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29,759 | I'm due to attend a conference soon, and plan to take notes on the talks I attend. My note-taking software of choice (org-mode) can easily export to HTML. Is it legal to post my notes on my website? Is it ethical? | [
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29,764 | I'm an undergraduate student. I used to think that a PhD certifies a person as an expert in a specific topic of a specific field. I've now been told that while that's true, a PhD most importantly proves that you are capable of independent research in general.
A professor of fluid dynamics told me that if he wanted to ... | [
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29,765 | Recently, I took the PhD qualifier exams for my department. In my dept. there are 3 exams, each covering a subfield (say subfield A, B, and C). First you are given an hour to work through several problems, and then you have another hour to present to several professors, who critique your answers and ask supplemental qu... | [
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"text": "It is hard to know the exact issues for an oral exam we were not present for and for which we are hearing only th... | 2014/10/10 | [
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29,776 | In my courses, students work on large, on-going projects, but submit some parts each week, showing their progress. All of the work is done on a computer or table.
Mid-semester, I always get reports from students of technical failures, e.g.:
* Deleted entire project folder.
* Reformatted hard drive or upgraded system ... | [
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"text": "You should deal with them in the same way that you deal with students who claim to have lost non-digital work. H... | 2014/10/11 | [
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29,778 | I published a paper on a statistical topic after my bachelors.
Currently I am doing my masters thesis and I would like to cite/use my own paper in it.
However, I did not inform my supervisor before that I already had a publication in a similar field of my thesis when I started, because I did not expect it to be direc... | [
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29,786 | I live in US. In some applications it is asking to enter your cumulative and major GPA. However I am wondering which GPA is more important and which one is used for admittance famous graduate schools (Top 10) in engineering program? | [
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29,798 | I am in my first semester of a computer engineering PhD in the USA. At my University during your first year they will pay for your expenses to attend, up to $1000.00, for a conference. Every year after that they will pay your expenses if you get a paper accepted.
I am wondering how others look at/find conferences tha... | [
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29,804 | About once a year, I end up with a section with a student who is well ahead of others in the course. Often, these are students auditing the course, but sometimes are senior students attending 100-level courses or students majoring in the subject attending a course for non-majors in a made-simpler-for-non-majors course.... | [
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"text": "I'll offer two ideas; perhaps you can use them both:\n\n---\n\nOne thing you can do is augment your class with on-line di... | 2014/10/11 | [
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29,805 | The primary method of instruction at most colleges is lecturing, where the professor delivers and explains a set of well-established knowledge to the students.
However, there are drawbacks to this: people have different goals, intellectual orientations, and levels of prior knowledge. What's more, the information deliv... | [
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29,813 | I've been writing a big grant proposal for the last few months and I am almost done. I asked my advisor to read it and give me advice on content, and he has yet to read it. He's always saying he'll "read it later" or "he's busy".
I finally got a meeting with him this past week and he says he will read it this weekend... | [
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"text": "As far as I know, a grant is given almost always to a PI (principal investigator, i.e. head of the lab). Sometimes p... | 2014/10/12 | [
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29,824 | I'm a computer science student in my third year of undergrad. I've been taking math classes on the side and will have finished most of the applied math major by the time I graduate.
I'm wondering how difficult it would be to get into graduate school for applied math with a computer science undergrad degree. I could po... | [
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29,840 | In a formal academic writing (in the everyday sense), is it appropriate to use phrases such as "step out on" to titillate the reader?
Since I am not a native English speaker, and since I have not yet accurately catched the general range of humor in the US, I wonder if using such phrases would be instead considered as... | [
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"text": "Your first priority should be to convey your ideas to the reader. Given that I, and many others, have absolutely n... | 2014/10/12 | [
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29,863 | Is it an acceptable practice to use simple graphics found on Wikipedia (and hence in Wikimedia Commons) in a conference poster?
From the legal point of view, this seems to be fine, as long as the image is properly attributed. Presumably it should suffice to mention the source in acknowledgements section. Or am I miss... | [
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"text": "The [primary issues](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/19083/are-there-instances-where-citing-wikipedia-is... | 2014/10/13 | [
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29,868 | I have presented a paper at a conference and received a certificate proving that I was a presenter. The conference does not have an English agenda, so it would not be easy for an application committee to find proof that I was the one who presented it online. I am now submitting the paper as one of my writing samples fo... | [
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"text": "As per the answer to your [previous question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/27901/how-to-prove-that-pa... | 2014/10/13 | [
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29,878 | I would like to know if it is possible to get into top 10 engineering schools for MS/Phd program without any publications? | [
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29,880 | I am applying to PhD programs in the US.
I am wondering if there is a default decision imposed on international applicants. This question may sound ridiculous, but, I still ask here because I have seen someone (a claimed PhD student who has been involved in graduate admission, for now I cannot recall clearly the websi... | [
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29,881 | Recently, I contacted a publisher about the draft of a book that I wrote about a year ago. I found their advertisement over the net. This is a scientific book that I have worked on for about two or three years and have revised it more than four times.
The publisher proposed that if I pay a certain amount of money tha... | [
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"text": "The value of a pay-to-publish book is approximately the same as any other pay-to-publish material. \n\nAs described ... | 2014/10/13 | [
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29,892 | When I look into a specific problem over Google Scholar and simple Google Search, I find many related publications from publishers other than IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, Springer etc.
Usually the authors come from Indian, Chinese, Arabic institutions. My initial instinct is to ignore them, however I always feel as if there m... | [
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29,900 | Note: I'm not an academic, but I had a student like this as a colleague while in high school (12-18 in a school for students with Asperger's)\* myself and I think that this is a worthwhile subject to discuss.
Sometimes you have one or two REALLY shy students in a class with a small headcount. Students that never raise... | [
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29,908 | I have a PhD in Computer Science and have been working as a "pure researcher" in an academic setting for the past 10+ years. I have a decent publication record, with a large number of citations to my work. As part of the research role, I have also been a co-supervisor/advisor of several PhD students and done presentati... | [
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29,923 | Is there any resource that lists how much each university pay in journal subscription fees? I am mostly interested in US universities (E.g. Harvard: [$3.5M/year in 2014](http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices), MIT: [$4M/year in 2006 for science and engineering journ... | [
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29,932 | I would like to know does it help if I take a graduate course related to my major in engineering as an undergraduate and do very well in it? will it increase my chance of getting to graduate school in case if graduate school committee sees the graduate course in my transcript? | [
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29,935 | Let me preface by saying I'm studying Computer Science, so I don't know how well this applies to every field but this is what I have heard from. many Computer Science and Engineering majors.
I have heard that, when applying for jobs, a masters degree can be a sign of poor performance. That is, those with a masters in ... | [
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29,951 | I am an academic at a UK university and have been asked to do some consultancy work for a company who wants to own all the IP for that work. I would only do this work on the weekends. Would my university have some claim over this IP? My university's written rules only say that the ownership of all inventions will be de... | [
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29,953 | I have a colleague in my group who became TA for a course which we took together, which is taught by our mutual advisor. It is almost a policy that a student can't become TA unless he scores an A in the course, but he was chosen because he asked "first" and the professor is "nice", even though I was the highest scoring... | [
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29,969 | What is the right approach for sending emails to contact the graduate students in the graduate schools that we are applying to?
Some questions to ask current graduate students are suggested in this [related question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/353/what-are-some-good-questions-to-ask-current-graduate-... | [
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29,971 | I am hoping to continue my masters in machine learning or data mining. So as a part of the process I am mailing to professors. I have a decent GPA and GRE score. I have research experience in these fields but no publication. I am not an extraordinary student but a motivated one. If any professor see my profile they may... | [
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29,975 | I worked in a research laboratory last summer and some of my work was used in a paper that was published this year at a conference. This is my first paper and I am listed as a co-author, however, my last name was spelled wrong.
I have a capital “i” in the middle of my last name that was mistaken for a lowercase “L”.
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29,989 | I found in a medical paper from the 1990's a non-citation like this:
>
> The results and terminology by Jehj Slotj, Jane Poe, Jozw Cie, Ricwadr Coe, DarkyVi Loe, *Journal of Scientific Papers*, 12345-698 (3), are unscientific [Bvobn, 1997; Lawravru 1985]
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29,991 | I am currently in a very embarrassing situation.
I have a paper (forgot to say, this paper takes no more than two pages) submitted to a journal. The journal accepted my paper for publication and I saw it online. But today I found that my paper disappeared without notifying me! I emailed them, and a staff member replie... | [
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29,994 | I've seen many theses with long long title.
I understand that can help to narrow down the scope of the thesis.
Yet, I was recently asked to think of the title of my thesis, and I don't like those long long titles.
Is something in the form of "On XXX of YYY" a good title?
For instance,
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30,005 | I have several papers in IEEE Xplore. I have uploaded their pre-print versions in academia.edu. But when I search in Google Scholar, I can't find the links of those I uploaded in academia.
What should I do to show up the link of my free papers alongside with the original published ones in Google Scholar search? Where ... | [
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30,008 | I teach a course, every week I assign homework. I put several hours to choose the right homework problems which cover the course material and permit them to be prepared for the exams.
I encourage students coming to my office hours and to ask all of their questions, I may also help them to solve the homework problems. ... | [
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30,021 | I have collected some papers regarding the subject of my M.A. thesis, but I have some articles that I couldn't find where they were published. The point is when I Google the title of the article, Google shows me that the article has been cited more than 60 times, but I can't find where and in what journal. How can I fi... | [
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30,024 | This is a follow up question from [this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/11149/what-are-the-potential-pitfalls-of-having-a-phd). From what I read in that question I understood that in most cases the PhD is not a good idea to grow a good career in the industry.
However I contacted two people in the in... | [
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30,031 | US universities typically organize visit weekends for newly admitted graduates, after which the latter confirm or refuse the offer. Is there any research/study/survey that looked at the impact of the visit weekend weather on the admitted graduates' grad school decision? | [
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30,039 | When an academic apply for a faculty position, the main criteria of selection are usually his record of research and teaching (and other academic affairs).
For the case of research, it is straightforward: research publications, other research outputs, funding, etc.
But how one can have an exceptional record of teachi... | [
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30,040 | I have a problem with the courses I'm TAing. I am a math PhD student at a large (supposedly good) state university where the lower-division math classes are taught in the "discussion section" format (i.e. students go to a big lecture with clickers three days a week, and attend 30ish person sized recitation with a TA on... | [
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30,041 | I am a PhD student in mathematics, and I noticed that on my peers' CV's, they often list conferences they attended. It seems as if they just attended these conferences, they did not help organize, nor did they give a talk.
**Should I list conferences I only attended on my CV, or does it look like obvious filler?** | [
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30,043 | I think I have only seen one CV where a photograph of the CV owner was included. I personally wouldn't want to put my photograph in my CV, but I was wondering, **in what situations would including a photo if oneself within the CV be appropriate?** | [
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30,044 | I've given many talks at my home institution, at the undergraduate and graduate colloquiums, and in a few seminars. The list is getting quite long.
**Is it appropriate to list many talks given at my home institution? Does it reflect badly on me?** | [
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30,054 | I have a paper submitted to a journal of Elsevier.
From "Manuscript Submitted" to "with editor" took one day; then it was "with editor" for five days, and then "under review". One and a half months later, the status of the paper was still "under review", but the date of status has changed.
What can cause the date in ... | [
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30,074 | I've run into this issue in many fields in which I'm interested in learning about. For the purposes of this question let's assume electricity/circuits/power systems. I find myself starting at the basics and as I try to understand each concept, I start thinking of more of how this concept really works instead of accepti... | [
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30,077 | While it's clear that having a sterling CV with lots of high profile papers will be beneficial to getting hired, I often hear from other faculty that, when hiring, they are looking for someone who "fits in", "could be a friend", and overall is "nice". These, to me, are ways of saying the person is charismatic, or at le... | [
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30,080 | I am an ABD (all- But-Dissertation) student. I have done all my work, completed my credits, passed my qualifying exams, I passed my oral exams, but I am having trouble finishing my thesis (advisor problems) , and
I was wondering if there may be some variant of the standard post-doctorate for
people in an ABD status.
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30,081 | Is it common practice within colleges/universities to allow all faculty within a division access to all student records within that same division? (i.e., all Health Science faculty having access to all Health Science student records)
Wouldn't this violate FERPA? | [
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30,090 | I've heard a few authors whose native language wasn't English complain that they are put at a disadvantage with respect to authors who are English native speakers, when it comes to publication acceptance in English-speaking venues.
Is there any research/study/survey that looked at the impact of the author's native lan... | [
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30,096 | I have been accepted to present a paper at a conference in a recognised university.
There is no doubt about the 'legitimacy' or public standing of this university as it is recognised worldwide. In addition, it is the management department within the university that is organising the conference. The keynote speakers a... | [
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30,098 | I find it very difficult to make strong research proposals, where I am trying to convince the audience that my proposal is important (possibly *more important* than the other applicants'). I write "grant applications" in quotes, because that is the most straightforward example: In these, it is typically expected that y... | [
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30,101 | I am preparing my tenure-track faculty application materials for the current hiring cycle, and I'm thinking of replacing one of my reference writers with one of my PhD committee members (I'll call him Dr. Z). In addition to serving on my committee (I successfully defended my dissertation earlier this year), Dr. Z was a... | [
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30,104 | Ok so first off a bit of background. I've been working professionally three years in a software engineer position after my BSc. in Mathematics and Physics. At some point I realized I missed doing true research so I enrolled in Masters in Financial Mathematics, which seemed to me the ideal trade off between maths, progr... | [
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30,115 | I am applying to phd programs in the US.
In preparing for the statement of purpose, I consulted some native speakers. I was suggested to add some anecdotes in my statement.
Nevertheless, after a moment's further thought, I found anecdotes occupy the space! And, I am under the impression that, since I am NOT applying ... | [
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30,117 | I'm a PhD student in Physics with one year and a half to go. My project is at the border between physics and computer science (I am developing a new method to analyse materials). I'm fascinated by computer science and I would prefer not to work in a research center, which seems to be the natural prosecution of what I'm... | [
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30,129 | I prefer paper documents when reviewing manuscripts and grants. While these are confidential documents and generally sent to me electronically, they generally do not come with any instructions not to print them. Am I required to shred them or can I throw them out in my office or put them in the communal recycling bin? | [
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30,135 | I am just curious, do they make the decision before the conference?
Or do they watch the presentation of potential candidates first and then make the decision? | [
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30,139 | I have a part-time outside job in addition to being a full-time professor. I'm struggling with performing an analysis that I believe a graduate student would be able to help me with. I suspect the student would be happy to do so, both because of having a nice demeanour and also they enjoy interesting problems and are a... | [
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30,151 | **Edit**: I met with the prof and she agreed that it wasn't my responsibility or place to teach my group mates the foundations they were supposed to have learned. A direct quote was that "everyone has to fend for themselves."
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30,153 | I am applying to graduate school in US for MS and Phd program. I wonder is it a good idea to ask for a letter of recommendation from someone that I took his course and I did amazing in his class and he knows me very well but he is now professor at another prestigious institute ? | [
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30,156 | Ok here is the situation: My advisor gave me a paper about new model X. After reading and researching in X, I became very familiar with X and had many interesting ideas to extend its capabilities.
One thing I noticed with my advisor is the lack of deep analysis over my ideas. By this, I mean a roadmap on how to get t... | [
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30,160 | Some journals (specifically on biology or chemistry) accept only MS Word files as manuscripts, while many journals on mathematics or physics prefer LaTeX.
Even *Science* prefers MS Word.
Why do they insist on proprietary MS Word, instead of accepting PDF + plain text?
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30,167 | How do you capitalize the titles of references in a math paper? Would you rather write:
>
> Global smooth solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations
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30,174 | Can somebody suggest what should be the optimal font size of text like axis ticks, axis label, legend etc. ? | [
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30,175 | I'm looking through a few journal articles and I notice that they have cited an article that has been retracted (based on invalid conclusions).
If I cite that article that cited the retracted one, would that be valid? Moreover, should I check the references of every article in that article to see if they cite any retr... | [
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30,184 | My supervisor wants us to meet 3-5 times in a week with another PhD student of his. Every meeting is on average more than couple of hours. I don't know about the other student. But I feel like we are wasting too much time in meeting; it's hurting my productivity. How can I tell my supervisor to keep the amount of meeti... | [
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30,190 | During a lecture (and a separate presentation) my instructor told us about bibliographic software, how it composes references automatically and is able to correctly cite articles in many formats. The software is freely available to everyone.
However, many others did not use it and were penalized on incorrect formattin... | [
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30,200 | Me and another PhD student, we are first two authors in a paper. We had a disagreement with our supervisor about submitting our paper to conference. We both opposed the submission as we think it's too early to submit our result and the paper will most likely be rejected. Our supervisor said, academically he has the ful... | [
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30,206 | I received a rejection letter from an Editor after I revised and resubmitted my paper by addressing all comments from two reviewers.
The first reviewer has no feedback meaning that he accepted all the responses given.
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30,210 | I would like to know whether to escalate the issue when my masters thesis advisor is very careless, disorganized and does not provide anything useful to me.
I have started with him around 9 months ago. Following [some disappointment over his choice of research topic](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/27779/... | [
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30,211 | I see some offers on the Chronicle jobs website (such as [this one from UC San Diego](https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000852185-01)) for non-tenure-track assistant professor positions.
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30,228 | I have a little computer science background. In one of my statistic courses we did significant data analysis with SAS and R coding. I'm getting this professor to write a LOR for me. He wants me to draft the LOR for him.
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30,230 | In my PhD studies I have **slipped off my original track of research**. This was also caused by the fact that I found out that my work can be generalized to a broader scope. It is not so bad, during this detour I did a lot of work.
But then I tried to get back to my original subject and did a lot of work there too. So... | [
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30,233 | I am just finishing my computer science PhD. It has five research chapters. The first four pose many research questions and answers all of them; they are complete in this sense.
The fifth chapter is a bit odd. We have just launched a three-year field trial of vehicles. I was responsible for many of the field trial de... | [
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30,245 | When I was a freshman in the university, I was a member of my university Olympiad team to compete on the Student Physics Olympiad. And I failed to get a single medal. Although the results weren't good, the fact that I had a chance to go to the competition is one of my competitive points. How can I write that down on my... | [
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30,252 | If someone scores quite high on the GRE, how and where would they list it? Or would they even list it at all? | [
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30,254 | I have a feeling this question has been posted before, but I wanted to ask as my situation is slightly different. I've recently decided to leave my PhD program in the social sciences in order to look for work. I've basically come to the conclusion after completing 3 full years, courses, and fieldwork that I don't want ... | [
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30,262 | I am enrolled in an on-line graduate course. The course is not available in the classroom format.
For the past few weeks, the instructor has ignored every question I sent him. I've asked for:
* help in understanding specific course content.
* clarification on upcoming assignment instructions.
* clarification on the p... | [
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30,281 | There's a prospective graduate student visiting my adviser and I was asked if the student could come with me to an undergraduate class I'm taking at another college within the university. Is it acceptable for me to just show up to this class with the prospective student or should I email the professor and ask if the vi... | [
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"text": "E-mail a few days in advance. \n\nJust showing up puts everyone on the spot, and could end poorly. It could also tu... | 2014/10/20 | [
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30,293 | I am about to finish a PhD in computer science and am on the job market. I'm mostly interested in small liberal arts schools, and have been working on application materials directed towards SLACs for the last month or so.
Almost every search committee wants a teaching statement, a research statement, and a cover lett... | [
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30,296 | I am looking for some sort of website that shows/illustrates current research strides across several academic fields. It would be pretty cool if this existed as a interactive interface like google maps (e.g. one could click and drag into different research areas and zoom in and see which problems are getting solved). T... | [
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"text": "In principle, [Microsoft academic search](http://academic.research.microsoft.com) seems to fit your question. They h... | 2014/10/21 | [
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30,301 | I would like to share under a Creative Commons license some course material (slides) I created. However, I used (abused?) of duly cited non-cc sources such as books etc. to prepare the course material.
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"text": "The copyrighted material must be omitted or replaced in your course material before you can [release](https://acade... | 2014/10/21 | [
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30,306 | I think much research would not be very successful if the subjects knew the purpose of the research. When researchers gather human subjects for a trial, can they provide the subjects with misleading information about the purpose of the trial? | [
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"text": "[Standard 8: Research and Publication](http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx?item=11) of the \"Ethical P... | 2014/10/21 | [
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30,320 | Is it OK to include a personal note telling intention of hard-work on the topic,
>
> e.g. I am looking forward to work on this problem
>
>
>
in the Conclusion slide of a presentation related to possible research topic in the future?
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30,322 | I'm a CS master student in a German university currently writing my thesis. Three months ago I saw an advert from a PhD student in the group where I'm doing my thesis asking for a student assistant (HiWi) to work on a programming project. I went and said I'm interested in the job but specified I can only work 5 hours a... | [
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30,327 | I have contacted a professor, looking for a PhD position. He replied that my field is so near to his research field, and to consider my application; he needs to know more about my masters thesis.
>
> I need to see your masters work.
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>
>
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30,335 | After reading a comment (now deleted) saying
>
> My university's policies does not allow me to share my thesis PDF file completely.
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>
I was wondering why some universities do not allow dissertations to be publicly available over the web? (by any means - free or through subscription)
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30,338 | I have finished my master's thesis and graduated from the university in which I used to study for my masters degree. Now I have two or three months free time and I am searching for a PhD position; in this period of time I want to work on research topic, I see two professors at that university, whose research fields are... | [
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30,343 | I am surprised by the fact that a journal published an article that I have had in arXiv for a few months. The date of publication is after the date that I posted on arXiv. The submission date in the journal is not mentioned. What procedures I should follow?
Some information to clarify the situation:
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30,345 | My undergraduate is in Biology, I'm a US native.
I'm thinking about going back to school to study a more quantitative discipline like statistics or computer science.
Does anyone know of any scholarship websites, fellowships, or other ways to pay for school expenses?
Right now I'm looking at taking out more loans. ... | [
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30,346 | I am in a university in the US. I need 10 subjects for a 2-hour experiment. The compensation is 100 USD. If a subject is an international grad student on an F1 visa in my university, will it go against the terms of his F1 visa, which restricts his ability to work in the US? | [
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30,356 | What is the inherent idea of having a recommendation letter/ "letter of reference" requirement in academia, especially while applying to grad schools?
I understand that if the person giving the recommendation letter is a bigshot or even fairly well-known, people would be ready to take his word regarding the applicant'... | [
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30,357 | I am preparing slides for a conference.
And I struggled (a bit) for what to put on the title page.
I know the paper title is a must, maybe the conference name, place, date.
How about authors and affiliation?
Should I put all the authors name on the title page?
Or only the presenter?
How about if they are from dif... | [
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30,364 | Researchers might take different paths other than staying in academia after completing their PhD, postdoc or even later. This happens for a number of reasons. The most compelling of all is that there is not enough room for everyone, but it could happen that these people lose interest in research, find a good opportunit... | [
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30,377 | It is generally acknowledged that one should try to get recommendation letters (for grad school, jobs, etc.) from well-known experienced members of your field, if at all possible (for e.g. see some of the answers to this related question: [Do letters of recommendation typically include a biography of the writer?](https... | [
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30,381 | A PhD student in our school recently passed away unexpectedly, to the shock and grief of a large number of research students and academics, including me.
I had little to do with him on a daily basis, and he had little to nothing to do with the content of the thesis, but nonetheless it occurs to me to make a mention o... | [
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30,390 | I've asked three professors from the school I did my undergraduate studies at to write letters of recommendation for me. However, one of the schools I'm applying to is that same school.
In other words, lets say I went to Harvard as an undergraduate, asked three Harvard professors for letters, and then applied to Har... | [
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30,391 | When I refer to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) I mean either the federal act or similarly implemented state laws. Clearly the validity of such requests would have to be limited to institutions which have received government aid in at least some way. In addition, there is the argument that such data could be cons... | [
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30,396 | I'm all for publishing my own work of course. Since I have coursework and new projects during the semester I have temporarily put aside my manuscript and I have communicated with the former (Master's) supervisor about this. But now she kept contacting my current PhD supervisor and he in turn has written to me a few tim... | [
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30,398 | I am an EU citizen, and 27 years old. I completed my Bachelor's and Master's in Electrical Engineering in the UK, now finishing up my PhD (in EE as well) in the USA.
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30,405 | I am an undergraduate student being paid a (relatively speaking) hefty monthly research stipend. I need only some of this money to pay off my university fees and living costs, since I have wonderfully generous parents.
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30,413 | I've just been contacted by a friend's friend who decided I'd make a great adjunct professor at a community college, IT department, application development. Suddenly I heard myself agree to an "informal" job interview, and now am freaking out. What am I getting myself into?
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