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91,627 | There is an image in a paper that I want to use in my master’s thesis. I have the PDF file of this paper and I cant save the image from the file. So I have to take a screen shot. How should I cite the image? | [
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"text": "You don't cite the screenshot, you cite the paper. If your readers want to look up the source, they don't care how... | 2017/07/02 | [
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91,637 | I am a phd student in computer science, starting in september my last year.
The next week I will join a conference not far from my home university, where I am not presenting any paper. The main area of the conference is pretty close to my phd topic, and there will be there most of the top professors of the area.
I ... | [
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91,653 | I am an Australian interested in applying for a PhD (specifically in mathematics) at several universities in Canada. I have already got a Bachelor of Mathematical Sciences and a Master of Philosophy in pure mathematics.
I have put a bit of time into trying to verse myself in the various scholarship opportunities, PhD ... | [
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91,659 | I recently read [this FAQ](http://mdanderson.libanswers.com/faq/26159) that explains a bit about impact factors. After reading, I was curious... what would be some reasons why researchers would use papers from a low-impact factor journal, say, a journal with IF = 1?
Wouldn't all researchers concentrate their efforts o... | [
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91,663 | I have received an Image from a source I am not sure about, I have edited it to suit my own project, now do I have to cite the main source? | [
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91,681 | I am originally from one country but study at university in a different country. Now, my native country asked me to prove that I study at this university and I want to ask my university to bring me document for that. What is this document used to be called?
Can I call this document "study confirmation letter" or "con... | [
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91,690 | I currently am writing a paper which uses regressions (from statistics) heavily. The objective is to show (as far as possible) that A causes B.
The main analysis of my paper uses regressions to show that A is correlated with B.
After showing this correlation, I wish to show that A occurs before B occurs so as to giv... | [
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91,702 | I work for a technical company at the interface between engineering practice and research. Since we have to deal with academia on a daily basis, I have seen many calls for "Abstract submission". Generally these calls are associated with some sort of academic conference that is focused on a particular topic. It is also ... | [
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91,719 | I am considering moving institutions (from a one UK University to another), but I am concerned about what Intellectual Property (IP) rights my current institution may retain. Some of my PhD students, one of whom has been funded by my university directly, would move with me, or at least I would like them to. I am also u... | [
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91,728 | I need some advice on my career. I study in Brazil and I'm one year away from obtaining my bachelor in Mozhematics. Here the duration is 4 years.
In 2016 I had to start working two jobs (unrelated to Mozh) to help my family and that made my 4-year journey into a 5 and a half years journey in which during the process I... | [
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"text": "As a rule of thumb, the time you took wont matter, but the failing grade will.\n\nHowever, if your goal is to g... | 2017/07/05 | [
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91,744 | * Mathematics.
* Not novel research ~ merely an analysis / reformulation of an existing, proved theorem
* Not a thesis, but was a major (50%) component of a senior course.
* Never published.
* The math isn't even advanced - it's actually quite basic - but it's fun!
(a) *Should* I even mention this on a CV?
(b) If I s... | [
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91,748 | When refereeing a paper, I often have objections to the work that do not rise to the level of using the coercive powers of a referee to delay or reject the work. For instance, I find myself wanting to write: "If I were you, I would be embarrassed to publish a paper with [such unclear writing/such a silly comparison to ... | [
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91,756 | My wife just started a postdoc at an [R1 university](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_research_universities_in_the_United_States#Universities_classified_as_.22R1:_Doctoral_Universities_.E2.80.93_Highest_Research_Activity.22) and needs business cards for a conference and her future job hunt. She asked me to design ... | [
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91,761 | I am a Ph.D. third year student. In our college for most of the work we have to depend on our seniors as our advisor rarely takes interest in our research. My senior is always rude to me, and never supports me in anything. Sometimes she doesn't talk to me for a whole day, and even sometimes she misguides me. I feel so ... | [
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91,779 | To many of you this might sound extremely ambitious, but I am already doing a lot of innovative things in my area of expertise. I think the results from this research could benefit the general public. It would be nice for me to be able to write my results in a formal paper and publish it. However I am not affiliated wi... | [
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91,781 | In my final year project, and since it will be my last postgraduate year, I want to add a taste of truth in my Acknowledgment, where I think it's the personal part of the project, where you are allowed to express yourself.
After thanking my professors, supervisors, parents in a very formal and professional way, I am e... | [
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91,782 | I know that the term "camera-ready manuscript" is usually used to indicate a final version of the manuscript that will go to press. But what does the term actually mean and why is it used instead of some other more descriptive term?
Specifically, the term seems strange because in my opinion publishing has no connectio... | [
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91,793 | What is the standard practice if I can no longer find students that contributed to a paper that we would like to publish now? The students contributed data, but obviously had nothing to do with writing the paper. Still, I feel that they deserve authorship. I can no longer find a current email address for them. Should I... | [
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91,803 | I worked in an academic laboratory for several months for an undergraduate research experience. The results of my project were not novel enough to be published in a journal. However, I wrote a 50-page report that detailed my project (technical details of the experimental apparatus, design considerations, important calc... | [
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91,806 | How I can find out the tier of a university? Is it available in any website or report? If yes, what is the link?
I tried to find out the list and I got some pages which says how the universities are evaluated. I was more interested in current list. | [
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91,808 | I've seen poems squeezed in-between chapters in books, but I don't want to write a book for each poem :-) . Hence my question:
Is there a journal or 'place' to publish poems written by and for other researcher in the same field?
What I have in mind is for example a poem written for physicists. | [
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"text": "Poetry is for everyone!\n\nIf you're in a university, get in touch with your arts and humanities faculty for advi... | 2017/07/06 | [
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91,822 | I'm in the Physics community. I've already published an article on a journal where I've described a solution scheme that serves to solve a certain problem. Now, I've discovered that the same approach can be used to solve a different model. Of course the model, the comments the results, the plots, etc are different, but... | [
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"text": "Technically this is self-plagiarism and not OK. We had problems before where we published the 6th paper on a very simil... | 2017/07/07 | [
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91,833 | I have just started my master degree. so literature review is completely new to me. I want to search for papers published in high-rank conferences and journal with high impact number. Apart from Google Scholar what are the other websites?
I should add this to my Question:
Thanks for useful comments. But unfortunately... | [
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91,851 | There are already [works in several academic fields written in Esperanto](http://www.eventoj.hu/steb/). Is it destined to become the new academic language, replacing English?
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91,861 | Recently, I became aware of a Java programming textbook
[Introduction to Programming Using Java, Seventh Edition](http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/)
which is to my surprise, free as in:
>
> The most recent version of this book is always available, at no charge, for downloading and for on-line use.
>
>
>
**Question:*... | [
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91,869 | In a few days, I will be giving my first conference talk. I have only spent less than a year in the field, and the talk will be attended by several well-known researches, who are familiar with all of my advisor's work and all of the other literature in the area as well. Of the people in the room, it is probably them wh... | [
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91,872 | We are currently working on a conference paper where we plan to cite and discuss a paper as a related work. It was written by a colleague at the same university who has kindly offered to help us understand its specifics.
After publishing said paper, the colleague has changed name and gender. For example, suppose that... | [
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"text": "Is it an option to ask M Smuqy if she would be ok if the first citation were to read as the following? \n\n> \n> Sm... | 2017/07/08 | [
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92,890 | Finding the citations of any particular paper is straightforward.
But how do you identify the set of publications that cite two specific papers?
The reason I am asking this is because I am trying to write a review article to resolve an issue in the literature. There are 2 papers that adopt opposite views regarding t... | [
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92,906 | I recently wrote a scientific article (let's say, about a methodology for predictive analyzes) I would like to submit. The article is beneficial for my PhD as it has close relationship with another paper I am currently writing.
However, I am concerned about its publication:
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92,912 | Today I received two **suspicious** emails from *Elsevier Editorial System*:
* the first email is a **registration confirmation** to the platform
>
> Dear XX *Name Surname*,
>
>
> You have received this system-generated message because you have been
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92,915 | As the title says, I'm writting my thesis and I am looking through many reviews, since they easily collect all the useful information that is general and it would take me too much time to find by my own. They also have a nice structure and "storyline", which makes it easier to read (and I doubt I could improve, despite... | [
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92,916 | Before continuing on working on a specific problem, I do plan on few things which have not been explored in the available literature. However, instead of developing them (in terms of mathematical models), I feel that my ideas are quite simple and not so novel. Sometimes, it also happens to me while I read research pape... | [
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92,922 | My sister is an undergraduate at a university in England, and emailed its Disability Office (let me abbreviate this to DO) a letter from her physician stating that disability thwarts her from carrying books (like her many heavy textbooks), because a publisher suggested PDF Accessible Formats of books that she must requ... | [
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92,929 | Do some PIs who publish in *Nature*, *Cell* or *Science* collaborate with professional designers?
The thing is that I have never seen it mentioned in their work. Is it a service offered by the journals? Or do the PIs pay for these services and outsource them? | [
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92,963 | Can professors have romantic relationships with post-docs (in the same department)?
I feel like this point is a bit more subtle than, say, professors hooking up with students, since post-docs and professors are considered peers / colleagues. | [
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92,977 | Often, on exams in particular, *reverse trick questions* are posed. These are questions which look tough, complex, and pompous, but are actually easy and can be solved by applying some basic method. I give an example later.
Why are these used by professors?
I think they are very inappropiate, since they put the smar... | [
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92,987 | One of my colleagues was teaching an introductory programming course this past spring. He discovered several students cheating by taking code from a public GitHub repository, which contained all the answers for this class. This repository already had an issue opened on it by a professor from another large school, who r... | [
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92,994 | This is my first post in this community, please excuse me if this kind of post is inappropriate.
I completed my second year of my Bachelor's Zegzoe in Mathematics (where I study, all Bachelor's Zegzoes are a 3 year course, unlike in USA).
I have asked one of my Professors to organize a Mathematics Research Internship ... | [
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93,003 | They simply say that it is joint work with somebody.
Is it primarily because one is a better speaker than the other? Like, do some professors publish a lot but choose to stay behind the scenes and let their coauthors present the work? | [
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93,021 | I have acquired a 4 year BA degree in one of the social sciences. At the moment, I'm considering applying for MSc outside of my country (I'm Non-EU citizen and I will apply for MSc studies in EU country).
The University where I want to apply has 3-year BA programmes and 2-year MA/MSc programmes. However, in my country... | [
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93,031 | In following APA style, I put my tables and figures at the end of the paper, after the references. For example, [here](http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-on-formatting.aspx) they explicitly say to put them at the end.
One of my committee members told me that this was incorrect and that she "didn't even bother l... | [
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93,041 | I am currently doing a research project and I have found some mistakes in the paper of the professor whose work I am extending. I feel that it would be best if the professor is willing to co-author my paper. There are several reasons for it. First of all the professor is a PC member of the conference in which I am will... | [
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93,054 | Let us imagine that I am uploading the application for a faculty position (e.g. lecturer) in a university in UK today. What to expect next? Should I wait for their reply anyway or only in the case that my application is in a short list? How long might it take to get an email from them (weeks, months etc)?
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93,057 | I am a fresh Ph.D. scholar. I have applied for several academic jobs and recently I got acceptance for a Postdoc position in a university (world QS rank 71) and an assistant professorship offer in a university which is not among top 1000 university in the world but known as an average university in my subject area.
... | [
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93,068 | I'm starting out in a new field, and reading papers from top conferences in the field seemed as a natural starting point to understanding active research areas in the field. I realized I have never really searched for papers from a conference before, instead I've searched only by keyword. Any way to go about this? | [
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93,072 | I am writing a literature review as part of a master's thesis in mechanical engineering.
I am discussing the approach of one author and I was wondering whether or not it is acceptable to include equations that the author has used?
For example I might say: Smith has used the ideal gas equation (and then write the equ... | [
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93,073 | Is poor English grammar and writing style overlooked by peer reviewers and editors in otherwise strong math paper submissions? | [
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93,077 | I am submitting the camera ready version of a paper for a conference in machine learning. The proceedings will be published by a well known publisher of the area. I have a question:
after the upload of the camera ready version, is the paper edited in some way by the publisher? Assume that I add typos or strange/not e... | [
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93,080 | My project is based on data hosted by a different university than the one where I used to work. When I requested the data, I understood that the work (and cost) to extract it from the database increases with the number of items I wanted. I had no research funds at the time and therefore asked for a rather small sample,... | [
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93,085 | Say you have an idea and you can't find any paper or book that explicitly states that idea. You don't know for sure if you're right in assuming that you came up first with that idea so you decide to publish it. What are the consequences if you're wrong and the idea has already been published. Do the reviewers point tha... | [
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93,090 | My supervisor is the dean of an engineering department at my university. Should I address him as *Doen Mzitd* or *Professor Swoth?* Personally, *dean* sounds a little clunky for me talking to my faculty supervisor but I’ve been using it so far, and he hasn’t really mentioned anything about it.
**Is it normal to addres... | [
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93,101 | I am starting my PhD in cosmology in October of this year. I have already met some of the older PhD students and postdocs in the department where I will be studying, and I am going to be attending two summer schools before I start the PhD where I will meet more new people, from other institutions.
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93,124 | Suppose a review of algorithms used to solve a particular problem is to be written. Is it considered plagiarism or malpractice if the algorithms to be reviewed are copied verbatim?
Do the algorithms have to be 'paraphrased' before reviewing? | [
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93,128 | There seems no recognized or fixed rule for citation sources, as far as I know, the citation taken from publications or other open sources that can prove they are not something groundless is acceptable because at least the citation to be used as support for your argument in the paper has been used or established by oth... | [
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93,131 | I'm sure that this must come up a lot when writing papers.
Reference A1 gives a lit review of a field. A passage talks about paper B1, and I summerise B1 also. How do you make it clear in your writing that reference B1 was found through reference A1 (after all does A1 not deserve credit for bringing this to your atte... | [
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93,141 | I am stuck and I need your experience, ideas, and help.
Background story. I have a supervisor who is giving me critics and always lowers my confidence. For example, when last year I wrote a paper for a workshop by myself, he told me I suggest you not to submit because you will burn your name and this is horrible work... | [
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93,154 | My university have a very strict attendance policy, attendance affect the students marks a lot and if attendance is lower than 75% at the end of the semester, students are not allowed to sit in finals. Not only in the end of the year, if attendance get lower than 75% at any point of the semester Internal marks are lowe... | [
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93,160 | Context: I want to do my PhD in Hong Kong. Only one University there (University of Hong Kong) explicitly states you need to contact a supervisor and discuss a research proposal before you apply. The others, at least in my field, do not even require a research proposal for your application.
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93,163 | I and one of my peers prepared a journal paper out of his master thesis. We submitted it first to one of the well-known conferences of the field and it got accepted and we let the other coauthors know (including his professor, who is a prominent researcher in his field). They seemed to be very satisfied.
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93,170 | In my academic area I constantly use free software/products such as Linux, Python, SageMath, Ojtivo, Wikipedia, etc.
I know that one can include software costs such as Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, Adobe stuff, Mac software, etc. But for free software/products I have not heard of anyone doing that. It feels wrong that ... | [
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93,179 | I’ve been considering a career in academia ever since I was an undergrad. I’m turning 30 this year. I think I should either get to it (PhD and beyond) or give it up once and for all.
The key source of anxiety for me is the hyper-productive nature of contemporary academia (cultural anthropology in my case). Everything ... | [
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93,199 | Fifth year math grad student as of this Fall. ABD, currently on target for six years in total.
I have very strong feelings about the way courses should be taught, graded, and organized. I have thought extensively about this issue and experiment with my teaching every chance that I get.
I teach my own course, and spen... | [
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93,210 | My professor doesn’t want to publish and he keeps delaying it. I had an intense argument with him and I feel that if he will publish, he will not include me. He is quite rude to me recently, although I worked so hard on two projects under his supervision. It has been about two years and he didn't publish my work.
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93,216 | The problem with me is that I applied to 4 programs and I didn't get in in any of them. The last program which was almost guaranteed admission (because I already found a researcher willing to accept me); I emailed my undergrad thesis supervisor for, what I called at the time of the email "my last reference letter reque... | [
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93,224 | I'm currently working in a project that is funded by me and the supervisor doesn't contribute much to my work (he is just directing me slightly if I asked him) and he told me that he doesn't need to publish and I can publish as a sole author if I want. I only have a Master degree, can I publish as a sole author? can so... | [
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93,228 | I read many articles about specific area and I feel like I can write a review article. So, is that ok if I only have a Master degree? can some journals accept that? (I will be the sole author) | [
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93,234 | I’m three years into a Ph.D. program in scientific computing and I’ve just received my M.S. I’m thinking about leaving school to go to a programming bootcamp and become a software developer. I’ve done pretty well with my coursework, I enjoy learning (at my own pace), and I’m good at teaching, but I have doubts about my... | [
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93,236 | I'm planning to start a YouTube channel to help non-Italian speakers learn how to speak Italian. I was wondering if it may be illegal to do so, given I'm not a qualified teacher. Can anybody help? :) | [
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93,243 | Have many teaching positions at traditional colleges been eliminated due to MOOCs ([massive open online courses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course))? Is it as bad as industry jobs (for college-educated people) being offshored or automated?
I’m asking specifically about U.S. universities. | [
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93,246 | I am studying CS but I am passionate about electronics and hardware. However, I can't study CS and EE at the same time. So if I study electronics by myself with online courses, can I work in that field after graduation? | [
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93,253 | A person I know has been teaching undergraduate students for about ~8 years. She has a master in science and she is ~41 years old. For personal reasons, she quit her job five years ago. She would like to return to academia by enrolling in a Ph.D. program.
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93,259 | A company approached me for an interview to explain my work, which has been published as part of my PhD. As I understand from their email, they want to understand my work so that they can use it. However, nowhere in the email they mentioned that I am going to be paid or involved in this project. How would you approach ... | [
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93,261 | My advisor strongly encouraged me to check out two (highly renowned) American universities for my PhD study.
Her collaborators in these two institutions are good people and great mathematicians, so, assuming I can get in, working there would be very pleasant.
However, I'm confused by the structure of these graduate... | [
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93,273 | Recently, I applied for two positions at one university. I received a quick reply for a video interview and immediately thereafter the campus visit. Right after my campus visit, I got a call back on the second application. After much deliberation, I recinded the application for the second position interview. Is this ap... | [
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93,285 | I recently received a request from another researcher in my area, who is guest editing a volume of a mid-level physics journal. He wanted me to submit an article for the special issue dealing with our research area. I agreed to submit something by the end of the summer. I told him that I would produce an article about ... | [
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93,288 | My background:
5 years ago, I did my undergrad from an Indian University and did some random jobs unrelated to my field of study.My undergraduate grade is 2.92/4.0. Now, I got admitted to grad school(in US) for CS and my grades are not well, I scored 2.80/4.0 for the course design and analysis of algorithms. BTW, I am... | [
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93,290 | I wasn't sure if this would be off-topic or not.
Basically i have half finished high school here in Slovenia, it's slightly different here, i went to 3+2 program. I have finished 3 years but i don't wish to continue the extra 2 years, especially because they're not teaching me anything, in 5th year they teach about p... | [
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"text": "I'm sorry but no, you can't. Every respectable university requires a high-school diploma (or equivalent degree) fo... | 2017/07/18 | [
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93,298 | During my undergraduate degree I was involved in a research project under a new, young professor. I was much more involved than a typical undergrad researcher (at least from what I have seen during the past year in a PhD program); I was a major contributor in developing the theory and solution codes, and I was a first ... | [
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"text": "Contact the editor responsible. Talk nicely to him, and ask him how to proceed.\n\nSince a friend o... | 2017/07/18 | [
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93,329 | This conference is organized on every 3 years. It is highly influential in the field of study. Screening and review committee are usually reputable that includes a strong set of researchers and professors.
The article in question is similar to my field of interest. I was happy to read it, but am very dissatisfied with... | [
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93,333 | We work on some research problem, obtain some publishable results, then we target an international conference to disseminate the results and methods in, and then there is a 'last' date or deadline.
We submit the complete manuscript to the conference on or before the mentioned deadline of the conference.
Then, suddenl... | [
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