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28,412 | I am almost 30 years old. I got my bachelor's many years ago, and I've been enjoying myself while in the industry. I am a practical person.
However, for some reasons, I felt my technical skills were regressing, so I decided to go back to school, to enhance and update my skills.
I chose a topic that is quite abstract,... | [
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28,417 | Having obtained by PhD in Computer Science five years ago, I have been working in R&D projects for the last years. I want to pursue an academic career and I am currently considering moving to UK. As far as it concerns my academic qualifications, very roughly, I have 8 journal publications, an h-index of 8 by google sch... | [
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28,423 | My wife and I teach at different universities. This is the first year that we have run into a timetabling conflict that makes dropping our son off at school difficult. The conflict involves wife's 200+ person lecture that is centrally timetabled in a lecture hall that is in near constant use and my 30 person lab in a r... | [
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"text": "I don't think you can ask to move the start of your lab section. As in the [other related question about class t... | 2014/09/12 | [
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28,429 | I am a graduate student, 2nd year, in a STEM field at a US university. I have passed my quals.
Is it possible to ask from a Professor who is not at your university to be your advisor? Did anybody hear of a similar situation?
I am very interested in the research of a professor who is at a nearby university, I really ... | [
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"text": "Extrapolating from the very few cases that I've seen, I think you'll need an official adviser at the school w... | 2014/09/12 | [
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28,433 | I just heard about "dissertation embargoes". My institution recommends that every graduating student place an embargo on their dissertation.
What is a dissertation embargo, and what is its purpose? | [
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"text": "A \"dissertation embargo\" means that access to the dissertation is restricted for a limited period of time (typical... | 2014/09/12 | [
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28,434 | Is there any unified platform that would list the deadlines (especially the submission deadlines) for conferences/journals? Ideally I would like to select a few conferences/journals I am interested in publishing to, and the website would give me the list of upcoming deadlines.
Right now I have to check out each indiv... | [
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"text": "[WikiCFP](http://wikicfp.com/cfp/home) offers this. To use this feature, you are required to register and sign in to ... | 2014/09/12 | [
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28,442 | Browsing the internet, I found many professors, researchers and scientists that, in addition to their main affiliation to their main department, have also a **second affiliation** to another department of their university (for example, [Russ Altman](http://helix-web.stanford.edu/people/altman/) at Stanford).
**Why so ... | [
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28,444 | I sometimes read in papers that *the opinions, findings, and conclusion or recommendations expressed in the paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the [funding agency name]* in the acknowledgments section. E.g. in this [paper](http://cs.stanford.edu/~danqi/papers/emnlp2014.pdf):
>
>... | [
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"text": "> \n> Is it necessary to mention this?\n> \n> \n> \n\nIf research is funded by a \"DoD component\" (as in your ex... | 2014/09/13 | [
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28,450 | In my experience, most instructors spend a large portion of the first period in a term talking about the syllabus. This seems to serve to pass responsibility onto students:
* Students see the deadlines. No student can claim to not know about an assignment or deadline.
* Students see the course rules. No student can cl... | [
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"text": "From the students' perspective, this is similar to giving them a textbook and asking them to show up for the final e... | 2014/09/13 | [
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28,462 | I was reading [this excellent paper by Alexander Berkovich and Will Jagy](http://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.2951.pdf).
And at the very bottom of the very first page it says:
>
> The first author was supported in part by NSA grant H98230-09-1-0051.
>
>
>
(The NSA is the US National Security Agency.)
What does this mean?... | [
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"text": "As noted, the NSA is the US National Security Agency. This department [issues federal grants](http://www.federa... | 2014/09/13 | [
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28,466 | During writing my academic paper, I need to cite a definition in a scientific paper. The other part of the paper, is irrelevant to my work.
I have been advised that if you will cite a paper, you need to read that paper entirely. But in this case, it seems useless to do so.
It also happened a few times when I wanted... | [
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"text": "**Yes. Always read the whole article before citing.** Don't be sloppy. Don't take lazy shortcuts. Write responsibly. T... | 2014/09/13 | [
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28,469 | I am a physics lab TA and I was recently informed that my engineering students will receive a lab final at the end of the semester worth 50 percent of their grade. The final exam is not personally created by me, but is decided amongst all of the lab TA's teaching the same course in the same semester. The meeting amongs... | [
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"text": "While I don't TA physics, but Geology, our labs tend to have the same structure. Luckily the labs are small enough that I... | 2014/09/13 | [
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28,482 | If you are applying for a faculty job in computer science in a US university, should your research statement have references to research papers in it? | [
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"text": "**Yes. Definitely.** This gives the reader an indication of how your work fits into the larger body of research... | 2014/09/14 | [
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28,500 | How are faculty job positions in a US university evaluated? Do the committee members get to view (and discuss) electronic copies of a candidate's application before the hiring meeting (and possibly filter out some applications before the formal meeting), or is everything done in the meeting? I am asking because I think... | [
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"text": "We've had a variety of practices. Some of it depends on the computer literacy of the admin assistant doing the ap... | 2014/09/14 | [
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28,504 | For my writing courses, about 5% of students will come to me prior to deadlines asking for help with their paper. I see no problem advising students, as I often similarly came for help when I was an undergraduate. Recently, though, I found an increase in students who apparently just want to abuse this:
* Students will... | [
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"text": "Here is one strategy:\n\n1. Specify the level of changes the student needs to make before they can come back again... | 2014/09/14 | [
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28,507 | I am using Mendeley to organize, highlight and to synchronize my references. I think a feature where you can see a list of annotations/highlight that you have made will be extremely useful during writing.
For example one day you just remember, "Oh I have seen this in some papers, I don't remember which one but I remem... | [
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28,511 | Several commercial database vendors include an end-user license agreement provision, known as the [DeWitt Clause](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_DeWitt), that [prohibits](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/27631/452) researchers and scientists from explicitly using the names of their systems in academic papers.
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"text": "The New York Attorney General [got a judge to ban](http://www.leagle.com/decision/2003579195Misc2d384_1519.xml/... | 2014/09/14 | [
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28,530 | **Background**: I remember when I was still in college here in the Philippines, one of the member of the school thesis committee tries to hack my system by injecting some kind of code (*I am not sure but I think this is SQL injection*). Now that I am working I realized that it is illegal to just hack and get inside of ... | [
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"text": "It sounds like as part of the defense, you gave the examiners access to the system for purposes of evaluating it.\n\... | 2014/09/15 | [
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28,545 | I've contacted a potential PhD supervisor last month and gave him my PhD proposal. about a week after that I've got a response from the professor, acknowledging the receipt of my proposal and saying that he will respond as quickly as possible. I haven't received any other response since last month and I'm getting kind ... | [
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28,548 | I'm applying for a PhD in engineering and I was asked by the advisor I have chosen to write down a short program (~10 pages) about the "research" I will conduct if I get into the PhD program.
The advisor provided ten choices where the future PhD program will lay. The topics are very large and well studied in the liter... | [
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"text": "> \n> Now my question is, which is the best way to format the proposal?\n> \n> \n> \n\nDifferent writer... | 2014/09/15 | [
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28,552 | I am finishing a 3-year postdoc, and will be applying to many universities for positions, including teaching colleges and research universities. I have 4 good research letters, but none discuss my teaching. I had excellent teaching letters from my previous university where I received my PhD, but I am not as close to th... | [
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28,562 | I'm transferring between two PhD programs, same program two different schools. I have done 4 years of study in the first school but have not (and will not) receive any degrees and I need to complete 1-2 years of study in the new school to get my PhD. Assume that the new school is more prestigious. I wrote this piece in... | [
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"text": "May this format help you:\n\nIf \"university major\" is the university which is going to give you your degree and \"... | 2014/09/15 | [
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28,569 | What's the usual (North American) universities' practice on dealing with tenured professors who have been criminally charged? I've encountered two scenarios indirectly that could make some professors in some legal trouble.
Here the first scenario. When I was an undergraduate student, a colleague told me that his ex-gi... | [
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"text": "Criminal acts are certainly a reason to revoke tenure. In fact, this is probably one of the most common reasons. ... | 2014/09/16 | [
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28,577 | I'm curious to hear whether there is general guidance on when and whether to submit a pre-submission inquiry to a high impact journal (field: biology). Our goal is to identify a journal that will send our paper out for review. I understand pre-submissions are best when there really is a question of appropriateness, e.g... | [
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28,579 | By reviewing [syllabus of a MBA course](https://www.google.com/search?&q=mba%20syllabus), and its entry requirements such as some years of industry job experience; it comes to mind that these type of management courses are designed only for the people seeking jobs in industry and studying management sciences does not h... | [
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28,581 | I have worked hard for my master thesis project to build a system that uses an already existing algorithm, just in a mobile setting, which hasn't been done before. Because the algorithm is complex, it required a client-server infrastructure. Now, as I said most, of my efforts until now went into building the system of ... | [
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28,583 | I have a question about submission elsewhere and journal's "consent" of paper withdrawing.
Recently I have withdrawn a paper of mine from a journal, which I want to submit elsewhere. Since I knew that the journal had received my email (by read receipt device) on withdrawing the paper and since I am just in the stage o... | [
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28,594 | A colleague and friend has been approached by another institution (a state university in the U.S.) seeking to fill a position. My friend, who is putting a package together, has asked me to review his teaching statement. Evidently, [this was a good idea](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/8893/which-topics-sho... | [
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"text": "A teaching statement should go into your personal experiences and ideas about teaching. But the include... | 2014/09/16 | [
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28,610 | Several professors, including my former advisor and a senior member of my research community, have been encouraging me to apply for a faculty job. I am torn about it mostly because I am 40 years old. Leaving a job in a research lab to start as an assistant professor would in a way seem like a starting all over again.
... | [
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"text": "I would say it depends. In the following [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/23613/are-old-35-f... | 2014/09/17 | [
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28,615 | I have written one paper on mathematics and submitted it to 5 journals concurrently. Four of them accepted the paper and one asked to send the paper in their required format.
The paper contains one theorem and two applications. There was two argument gaps in the proof of the theorem. Only one journal caught that.
I h... | [
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"text": "Whatever you do in the future: do not submit the same manuscript to multiple (not even two) journals. \n\nIf yo... | 2014/09/17 | [
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28,617 | Recently I came across a job posting for a (mathematics) tenure-track position that asks for both graduate and undergraduate transcripts to be submitted. While this is the first time I've had anyone ask to see my undergraduate transcript for such a position, from a [previous question](https://academia.stackexchange.com... | [
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28,620 | Recently, I applied for an advertised post-doctoral position with a researcher in an well-known institution.
After two weeks of not getting a reply, I sent him a reminder, and he replied
"Oh, thanks for getting in touch again, I hadn't seen your previous email. Can we have a chat on Skype tomorrow at X?"
He never s... | [
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28,626 | While writing my thesis (computer science), I was wondering how detailed citations have to be.
Let's assume I want to cite an article of a conference and have full information on author, editor, title, year, booktitle, subtitle, eventtitle, volume, location, DOI, ISBN, arXiv ID, ... you get the point.
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28,631 | I work as an assistant at a university in Australia. I joined the team consisting of my current advisor and his two PhD students. The other group members are men and they have a co-worker-like relationship with him. At first it was good, my advisor was very helpful (I have worked there about ten months and I published ... | [
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28,633 | My English is not perfect, moreover I am not familiar with the exact phrases for a topic of research or a technical term in the literature
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28,640 | I recently reviewed a manuscript for a journal I didn't know very well, but which was indexed on Pubmed and Scopus and seemed to be legitimate. In my review, I recommended rejection based on what I considered to be substantial flaws in methodology, data analysis, and interpretation. In addition, I had ethical concerns ... | [
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28,646 | I have written a review article with a target journal in mind. The content focuses on a particular technique in biology, and in the paper I propose a data analysis approach to be used for future studies. To help explain the intuition behind the technique, I have produced some straight-forward simulated data, organized ... | [
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28,665 | As a graduate student, I am relatively new to my community. From my point of view, the best approach to get to know new people is randomly walking around and start conversations (with anyone, no matter what age or known/unknown). But is that appropriate at academic conferences? How do established researchers think abou... | [
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28,670 | I am teaching a new class next term and I need to choose a text book (or create a reading list) for it. The class is a hands on introduction to programming with [MATLAB](http://www.mathworks.com). A quick search of my library's catalogue returns nearly 300 titles, 100 of which are on-line books. When you are creating a... | [
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28,671 | Many universities have adopted open access policies, giving their employees an incentive to make their scholarly articles freely available online.
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28,675 | Background: I am a junior university staff member, and I will teach an introductory course in linear algebra for the first time in a few months.
I see that many teachers devote time to writing lecture notes. To me, this looks odd. Whatever I can write will not be half as good as a well-written textbook. so my first ch... | [
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28,676 | I was rather surprised that in this [answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/28648/929) which suggests that a supervisor giving a [side-hug](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_hug) to a research assistant is acceptable behaviour. I try and limit the physical contact with my students/postdocs/assistants to hand shak... | [
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28,689 | After submitting a paper, receiving comments back from reviewers and revising, the paper manuscript may be longer than the given word limit due to the additional content added (even if it was at or below the word limit in the original submission). For the sake of argument, say the revised paper is 10% or 20% longer tha... | [
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28,690 | I am a graduate student in a small department and have become the go-to person for statistics advice among the other students. I enjoy this but am wondering at what point I should expect, or request, becoming a collaborator on the project. Pointing someone towards a method, a paper or a book is definitely not worthy of... | [
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28,693 | What are the possible benefits or consequences of submitting my dissertation to ProQuest?
My university recommends submitting dissertations to [ProQuest](http://www.proquest.com/). I am wondering about the practices and academic reputation of this company, and whether or not it is in my best interests to follow the re... | [
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28,705 | If a company was building a product that uses methods designed and outlined in a published research paper, should credit be given? If crediting them would be a bad business decision, is it OK not to?
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28,710 | I graduated in 2007 with a mathematics degree and have since had multiple postdocs at R1 universities. While I have definitely enjoyed my experiences as a researcher, I am very interested in pursuing a career teaching at a small liberal arts institution.
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28,713 | Universities normally (as far as I know) do not limit the number of PhD students a research-active professor can have as long as he secure the funding for his PhD students. For example, if a professor have enough research fund can get 10 PhD students (instead of research associates) and pay them directly. Then, they pa... | [
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28,715 | When a department enrolls x number of students based on the capacity of the department and its professors, the ideal desire is fair distribution of PhD students among faculty members. However, students are attracted to attractive professors (by different factors such as fame, personality, etc), and there should be less... | [
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"text": "Questions like this show the importance of understanding the perspective of faculty members. \n\n**Can** a d... | 2014/09/18 | [
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28,717 | Can one call oneself a PhD ABD (All But Dissertation) after completing all of the course work and working on the dissertation? | [
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28,718 | The success of a research-active professor is related to his successful proposals for securing research funds. For this purpose, he should spend something like half of his time for writing proposals, but still he misses several possible calls for proposals due to the lack of time while the current proposals are not ide... | [
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28,726 | I recently submitted an abstract to a talk as a contributed paper. I was informed, through email, that the paper was scheduled to be presented *in person* on XXX date. The email also said that I could look for my name on a link mentioned in the email; going to the link, I found that my name was not on the list at all. ... | [
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28,743 | I want to study Bachelor of Mozhematics at university in Australia. While I was surfing the various courses, I came across something interesting. It was Bachelor of Mozhematics and Bachelor of Computer Science at University pf Wollongong (which takes 4.5 years to complete). I was like wow how does this work, Same quali... | [
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28,761 | In most universities, PhD students are literally students similar to master students. Fellowships and scholarships only support them financially, but officially they are students.
Some European university advertise PhD open positions like a contract job (similar to research associates or postdoc). It is understandable... | [
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28,763 | In experimental fields, such as physics, chemistry, and engineering, every professor has their own lab/workshop, normally with several externally funded projects. A PhD student may work on currently funded projects.
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28,771 | Some publishers have a clause like the following in their author instructions:
>
> Submission of a manuscript implies... that if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors agree to automatic transfer of the copyright to the publisher.
>
>
>
I found [many](http://www.ijnngt.org/sub.php) [inst... | [
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28,787 | A Professor normally send his TA to conduct some sessions of his course (e.g., for problem solving).
It is also possible to ask the TA to attend all sessions to keep the track of the course. This is helpful if the TA is responsible for reading the essays of students, as he can be aware of discussions in the class.
*H... | [
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28,797 | I applied a new method to a data set, which had already been analyzed in a research paper. My method is generally considered better, but it only slightly modifies the results and does not affect the conclusion of the paper aside from improving the accuracy of results by a small amount. The paper is about a classificati... | [
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28,809 | In nearly any field there is a number of important results which look obvious to experts *post factum* but somehow are not that easy to come by in the first place (e.g. in mathematics some important definitions look exactly like this). Unfortunately, this apparent *post factum* simplicity makes conveying the importance... | [
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28,819 | I'm teaching an Introduction to Computer Science Course, where we mainly do C programming. I've been assigned a lab for teaching the course, but there are more students than available computers. Also, I have no control over those PCs there, and almost every student has admin rights to them. It is also common that stude... | [
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28,821 | I am an undergraduate mathematics student who is looking to apply to a Statistics PhD program. I asked a few professors how much letter of recommendation help a student get in to a PhD program and I was told the following.
>
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28,827 | I am planning my PhD and am applying to various labs and professors.
I am getting positive responses, but I am having trouble making a decision as to which lab to go for. How can I judge the quality of research of a group? What parameters shall be kept in mind while making a decision? I usually look for relevant rese... | [
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28,840 | I am a second year part-time masters degree student at NYU, with a full time job. My life is pretty simple and boring in NY. I was looking for opportunities, and yesterday it happened. I was accepted as an "intern" for one of Hillary Clinton's organizations in some other state. And there is this other organization that... | [
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28,850 | I will graduate in 6-8 months with a PhD in physics and am looking to contact potential postdoc advisers. I will be applying to positions without an advertisement or prior contact with the potential advisers. I have been told by my current PhD adviser that if I wait until I just a few months before graduation, he will ... | [
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28,854 | [See title.] It seems ok, but one might consider it unfair in some sense? I just wanted to make sure this is acceptable. (I am specifically talking about graduate school applications.)
---
Edit: I apologize for previously withholding some information. Here are some more details.
* I am majoring in math and will have... | [
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28,857 | I did my master thesis last year and recently I found out that a group of four faculty members in my department, including my thesis advisor, have published an ACM paper based on that. (A publish subscribe system based on SDN)
I will be honest. The problem statement was put forward by the faculty. The implementation ... | [
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28,858 | In majority of universities around the world, the PhD examining committee should meet and allow PhD student to defend his/her thesis. Based on the thesis content and student performance in the viva, the committee decides whether to grant PhD to the candidate or not.
In most of the cases that I have seen, there are 4 ... | [
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28,868 | I have a graph of points from a set of experiments,
that I want to present on a slide.
The important information in the graph is both the values of the points,
and more significantly, that the green points are above the blue points.
It is quick and easy to get my plott... | [
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28,872 | This question is about inquiring regarding paper status.
I had submitted a paper, and recently I just discovered that the manuscript tracking system shows that the editorial committee has received the referee's report. But, this status has remained for over a week and I still have not heard from the editor handling my... | [
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28,878 | I would like to know is there any format or things have to be aware when writing a support letter?
The letter is to support the application of a student to an award. | [
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28,884 | I saw a question asking how to write recommendation letters and I wonder why this is so important? Why are recommendation letters crucial for scholarship applications for studying in Masters or research ? They should be more interested in the student willing to work hard and be loyal to the studies, not cheat, or plaga... | [
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28,888 | I am nearly finished with my master's degree. Recently, I enrolled in a required course that is a terrible mess. I'd like to wait another year, and take it again with an instructor who has their stuff together and will actually answer student questions and prepare lessons that match the exams. Delaying graduation seems... | [
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28,892 | A TA normally has a hourly contract for working with a professor. Who pays for this contract? The professor's external funding is for research, not education.
If the department pays for that, how the budget is distributed among professors, as every professor (almost any) would appreciate having TA. | [
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28,900 | I have a bachelors degree in Computer Science & Engineering and have specific experience in geographic information systems (GIS). I am planning to enroll in a GIS PhD program and have searched for [United States universities with GIS PhD programs](http://www.gradschools.com/search-programs/geographic-information-system... | [
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28,925 | I wonder can I ask a lecturer who I took his course and I did amazing in his class for a letter of recommendation?
The reason why I am asking is because lecturers are not usually doing research and might be permanent faculty member. | [
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28,929 | I am filling out a **"Consent to Publish"** form and I need to fill out the **Volume Editor(s) field**. I tried to find out who these editors are, but all I found was the **series editors** and the **main editor**.
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28,930 | The question of whether writing/editing *alone* merits authorship is already addressed [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/21251/is-it-common-to-claim-co-authorship-by-helping-writing-a-paper-without-doing-any). This question is about writing and editing *with the possibility of minor scientific contrib... | [
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28,942 | I have a PhD in Business with an emphasis in Political Marketing and a Masters in Linguistics.
Now due to some personal and life circumstances, I would like to start collaborating in research about Linguistics and second language acquisition.
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28,946 | I live in US and I am applying to graduate school.I wonder if it is a good idea to send an email to graduate school professors and mention that you like their research and would like to join their research labs? | [
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28,947 | I am doing research in text mining. For that I need a dataset which contain full text PDFs of research paper articles, and all articles should be related with each other in terms of citing. There are citation network datasets available which contain only metadata of papers, but with this I also want those full text art... | [
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28,955 | My teacher's teaching style isn't working for me, and he asked for feedback about the class and how he could teach it better. He teaches with powerpoint and gives quizzes that are all about rote memorization of the slides. Most of the class finds these quizzes to be of little help in understanding the information, but ... | [
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28,966 | I recently had a university student (my ex) expelled from my undergrad university when he was found responsible for physical abuse and sexual misconduct. How would this expulsion affect his future educational career?
How would the expulsion affect him if he tried to apply to law school? | [
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28,978 | What databases allow free, programmatic access to cited-by counts for papers?
* Google Scholar doesn't have an API, and they block crawling attempts.
* SCOPUS only seems to allows you to retrieve a branded, watermarked image of the number. | [
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"text": "If you are an [R](http://www.r-project.org) user, you can use the [scholar](http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sc... | 2014/09/25 | [
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28,979 | I have spent most of my professional life writing proposals for improving the living and studying conditions of the constituents I served (community members, students, curricula and higher education institutions). Well, after 25 years serving as a teacher, professor, dean, and chancellor I find myself looking for a job... | [
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28,982 | I am based at a southern European university where little local research funding is available. Other than Horizon 2020, how can I find out about programs designed to sponsor research in any country? | [
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28,990 | I would love to pursue Maths teaching but I am unsure whether I would be accepted onto the programmes and whether I should complete an A Level in Maths with a view to apply for PGCE or Schools Direct Route in 2015.
Will getting my A Levels in Maths help to get admitted to a PGCE program?
As background: I'm 26 and hol... | [
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28,993 | some years ago (2007) I have published a paper in a conference as a poster paper. Now I want to send it to a journal and change the affiliation, or maybe some minor changes. I didn't see any policy about a previous published paper in a conference, however there is a policy as the following:
>
> The submission has not... | [
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28,996 | I have been [stuck](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/28981/stuck-on-proving-the-optimality-of-a-greedy-algorithm) on the proof of a major theorem in my forthcoming paper for about two weeks. Since offline help is limited, I'm trying to see if there is more help online. But I have two concerns.
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29,000 | At my school for a PhD I am required to complete a minimum of 72 credit hours of study(around 4 years of study). Of this ~42 are to be course work and ~30 is to be dissertation.
So I know what a dissertation is but not in the context of "30 dissertation hours." For students and professors what has been your experienc... | [
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29,001 | The research group that I am associated with organizes a conference that will take place next month.
One of the students asked if there is something that he can volunteer and help in the organization of the conference. He has not any scientific work to present, but rather offers some logistic and technical help.
Ca... | [
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29,003 | I was traumatized by an abusive relationship. While in the relationship, my grades were affected. Out of the relationship, I chose to stay in school and struggle with my studies instead of medically withdrawing. I attended therapy and completed psychiatric care.
I'm back to being a straight A student, but what will g... | [
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29,007 | I'm writing a teaching statement and want to include quotes from student evaluations. How much can/should I edit these (for grammar)? | [
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29,010 | I'm writing a postrgraduate project report on a system I've built. It is not designed with the user in mind, it is a backend system to a simple web application.
I'm struggling to separate the Design chapter from the Implementation chapter in my report, as I didn't so much design the system as build it as I went, chang... | [
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29,018 | I overheard some professors discussing the next round of hiring at my university and several were concerned about gender bias possibly playing an issue in the hiring process. An initial thought is to just go through CV's and black out an applicant's name. However, an academic job search makes it much more difficult to ... | [
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29,022 | Also, is a grad student who is being funded by an NSF grant considered to be "employed by the U.S. government"?
I ask because I'm submitting a paper, and I have to state whether or not all authors are "employed by the U.S. government". | [
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29,032 | Several years ago, my colleagues and I attempted to get a small paper published, it was rejected and we ran out of time - and as it was a 'side-project' type of paper, we left it at that. We thought that was the end of it - this was not the case.
One of the reviewers who made themselves known to us wrote some pretty t... | [
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29,040 | What (if any) is the general consensus out there regarding publishing in one of these journals vs the other?
I am a mechanical engineer, specialising in fluid flow and heat transfer, so would it be better to publish my findings in a relevant Elsevier journal or equivalent Springer journal?
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29,041 | This question is, honestly speaking, probably somewhat opinion-based, but I still want to give a shot.
A professor acceded to my invitation of writing a reference letter for me. Nevertheless, unlike the other professors who also acceded to write a reference letter for me, he asked me to draft it on my own. Originally ... | [
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29,056 | How might a professor approach a student who comes to class and/or office hours wearing perfume or cologne that is distractingly or overwhelmingly powerful?
Certainly, different people have different thresholds for this sort of thing. Lets say that in this case it is unclear the extent to which this is distracting oth... | [
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29,062 | I have found a [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_research_and_development_spending) ranking countries based on amount of funding and GDP. Is there a list that breaks this down further by funding agencies?
For example, the wiki list says US funding, but I imagine it's not so simple or ... | [
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