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29,070 | I am an instructor in a medium-sized state school in the USA. The price for the textbook to the introductory math course that I teach just increased. Again. A new, paperback copy costs 170 USD. I want to put pressure on the publishers to reduce their price, but I am not sure what the best strategy is.
Has anyone had ... | [
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29,079 | Like many academics with an active research program, I am asked to review many papers. Borrowing an idea from peer-to-peer file sharing companies, I try to keep a rough sense of my recent "ratio" of **reviews I have done on other's papers** over **reviews my papers have received**. I try to make sure I have a ratio tha... | [
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"text": "You could count each n-author paper you are on as 1/n of a paper. Thus each time you submit for publica... | 2014/09/27 | [
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29,089 | It comes as known that some experimenters have died or suffered other ill effects because of consequences of their experiments, such as Marae Cunuu. What is the distribution by gender/sex of those who perform potentially hazardous experiments in academia? How does their compensation for their work in terms of salaries ... | [
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29,090 | I have contacted a potential PhD supervisor and currently he is reviewing my work, however this evaluation process seems to be taking too long.
Is it ethical to give my research proposal to another professor (another university) while he is reviewing my work? Will this reflect negatively on me if he finds out about i... | [
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29,094 | I have the following dilemma: I am finishing my Master's degree in pure mathematics this academic year (summer 2015) and I hoped to apply to a PhD program (US schools) starting from September 2015. Therefore, I have to apply this fall (till December 2014 in most places).
However, I have the following problem - my firs... | [
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29,117 | Warning: Extremely long post. Not really even the full story but one must stop somewhere.
My problem is the following:
I am a pure mathematics PhD student in (a remote part of) Europe and am part of a Doctoral Programme, which means that financially I am in a good position (relative to other grad students anyway). Th... | [
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"text": "I don't really know your situation, so this is just a first impression but: slow down. Take a breath. You're des... | 2014/09/28 | [
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29,125 | I have a rough draft of my PhD dissertation, on which I was working on and off for about a year, but mostly I was doing other coursework. I have about 90 pages so far.
My dissertation advisor tells me that what I should do is pretty much make sure it is well-written and apply the theory to a few examples. By my estima... | [
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"text": "My PhD advisor once told me that one aspect he considers when rating a thesis is how much the candidate did ... | 2014/09/28 | [
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29,133 | In graduate school I have found that along with being a producer of good research, fellowships/post-doctoral advisers/faculty search committee are also often interested in what one has done *outside* of research (or teaching/TA-ing) as well. Examples of such activities include (but are not limited to) volunteering with... | [
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"text": "Short answer: You should spend \"some\" time on volunteering and leadership activities.\n\nUnlike an undergraduate stud... | 2014/09/29 | [
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29,137 | I have several questions related to open-sourcing the source code used for a research article.
Is there any research/study that addresses any of the following:
* What percentage of research articles are provided with their source code? (i.e. the source code is made available somewhere online)
* What percentage of res... | [
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"text": "Here's a relevant study on computer science systems research that addresses your first question, \"What percentage of... | 2014/09/29 | [
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29,149 | In the past term, my teaching evaluations were full of complaints that I assign too much homework. To solve this, I've scaled back the assigned workload and threw several assignments into extra credit. This seems to make many student happy:
* Students just passing through complete the basic coursework and meeting the ... | [
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29,151 | I teach a lab class that is only constrained by some broad learning objectives. I have been using the same project now for 5 years. It now runs very smoothly and I know what difficulties the students are likely to have. I think that is an advantage, but teaching the class is beginning to feel stale and I am worried tha... | [
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"text": "The interesting question is, does the project feel stale for *you* or for the students? The students are, after all... | 2014/09/29 | [
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29,152 | I had two advisors for my master thesis. One, as my first advisor would take the theoretical part to guide me. I have been meeting with my first advisor once every two week and he has been examining each part of the text. During these meetings, he continued to tell me how good I am doing and I should keep writing in th... | [
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"text": "You cannot go after him for asking questions, that's his prerogative. You can choose to work on your PhD with him, ... | 2014/09/29 | [
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29,155 | I noticed that some scholars in my field are best known for their earliest writing, even if their ideas were later found incorrect.
I am writing a book in my area of interest and hope to publish within a year. The target audience is not academics, but practitioners, although I suspect academics would be the first to s... | [
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"text": "Anything you write places you at risk of being wrong somehow. Certainly a book of this kind is asking for a wide... | 2014/09/29 | [
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29,159 | I was wondering if there is a site or something where I can find announcements for all (most of) the special issues of journals (upcoming and past) . For example of Springer, IEEE, Elsevier, ...
If I search for this now, I find scattered call for papers. Also, I can't seem to find this on wikicfp. | [
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"text": "No, there is not.\n\nSpeaking as somebody who has dealt with a number of special issues on both sides of the edito... | 2014/09/29 | [
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29,166 | Is someone aware of software that can help me create certain goals and research (sub)questions (digitally) and connect these questions in an organized way with the secondary literature on my computer, as well with my own notes.
I have over 2000 pdf files on my computer. The problem is that I don't want to create a new... | [
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"text": "I'm not sure there exists an all-in-one solution as you would like, however [Docear](http://www.docear.org) is p... | 2014/09/29 | [
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29,174 | On mathjobs.org, a few jobs request a research statement of no more than 3 pages. Are reference pages typically counted for such requirements in the United States? | [
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"text": "Generally speaking, no. Two reasons:\n\n1. Nobody reads the references.\n2. It is unethical to penali... | 2014/09/29 | [
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29,175 | Here are the features of an advanced graduate mathematics course:
* 24 hours of optional lectures over the course of the term;
* No homework, labs, guided assignments, quizzes, tests, previous year exams, or sample solutions;
* A concise syllabus;
* A list of recommended reading with about 5 items, with titles such as... | [
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"text": "Hopefully you went to lecture - in my experience, in courses like this, the best you can hope for is that the pro... | 2014/09/29 | [
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29,178 | I met a professor last year through an online search and expressed my interests to his research and his advanced lab technique, in which I lack of experience.
I also asked for a PhD opportunity from him, he says that he has no money or limited funding now, so I agreed to work for 3 months for free. Would be practical... | [
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"text": "If you *WANT* to volunteer in the lab as a learning opportunity, it can be a great practice.\n\nIf you don't want ... | 2014/09/29 | [
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29,195 | I am a postdoctoral researcher in a lab, having person (e.g.) X as a colleague, also a postdoctoral researcher like me, having obtained a PhD two years after me.
Here is the problem: In the last two years, I have taken initiatives that have led to a number of publications. My collaboration with X was not so close, sin... | [
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29,197 | Reviewing is time-demanding. It makes huge sense to re-review if comments and changes are submitted. While first review takes a lot of time, the second can be very quick.
If authors provide a version that shows the changes - this makes re-review very fast. They also don't have to spend too much time on resonse-to-revi... | [
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29,201 | (There is a similar question but not exactly.)
When you write a paper, you need various views. So you invite collaborators and it often works well. But assume that out of 5 invited, for example, one or two, don't contribute to the paper much but are kept on the email thread with updated versions of the manuscript.
Ho... | [
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29,205 | I regularly teach an undergraduate course in which students are expected to complete projects that involve writing code. I also supervise undergraduates in other project and thesis work that involve writing code.
I am considering requiring future students to publicly release their project code, and any other materials... | [
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29,209 | I am completing a master's by research (in Humanities), and thus shall be writing a thesis with no class work. I am using both a mixture of primary and secondary source but one item that has me a bit unsure is the use of other master's theses. Is there an expectation at the master's level that you would only consult do... | [
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29,211 | My friends, family, and partner often mention that they worry about my life as an researcher/academic mentioning how I work too much (I love my job!) am never satisfied (I want to go great work, and great work is hard to do!), and that I'm often distracted (I think about my research a lot!). I've tried to explain these... | [
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29,212 | Let's assume, for the sake of example, that I have found a new figure of merit which is of the same complexity as the one currently used, but is much more justified from a mathematical and physical standpoint. However, the whole development barely goes over one paragraph (maybe two), as the "proof" is extremely simple ... | [
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29,219 | A *Nature* paper published in 2000 currently has around 400 citations, but there is a mistake in the paper and surprisingly, still it gets citations. The mistake affects the result of the paper in a way that half of the arguments in the paper are invalid.
I warned the authors two years ago and they confirmed the mist... | [
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29,230 | Due to the circumstances surrounding my graduation and other factors, I didn't apply in the Fall of 2013 for any jobs. I did happen to see an opening that was still posted in February and applied on a whim. In a short period of time I was asked to do a phone interview followed by campus interview followed by request fo... | [
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29,239 | I have a citation that is at the end of a sentence with dual punctuation. What I mean is that I have a sentence of the following form:
>
> Blah blah blah is mentioned by Author et al.
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What is the proper way to include the citation in this case?
1. >
> Blah blah blah is mentioned by Author et al[##].
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29,250 | I am reconsidering whether I want a professor's (call him X) letter of recommendation for a PhD program. The basic facts are these:
* I took Dr. X's class and did well. He encouraged me to apply to a PhD program in his field, and I took his advice. At that time, he offered to write me a strong letter of recommendation... | [
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29,271 | As a PhD student in a US university, my tuition fees are ~44,000 USD per year, despite the fact that I don't take any class: only 6 classes are required during the PhD program, and I've completed them during the first two years. Why are tuition fees so high? (tuition is paid by fellowship / RA / TA / ...) | [
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29,279 | What does academic community think of anglicising foreign names in their research? For example, saying Istanbul rather than İstanbul (with capital "İ"), or, author's name, Tasan, instead of Taşan. | [
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29,286 | A PhD is supposed to be an "original contribution to knowledge". In my own PhD (in an area of Earth Science) I have so far focused on developing a particular method of computer modeling that will hopefully have a range of applications in my field. In short, my question is: Is the development of an original/novel *metho... | [
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29,294 | Suppose that a famous mathematician E (long deceased) made a conjecture (C), but no written record of this can be found (either because none exists, or because it exists in a very obscure source). Then, a senior mathematician S, who knows for a fact that (C) was conjectured by E, tells another mathematician X about thi... | [
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29,301 | I have completed my masters in English Literature from India and now want to do my PhD from the US. Should I take both the tests, i.e. TOEFL and GRE? Or only TOEFL will be enough? And if I need to take the GRE, then is it a must to take the subject test as well? | [
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29,312 | Is there any research/study/survey that looked at the pedagogical benefits of assessing students with closed-book exams for graduate-level courses (vs. open-book exams)?
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29,318 | Various research articles1 have been published on the prevalence of stimulant medicine (Adderall, Concerta, Ritalin) abuse among undergraduate students.
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29,322 | At my university, most lecturers and professors use slides in teaching. This is true for most engineering, mathematics and science courses. I am more comfortable with doing the board work and then sharing my hand-written lecture notes with the students. From my personal experience, I feel that the latter is a better wa... | [
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29,326 | I am applying to a tenure-track assistant professor job in an applied math department,
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29,331 | Whenever I open a graduate text (on pretty much everything), I'm instantly overwhelmed as most topics are not well motivated, book reads like an encyclopedia and extremely high level topics maybe mixed in with an introduction to a specific topic. Oh, the text also tends to be printed in a horrendous font that does not ... | [
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29,334 | I am in a PhD program in mathematics, and I am in my last year in the program. This is the last year that they will fund me for. If I need more time, I will either need to pay the tuition on my own, or not complete my degree.
I feel that my advisor and department do not support me well. I am not going to go into the ... | [
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29,341 | I'm looking to do a graduate course in computer science in the US and was particularly attracted to several non-terminal MS CS programs, which you'd enroll as a PhD student, but acquire the MS en route. Some of these MS-PhD programs have better financial support by the institution compared to the terminal MS program.
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29,351 | When writing any kind of paper or homework at the university I am supposed to give references for my citations. At the same time, sources like Wikipedia are not considered good for university level. Now let's say I am writing about malware, and I want to give definition about virus. Wikipedia has a good explanation, bu... | [
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29,352 | In an attempt to make a poster of my work, I search for tips on the internet and books and I meet two opinions that conflict with each other:
**Tell a story:**
1. Why do we choose this (Objective)
2. How do we do? (Experiment, simulation, etc)
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29,353 | I'm a PhD student and I prepared a poster for a conference. Do you think I should send the poster file to all the co-authors? The list is quite long so I mailed the draft only to a few of them. | [
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29,360 | Assume we have a paper published in a conference or journal. Should I mention my co-authors while posting some content of the paper (or just paper's link) on Twitter or Facebook?
Let's assume I am aware of their Twitter or Facebook accounts. | [
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29,373 | I am interested in Mozh, specifically pure Mozh, in the USA. I will be on the job market soon for a tenure track position and mathjobs ads usually do not specify the teaching load.
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29,384 | I am preparing an NSF grant proposal in mathematics. I am requesting summer salary and a travel budget (and not much else), and after I compute the total I have to add an extra 50% of it and add it as the "indirect costs" of my proposed research.
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29,392 | The NSF postdoctoral application is due in less than 2 weeks and I am trying to send out invitations for my reference letters. However, for the past week (on fastlane.gov) I have gotten the same error.
"A database error occured while performing fastlane.pdoc.ProcessReferenceLetter."
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29,405 | According to [this answer](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/10775/5645) it is a feature that BibTeX converts all characters to lower case for titles in the bibliography. This is confusing for me. What characters in the titles I cite should be upper case?
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29,420 | I have been in a tenure-track position in 5-6 years and I am applying to positions in other universities, including tenured positions. For the list of references, should I include my former PhD advisor? I have some other good names to include and also I have a good relationship with the former advisor. I was wondering ... | [
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29,423 | A very high profile Prof. A recommended me to another high profile Prof. B to do some work for him. While normally as a graduate I should be very thankful and jump on this, I simply cannot do the work asked due to time and I also believe there would be a more suitable candidate for the work. Prof A's recommendations ho... | [
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29,433 | I am currently an undergraduate physics student in the fall semester of my junior year. Until recently, I thought I would have to stay an extra semester to complete my undergraduate physics degree, but after looking over my scheduling possibilities for the next three semesters, I've realized I will be able to graduate ... | [
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29,436 | This question came up after reading some answers to [this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29185/is-it-possible-to-use-one-thesis-for-two-degrees).
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29,454 | How do you check if a book is a new edition of an older book, but they have different titles, without accessing the books? Are there websites which maintain such records?
For example, is [this book](http://lccn.loc.gov/2007012974)
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29,456 | I am in the process of applying to PhD programs in Computer Science. A professor with whom I'm interested in working is moving from university A to university B. While he is not super well-known, his research interests and mine align very well, and I am quite sure I would have been admitted to university A had he remai... | [
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29,457 | I've just finished my PhD in Genetics, and I am looking at moving into industry, as a scientist.
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29,463 | While I was studying abroad, I was offered a PHD position for having a very impressive project. I was actually only in 3rd year engineering at the time and I din't want to go into the professor's specific area of research, so I declined the offer. The only written confirmation I have of this is an e-mail exchange.
Tha... | [
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29,464 | I am moving to a new place to take a new academic position. **Now that we have committed to it, what can I do to help my spouse adjust to or enjoy the new location?** We are both academics.
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29,466 | For the next 6 months or so, I plan to study hard for GRE. Since I don't have much time, I plan to ONLY study for the mathematics portion of the test as I would like to score at least in the 90th+ percentile for the Mathematics Subject Test. But in order to have the capability to achieve such a task within my time fram... | [
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29,478 | I am a student of LLM. After LLM I want to do Ph.D on Waqf family courts. I am also interested in doing a Ph.D on comparative religion from Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi. My doubt is can I do a Ph.D in both subjects simultaneously from the same university or different university, or is it necessary to complete in one ... | [
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29,484 | I want to submit an extended abstract of my Ph.D. dissertation to a workshop that looks for summaries of recent work. My dissertation is based on several publications done in collaboration with other researchers (and my adviser).
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29,492 | A publisher for an e-textbook is offering me an honorarium if I try it with a class. My own ethical take on this is that I would not entertain this regardless of the size of the honorarium (which I don't know). I certainly wouldn't do this without full disclosure to the students who I'm forcing to buy the book. I also ... | [
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29,494 | I am a senior who is graduating in December with a Bachelor's Degree in Pure math. I would really love to apply to the PhD program. However, I have been really depressed because even though I have a good GPA (3.85), and I have gotten mostly A's in all of my math classes (I have taken math classes up to Topology, measur... | [
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29,504 | What should I opt for?
Option A) very well paid PhD, around €3000 per month at a respectable university
or;
Option B) a non-paid PhD, where I have to pay €2000 per year at one of the top 10 universities of the world?
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29,506 | I would like to know if someone knows whether there are IT solutions (websites etc) that help with meeting interdisciplinary researchers from local academic institutions (socal). | [
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29,512 | What does (S’73-M’76-SM’81-F’87) mean in author biography. I am writing a paper and the format given for author biography also include a must fill entry: (S’73-M’76-SM’81-F’87). I tried to Google it and I can see many similar entries in authors biographies in published papers.
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29,520 | I'm in the process of applying for master of "Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems" in VU university. The university requires me to write a letter describing why I deserve a scholarship. I have written this letter multiple times, but every time I read it from beginning to end I feel it contains pride words and I t... | [
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29,522 | After reading this question about [slides making](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7523/should-the-slides-in-a-presentation-be-self-explanatory-or-be-as-minimal-as-poss/28751#28751) and asking myself two questions about [poster making](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29352/which-is-the-better-s... | [
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29,527 | This is a topic I constantly think about when writing a document.
Often after I complete a document in LaTex I would go through the document to make sure that the figures are where I want them to be (I want you here, not there!) and this is a very frustrating procedure.
My question is: How important are figure locati... | [
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29,535 | I'm currently writing a paper that has some kind of tutorial parts in it. I have written sentences similar to:
«... depending on your operating system, the procedure is different»
Is addressing the reader directly like that in a scientific paper ok? Or should I try to rewrite these sentences? | [
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29,536 | Since I'm applying for grad school, I'm currently in the process of acquiring recommendation letters from my professors. They usually ask me a few questions about how to guide the letter, such as what do I want to emphasize and how to address the letter?
How does one address a grad school applicant's recommendation le... | [
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29,543 | In preparing my academic vita for applications to PhD programs, I came across this question: Since I have some papers published in less known journals, should I list them or not to list them?
Will listing them instead hurt my applications? | [
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29,551 | I took a research writing course at my university (which is required of most students) and did extremely well in the course, winning a writing award for the work I did in that class and having it published in the school's textbook for their introductory English courses. I went on to be a TA for that professor for two s... | [
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29,554 | In some countries, it is required for students to contact a professor and find an advisor before they start their application for that university. I have heard from some of my friends who are studying PhD that if a professor is eager to advise a student who has contacted him (because of his outstanding vita, publicatio... | [
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29,560 | I recently got a good job and I want to thank a very senior professor in my department, who spent time to write me a very good reference.
I am thinking maybe to give him a thank you card when I go to see him before leaving the department.
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29,563 | When applying for academic jobs in the US, one is often asked for a recommendation letter from someone who can attest to your teaching abilities.
How much experience should the letter-writer have with your teaching? Should they have observed you teach multiple times? (In my present postdoc I will teach 3 courses per ... | [
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29,568 | When applying for academic jobs in the US, one is often asked for a recommendation letter from someone who can attest to your teaching abilities. Suppose someone has been involved in various workshops, programs, discussion groups, etc. about pedagogy through a Center for Teaching Excellence (or a comparable office) as ... | [
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29,572 | I am currently submitting a paper for Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. I worked on this project for the last four years and was the only one working on this project. I had everything going very well. In order to get the crystallization, I gave the plasmid construct to another laboratory which has expertise in cry... | [
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29,576 | I am a graduate student in engineering whose work includes a lot of programming and implementation of the developed theories. I am not a computer scientist, but I am a fairly skilled programmer, at least when compared to other people in the field.
In the recent months I went to a few conferences and to meetings with p... | [
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29,580 | I am an international student, and now pursuing my Ph.D in pure Mozh in a not very good (ranking 70+) and relatively small state university in U.S.
As usual, I am a supported TA, and I am wondering whether the teaching load here is too heavy.
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29,600 | I submitted my paper on mathematics to a journal 8 months ago but I have no received any reports or comments yet. I sent an email to the editor asking him about the manuscript, he just replied that it is still under review. What shall I do? | [
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29,605 | I have submitted a paper on mathematics to a journal and it was there for more than one year. I asked the editor many times about the reason of the review delay. At the end the paper was rejected with trivial comments. Some experts told me the reason of the rejection is that: I had asked the editor many times about the... | [
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29,608 | Is there a consensus as to whether or not conference papers are counted as publications?
I know that if something is a journal paper then that thing is tacitly understood as a publication, but is the converse true? | [
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29,620 | I want to know about **appropriate actions to take when not receiving an e-mail reply from professors after 2 to 3 weeks of sending an e-mail**.
When writing my e-mails, I try to highlight questions and important points leaving other details in normal style to make the reader quickly understand what am I asking for. A... | [
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29,631 | I am currently working under a post-PhD (postdoc) scholarship. In my country (Argentina) I am usually considered still a *student* (although it's kind of a gray area).
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29,638 | At the age of 21 I entered an (UK) M.Sc./Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Software Engineering.
I entered without an Undergraduate degree based upon modules I undertook in a distance learning Masters Programme from a reputable UK University that required no formal entrance requirements (very unusual situation that I ... | [
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29,642 | I noticed in the book "A Beautiful Mind", by Sylvia Nasar, that a recommendation letter, for PhD applications, written for John F. Nash runs as follows: *This man is a genius.*
Then, out of curiosity, I wonder that if such reference letters for PhD applications work in the present days?
Image taken from the [Graduat... | [
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29,643 | Can I have a PhD in mathematics or physics after having a bachelor degree in medicine provided that I score high in GRE physics or math?
I have had zero coursework in math or physics but I am not sure if I could greatly increase my chances into grad school by taking GRE and scoring highly in the test.
I'm not trying ... | [
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29,648 | I have been offered a 2-year postdoc position in a good Dutch university. What they sent me so far is an email stating that they would like to offer me the position, and whether I would like to take up this position. I then replied with a yes instantly. Does this exchange of emails constitute a formal appointment decis... | [
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29,666 | I have attended many presentation where the presenter will show a graph/table in one of his/her slides, but they struggle to explain the semantics of the graph/table/results.
I think there is much more hidden in graphs/tables than young scientists can tell. Is there a way to improve this skill.
My adviser is also v... | [
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29,667 | I am currently applying for tenure-track assistant professor jobs.
One of the positions requires me to submit a cover letter,
in addition to a CV, research statement, and teaching statement.
(The application is online)
I am thinking of writing the following:
>
> October 1, 2014
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>
> Dear faculty committee
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29,669 | Just curious about how professors feel about having to write recommendation letters? Is it a chore for them? Or do they actually enjoy writing them? Or is it more of neutral.
I am in a situation of applying to various graduate schools. Last year I only applied to one school and was rejected. This year I am thinking of... | [
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29,670 | My internal model of academia is that (1) as a group we are one of the most tolerant of biological and philosophical differences (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, and religion) and (2) that we are likely to take extreme views on issues related to our research. I have no evidence for either of these and they seem poten... | [
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29,713 | My paper is rejected with this comment from editor:
>
> Unfortunately, the reviewers generally agree this paper should not be
> considered for publish in....
>
>
>
My question is do all the reviewers reject the paper?
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29,723 | I have checked the originality of my PhD thesis in mathematics using [Turnitin](http://turnitin.com/). The similarity was 31%. Is this percentage acceptable by most committees? | [
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29,724 | I'm not an academic (sorry!), but at various points over my career I have been interested in working with professors on a variety of projects. I never found an easy way to find a professor who might be a good fit (e.g. is in the right field and interested in consulting work) and I'm wondering if there is one? I suppose... | [
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29,726 | I am aware that being funded by a grant greatly improves your chances of receiving a master's degree, however, hypothetically what would be the potential consequences of offering to fund your own? If the negative consequences are minimal, how does one go about offering this to a potential supervisor without under-selli... | [
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29,732 | I'm looking for a suggestion, for a medical journal counter part to the [arxiv](http://arxiv.org/). A minimal frill, open access online repository
to time stamp articles with some visibility. | [
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"text": "The closest would be [bioRxiv](http://biorxiv.org)."
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29,737 | I am citing in Harvard style, so my entries end up something like this:
>
> Widom, H. (1975). Asymptotic inversion of convolution operators, *Publ. Math. Inst. Hautes Études Sci.* **44**: 191–240.
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With the above entry, I noticed that the same author cited the year as 1975 from his later papers, but the publ... | [
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29,742 | Out of curiosity, I am wondering if a PhD application decision letter gives the reasons for the decision?
If yes, why? If not, why? | [
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