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17,451 | I plan to be applying to graduate school next year in Statistics or Biostatistics and due to some financial constrictions, I will not be able to attend unless the tuition is waived at the the minimum. I am hesitant to commit to a 5 year PhD program for a funded education since I may run into some financial issues a few... | [
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17,454 | What is the proper way to address a person who is an office in the military (USA) who at the same time has a Ph.D.? Would it be Dr. General Jozw Cie or General Dr. Jozw Cie? | [
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17,455 | Journals like *Nature* and *Science* have impressive impact factors. How and why did these top journals become top journals? Why are they able to sustain their statuses? | [
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17,461 | The [discussion on this infogram](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/17431/1033) made me wonder about the number of PhD students that a full research professor successfully graduates in their entire career. By professor, I mean a full professor, not an associate or exclusively teaching professor or other positions re... | [
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"text": "My guess is that it probably varies hugely, by field, by department and then again by professor. \n\nThe fields might ... | 2014/02/26 | [
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17,470 | In mathematics (and other sciences) there are thousands of concepts, theorems, lemmas, etc which are named after some mathematicians (scientists). However, this nominations are not always very straightforward, especially if we are going to assign a new name for new concepts. For example, I can imagine the following sce... | [
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"text": "Good questions. I will only tackle the last two:\n\n3) In mathematics, it is (virtually?) universally bad form to... | 2014/02/27 | [
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17,478 | An undergrad who's worked with me for just over a year (for course credit or for pay, depending on his preference in any given semester) presented a poster on his work with me at an event hosted by my lab. Afterwards, the student told me that he spoke to Professor B at the poster session, and Professor B suggested a pr... | [
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"text": "In this particular case, there are two factors to consider.\n\n1. Prior to Prof. B's offer, had Student expressed ... | 2014/02/27 | [
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17,483 | I've been just had an abstract accepted to one of the top conferences in my field, but I'm cancelling my participation for personal reasons (short story: my wife is going to give birth to our first child a couple of weeks before the conference, and at that point I'd rather stay at home than spend several days in a diff... | [
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"text": "As it is a peer-reviewed conference, I think it is OK to mention it the CV. \n\nI am not sure about your particular ... | 2014/02/27 | [
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17,495 | Suppose we perform experiments with input parameters (temperature, humidity, processing time...) and collect resulting data (thickness, structure, mech. properties...).
Is there a tool (or set of tools) to organize, process and export data from such experiments?
Key features are:
* Structured files decomposition (ra... | [
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"text": "I would store data in [CSV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values) (i.e. text file with a table, wit... | 2014/02/27 | [
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17,497 | I was recently asked to review a paper, and ended up recommending a rejection of the paper. The journal has, apparently, asked the authors to revise their paper, and the journal has come back to me asking me to review the revised paper. There is, however, no option offered for me to decline. I will likely recommend rej... | [
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17,499 | I am a biologist and very recently there has been a movement to increase the use of preprints in publishing biological research. This has generated a lot of discussion about preprints and their merits and has spawned a few servers (e.g., [bioRxiv](http://www.biorxiv.org/)) but I have not gotten a good sense of how I sh... | [
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17,504 | **Background:**
I have done quite a lot of research work for a particular project.
I am working in the field of operations research (i.e. applied math/physics),
so this work primarily takes the form of propositions, proofs and numerical experiments.
In the process of my research,
each day I write up my daily progress i... | [
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17,512 | I've recently obtained my PhD in mathematics and started a post-doc this year. I have 5 published papers, across a wide spectrum of journals (in terms of quality, from very good to mediocre). However I never received any off-prints from the journals and it seems that to receive those one has to pay. On the other hand a... | [
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17,513 | Several friends and acquaintances have recently died from cancer. The chemo treatments are crude and destroy quality of life. Furthermore, chemo treatments depend on the efficacy of antibiotics for protection while one's immune system is compromised.
We have to do better.
Who is developing the "personalized medicin... | [
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"text": "I greatly admire your interest in contributing to an area of medicine, and I'm sorry to hear that so many of your... | 2014/02/27 | [
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17,521 | I was reading about what makes reasonable grounds for rejecting a paper and came across the following statement:
>
> [... two major revisions are not allowed.](http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~offutt/classes/phd/Hints-Review.html)
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Does it mean that only two rounds of review at the maximum are allowed? Is this always ... | [
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"text": "Long answer short- It depends on the editorial policy of the specific journal or the current editor. \n\nI... | 2014/02/28 | [
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17,522 | I've never been in a University in my life, but I enjoy reading research papers to expand my knowledge and go deeper in the understanding of details which are not covered by books.
A recent paper shows that this substance X causes reaction Y. Many others have shown that reaction Y can cause a dangerous consequence Z. ... | [
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"text": "About your questions:\n\n1) If you want you can link the Wikipedia article or make a small summary explaining your thou... | 2014/02/28 | [
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17,528 | I got a BA in English at a pretty good school, spent the next 10 years in a fruitless pursuit of screenwriting with a day job in a legal department, and now that I'm sick of all that, I'd like to do something mathy. And it seems pretty clear that that's going to require going back to school.
Since this is a HUGE redir... | [
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"text": "You are not prepared for a Master's program right now, which I think you recognize. That said, it may not take too lon... | 2014/02/28 | [
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17,533 | I'm told there are conventions in scientific papers around graphs. I'm publish material for a general audience based on a the findings of a scientific paper (unpublished) and having a disagreement with the author of the paper about how graphs must be presented.
I'm specifically asking here about the conventions for sc... | [
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17,537 | There is this investment bank specialized in the mining sector. I had access to one of their presentations where they have data regarding the production and end use of some chemical elements. They do not cite the data.
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17,543 | I have done a short summer research internship at a department of a famous University in Europe. Unfortunately, this was last summer and I reminded my professor several times now to give me some sort of written confirmation that I actually stayed at his department.(3 times per E-Mail and one time, when I left him). He ... | [
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"text": "I would address this by contacting the professor's *administrative assistant* or *secretary*. Usually, such \"form lette... | 2014/02/28 | [
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17,544 | I am in the process of updating my CV. Since I often get labeled as "the bioinformatician" I get to play with many different languages and technologies, and similarly what people expect from a bioinformatician varies from person to person. So I figured it would be a good idea to indicate how much I *feel* I know in res... | [
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"text": "What scale do you intend to rate yourself on? Maybe that sounds like a silly riposte, but that's a serious issue. If ... | 2014/02/28 | [
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17,555 | (Breakdown of a larger issue - [full story here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/17516/12468))
Following the [deliberate delay my thesis paperwork by my professor](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/17551/12468), and after [my department ignored my thesis revision requests](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/... | [
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17,556 | If you are interviewing for faculty positions, how can you find out whether a particular work environment would likely be toxic? (Either generally toxic, or particularly bad for you as a {woman, early career researcher, researcher in a particular subfield, etc.})
Can such environments be avoided?
Can you ask about th... | [
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17,564 | Whenever I am creating figures for publication, I often wonder if I should be using a serif or sans-serif font. I browse the journals in my field and notice that there is no standard, just chaos.
I have typically chosen serif font to match the typography of the body text; however, I have read that sans-serif stands ou... | [
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17,576 | I live in a 3rd world country and at one of top universities in my country a professor offered me a PhD position. I will pursue a part time PhD while working full time. I have to decide on whether or not to accept his offer.
My PhD chances in U.S. or other western countries where an established academic community exis... | [
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17,577 | In a year, I will be taking a difficult entrance exam at a renowned postgraduate school. There are many competitors, most of whom are smart. Despite that, I'm aiming at becoming #1 in the exam, and that's why I have started preparing now.
I have interviewed a few top candidates of the past years and already learned wh... | [
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17,581 | While attending a course sometime back, I recall an instructor saying, "I need to warn (other instructor's name)...their course syllabus is available to anyone!"
I do not have access to an LMS for my classroom-based course, so I just post my course details to a regular Web hosting service. On the Web site, students, o... | [
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17,584 | As a grad student I was, for the most part, shielded from issues like high-level bureaucracy, departmental duties and politics, and long-term career advancement. Obviously these things become more important when you're looking for a faculty job.
**Question:** As a faculty member in the U.S., what are the most tangible... | [
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17,594 | Imagine that I write a paper about a controversial topic like global warming denial, the link between vaccines and autism, why different races have different IQ. After publication, the paper gets the attention of mass media, and as a counter measure, serious experts start explaining why the paper is completely wrong.
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17,598 | I bet most of the users here had one of the following bad experiences: your idea and someone's idea happen to be very similar, manuscript topics got scooped, etc. Among these bad experiences, the worst is perhaps finding out a very similar paper was already published after the experimentation, simulation, writing, or e... | [
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17,606 | In July 2012 I submitted a bachelor's thesis on a machine learning topic. I designed an algorithm that I developed in Java.
Now I have found a publication (September 2012) by my supervisor with all the results of my thesis, including images, with only a thanks at the end for the "Java implementations", but all of the... | [
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17,619 | Your undergraduate CGPA is quite low, but you were somehow accepted into a respected Masters and PhD program, and completed your postgraduate work quite successfully. Your undergraduate major was the same general field as your postgraduate research.
You are now beginning your academic job search. How would the low CG... | [
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17,621 | Every year we organize a competitive international call for PhD students (in the area of biology). What measurable criteria should we use to predict their academic success and award them research fellowships?
I realize that part of the question is ill-defined because it is not clear how to define “success” for a PhD s... | [
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17,625 | I have several math research articles on my site.
Some of my articles are published in open access journals.
Some of my articles are currently available only from my site.
I may probably publish something in a closed access journal.
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17,649 | I have a sentence with two concepts and two quotations from two different authors. It goes like this
>
> Some is true because of **concept one**, that is "*quotation one*",
> and **concept two**, that is "*quotation two*".
>
>
>
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17,651 | The problem: I have a professor that accepted me to take on a thesis when i'm ready but another one offered me one also. The second one did it while the first professor was in the room and I felt the obligation to deny it, even though we have way better communication with the second one.
Both of them know each other v... | [
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17,658 | We have undertaken a small statistical study of M.S. students in our department, including their application information and their eventual performance in our program. The goal is to develop criteria for making admissions decisions for new applicants based on their likelihood of success in our program (as predicted by ... | [
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17,668 | This question is about maintaining email records when changing institutions. I’m writing it here because it seems to be a problem quite specific to the academic context of managing long-term relationships within the context of a series of short-term posts which seems to typify post-doc life.
Now I’m in a new post-doc ... | [
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17,673 | I wanted to get some directions on how to prepare for a MS Degree in Mathematics.
Background:
1. I'm interested in getting a Ph.D in Statistical Learning or related area in 5-6 years.
2. I took some courses in Mathematical Statistics and I struggled because I do not have recent coursework in Analysis, Measure theory,... | [
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17,693 | For paper submission, I have recently spent some time struggling to find appropriate classification. The main question is: who needs this information and why?
At first I thought that they could be used by the editor to find an appropriate editor or referees, but I have had two experiences contradicting this hypothesis... | [
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17,694 | I am currently located in central Europe. When I was hunting for an assistant professor position some months ago, I was also planning to apply to some US institutions for Tenure Track positions. However, one senior professor with some experience working in the US told me pretty much straight-up that this will be a wast... | [
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17,697 | My Background: I am an EE graduate, working in a Software Company from last 2+ years as an Application Developer(Java & J2EE). Recently I started thinking of going back to college and do my Master's in CS, as most of the jobs in industry require a degree in CS.
Country of Residence: India
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17,707 | Do U.S. college accreditation agencies forbid teachers with only a bachelor's degree to be on the faculty of an accredited U.S. college? | [
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17,710 | I am Indian citizen, applying for Fall season graduate studies in the USA.
Are international students like me eligible to apply for Federal aid (FAFSA)? | [
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17,721 | I applied for several postdoc positions recently. One made an offer which I accepted. Since then I've been invited for an interview for one of the other positions. Is there any benefit to attending? Is it an opportunity to make potentially useful contacts (in a relatively small field)? I should add that I have no exper... | [
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17,728 | Is there a free, authoritative, trustworthy online database where one can look-up the accreditation of any college or university in the world? | [
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17,739 | A [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17718/campus-dress-codes-for-a-student-in-university) about university dress codes reminded me of an incident that happened when I was an undergrad, in which a classmate came to school wearing a really offensive and **misogynistic** t-shirt.
I was *extremely* u... | [
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17,743 | I intend to go to graduate school for applied/computational mathematics, specifically a program like this <https://icme.stanford.edu/>.
At this point, I'm trying to decide whether to take graduate level theoretical math courses in areas like Algebraic Topology, Differential Geometry, etc. (which I don't currently hav... | [
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17,755 | I'm applying to a Ph.D. program (in the field of robotics) and I have a hard time to fill the personal interests. I initially was going to avoid that section but then I got convinced that it's not a bad idea to have it. But I digress...
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17,763 | I teach undergraduate level courses in the humanities. Following practice in my department, I have let students take their texts for consultation during their written exams. They can choose a number of questions they want to answer from a set of questions. After a few semesters, I have begun questioning the validity of... | [
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17,777 | I am doing an undergrad in Computer Science, and am seriously considering entering in the honors program at my school. I fulfill all the requirements (certain courses, GPA, etc) and now I just need to find a professor that is willing to work with me.
An honors project at my school is a two-part process:
1. First the... | [
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17,780 | Some background:
I graduated 3 years ago from a big state research university. I had an irrelevant sociology major and graduated with a 2.9 GPA mainly because I had no inclination that I would ever want to go to graduate school and thought it was more important to just make sure that I had a job to support myself and ... | [
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17,781 | I am a software engineer and I have been working with people with academic backgrounds for several years. Many times, I've noticed that (even otherwise brilliant scientists) produce code of extremely low quality (unless their background was precisely Computer Science).
Since those people are very good in doing their r... | [
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17,793 | I am starting a MS in CS program this summer. My department is small and my particular concentration is both narrow and new. Currently only 3 professors at the school are listed as having research interests in my area of interest.
I have contacted 2 of them. One is tenured and one is an assistant professor.
I know th... | [
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"text": "> \n> Whats the best approach to get people to let me help them?\n> \n> \n> \n\nImpress them. Demonstrate that you g... | 2014/03/05 | [
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17,810 | I noticed that my university has been considering "internal" candidates more strongly for permanent faculty positions. These are candidates who have received their masters degree and/or a PhD at the same university.
So when candidates are interviewed, the top contenders are invited for an "on-campus" interview/present... | [
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17,813 | I recently reviewed a paper for a (reasonably reputable) journal and found that it was already published (verbatim, by the same authors) in another journal (a [fake](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17379/what-are-fake-shady-and-or-predatory-journals) one).
I wrote the following review: "*This is a duplicat... | [
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"text": "Good question. First of all, as far as I know, there is no penal system in academic publishing. Reputation is ev... | 2014/03/06 | [
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17,815 | What is the proper course of action if while teaching an undergraduate or even secondary school course an assignment violates the religious beliefs of a student?
For a more concrete example of where this might happen, let us consider an art class with a Muslim student (*Disclamer: I am not an adherent to, or scholar o... | [
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17,819 | Coming from engineering, when you write a paper, the goal is to be objective and analytical. We use references and try to define terms for a clear understanding. The goal at least is to provide facts that support a hypothesis in as unbiased a way as possible. I think there may be some difficulty in always remaining unb... | [
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17,825 | I got the following info from the [Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide](http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html) website in relation to citing Kindle books or ebooks.
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> If no fixed page numbers are available, you can include a section title or a chapter or other number.
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>
>
I am wondering ... | [
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17,830 | In one of my classes, I had a student who generally understood stuff faster than the others. In tutorials, he would ask a lot of questions, mostly of the kind
>
> "I tried this method instead of what you suggested, is it correct?"
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>
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17,841 | Is it possible at all to do a PhD without a Master or a Bachelor's degree?
Every now and then I meet someone who claims he knows someone who knows someone who was able to do a PhD without previous degrees (maybe only with high-school).
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17,848 | I'm a few months into my PhD, but I'm finding that I'm not interested in the my project. I joined my research group with a masters in electrical engineering. I wanted to do research that incorporates electrical engineering and biology, but somehow I ended up with a project that is exclusively biology. A I'm worried tha... | [
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17,858 | I have a huge collection of PDFs of research papers. Many of these have valuable annotations. I also have a huge .bib file containing citations for these and many other works. Is there a reference manager software where I could import the .bib file and the collection of PDFs and somehow the entries in the .bib file cou... | [
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"text": "One options is [BibDesk](http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net) (OS X), which can track links between files and associat... | 2014/03/06 | [
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17,865 | Okay, this is a problem I am really scared of lately. I am always willing to learn something exciting whenever I do any coursework. However, this adventurous mind of mine is risky and can often put my grades in jeopardy. Now, the problem is, there are "unfortunate" times where I have to collaborate with other students.... | [
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17,866 | **Downloading full-text PDFs is often too slow:** My university has a subscription to most journal articles. Thus, most of the time I have full-text access to journal articles. However, for various reasons, accessing an article still takes perhaps 30 seconds. Although sometimes it's quicker, it's often still a 7-step p... | [
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17,873 | I remember reading a journal article where a researcher in psychology analysed their entire manuscript submission and publication history. The way I remember it, the researcher had around 40 publications, many in top-tier journals. A large number of the publications were rejected 2,3,4 or more times before they found a... | [
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17,877 | Although graduating from a low ranked college I was able to become research associate at a well known research institution. My work there provided me with three research papers.
Is there any possibility of getting a full scholarship for a MS program? | [
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17,879 | I have a completely introverted personality. I am seriously struggling with interpersonal relationships with my colleagues, to a point that I am actually at the brink of quitting my job. If I go abroad for a research degree, would there be any problem that may jeopardize my endeavor? My family is constantly warning me ... | [
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17,897 | How does one leave one collaborative group for another, prior to the start of the research? This relates to switching project teams for graduate course work, switching research labs, or basically dropping any collaboration. How does one do so politely?
My specific situation:
I have been asked today by one of the best... | [
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17,913 | This is somewhat similar in broad topic to an earlier question I've asked, but not the same. I intend on applying to interdisciplinary mathematical/computational science/engineering programs like this: <https://icme.stanford.edu/> . As a result of the interdisciplinary nature, there are a lot of junior-and-senior-level... | [
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17,918 | I teach a writing course to different sections, across different days of the week. From the schedule, some students will take their mid-term exam early in the week, while others will take it later in the week. Recently, I found one student who was “just checking to see what the exam was like”, but was planning to go to... | [
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17,922 | I applied to various US Pure Mathematics PhD programs for entry this fall and the responses from my top preferences were not favorable, though some of my lower preferences were. I also have an offer to do "Part III" at the University of Cambridge, which is a 1 year masters degree via coursework (although there is an es... | [
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17,928 | I've been working in the "private sector" since my late teens. I've gathered good web-development experience to be able to find work quite easily thankfully. I was never really interested in getting a degree, I only have a high-school diploma. I was passionate enough to study for myself and learn new things from collea... | [
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17,933 | When I am preparing slides for a course (as I have been today, weekend be damned), aside from questions of pacing and exposition, I often find myself asking various questions **about the layout of slides** such as:
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17,942 | I submitted a manuscript last year to an IEEE journal, and the paper was accepted for publication. I recently submitted a new manuscript to the same journal, but, this time, the paper was rejected, and I was told that I should submit to another journal since my paper was not within the journal's scope. The two papers b... | [
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17,951 | I have three close friends who are ambitious and young junior lecturers at universities in Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore who are interested getting academic jobs in a top-tiered American university.
How might they go about achieving this? What can they do in the meantime to increase their chances, compared to aca... | [
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17,961 | So I reviewed the "[What are the advantages or disadvantages of using LaTeX for writing scientific publications?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5414/what-are-the-advantages-or-disadvantages-of-using-latex-for-writing-scientific-p)" question on this forum and am sitting on the fence at the moment whether ... | [
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17,965 | Let us consider a quiz question whose answer is a proof. For instance, a question in mathematics, such as *prove that for every natural number $n$ the quantity $n^3-n$ is even*.
**How could such a question be implemented in a computer interface so that the computer can check the proof for correctness?**
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17,984 | I have been attending a number of academic / professional conferences recently and one thing that really awed me was the flawless and natural way in which the speakers presented on their topics.
Sure, they had the occasional mispronunciations or awkward pauses but they spoke with authority and confidence.
Some of th... | [
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17,988 | My biggest challenge as a PhD student is best summarized by the following from PHD Comics:
**"Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham
[www.phdcomics.com](http://www.phdcomics.com)**
A consequence of working in research is that the end is never in sig... | [
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17,990 | I'm finishing my PhD and looking for postdoc jobs. I've published a decent number of papers (and also have a fair number of citations), and want to emphasize this on my CV.
Should I actually state my h-index on my CV? If so, is Google Scholar the easiest/best way to compute this?
**2014.03.12 EDIT:**
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17,992 | I am in my senior year of studying electrical engineering in an african university. I intend to apply to grad schools(Ph.D) a year after graduation, possibly to the top EE programs in the US (MIT, Berkeley, Stanford...) Despite the fact that ground-breaking/stellar research is virtually impossible to come by for underg... | [
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17,997 | I have been asked to develop an extended version of an accepted conference paper. This extended version will be submitted to a journal for review.
Please tell me how to develop the same. Is there any need to provide complete/partial results in this extended version?
Is it insufficient to further improve the idea inst... | [
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18,027 | I'm in mathematics, just in case that matters.
I submitted a manuscript to a journal, and got an extensive referee report from referee X. After sending the revision, the paper got rejected, so I sent it to a second journal where it got accepted.
Later, I got a note from the editor of the first journal saying that ref... | [
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18,046 | I'm very perplexed as to how the terms **College** and **University** are archaically used to denote associations of people, but are in modern times being used to denote buildings or realty.
What are standard organizational structures in a legal sense for different Colleges in a US-based Research University??
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18,049 | I, an electrical engineering undergraduate, am currently involved in a research project, wherein I help write all the codes, run all the simulations, and plot all the graphs.
The paper is about to be submitted soon. I am hesitating whether to mention my desire to be listed as a co-author to my advisor.
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18,053 | I was fortunate enough to get a position as a researcher for the Mayo Clinic's SURF Program this year. My PI's lab focus is on the the immune system's role in CNS axonal and neuronal injury, specifically through the lens of how innate and adaptive immune effectors interact w/ infected neurons.
Although I do research u... | [
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18,062 | I am a MA student who frequently works with undergraduates on projects. One student has asked me if I can write her a letter of recommendation for graduate school. Are there any risks to me submitting a letter, as opposed to her finding a faculty member (who likely would not be in the same field as her interests)? For ... | [
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18,070 | A PhD student has been working with Prof A. However, after a year, the student decided that he doesn't like the field and wants to change his advisor to Prof B, who works in the same department with Prof A.
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18,078 | It's interview season. I've noticed that many of the applicants in this round are already assistant professors at other institutions.
**Is there any known number or record on how frequently (let's say, across North America) assistant professors who don't have tenure yet switch institutions?**
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18,079 | This isn't the best moment to ask the question, since I should be writing an overdue document and presentation.
However, is there any place where a person with fear of writing can work? I am studying for a PhD in Europe in a STEM field. I was always quite good at school and university. I was on schedule with my studi... | [
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18,082 | As a 19 year old I had to withdraw from a university because of depression. However, at the time, one professor refused to let me withdraw and gave me an F. On the strength of that grade I was dismissed from the university.
I got myself together and went to DePaul and graduated Cum Laude. Now I have received an offer ... | [
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18,083 | I already have a BSc degree from an unknown school in outside the US. I have convinced a professor at a top US school to let me join his lab to work on a project that he will propose and conduct experiments at his lab. In return for learning and having access to the lab and working on a project, I am supposed to help t... | [
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18,097 | I am proofreading a grant from another researcher. This is going to be submitted to the NIH which follows AMA guidelines. A particular, long report is providing her several of the researcher's citations. I asked for page references to some of her stats since I couldn't read the whole thing, and I needed to verify her c... | [
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18,110 | BACKGROUND: I'm beginning a computer science MS program this summer. My undergrad background is a 2.9 in non-related sociology sub-category. The last time I took an actual math class was AP Calculus in my junior year of high school *cough* 8 years ago because I did well enough on the AP exam to get credit for everythin... | [
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18,111 | If I get A+ grades then it will raise my GPA in my undergrad institution, as well as for Columbia which is where I want to go to graduate school for statistics. **Should I try hard to get A+ grades or should I be content with As?** Trying for A+ grades would not cut into any of my important academic activity such as re... | [
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18,115 | There is a [story on Inside Higher Ed](http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/03/13/lost-faculty-job-offer-raises-questions-about-negotiation-strategy) (based on this [blog post](http://philosophysmoker.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-new-kind-of-pfo-mid-negotiating-post.html)) about a candidate who received a tenure-track off... | [
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18,117 | As the title says.
My background is in Economics/Finance(mostly), many topics in those fields (and I am sure other fields) require fairly complicated programming, enough to where one can easily screw something up. How do Academic journals defend against results that are generated by bugs?
As far as I understand nobo... | [
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18,122 | This has been a plague upon my performance for what seems like all my life (or all my graded life).
No, it's not an 100, it's a 98 because of calling bromine a gas carelessly.
No, it's not a 6/6, it's a 5 out of 6 because you didn't realize that such a simple question had a minor twist
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18,123 | It seems that most universities in Europe require an outline of the planned dissertation at the application stage. I think even choosing the title of a dissertation needs a lot of dialogue between the student and his supervisor. It also requires a thorough investigation on the state of art in the targeted area.
Is su... | [
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18,127 | A style I'm required to follow, unfortunately unnamed:
>
> [1] Last, G.L., Loo, B.F., Mooo, C.C., “My wonderful title” Int. J.
> Heat Mass Transf., 32(19-21), pp. 234-245, (2001).
>
>
> [2] Moobar, A.D. and Been, D., Book about pink ponies, New York:
> Wonderful publisher, pp. 34–41, (2003).
>
>
>
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