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9,136 | I see sad students who meet may be once in a month and they complaint of not having enough progress. I have seen systems where the prof meets almost every few hours on weekdays and the prof is basically continuously working with the students. I see students who meet every 2-3 days or every week.
So what is the "right... | [
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9,140 | In the somehow recent past, teaching evaluations have become obligatory in many universities/departments in Germany. I've also heard that sometimes these evaluations are used in formal ways to decide about salary raises or even hiring. For me it is pretty clear that a purely formal use of teaching evaluations is not a ... | [
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"text": "Kicob and Levitt have an article in the quarterly journal of economics that looks at teachers cheating in public schools... | 2013/04/04 | [
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9,142 | I am a post-doc and I get regular requests to referee papers, largely because of a review paper I published as a grad student.
I am yet to turn down a review request--It is rewarding, an opportunity to immerse oneself in another topic, and it feels good to give back to the community.
Unfortunately, I am peri-employed... | [
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"text": "One simple criterion is that if you have refereed more papers than the number of referee reports you hav... | 2013/04/05 | [
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9,148 | Unfortunately, there are circumstances when not everything goes right in a student's PhD career, or there can be personal circumstances that require doctoral candidates to withdraw from a PhD program before they have completed the requirements.
However, what is not clear to me is how to handle this situation from the ... | [
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9,150 | I have seen some graduate (PhD and Masters) students in Turkey, Nigeria, Malaysia etc that can not work in the university they study. In fact I am one of them as I am about to finish Msc mathematics and computer science in Turkey and planning to start PhD in USA. My question is, is it a policy of most universities in t... | [
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"text": "Degree programs need to produce a whole lot more graduates than instructors in order for the programs to be economica... | 2013/04/05 | [
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9,165 | I independently wrote a number of math articles, and published some of them in refereed journals. I wrote the draft of the thesis, and contacted a Prof., and started a PhD program under his supervision. After being accepted, the supervisor
1. Asked me to change all notations and terminology. I hesitate, because I used... | [
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"text": "From a purely objective point of view, I would say that co-authorship should be granted only if someone has a s... | 2013/04/06 | [
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9,173 | In this site, I quite often see answers containing this *"Publish or perish"* sentence.
What does it really mean? Is it limited to a particular academic system (i.e. U.S.) or it is the general case all over the world?
Lastly, is it possible to be a researcher without concerning about "Publish or perish"? | [
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"text": "For graduate students, it means \"Publish or you won't get an academic job.\" In many parts of academia, not getting an aca... | 2013/04/06 | [
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9,181 | As an undergraduate student, I have worked on some projects for my own interest, and recently a professor said that one of these works can be published (in a Elsevier journal with impact factor of about 2). I personally think that this work is not *strong* enough to be published and included in my resume. (I don't have... | [
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"text": "I think your supervisor may want to extend the research with more experiments, data, etc. This will lead to an much... | 2013/04/06 | [
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9,185 | I am in an MS program at a big university in the US, where I pay my own tuition.
I am not happy with the quality of education I am getting at this university.
I am thinking that after this quarter is complete, that I want to officially withdraw from the program and go somewhere else. I think I can get much better ed... | [
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"text": "Your transcript will very likely have a notation that shows you withdrew from the program; to claim that you are still e... | 2013/04/07 | [
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9,192 | Marriage is a recurrent topic in the lives of most PhDs. The meagre pay and the burden of responsibility could make marriage in the middle of PhD look like a terrible idea. But on the positive side, marriage gives one an intimate companion in a long and bleak journey. The pay hurdle could also be overcome if the partne... | [
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"text": "For the actual question (*“ what are the points to remember when one thinks of getting married in the middle of a PhD?”*)... | 2013/04/07 | [
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9,194 | I want to quote the following passage (actually, the original passage as somewhat longer but let's consider this a minimal working example)
>
> Awareness of others, can address affective needs.
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but the misplaced comma bothers me.
The common *sic* is not only often perceived to be impolite due to its overus... | [
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"text": "Any emendations you make to a quoted text should be made in square brackets. These emendations should be limited to corr... | 2013/04/07 | [
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9,200 | I work on research, trying to get grants and publish papers and the like, I really like my job, could not think about doing anything else. When the weekend comes, or just free time I have the problem that I can not stop thinking on research, it does not matter what. Sometimes it is that I feel so relaxed during the wee... | [
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"text": "I believe it comes with the territory. Since being involved in research means exercising your imagination and i... | 2013/04/07 | [
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9,211 | There is a student who attended a seminar where they were supposed to study an assigned research paper and deliver a presentation to the class. Their presentation was very low quality. Four (!) seminar tutors, from post-doc to associate professor level, all agreed to assign a low grade. I am confident that all reasonab... | [
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"text": "My first question to you would be\n\n> \n> Did you lay out the assignment expectations and how the grade would be ... | 2013/04/08 | [
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9,221 | MIT's OpenCourseWare has many [video courses](http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/). They are very helpful, but compared to the majority of MIT curriculum they're only a small part. So, how much effort does it take to record video courses? | [
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"text": "I'm in the middle of recording lectures for a class now, and I'm doing all the work (recording/processing/uploadin... | 2013/04/08 | [
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9,222 | I have previously been involved in a course, where we (the students) were supposed to use a specific style, when presenting our graphical data. By `style` I mean the size/color of legends, thickness of datapoints, layout of the figure, etc....
Does similar guidelines exist when publishing data in a peer-reviewed journ... | [
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"text": "The purpose of any style when presenting graphics should aim at making the information as easy to read and compr... | 2013/04/08 | [
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9,225 | Take de Broglie
>
> De Broglie had intended a career in humanities, and received his first degree in history. Afterwards, though, he turned his attention toward mathematics and physics and received a degree in physics
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And Adwifx Wixken,a very famous theoretical physicist
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> Witten attended the Park Scho... | [
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"text": "This was supposed to be a comment, but it got just a little long.\n\nWell, in both of your examples, the person did a ... | 2013/04/08 | [
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9,228 | For a PhD in computer science or informatics, are there good reasons **not** to choose an area of research in which very few (3 or 4) known (small- to middle-sized) research groups work in the world? | [
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"text": "> \n> are there good reasons not to choose an area of research in which very few people work worldwide?\n> \n> \n> \... | 2013/04/08 | [
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9,239 | Is there a way to search all openly published theses online?
Maybe there is a way for Google Scholar to ignore other types of articles?
I am aware of SCOPUS and Web of Knowledge, but unfortunately I do not have access to these services.
**Edit:** I talked to my librarian and we found a service called [EThOS](http://... | [
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"text": "The only thing I can think of given the lack of other details is [this](http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases... | 2013/04/09 | [
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9,244 | In STEM (In USA), the coursework duration of the PhD typically lasts about 1-2 years beyond that, students take 0 (or in certain cases, very few) courses in their subsequent PhD years. I work in applied math with a lot of applications in every field imaginable : Finance, Economics, Energy, Healthcare, Services etc.
D... | [
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"text": "First of all, unless there is a policy against it, you should feel free to enroll in subsequent courses even thou... | 2013/04/09 | [
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9,251 | This might be off-topic but I thought I would try here since I know we have people who will know the answer.
I have received two documents from a prospective teacher. They seem to be German diplomas but I do not understand clearly what they really mean. The names of the diplomas are:
1. Diplomurkunde, and
2. Diplom (... | [
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"text": "'Diplom' is the standard academic degree in Germany (slowly being replaced by a bachelor/master system). In the Germ... | 2013/04/09 | [
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9,252 | In order to encourage and motivate students to work harder and study more, it seems the teacher can use various competitions in class or after class. But on the other hand, competitions could cause jealousy and other destructive emotions among students and therefore affect the performance of some students adversely. Du... | [
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"text": "One key thing to consider is whether you are encouraging your students to do better for themselves or if you are en... | 2013/04/09 | [
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9,256 | (Not sure if this is the right SX site, but math.sx seemed to have no questions concerning DOIs.)
Everything I cite in my thesis has a DOI or URL (I think that's important), but I'm citing an article that was the first to mention a kind of problem,
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> Arkadi Nemirovski. Nonparametric estimation of smooth regression... | [
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"text": "Short answer: The full name is *Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Tekhnicheskaya Kibernetika*. As you inferred, it looks like... | 2013/04/09 | [
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9,259 | I am currently in my junior year of undergraduate work at Creighton University and have found out that my employer may possibly pay for me to work towards a Master's degree. I don't know all the specifics yet, but I have been browsing schools that offer Graduate programs in software engineering (or computer science wit... | [
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"text": "Kgvnova,\n\nCongratulations on all of your success so far and your decision to consider furthering your education. I... | 2013/04/09 | [
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9,267 | I know that there are often summer courses through TAing, but those are much rarer. Many departments don't even offer summer courses.
In that case, are graduate students over summer always supported by RAships? And does an adviser *have* to have funding in order to support these students (in US)?
Do these standards a... | [
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"text": "In my experience in math in the US it is not expected that the school or the advisor provide summer funding. Many peo... | 2013/04/10 | [
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9,269 | Or is it usually not possible?
Does this also depend from department to department? I'm in a geoscience department, and I was recently advised that due to a limited number of positions, students can only expect to be TAs for 1/4 of their time here. Geoscience does tend to have significantly fewer courses than most oth... | [
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9,278 | Given a (rather large) list of authors, what is the best way to find the number of publications by each author? The big problem here is author ambiguity (which Jehj Slotj, etc.) - the author list we have doesn't even include middle initials! What we do have is the full name of a FDA Committee on which they have sat, wh... | [
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9,279 | This is related to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7316/is-it-advisable-to-mention-the-dollar-amount-for-grants-on-a-cv), but I don't believe a duplicate since the dollar amount there was impressive, whereas mine are not.
I have been awarded several intra-University small grants ($2-4k eac... | [
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"text": "I would say yes. I have done so from when I received my first grant/stipend. I ceased listing once I received a ... | 2013/04/10 | [
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9,283 | Why do we use F for failing on an otherwise arbitrary alphabetic grading scale? Isn't E just as meaningful for failing as A is for excellent?
I'm more interested in a response on the history of how the current scale came to be.
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9,285 | I found a major flaw in reasoning in a psychological experiment, but I am not even related to psychology, I just attended to that course at my university in my spare time. The flaw I found is strictly logical, and also quite tricky, so I think it is feasible that no one noticed it yet.
This mistake (if it turns out t... | [
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9,290 | In any tutorial class some students seem to get frustrated with little tougher questions. While tackling them is important to learn the subject. How to motivate the students to attempt tougher questions without getting discouraged ? | [
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"text": "**Hints** and **extra credits**.\n\nYou mention *some students seem to get frustrated with little tougher questions*. Th... | 2013/04/11 | [
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9,297 | A couple of simple questions:
1. Books are not peer reviewed in general. Are book reviews that appear in academic journals peer-reviewed? Since they represent personal opinions, I would think they cannot be peer reviewed.
2. What about news articles? For example, journal Nature has various short news focus and researc... | [
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9,299 | I'm currently in the process of applying to business schools and I notice that nearly all of them have general MBA degrees and MBA degrees with different areas of concentration or specialization. I currently work in the IT industry doing some project management and customer support, though I'm on the fence about whethe... | [
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9,301 | The above question is self explanatory, still I would like to break it into two parts.
**Q1.** What is the difference between abstract and summary/conclusion?
**Q2.** What is the difference between summary and conclusion ?
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9,304 | I'm currently a senior who wants to get a PhD in physics. However, I may only have the chance to go to a school which has a strong professor in a certain area, but the school itself is not highly ranked.
My other option is, one of the professors I'm working with at my current institution is favorably disposed towards... | [
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"text": "Doing outstanding research is what ultimately matters, not the rank of the university. High quality research is not exclus... | 2013/04/11 | [
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9,314 | I am told that one of the best ways in which to disseminate information/knowledge/findings from doctoral research is to put your dissertation on-line. By default, many universities make the dissertations of their students available on their websites.
I am wondering what are the merits of putting your dissertation on F... | [
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9,318 | I'm doing a PhD related to my supervisor's research area. Sometimes, I think about problems that I do not immediately know the answer to. Naturally, I come to Stack Exchange and other forums and ask :) But on some occasions, the question is rather specific so I email my supervisor instead.
How often do you generally e... | [
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9,322 | What is the usual expectation of a student by an alma mater? Usually students quit after becoming a part of the alumni association. The contacts are by and large severed a few months after leaving a school.
What are some ways in which one can give something back to alma mater? Is monetary support the best way? One ca... | [
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"text": "Why are you concerned about *expectations*? After you get your parchment, your school no longer has anything to give... | 2013/04/12 | [
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9,325 | While technical papers are generally considered to be "non-archival" and journal papers "archival", I couldn't find a clear statement about papers that appear in conference proceedings. Does it matter in which for the proceedings are published, e.g. only online, on CD/USB drive, or printed with/without ISBN? | [
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9,331 | I finally realized that there is a term for the situation I am in,"**burned out**". [What can I do to recover from a short term burnout?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7668/what-can-i-do-to-recover-from-a-short-term-burnout/7692#7692)
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9,332 | I am a software engineer with 2 years of experience. I am very passionate about software and technology. I code the whole day, creating applications that my friends and I can use.
Now I have left my job because I was not finding it challenging enough (intellectually) and wanted to do something of my own. I feel that ... | [
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9,337 | I think about starting studies towards Master Degree in Computer Science abroad, I finished my bachelor studies few years ago, but I didn't stop studying, during these years I finished few courses of master degree in the domestic university, as result I have transcripts for all of them in English.
The question is what... | [
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9,341 | I would like to ask Prof. X, a distinguished scholar at a top school, for a recommendation for a tenure-track academic position. However, I only want him to write me a recommendation if he is going to write a *good* one. If he will write me a mediocre or just insufficiently positive recommendation, I would prefer to ha... | [
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9,344 | I have graduated nearly 5 years ago and I want to get a Computer Science Master's degree from an above average school in U.S. or Canada, preferably a thesis based degree.
However, I am having difficulty in getting recommendation letters since I graduated long time ago. And, even if I get any letters, my professors are... | [
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9,361 | Important scholars (e.g. Nobel laureates) regularly receive honorary doctorate from different universities. I know that the Board of Trustees (or a similar board) reviews available nominations and awards an honorary degree to a person, but I wonder how the nomination process is conducted.
It seems to be very chancy, a... | [
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9,362 | I recently received an invitation to a conference and I'm trying to determine how reputable it is. Is there a good way to go about this? | [
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9,365 | When writing an abstract for talks at conferences, workshops, etc., I often wonder if it would be considered a self-plagiarism if I copied a few sentences from a paper that is already published. Sometimes those abstracts are "published" in one form or another (proceedings, workshop schedule in print and/or on the web, ... | [
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9,372 | Textbooks take a lot of time and effort to write, so why would a university support their faculty to do so? The author can make a good profit from a textbook and I am guessing the institution doesn't get any of these profits.
What about the grad students that edit and also work on the textbook? It seems as if they ar... | [
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9,378 | One of my colleagues told me authors after acceptance can negotiate about the intellectual property (IP) rights. It is frustrating to wait for peer review long times, and after acceptance publisher asks you to agree with his copyright without any modification.
I am keen to know **when is the best time to negotiate my... | [
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9,381 | For instance, if someone is working as a Phd in computer-science, but on a neuroscience related topic, she might need to take some neuroscience related courses. And some CS courses might not be any help at all for the area she is interested in. Do universities put a lower/upper limit on the number of courses one can ta... | [
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9,382 | I would like to get some advice on what may or may not be a problem, namely the lack of unique identifiers for scientific authors.
So there is a researcher with the same first and last name as myself, who works in a different field (physics vs computer science), but is in a similar stage of academic career (PhD candid... | [
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9,385 | Especially if you are someone who is entering a PhD with very broad interests and little depth of knowledge in your field. | [
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9,388 | If someone has bad grades and limited programming experience, can they afford to rely on their first year of coursework to come up to speed with the field? Or is it a better idea to take some time off before starting your PhD and improve your skills? | [
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9,392 | Some days ago I was talking with a friend of mine, who is currently a post-doc at the illustrious [Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)](http://www.iit.it) working on humanoid robotics.
He was quite disgruntled because he recently spent a lot of time testing his latest discoveries and writing a scientific paper to su... | [
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9,393 | In the past, when forming student groups in class I've always allowed the students to form their own groups, which has certainly made them happy as they tend to form around social circles. As a side note, students at my school go together as classes so they have years where they know all the other people in their class... | [
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9,396 | I was reading [this paper](http://mor.journal.informs.org/content/37/1/111) titled "Optimal Symmetric Rendezvous Search on Three Locations." While talking about the history of search problems, the author mentions the following anecdote in passing.
>
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9,408 | I'm currently finishing up my J.D., and I plan on practicing law for at least a few years. However, I'm also considering returning to school to study CS. In the meantime, I plan on researching and attempting to publish at least a few articles - perhaps some related to cyber law.
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9,438 | Today, I read the name “Howard University” on a list, and since I had no idea where it was, I looked it up. I was amazed from their website because, well, most people on the photos there are black!
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9,439 | I decided fairly late in life (21) that I feel like studying mathematics. I've always been interested in higher maths, I've just been daunted by some of the esoteric notations and theorems. But, no longer a philistine, I'm infatuated with pure mathematics. Right now I'm pursuing a Bachelor's degree in English. Is there... | [
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9,442 | I don't want to stay in academia after finishing my PhD. My current research field is not exciting to me anymore, but also I am too old to change fields. Although my research and my interest were so far quite theoretically focussed, I would like to find a more applied job in R&D in a big prestigeous company, helping im... | [
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9,446 | There are some journals, such as [Behavioral and Brain Sciences](http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=BBS), that publish a single target article per issue, followed by 20 to 30 commentaries on that article, and then a rebuttal/synthesis from the target article authors. Their rough workflow seems to b... | [
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9,453 | I have noticed that the copy editors of at least two publishers (the American Institute for Physics and American Physical Society) do something weird when they copy-edit my submitted papers. For all references to papers in *Nature*, which I include in my references as such:
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9,454 | I am submitting a Ph.D. thesis fairly soon and my supervisor has flagged my use of capitalisation in "Section" and "Chapter" as possibly incorrect. I have googled about a bit and I see mixed opinions.
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9,463 | I did not get accepted into any good graduate programs. For various reasons, I feel I could do much better if I reapplied next year. This question isn't about the *feasibility* of doing so, but of the affect on my professional reputation and network.
It is an investment for the university to give me funding, so it wou... | [
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"text": "This is fine. Don't feel guilty at all. I say this as a math professor at a mid-ranked state school, who has writte... | 2013/04/18 | [
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9,474 | For something I'm applying to, I need to know if I'm considered a student, a part-time employee, or a full-time employee.
I am a graduate research assistant with a yearly stipend. No other employment is allowed. 20 hours a week of research is expected according to the contract. | [
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9,476 | I am writing a conference paper of the first time, and the conference I am targeting requires anonymized submissions for the peer review. But at the same time, we (as in, my research group) are required to acknowledge the grants and support of our funding agency in all our publications. Plus, I also need to refer to a ... | [
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9,484 | I just got into a PhD program and was asked to give a presentation to my juniors regarding grad school applications.
In my country (Asia region), people are fanatical about non-academic extra curricular activities that are totally not related to their topic (sports, debate team, run charities etc). E.g. A student with... | [
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9,489 | I finished reading a textbook of about 250 pages. For my personal reference, I created a summary in note form of about 30 pages. Formulations are close to the original text with some variation on my part, and there are literal quotes. I don't consider it a replacement of the book (obviously?).
What can I do with this ... | [
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9,495 | I realize that this sort of question has been asked before and I have read through some of the other threads but I figured I'd see if there are any more perspectives out there. I am currently a research embryologist for a small fertility clinic with a Bsc in molecular biology. I have about 2 1/2 years of experience and... | [
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"text": "When I was studying for my MBA I also thought about this choice. However, a PhD is long and I was looking forward t... | 2013/04/19 | [
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9,496 | Marking exams can be long, boring, and un-engaging.
It is important one remain focused though to ensure that the evaluation is fair to each student.
What are some methods one can employ to maintain focus and not zone-out while reading answers? | [
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9,503 | I have looked at this [travel grant question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/897/travel-grants-for-international-students-in-the-us) but it talks about when the OP already was pursuing his PhD.
I am from India and have a different scenario as I have just received my PhD offer in Computer Science. Are the... | [
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9,504 | 1. I'm wondering are there any PhD programs (specifically in machine learning) in the US that are structured more like the European ones, i.e. where you immediately start doing research and don't spend your first two years or so on something very similar to Masters' program (lots of coursework, less research).
I have a... | [
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9,506 | I know peer-reviewing research papers is a lot of work, but it is something that as a scientist in academia you must do. However, you are not required to become an editor of a journal. It seems to be tons of work, and I am trying to understand what people gain from it and whether it is worth the effort.
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9,509 | When establishing yourself as a researcher, the importance of independence from your PhD supervisor and focusing on a niche area (to establish popularity in a particular sub-field) are fairly well-established. For longevity of research career the polar opposite criteria of collaboration and breadth have been suggested.... | [
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9,510 | I have a BSc degree from a private university in Egypt. The university offered me a scholarship at the beginning of the program but that scholarship applied only partially to a subsequent MSc degree.
There's an overlap in the degree requirements for the BSc and the MSc, which means that the 5th year of the BSc is also... | [
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9,514 | This may be a question repeated many times, but I want to know your opinion.
I submitted a journal paper for an algorithm (Computer Science). Fearing that the review process take too long, I decided to submit a short-version conference paper, while the long version is under-review. I received the journal review comme... | [
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9,516 | Some friends and I were discussing a certain conference that has a "rebuttal" phase, in which the authors can see the reviews and reply to them. We realized that this rebuttal phase probably couldn't happen before e-mail was common, which lead us to think on the question
>
> How did conferences "work" before everybod... | [
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9,518 | The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has quite a few journals titled "(something) of the AMS".
The research journals include:
* Journal of the AMS
* Proceedings of the AMS
* Transactions of the AMS
* Memoirs of the AMS
How do these journals differ in terms of scope?
Some information about the roles of these jour... | [
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"text": "I found a paper [Mathematical Journals](https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~hildebr/reu2009/journals.pdf) by A.J. Hildebr... | 2013/04/21 | [
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9,523 | I am reviewing the second revision of a paper and am getting tired of this incredibly slow process of me pointing something out that requires clarification just to hear back from those authors two or three months from now (at the earliest).
Do you think I would insult gravely the academic spirit and / or authors of th... | [
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9,524 | When reading about people who have studied at Oxford the word "read" is used instead of study. Example:
"He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford"
Why when discussing study at Oxford (and maybe other universities) is the word "read" used? | [
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9,526 | How does one call postgraduate studies in countries where the appropriate degree is not PHD? It can't be PHD scholarship. Can I use "postgraduate studentship" in this sense in official papers? Maybe "postgraduate scholarship" is better or there are some other variants? | [
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9,540 | From a technical stand point, what do I need to show up to a conference with (in general) to ensure that my presentation will go smoothly?
Two things I can think of:
* Presentation remote
* Equipment to connect my laptop to the projector
The remote is simple enough, it just needs to work with my computer and be reli... | [
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"text": "From less esoteric to more (I've seen all these things happen):\n\n1. Make sure you know how to \"send the image to a pro... | 2013/04/22 | [
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9,542 | As a grad student, I just find it tremendously frustrating when emails are ignored by faculty (both at my institution and at other places). Is this acceptable? I'd be content with a simple response with one line along the lines of "I have read this email and am busy right now, will respond in X days when I can write a ... | [
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9,547 | Every time I apply for a job I write a new cover letter, research statement, and teaching statement. While each statement is personalized for the specific job, I tend to do a lot of cutting and pasting and little new writing (yes I have a whole collection of past statements). This seems like something that might be use... | [
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9,549 | Academia values [academic freedom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_freedom). However, there may be some practical limitations on academic freedom. What repercussions might an academic face for voicing unpopular or offensive views in the name of academic freedom?
For example, how might a professor's academic repu... | [
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9,557 | I receive about 10k emails per year and send about 2-3k. In my department (the sphere I can influence) there are those who almost never respond and those who respond as soon as I have hit the send button. There are also those who send mails on weekends, in the middle of the night, seemingly expecting answers fairly imm... | [
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9,565 | As many universities provide funding covering only part of the tuition fee or living expenses, especially in the UK where tuition fees are different for UK/EU and international students while most scholarships only cover the first one, i.e. international students have to pay the difference. My question is whether it is... | [
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9,571 | Several times in the past, after publishing a paper, I have sent email to several people which I thought might be interested in the results obtained in the paper. Usually I have emailed some of the people whose result I was citing in my paper and to people who were working on related problems.
I such a practice ok, or... | [
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9,579 | I'm an Australian maths undergraduate student, and our academic year ends at the beginning of December. I understand that PhDs in the USA (and elsewhere?) generally start before this time, about September. So, if I want to pursue a PhD overseas, I have a long time to kill in between my undergrad and postgrad degrees.
... | [
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9,589 | I could have written this question in some other stack places, but prefer to do here because the affinity with the audience. I am the head of a research group, 38 years old, engaged in a lot of things and working on average 12 hours per day on research and all related stuff. My son (first one) was born last week and we... | [
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9,592 | In Philips and Pugh's [*How to get a PhD*](http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k-K8SzpEaRgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA54#v=onepage&q&f=false), the authors describe the general philosophical concept of *research* 'in all disciplines'. I have two questions in this context.
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9,594 | At the moment I'm using Zotero to organize my paper collection and for my current work I'm very happy with it's possobilities to organize content (folders and tags).
However, working on bigger projects a hierarchical tag structure would come in handy where subtags can be assigned to lead-tags (or something similar). I... | [
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"text": "This is a question which has often come up on the webz.\n\nI am not really sure of your exact requirements but Mendeley... | 2013/04/23 | [
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9,602 | There's a well-known paper in academic circles that features a rediscovery of the [trapezoidal rule](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezoidal_rule) for numerical integration by a medical researcher:
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> “A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves”, Mary... | [
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9,604 | Let's start with background: I'm European, don't know much about undergrad educational systems, and especially grading, outside my own area. So, I receive a CV from an Indian undergrad with the following section:
Now, I have no idea whe... | [
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9,611 | I am a Masters degree holder in Computer Science. Where I live, the most popular way of receiving research grants is from the government. There are two problems with that.
First, You have to be enrolled in a Masters or doctorate degree program at the time of applying for funding.
Secondly, the researcher only gets a ... | [
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"text": "It can be very difficult to get government financing depending on where you reside. For instance, here in Germany, only ... | 2013/04/24 | [
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9,617 | As my bachelor's thesis, I'm developing some software (a mocking framework for MATLAB). As such, I often need to reference software documentation - both from MATLAB and the software which serves as my inspiration. It would also be nice to be able to reference the documentation of the specific feature I'm referring to (... | [
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9,623 | When I was starting out in my Masters degree, I had an idea of a publication that could be completed in a small amount of time. I was starting out and I felt it would get me at ease with research after publishing this idea.
My idea was like a comparison between two different techniques of solving a problem and the pap... | [
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"text": "First, regarding your comment that *“if [the paper] was so bad it would not have been published”*: in my experience, prett... | 2013/04/25 | [
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9,624 | Let's say I invented a system to solve a problem. To run this system, I made my own algorithm.I also created some other things for that system. The main contribution was supposed to be the system.So is it a good idea to have as many research papers out of the project as I can? Or to publish a single research paper?
I ... | [
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"text": "The way I see it, there are a number of factors at play: \n\n1. Your goals: Do you want your paper to be published in a... | 2013/04/25 | [
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9,631 | I have once, some time ago, received a rejection notice in which the journal editor made what I thought was a peculiar comment. The reviewers all found that the work was good, but one emitted a doubt that I had chosen the right journal for it, saying the paper might not appeal to the broad readership of the journal (it... | [
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"text": "Answering as editor of a journal (albeit not in Physics) I have never heard of such comments. It seems misdirect... | 2013/04/25 | [
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9,634 | This question is in spirit a very general one. When a person (say in CS) is choosing among multiple options for gradschool, which one would experience and prudence point towards? Along with research interests and all that, things to factor in would be the extra strain involved, to be honest.
Case in point:
1. Choice ... | [
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9,642 | I would like to attract more discussion, comments or reviews of my papers and so would like to add the ability for comments or reviews to be made by the public in relation to my papers. Ideally I would like a comments section similar to those found in blogging software which allows comments to be moderated. I would lik... | [
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"text": "I agree that blogging would technically be the way to go.\n\nHowever, realistically speaking, I don't think you are... | 2013/04/25 | [
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