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14,226 | I submitted a paper to an Elsevier journal which is now in 'Submitted to Journal status'. Now I want to remove it to improve the write up, though the content is good. I don't want it to be rejected after waiting for 7 months which would be a lot of time wasted. I would rather remove it now and improve it myself or with... | [
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"text": "*“When you feel your paper do not have high chances to get accepted”*… then I suggest you **don't submit it for publicati... | 2013/11/19 | [
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14,231 | I've started a PhD position at a university in the US, but I'd like to travel during my time there. What's the easiest way to do something like that? Are there fellowships or grants available for students who want to study abroad for a semester or year, and if so, how can I find them? Or, is studying abroad typically a... | [
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"text": "It is very dependant on the country you live in. There are plenty of countries whos universities have special pr... | 2013/11/19 | [
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14,235 | Teaching, research and (academic) publishing are three different pursuits. Our society and its institutions, particularly most universities, enforce links between these in various ways.
People who have great teaching skills can not get teaching positions (at universities) because they aren't good in doing research, an... | [
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"text": "> \n> We miss out on people who would make great teachers because they aren't good at doing research, and so... | 2013/11/19 | [
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14,239 | I'm looking for advice on presenting the research publications of my group on our webpage. Most groups seem to go with a simple publication list, sorted by year and maybe publication type. But there are also more elaborate implementations up to browseable publication directories (e.g., <http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~son... | [
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"text": "My dreamed interface puts on the left a list of topics, a list of authors and possibly some other list (venue, maybe)... | 2013/11/19 | [
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14,250 | I'm undergraduate who are applying US research program. I have one interest field in which I have read 1 survey and 3 other papers (I know it is not enough). I only have some vague and primitive idea so that I am not sure I will do research in the field in graduate program.
I'm afraid if I write my research interest ... | [
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"text": "I am not sure if a statement would be harmful, it will be a question of how well you appear to know the field. ... | 2013/11/20 | [
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14,254 | I'm a year and a half into a PhD at a top university in the Uk. Doing some good work but not enjoying academia and I think this is more than second year blues. I have quite a bad advisor which doesn't help, for example I've already had my work stolen by a collaborator and my supervisor is reluctant to rock the boat or ... | [
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"text": "I have my PhD in Computer Science so it's not a 1:1 comparison, but it's probably close enough.\n\nFirst, know ... | 2013/11/20 | [
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14,258 | Does anyone know if there is a tool that takes a paper (pdf) and is able to produce a directed graph of the citations, and if possible take the papers that are cited and use the citations of those papers and include it in the graph. So it is easy to see what is an important paper, and what I've missed and so on.
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"text": "I'm also on a saga to look for this tool, hopefully the answers in this thread can end all the search. Here is... | 2013/11/20 | [
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14,266 | I'm a Master's student currently applying for PhD programs. I've seen conflicting advice about including coursework on my CV.
I'm wondering whether it's ever helpful to have relevant coursework listed. In my case, for example, I'm applying to programs that are more computation-based than my current program, and I'd li... | [
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14,276 | I currently work as an Aerospace Engineer for the Department of Defense for nearly 6 years now, and I have a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from a top-10 university in the United States. I am seriously thinking of doing a 2nd PhD in Computer Science, because I want to eventually own an Algorithmic Energy Trading Firm and... | [
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"text": "A major part of doing a PhD is learning how to do research and handle working on problems which sit on the edge of what ... | 2013/11/21 | [
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14,277 | I have interned in two companies while I was conducting my undergraduate studies, one of the internships was unpaid and the other covered transportation expenses.
My question should I mention in my CV that these internships were unpaid or voluntary?
And does this issue make a difference in the eyes of the graduate adm... | [
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14,284 | I am a researcher in computer science. I am used to publish papers on computer science problem resolution (machine learning, optimization, disabilities, pattern recognition...).
In recent work, we needed to create a specialized software incorporating many complex technologies. This software is used to conduct other r... | [
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14,291 | I am an undergraduate in the UC system. I sometimes encounter situations where professors or TA's make errors, or there are inaccuracies in the material. These situations tend to be quite awkward for both the student and the TA or professor.
It is painful for me not to speak up, but there is a fear, possibly exaggera... | [
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14,295 | I am currently reviewing a paper, which is definitely not suitable for the journal where it was submitted (high impact, topics should be interesting for a broad audience). The content is not new and in this current state not sufficient for publication at all.
I would now recommend rejection with reference to some lite... | [
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14,300 | Currently my literature surveys do not involve trips to the library and I am wondering if I am missing out on something important. What sort of material/knowledge can the library provide that I would miss on google scholar.
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"text": "Almost none.\n------------\n\nI recently wrote a [research survey](http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/pubs/optcycles.html), whi... | 2013/11/22 | [
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14,303 | I have 9 and 10 months old recommendation letters. Can I use these when applying to graduate programs (United States)? Is that okay with the admissions committee? | [
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"text": "To elaborate on Nate Eldredge's point, this would be a bad idea on several levels:\n\n* It will look bad with the co... | 2013/11/22 | [
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14,312 | I have the impression that many female scientists, especially after they gave birth to a child, start to develop a research interest in the learning, growing, and developmental behaviors of babies. I got this impression because over time I heard about a couple of female university professors and industry scientists doi... | [
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"text": "Males have historically outnumbered their female counterparts in the field of psychology, but this has changed i... | 2013/11/23 | [
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14,318 | Most of the textbooks I used during my undergraduate studies (outside north America) are International editions, so what is the difference between a national and an international edition of a book?
For example, I have a book that says
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> XYZ published this special edition for the benefit of students outside the Uni... | [
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"text": "**International editions are cheaper**\n\nThey are sold cheaper, in English speaking countries (or countries with educati... | 2013/11/23 | [
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14,323 | I have a group of undergraduate students who are best described as 'unprepared' meaning that they were not well prepared for life in university. They are, as a group, under-performers, although there are certainly stars contained within the group. One more point of complexity is that the students are studying in Englis... | [
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14,332 | Some academic job posts and grant applications require submitting both a CV and a publication list. I would have thought that it is a standard to put the publication list in the CV, hence it is not necessary to have the publication list again. What is the purpose of requiring both of them? | [
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14,337 | While writing one's Statement of Purpose for applying to a grad program, should one mention that her spouse is also a grad student in the same university? What are the pro's and con's of that approach - while on one hand, it shows that the candidate is very likely to accept an offer made by the dept, it might also impl... | [
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14,342 | During graduate studies online application submission period, is there any preference given for an applicant if he/she submits his application at the beginning of that period compared with someone who submits his/her application couple of hours before the deadline?
Or as long as the applications are complete there is ... | [
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14,345 | I am planing to apply to study in graduate school, major in *computer science/engineering*. I just took a GRE test, this is my 1st time, and the result is pretty...not so good :(
Most schools, the science or engineering related program, reveals the average or preferred GRE scores for *quantitative* and *verbal* sectio... | [
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14,349 | I'm writing a thesis on a financial topic and some important arguments for my research can only be found in reports from investment banks, not scholarly sources. I think it's because the topic is very new but right now I'm not sure how 'respected' a bank report reference is. I'm talking UBS, Citibank,... The topic conc... | [
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14,351 | If a formula appears in the main body of the text, there seems no doubt that punctuation should be given to that formula when necessary. But when a formula appears *displayed* (i.e. solely taking up a line), there seems no consensus on whether punctuation is needed for it. I wonder if there will be any potential ambigu... | [
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14,355 | I am a post doc in mathematics, and was just sent a request to review a paper. This is the first time it happened to me. I never heard of this journal before, but it is a Springer journal, and upon checking the editorial board it looks like a respectable journal. Also, the paper looks quite interesting, so it appears t... | [
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14,358 | In my field (chemistry), review is always done in a single blind process, i.e. the author does not know who the referees were, but the referees do know who the authors are. In ten years, I have never seen a referee breaching this anonymity, e.g. by signing their review, unless they got prior approval by the editor (in ... | [
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14,370 | I have just graduated from a masters degree in information systems, and I'm due to begin a role at a large IT consultancy firm in 6 months time.
For the interim I have arranged a period of desk research with one of my old professors. I cannot go into specifics but to give you a taster my research will be around small/... | [
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14,387 | I am working on a multidisciplinary subject which involves mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and chemistry. I have a decent amount of research completed and now I need to select a journal to publish my work. How do I select a good journal to publish my papers?
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14,390 | ### Background
I'm doing some work for a new online-only university that is being founded, based in the US and offering degrees up to doctorate in courses like history, philosophy and literature. It's heavily research-based and doesn't allow credit transfer.
One of the great things about this university is that it wi... | [
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14,395 | A journal which accepted a paper of mine has made some alterations to the text of the paper as part of their editing process. They sent me the edited version for approval, and I discovered that at least some of these changes are erroneous (for instance, one of the changes included a typo, and another was changing the s... | [
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14,396 | I enjoy creating presentations a lot and I think I have an eye for nice design, however, I tend to always have the same layout/colour scheme/etc. and I'd like to try something new for my defence.
So I've been googling great presentations for hours, and there are heaps of innovative designs but usually these are from o... | [
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14,408 | I rewrote my thesis work with improved analytical explanation of major problem statement and included few subsections which were not the part of thesis. Also I rewrote the algorithms with more clarity for better understanding.
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14,419 | How long does it take for a cited paper to show up online? I can see a couple of papers that were cited very recently and the papers containing those citations are currently online since a week or two. How long should I expect it to take before those citations show up as citations through Google Scholar or other indexi... | [
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14,426 | I am an undergraduate intending to apply to an American graduate program. In my SOP, I decided to write one paragraph about my final year thesis. However, the truth is that I failed to propose something new in my final year thesis. The only positive things, I believe, is that I have found related papers quickly without... | [
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14,427 | There are some very well-known results and equations, e.g., Shanon Capacity formula, Erlang Distribution and Poisson Distribution, etc. Do we have to provide a reference for these results as well?
Also at times we seek help from a user manual while writing a simulation program or conducting a practical experiment. Do ... | [
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14,439 | I have found that [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) is not a coherent, exhaustive, or detailed reference. I would like to find a similar resource that explains academic/scientific terms and methodologies clearly, briefly, and in a detailed manner. Ideally, this resource would be freely available on t... | [
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"text": "If you find wikipedia not clear and brief enough, try [wiktionary](http://www.wiktionary.org) instead. Instead o... | 2013/11/28 | [
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14,444 | I am looking for two kinds of data about the great scientists of today,
* Their average daily routine of work. Like how many hours and when?
* Their average length of time of being able to think continuously.
I vaguely remember seeing a post by Terence Tao about this - like he mentioned that it takes him some x-minu... | [
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"text": "I don't have access to this article, but if you do, you might want to look into it:\n\n[Hargens, L. L. (1978)... | 2013/11/28 | [
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14,446 | A paper of mine has been under review for more than a year now. About 6 months ago I heard from the journal that one referee report is in while they are waiting for the 2nd. The editor promised he would get in touch with the Associate Editor to speed up the process.
In any case, nothing has happened until now.
I am t... | [
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14,447 | I do not have any prior experience of publishing any kind of research material, it would be a huge favour if you can give your comments in the following matter:
In a thesis related to Seismic Image Processing, the author has proposed a method for Automatic Fault Detection, I have implemented that method and I have imp... | [
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14,449 | First, I am not asking for name suggestions. I am just not sure how to express very well the content of my paper. The paper theoretically compares four algorithms, and nominates and implements one of them. I found many papers in the literature which started with the name `Comparative analysis`. Does this term apply to ... | [
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14,466 | As a third year graduate student (theoretical physics) I need to find out methods to understand if I am doing well or not, am I making progress or not, am I putting in enough effort or not?
How do I judge/measure my performance?
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14,486 | I just submitted my applications to all the grad schools I am considering. Is there anything I can do during the wait to help my application? | [
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14,488 | I recently applied for an academic job that did not request letters of recommendation at the time of application, but only a list of potential references. I just now received an email from the search committee chair that I had made it to the "short list" and to please contact my references to arrange for my letters to ... | [
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14,494 | I am writing a paper that describes a programming language that I am developing as part of my PhD. I think that writing the paper using an example can greatly improve how the paper is understood. Is there a "standard" example that is used in programming languages paper? A set of examples? | [
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14,498 | I am a master student in mathematics studying in Europe and I am applying to several graduate schools in the USA. They aren't all Top 10 in these dubious rankings, but I am applying to Harvard, Northwestern and Rutgers.
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14,502 | I am an undergraduate student who wants to do research in computer graphics field. I would like to know how a computer science masters degree and a computer graphics and Game Technology (goes with similar names at different universities) would affect my future Ph.D. applications and career, upon graduating from the mas... | [
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14,504 | I teach a course in academic writing covering the writing aspects, the very basics of research skills, such as referencing works, plus related college skills. At this point in the term, quite a number of foreign students have begun to express frustration:
* Some wish they can organize their papers in more “creative” w... | [
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14,505 | I have written a paper (only internally marked) and I have a title:
"GCR2: A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma".
This was initially a Winston Churchill quote about Russia (after the colon anyway). However, it seems silly to reference it directly in the title and I have been looking around on the web and... | [
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14,511 | I have recently submitted a paper to arXiv, but the arXiv moderators put my paper in status "on hold", because they have to make a decision on the right classification for the paper.
To those who have experienced a similar situation, how long did it take before they made a decision and published the paper on the arXi... | [
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14,513 | I finished some experiments on classification and I am now preparing for a **presentation**.
The experiment yields data which will then be manually verified to determine if the data is correct or incorrect. The experiment is run a total of 10 times and the output for each run is the amount of hits ("Yes") or misses (... | [
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14,520 | Can I publish my technical paper on more than one publishing sites? The paper content is the same while only the formats differ. I am the author of the paper. | [
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14,529 | I am a relatively young faculty member. I was asked to provide a reference for a student of mine so he is admitted in a PhD program in Sciences in UK. The student is probably one of the best students I had in a couple of years in terms of academic potential. I firmly believe he will do well as he is bright and hard-wor... | [
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14,534 | I plan to apply for USA universities. Is there any difference between the number of PhD opportunities in spring and fall semesters? I mean in which semester do I have a better chance to be approved?
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14,536 | This recent question [How high should I rate a good student for PhD admission?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/14529/how-high-should-i-rate-a-good-student-for-phd-admission) is just an example of how puzzling the problem of writing reference letters is.
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14,540 | I am an undergraduate student in Canada doing a double degree concurrently, a B.Sc (Bachelors of Science) and a B.Eng (Bacehlors of Engineering) over 5 years. (8 years down to three at the price of my sanity? Sure haha!).
My Major in Science is Physics, and my Discipline in Engineering is Electrical/Computer.
When i... | [
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14,548 | I am a Master's student who is mentoring a recent graduate through a research project in the same field (of astronomy). He is a very good *student*, but struggles with one of the realities of being an astronomer - coding. Right now, he is just running code others have written, but despite my strong suggestion that he s... | [
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14,553 | I am currently in the second year of my post-doctoral fellowship. My PI will be moving to a new university in ~9 months.
As the story of the potential move developed, I was honest with my PI during discussions and told him that it was likely that I would go with him if he left, but it was never discussed in detail.
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14,561 | I have seen that some researchers in my field, that is Computer Science, do this:
* They publish a paper, for example titled "The use of the Fourier transform for problem X". The paper gets accepted.
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14,563 | I am currently applying for several post-doctoral positions. For these applications I have to prepare a research document in which I present my current research and my future projects in a limited amount of pages (typically not more than 4 or 5). But there is two possible organisations of ideas:
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14,565 | I wrote an article containing quite a lot of maths using latex. I want to submit this paper to a given journal. However, submission guideline explicitly states that
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14,572 | I am applying for my Masters in CS in US universities. I am very much interested in Artificial Intelligence, but some of my friends said that it would be very difficult for me to learn AI as I have no overview about the course in my undergraduate degree.
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14,576 | I am trying to compare PhD training programs of different universities, institutes and departments in my field of interest. One of the comparisons I made is where did the previous students go after they finished their PhDs; how many papers did they write during their PhDs; and how much are they cited 1-2 years after co... | [
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14,586 | I'm wondering how I should put my internship experiences in my Statement of Purpose for Master program. The internship experiences (mainly building java web applications) are not quite related to my research interests like distributed systems, real-time computing, etc. | [
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14,593 | I am currently doing Algebra in a college in India. The professor asks students to note down solved examples in class, and then poses the very same questions in the tests.
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14,599 | I have stumbled upon a paper that is very related to my field of research and after reading and discussing it with my supervisor, I found some issues in the paper that I need more information about, such as the data set they used.
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14,602 | Application forms for graduate school usually contain some vague statements regarding the extents of usage of one's social security number.
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14,606 | I am bachelors of commerce from a not known university. I am going to take economics masters from India's top institute. I will take higher math courses as well. What else should I do to get in top 10 economics program ? (Are there any chances for me?)
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14,615 | I am a PhD student in an applied science subject at a UK university, part way through my first year. I have two supervisors: 'A' is a senior professor, and 'B' is a PDRA. Most of my work is centred around a large multi-university project. A is the PI on this project, and most of B's time is spent on it. B and I often w... | [
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14,618 | What is the prime motivation/incentive for people to supervise undergraduate projects? Students want the degree obviously, but what do the supervisors get? Is there some incentive? Are undergraduate supervisors paid per project as well?
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14,625 | As we all know, during our higher-education careers there have been many professors who have assigned academic papers that require a minimum word or page count in some shape or form.
Personally, I feel this simply forces students to create “fluff” in their papers. I can understand creating a maximum word count (this ... | [
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14,629 | I have been working in a big-shot multi-national corporation as a developer for two years now, with a possible future as a software architect in some eight to ten years.
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14,647 | What citation style allows the author to reference sources with superscript numbers?
I'm at the very edge of my page limit. I'm allowed to use any citation style. I need something concise that can point to the relevant works I've listed on the works-cited page.
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14,651 | I submitted my paper to a reputed journal two days ago. I got a mail from the editor saying that I need to complete other forms (copyright etc) after he finishes screening. However,I hadn't received my supervisor's approval when I submitted the paper. Now my supervisor has got back to me saying that I should withdraw m... | [
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14,658 | I'm starting a new program in the spring and one of the first things that we will be tasked with is the creation of a 'XYZ Learning Contract'. After a bit of digging in the search engines I see that there is a pretty broad spectrum of thought on the value and composition of learning contracts. Having never dealt with t... | [
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14,660 | Many journals, especially in the life sciences, offer the possibility to submit results as as a brief communication.
I'm wondering when to choose this way of publishing. If I don't have enough results for a large paper because it used to be a "hobby project" that should be put to an end, but the results are interestin... | [
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14,661 | I am used to European university system and I don't know much about how things are working overseas.
I already hold a Bachelor degree and a Master degree. I will soon be looking for a PhD. If I am not mistaken, in the USA, someone directly jumps from a Bachelor degree to graduates studies which include a Master degree... | [
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14,663 | Can two people, a professor and a graduate student, sign a recommendation letter? The concern here is that the professor knows little about the student and the graduate student knows all about the student.
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14,671 | There is a two year gap after finishing my Master's degree and I am applying to graduate schools in the same field. This time has spent on immigration and then unemployment, tutoring physics, and a job not directly related to my field. But I have been following new research on the topics that I was interested in, witho... | [
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14,693 | I am writing a University Dissertation proposal on Big Data. I have recently received my feedback and while there are good, constructive points one of the main issues in the marking is it is "too descriptive". I do not understand what this means really, when we are talking about a literature review how can it not be de... | [
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14,695 | I have to start writing my thesis. My topic for research is work life balance in IT sector - a comparative analysis of male & female IT professionals in Pune.
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14,698 | If my university position is entirely funded by grant funds can I write for another grant while being funded by another grant?
More specifically the individual is a project coordinator hired by grant funds to manage a grant, not a faculty member or student. Can this person spend time writing another grant when the pro... | [
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14,699 | **Background:**
I'm a non-US undergrad majoring in Computer Science. I will have published a couple of research papers in a few months before I graduate, have worked on a couple of research-based academic projects, made some significant contributions to a big FOSS project, have done an internship from a small US start... | [
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14,706 | After I completed my PhD program, during which I published one refereed paper, I applied for several academic positions.
For a while, my two main thesis advisers agreed to write letters of recommendation, but after a few couple of years, one of them told me he would no longer recommend me because I had not published en... | [
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14,711 | I have presented recently in one of IEEE computer science conferences. My paper's main contributions was optimizing an algorithm to achieve 3.5X times speed up. Now, I am planning to submit another paper to one of Bwrungor's journals with IF 0.7. However, the only new contribution here is I optimized the gain to be 4.5... | [
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14,729 | There's been a series of articles recently [[1](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/adjunct-faculty_n_4255139.html),[2](http://chronicle.com/article/Adjunct-Project-Shows-Wide/136439/),[3](http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/real-money-with-alivelshi/Real-Money-Blog/2013/10/15/poor-working-conditionsforadjunc... | [
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14,734 | ACM now offers authors of published papers a choice of two copyright licenses: the "traditional" [ACM Copyright Transfer Agreement](https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/copyreleaseproc-8-16.pdf) or the [ACM Publishing License](https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/acm-publicenseag... | [
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14,735 | I'm organizing a conference and we have the option to set up the seating either around multiple tables ie a wedding arrangement or in the classroom style. There are benefits to either strategy but the way I see it, the tabular format allows people to put their stuff down and relax. On the other hand, the classroom styl... | [
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14,741 | I recently came across this query on a LinkedIn group. The exact query was:
"Does anyone know if there are journals in image/signal processing, CV or related ares, which have no page limitation and have ok/reasonable reputation? I have a theoretical paper which has 50 page."
Online journals could theoretically have n... | [
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14,743 | Some journals have their own bibliography styles (bst) for BibTeX.
>
> If a journal does not have its own bibliography style, am I supposed to include the content of the bbl-file into the tex-file I am sending? Or can I send the bib-file instead?
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14,754 | After reading [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/14741/2692), and specifically [this answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/14745/2692), I find myself wondering why someone would publish an extremely long paper, for example 200 pages, instead of publishing as a book.
I was always under the impr... | [
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14,755 | I am about to do a Ph.D. in applied Mathematics/Theoretical Computer Science. The organization I'm going into is not a university, but a research institute in Europe. I'd like to assess my prospects after the completion of the Ph.D. So I would like to know how my Ph.D. would appear to potential employers. Will I be sid... | [
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14,760 | I am a fresh PhD student and I need to choose an advisor to guide my research. Currently I find it difficult to choose.
One professor's current project pretty well matches my previous research experience. Although I would not say I am interested in it, at least I don't hate it. But I find most of his students will ne... | [
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14,764 | I am a foreign student and currently applying to several PhD programs in the US. My GPA in the 6th semester was a lot disappointing, and pulled down my overall GPA and ranking significantly. The reason is that I got pregnant, by accident. I want to explain this situation in my statement of purpose or address an email t... | [
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14,768 | Quoth the [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle):
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14,777 | I was recently admitted to few universities for my master's program and I narrowed the university of my choice down to two. The options are:
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14,779 | I wonder if anyone in graduate school in mathematics had managed to improve considerably his/her speed of problem solving.
I had failed to get my PhD pass and obtained only Master Pass on my qualifiers. I have been trying to increase speed of solving problems but alas, achieved only slight improvement. I know that most... | [
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14,783 | Suppose multiple students have asked me for letters of recommendation to the same graduate department in the US. Am I expected to explicitly compare the students to one another? Am I supposed to do this in both letters (assuming they haven't been submitted yet)? Do I need to explicitly state a preference for one over t... | [
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14,792 | There are two loosely related questions here:
1. What is done about academics who do not do any research anymore?
2. What is done about academics who teach badly enough that it shows up?
I insist that I am asking what **is** done, in your department or institution (or in your country if it is uniform). I'll ask a sep... | [
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14,796 | I had worked on a computer vision problem three years ago, drafted a journal paper and submitted it to a top-tier journal. My rebuttal to the reviewers answered most of their concerns except "more results required" comment, so got rejected. By then I had changed jobs, but wanted to get this paper published, so quickly ... | [
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14,801 | I am a graduate student of Industrial Engineering at a US university. The IE grad department has about 11 graduate level courses listed in their catalog. However, insofar they have offered only 2 of those courses. One in fall, and one for the upcoming spring semester.
I spoke with students who are graduating this yea... | [
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"text": "In most science-technology-mathematics-engineering departments in the U.S., there are many more courses in the ca... | 2013/12/15 | [
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