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94,248 | **MLA formatting question:**
I'm writing a paper on Ernest J. Gaine's *A Gathering of Old Men*. This is the only work I am citing. When using in-text citations, do I need to restate the author in every paragraph, or is a page number sufficient? For example:
>
> Tehken said, "Hey, Mapes" (Gaines 1). This is my interp... | [
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"text": "The golden rule for citing, imho, is: \n\n> \n> The provenance of each idea/concept should be clear to the read... | 2017/08/06 | [
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94,269 | When one is hired by industry to research (or something of innovative nature), he or she may want (or need) to access online journal articles.
But I suppose normal industrial jobs (e.g. software engineer in Amazon) don't grant online subscriptions to journals (like, access to a network IP with a subscription, just like... | [
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"text": "> \n> But I suppose normal industrial jobs (e.g. software engineer in Amazon) don't grant online subscription to jour... | 2017/08/07 | [
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94,278 | In my university, tutorial sessions in physics usually consists in the teaching assistant solving three to six problems in front of the class (less than 30 students per class). Some TAs try to encourage student participation by asking what the next step in solving the problem should be, etc... but the results are usual... | [
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"text": "You could take a jigsaw approach to teaching this.\n\n1. Put students in groups.\n2. Each group solves their... | 2017/08/07 | [
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94,279 | I am a tenured professor planning about seven years past the Ph.D. Over the past few years, I've applied to a handful of jobs (I haven't been looking aggressively — just applied to the good opportunities that came up, along with 500 other people).
My references usually come from:
1. My Ph.D. advisor (who has moved to... | [
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"text": "At 7 years post PhD, your letters are getting *stale*, in that your PhD advisor, probably is no longer the person mo... | 2017/08/07 | [
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94,282 | I've got an upcoming work in which I quote a couple sentences from a scholar's book. There's an unambiguous typo in it; the author just switched a few words around.
Do I really have to quote him verbatim, adding "sic" to point out the error? Or can I just "quote" him, with the typo fixed? | [
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"text": "Academics are old-fashioned people who care about things like truth, facts, and accuracy. By making sure that ev... | 2017/08/07 | [
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94,291 | I was trying to find the latex template for IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, but I am only able to find the .`doc` template. Do we have any .`tex` template for this journal?
<http://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/create-your-ieee-article/use-authoring-tools-and-ieee-article-templates/ieee-... | [
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"text": "It seems JTEHM does not provide any template for LaTeX documents. The standard IEEE template is available with `\\usepack... | 2017/08/08 | [
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94,296 | I’m an MSc student and write my thesis about academy retention.
So far the only model I know is that a student enrolls to a certain faculty and begins his studies there.
I’m trying to find models in which the students start their studies in a global semester or year and only after finishing it, choose their desired fa... | [
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94,299 | I am currently a graduate student and a member of an organization in my field. In my organization, there is this Early-career group composed of young scientists who already earned their Ph.D.'s, taking post-docs, and running their own research groups. In the case of graduate students, does early-career or the term appl... | [
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94,307 | I have a paper submitted and accepted in a journal (Biology and Environmental Sciences) and it has a supplementary file which is a short video coverage, however, the journal does not support this but I have uploaded the video to Vimeo. Do you have any suggestions where I can store the video and generate a DOI (like oth... | [
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94,309 | I had a look at the [publons webpage](https://publons.com/), a website for tracking academics such as peer review, editorial contributions etc. They claim that it could be used for promotions and funding.
Being a Ph.D. student, is it worth getting an account with publons? | [
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94,325 | I'm a PhD student in experimental biology in the UK. My funding grants me a monthly stipend for 3.5 years (including money for consumables/conferences etc).
In my group, the standard practice is for people to work for 3.5 years and *then* write up (though actually different people have different funding, and the fund... | [
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"text": "You can most definitely leave with out a PhD. Further, every UK PhD program I am familiar with will allow students t... | 2017/08/08 | [
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94,331 | A week before submitting to a peer reviewed publication, me and an acquaintance exchanged drafts for comments. My acquaintance described my work as preliminary, listing many ways in which the work could improve. The tone was slightly harsh, but the comments were constructive. They seemed to be relatively confident abou... | [
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"text": "Hint: a polite, discrete form of honesty is invariably the best first approximation for a prescription of behavio... | 2017/08/08 | [
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94,336 | I was wondering if it is ok to present the same paper (may be already published in journals or unpublished) in different conferences? Assuring that the conference will not publish the whole research work but only abstracts in the proceedings. | [
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94,340 | I am corresponding a paper and the status of the paper is under review after first revision.
Recently, I realized that one of my coauthors had done some bad acts against the project (related to the paper) in the past and now I want to delete his name from the author list.
Meanwhile it should be noted that his contrib... | [
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94,349 | I have completed my undergraduate degree and do not have any universities nearby where I can find research work. I have been working in machine learning and want to write a research paper in this field.
I read quite a few research papers as a part of job description but am unable to come up with a new idea for a resea... | [
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"text": "First point - *don't force it*. Getting ideas for academic papers comes over time and has to be a natural process. The ... | 2017/08/09 | [
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94,362 | I am joining in few days a computer science conference where I will have to present a poster, based on a paper accepted to the conference.
My poster is a standard A0 3 columns poster, and presenting it takes me around 5 minutes; I have no idea if 5 minutes is the right amount of time, as this is my first poster presen... | [
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94,385 | After a paper is rejected several times by several journals it begins to become clear that the research was off the mark no matter how much editing, fixing, and revisions are done. Therefore,
What do scholars do with unpublishable papers?
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94,398 | When supervising a research student with ADD or a similar problem, I can help the student be more *productive* by adjusting the way I give instructions:
* Propose one task at a time: Instead of saying "Let's do X, Y, and Z" I will just say "Let's do X", schedule a time for follow-up when X is done, and only talk about... | [
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94,401 | When I was admitted to my graduate course, I was guaranteed funding for six years.
Essentially, I have been doing research on a different school of thought, so I am not well liked by some of the senior professors (who have badmouthed me to department administrators), some of whom refuse to talk to me.
I completed fi... | [
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94,402 | My paper was published at a good conference (in the field of theoretical computer science). The proceedings mention that some papers will be selected for publication in a special issue of journals X and Y.
How will I know if my paper is one of them? If it is not, I would simply submit it to some other journal later on... | [
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94,414 | I looked up the website of a journal where someone I know had published research. They listed their Scopus impact factor as a number that is much higher than when I searched the website of Scopus.
I am not exactly familiar with academia, all I know is the number I read on the Scopus website (assuming I read the correc... | [
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94,420 | I am writing a paper that I want to submit to a journal in Education. By looking at the formatting requirements I discovered that most of the journals in this area set require to format submissions by following the [APA manual](http://www.apastyle.org/) standards. Some state:
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> Prepare manuscripts according to the ... | [
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"text": "You can almost certainly obtain the book from your university library. I just checked my institution's catalog... | 2017/08/11 | [
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94,426 | It is common in Economics to have introductory courses based on one-sided ideological textbooks (e.g. the most famous being [this one](https://scholar.harvard.edu/mankiw/publications/principles-economics-5th-edition), ToC [here](https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oRgQ2goeFzwC&pg=PR5&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=o... | [
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94,431 | I had applied for an academic internship after my undergraduate studies. The professor has accepted me for the internship. But since then he has not properly replied to my emails. I need his letter for VISA purposes. How should I write an email to him asking for the same? I had sent an email to him regarding this but h... | [
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"text": "Can you explain by what you mean when you say you can't write a proper e-mail?\n\nI get the impression you're not in... | 2017/08/11 | [
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94,442 | I am currently an incoming freshman, starting a physics/math double major at UMass Boston in the fall. Over the summer, I started an internship at the Harvard Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology that I really love and intend to continue doing throughout the school year.
I'm actively contributing to the resea... | [
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94,443 | I just got done teaching my first course, and my grades are heavily skewed:
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94,444 | I did my Phd in mathematics in Europe and am at the end of my second year of postdoc in Europe too. I plan to apply for jobs in the US in the fall (ideally tenure track, but I wouldn't mind too much doing a second postdoc, as I finished my phd early). I think it's the best place for me, as most of the researchers in my... | [
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94,455 | **Background**
I'm an American who will be starting a pure math PhD at a relatively prestigious US public university later this month (I realize that it might seem pointless ask a question about a program I haven't yet begun; however, I think that my question is basically independent of these concerns.)
Moving to Eur... | [
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94,456 | I am currently entering my third year of undergraduate. When I entered college I was torn between physics and computer science and ultimately chose computer science. I like cs, but I'd like to apply it towards physics applications. I've spent the past two summers working at software companies as an intern, so I have no... | [
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94,461 | As a session chair recently, I was to introduce a talk where the title of the talk was ungrammatical (in both the abstract and talk slides), likely due to the presenter not being a native English speaker. Two words should have been in plural when they were not, which became clear after reading the abstract.
I faced a ... | [
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"text": "I would not know any reason that forces chairs to read the title of the talk.\nOn the contrary, even with grammati... | 2017/08/12 | [
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94,470 | When applying for a job in academia, shall people specify in the CV if they have got visible tattoos? | [
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94,474 | A PhD student of my advisor (I am a master student), having been enrolled the doctorate program for less than a year, is now unsure about whether or not to finish it.
One of his concerns is that if he continues, but eventually quits the doctorate program, and applies for a normal job, the future interviewer, during in... | [
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94,499 | I am an international student in a interdisciplinary PhD in the social sciences.
1. My supervisor has about 60 students and does not do any advising beyond a few personal favorites.
2. My second supervisor considers me a student of the first, resents the fact that he is the expert on the subject, and as a result won't... | [
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94,503 | The airline forced me to check my poster and now it's gone lost. The session I was supposed to participate in is today, so there's little chance of finding a printer in town in a few hours†; What do I do?
---
† In Germany, no businesses may operate on Sunday except with explicit exemptions, and a German printer would... | [
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94,527 | Is it common or something usual for students to sometimes go home for the summer? | [
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94,531 | There are some mathematicians who are active online and who blog about their work at various stages, including when they upload a paper to the arXiv. I like this aspect as it gives a chance for the author to give a more informal explanation as to how the results were arrived at or how to interpret them. However, I've s... | [
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94,532 | White supremacist groups have been marching down in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the University of Virginia ([article](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/opinion/university-virginia-uva-protests-charlottesville.html)).
Does this also in some ways reflect on the university itself for *allowing* the march to happen (se... | [
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94,539 | As a thank you to my thesis supervisor, I would like to write some sort of letter expressing my gratitude for the work he has done for me.
I was wondering if students ever write letters in such a way that they can be used by professors as a sort of "reference" letter when applying for jobs or teaching grants. For refe... | [
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94,541 | Recently several different, unrelated publishers suggested on their websites to join [Publons](https://publons.com/about/company/), which is meant to acknowledge referees for peer-reviewing submitted manuscripts.
Publons even suggests to forward them emails to add all your past review work:
>
> We've set up a proces... | [
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94,550 | I am enrolled in a doctoral school in which we have to submit a research proposal by the first year and it has to be accepted by a board. My advisor gave me the complete proposal and told me to submit it. However, on the website of the university it says that I should develop it with the collaboration of my advisor. I ... | [
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94,553 | [This](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9438/why-is-howard-university-still-predominantly-black) question asks about the history of why Howard University in Washington, DC, USA has remained a school whose student and faculty bodies are predominantly African-American.
Do "historically [minority ethnic group... | [
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94,566 | I get google scholar alerts at all times of the day. This irritates me because it comes up as an email, I dont have time to read it, and then I forget about it.
My only reading time is Friday morning so it would be great to get my alerts at 8.00am on Friday morning as that would be consistent with my workflow.
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94,569 | My doctoral supervisor is very helpful and I really enjoy working with him on various problems. I have officially entered my second year of doctoral research this month. During discussions, I get few basic (probably, 'technically silly' as I would put it) questions that occur to me at times. But, I don't ask these ques... | [
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94,581 | I have an adjunct position teaching at an HBCU ([Historically black colleges and universities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities)).
I was wondering **what is the best way to emphasize teaching at a minority institution on my CV?**
Where do I stress that the school is an HBCU? ... | [
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94,589 | Maybe I am overthinking this. But which person should I use in the fellowship application? There are sections about the actual science, about the applicant, and about the exchange with the host institution. Is it ok to switch person according to the section? Or should I refer to myself as the "Researcher" as the templa... | [
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94,614 | If a postdoc requests a private office when negotiating an employment contract, is there a possibility the request would be granted? | [
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94,623 | I had a discussion with a colleague about paying to become a member out of our own pockets. His argument is that we have to support a society if we care about it.
I don't understand the argument. The best way I can explain it is if we compare it to industry. **You would not be asked to pay out of your own pocket to do... | [
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94,643 | I'm starting a doctorate focusing on artificial intelligence and network security, and have all of my technical classes paid for and organized. The schedule is currently forecasted at 60-ish hours a week of classes, grading, research, and other required activities. I feel this is reasonable.
However, I'd also like to ... | [
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94,644 | I am a [DACA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals) student in the US in my last year of my PhD program, and that means that I will be applying for postdoc and professor positions. However, DACA status means that I am ineligible to apply for federal research grants and I am limited to on... | [
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94,653 | A few days ago I posted a question on specific paper on RG. Another researcher says this is insulated paper that really shocked me because it is central to my research.
After I saw this comment I contact this person to get more explanation that may guide me but he didn't respond.
The paper name is "Multimodal Registr... | [
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94,664 | I am a postdoc applying for a research-level tenure-track assistant-professor position in 1st-world English-speaking or German-speaking countries. The area is Computer Science. The Web is full of recommendations on how to write an *good* job application of this type. Now, I'm spending about a week on a single applicati... | [
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94,666 | I am a postdoc, applying for tenure track jobs in mathematics.
I did my bachelor degree as a kid (was 14 when started).
I wonder if I should/could mention this in my academic CV? | [
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94,667 | I have been following the review process of a [replication journal](https://rescience.github.io/)
In particular, it has an open review which can be seen.
On a particular submission they are having a debate about [whether copying equations and their explanation in a paper counts as copyright infringement](https://gi... | [
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94,690 | I am currently in the process of waiting for PhD verdict. I have submitted the thesis last 2 weeks for examination and I am thinking while waiting for PhD verdict, I want to write a review paper on my subject. The reason is because I have ran out results from my PhD study for publication and I reckon why not try on rev... | [
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94,699 | I'm a young graduate student in the physical sciences. As far as I can tell, the purpose of graduate school is to learn to become an independent researcher. This means becoming a good writer, solving novel problems, publishing good papers and becoming an expert in your field.
The trouble is that these goals are horrib... | [
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94,701 | When referring to a journal paper in an email, I'm not sure whether to italicize the name of the paper or to put it in quotation marks. The paper is 30 pages long.
Since it's an email, are there no real hard rules to follow and so I can leave the title of the paper not italicized or put in quotation marks?
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94,723 | I am a PhD student in one of the social sciences going on the market. A large organization funded part of my dissertation research, as part of a research partnership. I wrote a report for them with some of the data in return. The total funding was a couple hundred thousand dollars, which is a lot in my field.
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94,729 | **Background:**
I am in an administrative staff position, in a research compliance role, and frequently have to "cold" email professors I have never met or otherwise previously interacted with. In my institution almost all professors have MD degrees, so I typically address them as "Dr. X." However there are a small nu... | [
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94,731 | We are writing a paper about an algorithm that takes a group of solutions and sorts them by their likelihood of being equal to the one and only 'good solution'.
Internally, we refer to this 'good solution' as **meromero**, which is a Mexican street slang for 'the most important' or the precisely for 'the one and only'... | [
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94,741 | I have finished 5 years of my PhD, and I have 5 publications in top tier (A\* computer science) conferences based on work done during PhD. However, most of the publications are in unrelated areas. I am finding it almost impossible to compile a thesis from all my publications.
All my publications have me as first auth... | [
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94,742 | Currently I am writing a Statement of Purpose for a PhD application, and they asked me this question:
>
> What you hope to achieve during your studies at the XX university?
>
>
>
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94,748 | I have submitted my research paper inot a journal IJSER.org . But I don't know whether they are fake or not. Have any idea about this Journal? | [
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94,765 | I got my math PhD degree more than 10 years ago, and my major is algebra. I have published some papers in some journals such as Adv. Mozh.. I really love math, but I am still thinking I haven't got a good and complete math education, and do not have a good picture of math. Someone may argue that I can teach math to mys... | [
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94,773 | I'm in trouble with long section titles in my thesis. For example:
I have defined the following abbreviations in a special section **before the table of content**, i.e., all abbreviations have been already defined before their usage in the table of content:
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94,780 | I have been suffering from a chronic, progressive disease the last few years, but during this past spring semester, it advanced much more rapidly, leading to massive declines in both my physical and emotional health. My teaching evaluations suffered, since I was just not in a place to spend much time working on preppin... | [
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94,781 | I'm attending a humanities conference in Italy in early September. Since the weather is supposed to be good and the venue is close to a beach, some coworkers are already planing to go for a swim together. We generally have a very friendly working atmosphere, a good rapport with each other and hang out together in priva... | [
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94,786 | I'm an engineering student from Korea, but I'm going to apply to graduate school in pure mathematics (to US, UK, and other European schools). I took several classes in math and I'd like to know what other courses I should take for my application to be considered "good enough". I took and got A from the following course... | [
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94,791 | In the academic world, how is work generally handled that has not been finished when an official contract ends? This is, I imagine, more the rule than the exception, for example when papers were submitted shortly before the end of the contract.
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94,794 | I am a PhD student and I'll be giving my first talks at an international conference soon.
In the past I have had tough questions from the audience that I did not know the answer to, or did, but it didn't come to mind until after the talk.
I have also had occassions where I hadn't heard the questioner twice, after r... | [
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94,801 | If there is a gap in my CV, or perhaps an anomaly due to some personal struggle, is it worth explaining the situation? Or just not saying anything in the SOP?
If one was perhaps wrongfully accused or terrorism/murder or suffered depression? which forced them to take a year out.
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94,803 | In some areas (e.g. CS) it [seems acceptable](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/2673/7994) for conference articles to be extended and published as journal articles. In such cases, what is the etiquette for choosing the journal article title? Can it be named the same (hence potentially leading to misunderstandings on... | [
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94,807 | Is solving all of the exercises in a textbook a good idea? I'm particularly concerned with textbooks on mathematics. I have this obsession that I should solve all of the problems that a textbook has. It takes a lot of time and energy but usually I'm satisfied with the end result being me having a better understanding o... | [
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94,814 | There is a paper on my field that I like very much(machine vision). I have implemented the solution it proposes and it works well (not flawless obviously).
However this paper was published in 1991.
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94,821 | Some areas that come to mind:
* theory of partial differential equations (analysis and pdes, not numerical PDE)
* number theory
* algebra
Should I pick a trendy topic so that it is "easier" to write a thesis?
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94,828 | What is the best way to find out a researcher's current affiliation? Let's say I know a name and a field, but not much more.
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94,856 | After submitting a paper to a conference, my advisor told me that he was going to change the authorship order (putting him as first author, me as last) because he contributed more to the final manuscript, even though I conducted all the experiments. He proceeded to change the order without my consent.
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94,858 | The APA style indicates that personal communication should be cited in the format "J. Doe (personal communication, M dd, yyyy)" in-text, without a bibliographic entry. I was wondering what the best solution to citing such an item repeatedly is?
Example:
>
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94,862 | I am an undergraduate who is line for a first author publication in a field I absolutely love, and want to continue my research in the same department. At my school there is a program, I have heard of, that would allow me to get my masters as an undergraduate, and the paperwork requires a signature from the department ... | [
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94,871 | I recently submitted a manuscript to a journal that focuses on short papers about software packages. One reviewer gave a very detailed (and helpful) critique of my software/paper with one major objection: another package already exists that has similar functionality. S/he mandated that I clarify what my package offers ... | [
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94,881 | I have a friend who is trying hard to establish a connection with a well-known professor at a generally top 5 school for STEM in the U.S. This professor is frequently at some good seminars around the area.
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94,895 | Here is the situation:
I am currently writing a thesis which uses a behavioral experiment to answer the main research question. Its main aim is to test how a certain welfare scheme would affect taxpayer behaviour, and thus relates to a very broad strain of literature on taxpayer behaviour. I have found a paper which ... | [
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94,906 | I'm applying for PhD programs and I'm thinking about what I'll do afterward. Specifically, I did my undergraduate in a well-respected US university and am applying to similar tier universities for a PhD in a STEM field.
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94,912 | I am a PhD student working for a professor as a research assistant and being paid with stipends. One of my friends in the same department asks me if I can collaborate on a project branched off his PhD research. That project is a completely different field than my current research, despite of that some of the background... | [
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94,920 | For an applicant to a high ranking U.S. graduate program in mathematics, how much more beneficial would it be to have a (coauthored) article published rather than accepted for publication?
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94,924 | I am a Ph.D. student currently doing research at a top engineering school in North America.
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94,931 | Several well-established journals nowadays allow self-archiving or sharing of articles through an institutional repository. For instance, [Elsevier](https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/sharing) allows immediate sharing of the accepted manuscript via the author’s non-commercial homepage and, after an em... | [
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94,941 | I'm writing an Msc dissertation on planning space projects and I would like to add interesting bits of information on the opening page of each chapter. Though the image and the accompanying information are not directly linked to the central thesis, they add some interest around the main arguments.
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94,960 | Why do many universities require strict format on theses, when the most important thing in them is the content? A beautiful design will make a good thesis better, and a bad one worse. The work can be creative and practical at the same time, and as long as the latter is guaranteed, why restrict the former? If academia i... | [
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94,961 | I applied for study abroad program and so far, now it has been a week after the expected decision date. Whether I get admitted or not also affects my class schedule for Fall semester which will start in the coming week, so I need to get the decision by this Friday. I sent an email to study abroad office, which is the o... | [
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94,972 | Is there a program or online service to automatically check if there is a retracted paper in the bibliography of a pdf file? | [
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94,977 | When I compare myself to my advisor, I don’t compare our level of expertise, as I don’t think that’s so meaningful; he’s obviously years ahead of me in the field, and so any time I talk about research with him, I accept that I know less than him and am prepared to feel ignorant / make mistakes / ask silly questions.
B... | [
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94,987 | This is the third installment of the series: [What can I do if my advisor wants me to keep working, even while I'm on medical leave for severe depression?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/81526/what-can-i-do-if-my-advisor-wants-me-to-keep-working-even-while-im-on-medical)
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94,992 | Is it acceptable to use references as a subject in a sentence (in the context of academic writing, preferably in computer science)?
For example:
>
> An extensive research has been done on eye capture by [Bérard
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>
>
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95,003 | When I was a maths undergrad, I did some mock papers. However the lecturers did not provide the marking scheme for us to learn from model answers. The reason given at the time was a mumbled 'university policy'.
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95,011 | I was browsing PhD position offers in Europe on different websites and I was quite surprised to find that several offers contained sentences such as
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95,070 | I am currently a final year Master's student and have been asked to review for a very pretigious journal in my field, possibly the most prestigious one apart from Nature/Science. I have a fairly good research portfolio and have published a handful of papers in good journals as first author, but I've never been a review... | [
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95,075 | I am writing a paper with a group of people, and we would like to cite preliminary results from another work, which one of the coauthors is involved along with yet other people. The preliminary results have not been published or even written up. Should we cite this as "Personal communication" and put the names of all m... | [
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95,081 | Are interdisciplinary STEM PhDs qualified to become professors? Or are they viewed more as “in-betweeners” and better suited for industry work. For example, someone who has a broad (but not deep) math background and only relevant (but neither deep nor broad) domain knowledge in, say, biology or physics, to write their ... | [
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95,082 | So I have heard that professors doing applied work in math research have like no chance to win the big prizes in their fields, and that only the theorists win the big math prizes.
Is this true?
You might be asking "big, compared to what?"
So let's consider, for example, the Obek prize and the Fields Medal, ... or s... | [
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95,095 | I am going to graduate in mid-October from my M.Sc. in Economics and I am starting to think seriously to apply for a Ph.D. However, since I am still completing the writing of my thesis, I have not yet started to get informed in any way about the available programs and I did not fill any requirement in terms of GRE, lan... | [
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"text": "It depends what you do instead of school. But I would not worry about falling behind your cohorts.\n\nA life... | 2017/08/26 | [
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