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20,082 | I'm going to start preparing for GRE. I have great enthusiasm for reading novels rather than memorizing words. Will words learnt from novels be helpful for GRE vocabulary? Which novels/writers books should be read for GRE vocabulary? | [
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20,084 | Possible arguments:
Pro
* For brevity for trivial deductions
Contra
* Looks like the writer could not be bothered to write an extensive explanation
* Definition of what is trivial to which reader and what not | [
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"text": "I don't agree with any of these assessments. Often the omitted deductions are rudimentary, but not necessarily tri... | 2014/05/01 | [
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20,089 | I have done some work and I thought of publishing it. This is my first attempt to publish. After searching a lot, I found out that SCI indexed journals are good. But I am seeing publishing price at about $1500-$3100 which is absolutely impossible for me. (Just out of question). My work is on improvement in image proces... | [
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20,101 | My case is the following, I have already got a MSc in Computer Science, but my field of specialization was Theoretical Computer Science. Actually I am really interested in the field of Machine Learning, but unfortunately I did not follow any course about that topic in my previous master's degree.
At first sight, I was... | [
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"text": "Given both of those stated goals, I would not pursue additional coursework to learn the material. Your current masters d... | 2014/05/01 | [
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20,102 | I have received a Call for Presentations for a conference and I have a topic that could be interesting to present.
The Call for Presentations describe the various forms of presentations that one can submit, and then links to a form asking for a title, presenter name(s) and an abstract. This has a deadline around two m... | [
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"text": "It depends on how close you research topic/presentation is to the conference topic. I've never had an abstract tu... | 2014/05/01 | [
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20,106 | I'm preparing my application for a master degree scholarship, would it help to put the MOOC's I took in the application, I earned five MOOC certificates and expecting another two in the near future. | [
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"text": "Yes! Why not? It shows that you go beyond what is required of you, and you have a genuine interest in learning. I ... | 2014/05/01 | [
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20,111 | I was told that universities in USA are generally better that the ones in Italy. I will take the undergraduate degree this July, and I need to decide whether to continue my studies in Italy or to move to the USA.
[This site](http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2014/computer-s... | [
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"text": "The linked QS world university rankings are a well respected international ranking. That said, using a university's ... | 2014/05/01 | [
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20,128 | A good friend of mine had an interview for a psychology Masters degree. The interviewer asked my friend: **"Tell me about yourself"**.
* How should one approach such a question?
* What do the admission committee expect to hear? | [
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"text": "> \n> How should one approach such a question?\n> \n> \n> \n\nBy telling them about yourself.\n\n> \n> What do the admissi... | 2014/05/01 | [
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20,130 | I work in mathematical physics. Typically, papers in my field are either published either in general math journals (Annals of Math, Transactions of AMS, Proceedings of AMS) or in specialized math physics journals (Communications in Math Physics, Reviews in Mathematical Physics, Annales Henri Poincaré, etc.) Personally,... | [
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"text": "I would pick the journal with the largest audience that you feel is likely to actually read your work. That is probabl... | 2014/05/01 | [
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20,133 | I was speaking with several professors in my department about submission to high-profile conferences like CHI in human-computer interaction. Most of the professors were of the opinion that acceptance in most of these high-profile conferences (typical acceptance rate of less than 20%) is heavily influenced by politics: ... | [
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"text": "It is an often-heard prejudice in CS that many of the top conferences are relatively closed \"boys clubs\". Indeed... | 2014/05/01 | [
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20,139 | By this, I do not mean I did not obtain significant research results. My supervisor has told me to finish up a draft of paper for submission, I wrote it, then after few months, he told me to correct some parts and did more experiments on certain area, I followed all his instructions and wrote a second draft to him. And... | [
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"text": "This seems like a strange situation, since it is very counterproductive for both you *and* your supervisor. If t... | 2014/05/02 | [
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20,144 | I have read many questions on this site that relate to Journal impact factors, for example, in relation to how that may affect where to publish etc.
I am wondering is there an independent oversight body that regulates the area of impact factors?
I was thinking along the lines of something like the [International Org... | [
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"text": "No.\n---\n\nAcademic publishing is not regulated by any oversight body. There is not even a universal standard for what con... | 2014/05/02 | [
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20,146 | I am trying to use/find the correct term for the *practice of publishing research results in academia*, mainly a reference to the practice of publishing research findings in a formal journal or conference.
The term has to have a clear contrast to the practice of *publishing full data-sets of research results (ex: in ... | [
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"text": "I suggest \"(modifier) dissemination\" with (modifier) used to make things more specific. Usually I f... | 2014/05/02 | [
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20,147 | I have been using some online proofreader tools for checking for grammar issues in my writing, but I have found that the solutions they give are not so good at all.
For that reason I would like to know any human-proofreader service that somebody could recommend me. Some of the characteristics of the service that I am r... | [
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"text": "Have you tried getting the proofreading done within your own university? This is not made explicit in your quest... | 2014/05/02 | [
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20,148 | Some journals bundle relevant papers on a currently hot topic into special issues. As far as I know, potential manuscripts must be specifically submitted for inclusion in special issues rather than the journal itself (or get selected from conference proceedings).
In my field, special issues tend to have shorter review... | [
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"text": "I have not been a journal editor. But I have dealt with many journal editors, and in my experience the kind of th... | 2014/05/02 | [
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20,150 | When a professor goes on unpaid leave from her university, can she normally continue to use her grants to fund graduate students and postdocs? Or, do all grants "freeze" until the professor returns? | [
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20,159 | I am about to apply for a Master program in U.S. as I am about to graduate in Bachelor of Engineering. Though I heard that all my grades during all my academic life is taken into consideration (GPA). Here in Brazil is very common to have a huge gap between universities both in teaching level and avaliation process. So,... | [
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"text": "We have the same phenomenon in America, of course. All other things being equal, a 3.5 GPA from Princeton is much more ... | 2014/05/02 | [
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20,165 | Would it ever occur, historically, that a PhD student could not obtain his degree from a university due to the high costs of publishing his thesis, such that he would have to publish it at another university and get his degree there instead? | [
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"text": "Emphatically, I don't see how this could happen in any subject in the U.S., nor, to my knowledge, in Europe, thoug... | 2014/05/02 | [
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20,171 | Is there anything like a directory or list of notable leading living figures based on subject area or research concentration? | [
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"text": "I think the American Academy of Arts and Sciences might be a good place to start, at least if your focus is primarily ... | 2014/05/02 | [
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20,174 | Should I modify my CV to emphasize certain traits before including it in my application for a master's degree or just include my usual professional CV? | [
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20,178 | Completely unrelated to my field (I do not work in languages) but I have written a small piece of software that proof reads my work for grammar and syntax. I'm interested in finding a few documents (ideally from a range of academic disciplines) that I can use to check my proof reading software. | [
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20,182 | Say you have a homework assignment and you're struggling with it. You ask a question about some portion of it on a site like physics.stackexchange or math.SE or stackoverflow.com, etc.
You then cite the help you received in your homework, as well as including a link to the post which helped you.
Given that you are re... | [
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"text": "This depends a great deal on the professor and course in question. Better to ask first if you plan to do this. Also,... | 2014/05/03 | [
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20,186 | I have recently completed a manuscript and I want it to submit to the arXiv. But there I find that there is an endorsement requirement. But since I am quite new in this field (and this is my first time wanting to submit to arXiv), I don't know how to find an endorser myself. I have mailed the *admin* also but in reply ... | [
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20,196 | *I tried to search in the previous Q/As, but I do not think my case falls in any of the previous entries.*
While looking for a certain topic in my field, I found two papers.
The first paper was authored by authors A, B, C, and D and published in some conference proceedings. The second paper was published in a journal... | [
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20,202 | I need to add a photo with some additional data drawn over it to my thesis in computer science. But the photo is large and I want to crop bottom half of it. But then it could be misleading, that there is a part of the image missing.
I will write it to the image description, but I want it to be obvious at first sight w... | [
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20,204 | I'm wondering whether there's any way to enter the academic world, do research at a university for a living, without an undergraduate degree, but instead with several years of experience in industry (the same field of the research).
This is actually my situation. After 8 years of software development in several profes... | [
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20,214 | I have been teaching a humanities course at a higher education institution for about more than three years now. I am expected to get full tenure this year. Perhaps it is the only chair dedicated to my field in my country; it is certainly the only one in the subfield I teach. In other words, yes, I am the only professor... | [
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20,220 | In short:
I have ported a package in another programming environment, and I want to write a paper of my ported package. Would it be considered cheating?
In details:
I have implemented a package in Python, that is modeled after an R package, which means my package has the design and APIs similar to original's.
The a... | [
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20,222 | I want to apply for a scholarship, but my TOEFL score is 81 and I think it is not good enough. Sending language proficiency scores is not compulsory for scholarship application but it is encouraged. I am indecisive to send it. What is your idea? | [
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20,226 | Can anyone recommend an open source system for students to submit programming assignments? Ideally it would be something that would run on the web, do some level of testing on the server side, and provide feedback to the students based on testing. | [
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20,246 | I started a PhD program few years ago. My first PhD supervisor decided he wanted to quit university and stopped supervising PhDs (he was 70 years old). I lost about a year trying to convince this supervisor to continue, and another year trying to find another supervisor when he quit (he pretty much left all his PhD stu... | [
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20,257 | Everybody I have met in academia uses recently-published journals entirely through electronic means. They may print out articles for their own use, but they will not receive printed subscriptions.
Does *anybody* receive modern journals in printed form nowadays? If so, who and why? | [
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20,260 | I was wondering what I should do in this situation as an undergraduate student:
About a month ago, I applied for and did not get into a program that allows first-year students to work on research projects that professors put forward, with the intention of introducing students to research, which included a research sti... | [
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20,270 | Is it plagiarism if I copy several paragraphs from another's source (let's say a CS paper) into my work and then footnote `Source: ...`, for example, as background information? | [
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20,275 | I am planning on applying to a Master's degree program (in Canada, if it matters) and I've noticed that there seems to be quite a few grade cut-offs for applications. I've [read](https://www.quora.com/Graduate-School-Admissions/If-I-contact-a-professor-for-research-graduate-school-and-he-asks-for-my-resume-transcript-w... | [
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20,276 | Some time ago I contacted a professor at another university and, after some discussions, he agreed to supervise me and told me to make a formal application to the department. Unfortunately, the admission committee rejected my application. I asked that professor why, and he said he had no idea and I don't know if he tri... | [
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20,279 | How should one go about trying to teach students to "unlearn" a previous skill/principle they believe is correct but is actually wrong?
Hypothetically speaking as a really basic situation, if your student was adamant that the formula for the area of a rectangle is 2\*l + 2\*w, even though you tried to explain that is... | [
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20,294 | I was wondering whether existed some software that would take as input a text file bibliography (for instance a bib file if you use bibtex), and that run it through google scholar (or any other database), so that it can return a uniformized bibliography.
As an example, suppose you have two items from the same conferen... | [
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20,295 | I failed to complete my research project (undergraduate) in the time I said I would, because of overconfidence. It seemed like a quite simple project to both me and my advisor initially considering that it was very similar to a project another student of his had worked on, however for some reason (much of the blame is ... | [
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20,305 | I am pursuing a PhD (computer science) from one of the reputed Indian universities. I have prepared some white papers for publication in coming journals. I prepared these papers by myself. I referred various links and study guides, books etc.
After getting these papers published, I received one notice from the editori... | [
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"text": "For what I read in one comment you draw also the images, but still if the figures appears somewhere else you should re... | 2014/05/05 | [
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20,318 | I'm an undergraduate writing a paper for a philosophy course in logic. My paper is exploring a relationship between Leibniz' logic and graph theory. In writing the paper, I've found some material in Leibniz' work on combinatorics that (to me) strongly resembles graph theory. However, I can't find anything that seriousl... | [
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"text": "*(disclaimer - I come from computer science, and the little I know about conventions in philosophy is from hearsay)... | 2014/05/06 | [
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20,322 | There are essentially two ways for plotting three-dimensional data:
* Colour maps (or heat maps)¹:
* Surface plots:
While surface plots are quite nice to visualise data if yo... | [
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"text": "As everything, it depends. Here is a 3d plot of a mass-spectroscopic peak in time and mass to charge:\n![zoomin](ht... | 2014/05/06 | [
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20,323 | I know you should build a good network with your professors as early as possible, not only it will help your study, but also you can get great recommendation letter from them.
But not all students aim at graduate school when they start their undergraduate, for example, I only became interest in research and decide on... | [
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"text": "I decided I wanted to attend grad-school at the end of my junior year - here is what I did\n\n1) I had done re... | 2014/05/06 | [
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20,324 | I'm a PhD candidate in Computer Science and I'm working on my first paper that should be published in a peer-reviewed journal (until now, I published only papers in conferences).
My project is a FPGA memory module, which uses a specific approach (the main idea) to obtain better performance in terms of access philosophy... | [
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20,325 | I am analysing data from a commercial instrument. I need to set a threshold that has to do with the precision of the instrument, so I looked up the value from the manufacturer's online specifications. How do I cite it?
The university does not have any official policy, and other papers in the field either don't mention... | [
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"text": "Basically, you can cite this user's manual just as you would any book-like publication. The only difference is that you ... | 2014/05/06 | [
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20,332 | I am seeking some help to find research papers (preferably in the area of Narzot chains) for my undergraduate research for reference. Any guidance on how to find research papers in general for undergraduate level research will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance | [
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"text": "The most useful advice I've ever gotten about finding research papers: Book an appointment with a research librarian.\n... | 2014/05/06 | [
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20,340 | My graduate program is a non-research based. However, I am interested in writing and presenting a conference paper. Is it possible for me to do this even as I am not into research work? | [
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"text": "Of course you can submit any paper you want. There are a lot of people, for example in the industry field, that submit... | 2014/05/06 | [
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20,358 | I am writing a paper describing some of the research I have done. As part of my work I have developed an open-source library and made it available on Github.
How should I link to it?
Should I cite it in the bibliography or make a footnote with the link to the software? | [
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20,387 | I remember of some article that was published in which the author showed a world map with circles that represented the number of articles published by country and their frequency in which a groundbreaking academic work was released in each country(One of them was represented by the size of the circle, the other by the ... | [
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20,391 | I was working with my advisor on a research topic for six months and we had some results. The important idea was his, but the initial idea was mine and we worked on it together. Now my advisor has published the results without my name in the authors. The paper is in an important conference.
What do I do ? Is this norm... | [
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"text": "You asked, \n\n> \n> Is this normal?\n> \n> \n> \n\nThe answer is **no, it's not normal**. If two people work on some... | 2014/05/07 | [
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20,394 | I am just finishing my PhD and I have now been on the job market and started to speak at many universities. I have realized it is a time commitment for a person to host a seminar speaker and am really grateful for the experiences that many of my hosts have given me at these universities. For this reason, I have made a ... | [
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"text": "I agree that sending a *paper* thank-you note is a little unusual. There's nothing wrong with it, of course. Yo... | 2014/05/07 | [
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20,401 | This question has two parts. First, a comparative question. Second, a broad question about why PhD students get so stressed and complain so much.
**Do PhD students complain more than people in other professions?**
In my limited and biased experience, yes. More generally, there are so many websites about how hard lif... | [
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"text": "Two factors that I think are the most relevant:\n\n* PhD student is one of the lowest salary/education ratio. The ... | 2014/05/07 | [
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20,403 | I am a PhD student halfway through my journey. After I published a few papers, I am getting review requests from some medium rank conference and journal editors. While certainly it is an honour for me, doing good review takes some time since I am not an expert of my broad field with everything at my finger tip. Does re... | [
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"text": "An important part of an academic career/CV is *service*. Reviewing, editing, hosting conferences, ... falls und... | 2014/05/07 | [
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20,405 | My primary interest is in Data Mining. Secondary interests are Intrusion Detection and Energy Efficient Buildings.
I have done projects in data mining approaches for intrusion detection. I have also done research in data analysis on energy consumption patterns in smart-buildings.
I will be applying for graduate schoo... | [
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20,414 | This topic has already been described to some extent, e.g. here:
[Is verbatim copying several paragraphs of text with citation considered plagiarism?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/20270/is-verbatim-copying-text-with-citation-considered-plagiarism)
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"text": "> \n> So I am thinking about copy-pasting two or three sentences from the abstract of each referenced paper.\n> \n>... | 2014/05/07 | [
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20,417 | I have been trying to write a paper. Reading the introduction part I am getting different behaviours from different papers.
Some papers cover themselves more than 50% with introduction content as if they are the only source of information present anywhere while some give it very briefly expecting user to be well awar... | [
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20,423 | I'm an undergraduate in Computer Science who's has just completed his 2nd year. However I could not get an internship for the summer leaving me extremely tense about the future since there would be only one summer left (i.e., the summer of 2015 since I graduate in 2016).
I intend to apply to graduate schools in North ... | [
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"text": "If you are applying to a PhD, that portfolio of real life projects might not matter much.\n\nIn Gtayuate progra... | 2014/05/07 | [
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20,431 | I am from engineering, and I would like to know if I am able to find a job in industrial research lab after finishing my master, will there be any advantage or disadvantage compared with entering the same lab after finishing PhD? Possible advantage may be that I have more industrial experience as I enter the lab earlie... | [
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"text": "These are some experiences I've seen with people with similar dilemmas.\nIn my area, computer science, many peo... | 2014/05/07 | [
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20,435 | My research group has regular group meeting but I usually think it is not effective. In particular the research area of the group is very diverse, every time I just listen on something I cannot understand and have totally no interest on it, and I believe other members think the same way as I do when I am presenting. Wh... | [
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"text": "You have a lot of questions interspersed within your question, but it sounds like the main issue is\n\n> \n> the ... | 2014/05/07 | [
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20,437 | Could my institution get into legal hot water if we were to make copies of blank Scantron sheets? If so, are there good free alternatives for machine readable bubble sheets? | [
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20,445 | I hold a BS in Mathematics with a minor in Statistics and I've been out of school for several years. I recently began applying to part time online master's programs in Statistics and Computer Science. I've been accepted to the online MSCS program through Johns Hopkins University and I'm hoping to be accepted to the onl... | [
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"text": "Better to do one or the other. What you don't want to do is to fail out of either program. Pick the better/more presti... | 2014/05/07 | [
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20,447 | I am doing my graduation project to become a Software Engineer. The project aims to study the behavior of freelance developers to subsequently design a process that allows more quality and efficiency.
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"text": "If you're using forums, don't just make a thread and then write:\n\n> \n> Class project, please fill out this ... | 2014/05/07 | [
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20,461 | I am working on a PhD in chemical engineering, and my advisor mentioned to me today that I'm on track to finish in about half a year. I only have one class left to fulfill the course requirements and I have a few papers published, with a couple more almost finished.
Personally, I'm in no hurry. I love grad school and ... | [
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"text": "In my field (computer science, broadly), my impression is as follows. It is of course an over-generalization. \n\n* I... | 2014/05/08 | [
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20,473 | As a beginner researcher, several years ago, I sent some (2-3) papers to a quality journal (with ISI IF). The papers were rejected.
Now I am preparing a manuscript, which is in my opinion much more mature.
In the meantime I had some papers published in other journals.
Now I am considering the same journal again, becaus... | [
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20,476 | People in my program complain a lot and usually not in good humor. How can I handle this socially and professionally?
Some of these people are my friends and some are no more than peers. In general I want to be respectful but not allow them to harangue me with complaints. Generally, [much of this advice](http://whats... | [
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20,486 | The [ABET accreditation criteria document for Computer Science](http://www.abet.org/cac-criteria-2014-2015/) lists some course requirements as
* One year of Science and Mathematics
* At least one half year of Mathematics
* One and one-third years of Computer Science
* At least one year of up-to-date coverage of fundam... | [
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20,487 | During my undergraduate, I have a publication, however I am listed as the second author. I know it is not as ideal as being listed as first author, but for graduate admission, will it still play a role? | [
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20,495 | Is it possible to apply for a PhD through a government or a military research laboratory?
If so what would be the process? Is the qualifying exam required? How is that scheduled? How about course work? | [
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20,531 | The graduate students at my university (a relatively large state school in the US) are considering joining a union. To help decide whether to sign a union card in support of joining the union, I'm interested in more information about how unions have helped graduate students at other universities. What are some improvem... | [
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20,532 | I'm not famous enough of a scientist to be frequently solicited by the media\* (plus my field has little political/social controversy around it), but I had a few encounters with local newspapers and one with a public national television. The results were not entirely bad, but the general sentiment given was significant... | [
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20,542 | It just came to my mind, currently if one wants to obtain an
academic degree one must to do a thesis. This is a widely accepted
method to prove the knowledge of certain academic level, sort to say.
But my questions are, where this method was originated? Which historical
or social circumstances originated it? Is there a... | [
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20,552 | I've worked for an university for one year after my master's degree. Now I'm searching another job. For the moment I've tried to ask to several professors via email if there is any internship opportunities but only a couple of them answered me. I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong or this is not the praxis or the... | [
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20,555 | I want to prepare some exercise sheets for a course. I am wondering whether or not it is OK to take some exercises directly from the textbook. | [
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20,567 | I have a paper that I want to cite in my own work, in the form
"J. Wizne" (for Gogy Wesne) in the bibliography part of the paper and `Wizne` in the body of the paper.
The full name of the author appears on the paper as `Aaaa Bbbb Cccc`, and is typically a non-western name.
Say, consider something like `Mihn Qatzhetald... | [
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20,572 | I am trying to look for a PhD position by contacting potential supervisors through email. I have made a list of professors who I found interesting through searching some papers and their department websites. Now I decide to write to them for asking opportunity and in order to show my sincerity, I would like to attach a... | [
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"text": "*In most branches of engineering*, sending a research proposal to a prospective PhD advisor is not particularly helpful,... | 2014/05/09 | [
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20,578 | *(This is a reworking of [Software for submitting and testing programming assignments](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/20226/13852).)*
First, a bit of background. Many courses in applied mathematics have a programming component, where students are asked to implement algorithms (say, in Matlab) and possibly test t... | [
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20,580 | Is it ethical to use WolframAlpha on a take-home exam for a math class? A couple qualifiers: this is a make-up exam where the original exam allowed for a scientific calculator but not a graphing/symbol-solving calculator.
The professor has made no other stipulations about the exam yet (no word on if it's the same rule... | [
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20,585 | I am often in charge of researching new sub-topics in my discipline for short papers. I find my default technique is:
1. Search Google Scholar for best-guess keywords
2. Open relevant-looking resulting paper, skim
3. Find new references in that paper, open new tabs for those papers while reading first paper
4. Look at... | [
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20,586 | I'm writing an application for a dissertation fellowship, which according to the application is "to a truly outstanding doctoral degree candidate in the last semester of residence".
I need to write a 'personal statement' which is only described as follows:
>
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"text": "What about those students who don't receive that fellowship? Do they drop out or do they work as Teaching Assist... | 2014/05/09 | [
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20,595 | My school has a recommendation, but not a requirement, not to let students eat during class. I am wondering if I should make this a rule or not for the classes I teach. I am concerned about my undergraduate students.
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"text": "I don't have any data on this, just an idea.\n\nYou could mention the rule (and justification), ask students to pleas... | 2014/05/10 | [
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20,609 | I have gotten a job in a sort of university of Applied Sciences; this work place wants to start a small research group, but one issue that I started to notice is the orientation they want to give it. I mean, they want that all research to give a profit. For that reason, I was wondering how to convince the persons in ch... | [
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20,618 | What are some common methods for assessing how well a exam works, once you have the results back? This is something of a generalization of [How to measure entropy of exam results](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/15335/how-to-measure-entropy-of-exam-results).
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"text": "For multiple-choice exams, [split-halves reliability](http://web.sau.edu/WaterStreetMaryA/NEW%20intro%20to%20tests%20&%20mea... | 2014/05/10 | [
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20,626 | Do departments look at MOOC's certificates favorably during the graduate admissions process? Will it give me any advantage over students who don't have them if I am trying to enter a PhD program? | [
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20,631 | I was working on a problem in the field engineering. I have used one approach and it turned out that it does not work well. After that I got into conflict with my supervisor, and realized that it will be hard to publish the original paper with him. So, I have redone everything with another approach, wrote a paper, subm... | [
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"text": "Maybe you should review the supervisor agreement that you signed at the beginning of your studies. In some institution... | 2014/05/11 | [
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20,632 | I've majored in computer science (BSc: close to MIS, MSc: advanced software engineering), I've worked on dissertations on totally different topics in every stage at college, now I'm planning to do a PhD and I've been looking at different topics from various sub-fields but I frankly can't pin one to use as a starting po... | [
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"text": "Any time you have difficulty understanding something written, you must consider that it is you or that it is the w... | 2014/05/11 | [
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20,640 | I found a useful advice if I cannot reproduce computational published results in ([What should you do if you cannot reproduce published results?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7900/what-should-you-do-if-you-cannot-reproduce-published-results)). However I would like to ask the same situation with experime... | [
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"text": "@posdef's comment is already very good.\n\nI would definitely suggest contacting the authors and trying to ge... | 2014/05/11 | [
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20,648 | I am in my final year of undergraduate. Another student, call him Zotn, sent me a message on Facebook saying basically:
>
> Can you send me the solutions to the assignment from unit X, that you
> took last year. In exchange, I will tell you what the future minitest
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20,659 | Some people try to complete their PhD asap, others try to make major breakthroughs. I think these aims are mutually incompatible, one is going against the other.
What are pros/cons of each for somebody whose intended career is research in academia?
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20,665 | In the following situation: I made research about some topic X in the field of Computer Engineering, submitted a paper and it got accepted. Actually it was an independent research that I have done while working as an information technology lecturer. Now the institution in which I am working does not want to give any fi... | [
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"text": "I'm not sure that I see an *ethical* issue here. Ethically, I think you are free to omit your affiliation if yo... | 2014/05/12 | [
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20,667 | I am an undergraduate student starting my second year. Last semester, I took part in a research project and earned co-authorship of their paper, which got recently published.
However, when adding names from our anonymous submission to the camera-ready version, the primary author misspelled my first name(Garret instead... | [
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"text": "I guess you can contact the journal publication and ask them change your name in the online version. Printed book ... | 2014/05/12 | [
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20,669 | I noticed that my university has a glass blowing service in the same building as the chemistry precinct, supposedly to make the glassware for the chemistry labs. At first I thought this was kind of quirky and I chortled to myself, "man, the chemistry students must break a lot of beakers."
Later I toured a campus overs... | [
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"text": "If you make enough use of them, it's cheaper and more efficient to use in-house services. That's why most universiti... | 2014/05/12 | [
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20,674 | I have been receiving mails from (most probably amateurs), who claims to have proved famous mathematical problems, like the ABC Conjecture or Goldbach Conjecture. But invariably, they all contained mistakes. I decided not to waste my time on such unsolicited documents. But recently something interesting happened.
Abou... | [
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"text": "Continue to treat it as spam, and ignore it.\n\nFor every Ramanujan, there are many many thousands of time-wasters.\n\n... | 2014/05/12 | [
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20,675 | Are there journals that may consider articles of the type "new proof of old results" but the paper is exceedingly short(1-3 pages)? | [
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20,760 | In a Program Committee (PC), can PC members non assigned to a paper still have a look at it and make comments influencing the decision, assuming that the reviewing system allow them to access the papers and the reviews?
If they only make a comment, should this comment be sent to the authors (EasyChair, for instance, ... | [
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20,833 | As part of my PhD, I have already published a paper and am working to expand it further. Recently, a PhD student (who I didn't know) from another university contacted me regarding my paper. He showed interest in the paper and the direction that I'm working on, wanted me to explain it further and, if possible, share the... | [
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20,834 | I know that after submitting a paper through Elsevier Editorial System, the corresponding author can check the status of the submitted paper online. But how about co-authors? Can the corresponding author give a permission to the co-authors to enable them to check the status of the paper as well? If yes, how that can be... | [
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20,837 | I had a situation where for a particular algorithm, it first shows up in a paper [1].
This makes [1] a primary source.
I found [1] a bit hard reading when it came to describing the implementation and fine details of the algorithm. But it was good at describing why the algorithm was needed.
I found another work, which... | [
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20,841 | I am at the moment dealing with an academic dishonesty incident in a class I'm teaching (a few groups of students submitting identical code, when the class policy forbids getting help from another person on a graded assignment).
When I noticed indications of plagiarism, I emailed each affected student something along ... | [
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20,846 | I am 29 years old and am about to finish my PhD thesis in the field of remote sensing (i.e. somewhere between computer sciences and geosciences in a broad sense or applied signal and image processing in a more narrow sense) at a university in central Europe.
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20,879 | According to [this article](http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR.html), a student was arrested for downloading ~4 million articles from an on-line database.
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