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14,805 | I am thinking of pursuing a degree in Biostatistics (instead of just Statistics).
I am wondering if such decision will limit my career prospect to the field of Biostatistics. Is it feasible to think that somebody with a Biostatistics degree can work as, say, a quantitative social researcher or a data miner? The reason ... | [
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14,806 | As I was reading today an article from Nature I was wondering: Does anybody know what's the difference between article and letter in the Nature Journal?
The blog of Nature points out the following:
>
> **Articles** are original reports whose conclusions represent a substantial advance in understanding of an importan... | [
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"text": "They have a difference in the allowed length, and the importance of the results. Articles are longer and supposed to ha... | 2013/12/16 | [
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14,810 | Why do American universities want official GRE/TOEFL scores before admission? It seems to be a waste of time and money for prospective applicants. They can easily use the scores claimed by students in first stages and ask them official scores after admission.
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"text": "You suggest that your grade-reporting method is better.\n\n> \n> They can easily use the scores claimed by stude... | 2013/12/16 | [
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14,813 | I'm a graduate student in theoretical particle physics, where the standard is that all author lists are alphabetized. However, even in other disciplines of physics, it's quite common for author lists to be ordered by the amount of the contribution. At some point I will probably be judged by people who are not entirely ... | [
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"text": "I have no idea about its credibility, and I'm certainly not trying to discourage Zhunv's or Zyskowski's ou... | 2013/12/16 | [
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14,817 | **Situation**
Students have three weeks to write a little application (UI, some logic, event handling, persist data to a file). They are given one page with some requirements (input). They are supposed to hand in a compilable and running application (output). No software documentation required.
**Question**
How woul... | [
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"text": "Grading depends on the level of the students. The younger the student the more beneficial it is to be explicit in your gr... | 2013/12/16 | [
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14,833 | I'm currently in the first year of a six year bachelor's degree aiming for astrophysics. The course is a home/distance learning setup run by the Open University. While I am enjoying it thoroughly, I am aware of the academic politics that can dog professional science. So my question is thus: Upon soldiering on with the ... | [
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"text": "It is true that open universities / distance learning institutions are not taken equally seriously, even if som... | 2013/12/16 | [
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14,834 | As a computer engineering student, I think this is the right place to ask for help about my career. Well I am in my sophomore year at one of the leading university in Turkey. I want to specialize in information security. However, I want to clarify something. "I have been - and always shall be" an average student. My st... | [
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"text": "It's always a very personal decision as to whether you're going to stay on with university education. I fear this... | 2013/12/16 | [
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14,839 | I have done a three months independent research at a national lab in US with guidance from a scientist who was working there, but he is very busy and not much time is left to ask him to write a recommendation letter (RL) since the application deadline is coming.
I want to include this experience in my SOP, and wonder,... | [
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"text": "You need a letter from the senior person under whom you did the work! If you don't have one, this is like getting... | 2013/12/17 | [
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14,845 | During the compilation of thesis (MSc or PhD) in a case we wanted to include some program codes as chapters:
We prefer to put `heading` to all program codes everywhere they appear as complete source to clarify the license. Is it nice to do so? Any other solutions?
Something like this:
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> **3.1.1 Loop**
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"text": "You should add source codes scarcely and when it is interesting to add the code. **Loop** does not sound one of... | 2013/12/17 | [
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14,855 | I was working towards converting to a PhD but was unsure of what research I would do. Suddenly an idea striked my mind and I discussed it with my advisor. He doesn't have much experience in that exact field but has been in the area for around 6 months.
He said that he thinks that idea is feasible but doesn't know wha... | [
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"text": "Not sure there's a correct answer here, but I would recommend against it. The goal of your PhD research is twofold:\n\n1... | 2013/12/17 | [
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14,877 | Most papers do not specify a separate license for the source code, so presumably it would be licensed under the same terms as the rest of the paper. Typically, this means that the copyright lies with the publisher. Then,
* As a reader, do I need permission from the publisher to use source code contained in journal art... | [
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"text": "I think the codes available in papers are provided as materials for several purposes, including\n\n1. Help reviewers... | 2013/12/18 | [
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14,878 | Is it beneficial/harmful to get a letter from a research supervisor who was not satisfied with my work? (I wasn't interested in that topic, but I kept working in the lab for the money).
Or forget about that and instead focus on people who were satisfied with my research experience only? | [
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"text": "Talk with your advisor about this. Depending on your relationship with your advisor, you may still be able to get a decen... | 2013/12/18 | [
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14,879 | Why do some graduate schools require an employment history for their application forms? Additionally, is it likely that they verify said history via one's social security number? | [
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"text": "> \n> Why do some graduate schools want to have employment history on\n> graduate school application forms?\n> \n>... | 2013/12/18 | [
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14,882 | Before submitting a manuscript to a journal, it is fairly common at least in my field (psychology) to circulate the manuscript in a limited way to a small number of people who are experts in the area and/or who would be willing and able to provide useful comments, for the purpose of soliciting their feedback and sugges... | [
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14,886 | I'm reporting on an engineering project that is in its early phases. Therefore, there are no results, but there is already a quite detailed plan on how the problems in the project can be conquered. Now I was asked to present the project at a conference. I want to present the current state, but I'm not sure how to struc... | [
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"text": "What goes into the **conclusions** section in a paper is a bit field-specific. I am doing research in computer sci... | 2013/12/18 | [
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14,900 | This might seems like a silly question, but I don't understand why grad schools ask for GRE score on the application form. In almost all instances, they also require official score to be sent to them before they even start reading application anyway. So is there a reason why they ask for self-reporting of those score?
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14,902 | I am a student of comparative politics currently considering what specific topic I want for my Master's Thesis. On the basis of the choice, the university will allocate an appropriate professor - given that they understand the choice of course. However, the boundaries for topics are mainly limited by the field and the ... | [
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14,921 | I'm not a native speaker. However, I'm doing my PhD in an English country and I read Academic papers which are in English. How can I improve my English from those papers? Any ideas? Although sometimes those papers are not written by native English speakers and may still have problems. | [
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14,925 | In statement of purpose for applying to a PhD program, is it good to mention about learning from some professor's lecture notes and books (not papers, because don't get to read them yet), and finding them helpful?
Will it make the statement more personal and therefore good?
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14,926 | I am currently hired as a research track scientist not funded directly by the university. As part of my contract agreement, I am required to secure my own funding in order to remain hired. However, government funding has dried up *drastically* over the last few years, and my best and just about only shot is to seek pri... | [
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14,930 | >
> Longer monographs should have an odd number of chapters [the
> Internet,1700-xxxx].
>
>
>
Does this rule also apply for papers? I've got a paper with four chapters and I'm wondering if I should make it five. I could split up the outlook & conclusion part, but that would result in two really short sections.
W... | [
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14,935 | In the beginning of a research program students (like me) may be lazy or find things hard and do things that make their supervisors get angry such as not completing specific job in the right time. They may be strongly criticized by their supervisors and their supervisors may get an idea that these students are not good... | [
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14,946 | Recently, alongside my day job (high school teacher), I have been taking up casual short-term research assistant jobs - these are not only paid, but also include me being a co-author of the paper(s) that result.
On my CV, I would like to have all this information, what would be an effective means to include all achiev... | [
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14,951 | I am a international student in a Ivy League school under a J1 visa (I can work only in school). I am now working as a researcher after I got my degree. I signed a contract that I will work for 2 years with funding. The contract said that I will work mainly for one particular project but I also have work with any other... | [
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14,961 | I am about to start planning my bachelor's thesis in computational linguistics, and I'm looking into how I can make the process as smooth as possible. So far, I've found that using some sort of version control system for keeping track of one's changes seems like a good idea. I've also started collecting papers using Zo... | [
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14,962 | Is it possible to do this? If I find a research group/researcher working on something I like and I just want to do my thesis there. Is it necessary that
1. I have to go there as an exchange student OR
2. I will have to enroll in their masters program?
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14,963 | Is there a website where a list is maintained and constantly updated for undergrads/graduate students looking for internships/competitions/conferences in whatsoever field?
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14,964 | I am wondering if there is a stigma attached to holding too many soft-money positions when looking for a tenure-track position in the area of computer science.
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14,967 | While browsing the web-sites of various German universities I have come across the term "[restricted admission](http://www.informatik.uni-kl.de/en/studium/studiengaenge/bm-inf/how_to_apply.ma/)". What does it mean?
Do German universities discriminate students on the basis of their age?
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14,968 | I am doing undergraduate in engineering but I want a transition to humanities for masters (history, anthropology).
How do I do this?
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14,971 | A couple semesters after beginning my PhD program (in the US), I was dismissed from the program because:
1. My GPA was slightly below the program's minimum (after being on academic probation for one semester already).
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14,986 | PhD students usually go through a specific topic in depth for several years: understand it and contribute to its literature. Some topics are multidiscipline by nature. Thus, while studying, students may find nice contribution opportunities in not-directly related areas to their research problem.
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14,990 | In computer science, and probably other disciplines as well, it is common to end every paper with a "future research" section. I always wondered what is the utility of this section. In particular:
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14,992 | There are two main opinions about originality and contribution of ISI (journals which are indexed and listed in [JCR report](http://thomsonreuters.com/journal-citation-reports/) by Thomson Routers)\* survey/review journal articles compared to original articles in ISI journals. Some scientists consider survey papers lac... | [
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14,997 | I have asked my advisers this question recently (since in a year or so, I expect to go on the job market) and received a variety of answers, specific to the USA. Very generally, as I understand, with reference to the US, there seem to be jobs which are either primarily research based (R1 universities) or primary teachi... | [
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15,005 | I'm a Computer Science PhD student in a US university. Recently, I worked on a problem and wrote a paper. When I asked my advisor to submit the paper to a good journal (such as IEEE Trans. on Computers), he became upset with me and forced me to submit the paper in a very poor quality open access journal. I need good pu... | [
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15,016 | For PhD applications, I have mentioned that I am interested in some research areas. Besides, I am thinking about mentioning some professors' names, so that it shows I have read their websites and I am not just sending out generic statements applicable to many schools.
But is it good to mention some professors' names i... | [
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15,019 | I have received offers from a few graduate schools to interview in the coming months, but there are only so many February weekends available and two schools already have the same interview weekend. I accepted the first one when the invitation arrived, and now the second has arrived. Both are top choices in my book, so ... | [
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15,024 | I taught a Business Communications course that brashly asserted that good presentations follow the 7x7 rule (max 7 lines of text per slide, max 7 words per line). I also "learned" this in my undergraduate communications courses at a fairly decent state university (and in some MBA prerequisite work).
I see docs online... | [
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15,027 | I'm a third-year computer engineering PhD student. My dissertation topic is re-configurable caches (computer architecture) and my supervisor is a very nice person. I have four publications with him in well-known conferences in my area. But currently I'm in a weird situation. In my 2nd year I fell in love with computati... | [
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15,035 | I'm part of a trade group that's looking to hire a professor to write a whitepaper on our industry. We plan to release and promote the study to help people understand our business. What's the best way to do that? Find a professor in our niche and reach out to them directly? Or do you go through the department chair or ... | [
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15,041 | I am a math PhD student and on the postdoc job market for the first time. I would like to know how job offer (hopefully) comes and what I should keep in mind in accepting the offers. I am interested in the US job market.
The first question is: When do most job offers go around? I am aware of the [earliest deadline](ht... | [
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15,048 | I am a first year undergraduate student pursuing a B.S. in Chemistry (I'm very much interested in Biology too), and I am new to this world of Academia. It would be very helpful if someone could answer my questions.
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15,052 | I am at the beginning of my PhD studies. Although that is a bit too early to plan one's carrier after thesis defence, one should still have some long-term goals in mind. Hence the question - what can one do during one's PhD (mainly as far as long-term activities are concerned) to maximise the chances of getting accepte... | [
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15,064 | I would like to be able to sell my text book to my students in e-book format. I know there is the kindle store that takes 65% of the sales price, which is in my eyes too much. Are there any e-book stores for teachers and professors that provide their service for a fair price? | [
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15,066 | I am planning to apply for postdoc positions in computer science (CS) departments, preferably in the US or Europe. I have searched several computer science departments/research groups at different universities to see the current projects and Postdoc researchers. I saw that most current postdocs are men. So, the followi... | [
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15,067 | I'm wondering whether dismissal / withdrawal from a PhD program should be listed as disciplinary action on subsequent applications. A Master's program application usually asks questions like:
>
> Have you ever been found responsible for a disciplinary violation at any post-secondary institution you have attended, whe... | [
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15,068 | I would like to pursue a PhD in CS (in Europe). I have ended my master's degree like two years ago (also in Europe) and I have 4 publications in the area. Actually I am working in the industry so I have left the academic world. The question that I have is how to address a potential supervisor (which in most cases I hav... | [
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15,080 | I have read several articles about literature reviews. At the same time I found some guides about literature *surveys*. I am confused... how is a literature survey different from a literature review? What is the standard procedure to conduct a literature survey without making it a literature review? | [
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15,081 | I think the title is quite clear.
If the author of an article is unknwon, should one refer to the title of the article, or to the magazine itself? The same goes for electronic sources.
Let's say this is my source.
>
> “An Interview with Susan Bassnett.” *Channel View Publications Blog*.
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15,098 | My professor sometimes asks me to referee papers for him.
Should I list the corresponding journals in the professionals activity section of my CV? | [
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15,105 | Question
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Should issues about past academic performance be addressed in the Statement of Purpose or a separate letter to the admissions committee.
Background
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I had originally posted about my situation here: [Should a dismissal from PhD in graduate application be listed as academic misconduct?](htt... | [
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15,116 | Is it possible to pursue PhD with only BE degree and 16+ years of Software Industry experience? I know that most of the institutes expect a Masters degree to pursue PhD. Do they consider Industry experience to relax this criteria?
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15,117 | I find it strange that most US departments have so little transparency in tenure-track jobs searches. In the UK the system is a little cleaner. Jobs are generally announced in one place (jobs.ac.uk) and the interview date is often set in advance. In the US there is no central list of jobs and it is difficult to determi... | [
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15,119 | As the question implies, I have two main research interests in the natural language processing and computational genomics domains. While I have a preference for the former, I am also very interested in the latter. I ask because I am not sure if it would look like I am too unfocused for a PhD. Many professors seem to ha... | [
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15,132 | My question is simple: If you have a paper that got rejected two or three times (border-line\* rejects every time) from top-tier conferences, would you polish it and resubmit it again to similar or another high rank conference or would you try some lower rank venues ?
\* Border-line reject: every time got 2 good revie... | [
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15,135 | Online PhD application systems usually ask for relation between the recommender and the applicant.
The applicant was in a PhD program and the recommender was a professor in the department. The applicant approached him for some research opportunities at first, and later did some research in one of the recommender's pro... | [
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15,136 | This question was suggested to me by [How can I sell my text book to my students in e-book format?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/15064/how-can-i-sell-my-text-book-to-my-students-in-e-book-format) which asked about the practicalities but attracted many comments about the ethics. So this question is to as... | [
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15,159 | About a month ago, when the deadlines for applying for postdoc positions at math at the US were approaching, I applied for several research universities via mathjobs.
In the time that passed since, I made a new discovery, and am now in the last stages of writing a paper about it.
Obviously, once the paper will be upl... | [
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15,162 | So we are all fans of some professor at some stage of academia.
If I see one in an upcoming conference/workshop, **should I ask them to sign a paper that they wrote as it's also one of my favorite papers?** (I'm sure I'm not the only one who brings a paper that someone else wrote when I know they will come for the co... | [
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15,175 | I will be a postdoc in the coming academic year. While I have not decided on where I will be in September, it seems likely that I will be a research postdoc at a decent research university.
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15,185 | I've just started reading papers about speech recognition and algorithms on medium sized graphs (~800,000 nodes and 4,400,000 edges with some connected text data). I think a problem of these papers is quite often, that it is difficult to check the experimental results. It is difficult to check them because of two reaso... | [
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15,193 | Dr. A came to Dr. B asking for research ideas. Dr. B gave him a thesis, explained its value, why it's plausible, and how to test it. Dr. A liked this, got Student C to do the work, and managed the work.
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15,196 | It seems as though everyone in academia is trying to publish *stuff*, regardless of whether they actually have something meaningful to say. The journals generate more *noise* every year.
I understand that papers count for promotion and review, they mostly get counted but... There is room to question the actual motivat... | [
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15,203 | What would you call the temporary advisor assigned to a PhD student upon enrolment, who is in charge of the student until the student finds his/her research advisor? "temporary advisor", or "course advisor", or ...? Thanks! | [
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15,210 | This question is for those of you who have been on the hiring committee.
I am wondering if the following scenario could happen.
Applicant X applies to University Y; University Y looks at applicant X's profile, and says "applicant X has very strong records. There is no way University Y is the best applicant X can do; ... | [
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15,212 | Lets assume your GPA is very high, say 3.95 or higher, at both your undergrad and graduate school institutions. I have always included it while applying to summer research programs and internships while still in my PhD program. But this is probably inappropriate on the postdoc market right?
Perhaps this question is so... | [
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15,219 | I am a theoretical computer science PhD student. My childhood friend (my present roommate) is in the 3rd year of his pure mathematics PhD program. Very recently we both worked on a problem on combinatorial geometry and got some interesting results to publish. However both of our dissertation topics are way different fr... | [
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15,226 | I received three letters of recommendation for applications to this spring semester, but I chose to decline admission for personal/financial reasons. I am now applying for fall admission, and I would like to ask the same professors for letters of recommendation again.
Is it appropriate to request additional letters of... | [
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15,236 | I am still in the process of choosing which major in the SEAS of my school I should pursue.
I want to go into an applied math PhD program after undegrad, so must I choose applied mathematics as my major? Or can I pursue electrical engineering or mechanical engineering? A double major isn't an option.
Any thoughts? | [
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15,239 | The current system of producing knowledge in academia, think-tanks, research laboratories funded by large organizations, and similar has the benefits that there is usually some oversight, the people involved have been trained on how to conduct and contribute to research, and how to communicate their results to the lite... | [
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15,242 | Different journals have different standards regarding author names - some mention only the first name (i.e. "William Webb"), some mention also an initial of the middle name ("William A. Webb"), some mention only initials ("W. A. Webb"), etc.
So, when I copy BibTeX records of papers to my bibliography manager, the name... | [
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15,252 | I've wasted about an hour trying to figure out how I'm supposed to categorise an ACM article using the [new 2012 taxonomy here](http://www.acm.org/about/class/2012), and how I'm supposed to represent those categories in my article.
On the plus side, the 2012 taxonomy has some perfectly apt categories for my paper (unl... | [
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15,256 | I am a young student checking pupils homeworks.
I've got a case - 2 pupils definetely cooperated when doing homework.
Do you have tips to determine who actually solved it and who copied? Got some ideas myself (like maybe one who copied had a better handwriting) but it is better to ask. | [
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15,262 | I have some new ideas regarding a concept in computer science and have done considerable independent reasearch work.None of the faculty members in my university seem to be interested in helping an independent undergrad thesis in computer science.I have some time to complete it formally, though.
Could anyone please tel... | [
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15,276 | How does one write a strong (good) introduction into a research paper? Some introductions make me really curious about the rest of the paper while others do not. Although it is relatively easy to say which introductions are good and which are not, I find it difficult to distill what makes the difference. There is a pre... | [
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15,279 | As written in the title, I'm thinking of applying for masters in Europe (I myself am from Serbia), but I made a mess of my undergraduate career, so I'm looking for advice how to present this in my CV and SOP.
**Here's my background:**
Back after finishing high school, I applied for a relatively well respected local e... | [
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15,288 | Is it possible to get admission to a master's program in economics without finishing up your undergrad?
I have completed 105 credits so far for my BA Honours in economics and math degree, and still need 15 credits to graduate (120 required for graduation). However, a case of academic dishonesty could lead to my suspen... | [
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15,290 | I'm doing a PHD in physics (not in US), and I'm applying for a summer school in US ([an example](http://www.santafe.edu/gevent/detail/education/1472/)). I'm required to upload a statement of research interest.
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15,291 | I am currently a scholarship student in my sophomore year in a double major programme in theoretical physics and pure mathematics. I wish to apply for an internship, for which they have asked me for my CV. I checked traditional CVs and I couldn't find anything that is relevant to my current situation. What should I put... | [
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15,306 | Here is the thing. I am working in an lab under a new assistant professor of HCI and our lab itself is just two years old. We had an masters student graduating earlier and I am the second masters student from the lab to have finished my dissertation. We also have an PhD Candidate working in there. So at present we are ... | [
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15,315 | I previously asked this question in Mathematics.SE (which is now removed from that site):
>
> How to be a professor and a researcher in academia if I only have a baccalauréat in maths and don't have much money?
>
>
>
And one kind user from France said that I can't unless I have a PhD. (French baccalauréat is only... | [
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15,316 | I studied Social Sciences (Development Economics concentration) at one of Europe's top ranked universities and achieved excellent grades, but had to interrupt my studies just before taking two final exams, entirely due to personal reasons - thus not completing my undergraduate degree.
While I was at uni, I obtained gr... | [
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15,326 | Let's say I am citing a person called Emilia Di Martino. How would she go in my MLA reference list?
Possibilities I can think of:
```
Martino, Emilia di.
Martino, Emilia Di.
Di Martino, Emilia.
```
And how would I refer to her work inline? | [
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"text": "I searched her name in Google Scholar and the first paper \"CLIL implementation in Italian schools...\" includes a foo... | 2014/01/03 | [
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15,331 | I recently reviewed a paper and recommended Major Revision. I provided a referee report with some detailed comments on what the revision should address. I can see from the system that the Editor gave a decision of Major Revision, the authors of the paper have been notified and they already submitted a revision four mon... | [
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15,335 | In [this answer](http://www.quora.com/Exams-and-Tests/What-is-a-good-exam?share=1#) to a quora question, the answerer mentions how the 'entropy' of a set of exam results can be used to measure how well the exam differentiates between students.
Should I be computing the entropy of my students' exam results? How do I d... | [
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15,344 | My research is in software engineering, but in a sub-field which is very close to social science. My papers normally contain sentences like "We conducted a study with 56 participants." and "Our previous study showed that [some assumptions are true]" and "We chose to use Rruver's V as the association measure, because [e... | [
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15,347 | I submitted a paper to an IEEE conference (Computer Science). My paper was not accepted for publication but it has been accepted for poster presentation there.
The conference requires the authors to pay full delegate registration fees as is required for authors of published works. Is it a common practice ?
I was a ... | [
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15,361 | My colleagues argue that a meta-analysis / systematic review needs at least two data collectors (or authors according to them) as a "must". I have not found any reference in the PRISMA (or any other sources about meta-analyses/systematic reviews) that confirms this claim.
Do you know any such protocol or consensus? | [
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15,363 | Often when I attend conferences and meetings, there are some social activities sometimes specifically for graduate students to mix with each other and get to know other students and build possible future collaborations and contacts. Once in a while I end up with a group of let's say all Chinese foreign students. I am n... | [
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15,373 | I'm a master computer science student. I decided to leave the academia after graduation, but I'm still into research and would like to do personal research independently for like 10 years. Suppose I publish a lot of papers in valuable journals, is it possible to get a PhD after that somehow? | [
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15,374 | I've found that a few tools uses in scientific research, request that if you use them,
you add the paper they were discussed in to your bibliography.
For example:
* [Theano](http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/#citing-theano) requests you cite: "*“Theano: A CPU and GPU Math Expression Compiler”*
* [Scipy](http://... | [
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15,377 | I'm a master student in computer science. I'm still working on my thesis and probably I will publish a paper, however I really have no idea where to look for workshops and conferences. I often hear my supervisor talking about some conferences and workshops and mentioning them, but I get no idea how he knew about them. ... | [
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15,378 | I'm a master computer science student in a German university and I will be graduating soon. I'm in a situation between accepting a PhD position or leaving academia to start looking for job. This is a *very* hard decision to make so I need some advice.
I see *most* of the people who do a PhD leave academia afterwards ... | [
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15,387 | This has always kind of intrigued me. I have seen many students who are good in academics (the scale I am using for this is GPA, like around 3.8–4.0) and average in PhD research. I mean, they do research, but it's just the kind you would expect from an average PhD—publish dissertation, write to one or two top journals,... | [
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15,398 | I study undergraduate philosophy.
I wrote a paper (beyond the coursework) that presents a solution to one of the unsolved problems facing our conceptions of personal identity. I regard it as worth publishing, but I get that, as an undergrad, I may not have much of a sense of what qualifies a paper as "worth publishin... | [
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15,408 | Let's say that you're a 27 year old autodidact who has gained enough knowledge in a particular field of the formal sciences - like mathematics, for instance - to be able to take the highest course number from the selection of graduate courses for math.
Now this autodidact wants to enter university for the first time.... | [
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"text": "If you're asking about graduate school in the US, probably the single most significant thing you can do is to take the ... | 2014/01/06 | [
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15,413 | The title says it all. I want to read a book chapter from a prominent Oxbridge researcher, but I don't want to shell out the cash for the entire textbook in which it's published. Is it rude to contact the professor who wrote the chapter and request an electronic version? It's for my own research purposes. | [
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"text": "Before writing to the author, you should try to find the chapter in other ways:\n\n1. Is it available ... | 2014/01/06 | [
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15,419 | I am currently writing an e-mail to a member of Oxbridge staff. He is a "lecturer," full-time staff, who co-ordinates a well-known program, but does not hold a PhD, only an MA.
I can't call him "Dr. ," or even "Professor ," so is "Mr." sufficient? It seems too informal for someone in such a high-ranking position. | [
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"text": "\"Mr\" should be fine (though note that British style drops the period from common honorifics). For example, [Trin... | 2014/01/06 | [
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15,437 | I am a bachelor student majoring on computer engineering and working on robotics. Last year as a part of my research, I worked together with a student and one teacher as a supervisor, so we published our article for conference together. But later we finished our research and all of us left the team. Now I am working on... | [
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"text": "You definitely submit a paper by yourself and if you write a high quality submission, it will be accepted.\n\nWh... | 2014/01/06 | [
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