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26,928 | The bookstore at my American university is an outpost of Barnes and Noble, charges much higher prices than can be found on Amazon, and in my opinion offers very poor service. Among other things that upset me, they prohibit students from browsing the stacks of textbooks -- instead you are supposed to tell the staff what... | [
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26,947 | Every day I receive the latest arXiv abstracts via email, with subject lines such as
`physics daily Subj-class mailing a4 1`
`physics daily Subj-class mailing 124 1`
`physics daily Subj-class mailing 490 1`
With new email clients that create "conversations" from an email chain based on the subject line, the dis... | [
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"text": "They look like hexadecimal. So they may be the beginning of a hash or UUID. This would be similar to what git uses ... | 2014/08/08 | [
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26,950 | I have finish my BSc in physics. I want to work in a interdiscipline like biophysics or econophysics. Because these are mainly physics, one can study higher with spending little effort to understand biology or economy concept. However, I think that having a stable knowledge in other discipline would also help you bette... | [
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"text": "It depends on what you want to do next, and where you want to do it. In Switzerland, you are supposed t... | 2014/08/08 | [
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26,953 | Surprisingly, I have not found a similar question to mine - all I found was a question about the maximum number of citations per sentence.
However, I am more interested in the total number of citations that is considered normal for a paper (to be more specific, a Master Thesis, which in my case will be around 60 pages... | [
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"text": "There is no definite answer. It really depends on how much previous literature exists, how much of it you have revie... | 2014/08/08 | [
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26,971 | As the title says, do student reviews of teachers actually ever matter?
At least in the U.S most universities I know of have their students evaluate their teachers at the end of each term. I do know that things like tenure, if they do research, or if they are just an instructor plays a role in how weighted these eval... | [
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26,979 | Increasingly, my school has been recruiting students from Central Asia, so I see 1-3 Muslim students in each section.
Near the end of the last term, one student asked for leave for some religious activity. He was surprised when I said he could go, then he told me he had missed many Friday afternoon religious activitie... | [
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"text": "There are a lot of places you could go to learn about Islam, starting with wikipedia. It could be interesting to... | 2014/08/09 | [
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26,982 | I am a PhD student in social science who got interested in programming via data analysis in R and various utility tools in Python, SQL, Java (for web scraping, data querying, etc.).
I am considering whether I should take several undergrad CS classes at my university, including 1) Data Structure & Algorithm, 2) Softwar... | [
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"text": "No, you shouldn't take undergraduate courses just because the subject interests you.\n\nYou are doing a PhD in Social S... | 2014/08/09 | [
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26,988 | In [Do student reviews of teachers matter?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/26971/do-student-reviews-of-teachers-matter), there are a couple of comments which suggest that being labeled a "good teacher" is a bad thing at a research intensive university. I have heard this in the past, but have always though... | [
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"text": "No.\n\nI work at a university that focuses almost exclusively on research (we have only graduate students, most o... | 2014/08/09 | [
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26,996 | During the last term, I recorded at least 50 cases of student plagiarism. The most common cases were students copying and pasting paragraphs verbatim from various Web sites, assembling them together, and calling it their essay.
I took what I thought were sufficient steps to inform students of what was not allowed:
* ... | [
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"text": "It might be helpful if you can tell us what field you are in, or more specifically what kinds of class you are teachin... | 2014/08/09 | [
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27,002 | What is the best way to search for conferences all over world? I need to participate in one in the near future. | [
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"text": "For computer science conferences:\n\n1. [WikiCFP](http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/)\n2. [EventSeer](http://eventseer.net/)\n... | 2014/08/09 | [
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27,030 | I was an international student and graduated 3 years ago. Now I want to continue my research career instead of working in the industry. I worked for free for a professor for one month last year. It was a good experience and we had a good impression to each other. I approach her again and asked to get back to her lab, s... | [
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"text": "The question you have to answer is:\n\n> \n> Can you go for one year without eating and living under a bridge?\n> ... | 2014/08/10 | [
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27,043 | When applying for a tenure-track academic position in the US right after my PhD (in the US too), is it a good idea to ask for a letter of recommendation from a professor in my graduate school with whom I took a class where I got good grades while showing a strong interest (genuine interest), then later on served as a T... | [
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"text": "It depends on the school. At a SLAC (small liberal arts college), the hiring committee members will pay more att... | 2014/08/10 | [
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27,047 | Prior to completing my PhD degree, I used to hear, rather very often, that working in finance is the most non-academic viable career option for newly-minted PhDs in theoretical physics. But, now that I am actively searching for such jobs (any job, to be precise), it appears that employers in finance expect qualificatio... | [
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"text": "Two options I am aware of:\n\n* The electronics industry. Sometimes they hire condensed matter theoris... | 2014/08/10 | [
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27,054 | My friend, a doctoral student, is being accused of harassment/stalking by the dean, yet law enforcement has not contacted my friend, and the dean refuses to substantiate his accusation, for fear of retaliation. My friend has not been given a trial, yet the dean is preventing him from completing his PhD, suspending him ... | [
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"text": "Universities do not in my experience hold \"trials\" in order to reach their decisions, however weighty. So the a... | 2014/08/11 | [
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27,062 | I'm doing an (external) bachelor's degree in the field of computing and am in the second of my three years. The final requirement of this degree is a project, complete with development and a dissertation that has to be submitted to the institute and defended at a Viva. I've taken the liberty of researching well into a ... | [
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"text": "> \n> My long research has prompted my few family/friends in the industry to ridicule me (which I don't mind), and... | 2014/08/11 | [
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27,065 | I will be spending 2 weeks in China later this year, to visit a university and talk to the various research groups. The host university will be paying all my expenses.
My contact person at the host university has asked me if I would like for him to make hotel reservations for me or if I would like to do it myself.
Id... | [
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27,076 | Often the publisher requests to get the proof within 24 hours when it's ready. What are the reasons for making this so short? Do they want the authors to not make too many changes?
EDIT:
The email I received said:
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> Please ensure you check the entire article carefully, and answer all
> queries. Return corrected p... | [
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"text": "The reason is simply that nobody is expected to make any changes to the galley proofs. The content and the basic wording ... | 2014/08/11 | [
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27,078 | I'm writing an application email to a professor for a PhD program. One dilemma that I have is whether I should add hyperlinks and if there are any problems in doing that. Consider the imaginary paragraph below:
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> ... *and I currently work under supervision of professor
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27,086 | I was offered an opportunity to prepare a 2-page research proposal for a postgraduate research program in computer science.
I am searching for a systematic and step by step technique to select/find a workable research topic.
Is there any systematic procedure/strategy/approach/method that researchers generally use to ... | [
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27,087 | I've seen many, many examples of scientific presentations from the National Laboratories in which virtually every slide is oversaturated with information. If this were an isolated event, I wouldn't have given it any thought. But I've noticed this pattern in presentations over many years from among presenters hailing fr... | [
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"text": "My guess is that it's a cousin of the same problem [in the armed forces](http://www.zdnet.com/news/pentagon-cracks-down... | 2014/08/11 | [
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27,103 | I'm thinking about studying in Germany next year at a university. I am a US citizen. I have completed a 2 year Associate's degree program at a trade school and also finished my general education requirements, at about 45 units as a combination of AP tests and classes at a community college.
When applying, they the sc... | [
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27,107 | I am pursuing a specific research question. I have thoroughly surveyed existing research on the topic, and found dozens of researchers working on the problem, but was disappointed by their work. Their research:
* Does not consider the full magnitude of the problem.
* Constantly tests old, insufficient methods.
* Overl... | [
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27,112 | The number of citations seems to be a good unit of measurement for someone's success in a specific field, however, shouldn't the h-index also include the popularity of a given field? For example, I've seen papers in computer science being cited thousand of times while other papers relating astronomy only a couple-hundr... | [
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27,133 | I'm currently a college senior and I'm working on updating my resume. My GPA is a 3.46. Is it acceptable/ethical to put on my resume that my GPA is a 3.5? | [
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27,146 | Many papers use numbered references (e.g.: [1], [2]). Is this considered a good style or even a rule or **would it be acceptable to use abbreviated names of the authors and year of publication (e.g. [Smith09] for J. Rmath, 2009)?** I find the abbreviated name reference style a lot more informative as after a while of r... | [
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27,154 | Occasionally I have some material to cover that is best presented in the form of take-home group projects.
Some student groups manage to find a way to coordinate their work well and to complete the projects successfully, with every team member benefiting from the collaboration. Other groups do not do so well:
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27,155 | The journal Science has two sections for submission, Research articles and Commentary.
<http://www.sciencemag.org/site/feature/contribinfo/prep/gen_info.xhtml>
Under commentary, there is a section for 'Kolucg Forum'. Unlike 'Education Forum' there is nothing explicit about research related to Kolucg. If one submits (n... | [
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27,165 | I understand that according the ethical rules, obtaining the funding does not automatically entitle the principal investigator [(PI)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator) for authorship. But I don't understand the unwritten rules.
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27,180 | I find that in many cases, either a table or a plot will do an equally good job of presenting numeric information. Does anyone have any advice or even rules about when to prefer using a table over a plot and vice versa? I'm referring to tables and plots in the context of academic journal articles. | [
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27,191 | Is it ethical/lawful to recolor/scale the logos when importing them to presentation slides to make the logos meet the template standards and fit the theme colors? | [
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27,193 | I am working full time currently as a programmer in a summer internship. In the fall I will be continuing school and working part-time as a programmer.
I believe that I want to be a professional programmer and someday a software engineer.
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27,198 | My paper was published and later on I found that two references were mistakenly included with the third reference, which is the correct.
My phrase looks like this:
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> I am worried about this (Smith 2001; David 2006; Magnus 2007)
>
>
>
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> I am worried about this ... | [
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27,209 | I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask this sort of question, but I really need an answer.
I'm from the middle-east and wants to apply for a master's degree in Russia, but lately people are discouraging me about the idea, for the following reasons:
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27,228 | I am going to start my PhD, unfortunately, I did not get any funding. I am thinking of taking a loan so that I could focus more on my PhD studies, but the loan will need to be repaid after PhD. Therefore my question is if my financial situation is likely to be better as a postdoc than as a PhD student. My reasoning:
A... | [
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27,230 | As a new semester of school approaches I have begun updating my syllabi for the classes I teach. I have lately used a clause in the syllabus about no children in the classroom as I feel it is a distraction to both me and the other students. Having been in classes both as a student and as an instructor where children ar... | [
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27,244 | I am looking for a phd position in stem cell biology and have been trying very hard for the last 6 months in Germany or any European country. I have tried to contact many professors via mail but have nothing by way of a good response.
I have a good academic record and score.
Can anyone please help me out how to best p... | [
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27,246 | I am a few days from completion of an industrial internship that is required for my Masters degree. I have had a bad experience with the supervisor of this internship, who has insulted me several times during my internship period. He is mean, he gets angry very easily, he is bad-tempered and most importantly he is igno... | [
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27,263 | I think I have stumbled once again over the meanings of "issue" and "volume".
So I have found [this article](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12541-010-0035-y) which declares both fields. Now I used JabRef's `DOI to BibTeX` to pull the info and it worked as expected. But it only pulled the volume number.
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27,271 | What do you do when you've sent a paper on your fancy new algorithm to a conference, and before the conference has replied to you, you spot a newly submitted paper on arXiv on the same algorithm?
Possible reactions I can imagine:
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27,278 | I have coauthored two papers, which are strongly related. The younger paper is thus citing the first and the older paper is annoucing the second along the lines of “a study of aspect X will be published elsewhere“. As ArXiv enables you to update your papers, it would be possible to include a citation to the new paper i... | [
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27,283 | I have completed my MD. I am more interested in research than in clinical practice. I know there are post-doc positions available which accept post-MD candidates. Still I am thinking of doing a PhD in my specialty of interest. However I would like to know what are the benefits of pursuing a PhD after receiving an MD? I... | [
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27,284 | I am studying computer science and I have money to pay for my university study, but I do not have money to spend on entertainment such as going to cinema with my friends in the weekend or upgrading my laptop. I have applied for a job at McDonald's. My shift is 4 days per week with 7 hours per day.
I am scared this wou... | [
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27,298 | When I am reading papers, sometimes I see statements like
>
> Manuscript received October 29, 2012; accepted March 16, 2014.
>
>
>
Does this implies that the paper is directly accepted? | [
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27,309 | I just came across a paper published in a journal (IF < 2), which has used a couple of images without mentioning the source. This itself is not necessarily a problem. But they seem to be from a commercial software product I'm familiar with (they haven't mentioned even the name of the software, though it generated the i... | [
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27,313 | I am applying this winter for graduate school and I will finish undergrad this winter as well. Would it be unethical to take a full-time position with the intention to quit soon until I know whether I got accepted for graduate school or not?
I am considering this because if I didn't get accepted, I wouldn't have a ga... | [
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27,316 | I got two papers accepted in a decent IEEE conference. My current organisation (an industrial R&D lab) says that the conference fees are way too high and they would consider approval of funds only if we get a rebate for publication.
I have two questions:
* Is it normal across the globe to ask for rebate?
* Even if I... | [
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27,328 | Let me summarize the complicated state of affairs, as follows:
This summer, I was cooperating with the other team in a spin off project, we decided to publish the results, so I prepared the paper.
In the authorship, I added my supervisor's name. I think it is usual because I am his student and whatever I've learned ... | [
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27,330 | I have many contributions related to interviews in radio, TV, web magazines and print magazines, and would like to know the different ways it might be "cited" in a scientific CV. I was thinking about adding them at the end of my CV is some section called "dissemination of research results" or something like that. | [
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"text": "\"Media Appearances\" sounds better to me. Then I think I'd cite each appearance as if it were a conference talk:\n\n>... | 2014/08/19 | [
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27,341 | This is borderline trivial, but in my attempt to publish my work in a public repository, I've found badges at the top of my `README.md` to be useful. For example, using [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/), I can create a badge that points to a proper DOI that looks like this:
[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/doi/10.5281/zen... | [
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27,347 | I am preparing a lecture course for this semester and I am planning to teach from slides. I will consider these slides my notes for the course. However, the following points may also apply to handwritten notes that a lecturer might use as a reference.
I can see several advantages and disadvantages associated with prov... | [
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27,360 | I recently signed a graduate student contract. I had outside funding for some time but recently became a normal research assistant (RA) again, so must have missed a contradictory clause when I signed a similar contract a few years ago.
I am a US citizen at a US university.
In the contract it explicitly states that gr... | [
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27,364 | Say, in a particular field of science, method A or equipment B are the standard. Now I have invented method X or equipment Y which cost much less than A or B.
What are the necessary conditions, if any, that allow X and Y to be published as a journal paper?
(This question of course is loaded with my own assumption t... | [
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27,377 | I have been dragged into an argument with someone who can't understand why millions are being raised to fund [ALS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis) research (that's the "ice bucket challenge", love it or hate it). He doesn't get why research costs so much money because - and I genuinely quote... | [
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27,385 | To make things simple, I am asking whether the rebuttal letter is starting with
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> Dear Editor and Reviewers
>
>
>
or
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> Dear Reviewers
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>
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27,408 | Which section of a research paper should be written first? When I finally finish my analysis I begin to write the Methods section and the Results section. That is the first "block" of my writing. After that, I discuss it with co-authors (they are of course involved in the analysis, but at this stage they have the real ... | [
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27,411 | I have seen that the Scimago Journal Rank make a rank of journals that cover different topics and classified them into quartiles. For what I know conferences also made their proceedings books, but I was dubious if they could be compared agains journals like Scimago does.
I say this because I believe that journals hav... | [
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27,415 | At my Czech university where I study computer science (but I believe math and physics are organized the same way here), most courses have both lectures (professor presenting the topic to a large class) and "seminars" (TA giving exercises and homework to a smaller class).
I believe courses at US universities have diffe... | [
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27,420 | This question is related to [How to improve myself as a lecturer?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5236/how-to-improve-myself-as-a-lecturer). However, being a PhD student, my main teaching obligation is leading recitations, i.e. sessions for groups of ~20 students that take place each week after a lecture ... | [
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27,426 | If I am the TA for a class, what should I do if a student asks me a question which I can't answer? While "tell the truth and say you don't know" is one approach, are there other options? | [
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27,430 | I would have thought the document and overall findings are to be a closely guarded secret until defense or publication, so you can imagine my horror that a hiring professor would ask if he can have a pdf of my dissertation. This is in the context of a job application, whilst he decides whether or not to invite me for a... | [
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27,440 | **It seems to be accepted wisdom in the business world that reference letters for former employees should be extremely terse.** They should confirm that the employee worked there, and essentially nothing else:
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> To whom it may concern: Ellen Ripley was employed by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation from June 2137 to Se... | [
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27,444 | I have recently submitted a 40 pages paper to a journal, say (A). After about 6 months, the editor let me know that several reviewers have declined to review my paper, and so he decided to reject the paper. He suggested that I submit my paper to a more specialized journal. Journal (A) is already a specialized journal a... | [
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27,447 | I have built a software that handles protein clustering data in specific format. It is able to draw several plots on that basis along with many other analyses. It has more options than its existing competitor. Should I just try to get it published as a software/technical issue, or try some
case study data (research ... | [
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"text": "In my discipline (political science), one would typically do both. Write an applied article that uses the software fo... | 2014/08/21 | [
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27,465 | I am an undergraduate student in Mathematics and I think that I have discovered something significant in Mathematics. My friends and some professors to whom I have sent my ideas also confirmed its significance. They suggested me to write a paper on it.
But the problem is that being an undergraduate student in Mathema... | [
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27,472 | Some — perhaps many — academics seem to be very careful in keeping unpublished work secret. It is not difficult to find anecdotes where academic ideas are stolen, such as in [this post by @Markus](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/27460/1033). Others, such as [@NateEldredge in this post](https://academia.stackexcha... | [
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27,475 | Most top graduate programs require at least 3 recommendation letters. Do students who apply to such programs (and have a reasonable chance to get in) typically have such extensive research experience that they know three professors who can write in detail about their research? Or is it more common for such students to ... | [
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27,480 | This actually happened to my wife, but for the sake of simplicity I'll talk about it as if it happened to me.
I wrote a final exam for a university course last week, and a couple days ago I got my marks and the correct answers back. I disagreed with one of the questions I answered wrong, so I pulled out the textbook t... | [
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27,487 | Since sept 2013, I have been doing a Masters in mathematical finance. Our course requires us to do an off-cycle internship of 5 months minimum (typically, from April to September).
During this internship, I'm supposed to do something that is at least remotely related to mathematics/finance, and at the end of the inter... | [
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"text": "There are two people who can help you\n\n1. Your immediate manager\n2. Your advisor (or tutor if you don't ha... | 2014/08/21 | [
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27,493 | As part of their job, professors have to take care of getting funding, prepare classes, advise students, fulfill administrative tasks and attend to various meetings/conferences.
How much time do professors have to carry out research on their own (i.e. excluding the above-mentioned tasks)?
I am especially interested ... | [
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27,525 | Do students need books to learn in courses? For example, I found that books often contain some mistakes and therefore it is better for me to study those things on the Internet where I can concentrate on one thing, learn the best knows methods of that subject and then move to the next. Okay, that course wasn't really ad... | [
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"text": "Depends on the class. I've been in classes where the handouts *were* a book -- a pre-publication version of a text... | 2014/08/22 | [
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27,528 | I am a PhD student in a social science field, and am on a teaching assistantship. My contract stipulates that TAs are to work no more than an average of 15 hours per week.
For my particular department, the past protocol was that 10 hours were devoted to teaching duties (class time, office hours, prepping, and grading... | [
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"text": "It varies but what you've described does not sound unusual.\n\nIn my social science department at a state research univ... | 2014/08/23 | [
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27,537 | In other words:
>
> How do professors profit if a larger (rather than smaller) proportion of entering PhD students in their department complete their degree?
>
>
>
(At my department at least, it seems like the only benefit is "warm-glow altruism". A professor gains no more from having more students at her departm... | [
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27,543 | Today I saw that one of my students in the class was looking very sad. He sat down at the end of class and he looked like he was in a bad mood. After all the students left the classroom I called him over. He told me that his mother has cancer.
I told him be strong and try to not think about it too much. But honestly,... | [
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27,553 | I am a PhD candidate currently preparing a manuscript for journal submission in the environmental modelling and engineering field. One of my authors is from China, and contributed some data and ideas for the methodology that I found quite useful.
This person wants to be the corresponding author for the study with the... | [
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27,557 | I will defend my PhD thesis soon and I currently have a bunch of papers in a finalization phase. As first author of these papers, and as my work is funded with public money, I am very uncomfortable with the idea of giving my rights to a private editor, for ethical reasons. I would like to release my papers under a Crea... | [
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27,562 | While somewhat related to this [recent question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/27543/my-student-told-me-his-mother-has-cancer-what-do-i-do) but this situation is different in that my supervisor has over the recent months had unspecified health issues. It has not overly effected our relationship other tha... | [
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"text": "Since in a recent email your advisor has told you about the health issue, it is perfectly acceptable for you to sympa... | 2014/08/24 | [
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27,581 | I want to improve my learning skills. Is there any advice or a good method for that? For example, I want to read an article or book and retain as much information possible. But sometimes I read and lose focus, or when I read I can't remember everything as well as I'd like to. | [
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"text": "**Short answer** \n\nPractice! \n\n**Long answer** Practice (smart)! The more time you spend being a student (st... | 2014/08/25 | [
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27,586 | I think this is an unspoken question in academia: how do you factor in the effort put forth by a student before taking your class?
*I think the answer to this question has several consequences:*
1. it presents accurate reflection of your teaching,
2. it presents more accurate reflection of the quality of work of a ... | [
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27,592 | **Intro**
For an upcoming project I have to get into a new topic of research which is not similar to anything I have worked so far. Furthermore, this project requires learning new programming language(s) and simulation environments. And in the end a software implementation and a final report has to be written
**About... | [
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27,594 | During my PhD it bothered me how much time my supervisor had to spend on writing proposals to get funding to do science, which in practice pretty much meant that he had no time to do science because he spent all that time in the time-consuming business of getting money.
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27,596 | Earning a PhD help you learn tools and techniques in your field, and lets you become an expert in a very specific field of science. However, once you get your degree and try to enter the labor market, you're competing against people who are younger than you (i.e. recently graduated non-phd engineers) and may have actua... | [
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27,604 | I am doing my master thesis on wireless networking. I am working on the source code, which the writer of one of the articles provided to me.
Initially, I sent him an email and I asked him to send me his C++ source code . So he did. But the problem is, there was no documentation for his code and he is the only one that ... | [
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27,609 | Of late I noticed that recent books or long articles tend to make a short summary before every set of paragraphs. For example, we might have:
**1. Introduction**
We so and so ...
Therefore, so and so ....
**What is so and so:** Let us consider ...
**Properties of so and so:** We notice that ...
where every boldfa... | [
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27,627 | I want to write a paper on Mobile Screens in HCI, as phones are getting uncomfortably big for users, I want to provide some solution to the big screen phones or how logically state that how small screen phones are suitable for the user.
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27,628 | I am going to conduct a workshop on my research work and for that I need to show how it is done on the software. I want to know,
* Is it ok to display the proprietary software (through TeamViewer) from my university?
* or Should I use screenshots? | [
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27,638 | Say for example you are a new PhD student and realize that you hate doing research in your free time but you are more than willing to spend several hours in the morning to do research. Was your decision to become a PhD student right for you or not?
I'm asking because people are suggesting that "you have to be really p... | [
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27,647 | Organizing a conference is very **difficult** for a scientist, you have to have the right collaborators, to find the right venue, to spread the word, to advertise it, to send the call for papers, to receive the papers, to check them, to organize the lunchs and dinners, etc etc.
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27,649 | We are currently trying to submit a comprehensive survey article I have been working on for a while as a journal paper. Some of the journals we're considering (I'm in Computer Science) require, for survey articles, submitting a 2-5 page *white paper* to the Editor-in-Chief, in order to evaluate the relevance of the pro... | [
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27,659 | *I'm not sure that this is the right exchange for this question. It asks about the possibilities of research in mathematics and computer science.*
Extended Background
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I am very interested in mathematics and theoretical computer science. Over the past few years I've gained lots of experience from m... | [
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27,669 | I usually spent an incredible amount of time answering the questions raised by reviewers when submitting research manuscripts to a journal. The length of the response is often longer than the paper itself. Such a process, albeit time consuming, has significantly improved the quality of the work.
Since there are many ... | [
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27,686 | I am doing my masters in the UK and at final stage of my dissertation. First I will have to confess that I regret that I selected this dissertation as it is something which I failed to get a clear idea about. I don't know if it is because I cannot understand the ideas that my supervisor is trying to communicate with me... | [
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27,690 | I am currently a B.Tech. student in India, and am applying for Master's courses in the U.S. I took the GRE exam a week ago.
Does having graduated from high school in the U.S., where English is the native language, count as certification that my English is good enough? Should I still take the TOEFL exam? | [
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27,695 | I am applying for a PhD program and I am in the process of choosing people for recommendation letters. Being someone in the final year of master's program (and not been involved with many people in research), one of my potential referee is my internship guide. I had worked with him closely for 3 months and a paper came... | [
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27,699 | Can I go for Phd in USA, Canada, Australia or any other European country with my master's degree from a German *Fachhochschule*? I am planning to work for two years as a lecturer and researcher in my home country (Pakistan) and look for PhD fundings/admissions from there. I believe the experience gained during these tw... | [
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"text": "In principle, there's no formal obstacle to applying to a US program, since almost all of them require only a bachelor's... | 2014/08/27 | [
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27,713 | I've heard that salary inversion is a problem in academia, and it happens when Universities continue to hire new and highly qualified people at higher and higher salaries, but they don't increase the salaries of the existing faculty at the same rates.
I want to ask - why is this actually a problem? Shouldn't salary b... | [
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27,723 | I have worked with my adviser for a few months as a graduate student. Everyone, including her other graduate students, seems to call her by her first name. She never expressed a preference to me, so I've been calling her "Dr. Swoth". She signs her emails with her first name.
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27,728 | I am about to submit my first article to a peer-reviewed journal. I have basically already decided which one, but I have a shortlist and am still in principle considering my options. One of the questions I have is about the timetable for eventual publication. What should I expect? (In the long run, it probably won't ma... | [
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"text": "In most fields and for most journals, there is no time-table because **it takes as long as it takes.**\n\nThis means t... | 2014/08/28 | [
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27,731 | I have realised that my performance improves when I make my progress publicly accountable. For example, my jogging times improve and I lose more weight when I enter myself onto a public rankings list. I would imagine that my academic progress would also improve if I make my progress publicly visible.
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27,743 | A few months ago I reviewed my first paper. The authors submitted a major revision and I am asked to review the paper again. I received a long cover letter where my comments and the comments of two other anonymous reviewers have been answered.
The paper is relatively long (40 pages) so I am trying to avoid unnecessary... | [
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"text": "This is difficult and, to some extent, a matter of opinion. So, my opinion is this: Your job as reviewer is to identi... | 2014/08/28 | [
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27,748 | Consider the following situation: a student has started a bachelor's/master's/PhD at a lesser-known university program but feels that he would benefit from a more prestigious institution with better professors, equipment, and learning environment.
He decides to apply for a bachelor's/master's/PhD (the same degree as h... | [
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"text": "In the US this is generally known as \"transferring\".\n\nAt the undergraduate level it is very common, and in... | 2014/08/28 | [
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