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19,431 | I applied to graduate schools this year, and at the tail end of February, my first pick school sent me an email that to me, sounded like they had filled all the available TA positions. So naturally I chose my second pick school (that did offer me a TAship).
Today (April 16th), I receive an email from my first choice s... | [
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19,450 | Should a full professor apply for an associate professor position if it's the only way s/he might be able to continue his or her career?
The situation in question involves a person recently promoted to full professor (after 5 years as associate prof. and 5 years as assistant before that, all at the same institution).... | [
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"text": "Contact the department/institution. If a department is hiring an \"Assistant Professor\", they have been granted a ... | 2014/04/17 | [
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19,454 | This question was raised in discussion of answers on [Is it better to submit a paper to an important journal without the supervisor name or to a less important journal with the supervisor name?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/19319/is-it-better-to-submit-a-paper-to-an-important-journal-without-the-supervi... | [
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"text": "I think that you need to distinguish between the case when everyone agrees that X's work requires acknowledgeme... | 2014/04/17 | [
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19,466 | I have a research problem in an area of Mathematics. There is mathematician whose domain of expertise is very near to the subject of my problem.
I read frequently his works, he probably doesn't know me. But it is possible that he has seen some of my works. He is a senior mathematician. I am junior.
Anyway we don't k... | [
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"text": "**Be specific and brief, with a clear action item.**\n\n* bad:\n\n> \n> My name is X and I'm interested in Y, and I'm h... | 2014/04/17 | [
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19,468 | I am a Math PhD student at a US university. I have made a decision on who I want to work with for my PhD, but I was made aware that the professor in question is going on a sabbatical next year, to be spent in a different university (not in close proximity). What is the best way to approach a potential advisor in such a... | [
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"text": "I think the situation is volatile, depending on the communication skills/inclinations of the faculty person. I.e.... | 2014/04/17 | [
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19,470 | I am asking because I work for a **non-for-profit academic hospital** where the vast majority of the funding comes, one way or another, from the taxpayer. It is certainly possible, actually encouraged, for us to file for patents should we find some new way to diagnose or predict disease progression.
But, I will mentio... | [
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"text": "Yes it is ethical.\n\nThe patent will typically be owned by the institute and it will get most of the revenues (this... | 2014/04/18 | [
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19,472 | I'm an undergraduate mathematics student finishing my degree. I plan to go to grad school, and ultimately aspire to become a professor. I really like tattoos, but I'm hesitant to get one because it could affect my future job.
Of course, if I did get one, it would be discrete and innocent. What I really want is the axi... | [
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"text": "I don't have any tattoos, and I work in CS, which may be a little more relaxed than mathematics. I would have no negati... | 2014/04/18 | [
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19,477 | In general, you can find the past exams for the past 15 years or so at my school. However I had one prof in Calculus III who chose to withhold his exams. This was the only instance in which a prof has chosen to do so in my two years at university studying engineering. His justification was that he didn't want students ... | [
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"text": "Availability of worked answers/past papers etc should ideally be consistent across all sections of all courses within ... | 2014/04/18 | [
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19,487 | I have some continuing misunderstandings with my advisor. For some time I am actually doing my research as a one man show, but due to my faults and a lot of work I still did not finish my PhD. I am paid by him, so I still need to have good relations with him.
However, he often gets some real and spam "invitations" to ... | [
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"text": "You can easily argument that you opt to publish in A1 journal papers and P1 indexed proceedings and thus only the c... | 2014/04/18 | [
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19,489 | While most European doctoral courses require its applicants to hold master's degree, many doctoral courses in US often do not. In these graduate schools, by satisfying conditions set by the schools, students advance to candidacy, when the school may or may not grant them master's degree.
Suppose the school does not. T... | [
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"text": "Although the term \"PhD candidate\" is used in both continents, a Ph.D program in the USA comprises of: Master (2... | 2014/04/18 | [
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19,495 | This year I have decided to take a Computer Science course on FLVS, an online learning institution.
Throughout the whole year, I worked well, and I had a lot of fun with the course. I was close to finishing the second semester of it, and I randomly lost access to the course. I was surprised to find out that they took ... | [
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"text": "There are a few steps you can take, but the specifics depend on the individual institution and its procedures:\n\n1. ... | 2014/04/18 | [
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19,499 | I have very little formal training, but I believe I have some ideas to share. I have surveyed the terrain of ideas I need and have the complete picture in some haphazard form in my head. It is seeming quite impossible for me to write anything that looks good, complete and coherent. In attempting to do this I have read ... | [
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"text": "Some resources on writing mathematics, which I assume will be useful in mathematical physics, are:\n\nDonald E. Knuth... | 2014/04/18 | [
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19,503 | What are the differences in responsibilities among them? Can anybody give me an example to elucidate that. Also why are non-tenured faculty more interested in a co-adviser role than a committee member role? | [
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19,510 | I have been in the computer science academic community for at least five years, and I noticed that there are several so called *summer schools* organized every year everywhere.
I have been knowing just few people attend them.
These summer schools are addressed mainy to MS and PhD students, last around 3-7 days, and ma... | [
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"text": "A summer school is usually a way to have a focused series of lectures on a specific topic. The best analogy I can think... | 2014/04/19 | [
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19,511 | I knew a foreigner in the astronomy department at the university here who was a "post-postdoc" independent researcher. How could she have her own office in the astronomy department as an independent researcher? | [
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19,533 | I have seen that some universities give postdoctoral fellows an official certificate (similar to the PhD diploma) after finishing their postdoctoral job. On the other hand, some of postdoctoral positions are just simple research (or even academic) jobs. I have even seen that some professors pay the postdoctoral fellows... | [
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"text": "Certainly not in the US. I never got any kind of certificate for the postdoc I did, and in fact I'd never heard... | 2014/04/19 | [
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19,536 | I am writing my undergrad Bachelor's thesis in computational physics where I do C++ programming. In some C++ books, I read some things that were quite useful during programming, but they do not have a direct connection to the physics.
Since I was proficient with LaTeX before I started the thesis, I do not see a point ... | [
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19,544 | I am interviewing over Skype, for a research position at German university. So far my interviewer and I communicated via email, and he sounded formal but pleasant.
I have no clue how interviews are conducted at German universities. Is it subject-based or do they just want to know the student's skills and motivations?
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19,545 | I am an MSc Student of Computer Science at a department that is considered to be in the top ten CS departments in the world ([QS Rankings here](http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2014/computer-science-information-systems#sorting=rank+region=+country=+faculty=+stars=false+sear... | [
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"text": "This is a good question: at what point in one's academic career should one begin refereeing papers?\n\nI think th... | 2014/04/19 | [
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19,559 | In the USA, many universities enroll PhD students with BSc degree. I think this is the classical scheme, which remained in the US universities. In many countries, it is almost impossible to enroll in a PhD program without MSc degree.
I am curious how is the trend for MSc programs?
At least in the USA, do more univers... | [
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19,581 | I'm currently writing a paper on analysing miRNA targeting in animals. It's principally a statistical analysis involving many graphs.
However, to explain the creation of one of the graphs, I've resorted to using set theory notation, as this, to me, seemed the most efficient way of explaining how the graph was produced... | [
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19,584 | Why are linguistics and law considered as part of the "sciences" rather than "non-science" academic disciplines like say philosophy, history or engineering?
Seeing how both linguistics and law only study what has been created by mankind to begin with, or how there is virtually no room for scientists to actually test o... | [
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19,586 | I am currently getting ready to finish my first semester of a graduate program (was on track for Ph.D but that does not matter anymore). I made the decision to quit half way through the semester due to some family issues that came up. Anyway, ever since that, I pretty much lost all motivation to study with the persiste... | [
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19,588 | Suppose you have two libraries that use the same classification system and have not merged their respective databases. Could it be possible that the exact same book could be assigned different call numbers if taken from one library and added to the other?
I am asking this question because I am drawing up a home-librar... | [
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19,600 | Do universities offer relocation assistance to a newly employed postdoc who comes from another country? Is it appropriate for the postdoc to ask for relocation assistance if it is not already offered? | [
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19,604 | I had the impression that obtaining written permission before including someone in acknowledgements was required. Therefore, I just wrote to someone asking for written permission to include him in the acknowledgements of a paper, and he said he didn't think it was necessary. I don't recall where I got this notion from ... | [
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19,608 | One thing that I have noted come up a few times in presentations in the US in the last few years has been that some speakers—usually graduate students and postdocs, rather than more established career professionals—have included religious invocations at the end of presentations in entirely secular venues. One presenter... | [
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19,615 | Should one disclose his/her family information (i.e. whether he/she is married and have children) in an academic job interview, including postdoc interviews and interviews for PhD, if any? In what situations would disclosing family information in such interviews be considered advantageous or necessary for the candidate... | [
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19,627 | I've finished a mathematics paper with two co-authors, and I need to decide on a journal to submit it to.
More so than my other papers, I don't have much of a sense for how "good" it is. It is a substantial generalization of one of the main results proved in a very top journal, although not the most significant of the... | [
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19,630 | I work in computer science, and am wondering what is the right balance between PhD students and postdoctoral fellows in a lab.
In the previous research group I was, there were one principal investigator professor, one researcher (~ assistant professor), **zero post-doctoral fellows**, and **nine PhD students**.
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19,635 | To give some background, I am a TA at UCLA for a lab class. They submit their assignments to TurnItIn, which you may know highlights any text pulled from another place.
I made it clear that they are not to work together and that no text in their reports should be found "anywhere else in the universe."
After the first... | [
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19,642 | i found many papers and thesis written in different languages than English, mainly Portuguese and Chinese. is there an efficient way to benefit from these papers and thesis instead of translating them using Google translate. | [
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19,650 | A few years back, while still an undergraduate student, I wrote and submitted a paper to a (low-tier) journal. It was accepted and published. None of the professors in my college were familiar with the subfield in question, so I did it all on my own, without their supervision or assistance.
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19,667 | I am speaking of project scope here.
So suppose my advisor is working with an industry .And you are asked to build a prediction model for small section of that industry? Does that qualify as a Phd Project or a Master's thesis project.
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19,670 | When the editor receives a manuscript, he/she has to find a couple of suitable reviewers. I was wondering if the they were choosing the reviewers in order to match the expected manuscript quality?
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19,676 | It seems like the traditional exam model (two midterms at 30% and one final at 40% of the grade, closed book) is flawed. For instance:
1. Students are not allowed to access resources, whereas in reality they would
2. Students get only a few minutes per questions, whereas in reality they would get days
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19,687 | Should the department share the departmental problems (financial, officials, political, etc) with the students? or it is official matter and none of their business?
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19,692 | In research papers, should Introduction and Conclusion sections be numbered or non-numbered? What does the scientific paper etiquette suggest? Furthermore, in either case, should they appear in the Table of Contents?
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19,696 | The faculty in which I am currently working is planning to subscribe to the ACM Digital Library and to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. I am not pretty sure how much are the real costs of the subscription because for example in:
<http://librarians.acm.org/sites/default/files/ACM_DL_PricingGuides2014_NoTabs_V19_Academi... | [
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19,698 | Since the first time I had to write an (academic) CV, I seem to be getting two conflicting opinions on the subject of *including non-academic* interests on an academic CV.
(Some examples of such interests would be sports, cooking, etc.)
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19,705 | I'm a teacher in a Vocational Education school in Spain. In our Vocational Education system, we have two different levels:
1. Vocational High School (post compulsory secondary school)
2. Community College (this is considered Higher Education)
It's hard for me to establish equivalence with the US System, but I guess y... | [
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19,708 | I want to send an email to a professor to inform him that I want to accept the offer of PhD admission and Research assistantship. But I do not know how to start email. Is the following good? if not, would you please recommend better phrase.
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> Dear Professor,
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> I hope you are keeping well ....
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19,709 | A recent job posting at a British university has specified available openings at multiple levels: lecturer, senior lecturer, reader, and professor. However, it's not clear how to map these titles to American equivalents. For instance, where would someone who has finished up several years of an assistant professorship a... | [
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19,710 | Recently my paper is reviewed (by a professor from independent third party) and accepted by a journal. But, my employer allows me to publish this paper only without its name there.
Publishing house is expecting affiliation for each author, i.e. I can not leave affiliation as blank.
What should I write as the affilia... | [
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19,716 | My situation is as follows: I spent my undergraduate time at one university and recently entered grad school at another university (both of them in Germany, my field is theoretical computer science).
For my Bachelor's thesis, I worked (for about two months or so) on a topic that had not been considered at the time.
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19,726 | I received a rejection letter from a relatively high-impact journal based on the feedback from three reviewers. After I reviewed their comments, I feared that their comments were biased and am not sure if I should appeal. The comments from all three reviewers are all negative, but one is more bias than the other.
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19,727 | With apologies for the attention-grabbing title: of course I am not actually asking you to tell me when I, specifically, should schedule my defense. But I have heard very plausible-sounding rumors that the time of day at which a PhD candidate holds their thesis defense can have an impact on the difficulty and even the ... | [
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19,734 | Some universities have a *School of Something* and some a *Department of Something.* Are they identical and just two common terms for the same thing, or they are different in the university structure?
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19,737 | Take the course code PHYS 3054 or PHYS 354. The physics department doesn't offer 54 courses at the 300 or 3000 level.
I imagine some universities subscribe to a set of common best practices for course numbering. So I suspect that there might be an answer that applies to the numbering systems of a number of institution... | [
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19,747 | I am a PhD student at an engineering department in Europe. At my department, and at most others in my university, research papers are the main benchmark of a scientist’s productivity. It seems like this is also true in other institutions.
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19,750 | I let a student associated with me (but who is not really my PhD student) submit a paper to a fairly-local meeting (some people do come from abroad). Because I'd been tasked with supporting the student, I let him put my name on the paper and also helped with the presentation, but I found the content unconvincing. Howev... | [
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19,756 | This question may be too wide or in some perspective perceived as unclear but covers a key issue (for me) in academia, namely, *academic writing*.
Students start their academic career with varying skills in writing. Often, and this the case in my department, there is no thought through progression to go from beginner ... | [
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19,761 | I am considering doing a PhD however I was surprised to find out that there are no set standards for a PhD in research.
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19,762 | When I'm teaching an advanced graduate class where the source material is drawn primarily from current research papers, there isn't a canonical text per se, and a typical lecture, while loosely structured, also involves discussion that might help clarify the papers.
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19,774 | I was wondering where I can find any information on the postdoctoral fellowships/calls to work in Europe which are similar to Marae Cunuu? I'm doing my
basic internet search on this, but don't seem to succeed that much. I'm especially talking about the fellowships that are offered in the areas of pure or applied scienc... | [
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19,794 | From my experience in biology (by experience I mean reading other papers), it seems that there is an unspoken rule that itemized lists do not belong in the body text of a paper.
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19,799 | Specifically, why do some universities have a defined "graduate school" and associated "graduate faculty," with separate appointment process, and some do not, even when they offer many graduate programs? What is the organizational and administrative thinking behind this? | [
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19,803 | I currently am working on a MS in pure maths, but am interested in options for pursuing a PhD in a more applied field. Specifically I am interested in going on to graduate work in something like statistics. How hard would it be for me to go straight from an MS in pure math with only a very few courses in statistics to ... | [
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19,816 | There's something I am not able to understand. I'm a CS master student in Germany. Now I'm doing my master thesis. Before starting my thesis I had an image about PhD students which turned out to be wrong. Always thought that PhD student work much much harder than us and have too much stress. Or that they wake up at 5 a... | [
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19,817 | I wonder how many manuscripts are submitted daily to the top scientific journals, such as Nature or Science. Each of those journals has multiple editors, specialising in narrower fields. The question that follows is how many submittions does one editor handle daily? | [
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19,819 | I am writing a paper aimed at a physics journal which extends an old paper (not by me), which introduced a mathematical formalism for a physical problem in a rather handwaving way and without addressing most of its mathematical background.
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19,822 | I'm a CS master student working on my thesis. I'm 25 years old and still until now when I wake up in the morning to start studying I wake up stressed and my stomach hurts. I also feel a very bad headache. When I had courses I used to wake up in this situation everyday because I had to. Now I started my thesis and I don... | [
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19,826 | A while back I reached the stage where my ideas for research topics/papers exceeded my capacity to personally work on them. As a PostDoc, I tried to head-hunt students or more junior researchers in my area (or at conferences, etc.) to talk with them about the ideas and see if they would be interested in collaborating o... | [
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19,836 | I know that typically, unpublished references (i.e. references not published in some journal, especially online resources) are highly discouraged. I'm working on a paper regarding Bluetooth LE implementations, and most of the materials relevant to my paper are either online (i.e. on mailing lists discussing implementat... | [
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19,844 | Within my college, teachers generally allow any student who earned a D or lower on an exam, to retake the exam. While I do not need to follow this policy in my courses, many students expect their instructors to offer retakes.
I would like to offer retakes, but see two problems:
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19,846 | Do students at liberal arts universities have 'harder' courses than students at research universities?
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19,855 | I have been fairly active in the open-source software community with a few projects that have gotten some attention. However, my reputation in the academic/publications world is a little bit low and I'd like to improve that.
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19,863 | I will get an information science under graduate degree this July in an Italian university. I want to apply for a computer science degree at an American university. Here in Italy the high school lasts five years instead of four, and the undergraduate degree (*laurea triennale*) lasts three years instead of four.
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19,867 | *(This question is set up under the EECS context, but any generic answer is much welcomed)*
It is said that publications during one's undergraduate time will be an advantage in his/her PhD application. Usually, an undergraduate only starts publishing papers in his/her junior (3rd) year, and the application deadline us... | [
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19,881 | I keep coming across general wisdom of the type, "A teacher has to be a clown". This attitude is gaining traction, e.g. as in [this TED talk](http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_emdin_teach_teachers_how_to_create_magic).
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19,885 | I graduated from college 5 years ago, and I was very fortunate to graduate with no debt. For the 3 years after graduating I worked hard, had solid employment, and saved very carefully. This afforded me the opportunity to use a portion of those savings to buy a used car that people comment on while I am driving down the... | [
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19,889 | I am facing a dilemma regarding whether or not to apply for Spring for PhD programs at some universities in US. What are the pros and cons of applying for PhD or MS programs in Spring? | [
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19,907 | I observe media uses health studies or research and come up with conclusions to influence the consumers today with headlines suitable for few corporations
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19,912 | I'm currently writing an objection to a decision to reject my Master application.
The decision is made by Admission office, not by Admission Board or Committee. All members of the Admission office are not members of the academic staff, so there is no at least one professor from the programme who participated in making... | [
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19,914 | From talking to colleagues in a variety of fields and different institutions, there seems to be a huge variability in the ways committees handle their responsibilities of reviewing dissertation chapters. I would like to know two things:
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19,916 | At the moment I'm a high school student, who is passionate about the High Energy Physics areas, especially Phenomenology, String Theory, QFT and so on. I would like to pursue a B.Sc. degree in Mathematical Physics in the future in my country (central European country with a lot of famous string theorists ;) ). After th... | [
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19,923 | Consider this situation,
I get accepted for a second masters degree at the University of Toronto, and just before that I graduate with a masters degree in a much less established university.
Both degrees are in the same field, **Computer Science**.
Further, UoT knows that I am completing my masters degree.
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19,929 | This is a question branching off of [this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/19914/best-practices-for-dissertation-committees-to-review-chapters/19919?noredirect=1#comment41452_19919). I would like to judge how common it is for universities to give course reductions for service on dissertation committees... | [
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19,930 | The question is pretty easy and fit in the title.
So: can I use instagram pictures for an academic work?
I think I have to ask people who posted them if they agree but I'm not sure. I don't want any trouble with plagiarism and copyright. | [
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19,946 | After the recent death of 61 year old Spanish teacher Anne Maguire in Leeds today, what is the best way to deal with violence in schools in the UK as it happens?
Most schools in the UK do not have a lockdown / violence procedure as it is very rare.
However can we deal with this as it happens effectively in the UK? | [
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19,951 | Not disregarding that the Ivies are fine colleges in many aspects, how to deal with high-school students fixated on the idea that they need an Ivy league education, or otherwise their education would be second class. Or to deal with equally fixated people who think that academics in the Ivy league is the only golden ru... | [
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19,952 | I'm working on a project with a partner that involves developing a mobile app and corresponding server. I won't bother with the specifics, but both involve a fair amount of work (both require some custom algorithms as well as thousands of lines of code). This project will serve as a final for one of our classes.
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19,966 | I've recently started as a PhD student, but had previous publications in forms of conference papers and various talks, so I consider myself very experienced with my particular field of research. One of my supervisors had once assigned me for a review task for a journal because she did not have time to complete it. This... | [
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19,970 | I am interested in areas of theoretical physics/mathematics which simply don't exist in my institute. I tried 2 or 3 different groups here which were not in my interest (but I felt I had some transferable skills) and it didn't work out. | [
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19,985 | I want to cite a series of three papers (condensed-matter physics, if it matters) where the first author is a different person in each case, say authors A, B and C, but all the papers come from the same group led by author D. That is, the list of authors in each paper is "A, ..., and D", "B, ..., and D", and "C, ..., a... | [
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19,996 | There is a recurring pattern I see in conferences organized by several professional associations. Two different conference fees are offered, X for members and Y for non-members, with Y>X. Often, the annual membership fee for said professional associations is less than Y-X, so becoming member is cheaper than paying the ... | [
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19,997 | I am an student and in one of my college courses, the professor seems stressed or frazzled. He is always running late and unprepared, which seems odd because the Powerpoint slides are already done and he uses previous tests and quizzes. The tests, homework, and most of the quizzes are computerized and graded automatica... | [
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20,005 | What is considered a reasonable rate for faculty turnover in a "healthy" department? How much turnover is too much/little? Presumably the rates might depend on seniority. Does departmental turnover tell you anything about your colleagues? | [
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20,008 | I'm a graduate student in a biological sciences lab. About 6 months ago I started an after-hours (does such a thing exist?) project with a fellow graduate student in a different lab doing computational physics. We principally work on the weekends and late at night, and I like to think that the time we use would otherwi... | [
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20,010 | When rereading my copies of letters of recommendation I wrote when a student of mine applied to multiple graduate schools, I was appalled to see mistakes I made where the wrong graduate program was mentioned in the letter. For example, in a letter to CMU, I recommended the student to Georgia Tech.
Do mistakes like th... | [
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20,018 | How can I find information about upcoming special issues related to a special field of study? There are good websites for upcoming conferences but I could not find any place to search for special issues. | [
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20,020 | I don't know whether this is the appropriate place to ask my question but since there is no harm in asking, let me ask. My nephew, who is an undergraduate student, has sent a paper to the journal [*Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics*](http://www.nntdm.net/) about one month ago. Since it has been 1 month, h... | [
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20,022 | I have seen several math papers which end with a statement like "After completing the research in this paper, we learned that all the results are already known." I wonder what are the situations in which such a comment is appropriate.
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20,026 | I am a few months into my PhD and my supervisor and co-supervisor are close friends.
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20,027 | I have just started a PhD along with another candidate. We are each looking at different aspects of the same subject. His data provide context for mine, while my data simply add value to his. As I will be asking him for some of his data, he has decided that he wants some of my data. However, he is interested in using a... | [
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20,040 | I have seen several questions on this forum that have similar things and some of them have been quite satisfying for my quest. But I want to mention my specific case and want to have some useful suggestions, so I am writing this, which maybe or may not be a redundant question.
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20,046 | I realize writing in active vs passive voice is a heated debate in academia, with arguments being made for and against both styles. My adviser prefers passive voice.. But is it acceptable to switch from passive to active voice in the same paragraph? What about different sections? For example, the intro and literature r... | [
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20,049 | I teach at a community college in California, where students can drop a course with a grade of "W" up until the 12th week of the semester. Within the last year or so, I seem to be seeing an increase in the number of students who find themselves passing the course at the 12th week, but who decide to drop because they wa... | [
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20,063 | I'm working on a small application which would hypothetically allow instructors to perform a variety of grade transformation techniques on a given distribution. (I don't intend for the application to actually be used)
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20,075 | I was dismissed from my Masters program due to bad grades. I also have a mention in my records that say that I might have used last years homework. I did not copy and they had no proof that I copied per se. I couldn't care less about my grades at the time and I deeply regret doing what I did. Is there hope for me in ap... | [
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