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24,433 | I am currently a Senior undergrad at a small school in the US. I have pretty good grades and have yet to take the GRE. I am a double major in Accounting and Business Management. I love economics (all parts I have encountered) but I am not sure if economics programs are for me.
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24,439 | I plan to apply for PhD in Finance/Statistics next semester, and hence searched for potential supervisors.
An issue I have is that many interesting candidates are above age 60, and in Germany Professors retire at 65, such that a subsequent post-doc/habilitation would most likely require a different supervisor after Ph... | [
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24,445 | I am being considered for a job in Germany (W1 junior-professorship) and I was hoping to get some insights regarding the process as I come from the US system and am unfamiliar with how things work in Germany.
1. I notice that the application packages do not require inclusion of recommendation letters. In the US, the ... | [
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24,461 | A model lesson is a usual element in interviews for the faculty level positions. Normally this is not a full lesson but a 15-minute version which is performed in absence of actual students for just a few professors from a hiring committee. It is supposed to demonstrate "your teaching style", but by design this is clear... | [
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24,466 | Recently, someone analyzed [computer science professors at top universities](http://jeffhuang.com/computer_science_professors.html) and found that over half of the professors at the top 51 universities graduated from a top 10 university. [Others](http://chronicle.com/article/What-Are-Low-Ranked-Graduate/136823/) have a... | [
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24,474 | I earned my bachelors in Computer Engineering from my home country. I am now enrolled in a Physics masters program in the same university. Next year I plan to find a different university in Europe in which to enroll in a Computer Engineering PhD program.
However I doubt that I'll receive any scholarships from my homel... | [
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"text": "As a Ph.D. student in (continental) Europe, you are an employee of the university (or other institution), and so y... | 2014/07/07 | [
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24,487 | I am writing a master thesis. When must I cite a resource I used ? Most of the time, I read a definition in a given book and express it in my own words: must I mention the book in question for this particular case ? | [
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24,490 | Quite too many times I have read in a research article claiming that the source code will be made available, and, when I look for it, it turns out that the source code still hasn't been released.
Are there any journals or conferences that take into account the availability of the source code when selecting the papers ... | [
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"text": "I can confirm the answer given by [amlrg](https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/15151/amlrg) in comm... | 2014/07/07 | [
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24,493 | In the My Library of Google Scholar, is there a way to export all of the citations, whether to BibTex or something similar? | [
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"text": "As far as I know Google does not offer a user interface to do that. Actually they still do not offer an API to int... | 2014/07/07 | [
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24,495 | For a paper with coauthors, what should I do if one coauthor, who I feel has contributed the most among my coauthors, declined to be listed as a coauthor and wished only to be acknowledged in the acknowledgements? The reason he gave for declining was that he did not think he has contributed significantly. The other coa... | [
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"text": "Publish without him or not at all\n---------------------------------\n\nRegardless of reasons, you don't have much... | 2014/07/07 | [
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24,498 | I intend to include my computational model code(s) in its entirety as an appendix in my dissertation. I've gone through my university's formatting guidelines and haven't seen anything on the proper way to format the code in terms of size of font, text-wrapping, spacing, and so forth. What's the best way to do this?
Wh... | [
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"text": "I would suggest a monospaced font, because that is the traditional method of displaying code. As a matter of puttin... | 2014/07/08 | [
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24,499 | The [i-Society conference](http://www.i-society.eu/Important%20Dates.html) calls for Research Papers, Student Papers, and Case Studies.
What is the difference between a "research paper" and a "student paper"? | [
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24,514 | When reviewing a manuscript describing a new software tool, reviewers are often asked to assess its utility, quality, novelty, ...
I was wondering if, in addition to the classic comments on the manuscript, it was appropriate to make suggestion to improve the software functionality in itself (if the code is provided w... | [
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"text": "I would suggest **not** to comment on code, unless:\n\n* The code is broken in some way, such that it does not perform w... | 2014/07/08 | [
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24,522 | After finishing my PhD in Computer Science (machine learning) and after several years as a university lecturer, I decided to transition from academia to industry. As a result of that, I have been working one year for a company, doing applied research.
In my latest performance review, my supervisor pointed out that my ... | [
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"text": "Here are some links for you\n\n[this blog](http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/12/23/academia-vs-industry-... | 2014/07/08 | [
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24,526 | My professor of Computer Science has a company (both based in Germany) that promotes an open-source software. Of course the software is free and open-source, but his company generates profits through support, training, etc. and they have a server-version of the software which is commercial and very expensive. The softw... | [
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24,545 | I am Performance and Automation Testing engineer who recently moved into IT Security in Singapore. I hold a BSc in software system (full-time) and MSc in IT (distance learning program). I have 9+ years experience working in Testing projects where major contribution was into Performance and Automaton testing.
I wish t... | [
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24,550 | I am a prospective phd student. I wish to know if it is fine to contact the phd students of my target schools?
If answering this question requires more information, please feel free to state that. | [
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24,554 | *Disclaimer - I'm neither in favor of, nor endorsing plagiarism with the following question. I'm only hitting on the fact that sometimes, the interpretation of self-plagiarism can be quite stupid*.
Given the well-deserved emphasis on controlling the menace of plagiarism these days, various journals and even academic i... | [
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24,556 | I am a new PhD student, almost one year into the program. I was in theoretical research in my Master's program and switched to experimental research for my PhD. During my studies I have used a programming language but I do not have any expertise with it. I immediately started to working with this language, but still ha... | [
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24,568 | During my leisure time, I used to prepare some pamphlets in the topic of courses I always wanted to teach. Each, full of examples and solved problems which I designed and solved myself, not photocopying from books and papers; that are so helpful to the engineering students.
If one day, I have the chance to teach in a ... | [
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24,576 | Recently, our group is trying to reproduce the result reported by a paper whose authors are from an Ivy league university. We are unable to reproduce the results because there are several implementation details are not mentioned in the paper. Hence, we decide to write the first author, who is now already a faculty memb... | [
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24,577 | I really love research. I started a research project in graduate school for my M.A. in English. My research topic is a very viable and interesting topic for a dissertation. I'll be 60 on my next birthday and I know that many Ph.D programs are traditionally geared toward younger students.I was wondering are there any pr... | [
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24,592 | I did my bachelor at university A in which Prof. X supervised my graduation project. I asked him for a recommendation when I was applying to university B for masters and he wrote me a great one. That was a year and a half ago, and now I am applying for PhD at university C. I need his recommendation again but I feel bad... | [
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24,601 | How does one address a doctoral candidate who completed all his/here requirements except the dissertation? Would they be referred to as Doctor? Or is there another title?
In the past, I believe I've seen "ABD" added as a postnominal in a signature. For example, "Jozw Cie, ABD". But I don't believe I recall reading how... | [
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25,607 | Is it better to wear formal clothes for a PhD or MSc thesis defense or can we wear something as simple as a T-shirt? | [
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25,608 | I'm looking for PhD positions and I just recently came across an option in Germany. This team is working on a subject that is very really truly interesting for me. I want to write to the head of the team to express my interest and ask if there is a chance for me to do my PhD in their team.
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25,613 | Is it advisable to do a short (2-3months) visit to a different lab at a different university while doing a PhD? I would think that it would be good for setting up collaborations, but would a PhD supervisor be against this due to the time that would be lost doing so? | [
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25,631 | Coming from a different schooling/grading system, I have very little feeling about what actually is considered a good grade for studies in Germany.
Here the passing grades are given in the range of 1.0 to 4.0 and there are non-passing (failing) grades, which basically tell how hard you failed.
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25,650 | I'm writing up a paper for an upcoming CS conference. The problem is my paper is 1 page shorter than the conference's page limit. This conference doesn't have any workshop to accept a short paper.
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25,659 | How should I address a knighted academic in a letter or in an email? The person in question is a chancellor of a university, so the odds are that he has at least a PhD. He is a CEO of a multinational company, too, so it is difficult to guess whether he has been a professor at any given time (at least there's no search ... | [
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25,667 | I'm currently attending an accredited university which provides an online BSc CIS program. Is an online degree considered lowly in compared to a traditional education, and can it affect admissions into masters programs offered abroad? | [
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25,703 | Some publishers like Springer appear variously with different addresses. Sometimes (in the case of Springer) it's "Berlin, Heidelberg", sometimes it's "Heidelberg, New York", or even ["Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo"](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bimj.4710300514/abstract).
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25,755 | Many of the journal references in the bibliography of my thesis contain bird names. Journals use birds names in the titles of papers in at least four different ways:
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2. Titlecase plus scientific name, eg Teal Anas crecca
3. Lowercase, eg teal
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25,757 | I have submitted a paper to a conference with a scientific error in it.
Essentially I have a concept and I have claimed it works in two conditions. Actually it only works in one of them. Technically, my experimental results are correct, but its only a small test and when extrapolated to full scale the error can be fou... | [
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25,758 | I'm a second-year undergrad, and I've always been on a first-name basis with anyone in academia or in a research setting. I first worked in a laboratory in high school, and since everyone was on a first-name basis with everyone else there, I sort of just applied that logic to other labs and to my college professors.
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25,770 | I am going into the fourth year of a PhD program and my research, which is in a [STEM field](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM_fields), has clear applications in the tech industry.
I have my Master's degree, but have decided not to finish the PhD.
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25,772 | By a *scientific work* I mean any work of mine that either belongs to my field or belongs to some related fields of my field. A work that is not a scientific work is called *off-topic*.
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25,775 | I am an undergraduate working on a research project that is going to be published. My research adviser wasn't completely able to help with a certain portion of the research, so I contacted another professor (in a completely different department) at my university who was more than willing to help.
It seems that this ot... | [
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25,804 | I've just defended my PhD in mathematics and started a postdoc. While working on an improvement of one of the results of my thesis, I realized that there are several minor mistakes and a big bug in a proof that invalids a minor result in the thesis (about 3-4 pages out of 110). Unfortunately neither I nor my advisor or... | [
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25,808 | I am a young academic in a scientific field and, in the process of updating my CV, I've realized I'm unsure exactly what is appropriate to list with regard to grant applications/funded grants. Specifically, a few types of ambiguities have arisen:
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25,817 | When I was doing my PhD project, I got an idea to solve a different but related problem. However, my supervisor said neither the motivation nor the initial result were interesting, and so he refused to offer me help on this topic. Then, I did a paper on my own with a lot of work afterwards, and submitted it to a high s... | [
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25,822 | From the perspective of a Ph.D. student, how much of an added value is it to have your own presentation slides layout, that is used consistently throughout your Ph.D. conference presentations and other talks (and possibly throughout your academic career afterwards)?
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25,830 | The question is related to the trend of research and focus on different disciplines.
Is there some trend assesment which shows the number of articles or conferences on a specific disciplines?
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25,832 | Some of my colleagues and I got offers from employees of some reputed journal (not from journal itself), to publish our research paper for free, if:
* We include their name as co-author
* We use 60%+ citation of their journal (Doesn't it add up to IF??)
In return:
* It will be published completely free
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25,837 | Recruiting "bad" PhD students who only become emotional, temporal, and financial drag is not good for anybody. I was listening to the [recent freakonomics podcast episode](http://freakonomics.com/2014/07/10/what-do-king-solomon-and-david-lee-roth-have-in-common-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/), and thought it would b... | [
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25,850 | As I understand it, in the engineering field, the person who has research money and/or a project that leads to the collection of data, is put on research papers that directly use that data. I guess the most common of this is for PHD students whose advisors funding or project is the reason they have data.
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25,852 | I want to pursue a PhD in Financial Economics in USA/Canada. I am a software engineer and going to Canada to pursue an MBA in Finance in September from an average public university.
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25,856 | Can you give me advice, how can I publish easily and quickly in a number of papers?
I'm not really a scientist, I'm a web developer, but I really need to build a publication list. I need to publish at least 10 papers or maybe 20.
I want to build a publication list because if you publish (and you meet some other crite... | [
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25,861 | I am planning to attend a prestigious conference in the near future, and I was wondering if a certain professor who I wish to meet and I would love to do my phd degree and research under his supervision will be attending this conference. So is it appropriate to ask him (by email) if he plans to attend or participate in... | [
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25,870 | I'm starting a master's degree in the autumn, and I recently received an email from the university inviting me to join the Facebook page for the course.
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25,906 | In a recent conversation with a person born in the UK, he mentioned his son had attended a US college for a year before deciding to move back to the UK to finish school. He told me that apparently if a student completes one year of school at an accredited US university, they can do a combined bachelor's/master's degree... | [
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25,910 | In US, universities often have a fixed overhead rate around 50%, or at least that's what I heard. But I don't know what it exactly means. How does this affect how much grant money goes where? | [
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25,935 | I wrote my first academic paper recently (it is in math). I need to put a footnote crediting the NSF for funding. I have noticed that papers almost always say "Partially supported by [grant]". I got all of my funding from one grant. Should I still say partially supported? If so, what is the reason for this? | [
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25,936 | I am using mendeley to save papers etc. which have come up during my research. However, I am often having some ideas about problems which are interesting or some links which are worth reading later. I would like to add this to mendeley easily, sth like a workable document.
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25,939 | I wrote a paper that I want to put on my webpage, but that I don't want to publish anywhere. I think that I need a timestamp on it, in case someone decides to plagiarize it. Is GitHub adequate for this? | [
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25,949 | Men make up the minority of students who receive undergraduate and graduate degrees. As a group men also tend to dropout of school at a greater rate than women. Men are even more in minority status as students in fields like psychology and education.
So, what books, biographies, survival guides, or other resources exi... | [
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25,955 | University X offers course Y with Z credits. The course is mandatory, and very important. It lasts for more than one semester with heavy workload. The University awards Z credits for the course Y, but it only includes Z/2 credits in the GPA calculation.
This is where the story gets a bit personal. I assume the Univer... | [
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25,960 | I have got an article the making, and presented it to my PhD advisor one month ago. The article emerged from my master thesis at a different university.
A week ago, he told me the draft is good, albeit difficult to understand, but he remarked that it contained too many new ideas to be published at once. The problem is... | [
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25,977 | If, in a certain international journal where I have submitted, the journal webpage lists the editorial board, should I expect that the possible reviewers of my paper are selected from among the members of this board?
Or is it possible that the Editor in Chief may choose an "outsider" to review my submission?
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25,979 | I recently finished my final year of a Bachelor of Science degree in Web Development at university in the UK. As 3/8ths of the final year credit, I was required to create a Final Year Project, including ~40k word report and a software artefact, guided by a university tutor. At my graduation ceremony my tutor approached... | [
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25,993 | There is a paper I want to cite where, on the title page of the article, the authors names appear without any middle initials (i.e., one of the authors is Marh Vmevg). However, this one author frequently publishes using his middle initials (i.e., Mark E. Smith). What is the appropriate way to cite this-with the name as... | [
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26,001 | I've been talking to one of my professors at a Master's program about enrolling in an independent study course under his supervision.
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26,017 | For example, if a person holds not just "Dr." but "Priv.-Doz. Dr." or "Prof. Dr." should we include the full title after "*Dear ...*"?
Thank you.
P.S.
July 20, 2014 UPDATE: as some repliers correctly guessed I faced the question when I was writing an email to a German person. | [
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26,024 | Once a paper of mine has definitively been accepted for publication, I typically list it on my CV and in citations as "forthcoming". Other people seem to use "in press" for the same category, and an author once asked me to change my reference to his paper to use "in press" rather than "forthcoming". Do you feel that th... | [
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26,025 | Will generally accepted papers appear in conferences proceeding without presentation? In particular my paper is accepted for [**this**](http://www.greenorbs.org/TrustCom2014) conference. In the conference web site they pointed out: "Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE CPS Proceedings." In its reg... | [
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26,030 | A few weeks after my work was published in a conference, I received an email from a research group from another university asking me to provide my source code. The email was very polite and explained the reasons for the request, i.e. the direction of their research. There was really no reason to deny them. However, yes... | [
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26,037 | ### **TL;DR**:
*How should I blindly grade exams when I can recognize over half of the papers by the handwriting?*
**Situation:** I'm a TA for an first year physics class of approximately 50-60 students. Due to a complaint along the lines of *"the grader hates me so I failed the class"* that the department got last y... | [
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26,038 | Is there a simple line of questioning which gives an up front indicator as to a persons ability to do research?
[FizzBuzz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz) is an interview question which is used to determine whether an applicant knows how to program. It is a simple problem, with a simple solution which can sepe... | [
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26,048 | I was watching [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLlA1w4OZWQ) video on YouTube ([this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIUhHWsqlE&feature=youtu.be) is the second part of it) and it motivated me to ask this question.
**From the videos:**
>
> *....that's the good aspect of peer review. It should work to sift out p... | [
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26,049 | I would be happy to have a short comment by somebody on following simple situation: I submitted my paper in beginning of January. In the end or January the status changed from the administration (Editor) to "under review". After that, this has not changed, it is still "under review". Is this normal. My field is history... | [
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26,055 | I am fairly certain academic papers do not use apostrophe " ' " for contraction, like "won't", but what is the academic way (in engineering) to do this. For example, " A humans walk cycle " , it is the walk cycle belonging to the human, so " A humans' walk cycle " seems appropriate. However, I rarely see apostrophes us... | [
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26,065 | Having a realistic option of publishing a minor study in a 4th quartile journal, is this better than nothing? The articles of many, but not all, authors are kind of pretentious and unremarkable (not being cited nowhere), but not plagiarized, or computer generated. | [
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26,068 | In the US, many PhD programs require applications to submit the results of one of the GRE subject tests. For example, almost every (serious) PhD program in mathematics that I've seen requires it. However, when looking at the admissions webpage of some programs, there sometimes seems to be some kind of grey area when it... | [
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26,076 | I know that for a certain project a colleague with whom I have worked on the project erroneously got a grade that is higher than he should have gotten (the administration made a mistake is my guess). He told me about this himself, but also told me that he is not planning on changing it. The course is a 12 ects course, ... | [
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26,079 | I am an adjunct instructor at a technical college in the US. I was tasked with creating a new class which I would teach in the spring. I have finished all of my course materials (.pdfs, lab sheets, power points, etc etc). When I was first hired and told to create the new course, I was informed by some of my colleagues ... | [
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26,081 | **Revised.** I was thinking about the way I write research papers, it involves a lot of revising to even get a "first draft," and subsequently I do a lot of revising also. Presumably this is fairly common nowadays, as computers have made revising papers easy.
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26,083 | I am currently preparing for my graduate school application. There is one professor whose research interest in general matches mine. He has listed several potential research projects for prospective postgraduate students and I am particularly very interested in one of them, say Project A. Since Project A's scale is ver... | [
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26,099 | I did my PhD 4 years ago. I was not comfortable with my guide but I concentrated on my work, and I successfully completed the PhD. But I published a little work with his name as correspondence author. But now I am in good position in another country, so I need to publish my PhD work without his name as co-author. If I ... | [
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26,102 | I'm just starting out in research and about to finish my BSc. If I stay in research I'm wondering about the economics of it: where does the money come from? I am passionate about a specific field and I want to be able to do research in that area - but I imagine to support that research I'd have to find a lab that has b... | [
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26,103 | I have written an informal article 9 pages long, that covers some general, lightly technical material. I wrote it because this material is not covered elsewhere, and I am knowledgeable in the field. The material is light in the sense that it is not highly innovative, or even highly useful, but it is "good to know". The... | [
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26,104 | I am a undergraduate student who also work as the systems administrator in the school. I also do research work under a professor. Recently, I had to work on this professor's lab to upgrade the older machines to newer machines. I literally got no help from any of the fellow lab mates. Though, I did it as part of my syst... | [
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26,106 | Is being a maths "tutor" volunteer at sites like [MATHNERDS](http://www.mathnerds.com/) useful in terms of "good impression" for future academic prospectives? | [
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26,107 | I am doing masters in physics. I recently did internship in high energy physics for 2 months. But my institute allows me to do 6 months project only in condensed matter physics. I want to pursue PhD in high energy physics only. So, is it possible to pursue PhD in different area than master's thesis? | [
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26,120 | I am an amateur (not affiliated with an academy) mathematician.
I have written a research monograph (see [my site](http://www.mathematics21.org/algebraic-general-topology.html)).
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26,125 | \*Edit in response to comments: I'm not asking "What is the number of publications n of quality q1 such that anybody who has n many publications is guaranteed to get a job at a school like Y?" There is no such value of n. What I'm asking is, "Is there a number of publications n, of some quality q such that without n ma... | [
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26,130 | My institution provides a dedicated storage space to host our academic websites, which is reachable via the institution domain (something like `http://people.institution.org/John.Doe/`).
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26,132 | **Context:** I'm writing a dissertation in Computational Social Science using the [Kluwer](http://www.mackichan.com/products/shells/kluwer.pdf) bibliographic style. My question isn't specific to this style and applies generally to dissertations in computer science, sociology, economics, and management.
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26,145 | I'm an undergraduate at the [Open University](http://www.open.ac.uk/) (OU), which allows me to study part-time and from home (actually even from a different country). Getting my BSc will take me other several years, but I want to start gaining experience with doing research and start publishing papers. Specifically my ... | [
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26,159 | I am in the field of computer science. It is often the case when I am reading a paper I start to wonder, *"Wow stunning results, however, I would like to prove that."* or *"How exactly did he get these amazing results? He/she just wrote a rough overview of the real methodology used in this paper."*. As you can see, a l... | [
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26,163 | **Question:** I am interested in two fields, mathematical biology and cryptography. Is it okay to discuss both of these interests in my statement of purpose?
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26,171 | If a PhD student is working on a research project which is neither related to his thesis topic, nor supported by the university in which he is studying or a faculty member; Does he have the right to use his academic affiliation and contact email?
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26,178 | I am interested in finding the ISI-indexed papers for a given institition X. This would be any ISI-indexed paper where one or more authors are affiliated with X. Is this doable and are there any guidelines for how to do this? | [
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26,180 | I am reading a colleague's CV which lists an "Excellent Foreign Scholar" scholarship from the National Science Foundation of China. I am not familiar with this program, nor is google particularly helpful for me as a complete non-speaker of Chinese. Is anyone familiar with this program, and what it would entail? | [
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26,199 | I am currently writing a paper in which I have many topics to describe. It would not be productive to read and cite papers or even books on the topics because I just have to describe them very briefly as an introduction to some follow up topics.
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26,202 | I am working on my PhD thesis and have to write a monograph based on my publications. To prevent that I plagiarize myself, I came up with the idea to automatically check my thesis against my publications.
Is there already a tool for this work-flow?
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> **Input:** PDf of thesis and a pile of PDFs;
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26,214 | I'm fairly early on in my PhD research. A few months ago I submitted an abstract to a conference, which was accepted. The conference is coming up soon, and my research has taken a slight turn away from my accepted abstract (still same field, collaborators, etc...--just asking slightly different questions and taking a s... | [
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26,220 | I have seen one extreme of the spectrum, where a person conducts great research without even attending college. For a student to become an independent researcher, how much is on the advisor's shoulder and how much on the student? I know the answers may be all over the map. Just curious what your takes are on this quest... | [
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26,228 | We received a report on our paper (it's the 2nd version already). The referee writes:
>
> The proofs are correct. However, I'm not completely satisfied with the style in which the paper is written and the authors have to work more on the **essay**.
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I'm not sure what we can do with that. We are not native sp... | [
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26,229 | What are the differences between papers that are chosen for presentation vs those which are accepted for poster presentation? Is one less reputable than the other one? How does a committee select received manuscripts for these two categories? | [
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26,234 | I have done my masters in Computer Science, but did not receive much support in the masters program to get the final project published. I am presently working as a software developer in the industry while also trying to perform independent research on a few topics which I have in mind when out of the office.
I have re... | [
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