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16,184 | I'm currently preparing an online tool for scholars, and part of that work involves creating a database with different categories for students at different stages of their college/university education (i.e. freshmen, second-semester juniors, first-year graduate students, etc). I'm struggling to find a standard classifi... | [
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16,188 | I am trying to decide between some math postdoc offers, and I can't decide what is important for a postdoc position. I have talked to several senior mathematicians including my advisor, but they all seem to have different opinions. I just want to hear some more opinions on the following:
* How important is prestige? S... | [
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"text": "At the end of the day, the quality of your research is more important than prestige. I would go with the univer... | 2014/01/26 | [
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16,190 | Since University of Alabama offers me full-ride scholarship, I will probably go to this school rather than more competitive schools, not because I'm poor but because it seems silly to me to pay $200,000 for merely an undergrad education, even though I can buy a house by that money. I'm going to get PhD, and the name of... | [
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"text": "First of all, I know nothing about Biology at all. I can't comment on specifics. Instead, I rather say something about ... | 2014/01/26 | [
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16,193 | How to highlight the changes I made to a text (report, thesis etc) to the supervisor? Red colour/adding bubble comments, you name it. I use Word. | [
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"text": "In Word, you can use the 'track changes' function. \n\nIt depends a bit on the amount of changes you're making though. Tra... | 2014/01/26 | [
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16,198 | I am applying for a research grant which specifies that the proposed research should be novel and innovative. However without previous experience, it is not clear what degree of novelty is required. For academic publications the requirement is generally that the presented results should be non-obvious (novel) and makin... | [
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"text": "The dumb (but maybe best) answer is: It's what the reviewers and the funding agency regard as \"novel\". \n\nIn some c... | 2014/01/26 | [
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16,203 | I am applying for Postgraduate degree research but for that I need to submit a Research Proposal with the application and it is very confusing for me because I never did any kind of research before.
I have been a small business owner for the last 7-8 years and I want to do research in the same field (Entrepreneurship ... | [
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"text": "Why do you want to work as a Postdoc in this field? The answer to this question (as long as it's a scientific answer a... | 2014/01/26 | [
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16,207 | I am trying to figure out if the following article is a primary or secondary source.
<http://genome.cshlp.org/content/20/5/547.full.pdf>
I'm leaning towards secondary but here are my cases for both.
Primary: Published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Secondary: It seems to be mostly a summary of other works so it might ... | [
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"text": "**Primary** source material is \"direct evidence.\" This can include published reports of original research, but also jo... | 2014/01/26 | [
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16,220 | I'm writing a literature review for a project and due to the nature of the project (website and database) I haven't used any books etc. I have used a number of websites to get information on subjects such as hosting a website and a database using Azure, is it acceptable to use websites in a literature review? | [
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"text": "You can definitely put into references the official user documentation of your web server and database ... | 2014/01/27 | [
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16,232 | In the verge of writing up a PhD thesis, is it fine to include the content of the work which is submitted to a conference and is "under review" at the time of writing up. More specifically if the conference has 'double-blind' review process.Or is it advisable to wait till the review decision on publication is out.
Pl... | [
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"text": "I am sure this may vary but this is standard procedure for our theses since they are based on papers. A student... | 2014/01/27 | [
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16,237 | I happen to be involved in this project in which my advisor has made such a bad decision that the result turned out to be mediocre/uninteresting. While I am not the lead author, I will be one of the co-author for this. In that case, why should I endorse for my advisor's bad decision, when I don't have any means to chan... | [
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"text": "Personally, I can't imagine that being coauthor on an uninteresting paper could \"ruin your future career\" or... | 2014/01/28 | [
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16,243 | The data collected using "*Applicant Confidential Data Form*" will be used by US-based universities to monitor University’s Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Programs as required by the US government.
I have seen that in (some) cases, faculty job applicant seeking academic job in US-based universities a... | [
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"text": "I would not read anything into such a form as this. In many cases, the university may require it, but the department do... | 2014/01/28 | [
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16,246 | I am a software developer by profession and was wondering what a professional doctorate (PdEng) would add to my career if I plan to work in the industry.
**EDIT:** I am not talking about a Phd rather a [Professional Doctorate program (PDEng)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Doctorate_in_Engineering).It is a ... | [
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"text": "In general, for software engineering (in the UK), it will not help a lot in my experience - PhDs,PDEngs an... | 2014/01/28 | [
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16,247 | I have a membership from an organization e.g. ieee.org and I have some options for my email ID which I want to use in academy and professional work. I'm not a native English and I'm not familiar with the culture involved. I have these three options:
*(consider my name as Serim Doe, which Serim is my first name and pre... | [
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"text": "In the US, everthing said in the comments applies (in short: everything goes, it's up to you).\n\nIn Europe (and especi... | 2014/01/28 | [
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16,250 | I'm a TA in several modules and one thing I couldn't find yet is a system to help me manage student lab submissions. Most online collaborative tools I've seen do not allow me to, or make it quite complex to receive files from students and download all of them at once.
Note that in my university, there is not such a st... | [
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"text": "Well, moodle CAN do it (you can define a task \"file upload\" which has a due date). Give it a try and if you like it ... | 2014/01/28 | [
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16,256 | I have selected a single question for my master's thesis, within my field of Foreign Language Teaching. Most papers I have read contain just short literature reviews providing some background for a research study that occupied most of the writer's time. I think I could understand my question better if I focusing all of... | [
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16,265 | How do I handle silly questions? By silly, I mean questions that are unrelated to the material of the course.
First, I am a [TA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_assistant). Recently, a student asked me a very silly question at the end of a lab session. I say silly because:
1. it was not related to the lecture... | [
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16,272 | With my current major (Medical Lab Science) I am not required to declare a minor at my university. However, the program's supervisor informed me that through taking all of the required courses to complete the program, I will only be one credit in chemistry away from being able to declare a chemistry minor.
Is it worth... | [
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"text": "Why not? What's the disadvantage? An afternoon of paperwork? One extra class you have to take?\n\nCompare that to ... | 2014/01/28 | [
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16,293 | Where is the money going to?
How can it be that interested students pay so much, but many academic salaries are so low (excluding the obvious full professor in a field where the industry pays for getting research results, like IT). | [
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"text": "An increasing fraction of college budgets is being spent on things [other than instruction](http://www.nytimes.com/... | 2014/01/29 | [
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16,296 | I have an undergraduate degree (B.E.) in Biomedical Engineering. Right now, I am working on a M.S. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics and will be done pretty soon. I have very minimal research experience, and no papers published. I will be working in industry for the next year (since I didn't apply for any PhD progr... | [
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"text": "Honestly if you can prove yourself in the field then you should have no problem. I would suggest reaching out to va... | 2014/01/29 | [
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16,304 | Several questions on this site relate to a situation where someone gets several offers simultaneously: for example, see *[How to choose between multiple math postdocs offers?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/16188/1033)*. But how does this situation arise? In my (limited) experience, offers do not come simultaneou... | [
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"text": "I would think they happen mostly by having a relationship with the person doing the hiring. That means that the ... | 2014/01/29 | [
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16,308 | I have a question about college education, or more specifically, admittance into college education in the US.
Since as far as I remember, I've always heard that colleges or universities in the US have a sort of special preference for admitting people that are considered "minorities". I would like to know if this is tr... | [
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16,312 | Is it considered bad practice or unethical to remove some references/citations between the initial paper submission and the final one? I submitted an 8-page conference paper, it got peer-reviewed, it got accepted, and now I have to submit the final **6-page** version. In order to cut down on length, I'm thinking of rem... | [
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16,318 | I'm currently applying for one "entry-level" faculty position in the UK (CS). Differently from other applications I have seen, in this one they ask the applicant to address each of the items listed in a "Person Specification" section of the job description.
There are 15 points, ranging from simple yes/no questions ("D... | [
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16,319 | This is inspired by the [other question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16265/you-are-paid-to-answer-my-questions-how-to-handle-silly-questions) about dealing with stupid questions. The popular answers all seemed to assume that the student really wants to hear an answer. While this is a reasonable assumpt... | [
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"text": "There isn't One Right Way, any more than there is one right way to teach or manage a class room as a whole. I've most... | 2014/01/29 | [
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16,321 | I am considering taking what should be considered a remedial math class, though is actually credit bearing at my university, so I can spend more time solving monthly problems/ studying graduate level theory on my own. Would subverting the curriculum, and reducing the problem of acquiring credit hours to a problem solve... | [
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16,330 | The situation is thus: my institution allows professors to buy out of teaching a class. This semester, my advisor has done so and as a result they needed someone to fill in. After discussion with my advisor, I applied for the position to gain teaching experience (having had none previously).
Thus far, teaching the cla... | [
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16,333 | I have one official first name which appears on my ID card. I have another first name which friends call me by. Is it possible to use my unofficial first name and official family name to publish scientific papers? How can I prove to someone that I am one of the authors? | [
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16,344 | Due to incompatibility with my current advisor, I am currently looking for other advisor on his back. Any advice? I am so scared that what if he discovers that I'm looking around. Now I have tried to set up new email account so I can deny everything if things get ugly. Any people have the same experience, can you share... | [
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16,346 | The main troubles in my academic experience can be summarized in two popular (if somewhat cheesy) sayings:
* "Careful what you wish for" and
* "With great power comes great responsibility"
Throughout my high school and undergraduate education I kept (naively, I now reckon) chasing the dream of ultimate [academic free... | [
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16,351 | I am a PhD student studying wireless networks/telecommunications, and I have developed a set of lab exercises related to the field. We have used them with > 100 students so far in B.S. and M.S. classes on computer networks, wireless networks, and wireless communications.
With the first few cohorts, I asked them to rat... | [
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16,352 | I would like to post an repository on github that includes data and analysis code in R. The analysis and data forms part of a journal article submission. I'm happy for people to view the code and data prior to publication (in particular, it might be an easy way for reviewers to examine the code). However, I do not want... | [
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16,360 | As we all know, you typically abbreviate something the first time that particular term shows up in a paper. However, I've been told in the past that certain things in a paper should be written in such a way that 'it stands on its own'. One such thing would include the abstract of the paper. So, perhaps a appears in th... | [
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16,365 | I am a student of IT in India. I'm in my fourth semester and want to work on some project during summer. How should I write the email to the professor asking for the same? | [
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16,367 | In the USA, college sports are popular, and colleges [may offer scholarship based on athletic skills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletic_scholarship). Yet, [universities spend significant money on sports](http://www.floridatoday.com/usatoday/article/1837721), and [nobody earns as well as the head of the sports team... | [
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16,371 | Things that make multiple research projects different and single project:
1. Inertia that sets in once I have spent a few weeks on single one of them. The 'switching cost' seems too high to me, and it leads to not much being done first few days of switching to the other project.
2. Pressure of producing 'visible' resu... | [
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16,373 | I am a German PhD student in South America and am worried about whether my PhD title will be accepted in Germany (as Dr.) and internationally in general.
If you successfully complete a PhD in the EU, you are allowed to carry the title "Dr.", as any PhD in Germany does.
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16,390 | I have been thinking about a second PhD for the last year. I am currently a doctoral candidate in civil engineering at University of Texas at Austin (ranked 6th in my discipline) and working as a student statistical consultant at the university consulting center. I am working on spatio-temporal modeling of count data u... | [
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16,396 | I talked with a professor for possible thesis guidance and mentioned that I aim to publish papers at top venues as soon as possible. The Professor got somewhat offended and said publication is not an aim and that I should aim to be problem oriented.
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16,409 | I had recently submitted a paper to an IEEE conference and got accepted, but for poster presentation. This is the very first time I have written a paper. Although it is a great achievement for me given my inexperience in the field, my goal is to get it published.
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16,412 | Currently I am applying for a LLM programme at SOAS and am having certain difficulties while writing the required personal statement. According to their guidance, the statement should be "describing your ambitions, suitability and interest for the programme you have chosen. This should be around 1,000 words in length",... | [
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16,422 | I'm TAing a class that uses Piazza (an online student forum), in addition to the traditional office hours. A student made a (private) post, where he uploaded a MATLAB figure and asked whether it is correct. The figure is what the first question of the homework assignment asks for.
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16,433 | Specifically, is it possible to apply for a second masters degree in **MS&E** (management science and engineering) or statistics (**MS in statistics**) after a masters degree in **computer science**?
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16,436 | There are some good answers [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/12237/7921) on how to find an masters thesis topic, but I am looking for advice on how to advise undergrad students who are looking for a thesis topic. Finding a thesis topic is a little bit different at undergrad level because it is the first time... | [
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16,438 | Please refer to this previous question of mine:
>
> [As someone with low grades how can I prepare myself to study MSc in CS in USA?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/8970/as-someone-with-low-grades-how-can-i-prepare-myself-to-study-msc-in-cs-in-usa)
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> [Would it be a good idea to quit my job to prepa... | [
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16,440 | I'm a math Ph.D student in the US who has just accepted a four year postdoc--NSF postdoc at a US school interrupted by a year in Europe. For better or for worse, I am only slated to teach for two semesters in those four years--likely during the second semester of my 3rd year and 1st semester of my 4th.
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16,441 | Can someone corroborate the fact above? If it’s true, how did it come to such a high number, do they have some slots reserved, or is it easy to enter German PhD programs? Would it also be easy for foreign graduates (in my case chemistry) to join a German PhD program?
Source 1 ([German Wikipedia](http://de.wikipedia.or... | [
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16,459 | I would like to apply for many math PhD programs in order to maximize my chance of success.
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16,461 | I would like to attend some conferences this year, but we are running out of funding until 2015, so I need to look for other options. For instance, I organized a special session in a conference, and attained 12 speakers, so accommodation was free and also registration but not travel expenses. So my question is, if you ... | [
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16,465 | Things you should know:
* It was not a dream school.
* It was considered "safe/moderate" i.e. the kind of students who get in
have more or less similar profiles like mine.
* From graduate school student discussion forums , seems like no one else got
rejected.
* This really hurts. If this school rejects me, what hope d... | [
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16,475 | I've recently applied for PhD programs in mathematics. I received an offer not long ago, and in light of this offer, there are only a few schools that I would consider an offer from. From past years results (and this year's), I expect to get results from two of them in the coming week, but another of them usually only ... | [
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16,478 | Is it common and acceptable for a postdoc to leave before his/her contract ends, for whatever reason? How early should a prior notice be submitted in this case? | [
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16,480 | I once wanted to do a PhD in the UK, but found out that the opportunities were limited for those coming from outside Europe (I did my PhD in Norway instead). I think it is still the case today. I am wondering why this is so.
EDIT:
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16,486 | There has been quite a few questions about how to dress to an academic interview. However, no answer to these questions addresses what one should use to carry their things in. For example, is it acceptable to carry your things in a backpack, cheap shoulder/messenger bag made of synthetic materials, briefcase, expensive... | [
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"text": "Bags, shoes, hats, it's all the same answer as for clothes. Post-docs vs faculty positions, it's the same answer. If yo... | 2014/02/02 | [
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16,498 | I have seen several articles in internet about a general bias against hiring long term unemployed people in non-necessarily academic jobs, see for example [here](http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/08/18/its-true-long-term-unemployment-can-make-you-unemp.aspx) and [here](http://www.fool.com/investing/general/201... | [
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16,502 | I have submitted a paper more than a year ago, but still I haven't heard anything back from the editor. As of today I have no idea whether my paper has been accepted/rejected or is in a review stage. Only thing I know is that it has been received, for a got a confirmation of this soon after the submission. Needless to ... | [
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16,503 | The following question was posted on Math SE, but seems to be more related to Academia SE:
Next year I will start studying maths at university. I'm highly interested in biomathematics, but in my country there aren't specific courses for students. At least there are very few Ph.D. programs. So I'm thinking of taking a ... | [
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16,505 | I teach at a large R1 state university, and I just received my teaching evaluations for Fall 2013. Usually I get excellent evaluations, but this time my evaluations for Calculus II were an unpleasant surprise. My numerical scores were mediocre, and representative student comments included: "Answers were obscure"; "can ... | [
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16,509 | * 5.0 credits/year describes a full-time undergraduate course load at my school.
* 5.0 credits/2 years describes a full-time graduate course load at my school.
* Students may not enroll in more than 3 credits/term (6/year or 1 extra class/term).
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16,526 | I work in the mathematics department of a university that has a new, small, mathematics bachelor's degree program, and no graduate mathematics programs. Some of our students are looking for advice on how to successfully apply for graduate school. I don't know what to tell them. Everyone in my department (myself include... | [
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16,529 | If a student needs a reference letter for graduate admissions or that sort of thing, some profs will ask the student to write a reference letter for themself before sending it off to the prof for minor edits and finalization. This seems to be a somewhat common practice given that some graduate schools ask for several l... | [
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16,533 | Throughout my life, I have always had some issues with what I, my peers and my teachers referred to colloquially as "paying attention". By this I mean a very specific ability to not make mistakes. Some very good examples are:
* A mathematically competent adult getting a calculus question wrong because of a simple arit... | [
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16,542 | Inspired by the question [Is it acceptable to write a reference letter for yourself?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/16529/546)
I have a related but somewhat different question: Given no choice, is it acceptable to write a recommendation letter for self?
This question is based on real cases. In non-English spea... | [
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16,545 | I am a postdoc at a university in the UK. Before I came here, a friend warned me that racism is common in the UK. True enough, during my first few months here, I have already received a couple of racist gestures and jeers, including one instance inside the university campus, possibly from a student.
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16,552 | I am in the process of leaving my PhD programme in life sciences at a top university in the UK. A PhD is simply not for me and I find the work/life balance to be intolerable; in addition, my PhD so far has included an industrial placement at a Fortune 500 company that was very eye opening and enjoyable. I am looking to... | [
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16,575 | In Australia we follow something known as the ERA ranking, when submitting papers to journals and conferences. My lab stresses publication in venues which are graded as only A or A(star), as per this system ( ERA-A increases possibilities of funding). In the area of biomedical engineering there is a specific conference... | [
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16,582 | Looking around online, there are some statistics that foretell doom for PhD students; some examples of this:
* the number of faculty to retire in the next 10 years is at the lowest in 30 years.
* the number of PhDs awarded is around 100,000, while the number of professor positions open is around 16,000.
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16,585 | I want to cite a paper which was published online (Open Access) in 2012 and later published in a printed journal issue in 2013. Which publication year should be used in the citation? | [
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16,586 | I work at a university at an Information Technology department. My colleagues claim we are 'computer scientists'. However, from what I observed, most of our work is pure implementation and often follows the Engineering Method, not the Scientific Method (see this [page](http://www.sciencebuddies.org/engineering-design-p... | [
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"text": "Coming from a similar research area myself, I can say that in practice the borders between **science** and **engin... | 2014/02/05 | [
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16,598 | I have a habit of using two styles of in-text citation: with and without author name(s). The two examples below describe what I mean: (# here represents a bibliography index)
"...which is in agreement with simulations presented in **Lastname et al. [#]**."
and just
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16,610 | The normal case is that students should obtain a recommendation letter for graduate school from the professor under whom the student has performed research.
Currently, I am taking a course conducted by a field-famous professor, from whom I wish to obtain a recommendation letter for my grad school application. However,... | [
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16,632 | I'm a non-EU citizen, currently doing a postdoc in mathematics in Europe, and I'm thinking of doing a habilitation. Since my google search didn't yield much, I'd appreciate if you could please answer my following questions regarding habilitation:
1) If I understand correctly, habilitation is the highest academic degre... | [
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16,635 | I joined a new lab a while ago, and am having an issue with keeping the credit for my work. Two instances so far:
* I co-authored a series of papers with the professor and a senior graduate student. I was always the first author, and it'd be fair to say that I contributed 95% of the research work and 70% of the writin... | [
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16,636 | I've read the following in a description of a workshop:
>
> We have about 15 participants and seek an “Oberwolfach style” with a relatively low density of talks.
>
>
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I couldn't find anything about this style in Internet. But I found out that there is The Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach, and accor... | [
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16,639 | [Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published](http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3adoi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010057) states:
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> Rule 7: Start writing the paper the day you have the idea of what questions to pursue.
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>
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16,642 | What is the longest gap of unemployment that will likely not affect your chance of getting an academic position (post-doc or faculty)?
For example if you graduate from your PhD in December or January but most post-doctoral/faculty positions in your field don't start until May-Sept, is a partial year's worth of unemplo... | [
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16,650 | While researching career opportunities, I have stumbled upon an alumnus of the school I am currently at, who is a relatively new faculty member there. In a sense, this person's career is what I want *my* career to be like. It seems like they could offer me very valuable advice.
However, I do not know this person and d... | [
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"text": "Send this person a brief e-mail, explaining the followings:\n\n1. How you found out about him/her, and give a... | 2014/02/07 | [
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16,653 | I have applied for PhD scholarship in Computer science at a European university. My master is from Malaysia. Unfortunately, my application has not been selected (only 9 has been chosen among 116 applicants).
The email I received informs me that I can file an appeal form attached against the decision made by the commi... | [
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16,671 | In the book [*Doing research in the real world*](http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book239646) by David E. Gray, there is a section on experiment design. When discussing validity and reliability, the author defines “criterion validity” as
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16,674 | I would like to apply for graduate school to become a mathematics professor.
However, given that the opportunity cost of grad school is high and that I already have a stable, good paying job, I would like to know whether I have the talent and ability to be a math professor before I start. This is obviously a very diff... | [
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16,679 | Currently I am in the last semester of my Master studies in computer science in Germany. I am further contemplating about the possibility of applying for PhD position somewhere in Germany, Switzerland, (and maybe Austria). There are other candidate countries as well, but these are the main ones.
In a year or so I shou... | [
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"text": "A good place to look for open positions in academia in CH is the [ETH-gethired](http://www.eth-gethired.ch) webs... | 2014/02/07 | [
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16,689 | I'm a first-year undergraduate student in physics. Since starting my studies I've tried to get involved in research as much as possible. Recently, the team I work with encouraged me to submit an abstract about my current project (which is the first serious one that I've taken on) for an upcoming conference. I did and I... | [
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"text": "> \n> \"keeping up-to-date with recent advances aren't really applicable to me...\"\n> \n> \n> \n\nNot so; that's a myth.... | 2014/02/07 | [
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16,712 | I am currently applying for a mid-range private school that teaches the career I want primarily (software engineering) and a prestigious public school for computer science (it doesn't have software engineering). So if I make it into the public university, I would evaluate between the specific career of the private one ... | [
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16,721 | First, I must mention that I found these questions helpful:
* [Prospective PhD contacts potential supervisor but receives no answer after 2-3 emails, what to do?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/5330/14341)
* [What to do when emails to a potential advisor are not replied?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/964... | [
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16,726 | I have written a couple of articles for two different daily newspapers. In them, I have discussed the issues of my academic field. Should I include these articles in my CV?
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16,730 | My general question is; let's say that you are PI and apply individually or jointly with other research groups to a grant, and you get it. After some months, you move to another institution; can you generally "move" all the money and resources you were awarded with or should you abandon them?
The question goes for [H2... | [
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16,735 | I am a self funded PhD student and have been told by my supervisor that her name should be first on any future journal I will be publishing during my studies under her supervision as "this is the only thing she gets from her PhD students".
I am just wondering if the ordering of author names matter? She is going to hel... | [
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16,738 | I want to translate an English book, but before translating it, I want to be sure if the author will permit me to do so.
I am not doing this for financial gain. Since it is a book about a new subject, my professor asked me to translate it, so that students in my country become better familiar with the topic.
Would yo... | [
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16,746 | I have an undergraduate degree, and I do some of independent research on my own, so I was thinking if universities have some kind of offer where I can use it, and I mean in exchange for my research I'll get the master degree without following the course, or anything that looks like that, any resources or references whe... | [
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16,747 | I am getting ready to submit a method paper which describes a dataset that I had created. However, I was late getting the paper ready, and a couple of other colleagues used the dataset in their own papers, and those papers are already online (I am coauthor in them).
The other papers do not describe in detail how the d... | [
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16,759 | In most (or at least many) fields of academia, peer-reviewed publications are essential. For a compilation thesis, no papers means no PhD. For tenure, you need papers. To get grants, you need papers. Universities may distribute internal funds based on the number of papers per group. In short: *publish or perish*.
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16,770 | In German, as well as in other languages, people have Non-English characters in their names. e.g. ß, the umlauts etc..
I frequently face problems when flying, opening bank accounts, etc., particularly abroad, since replacing the ß with ss changes more more than 25% of my family name as compared to how it's written in... | [
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16,784 | I am currently working on a paper in the field of image reconstruction, or computational biology if you will. Now matter how I slice or dice it, it is one of these stories that cannot be told in 3500 words or so. Not only are there several equally important methodological points that need to be discussed to get a compl... | [
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"text": "Have you considered [arXiv](http://arXiv.org)? They are open-access and handle quantitative biology e-prints.... | 2014/02/10 | [
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16,785 | I am writing a paper with my adviser.
Some of the key contributions of our paper include:
1. A computer simulation model of an inventory system
2. A set of simulation experiments and results to validate the simulation model
3. An implementation of an inventory policy which we propose
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16,790 | We recently submitted a paper, and now I'm creating some slides about it for future presentation. There are papers that we have cited in our paper and I need to cite them in slides too because they are directly related to our work. What I would like to do is inline citing when you just mention author's name, or confere... | [
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16,793 | I'm applying to PhD programs in two fields and I am interested in the space between two fields, where one is applied to the other.
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16,796 | I am looking to apply for a PhD in the CS realm in the next cycle, particularly something with an AI flavor like Machine Learning or NLP. I am a bit of an anomaly in CS as I have undergraduate majors in a very different area (one was history...). I am finishing up a Masters focusing in signal processing at a well-renow... | [
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16,810 | If a journal is not indexed this way, is it an academically honorable one? | [
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16,821 | What is the best way to approach professors when looking for a Post-Doc position ? Are there any particular search tools for this type of position ?
I found a similar question on this website: [How to maximise one's chances of getting a good postdoc position?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/15052/how-to-... | [
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16,824 | I would like to apply to a PhD program in France, but I am having trouble understanding the admission process. How should/could I submit my application?
Is it proper to contact the Professor I would like to work with and ask about any openings? If yes, what should I include in my mail?
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16,825 | * Are PhD students generally invited for such reviews? I was under the impression they would prefer someone with a Doctorate degree or more experience in the field.
* What are the advantages/disadvantages of accepting to review?
* The general discipline that the paper treats is related to my field of study but my activ... | [
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