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20,880 | I am finishing writing a manuscript in collaboration with a dozen of colleagues. The paper is mainly theoretical, does not involved experimentation of any kind and is born from numerous discussions between all the collaborators (it is actually hard to tell when the project started). No one really took the lead in the p... | [
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20,888 | *I previously asked this question in the physics forum (tag soft-question), but was convinced that it better suits in the academia forum. So I deleted it and posted it here.*
I was recently asked to review a paper for a well-established physical journal, but as I have a lot to do in the moment, I'm tempted to refuse i... | [
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"text": "I don't know how universal is this but in my country there is a proverbial saying \"learn a craft and le... | 2014/05/13 | [
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20,897 | If I were a PhD student, should I be concerned if my supervisor always requires their permission before I can publish a paper?
Under what conditions should I find it acceptable or unacceptable? | [
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"text": "The basic freedom of speech would dictate that anyone can publish whatever they want. So as a base line, I wou... | 2014/05/13 | [
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20,901 | One of the hot-button issues on this site is standards for coauthorship, especially variants of the question "Must I *automatically* include my thesis advisor as a coauthor on all my papers?"
Since these questions (sensibly) come up again and again, I thought it would be useful to have a collection of links to variou... | [
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"text": "This is excerpted from the [Ethical Guidelines of the American Mathematical Society](http://www.ams.org/about-us... | 2014/05/13 | [
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20,902 | Sometimes there are cases in a e-mail correspondence with academia staff (professors and bureaucrats) in which I don't know which is the best practice. I wonder if there is any best practice for the following cases:
**Reply to a reply:** when I ask for information via e-mail, and the reply gives me all the information... | [
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"text": "To send a short mail saying thanks for a service provided is never wrong; in fact, it is good etiquette. Sendin... | 2014/05/13 | [
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20,909 | I am thinking about starting a research to publish in a peer reviewed journal. However, I wonder if a literature review is a research paper. For instance, if I wrote a paper about EU-Russia affairs in a form of literature review, would it have a chance to be published? | [
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"text": "Literature reviews, often referred to by journals as just \"Reviews\" can and are their own form of research paper. My v... | 2014/05/13 | [
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20,926 | I know in most of the cases, PhD seekers do not have many options and we must stick to what is offered. However, it happened that I initiated connection with two advisors from different institutes which almost have the same reputation. However, one of them is a lecturer (equivalent to assistant professor in north Ameri... | [
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"text": "I think you stated it pretty well, the young one having less influence, but more eager to collaborate vs. the ... | 2014/05/14 | [
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20,929 | I m in the fourth year of my PhD in veterinary sciences in North America. My Research project involves a lot of farm/team work. I have to work with technicians, farm staff, research associates and other students in the team as well as my advisory committee. I attended in many leadership workshops but still find it hard... | [
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"text": "You seem to be close to completing your PhD so the usual answer here of \"Run don't walk\" don't seem to be th... | 2014/05/14 | [
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20,930 | Being a young researcher myself I received a comment from my colleague that some of the journals are paying reviewers for the reviewing process.
When I gave it a thought, it started to make more sense.
In case of high quality, respected journal, an institution may consider itself privileged to have a reviewer of such ... | [
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"text": "It's not a myth. There are/have been some journals that pay peer reviewers. For example:\n\n* The [New England Journa... | 2014/05/14 | [
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20,938 | It is well known that in mathematics the process of reviewing submitted papers is quite long. There are good reasons for that; intrinsically, reviewing a math paper involves checking and understanding thouroughly the proposed proof, which typically requires a significant time investment. Also, a lot of academics are al... | [
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"text": "I can imagine someone purposefully delaying reviews, but in my experience it's not a widespread or sta... | 2014/05/14 | [
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20,940 | I have been building a search tool for colleges and universities in US. I could find most of the data from the IPEDS database. Now I am trying to relate the colleges with US News ranking. I'm trying to find any source of data which could give me ranking of colleges with their UNITID/college name .
Any clues on how to g... | [
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"text": "I uploaded a file to wikisend (free and no sign-up file hosting service) with the correlation. \n\n[US News and ... | 2014/05/14 | [
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20,941 | I submitted a paper and it is currently under review (submitted on 10th March and conference is on 15th October, I'll be notified on 15th July). However, now, in May, I see a paper has just published dealing with the same problem as mine. They indicate that their solution is better than mine. If my paper is accepted, d... | [
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"text": "It's a slightly grey area but assuming the journal paper in question was not publicly available before the submissio... | 2014/05/14 | [
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20,942 | I am a junior member on a research project. We have written a paper. I feel the work is not ready for publication and have issues. We have discussed the issues, and other members of the group including the lead author agree with me that there are issues. But the lead author who is more senior is too eager to get the re... | [
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"text": "I see a few possible options for this.\n\n1. You are talking with other co-authors of the paper then you all toget... | 2014/05/14 | [
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20,950 | I recently completed my MBA and have worked in the IT field for the last 7 years. I have an undergraduate degree in mathematics, and have completed 3 physics graduate courses (mechanics, E&M, QM) as an open university student. Is it realistic for me to self study for the physics GRE, get a great score, and then have a ... | [
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"text": "Typically the only reason that PhD granting institutions in the US give out a master's degree en route to the... | 2014/05/14 | [
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20,955 | As the second author of a paper published by IEEE am I allowed to provide a download link to a copy of that paper on my own website? The *official* paper can only be found at the IEEE CS Digital Library behind a paywall. I'd like to provide free access to it.
Does it make a difference if free download links of the pap... | [
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"text": "Yes, you can.\n\nFrom <https://www.ieee.org/documents/top10faq.pdf>:\n\n> \n> **Can an author post his IEEE copyr... | 2014/05/14 | [
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20,963 | I was suspended for 1 year from my university for copying an assignment from an online source. There were several extenuating circumstances but I won't go into them as they are irrelevant, I did cheat and I do deserve the punishment I was given - that is not the question.
After I found out my sentence, I found it ver... | [
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"text": "Unless the professor is aware of and condones whatever extenuating circumstances led you to cheat in her course, I thin... | 2014/05/14 | [
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20,982 | Unfortunately I do not have any prior research experience, therefore I had a few questions while I was studying papers on cluster analysis.
Can a researcher legally and with permission use the benchmark values of the pre-existing algorithm to compare with theirs? This question came to me after I noticed identical resu... | [
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"text": "You are definitely allowed to quote the results from another paper, with citation. You can also email the author a... | 2014/05/15 | [
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20,984 | I'm pondering on how much time I should plan to finalize a paper that has received a 'revise and resubmit' letter from the journal editor.
I know that I should return it as soon as possible. However, given that I have other work to do I would like to know if there's an unwritten rule on how long should I take to resub... | [
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"text": "Many editors report the deadline in their decision letter. However, I have seen some decision letters without a deadli... | 2014/05/15 | [
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20,985 | Today there has been significant news coverage (at least in the UK) that the [BMJ](http://www.bmj.com/) are withdrawing statements from two papers on the possible harmful side effects of statins. Here are the [Guardian](http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/15/statins-bmj-statement-professor-collins-side-effects)... | [
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"text": "[COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)](http://publicationethics.org/) have recommendations for what circumst... | 2014/05/15 | [
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20,996 | I'm an industrial PhD student (Europe) and recently I'm finding myself reflecting over some events.
As industrial student I'm working for a Company. It is important to note that the Company (superiors/supervisors) have decided what subject (and its scope) I'll be working on. Basically, it was their idea for a new prod... | [
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21,006 | I have been co-supervised by my primary supervisor's wife. Suffice to say that this has been problematic where both have different research interests. Each asks me to do different jobs and they often bring their home fights to work. My primary supervisor is always submissive to her will whenever she is around. Though h... | [
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21,025 | I have been shortlisted for a lectureship position. The committee has asked me to present a 10 minutes (!) lecture on teaching game development topics to undergrads. My teaching experience amounts to TA roles during my post-doc and PhD. I am familiar with the topic however at this career stage I have not yet had the op... | [
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21,033 | Currently, my fiancee are both currently pursuing our PhD's in bioengineering and materials science and engineering, respectively, at the same university. She wants to eventually have an industrial research position and I want to do a post-doc with the intention becoming a professor. We are ~3 years away from needing t... | [
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21,034 | I do research in an engineering subject and my journal reviewer has asked me to push every mathematical proof to the appendix to improve the readability. While I feel this is true, I also think that some of the proofs can be retained, as they are short and not so much mathematical. What is your opinion regarding this?
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21,045 | I'm writing up my 3rd year engineering project (The equivalent of a dissertation in other subjects), and I'm struggling to write the chapter in which my method failed I couldn't get any results.
My project is on Neural Networks, and when I started my project I tried to program my own Neural Network from scratch, howev... | [
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21,056 | I am a graduate student and as the title says, I have an autism spectrum disorder. My advisor is a very nice person, at least, that is the impression I have gotten. The last few months however, I worry that I have made myself misunderstood many times because of my failure of communicating or not following certain socia... | [
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21,063 | I am an Accountancy senior level student. My issue is due to lots of information in the books I tend to forget about every specific topic and heading even if I compile notes and memory aids. Reason being that in these professional studies anything can be asked in exams from anywhere. So how do I remember small details ... | [
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21,066 | Do math journals consider a paper in which most of the content referred to another accepted but not yet published paper? In a case in which this is allowed, do one need to give a copy of the accepted paper to the editor of the target journal? | [
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21,070 | My advisor suggested that I should sign up for a conference, which I did - I now have to give a 15 minute talk.
However, the conference is taking place very far from me (+20 hour flight), and I am having second thoughts on whether I should go or not. Here are my thoughts:
**Pro**
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21,073 | The Main problem is university registration as the process is vital to enroll as a PhD student, so that I can submit my thesis and defend it. Administrative issues here in Germany have prevented me from completing the registration process because I am an overseas student and some issues to do with deadlines.
Some goo... | [
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"text": "If possible try to stick with finishing the PhD. You are almost there. \n\nTry to find some legal advisor to help y... | 2014/05/17 | [
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21,095 | My AP Computer Science teacher has somewhat of a creative way to deal with students submitting apparently identical code. Instead of handing out lots of zeros, he divides the points by the number of cheaters, phrasing his system as "if you have the same answer, you deserve to split the credit." For example, a 5-person ... | [
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21,104 | When skimming through a long mathematical paper (in pdf format), I often find a mathematical symbol (often in greek and with subscripts/superscripts) that was defined previously somewhere else within the paper. Of course, it's not always easy to find where the parameter was defined, so I resort to using the FIND tool. ... | [
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21,106 | I have about 400 ~ 500 lines of what I would call average open source code contribution. Does open source code contribution matter for graduate admissions? I am interested in applying to a MS in computer science and am interested in machine learning. I have a great plan for an awesome feature for [Libsvm](http://www.cs... | [
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21,110 | This question is perhaps a particular case of [this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9924/is-it-ethical-for-an-author-to-cite-their-own-work-with-themselves-as-first-auth). I still feel it deserves to live standalone.
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21,117 | My institute is creating an annual list of invited speakers and solicited suggestions from staff. It was at pains to point out that although only "n" 18% of suggestions received were female, they made up "n+1" 31% of the speakers selected to talk. As a female student, this makes me feel uncomfortable that women seem to... | [
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21,122 | I have never seen a thing, until recently, like someone not marking a cross on a multiple choice test just because he didn't know the answer.
I wonder whether this is a East Asian right-thing-to-do mentality, or just a quirk of some student.
Should maybe we ask all students to do this? Indeed, on a multiple choice ... | [
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21,132 | In my research, my adviser only gives minimal advice that is limited to the direction of the research and defining the problems.
I can say I do most of the thinking, the actual solutions of the problems.
Even at one time I needed to explain to my adviser how my algorithms work.
The only "effort" my adviser does is ... | [
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21,149 | In the United States, it is typical for each state to have one or more flagship state universities. All of them are reasonably good institutions, but some are absolutely top-notch, such as in Michigan, California, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Typically, tuition at these universities is extremely expensive for out-of-state... | [
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21,161 | I have some papers from google which I don't know to what type they belong: a working paper or a discussion paper or something else? I need this for my bibliography
Below are some examples of such cases.
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21,168 | I'm a 2nd year PhD student in a computational field. I'm about to submit my first paper on a new optimization algorithm. I've been working intensively on the problem for the last 2 years and finally managed to get the result. Besides the professor, I'm supervised by another postdoc whom I respect a lot. Although the tw... | [
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21,189 | One of the major differences between Europe (here I am mainly referring to Scandinavia) and Northern America, from an academic viewpoint, is the perspective towards higher education. In Scandinavia there it is generally accepted that anyone despite their financial status should be able to pursue higher education. Elsew... | [
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21,193 | If one obtains results in one area of a field (say during an MSc thesis) before deciding that one is not interested in making a career in that area, should one take the time (as a PhD student) to get make those results publishable, or is it better to focus on the new area? | [
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21,200 | My institution ranks scientific achievement according to some criteria when evaluating promotions, positions, etc. for its subjects (students, grad students, personnel, etc.) This is done by a rule book that is specified in the form of a bylaw and is administered by the ministry of science, therefore it is not local to... | [
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21,208 | I am about to graduate in Electrical Engineering and I wanted to pursue graduate studies in a field such as coding theory or software defined and cognitive radio.
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21,211 | I have developed a method to process images I use for my research. It's nothing revolutionary but I think it might be useful to others than me, and why not, be worthy of being published somewhere (at least for me to cite when I use it).
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21,221 | I am a statistician working as an applied analyst on a paper. As I went through a set of analyses, I decided upon a detailed and thorough data analysis method using a regression model. Traditionally, that regression model is presented alongside a set of assumptions that one should check in the model approach. I had a g... | [
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21,223 | There is an upcoming conference in Germany, all the talks will be in English, however all the listed participants are also German. Only speaking English I'm wondering if it would be inadvisable to go, as everyone will speak German during non-talk times?
Is this true or am I being too paranoid? | [
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21,224 | Recently I have been asked to share some source code I have written
with another PhD student. I have developed and used the methods in
that source code for the purposes of my own research. The code will
save her approximately 2 months of development/testing. I'm prepared
also to offer additional help with data pre/post... | [
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21,225 | I'm a CS master student. Now I'm doing my masters thesis and the contribution of my thesis is to compare different approaches/methods of one topic (e.g. clustering of text documents). What I have done so far is look at the state of the art on the topic and read the papers. However, now I need to think of what to compar... | [
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21,238 | I am about to embark on the publication of pre-prints or post-prints of about a dozen papers that have already been published in peer-reviewed journals. I plan to use the [SHERPA/RoMEO](http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/) database to decide whether to publish a pre-print or post-print, and when it is appropriate. I have ba... | [
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21,243 | I asked one of my professors whom I've known for 2 years to write a recommendation for me now that I'm planning for graduate school— about 3 years later after he left to another university. He asked for my full name, and just copied a letter from the web and sent it to me via email. I expected to get an accurate letter... | [
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21,246 | I'm currently a chemistry major. However, I am more interested in the life science and want to be a molecular biologist in the future. However it is too late to change my degree to biology so I am wondering how to cross over into biology with my chemistry degree and whether is it possible for me to be a molecular biolo... | [
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21,250 | Recently, a (Springer) journal invited me to extend a (Springer) conference paper. The conference paper was published in April. After the extensions, I can submit the journal article as [post-conference publication](http://www.ic.kmitl.ac.th/aciids2014/PostConferencePub.html).
Regarding my question, should / must I k... | [
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21,251 | In my research group, there is a researcher who usually approaches other PhD students who are about to write papers in order to offer his help. Normally, he does not actually do any research related to the paper. Instead, he reads our papers, makes comments about the writing style and sometime re-writes some sections i... | [
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21,254 | I submitted my thesis in 2013 but passed my viva (the oral defense/examination) in 2014. Should the date (month+year) which I put in, on and around my thesis be,
* When I submitted my soft-bound copy to the examiners.
* When I passed my viva (the oral defense/examination).
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21,276 | I have been a professional software developer for a number of years, I'm also an academic researcher - and my research has involved lots of software development.
I sometimes feel as though my industrial experience has been a hindrance in my research, as the goals of writing software in a research context feel contradi... | [
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21,284 | Years ago, a professor agreed to write me a recommendation letter. So I applied to many grad schools indicating him as one of my referees. However, I didn't find out until later that he didn't write the letter. Thus, none of my applications were completed, and there were also substantial financial losses due to applica... | [
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21,295 | Is it common in academia to include the number of results a Google search on a keyword yields as an evidence for the prevalence of something online?
I'm not intending to base my research paper on this evidence; it is just a supporting point in a paragraph.
For example, I'm writing a research paper on Stack Exchange;... | [
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21,300 | Six years ago while I was working in a company outside academia, I had been involved in improving a process which was hot in academia. I have developed a new method which, among other notable advantages, improved all previous methods by deriving better results. Although some time passed, today it can still be considere... | [
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21,301 | I am an undergraduate student wanting to transfer to another institution for undergraduate studies. I am a research assistant for a professor at an institution that I do not attend.
Would the university which I which to transfer to, accept the recommendation letter from this professor? Again, I have not taken any cour... | [
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21,317 | I am planning to attend a college that requires students to live on campus, in a coed setting. As an observant Muslim, I cannot do that.
The college asked me to write a letter explaining why I cannot live on campus. I also have to explain why I can't eat the cafeteria food.
I'm asking how I should start the letter, ... | [
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21,320 | After reading [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/19362/is-it-ethical-for-advisors-to-automatically-coauthor-papers?rq=1) question and [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/15005/publishing-paper-as-a-phd-student-without-advisors-name) I haven't find my answer.
My advisor hasn't contribut... | [
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21,322 | I am a B.Tech student in my final year, and am interested in publishing a paper. I have read a few articles in IEEE transactions and ACM transactions on my topic of interest, Software Engineering, and thought I can also produce such an idea. This semester I worked on a project under a professor in my institute, and I h... | [
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21,326 | As pointed out by [altmetrics](http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/), “Peer-review has served scholarship well, but is beginning to show its age. It is slow, encourages conventionality, and fails to hold reviewers accountable.”
Not all publications are created equal. Neither are the statuses of their authors. However, se... | [
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21,338 | The statements of
>
> "Applicants who are invited to campus for interviews must be able to show proof that they will be eligible and qualified to work in the United States by the time of hire."
>
>
>
is almost associated with every open academic positions in US and I am wondering what does this statement clearly ... | [
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21,341 | At the end of a recent lengthy meeting with my supervisor, in preparation for my end of year GRC (Graduate Research Committee) meeting, I asked about if I would be able to contact them during the summer holiday period in relation to my research.
Background is that I am a History Masters research student and as I'm com... | [
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21,345 | I need some advice. After several months of interviews and work, I secured a faculty position at a good business school, which was a relief since jobs are so hard to get around here. Everyone tells me I'm lucky to get such a good job since I'm coming right out of grad school.
It's been about two months since I took th... | [
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21,350 | I received a request to contribute a book chapter about a month ago, which I turned down. This was from a university in another country, and from someone I have personally met.
Today, my own supervisor asked me to contribute a similar chapter to a book which she has been asked to be an editor of.
Given that the two r... | [
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21,353 | I'd like to download automatically tons of papers listed on .bib file so I'm trying to find a way to facilitate the process by, e.g. I import or input to a tool a certain .bib file which contains a list of literature, the output is the literature's .pdf file. Any idea to do so? | [
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21,364 | My MSc thesis work in Computer Science involves developing a software solution for a particular problem for which already exist several solutions, in particular commercial software. I know I can't ignore them in my work and have to cite them, but I have no access to them, so I can't perform any comparisons to prove tha... | [
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21,365 | As part of my work as a graduate student in maths I currently teach a basic second semester calculus course. It seems like every semester I teach, one or two students want some sort of special privilege to turn in homework late for a month or take a test a week after they are supposed to. Many times they have somewhat ... | [
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21,366 | We submitted a paper to a journal published by Cambridge Press. The paper was submitted last year (2013). After five months we got the decision yesterday. We don't mind the decision, however, we are shocked by the editorial comments that although they have the reports they don't relay the reports to the author/s for pa... | [
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21,376 | I'm an undergraduate studying Mathematics & Philosophy in the UK, about to sit my third-year exams. My course is structured as a three-year self-contained BA and a fourth year 'integrated masters' with its own exams, which I automatically progress to as long as I get a [2.i classification](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... | [
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21,378 | I am possibly quitting my PhD. I am 2 years into my PhD and now I am writing a cover letter for an opening at a company. My question is, do I mention in the cover letter why I am quitting ? In my CV I just mention what I've done for the past two years and write that the PhD is not complete.
I feel like I need to ment... | [
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21,380 | I am considering applying for postdoctoral positions in the US.
However, I would like to find more information about
how it is like to be a postdoctoral scholar.
**Question 1:**
Is a postdoctoral position a full-year position (12 months)
or an academic-year position (9 months)?
**Question 2:**
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21,382 | To provide a background, I am currently a Physics major and along the way I ended up getting really interested in Mathematics, so much that I'm now planning to do pure math in graduate school. Now, the problem is that, we are required to do a senior's thesis before we graduate, and I still don't have a topic in mind.
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21,386 | The faculty, of course, will not first hear from me over email - we have maintained semi-regular research-related meetings over the semester. I have not yet asked her to be my advisor, but now since the academic year has ended, I want to make this an *official* advisor-advisee relationship. I'm wondering if it would be... | [
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21,393 | I have to write an official letter to a professor to explain my research interests and my research plan to him, so that he could evaluate my eligibility for support through a research assistantship.
would you please say which of the following sentences is better in order to finish my letter:
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21,401 | I'm not sure how to phrase the question exactly in the title, but the issue is essentially this. I gave some feedback for a subject I did, which I was told was confidential. The lecturer found out I gave the feedback and approached me about it. From what she said, they were able to piece together who I was from the exa... | [
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21,407 | In a previous book I wrote, I submitted the entire manuscript along with a couple page proposal to a few different publishers. Both editors never responded to me.
In my current book, I sent the entire manuscript with a short description to an editor at Springer, and it has been two weeks, and I have heard nothing, not... | [
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21,409 | I want to give up my current PhD program, which I started 5 months ago, because I really do not like my current advisor's personality and working style. He lives a relaxed life and has no enthusiasm for science after getting tenure. He does not have funding and never releases decent papers because he does not work hard... | [
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21,412 | When working on an assignment (e.g. essay, report), is it allowable or ethical to reference (as in both "read" and "cite") previous students' submissions for that assignment? For example, the student may have a friend or relative that sat the subject previously and is happy to share their assignments.
From my understa... | [
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21,423 | Is it academic to tell the reader in the introduction what the essay is about directly?
For example, after some introductory ideas, you tell the the reader this essay or section discusses so and so.
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21,436 | I have recently been updating my academic CV. I realise that some items are not as internationally recognised as to that every reader will be aware of their importance without googling them. Hence, I am thinking about inserting hyperlinks to those items lest the reader wish to learn more.
Now, many items on my CV are ... | [
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21,440 | There is a published research paper I would like to read. The website it is published in, charges what I think is quite a lot of money, considering that I won't use this for research or work.
I want to read this paper because its about a subject I am really interested in, but has nothing to do with what I study. I am ... | [
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21,467 | I am roughly in the following situation (field: physics/mathematics, location: Europe):
I have enough credits to finish my undergraduate degree this year if I want to. I can also choose to stay as an undergrad for another year.
I have done almost all undergraduate courses at my university that interest me, so I would b... | [
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21,468 | I have missed my makeup exam this semester. We are given 3 chances at my university to pass a course, 1 regular, a retake and a third exam for those who failed the previous 2 ones. I missed the third exam because of work, and because I almost never able to keep up any schedule.
I wrote an email to my professor to let ... | [
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21,477 | I am an Indian undergraduate student completing my BTech in Industrial Engineering in one of top three universities in India. I am planning to move on to physics for graduate school and I have a proper profile for it with research projects and internships in physics. I am confident I would get accepted to a good gradua... | [
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21,478 | I have found an interesting paper which is very relevant to my research. After reading the abstract in English, I would like to continue to read through the methodology and its discussions. However, only the abstract is available in English, and the content is in another language which I don't know.
I really want to r... | [
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21,488 | If someone has a PhD contract in France and wants to work during summer for instance, is it fine if that person receives any external support during that time, outside the PhD contract support? | [
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21,490 | My supervisor has asked me to stay in a lab in a foreign country for a few months. That lab has some collaboration with us but their research is actually not related to mine. I don't know why my supervisor asked me to go, but I think it would be a great chance to broaden my experience so I did not complaint.
Besides ... | [
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21,506 | I'm planning to apply for a master in computer science, and I need to choose between a computer science MS - master of science, and a computer science MCS - master of computer science.
I haven't really understood the difference. Is is true that MCS is more "professional" in the sense that it doesn't prepare students fo... | [
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21,521 | Suppose you write a paper and you use Wolfram Mathematica to do calculations. In the article, should the program be mentioned with the registered-trademark symbol immediately following the name and in superscript style, i.e., as follows?
>
> Wolfram *Mathematica*®
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>
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21,526 | I took up an introductory course to forensic science in Coursera, because it was actually the only forensics course I could find that was accessible, however I do wonder if it is worth anything in my CV, as a student it is obviously better than nothing, but is this something good enough to show?
How does it compare... | [
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"text": "*Value in an academic environment*: zero. Everything you learn at Coursera you'd simply learn from a textbook... | 2014/05/27 | [
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21,527 | I just finished my PhD in Mathematics and am in between my PhD and postdoc positions. I was very fortunate to have the ability to present my research to seminars and conferences over the last couple of years. My complete results all reduce to a standard storyline and I feel like I have spoken about it to various audien... | [
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21,561 | My understanding of research is that it's a way to find solutions/answers to questions/problems in a certain subfield of a bigger discipline, which in my case would be Computer Science (honestly, it'd be more like Computer Engineering).
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21,562 | There is a conference that my advisor suggested that I attend and present at, but unfortunately as this was just suggested today, I missed the abstract submission deadline by about a week.
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21,574 | The paper in question is based on research my collaborator X and I did together some months ago. Our respective contributions to the research were around 2/3 for X and 1/3 for me. In terms of the actual text of the paper, X wrote about 1/3 and I wrote about 2/3.
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21,586 | Whenever I submit an article, conference paper or other written document, I get tons of useful feedback from my supervisors and other PhD students. So far, I've made sure to adjust my submissions according to their good comments, and then just throw the feedback away. But I feel like I could use that feedback much more... | [
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21,600 | There is a scientist I am interested in contacting with expertise in peptidomics. I would like to email them to ask if they had ever explored findings from a related area of research. How do I politely contact them for their input? | [
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