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13,644 | **A confession first**: This was our first attempt at a journal paper.
**The story so far:**
We had submitted our work for possible publication with a reputed journal in our area. Some time later, while the review was still on, I checked out whether this journal allowed self-archiving of author's version of the pa... | [
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13,661 | I am currently doing final year project on a subject which I did not have a very good grade(I took three courses in this subject with grade A-, A and B+, only top 5-10% can earn a grade of A and A+). I am quite interested in it and plan to continue in this subject in graduate school. Will this grade have bad effect for... | [
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"text": "I don't believe there is a serious stigma associated with an undergraduate getting a B+ in a graduate-level course. It ... | 2013/10/26 | [
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13,668 | I've heard a claim recently that GRE scores correlate more strongly with family income levels rather than academic success. Is there any validity to this claim? Does anyone know of any study correlating GRE scores with this factor? | [
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"text": "According to [this article](http://www.fairtest.org/facts/gre.htm) on the *Fair Test* website,\n\n> \n> The GRE ... | 2013/10/26 | [
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13,669 | I am applying to teaching jobs at small liberal arts colleges. They typically ask for the standard things: cover letter, CV, research statement and teaching statement. I feel as though a compilation of student comments and data taken from students in my classes (rating my enthusiasm and preparedness in particular) make... | [
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"text": "Unless the call clearly states that nothing more must be included you should do so. As you correctly identifie... | 2013/10/27 | [
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13,671 | I am going to apply for the masters program in computer science to various US based universities. I am eager to apply to their professional courses which do not have thesis/projects in their curriculum, commonly known as MEng and MCS programs. These courses are more inline with the industry needs and that is where I ev... | [
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13,676 | I am writing a paper, need some review. I want to send it to IEEE, without the name of my co-authors. I might get acceptance. I need to know, in that case, will I be allowed to add my co-authors or not? | [
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"text": "In general this depends on the conference regulations, so the advice is to check them.\n\nUsually you must ... | 2013/10/27 | [
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13,678 | What are the typical (median or maybe third quartile) scores on the math subject GRE for successful applicants to a math program at the PhD level, in applied math, at a Group 2 or Group 31 school?
1This is a ranking system the American Mathematical Society uses for graduate programs. Generally, Group 1 schools are con... | [
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"text": "This may not exactly answer your question though... Below are \"official\" statistics for two group-one (?) pure math pr... | 2013/10/27 | [
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13,687 | I teach at a community college, and my experience with textbook reps is that they're very friendly and persistent, but ultimately all they've really done is to give me a copy of their book and try to convince me to adopt it. There are certainly many unethical things about textbook publishing, but as far as I could see,... | [
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13,691 | Before I state my query, you should know two things about me:
1. I'm an EE graduate
2. I'm working in field of VLSI for past one year.
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I'm applying for Masters in **VLSI** for fall-2014 and I'm in a dilemma here.
I've approached my head of department and a lecturer from my department for getting letter of recom... | [
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"text": "One possibility is to get letters from both. Some application web sites will not accept more than the ... | 2013/10/28 | [
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13,700 | As you might see from my history I don't have a good relationship with my advisor. Recently we wrote a journal paper together based on my thesis. I wrote the introduction, analysis and the description of the app we had developed for our research. In crude terms, I wrote 15 pages of the 23 page journal paper. My advisor... | [
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"text": "Yes, web submission software *can* send authorship confirmation emails to all co-authors, but not all journal publishers... | 2013/10/28 | [
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13,713 | Sometimes, I feel to contact some of the eminent researchers in my field for any of the following reasons:
1. Appreciating their research publication (recent times). They publish in top conferences, which are usually not hosted in my country or nearby.
2. Requesting comments on some of my research hypothesis
3. Someti... | [
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"text": "While many of these topics are excellent points to start a 1-1 conversation, I seriously doubt whether you'd get much o... | 2013/10/29 | [
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13,717 | My spouse and I are both finishing Ph.D's in math and applying for math postdocs in the US. We work in different areas of math, but there are many departments in which both are prominently represented. A postdoc position in the same place is not an absolute must but a big plus for us, and would likely be a deciding fac... | [
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13,726 | I am submitting a paper to a machine learning/computer vision conference. Is it worthwhile to include some source code of my implementation so that the reviewers can test it themselves or gain a greater understanding of my idea? It will take time to clean up my code and make sure it is anonymised.
Is this a common pra... | [
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13,728 | As everybody knows, research experience helps in one undergraduate's admission to a PhD program. It would be even better, if the undergraduate has a publication out of his or her research experience.
However, for a full-time undergraduate, it is quite difficult to devote too much time to research since one still has t... | [
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"text": "If the quality of the work is low, the student should neither publish it in a lower tier conference nor publish it as a tec... | 2013/10/30 | [
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13,731 | When you review papers submitted for publication, is there an “optimal” length for reviews?
In my experience as an author and referee, I have seen a large range of review lengths (for reference, a paper in my field is typically between 3 and 8 printed pages):
* Zero length: for some of the papers I have authored, the ... | [
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13,732 | I have just finished a BSc degree in maths at ETH Zurich and I am now planning to continue with an MSc and a PhD in Japan.
My question is this: is it possible to do an MSc at one university and then do the PhD at a different university?
In Europe this is not only socially acceptable but nothing unusual. But as far ... | [
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13,751 | I'm an early PhD student and one of my research foci is conservation biology. Of the various focal topics of my research, this is the one that I feel most passionate about. (And within conservation biology, habitat loss/disruption is the issue that holds the highest degree of intrinsic interest for me.) However, like m... | [
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13,752 | I have started doing PhD 3 months ago and I still don't have that much progress. What I found is that I spend more time on learning about web development, which I can choose not to do, and this will make me focus more on my PhD and I'm sure I will do better. However, the problem is that web development is like an addic... | [
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13,757 | I was wonder if anyone knew if it is possible (and how) to download an entire journal (as if it would be printed) from ieeeXplore ? | [
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13,759 | What is the typical size for a conference poster? Is it "ask the organizers", or can I safely assume that I'll get a default size, and that there will be enough space to hang it at the poster session? | [
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13,765 | I currently have a paper submitted to [*PNAS*](http://www.pnas.org). We had two rounds of revisions, and following detailed suggestions from one reviewer, we have improved our proposed algorithm a lot: its complexity is now significantly lower, and the idea he suggested makes the overall method more robust in handling ... | [
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13,768 | I have 100 slides but most are light weight with pictures. I am afraid it is too much because I can't get it under 1 hour in my rehearsal. I have noted that some slides take me more time to explain. Any suggestions other than reduce number of slides? Maybe use some kind of timer. | [
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13,771 | *Disclaimer: I am quite fresh as a researcher, even more as a reviewer.*
I am reviewing a paper that appears to report a well-conducted empirical study, with proper data analysis. The results of the article are interesting and relevant for the journal.
However, I am very concerned with how the paper was written. I wi... | [
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13,774 | I find the SE sites, especially Math.SE, MathOverflow and CompSci.SE, extremely useful for solving specific problems I encounter during my research. But I have one concern: if I ask a question in an SE site, and then describe the same question in a paper (whether I got an answer or not), then this might be considered a... | [
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13,781 | I'm currently a first year undergraduate student in pure math but recently I've become interested in neuroscience and related fields. Is it possible to pursue neuroscience and cognitive sciences without a medical degree?
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13,782 | The author *Anonymous* has 74,305 publications in the Scopus publication database. Those include 32,476 peer-reviewed articles, most from the 1980s and 1990s.
Why would anyone write a peer-reviewed paper anonymously? | [
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13,796 | I'm writing a philosophy essay. The essay is required to answer a particular question by analyzing, in turn, four particular philosophy essays; the essay needs to follow the outline below.
1. Restate the question.
2. Introduction.
3. Analyze essayW by Mills
4. Analyze essayX by Shue
5. Analyze essayY by Locke
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13,801 | I was wondering the correct format for citing when including both book edition and the page range of the chapter.
From owl purdue on citing chapter (APA):
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> Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title of
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13,803 | I'm a pure math phd student and the supervisor gave me two papers so as I find an idea to research but the subjects are unrelated and I can't concentrate on one of them and can't decide which one is likely to be a fruitful subject, What should I do? | [
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13,815 | I teach a writing course designed to prepare international students for graduate school, mostly social science majors. The students have no experience writing academic papers. I have found that lists of sample TOEFL and GRE writing topics, such as [this list of sample writing topics](http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/TOEF... | [
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13,818 | I learn math on my own. And I sometimes end up generalizing theorems. I do not claim that these generalizations are ground-breaking. However, I feel these generalizations are not entirely obvious at first-sight.
Could I publish a paper on such a generalization?
Making this more relevant to the community at large, ho... | [
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13,819 | If you review a paper which relies on results some other paper and you do not have access to that paper, is it acceptable to contact the editor and ask whether the author can provide a copy of the referenced paper? Are requests like this reasonably common?
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13,831 | After a few years of graduate school, I've noticed that I may not be asking questions and making criticism in the workshops in the best way. By "best," I have two goals for comments. The first (selfish) goal is to develop a reputation for being a intelligent, insightful colleague with good comments. The second goal is ... | [
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13,834 | I am writing a blog post citing several paywalled papers. Could I also put graphs, diagrams or photos from these papers in my blog post under fair use?
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13,842 | It is feasible to assume that you cannot have more than one grant, since getting a grant means that you are paid for a research project and you cannot work on too many projects at once. So answer should be one. Nevertheless there should be some researchers that have more than one grant. How common is that? Is this fiel... | [
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13,853 | I teach a group of bright students who will interrupt the material presentation with questions that will be answered in the next slide or sentence. I appreciate that they are thinking ahead but I have times when I just need to get the information out there and then discuss it when everyone has had time to process.
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13,868 | I just started working with this professor, I am beginning to really like the work they are doing in his lab. When do you think I should ask him if I can do a PhD under his tutelage? | [
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13,872 | I was wondering if I should include my high school details in the resume of my graduate school application ? It's unclear about this bit since we are not actually submitting any proof of high school records during grad school application( they only ask for undergraduate details).
But my high school final examination de... | [
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13,875 | I'm in the midst of creating a series of videos to teach statistics online. Do any of you have a list of common do's and don'ts that can make a big difference?
Also, how does one assess how much to explain a topic, since you do not get instant feedback by looking at facial reactions to a given concept?
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13,883 | What are some good (preferably open-source) software for making illustrative videos to explain one's research? I am currently looking for software to make a small video on my research topic that could complement presentation slides. The video may not delve into all technical details, but should summarise all technical ... | [
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13,889 | I am extremely dissatisfied with the Master's program I just began and plan on dropping out ASAP. I currently have no interest in finding another graduate program and instead wish to pursue a job outside of academia. As I see it my two choices are to either stick it out for the rest of the semester and just try to main... | [
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13,896 | If someone's (SO) PhD supervisor is not collaborating on publications from SO's PhD. The problem arose as SO raised his mistrust (for the supervisor) on other academic issues. The supervisor treats student's work as his, and SO does not agree with that.
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13,898 | Suppose you submit a paper and it is rejected with no suggestion of resubmission, but there is substantial feedback. Do you fix up the paper, based on the feedback and resubmit? Or fix it up and submit to another journal? What heuristic do people use, if any? Or is every case different?
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13,902 | I am a PhD student and I would like to do an internship at an American university or institute. How should I proceed? | [
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13,903 | Are there papers that sum up ideas and results from other papers? What are their characteristics/form? Do they provide insights on the field or try to predict the future?
I have read some papers for a class homework and I would like to know whether I should try to summarize and publish it somewhere. | [
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13,908 | I'm not 100% sure whether this belongs here, but since I am a PhD student (teaching) in the TCS/Algorithms department, I'd like to know what fellow, maybe more experienced, teachers think.
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13,912 | Lets say a member of a lab has an entirely theoretical idea like "wouldn't it be nice if we wrote software that does X?" The member did give a talk showing how such code would work if implemented. Due to general skepticism about the idea, nothing ever comes of it.
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13,916 | I'm about to supervise my first bachelor student and I'm not quite sure what is acceptable and what is not.
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13,921 | I like to use bibliographic software (e.g., Endnote, BibTex, etc.) to manage my references. However, sometimes I am working on an existing article that has been written with APA citations and references written manually. For example, I might be working with a collaborator who has written the first draft or I'm adapting... | [
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13,923 | Related to this question on [cross-checking APA citations and references](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/13921/how-to-check-citations-and-references-match-in-a-manually-prepared-document-with), I often have an existing list of APA formatted references. This might come from a document from a collaborator o... | [
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13,929 | A couple months ago I refereed a paper for one journal. Due to a number of factors, I recommended that it not be published in that particular journal, and gave the author a bunch of comments on how they could easily improve the manuscript. The editor of that journal followed my recommendation (and perhaps the recommend... | [
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13,939 | Since the start of the hiring season, I've seen around 20-30 job openings that looked interesting for assistant professor positions in my area of computer science.
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13,943 | I'm supposed to give a presentation at an academic conference in the coming days but have fallen ill. What is the best way to send my regrets? Should I also send a doctor's note? It doesn't provide details of my condition but does have other personal information such as date of birth and home address. I just wonder if ... | [
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13,946 | Twelve months ago I started working on a project (which began at that time) with my advisor.
Six months ago another student (refered to as A in the following) joined the project.
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13,949 | During peer-review, is it part of the job of the reviewer to check the spelling, typos, grammar, and suggest improvement? It will help the paper and seems part of the job, but seeing some manuscripts it could take ages to write down every tiny correction in the review.
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13,952 | I'm applying to graduate school (CS MS/PhD) this year and I wanted to put up a copy of my papers online so that admission committees would be able to see them. The problem is one of the papers is currently under submission at a conference and notification for the same is only on Jan 22nd. Another one is still in prepar... | [
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13,954 | What is the difference between special issues and regular ones from the scientific journal publication point of view? | [
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13,960 | I feel a little bit ashamed, but I have never understood the difference between transactions and journals. [This question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9518/the-differences-between-ams-research-journals/) is quite related. However, I could not find any clear differentiation.
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13,963 | In my dissertation, I am solving a problem by using techniques used to solve another problem. As a result, I have to do two literature surveys for both problems. I ended up with a huge chapter! - most of it is basically a literature survey.
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13,984 | I'm about to defend my PhD in Computer Science in a couple of months, and I'm struggling with deciding on a future career path. Over the course of the 8 years I spent in an academic environment, I familiarized myself with advances and challenges of formal software development. I also learned a lot about myself. It migh... | [
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13,985 | As an undergraduate (not studying computer science) I was fortunate enough to work in the lab of the CS department chair at my university for an extended period of time. This work resulted in me being added as a coauthor to one of her most recent papers. She also knows me well - I took an intro CS course with her, and ... | [
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13,991 | Some time ago, I attended a conference. The organizers later compiled an edited book with the revised presentations of the conference. I was also offered to contribute a chapter. But after the sending the organizers a first draft, I had to turn down the offer as I did not have the time to make the revisions and additio... | [
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13,993 | I am applying for a PhD programme in Europe. For that I need to write a cover letter. It will be more like a SOP (technical but shorter version, as it's one page) or it can be more general stuff, as in why I want to do a PhD, what I like about this particular field, what background I have. Any suggestions welcome. | [
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13,996 | I'm currently looking at the requirements of a (Comp. Sci.) job that seems to only take into account "ISI-indexed publications". I'm vaguely aware of what ISI is and so forth, but I'm struggling to find a definitive list of ISI-indexed venues, or what "ISI-indexed publications" means.
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14,003 | Most of the schools that I've looked at for PhD programs in Computer Science have between a 9-15% acceptance rate. I've noticed similar acceptance rates for other programs outside of computer science; yet almost everyone that I've ever spoken to has only applied to a handful of schools. This just doesn't make sense to ... | [
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14,005 | I would like to keep up to date with public literature in my research field. All relevant publications are of too big a volume to follow and so the problem invites some automatic mechanism of filtering and notification.
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14,010 | I am working on a honours thesis and have developed a Fortran library that I would like to cite in it.
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14,011 | I have to write a paper as an assignment for one of the courses that I take in University.
The main outcome of this lecture is having a good final paper in the end. As we are Masters students, the paper that I am going to write resembles more a survey paper in a given topic, rather than a research paper presented by t... | [
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14,022 | As a graduate student, i've had to substitute teach a number of times for a variety of classes. I'm wondering if it is really worth while to add this information into my CV. Obviously, it won't hold as much weight as teaching a full class. But if it is worth mentioning on the CV, what category should I add it to? Teach... | [
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14,036 | I peer-reviewed a manuscript and am about to send my conclusions to the editor. It occurs to me, though, that because there are many details to be checked/changed in various places of the paper (mathematical notations, in particular), it will take quite some time for me to type it into a proper review (probably using T... | [
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14,038 | Today this question came to my mind.
Currently I am a Master student enrolled in University. All my previous studies I have passed thinking that I am a fan of Telecommunication/Computer Networks and related topics.
However, recently due to the overload on these topics I feel like I have lost my interest in them. Ho... | [
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14,040 | What's a quick and useful reference, either in print or online, for writing numbers and reporting measurements in scientific texts? Something I could distribute to all new students, which would cover things they should be taught but do not always know, like:
* how to write big/small numbers in scientific form (1.78 10... | [
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14,045 | Can't believe I've got to the end of my PhD before asking this one! I want to cite a work whose copyright date is 1996 but whose first paperback edition (the one I'm referencing) is 1999. Which date is correct? | [
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14,051 | When teaching a course on a topic that might be controversial, what are the responsibilities of instructors to facilitate an open learning environment? If the instructor has a strongly held opinion, is it appropriate for the instructor to structure the course and the readings around this opinion? Does the instructor ha... | [
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14,053 | Assuming I got a PhD in Computer Science from Oxford or Cambridge University, how would that affect my chances at becoming a professor at a top US university versus getting a PhD from a top US institution? Assuming also that I had US citizenship? | [
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14,058 | I am currently taking a year off to reapply for PhDs. My ultimate aim is to work in academia. I am currently teaching secondary school biology as a way of filling this year. My government presents the opportunity of obtaining a teaching certificate by taking weekend classes in addition to the teaching. I was wondering ... | [
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14,066 | How do I find abbreviation of the journal name [*Engineering*](http://www.scirp.org/journal/eng/)? | [
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14,080 | **Some people, in their CV or publication list, add bibliometric information to each entry.** I've typically seen:
* mention the impact factor of each journal
* number of citations of each paper
* mention the acceptance rate of each conference
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14,081 | I have a figure in my paper. If there is much to say about the figure, I will have a brief title and a descriptive caption for it.
What about the figure about which I have not much too say? Do I replicate what I have written in the title in the caption?
Since caption is also used for reference, it must exist. Can I t... | [
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14,085 | I (an undergrad) and 2 other profs from my department have been working on something and we were thinking of submitting our work to a conference (a pretty well known one) this week. The fact is there is no related work that has been done on the problem we are solving and therefore there is no paper which we can cite as... | [
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14,087 | My advisor's wife is having her first baby and he told us about it at our last lab meeting. We understand that this will mean he might need extra time/patience as the big day approaches, but are we supposed to be doing anything else? What is the etiquette for this as one of his students? Should we be buying him some ki... | [
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14,093 | In the main text of scientific papers, one should use and and avoid using &.
I wonder if it still holds true in section titles.
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14,112 | I am an undergraduate and I do not know much about the rules of writing an email.
The email system used by our university is not convenient at all: it responds slowly, often crashes, and its common to miss important emails.
I need to email profs in our school and other universities. Is it necessary for me to use the e... | [
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14,117 | I have just received feedback about my PhD (in my University, we do not do an oral defense, our dissertations are peer reviewed) - and I have received great and useful feedback and criticisms which will be a breeze to respond to.
Also included in the feedback are some very kind and positive comments about me as a scie... | [
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14,124 | I am applying for graduate studies in the US and in my statement of purpose I mention the name of a book and it's author, as the book is very relevant to my previous research work and the author is working in the university I am applying too.
Is this okay, or should I not mention the book's name?
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14,126 | Can I mention an adjunct professor as my proposed supervisor for graduate studies, or adjunct professors are not allowed to be supervisor?
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14,133 | I am currently applying for two universities for graduate studies at the US, assuming both universities accept me (Hopefully) should I choose the university that fits me better or the university which is more selective (like ivy league universities).
My concern is that smarter students will overrun me in the top unive... | [
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14,138 | Of course, it is absolutely important to quote all thoughts that did not originate from the author. This makes one think that it would be OK to include works of others when referencing them correctly.
For example, consider that one had that really great list of problems that also apply to your own paper. Is it legal a... | [
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14,146 | Two years ago I did a piece of research for a journal's especial edition. I got the reviewer's comments, did all the corrections and sent it to my co-authors. One of them took so long to return his comments that the paper wasn't included in the EE. I then tried to submit it to another journal but again the same co-auth... | [
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14,156 | I have recently searched my publications in Scopus and I have found that they are all scattered around. The reason behind that maybe is because I have a compound last name. The situation has gone pretty weird also in one of my papers, where they have put one of my last names to another author that I do not even know.
... | [
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14,166 | I have done some independent research that I wish to mention in my SOP. The full account of what I have done till has been published as an e-print on arxiv.org. Can I give a hyperlink to this e-print in my SOP? | [
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14,173 | In my master thesis I developed a software tool that improves a common workflow used in a certain industry. Currently, no such tool exists, and this workflow is conducted manually all around the globe. I am currently in the finalization phase of my thesis and my supervisor told me to write a paper on the tool and the w... | [
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14,180 | When applying to faculty jobs, how much weight is given to your research/teaching statements? Talking with a few folks on admissions committees at Very Good Departments in Big Research Universities, I was told in no uncertain terms that
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14,189 | I have written a research book on the topic of abstract pure mathematics. Now the book is in review with a scientific publisher.
In the book there are some conjectures formulated by myself. There are also some conjectures and problems at my site, which are not in the book.
I want to create a community of mathematicia... | [
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14,190 | I've received a perplexing peer-review to a submitted paper of mine. The editor asks for major revisions, and sent us two reviews. The first one is serious and raises good points: we'll work, amend the manuscript and send a detailed reply to the editor.
The second reviewer, however, has a 3 (minor) weird questions, an... | [
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14,197 | I am a mathematics PhD student in the US graduating this year. I recently received a very good 3 year postdoc offer in Europe, which I have to accept or decline in early December. Not being a big risk taker, I am leaning toward accepting the offer.
I have also applied for an NSF postdoc, which I would prefer to the Eur... | [
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14,202 | I am a member of a curriculum committee where we want to improve our undergraduate physics program. One way of doing that is to include weekly discussion sessions with our courses.
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14,203 | English is not my first language, and I am concerned that my statement of purpose might contain some grammatical and punctuation mistakes that neither Microsoft word nor I can see. What is the best way to overcome this problem, and to what degree does this affect the admissions committee decision putting into considera... | [
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14,219 | I'm trying to figure out whether I need to cite these poems or not.
>
> “Out, Out—” has its morbid description of a young boy bleeding out and
> its underlying theme of death. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” has its
> pessimistic theme that nothing beautiful can stay beautiful.
>
>
>
I speak so generally that I
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14,224 | I am a mathematics Ph.D student in the United States, and recently received a 3 year postdoctoral offer in Germany, which I have only a few weeks to accept or decline. The offer is very good (high salary, travel funding, no teaching unless I want to) the PI is basically the top person in my field, and the position also... | [
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