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21,612 | As a sort of follow up to a [previous question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/19803/ms-in-pure-maths-to-phd-in-statistics), what is advice you would give for telling my MSci advisor I am switching disciplines (pure maths to statistics) for doctoral work? I will presumably ask him for a letter of recommen... | [
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"text": "Directly.\n---------\n\n\"I've decided to pursue a PhD in statistics.\"\n\nThen after the inevitable discussion:\n\n\"Can y... | 2014/05/28 | [
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21,613 | By what title should I greet assistant and associate professors in emails and letters? I study in the UK and for post-doctorands up to senior lectures one uses "Dear Dr. X", but for professors one uses "Dear Professor. X". | [
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21,616 | I am in a PhD program in a top US institution but my SO,family,friends are somewhere else. I am considering a thesis that would require minimal/no field or lab work. This would be a big compromise as I was hoping to do intensive field work but there is no funding for field work. I thought that a compromise would be tha... | [
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"text": "I think you should aim for a shorter period at first, to show that it doesn't affect your productivity. My wife and I... | 2014/05/28 | [
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21,618 | When checking the grants.gov I found that individuals can directly apply for available grants. Since it was not mentioned that individuals should be US citizen, I thought that everyone can apply, and judgement is based on the proposal.
1. Can international people apply?
2. Should the project conducted in the US territ... | [
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"text": "As far as I know for many of the grants, at least for DARPA, NSF, NIH, NASA, you need a PI located in a US inst... | 2014/05/29 | [
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21,630 | I'm a physical scientist, having completed both my Ph.D. and postdoc at top 5 U.S. universities. After working in industry for more than 10 years, I decided it was time for a career switch to academia, not due to economic reasons, however due to a strong passion for teaching.
I taught for 5 years in graduate school, a... | [
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21,645 | What criteria (in light of the best practices or teaching experience) should one consider when deciding the passing percentage of the course? (By the passing percentage I mean the grade threshold below which the student will receive an F)
How should the threshold below which students get a failing grade depend qualita... | [
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"text": "I've honestly never understood the letter system for scoring. Is not intuitive and is open to so many interpre... | 2014/05/29 | [
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21,653 | As I see faculty positions in Europe and North America is always based on applications. Is it common that a department head suggest a faculty position to a possible candidate?
I do not mean based on personal connection. Job websites (consider those devoted to academic jobs) encourage job seekers to upload their CVs.
... | [
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21,665 | Has any college in the US managed to unite being prestigious and being open access, at undergrad or grad level. I mean open enrolment in the European sense, where they have kind of minimal requirements (language cert, high-school and not much more).
I wonder, given that they could charge thousands $/year, what's the ... | [
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"text": "There are two fundamentally opposing ideas here. Yes, it would be nice if everyone could afford, and be admitted to... | 2014/05/29 | [
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21,666 | In academic writing, is it proper to cite something to provide it as an example of something else? For instance, we have lines like this in a number of our papers:
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> Many research endeavors, including environmental and coastal hazard prediction [1], climate modeling [2], high-energy physics simulations [3,4], and g... | [
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21,672 | In another question about distance PhDs ([Do any schools offer teaching or research assistantships via distance education?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/21473/do-any-schools-offer-teaching-or-research-assistantships-via-distance-education)), I received several comments noting that PhDs on-line are of in... | [
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"text": "A general answer is that a lot of PhD training is informal: it involves things that are taught by example, by osmosi... | 2014/05/29 | [
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21,676 | This is just a simple question. I would like to know if one can use graphics generated by Mathematica (for example, plots) in one's paper and then upload that paper anywhere on the internet.
I would also like to know if one can freely use and upload the graphics alone (for example, in PDF or JPG format) anywhere on th... | [
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"text": "There is nothing wrong with making public an image created with Mathematica; that's the whole point of the software. The ... | 2014/05/29 | [
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21,677 | I have developed a routine in R for longitudinal analysis of networks. I was wondering whether it can be published on an academic journal as a dedicated article? | [
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"text": "Depending on the extent of your work, you may be able to get a paper describing your package and methods in PLoS One or ... | 2014/05/30 | [
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21,687 | I am currently writing my thesis and I use several papers that are available als single PDFs [like this one](http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~wvdaalst/publications/p308.pdf&ei=nhKHU--RDMXEPIywgKAK&usg=AFQjCNF8HwyZK0wzZpRF0n3JX4c3L5-5aw&bvm=bv.67720277,d.ZWU)
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"text": "The Bibtex reference that you have cited here is from the ACM library. It gives `pages = {163--176},`, which are the p... | 2014/05/29 | [
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21,690 | I have a paper accepted to a conference and my adviser is willing to fully fund the trip.
However, I am also eligible to apply for a "Student Travel Grant" (being a student author).
Pros of getting the travel grant:
* saves adviser grant money
* goes on my resume
Cinc:
* i would have to volunteer and possibly spen... | [
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21,700 | How can one find relevant and new open research topics?
When working on my PhD thesis, I find it hard to find open questions in my very specific research area. Which approach do you take to find new and relevant topics? | [
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"text": "Try to find papers giving a state of the art review on your field. They'll be easy to find, they generally have a l... | 2014/05/30 | [
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21,708 | I have been accepted to UCL and Oxford for a PhD in anthropology, however I have not been offered funding for either position. I am considering reapplying next year and I would like to know how I can improve my chances of securing funding. I already have experience as a research assistant for my MSc supervisor, and she... | [
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"text": "Funding is extremely scarce, especially in Britain. Since you have been accepted, I would write to the person wh... | 2014/05/30 | [
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21,709 | Here's my story. I moved from my home country to the UK in October to start a PhD in the UK with lots of excitement and positive expectations. However, what I discovered once I started was that the division I am in had never funded an Academic PhD project before (they focus on professional doctorates), the environment ... | [
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21,710 | 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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21,717 | I am currently in the process of submitting a manuscript to a journal. During this process my manuscript has come back for revision, and the journal has asked for an updated manuscript with revisions annotated. What level of changes should be annotated? Similarly is it acceptable to provide a generic comment when chang... | [
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21,727 | I am currently in high school in the USA, and it is relatively common for students to work with various researchers in the summer. The majority of the work done is the medical/biology fields, and I would like to know whether this is a common practice (or a possible practice) in areas outside of biology and medicine.
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21,731 | Is there any open database(s) that offer access to Bachelor or Masters level final papers? Especially interested in top universities and computer science related papers.
The thing is that other day I browsed through BA level papers defended in my university and many of them seemed to be a little too trivial. I'd like t... | [
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21,735 | Of course, I would retain the for me important points, but omit the details.
To the question in the title, I would like to add: If it is, how would it be best to point to that paper?
Should I reference this as a "regular" citation or is it better to include some explanation, like "From [5] it is clear that ..."? | [
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21,736 | My supervisor told me that I should write paragraph in which I introduce the problem that will be addressed by this chapter (research methodology).
What are some of the key aspects I should focus on? I understand that it cannot be a too detailed description, as my supervisor recommends only a single paragraph but I a... | [
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21,739 | I have to write a statement of purpose for a computer science graduate program. In high school I was in a different field of study (aeronautics), then I switched to computer science for my undergraduate course after attending a computer science course which I liked.
Now I can't lie about this, also because this unive... | [
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21,742 | I think the title asks the question, but once again in more words:
Suppose you submit a paper to a journal and it is accepted by the journal. By this I mean that the journal tells you that they have decided to publish your paper but you have not submitted or examined final proofs and -- especially -- not signed any pa... | [
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21,746 | I have a question about how to write my ranking in a class in my CV. I mean, after graduation from the university for my BSc degree, my ranking due to overall GPA among the class of 30 students was 2. The class and the students in which we started our BSc degree education and graduated after 8 or 9 semesters. I want to... | [
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21,749 | While applying to a PhD program in computer science, which one is more important?
Publishing 4 or 5 medium/low-quality journal or conference papers or publishing only one paper in a top journal?
The review process of top-quality journals are usually 1-2 years. Which means, one has to begin his/her research during the... | [
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21,753 | I gave a manuscript to my advisor while ago but he doesn't read it, what is the best action to do cause I need to publish it fast? | [
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21,766 | While looking for information on how to perform a particular basic lab technique, I found the lab manual from another university's undergraduate lab course. This lab manual illustrates the technique very well, with concise description, useful tips on fine points of the procedure and nice, helpful pictures of how the pr... | [
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21,768 | I am working my way through an Masters and as assignments are completed and results have come back, I would like to put them online as a way of contributing back to the community.
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21,778 | I am an American who came to Europe last fall to do an MS which would complement my BA, since the field of study for my BA was different than my current one. My original plan was to apply to PhD programs in the US this fall, but recently I was offered a PhD position by my current adviser. I have until this summer to de... | [
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21,780 | What is the correct way of referencing an equation, figure of table inline?
I would currently say something like:
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> It can be seen from Equation (11) that . . .
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> Inspection of Figure (3) shows . . .
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21,786 | Some background info: I'm a graduating Masters Students teaching a Web Development Class. This is my first teaching gig and this is a required course for CS students.
I have one star student who is already VERY good at web development. He overhauled three of the university's sites, making them more accessible, beautif... | [
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21,792 | Suppose that in your sub-field there are half a dozen research groups on your continent that are acknowledged to be "world class". You have had the good fortune to do your MSc research in one, and your PhD in another. You are now a postdoc in a third. Your current group is large and well-funded, and your position there... | [
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21,797 | I once reviewed a manuscript whose authors cited many of their own published papers, which were not relevant to the subject of the manuscript. [This kind of practice is evidently frowned upon by the academic community](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3643/will-self-citation-be-viewed-as-self-promotion-in-a... | [
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21,799 | This is a follow on from [Is it ethical to withdraw a paper after acceptance in order to resubmit to a better journal?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/21742/is-it-ethical-to-withdraw-a-paper-after-acceptance-in-order-to-resubmit-to-a-bet)
If a journal is willing to publish your submitted manuscript "as i... | [
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21,801 | You submit a manuscript to journal A. The paper is rejected, either with a short dismissal ("not good enough for this journal") or with a longer rebuttal from the referees. You wish to resubmit it to a different journal B.
**Should you inform the editor at B of the previous rejection?**
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21,813 | I am a PhD Student & started my research few months ago. My research involves creating a predictive model for protein-drug interaction using soft computing techniques .The topic was given to me by my supervisor and was *not* my choice.
The problem is, I am a computer science student and have no idea about drugs or pro... | [
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21,819 | Here's my story:
I study computer science. When I started my master's degree, I had good research ideas and I wanted to publish them immideately (I now realize being in a hurry is the worst thing I did myself in my educational life).
My thesis advisor is a perfectionist. His philosophy is *all or nothing*. Therefore,... | [
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21,825 | I'm a student enrolled in an university in Italy. I'm currently taking a course on probability theory, but the way is it taught is, whilst very good, not very thorough; I mean that in class some of the most difficult part are skipped. As such, I'm studying those part on the book by myself. Since this is a completely ne... | [
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21,837 | I've never given any sort of presentation at a conference before, but I was under the impression that poster presentations are less prestigious and also much easier to get accepted.
I submitted a late abstract in the second round call for "late breaking" posters. I will hear back supposedly by the end of the week whet... | [
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21,846 | I was wondering what it really matters for a university to climb in the university rankings, for example in Science fields such as Mathematics, Physics or Computer Science?
I found that there are the following different services to let people know about lecturer's research in a Faculty:
* Google Scholar, I believe tha... | [
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21,860 | According to the de facto standard book for typography, [The Elements of Typographic Style](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0881791326), when we write abbreviations with 2 or more letters like SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope), small cap should be used and in LaTeX this would be `\textsc{sem}`.
Another case... | [
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21,868 | While writing the literature review for my paper, I found another paper which is closely related to my research. Unfortunately, the paper’s publisher is on [Beall’s List](http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/). Hence, I wonder if citing the paper will have any negative impact on my paper. | [
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21,875 | I teach all of the writing courses for one of my college's STEM department. Occasionally, students bring me questions related to their field, e.g. they are doing some project for another course and they want to know what tools I used for a similar real-world project I did before.
* If I help the students (which would ... | [
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21,880 | As a master's student in computer science, I would really like to go for a PhD at a good CS department. However until now, I have no publications and really have no idea how to start research. I'm interested in many subjects but I have not yet been able to narrow down the choice to a specific one. For someone like me w... | [
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21,884 | Suppose you were to find what you think are serious flaws in a preprint (arXiv or something similar). What should you do? Now, after the obvious first step of contacting the authors and letting them know, what should you do if you were basically told off ("thanks for your interest" without addressing any of the technic... | [
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21,888 | As a graduate student in the PhD program (I will be graduating in about 2 months), my research has covered a wide range of topics rather than nailing down one specific topic (super-specialized). In fact, my thesis is broad enough that my current working title is something along the lines of "Toward the Application of E... | [
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21,889 | This is something I've been confused ever since I started my undergraduate research.
My research related to User Interfaces. Based on some of the previous years undergraduate research or from some research in the same year as me, as far as I see, have these steps:
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21,897 | [This looks like something that might have been asked already, but I have not found a question like this on this site.]
I recently had a paper rejected with resubmission from a top Bayesian Statistics journal. This was not a surprise. My main reason for submitting to the journal was to obtain feedback, which I did obt... | [
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21,900 | I'm frequently put in an awkward position by my advisor: he communicates pretty badly (vague, doesn't give enough information, isn't clear with what he wants, references things that could mean many things), and then I have to interpret what he means. If I interpret it incorrectly, I often get chastised because from his... | [
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21,907 | I submitted a manuscript to an established ecology journal and received reasonable reviews. The reviewing editor requested a revision. However, the comments from the reviewing editor were abysmal. First, the literacy and analysis were, in my judgment, poor by high-school standards. Second, based on the comments, I seri... | [
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21,909 | The topic of Wikipedia contribution has come up before, but I am interested in the community's opinion on peer-reviewed wiki publishing (e.g., Scholarpedia). I would like to know if there is any advantage for a PhD student to publish in such an online venue versus the traditional journal publication for review content.... | [
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21,922 | I'm writing a research paper in my native language, Serbian, on a specific electrical engineering and applied mathematics topic. Moreover, there are two published papers in English that hold much of the information I need.
Now, the topic itself is quite new and is unknown in Serbia, and consequently at my university. ... | [
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21,938 | I'm a foreign (non-EU) student enrolled at the CS master's program in a European university.
I would like to take 2-3 courses that my university doesn't offer, and the first idea that came to mind was to take them at another university (preferably also European) in another country.
Obviously I want these courses to b... | [
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21,939 | Our paper was due submission for second revision at a BMC journal. The communicating author, as I understand is responsible for handling all the communications between all authors and the journal, while also making suitable arrangement to cover any open access charges.
However, the communicating author in our case, w... | [
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21,944 | I'm choosing reference writers for my math PhD application this year, and need to decide between the 2 following professors:
* Professor X is a young professor with whom I took measure theory and
did a research project in my freshman year. The project went pretty
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21,945 | I am directly quoting a sentence from an ebook. Thus, I want to add the page numbering to its citation. However, different to the print version, which I do not have, this ebook (Amazon Kindle version) does not have page numberings but rather "positions".
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21,951 | I just finished a PhD in Mozh and I am starting my postdoc in September. I am currently just working on a few collaborations--working on projects that are follow-ups from my dissertation that are mainly strengthening my results or applying my results to interests of my collaborators. I hear a lot about the difficulty a... | [
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21,953 | How liberal are institutions with regard to doing research in a different (unrelated) field than the person's diploma?
For example, if a person with a diploma in pure mathematics wants also to do research and programming in IT (specifically in XML), can he do it in his work time?
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21,958 | Suppose two papers were published by fledgling researchers, perhaps PhD students, who are yet unknown in their field. One is Asian, has a surname which is long and difficult to pronounce, and perhaps also comes from a relatively unknown university. The other has an English name, and comes from a well-known university. ... | [
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21,965 | By the end of the term, I always end up with quite a number of D and F students who want to improve their grades. Meanwhile, I usually have lots of menial tasks on hand during the summer, e.g. data entry, translations, proofreading, photo tagging, etc.
* None of these tasks is work I am assigned or paid to do.
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21,972 | I have been told by our head of department, a veteran academic with **a lot** of publications behind his name, that I am not allowed to write my masters dissertation with TeX/LaTeX, as many journals do not accept TeX/LaTeX documents, and now I have to use Word. I work in thermoflow research.
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21,979 | Are students allowed to complete a large portion of their research independently, then enroll in a PhD program, apply for a defense panel within the first semester, and quickly finish the thesis? Has this been done before?
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22,006 | Consider the concept of opportunity cost.
There are two possible situations:
1. I program everything, do the evaluation with a benchmark, tell nobody, write everything and publish alone.
2. I program everything, do the evaluation with a benchmark, write something and publish with four other authors, that mostly write... | [
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22,014 | As an undergraduate, I wasted a ridiculous amount of time due to a combination of being distracted by part-time work, lack of focus, not knowing what I wanted to do with my life, and just plain being stupid and lazy. Several times I tried to "get it together" but by then it was too late as my grades were ridiculously l... | [
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22,023 | Where I did my PhD, typically two PhD students shared an office room. In constrast, where I am working as a postdoc now, about 50 PhDs and postdocs share an open-plan office.
I find it difficult to concentrate in the latter kind of arrangement because of the noise. Some people use head/earphones, but I guess not ever... | [
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22,025 | I'm not interested in becoming an academic. Rather, I'm interested in opportunities for a Computer Science (or related) major to work in research, either in industry, but also particularly in academia, and particularly in fields where CS skills/knowledge could be applied to social sciences (or cognitive science). This ... | [
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22,032 | I am now in the middle of my master's degree and I plan to graduate in August 2015. I currently study in Germany and for most engineering students here it is common to finish the five-year program (3 or 3.5 years for the bachelor's degree and 1.5 to 2 years for the master's). I'm thinking about applying for robotics Ph... | [
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22,037 | I want to add some description of a technology (Node.js = server-side JavaScript) in my thesis. The description is about what exactly this technology is, how it works, what it can do etc.
I want to use Node.js Wikipedia page, a blog page, one of my supervisor's lectures for gathering information.
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22,054 | My mathematics department apparently gets pressured by the university to have more people take courses during the summer. We are also encouraged to take on TA responsibilities to make extra cash during the summer which is great.... except that they have this rule that if we want to teach/grade (or do any paid work duri... | [
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22,058 | How hard is it to adapt to post-graduate studies after an academic pause of 16 years working in sort of relevant industry?
I graduated back in 1998 with B.Eng. in computer engineering, worked for 16 years in IT related jobs, and decided to go back to school this fall (2014).
Is it hard to be ready after such long aca... | [
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22,066 | I have started writing my thesis ( just yesterday:) ). My advisor asked me to submit it in one or two months. Now am wondering should I start applying for jobs at this time period. I plan to talk about this with my advisor. But I thought of other opinions as well. Please share your experience also. | [
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22,068 | I am a postdoc working in a lab where we are finishing a large project with multiple measures (psychological, behavioral, etc). Some of the measures didn't turn out to have significant results (primarily for methodological reasons I believe). I suggested to the Lead Investigator that we write up some of these as "we tr... | [
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22,075 | I am in the second year of my PhD in mathematics and I have recently decided I want to go into industry after I'm finished. I feel like a lot of what I'm learning in the program does not have direct, real-world applications, and I'd like to remedy this problem by getting some work experience while I'm still in graduate... | [
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22,085 | I am currently a rising 2L law student who passed up an opportunity to do a joint JD/MS in Economics. I didn't think I was adequately prepared to take on the Economics degree, though. (Not enough math background.) I am considering pursuing a master's degree part time after finishing law school, though, because it seems... | [
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23,099 | I work at an educational institution where exam papers are considered protected. Leaking the exam question sheet and taking photocopies or camera shots is considered illegal and is strictly prohibited. I am not here to argue about this policy but to ask about the best ways to enforce it. Students have been taking pictu... | [
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23,109 | I read through the forum and the opinion seems to be that doing a MOOC is equivalent of reading a book on that subject. This is largely because of that you can cheat through a MOOC.
So what if I join a signature track on a MOOC such as the one of Coursera ? I haven't ever tried a signature track out, but they capture... | [
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23,110 | Question is in the title.
More specifically, do emeritus professors (generally) check the emails which are listed on their university websites? I have emailed a few professors lately, asking about points in papers that they wrote, and none of the emeritus have responded.
I am assuming that they do not check their ema... | [
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23,114 | I am currently reviewing a conference paper, which I found is just extended version of a previous conference paper. I have heard that a journal paper can be a new version of a conference paper with some new stuff added, while the paper I am reviewing is something like this. Would this paper be rejected simply because o... | [
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23,116 | I have a MSc degree in Computer Science from a well known university, but the problem is that my degree is, for example in Computer Graphics. Now I would like to study PhD in computer Science, but related to another topic such as Green Computing.
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23,119 | Is there any university in the United States (or Europe) fully committed to graduate programs (master and PhD)?
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23,130 | I'm currently applying for a Ph.D in Germany. Next week I'm sitting down with my potential Ph.D advisor to have a talk about the program.
Currently I'm collecting questions about things like
* teaching duties included?
* working hours
* what's the salary?
* vacation?
* budget for conferences?
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23,133 | I am currently having a disagreement with a coauthor on a paper over the matter of significant figures.
He would like to specify (for example) that a certain organization has an environmental footprint of 7,622 gha. Environmental footprinting rests on a tonne of assumptions and is not a precise methodology, so I don't... | [
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23,138 | All countries have visa waiver for certain nationals, but it is only for touristic purpose. People use this scheme for attending scientific meetings (isn't it some kind of business trip?).
Anyway, academic visits, in which the guest is paid, is definitely a business trip. For example, when an academic organize a paid ... | [
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23,150 | I am asking myself the question "Should I do PhD or should I leave academia and go for an industrial career?"
My life-goal is being a professor. And I love to do research.
PhD is surely a bite that not everyone can chew.
But I wonder *who* can chew it?
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23,160 | I've got to cite the author of a text and her full [title](http://emba.ust.hk/academics/faculty-lecturers/) is
>
> Jeanne Brett, DeWitt W. Buchanan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of
> Dispute Resolution and Organizations; Director of the Dispute
> Resolution Research Center
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>
>
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23,164 | A PI started a study and collected some data. The study was originally meant to evaluate the effectiveness of a treatment. After a year or so of collecting data, the PI decided to do some analyses. When I looked at the design of the study, I informed the PI that this design will not be able to provide any meaningful ev... | [
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23,170 | I received a scholarship from a funding organization to do my PhD. I chose a department within a reputable research center to do my PhD at, and I did start working there 2 months ago.
My career ambitions are to proceed in the academic career path, eventually becoming a professor in my field.
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23,176 | I am PhD student and the main author of a research-in-progress report in computer science. The paper is already published at a *workshop* (in the proceedings, this is not a journal paper) and was presented there a few months ago.
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23,190 | I started a collaboration with some other research group, where the main objective was to model some data. The project was very interesting to me, since I had obtained that data. After some months I got no news from them, I wrote them and they always told me they were very busy and had no time. I understood they were n... | [
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23,192 | I am currently a PhD student who will graduate in July.
I am currently applying for academic postdocs,
with the goal of taking a tenure-track job at the end of my postdoc position.
In my field (operations research),
most of the postdoc positions are for one year
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23,196 | I just finished a PhD in mathematics and am about to start a postdoc in the fall. My question is pretty straightforward (although the answer might not be), namely:
>
> What should one do to have a successful mathematics postdoc (apart from perhaps doing as much math as humanly possible, or more)?
>
>
>
I expect t... | [
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23,198 | In Academia, a [sabbatical means a leave to do only research](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/8557/1033), as opposed to an unpaid leave to do anything you want.
A [recent question over on The Workplace SE](https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/27097/1898) raises the situation where someone *has too much money and... | [
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23,203 | I graduated from a reputed North American university with a master's degree in 2013. Due to severe personal problems (deaths/illness in the family, war-torn homeland, divorce, financial issues, and so on), it would be fair to say that I did not perform well. My thesis had a critical error which was duly pointed out dur... | [
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23,204 | I have been asked to review a paper that I know to have been authored by a friend and former colleague. Is it my responsibility to inform the editor and decline to review the paper? | [
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23,212 | In my class, we have project groups of 4 or 5 students. This period has everything to do with game development. The project is to build a XNA game for children at primary school.
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23,231 | So, I'm just now finishing my master's thesis. When thinking about who helped me aside from my official supervisors some of the StackExchange fora (especially Stack Overflow and TeX) came into my mind.
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23,233 | What if my PhD advisor doesn't want to give me a letter of recommendation, because he doesn't want me to leave on postdoc? None of his young assistants have ever been on any postdoc or fellowship exchange. | [
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23,237 | I just started reading some papers (Computer Science, specifically Computer Vision) and thought "now let's look at the source code" and was quite astonished that most of the papers don't have any source code implementing the described methods to look at, while claiming some performance or being better than other papers... | [
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