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1,994 | I am doing my doctorate in global studies in Germany, and would like to apply for a post-doc position in North America, especially in Canada. The topic I work on has considerable policy relevance, and I see that some North American professors are working in those areas. I am a non-EU citizen. Is there any chance that I... | [
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1,998 | Up to now, I've only applied to "public" academic positions (universities or public research centers). I have now an academic CV, that is roughly 7 pages long (2 pages of "classic" CV, and 5 pages of research experience + list of publications).
I would be interested in applying for research positions in industry. I k... | [
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"text": "As a general rule of thumb, if the position you are applying for (1) has the term \"researcher\" or something similar in t... | 2012/06/13 | [
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1,999 | This question is a follow-up on a comment at a [recent question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1836/when-does-one-go-for-a-double-doctorate), where Dabo Ylirce mentioned that an acquaintance of his has "3 professorships and 2 doctorates."
* How does a faculty member get appointed simultaneously by two o... | [
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"text": "Here in the Netherlands it is relatively common to appoint somebody as a professor for one day a week. For... | 2012/06/13 | [
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2,001 | I am expecting to finish my masters degree in computer science by mid October and then I was planning to apply for a PhD program this year.
My question is, how much time will I have after being done with my masters to apply? I know different US universities have different deadlines but a general safe assumption would ... | [
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"text": "It varies greatly. \n\n* There are the fixed deadline places, for which there are deadlines starting from Nov 15 or there... | 2012/06/13 | [
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2,009 | Do universities sponsor a student's conference travel and publication costs if the research on the paper has been done elsewhere? For example, a student may have published a paper during a master's at university 1 and may currently be pursuing PhD at university 2. Similarly will the second university bear the cost of t... | [
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"text": "It varies greatly. \n\n* There are the fixed deadline places, for which there are deadlines starting from Nov 15 or there... | 2012/06/14 | [
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2,019 | I find that when I'm working on research in the office, at least with the door open, I often get interrupted and am generally less productive. On the other hand, I often have students ask to meet with me outside of office hours on days when I don't plan to be in my office, and they're unhappy when I mention that I won'... | [
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"text": "> \n> I find that when I'm working on research in the office, at least with the door open, I often get interrupted an... | 2012/06/15 | [
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2,022 | I was reviewing a journal paper recently that is closely related to work a colleague and I are doing. We are currently in the process of writing up our paper, and I plan to cite the paper I reviewed in ours. The paper I reviewed has been accepted after two rounds, but has not appeared in print yet. The author does not ... | [
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"text": "No, you cannot. Until the paper is publicly available you cannot show it to anyone nor even acknowledge its existence.... | 2012/06/15 | [
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2,029 | At my institution, I am required to publish four papers in addition to my PhD thesis. Of course my planned papers are related to my dissertation project, but I'm not sure if it could be considered academic dishonesty / plagiarism to use these works to form part of my dissertation. I'm not thinking about copying them wo... | [
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"text": "Depends probably on the rules at your institution. At many places actually this is the usual custom. Ask your adviser. \n... | 2012/06/15 | [
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2,034 | Is the impact factor really useful for judging the quality of a journal article? | [
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"text": "\"Quality\" is very subjective. Impact factor is a good measure of how often articles in a journal are cited, but t... | 2012/06/16 | [
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2,049 | I'm currently doing a master's degree near my home state and have been offered to continue at the same grad school with a PhD. The funding side of things has yet to be confirmed, but is almost secure. I also have another offer from a grad school in Switzerland for which the funding is definitely secured.
1. Regarding ... | [
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"text": "You should definitely take into account quality of life in either position. Also, you should keep in mind that in... | 2012/06/17 | [
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2,052 | I am writing my masters thesis now. I saw some theses with the acknowledgement chapter after the abstract, in other cases it's the other way around.
I think the acknowledgement chapter is not related to the scientific work in the thesis, and thus should not be put between the abstract and the introduction. An abstract... | [
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"text": "You should check the guidelines from your university. I'd assume that they would have requirements for the order. ... | 2012/06/18 | [
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2,055 | I started to get emails like this:
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> From: Firstname Middlename Lastname ~
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> Title of paper.
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> I need the article to study.
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> thank you!
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Title of paper identifying one of my papers.
Is this the beginning of academic spam or phishing? Do you get suc... | [
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"text": "My guess is it's someone setting up a bot to try and get research articles for free. Once your paper is publishe... | 2012/06/18 | [
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2,057 | This question came up from [a discussion](http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/a/4466/468) on [meta.MSE](http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/).
My question is:
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> Do we need to search [MSE](https://math.stackexchange.com/) (or blogs, math forums, ...) to make sure someone hasn't already proven a result when writing a... | [
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"text": "In my experience I think the accepted practice is searching the peer-reviewed literature in your field. I'm not s... | 2012/06/18 | [
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2,063 | I have a bad habit of trying to objectively measure myself and my understanding. One of the ways I do this is by saying to myself "I only understand X after I have read the entire chapter in this book on X" or "I can start doing a problem on X after I have read all about X." I do this because it generally guarantees th... | [
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"text": "I'm not sure whether this is on topic, but I'll answer anyway. \n\nIt looks like you have time management problems.... | 2012/06/19 | [
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2,067 | Is there any reason to get paper reprints of your articles? Some journals charge for reprints others give them for free. Should I save the trees and not ask for the free ones? Are reprints so important that I should be paying for them?
I guess I should add I have only seen reprints offered in bundles of 100 (maybe 50)... | [
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"text": "I did it initially so that I would have a nice paper copy of my paper. In principle I could hand these out to my col... | 2012/06/19 | [
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2,071 | **What techniques have you found to improve collaboration with a remote colleague, in particular to make it feel more like collaboration in person?**
The majority of my collaborations are with colleagues outside of my state. The simplest model I've used is that we each write up certain proofs, and then eventually one... | [
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"text": "If you have some money to spend, [GoToMeeting](http://www.gotomeeting.com/) will hands down make your collaborati... | 2012/06/19 | [
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2,074 | In India, a minimum of 3 years of [work experience](http://www.jobalertsindia.com/articles/iiit-allahabad-announces-recruitment-2012-for-faculty-positions-1970.html) is necessary to be appointed as an assistant professor in any of the IITs. (Years during the PhD or master's are not counted, but any year spent outside u... | [
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"text": "I doubt the minimum is rigid and there is a room for lot of considerations.\nI'd like to point you to a specific exampl... | 2012/06/20 | [
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2,082 | So I'm pretty much working on my own project with guidance from two supervisors. Since it's my own project (and it's exploratory research), the two supervisors don't need to pressure me to get results. So - I got into a lot of dead ends in my current undergrad research project, and while I've definitely learned *a lot*... | [
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"text": "Find a different supervisor. Maybe a very bored grad student. If that doesn't work work on a different aspect of the ... | 2012/06/21 | [
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2,087 | I'm considering applying to chemistry graduate schools within the next six months and am hoping for some guidance in prioritizing aspects. For instance, among my list of considerations there exists: renown of school, programs of interest, appeal of location, amount of financial aid, duration of program, and success of ... | [
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"text": "As a second year grad student in chemistry, I would say the two most important factors are if there are multiple ... | 2012/06/20 | [
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2,092 | I have little understanding about invited papers, but as far as I know, I think these are non-peer-reviewed papers presented at a conference.
* Now why and when does one go for an invited paper? Is it only to advertise one's work? Is there any other merit in this?
* Also, are normal papers and invited papers the same ... | [
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"text": "Being invited to present a paper or give a keynote is an honour. It shows that the community recognizes your work. O... | 2012/06/21 | [
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2,095 | I currently hold a BA in Middle Eastern History, which was a pretty good fit for my last job in the Army. I'm getting ready to move on to the civillian world now, and computer science/programming has always been a hobby for me that I'd like to look into turning into a career.
My question is, **what type of program sho... | [
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2,099 | I recently applied for a PhD position with a major university in Europe. However, I haven't heard back from them even though the dates for the interviews have passed. This somewhat provoces me since I've put a lot of work into my application (it feels disrespectful to not get back to me) and since it makes me unsure wh... | [
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"text": "No, final decisions take a while. It is not the fault of the program, but rather an issue of funding. Programs tend t... | 2012/06/22 | [
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2,100 | I realise that the answer to this question varies greatly between department and universities but I would like to get some estimates from somebody within the field since I myself has absolutely no idea. When I apply for a PhD position, can I expect to compete with a handful of other persons or can there be hundreds of ... | [
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"text": "I'm located in Belgium in a computer science department. Recent positions that I've advertised have had between 3 a... | 2012/06/22 | [
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2,105 | I am a math student in the US preparing for an hour long defense of my thesis. I am assuming that the dissertation committee has already read my dissertation by the time of my defense.
* Any advice for preparing and giving the dissertation defense talk?
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2,106 | My PhD advisor liked me during the exams. Then, when I came with the thesis I wrote, he got very angry, maybe because I did not do what he suggested, maybe because what I did is not quite in his domain. The tension between us did not diminish with time, because I like my thesis and don't want to throw it away and start... | [
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2,113 | The number of women in some academia disciplines like computer science remains low despite the continuous efforts to increase it. What is being done to make academic careers in computer science (and related fields) more appealing to women? Are there any studies on the ways of improving the working conditions for women ... | [
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"text": "[NIH](http://womeninscience.nih.gov/nihwide/index.asp) and [NSF](http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383... | 2012/06/23 | [
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2,115 | I am admittedly an undergraduate so I do not have very much experience yet in finding resources.
When I have an idea of something I would consider worthwhile to research (in my case for a proposal to a supervisor about an undergraduate research opportunity), assuming I do extensive research online to see what has bee... | [
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"text": "This is of course always hard to protect oneself from. However, I would say the best way to ensure that your research p... | 2012/06/23 | [
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2,122 | I know that not all, but many papers (that are accepted and published) are based on ideas that can be patented as well. So, why is that there is no system in which a person can apply for a Publishing a Paper and also getting the Idea patented at the same time?
Is it possible that I publish a paper, do not get it paten... | [
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"text": "Patents are about owning and protecting an idea to make money from it in the future.\n\nPapers are about advancing ... | 2012/06/23 | [
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2,128 | For graduate schools in STEM which take students with a Bachelor's degree (BS/BE/BTech etc.) and graduate them with an MS and/or PhD, what do they assume about the student's prerequisite knowledge when designing courses, their difficulty and overall dynamics?
My question is pointed towards **knowledge** and not what ... | [
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"text": "This is a very difficult question to answer, since there are so many disciplines and so many programs at so many univers... | 2012/06/24 | [
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2,130 | 1.What qualities do professors (assume STEM if necessary) look for in students (in their MS) when recruiting them for an RA (Research Assistantship)?
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2.Consider the follow scenario:
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2,134 | Doing original research in Theoretical Computer Science requires a quite good understanding of almost all areas of Mathematics.
I think double majoring in Mathematics and Computer science for someone who wants to do research in Theory is very important.(Or at least having a knowledge of Algebra, Analysis, Logic, Topolo... | [
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2,137 | As a non-native speaker of English, it can often be hard to spot some of the errors that a native speaker would find. For a long time, I've been thinking about getting a native speaker to help me with proof-reading my texts (articles, theses, application, etc), but I don't quite know where to look. What are some good w... | [
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2,139 | I'm looking for a site (other than [Scimago](http://www.scimagojr.com/)) that presents statistics of published papers and/or citations per country. However, I need more detail than that presented in Scimago. Ideally, I would like to have a list of authors, or the list of papers per country (having all the statistics th... | [
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2,158 | What are the best strategies for assessing if a journal is a "vanity" or "predatory" journal that should be avoided (both for publishing in and reviewing for)? For example, how would one go about determining if a journal/publisher belongs on [Beall’s List of Predatory Open-Access Publishers](https://scholarlyoa.com/pub... | [
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2,161 | During coursework if a solution manual is available for the textbook, it is always a huge bonus for the student. While the student is exposed to a variety of relevant applications and tricks in the problems, the solution manual ensures the student's hard work spent trying out the problems does not go waste. The solutio... | [
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2,162 | Can someone publish a paper on the mathematical model of the open source software i.e. parameter analysis of the model (i.e relevant to specific area) which is the backbone of the software.
1. Is it possible to publish paper on model analysis?
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2,167 | I am having trouble articulating a statement of intent because of a few things. But to keep on point for Stack Exchange I'll focus only on one: interdisciplinary coursework.
I have spoken to a Fine Arts Department at my top choice and they not only permit but promote taking interdisciplinary courses. My intention is t... | [
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2,169 | Is there a way to get the DOI (Document Object Identifier) of a research paper when its title is available?
I am preparing a reference database I could not get the URL of all the references. So, I tried to search online but could not get to anything. I will appreciate if anyone uses such tool/website or has any idea.
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2,173 | Many of us often talk about Bachelor's and Master's students, PhD students, researchers, professors, and postdocs.
But, do we know what we actually intend when we say "*Post-Doc*"?
We all know that a Post-Doc is a person who, after finishing his/her PhD, works for one or two years as a scientist in a scientific resea... | [
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2,179 | Assuming that one has begun a PhD program at a university which allows a student to choose an advisor after his/her first year in the program and the student has narrowed down to a couple of potential advisors, what is the etiquette for approaching them for advisor commitment? Specifically,
* How do you get across tha... | [
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2,182 | I am preparing to write and submit a grant proposal to the US National Science Foundation (NSF) through the [Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI)](http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5518) program. This will be my first submission to this program.
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2,185 | Assuming that one has begun a PhD program at a university which allows a student to choose an advisor after his/her first year in the program and the student has narrowed down on a couple of potential advisors, once a student has established contact with his potential advisor,
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2,187 | Assume that one has begun a PhD program at a university which allows a student to choose an advisor after his/her first year in the program and the student has narrowed down to a couple of potential advisors and has taken at least one course with each of them.
* How early should one contact potential advisors? Just a... | [
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2,192 | I am an undergraduate student with no experience at all.
If you are writing a research paper, that you are planning to submit for publication, how do you state that a particular statement/fact is commonly known to all and it's dicoverer/inventor is not known, and that there exists no research paper that introduced the... | [
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2,204 | How do I find research on strategies for recruiting students into undergraduate programs?
I am an assistant professor at a small comprehensive 4-year public institution. My department (chemistry) has implemented a new strategic plan. One of our principle action items involves recruiting more high school students to a... | [
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2,206 | When it comes to getting a tenure-track position where one has both a lot of resources and academic freedom to do what one wants to do (so having a tenure-track position in a top university might be more useful because one may get more resources at a top university).
Or in short, when one wants to maximize one's chan... | [
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2,207 | Most Australian universities have a large number of international students. Common countries of origin include China, Singapore, and Malaysia. When interacting with students, it's much nicer if you can learn their name and pronounce it correctly. To reduce the scope of this question, I thought I'd limit it to Chinese n... | [
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2,209 | I have a paper for review and I would like to include comments (on clarifications/suggestions/errors) over specific paragraphs or statements.
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2,219 | I am a third year (starting fourth year in the fall) PhD student in mathematics. I've passed all qualifying exams and am currently doing research. As far as I can tell, I am not doing poorly. I have the good fortune of having a great advisor, being in a very supportive department, and having friends and family who genu... | [
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2,225 | I imported many pdf articles into Mendeley but saw that Mendeley did not capture all the fields correctly. So, I needed to change them manually. It would be a tedious job to do so with many documents. Fortunately, many of the documents share common journal names and years. So, I needed a way to edit them together.
Is... | [
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2,234 | I am currently researching on Recreational Mathematics - Mathematical Tricks and I have come across this article: [Ten Amazing Mathematical Tricks](http://www.jstor.org/stable/25678174?origin=JSTOR-pdf&).
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2,239 | I am considering buying either an e-book reader or a full tablet. My main motivation is to read books and scientific papers and I really don't need all the extra stuff tablets can give me.
My only concerns are
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2,254 | Recently I submitted a paper in a journal then after a few days I got following comments:
Your submission of the manuscript has been unsubmitted. This is because your "Author's Novelty File" was not detailed enough. In order to proceed, please briefly describe, in a few lines, the new contributions of your paper to th... | [
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2,257 | I am a third-year PhD student in mathematics from a very reputed institute in my country. I have one problem to share and discuss that is related with my guide. He is a senior professor in our department. The day I joined that institute he gave me one research problem and asked me to study about that and present. I did... | [
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2,258 | My university is switching its Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Specifically, we are moving from WebCT to Moodle, but I don't think this matters. This means I need to spend some time learning how to use the new software, but it also presents me the opportunity to think about how I use a VLE to supplement my traditio... | [
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2,263 | The way a grade is assigned in a course influences the way students study which in turn influences their gain from the course.
I want to focus on ways to assign grades which aim to eventually increase the students' gain from the course (in contrast with grade assignment methods which try to single out the most talente... | [
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2,269 | This is similar to a previously asked question, but deals specifically with addressing the problem on the CV. My adviser had a bit of a personal meltdown and left the department while I was finishing analysis of field data/writing up. His students were assigned the following year to a non-tenured professor. This new pr... | [
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2,281 | I'm currently writing a journal article to be published, and the work from this article is basically the entire work of my Master's thesis.
Clearly a thesis is usually more involved and fleshed out than a journal article, but how much direct copying is usually permitted? Is it okay to directly copy-and-paste an entir... | [
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2,286 | **Problems with discussion boards**: After being involved with StackExchange for a couple of years, I've really grown to despise standard discussion boards. All those meandering threads, no commenting, no ability to edit questions to improve them, inadequate cross-referencing of questions, no markdown support, no votin... | [
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"text": "Although there are not as many features as on SE, one possibility could be to [create a sub-reddit](http://www.reddit.c... | 2012/07/04 | [
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2,287 | **Background:** I was reading about [Google's Hybrid approach to research](http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/7/151226-googles-hybrid-approach-to-research/fulltext). This prompted me to think about how in academia I try to get multiple output from the one set of inputs. For example, I might try to
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2,288 | A "Russian style" seminar, as in the Israel Gelfand form, breaks from the traditional format of talk followed by Q&A and just opens the floor to questions at any time. I've seen a few professors who follow this format, so I definitely see its value.
What is the best way to start something like this, and how do you get... | [
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2,300 | How do you stay in touch with researchers whom you meet at conferences? My intention is to stay in touch for possible collaborations and job opportunities.
Usually I meet people, we talk and I send them a "thank you" mail but later I get confused how to take this forward and *maintain* this contact.
I do send links, ... | [
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2,303 | I do have little research experience on "Web Security" and I made some inventions in that. I have patented my inventions and now when I was trying to apply for Masters by Research in Information Technology in some X University they are asking for Research Publications. I never came across them in my past and I don't kn... | [
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2,307 | I was reading [this](http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2010/03/lying-about-the-academic-job-market.html).
>
> Now here's some advice that isn't silly: don't go to graduate school
> unless you get into a strong program.
>
>
>
What's the meaning of "program" in this case? What would be a strong program? | [
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2,313 | [findaphd.com](http://www.findaphd.com/) is an excellent website to search for PhD studentships (PhD funding on specific projects) in the UK. Also, UK universities often advertise PhD studentship opportunities in their "job vacancies" section. However, after much googling, I have yet to find similar sites or department... | [
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2,315 | Assume that one has a skill (assume, programming) and is one of the very few in the department to have it. The other students need a bit of this skill for their projects and you help out when you can.
Where do you set the limit for how much effort/time you spend on helping others this way?
Pros:
* You get insight in... | [
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2,320 | After submitting a paper for review, I received a letter from the editors containing a negative report and informing me that their (editors') decision was to reject the paper. Although the paper was about six months with the referee, it was clear from the report that she did not read it, just had a quick look and wrote... | [
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2,325 | How is the person selected? How far in advance is the selection process made? When a department makes an offer to have a speaker come, how often is the offer rejected? And what happens if the offer is rejected? | [
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2,326 | In papers or books, citation to another book usually doesn't contain the specific page, section, chapter of where a result is borrowed. If the book is really thick, and the readers may have different knowledge levels and familiarity with the book, some readers may find it not easy to locate the borrowed result within t... | [
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2,330 | Should one create slides similar to those that one uses in a good powerpoint presentation? Or are there things that a poster should include that a powerpoint should not include? (and vice versa) | [
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2,331 | I'm a second year PhD student. In general I love my advisor, but recently we've run into some small bumps in the road while working on a paper together. He's controlling the "master" copy and I send most of my contributions and comments through email for him to incorporate.
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2,336 | Can I include in my academic CV that I have attended and completed the [Coursera](http://www.coursera.org) and [Udacity](http://www.udacity.com/udacity) classes I have been taking? I understand that these are not anything major, but the courses definitely gives a good overview and starting formal study on the subject b... | [
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2,342 | I am about to reach a stage in my masters where I'll have to make a choice of doing either a regular thesis or a practicum. A practicum is simply an alternative to thesis in which a student has to submit a practical project employing the concepts developed throughout the graduate program and concludes with a paper and ... | [
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2,346 | It's easy for me to find out salaries for tech-jobs but it seems Professor salaries are quite hush-hush. I really love to teach and would be more than willing to join academia. However, I may choose to work for a few years in the industry before doing so. But even for information sake it's really *really* hard to figur... | [
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2,353 | I hold a bachelor's in computer applications. I have got my bachelor's degree from India. Now I want to get a job in research institutes or labs at Europe, USA or India. Will I need higher education like master's or PhD? Money does not matter to me. | [
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2,356 | A follow-up question to [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2346/after-my-phd-how-much-salary-should-i-expect-as-a-professor) as I feel it is very broad. For example, consider [this link](http://www.collegiatetimes.com/databases/salaries/university-of-texas-at-austin?dept=Infomatn%2Frisk%2Fops+Mgt) disp... | [
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"text": "In the US, everything you list above—and more—can affect salary. (Do note that, in the US, age discrimination is illegal.... | 2012/07/09 | [
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2,361 | Engineers and Scientists are probably not the kind of people management consulting companies look for. But I think many of such would be highly qualified and a good fit for management consulting positions, especially where vision and strategy are needed.
What would you suggest for a scientist or an engineer to succe... | [
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2,364 | My question is : What is a **time effective** way to *learn* new material/ *reviewing* old material you don't completely remember?
Motivation:
For my research in Computer Science, I need **lots of elements** of hypothesis testing that I learnt in Statistics 101 (Roughly 10 years ago). I haven't taken a single stats c... | [
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2,370 | I was recently reading some papers regarding bridging the gap between academia and industry, specifically in undergraduate computer science and software engineering programs. The papers I read were published between the late 1970s and the mid 2010s. I noticed a stark contrast in papers published in the 1990s as compare... | [
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2,375 | The paper I want to publish is just a conjecture. | [
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2,381 | For a long time, I had been using open source software for my work to boost "reproducible research". I believed that if I made my codes open source and the softwares to run those codes in were open source too (or at least free), my research would be utmost reproducible. However, recently, in a discussion, it came throu... | [
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2,385 | Many of my computational scientist colleagues used to use Google Riudes to share and discuss new journal articles. The loss of Riudes's social features killed that, and we have subsequently tried Google+ and Reddit, but neither seems to work nearly as well as Riudes did for holding this kind of discussion. Does anyone ... | [
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2,388 | Assuming [STEM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM_fields), At what age do tenured professors stop taking new students?
I am a first year PhD student and have my eye on one professor who seems to be really interesting and I feel he finds me as a good candidate too but *for some reason that he refuses to discuss* he do... | [
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2,400 | Imagine you're a PhD student, and you found a research group, in another university, that you'd like to join for a PostDoc period.
You want to join that group because you really like their subjects, and their projects, and/or for other reasons. You just dediced you would like to join them.
Now, what could you do dur... | [
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2,403 | I have finished all of my manuscript revisions except for some minor details in the figure.
As I understand it, once the manuscript is accepted, a final draft of high resolution figures will be requested. In the past, I have also had requests to relabel and rearrange subplots.
Does this mean that I can wait until th... | [
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2,405 | During my undergrad, we had a reading assignment (for most courses) which would nearly cover up the entire textbook including introductions, summaries, "did you know" and other such *fluff* material.
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2,408 | When I was 23, I quit my computer science undergraduate studies at USC with only one semester worth of units left and a low (less than 3.0) GPA due to personal reasons. I just turned 30 and have rekindled a desire to pursue research in computational neuroscience. Is there any realistic hope of eventually getting into a... | [
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2,416 | This question is somewhat broad, but this place seems like the best place to ask. I have been accepted for an information assurance program, but **I am a computer science major and my main interest lies in software development. Should that deter me from deciding to study information assurance?**
Another factor in the ... | [
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2,419 | I'm asking this anonymously. Our department of computer science just received a donation to buy laptops for students. Major activity will be programming and languages used will be C/C++/Python/Perl/Java/R. We will be instituting a lending scheme for students who can't afford them.
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2,428 | I am currently pursuing a Masters degree in Literature, and I see potential in further research on the current topic of my dissertation for a PhD in the future. I have been told that an Honours thesis cannot be used as a foundation for a Masters dissertation, so i am wondering if a Masters dissertation can be used as a... | [
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2,435 | I am an international student from an unknown school with a sub 3.0 gpa. I am a CS major but I certainly have a deep interest for statistics grad programs. In the future I want to work on algoritmic trading and want to involve with topics such as time series, machine learning and other statistical techniques used in fi... | [
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2,438 | Should one give gifts to those who one's close to, or those who one generally doesn't interact with very much?
If the professors who wrote my LORs seem reluctant to meet me again for some reason (not sure why - maybe they're just busy), should I simply forget about it?
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2,447 | I am writing my thesis (in Computer Science, if that's relevant) and I am thinking about the style, especially about using contractions.
I realize that thesis is a formal text and contractions like “*we're*” are quite informal, so they shouldn't be used. But does that apply to all contractions (like “*can't*” or “*don... | [
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2,448 | I am flying to a conference, in which I am presenting a poster.
In principle there might be a problem, as the poster tube:
* is a second piece of hand luggage,
* it is longer than the limit allows.
However, it seems that it works (once I tried with no problem, my colleagues usually have no problem).
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2,457 | This question is an off-shoot from [this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2346/after-my-phd-how-much-salary-should-i-expect-as-a-professor-of-computer-science), where it has been agreed by most that securing faculty positions is difficult in general. I would like to know what exactly makes this so.
Th... | [
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2,458 | How does a faculty member seek administrative responsibilities in a Department? Do such positions come in a cycle only? Or should the faculty member make his/her willingness known in advance to the Chair? Are there any politics/wrangling involved?
Moreover, for an assistant professor, is there anything that could be d... | [
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2,467 | In my field (theoretical computer science), authors of any paper are always listed alphabetically; our papers [don't have "first authors"](http://www.ams.org/profession/leaders/culture/CultureStatement04.pdf). (Well... hardly ever.) In most other disciplines, at least within science and engineering, the ordering of aut... | [
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2,479 | Assuming I am reading a textbook/paper or any kind of rich material and then there is a point where I feel that the chapter I am reading is unnecessary or insignificant (I can get back to it later if I am wrong) or at times unmotivated or boring, what are good practices to skip such chapters?
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2,480 | I am a senior maths major (computer science minor) who is pretty worried about the next step in my academic career. First, let me state that I'm about as sure as I can be that I want to get a PhD in mathematics. Unfortunately, I didn't realize what the field entailed, or my passion for it, until I had made many really ... | [
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2,483 | On occasion during talks, presenters will say, "as you know from reading my papers" or during a Q&A someone will say "you should know from my papers".
The above clearly seems inappropriate for most settings outside of a group meeting. However, to what extent should I expect my audience to know what I am talking about ... | [
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"text": "I guess that this would strongly depend on the culture within your scientific domain. In my case (software... | 2012/07/17 | [
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