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30,414 | For learning new courses by one's self is it better
* to read the related text
* to attend online courses such as from sites like Coursera
* to combine the two
* or use another method altogether
In general, which is the better strategy for a motivated adult learner who is entering a new area? | [
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30,423 | I am writing a computer science paper in which I cite several lengthy sources (text books and standard specifications). Whenever I cite such a source, I add the page numbers of the subsection to which I refer, e.g.:
>
> Bla bla is considered very important [52, pp. 210-214].
>
>
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30,424 | I have noticed in a number of papers, including those in top journals, a common dirty practice which consists of self citing your previous works and omitting other important references in the area (I admit some of them at least include the classic references). For instance Prof. Jozw Cie writes a paper and his referenc... | [
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30,435 | I'm currently pursuing a Master's degree in a STEM field and working on a thesis. For my master's thesis, my advisor suggested I expand the code of the group's software and add new features to it. However, is very large (some files are thousands of lines long) and hard to read. It consists of many different files and t... | [
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30,440 | There is a well known book "Scientific topic X. Philosophical reflections." It contains a collection of articles on the topic. I am writing a paper myself. To what extent is it allowed to use the same title?
I am not stealing or borrowing the title because it is particularly original, it just concisely summarizes the ... | [
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"text": "There are no official policies on things not being allowed to have the same name.\n\nIt doesn't seem to be a legal probl... | 2014/10/23 | [
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30,449 | I hope I have found the right website for my query. Would it be possible to get a psychological experiment that you carried out published to any journal, despite the fact that you are:
1. Only 17 (nearly 18) years old
2. Have no degree or qualification
I've got some really great ideas for psychological experiments th... | [
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30,452 | Is it possible do to an online or distance Ph.D. program at all?
If so, are there ones that are cheap or free? | [
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30,458 | I know there are a lot of discussions about this topic in this forum and I read all of them but my situation is slightly different.
I took a class with my professor and I worked in his research lab and I know him for a while. When I asked him for a letter of recommendation he told me send you CV plus draft of your let... | [
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30,472 | Every once in a while you see a headline similar to "17 year old student finds a cure for cancer!". [Here](http://www.nbcnews.com/video/rock-center/52207962) [are](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/jack-andraka-the-teen-prodigy-of-pancreatic-cancer-135925809/) [some](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/15/... | [
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"text": "I was a judge at the [Intel Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)](https://student.societyforscience.org/intel-isef) in 20... | 2014/10/24 | [
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30,473 | My contract requires that I maintain a certain number of office hours a week where I am available to meet with students. In practice this time is rarely entirely taken up by student meetings however.
Recently I have joined some relatively large university committees that (not surprisingly) have a hard time arranging ... | [
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30,486 | When a PhD program in the United States like [this](http://cogsci.jhu.edu/graduate/doctorate/requirements.html#funding) states that students are expected to engage in full-time research during the summer months and the January intersession in addition to their regular coursework, should one expect that vacation time is... | [
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30,488 | I am in charge of the grading for an undergraduate class, and I am trying to determine the grading scheme which would best help students figure out what is a correct/incorrect answer without generating too much frustration.
My current position is to be demanding and give *very* little partial credit. For instance if ... | [
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30,492 | My very best friend cheats, not just looking over her shoulder for two answers, I mean full out cheats - raising each grade from what would be a D to an A. I feel very guilty for doing something wrong, so I can not cheat.
I have a rank 35 in the school (I have only made 3 B's in 4 years of school). Most students abov... | [
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30,495 | In the freshman classes I teach (the class is like 30-35 students), some students would step out the class for 10-15 minutes and come back. The class time is 1 hour and 15 min. This is always interrupting.
I have asked the class before that this is a poor classroom etiquette, you have 15 min between classes to do what... | [
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30,504 | I was trying to fill out the graduate school application for graduate school. However in the "recommender info" part it asks me to enter the address, city, institute and title or position but I wonder what they are? should I enter the university address? is title or position like assistant or full professor?
I would b... | [
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"text": "Ask the person who will write the letter of recommendation what address they want you to use. I suspect that th... | 2014/10/25 | [
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30,512 | I am a new student in a college, the other company in my class is so quiet! (very rare questions and answers), and I am not very good at English (my professor is English).
I said negative comments about things that I disagree with such as "I don't think that because..", "I think it changed, this is old statistics..".... | [
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"text": "It's simple: don't act childish in future lectures. If you are talking/giggling/whatever instead of following t... | 2014/10/25 | [
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30,513 | I teach freshmen courses. The lessons are in the classroom, but I also use an LMS to receive homework, to communicate grades and comments, and to post additional readings and resources.
It is normal to encounter a few students not doing work, but this term, I found about 80% of one section doing no homework, even easy... | [
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30,519 | Few days ago I found on a website that my professor's student won the "Golden Kingfisher Prize" for her presentation under his supervision in his previous university 2 years ago .. Do you think it is good to talk about it? And what is the best way for this ?. | [
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30,539 | I got caught cheating in a two-hour engineering exam consisting of 100 multiple choice questions which was done online through the [**moodle**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle) e-learning software. I feel like my life is almost over.
Having not studied well and having no time to study, I decided to cheat. I know ... | [
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30,545 | I'm an undergraduate student at a top CS school who is looking to apply for my Master's soon (in about a year or so). I am applying to my school's 5 year masters program as a backup, but I would prefer to switch schools just to get a different experience.
My first question has to do with the acceptance rates of variou... | [
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30,556 | Quite often when I read a medical research article I wonder whether other researchers tried to reproduce the experiment. I could go through the list of papers that cite the article but I find this solution a bit tedious and inefficient for this task.
Is there any database that lists reproduction attempts (with ideally... | [
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30,560 | I am currently writing my bachelor's thesis in Computer Science. When I have a sentence
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It was shown in [Kir10, HZK09] that ...
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does it make a difference if I write
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It was shown in [HZK09, Kir10] that ...
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30,569 | I recently was returned a midterm I wrote. One question I interpreted differently than what was intended. As a result I got 0.5/3 marks, which isn't a big deal but considering the test was only out of 15, it adds up. Due to timing conflicts I'm unable to meet the prof during office hours, but have scheduled to talk to ... | [
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30,571 | I've found myself in a paradoxical situation. I have failed modules over and over, many modules, some modules more than once. One of the failed modules was introduction to computing. After passing it I felt an urge to write lecture notes because I though that the "official" lecture notes made by two teachers of the com... | [
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30,588 | What to do if the average of the 1st midterm is like 35%?
Should I repeat the exam? should I ask them to redo the problems in which most of them did poorly in the exam and average the old score and the new score?
Other suggestions?
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30,590 | In a Ph.D. application, a statement of purpose (or more precisely, research statement) is required. I think a candidate should use this statement to showcase his/her good research qualities backed up by the research experience to the admission committee.
In order to make those qualities (i.e., those positive adjective... | [
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30,593 | I got master in Physics and now I am thinking to continue for PhD in marketing, business or Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Is it possible to switch for Phd? How can I do that and how should I persuade admission committee? | [
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30,600 | We have two students in my department who handed in identical essays. As per our policy we scheduled independent meetings with both students to determine what happened. Going into these meetings our primary objective is to figure out which of the following 5 possibilities occurred:
1. The students worked jointly and w... | [
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30,601 | I teach a practical class which is assessed by a lab report. I grade the lab reports based on a rubric. The rubric has 6 sections (abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusions) with a number of items that I generally expect to see in each section. Historically, about 95% of the lab reports can be a... | [
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30,606 | Is there any research/study/survey that looked at the main reasons why academics leave academia?
I did read [a](http://theprofessorisin.com/its-ok-to-quit/) [few](https://chroniclevitae.com/news/434-leaving-academia-it-s-time-to-have-the-talk) [articles](http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/id-have-to-be-mad-to-... | [
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30,614 | I am applying for PhD and In my statement of purpose I said that I have submitted a paper for a certain conference and that I will submit another one to a top conference once I have completed doing certain measurements.
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30,621 | I have read the term "soft-money research position" a few times.
E.g. [Path of a postdoc](https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2007/09/path-of-a-postdoc.html).
>
> Another consideration for interviewees is whether to pursue a
> "soft-money" position. A tenure-track university professor is
> typically paid... | [
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30,622 | In Academia, a soft money research position is one [where uncertain money comes from an external source](https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2012/04/02/essay-building-career-soft-money-position). The employee or [xyr](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xyr) supervisor/boss might need to secure funding every couple of year... | [
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30,623 | I have been working towards a degree in mathematics and in computer science for the last two and a half years. That corresponds to the following bit in my résumé:
>
> **Education**
>
> B.A. in Mathematics (2012 - 2016 expected)
>
> B.S. in Computer Science (2012 - 2016 expected)
>
>
>
However, I recently ... | [
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30,650 | I completed my MS in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and was planning to do an PhD in Operations Research. But after first few weeks in program , I decided it was not what I wanted to do in long term and dropped out.
There is a background to this- my untenured MS advisor refused to sponsor my PhD . Another well known... | [
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30,656 | I am a PhD student and am thinking ahead to when I start up a psychology lab---what are some of the best data entry and management systems? To avoid the "it depends" answer, below I list what I'm looking for. If you must say "it depends", it would be helpful to know what it depends on (i.e., what the good options are f... | [
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30,670 | I have research work that has been conducted and is at the stage where it is worth disseminating to the research community. It is somewhat cross-discipline in nature, and involves some technical contributions and is also of interest to a set of end users who are completely non-technical.
The problem is that, having at... | [
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30,682 | Are there any policies on taping or recording or even streaming a professor's lecture?
What do professors think about students who do this?
Obviously, most circumstances the professor would never find out, but there was this one instance when a professor got really angry because a student was recording him without ... | [
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30,686 | I'm a graduated student and about to make a poster for my institution's conference. I would like to have a website so that I can have more space to present in the poster while still have a data to show if necessary. If I choose to have a free domain, I will have an URL contain the host name, e.g. myname.wordpress.com. ... | [
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30,690 | If you want to apply for graduate school in computer science , you have to show that you have the prerequisite background knowledge . What are the available options ? Can I take a challenge test for credit in one subject area ,say ,algorithms provided that I have the required knowledge in this subject ? There is a man ... | [
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30,694 | I'm in the last year of my MSc in computer engineering and I want to apply for a PhD in Germany. I have a reasonable resume and have a published paper and my master GPA is 16.5/20, but my bachelor GPA in not so good, it is 13.5/20.
Can you tell me how much is this important? Do I have any chance? | [
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30,713 | I want to apply to a postdoc position at a UK based University.
They want me to fill a "Equal Opportunities Data" form with questions about my marital status, sexual orientation, religion and race. Why do they need that? Will there be any consequences from not specifying these?
Will the employing professor have acce... | [
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30,719 | This question is similar to [this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/30646/how-to-build-a-list-of-top-authors-in-a-field), but focused on papers rather than on authors. Does anybody know of a systematic way to build a list of the most cited and/or influential papers in a discipline?
I've tried to use Go... | [
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30,728 | Often, I’ll be in lectures and the lecturer will explain the point to me, and I make a comparison with something else that helps me understand the point, and it clicks. For example, in Syntax, the lecturer was talking about the difference between a noun and a determiner phrase; how the former describes a set of things,... | [
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30,729 | I have reason to believe that the editor assigned to a paper we have recently submitted might have also acted as referee.
I am of course not sure because reviewers for this journal are in principle anonymous (as is standard, at least in my field). So I want to make clear this is not an accusation or even a complaint -... | [
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30,736 | **tl;dr:** How not to come off as boasting, arrogant, attention seeking, etc. if you are one of the few students participating in class?
**Some background:**
I am currently attending a Master's level course where in-class participation of students is quite low. Typically, very few questions get asked by the students.... | [
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30,758 | I know a lot of questions are asked about letters of recommendation, but I was unable to find anything on this site or the internet in general that spoke to the particular issue of how to build the sort of relationship with a professor that results in good letters of recommendation. I get that you should of course do p... | [
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30,759 | A common belief is that open book exams reduces cheating since all the information that a student would wish to look up is already with them. Open book exam therefore tests a person's knowledge and organization rather than memorization.
However, a textbook is not merely a set of references written by distinguished aut... | [
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30,764 | There are a growing number of prominent universities in the world which are based in countries where the government exerts substantial control over its citizens in ways that are not typical in "Western" countries (Europe, US, Canada, etc.). Two examples:
1. [KAUST](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_University... | [
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30,765 | I have seen a few conferences that state on the call for submissions that the conference will be "submitted for indexing in Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)."
Does submission mean they will 'apply' and could be rejected, or are all submissions accepted? | [
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30,766 | Why can courses at the same department have an apparent disproportionality between credits and hours?
For example at my French university my department offers a 12 credit course with 48 hours of lectures and 72 hours of practical work, a 9 credit course with 24 hours of lectures and 12 hours of practical work, a diffe... | [
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30,771 | I was recently told that in many schools in the US (maybe other countries too), the minimum grade for a graduate course is B or B−. Meaning that B is considered as a passing score. I would like to know whether this is true. Why should it be the case? Does this mean that grading in graduate school is easier? | [
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30,774 | I am applying to doctoral programs and I have a worry about the application.
Since I found that my TOEFL score does not meet the minimal requirement set by a school that I am applying to, I am wondering if it is likely for me to be screened out before my whole application is reviewed by the professors? | [
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30,785 | This question has been discussed [several](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/28013/what-salutation-to-use-for-someone-with-a-phd-who-is-a-lecturer-or-reader-in-the) [times](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1930/eu-ph-d-in-germany-calling-yourself-dr-or-ph-d) but there doesn't seem to be a clear a... | [
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30,789 | This happened two semesters ago, when I was teaching-assistant to a class of bachelor students. The lecturer had such marking weights, 30% for teaching assistant class including all the homework and his quizzes and 70% to the midterm and final exams.
At that semester, one of the students did not even attend one of my ... | [
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30,790 | Reading the question posted [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/30785/what-salutation-to-use-for-someone-with-a-phd-from-germany-in-the-uk) left me with a more general question:
Given the professional title and name: Dr. (First Name)(Last Name), is there some way to differentiate between the holder of ... | [
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30,793 | When writing a paper it is important to discuss related work. I am working on a problem where two research fields meet. When I did a literature review I noticed that related papers often omit important information or write important information ambiguously. I can understand that this is a problem where two research fie... | [
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30,797 | I have published a few months ago a paper for an IEEE Conference, the paper got published and it is indexed in the IEEEXplore. I have received an email from a research coordinator at the university that I am currently working on, asking for the online printed version of it. In the affiliation of the article was written... | [
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30,803 | I have a table that compares the performance of different systems according to different error measures:
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System | Error 1 | change | Error 2 | ...
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Baseline | 0.6 | - | ...
A | 0.1 | -0.5 | ...
B | 0.3 | -0.3 | ...
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30,810 | “All Web Science track papers will be published in the **companion proceedings** of the WWW conference." (<http://www.www2015.it/call-for-web-science-track/>)
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30,812 | At a recent seminar talk, I was amazed to note that one of the two coauthors (not the presenter) was the [president of a large and well-known university](https://president.uchicago.edu/page/about-president-zimmer), since I had always assumed that taking on such a position would necessarily mean the end of a research ca... | [
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30,823 | I'm a USA grad student in computational biology. Starting 2 years ago, I tried to get paper X published, with very little feedback from my advisor, and after a year (!) in review paper X was rejected. Meanwhile, I was working on other projects, gaining experience, and drawing closer to graduation. My advisor then asked... | [
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30,839 | I am doing a literature review in the medical field, which is as many other fields heavily impacted by [publication bias](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKmxL8VYy0M). Is there any standard way to account for it?
When am I e.g. allowed to say that treatment X successfully treat condition Y, despite the fact that a ce... | [
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30,843 | I have about 80% weighted average (years count 1, 3, 5), I am on my third BSc year and I would like to apply for a MSc afterwards in top university.
There are 2 4th year subjects that I really, really would like to take, but they are known to be the most difficult subjects in my university. The alternative is to take ... | [
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30,850 | I am in the process of applying for a PhD at the univerity where I am currently completing my undergraduate.
The application has a section for awards.
I don't have anything to show for my time as a undergraduate (my university doesn't really acknowledge achievements in coursework).
I have several awards from my terta... | [
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30,851 | I am thinking about what should I bring to the conference.
Normally, will people dress up (like full suit) for the dinner?
p.s. I am in CS domain. | [
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30,869 | It's very important for a research professional (such as a Statistician) who needs to work on multidisciplinary fields to attend international conferences and see what's going around in the field of research. However, sometimes information contained in the websites about the upcoming conferences are too subject specifi... | [
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30,871 | If your undergraduate degree transcript shows that you failed one subject, and in the other you barely passed but still you have a good WAM (say 85) or GPA (say 6.5 out of 7), would those two subjects in your transcript destroy your chances of being admitted?
To be more specific, I graduated last year with a combined ... | [
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30,872 | In a couple of either books or articles that I have read as part of my research there have been some minor errors (when taken in context of the whole work) when they relate to the area I am researching. My general research area is History.
For example one is, Area A operated as a B. Wherein fact it should have said A... | [
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30,878 | I have been reviewing a paper where the authors apply a computational method from an earlier paper they published to a specific system of general relevance. The paper seemed ok, and I recommended major revision in the review.
After submitting the review, I've been working with this computational method myself and disc... | [
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30,880 | I wrote a paper to a journal, which is still under review. Now I need to cite it in another paper that is double-blinded. Is this a problem? | [
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30,887 | I notice that some schools, e.g., MIT EECS, has these two non-faculty appointments, Principal Research Scientist and Senior Research Scientist.
At least true for MIT EECS:
Both of them, just as Faculty members, are PI's and can run their own research groups. One difference I know is that Principal Research Scientist'... | [
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30,897 | Is it OK to prevent students from using their cellphones during the lecture by stating that in the syllabus?
and how to deal with students who insist on using their cellphones during the lecture?
(Most of what they do is either to text message or to browse the internet. Often I see those who are used to use the cellp... | [
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30,898 | For a class project in machine learning, I am considering building a set of predictors where the feature set includes information about the topic, keywords in the title, the authors, the date, etc., and the outputs are probability of getting published, expected citation impact, etc.
I would like to choose a single jo... | [
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30,900 | I'm applying to Stanford, which requires 2 letters of recommendation from teachers, due in 2 days.
Both teachers have known about this since mid-September, but one of them hasn't submitted his letter. I've asked him, and he tells me that he has one prepared, but he hasn't submitted it yet.
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30,904 | I am looking at graduate schools and one of the things I would like to know about the schools I'm looking at is where recent graduates are now. I realize that contacting the colleges individually would certainly work. However, there are a lot of colleges out there, and it is untenable to ask them all individually. Is t... | [
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"text": "> \n> Is there a place where this kind of thing is available online?\n> \n> \n> \n\nNo. Not to my knowledge.\n\nSom... | 2014/10/30 | [
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30,916 | Is there any extensive research/study/survey that looked at what percentage of people who left academia were happy with their decision after X years?
I mostly interested in the computer science field (machine learning) in the US, but curious about other fields and locations as well.
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30,924 | For some of my more difficult and early morning tests, I will buy coffee and bring it with me into the exam. My hope is that the caffeine will help me be fully alert, think more clearly, and write answers more quickly.
However, I know that drinking caffeine puts me in a slightly different state of mind physiologically... | [
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30,933 | Suppose you have a diagram in a bachelor's thesis (which is written in English) with one axis
"mean stroke count"
and the other
"standard deviation"
Should the first letter of "mean" and "standard" be uppercase? | [
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30,943 | I am teaching at a relatively large, public institution in the United States. I have assigned my students a research paper related to the thermodynamics of human biology. I have asked the students for a project summary including several anticipated citations, and one student has included a paper from the journal ["Crea... | [
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30,947 | During a one year of postdoc of mine in pure mathematics, I didn't publish anything. I definitely did a research report and wrote down the main questions (in the form of conjectures) we were after and some ideas on how they could be solved. I'm now doing a new postdoc in an applied area as my next postdoc, and I was wo... | [
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30,955 | I am co-teaching a relatively large class with two other colleagues in a big university. Each semester, most students are amazing, trustworthy, and well-behaved and it is a pleasure to work with my students. But there is a very small group of students each semester who cheat and I don't know how to deal with them.
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30,963 | Assume that someone is an excellent researcher (many awards and at least 7-8 publications a year) and a very good teacher but he is not "liked" by some of the tenured faculty in the department (due to differences in opinions on how things should go or how decisions should be taken regarding different matters in the dep... | [
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30,977 | If a professor is an editor of a journal, then should he ask his graduate students (PhD) to review articles? What do you think, good or bad on what points?
Different from "[Is it common to review papers assigned to your supervisor?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5662/is-it-common-to-review-papers-assig... | [
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30,981 | I need some advice on how to catch up on my online courses. I have gotten really far behind on my work and lack the motivation to keep going. This my second year taking online courses and it seems harder than the first. What should I do to move forward? | [
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30,984 | According to this [MIT statement of purpose guideline](http://web.mit.edu/msrp/myMSRP/docs/Statement%20of%20purpose%20guidelines.pdf), the statement of purpose seems to be an important part of a PhD application.
However, I have also heard that, in the case of [MIT](http://web.mit.edu/), the statement of purpose is only... | [
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30,995 | How shall a masters student deal with the complete failure to meet the expected results when working on a master's thesis?
For example, in the field of machine learning a masters student might spend 4-5 months developing a method that turns out not be useful, not even being comparable to benchmark datasets.
Should th... | [
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31,000 | I am currently getting my M.A.T. in secondary mathematics. As a part of my degree, I take graduate level math courses. I am currently in a PhD level math class, and the instructor of this course has told me that if I want to get a PhD in mathematics he would want to work with me because he believes I have a "future" in... | [
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31,003 | I used three images from Wikipedia to compose them to a new image. All other images (not that many) are created by myself.
How should I cite them?
The images are:
* <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Computer-aj_aj_ashton_01.svg>
* <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Server-multiple.svg>
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31,018 | I submitted a paper to a top tier conference and it did not get accepted. The paper contains an original idea, and I am afraid that the paper could get plagiarized between the time I send it to another conference after incorporating reviewer's suggestions and making some modifications. Such things have happened in the ... | [
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31,019 | When writing a referee's report for an editor of a journal, does one always aim and try to be as brief as possible, saying yes or no to the publication (giving a couple of sentences in support of one's decision regarding the reasons for recommending/rejecting the paper)? Is it ever appropriate for the referee to write ... | [
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31,030 | I know that they are "just as human as we are", but I feel somewhat uncomfortable to talk nonchalantly with the top-notch math researchers and professors in my department because of their social position, their extremely superior knowledge and talent, and also because of their age.
Still, I feel that it is like a was... | [
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31,032 | I submitted a paper to a [science] journal and received some particularly constructive feedback from the referees. I am inclined to add something to the effect of
*We are grateful to the referees for their constructive input.*
to the acknowledgements, as I have seen in other papers before. But is this considered appr... | [
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31,034 | I am instructed by my university to offer 1 academic reference and 1 work reference for industry work (I am doing a year-long placement). However, all attempts to actually get suggestions on who to use from the university have been useless as they appear to be dodging my questions by not responding.
As my course is qu... | [
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31,035 | I am currently writing my bachelor's thesis. I made a lot of experiments and I describe them as well as their result in the text. Currently, I have most tables with the results of the experiments within the main part. However, I am thinking about putting at least the bigger tables in the appendix as they make the text ... | [
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31,044 | As a second year graduate student, it's become increasingly difficult for me to figure out what journals are the most prestigious. My research is very interdisciplinary, and so journals from many different fields would be suitable for my work.
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31,045 | What exactly is an "invited review article"? I have the opportunity to be an author on one of these, but I have no clue how this looks in comparison to research articles. (I am referring to invited review articles for reputable journals well-known in the field only.) | [
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31,046 | How does getting into non-submission based magazines appear? For instance, if R&D magazine took an article about my work (NOT an actual research paper) and published it in their magazine, would this be something I would want to mention on my CV/résumé or would I even bother listing it at all? | [
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31,049 | I was a PhD student and working on a paper. My adviser told me that he could not support me anymore so I left him. Now I am wondering if I could publish that paper on my own. There were 3 other coauthors on that paper but I was the first author and main idea was from me. | [
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31,065 | I organized my students to take their exams in the school’s computer labs. Some students finished well before others. In each section, I tried different policies for what students should do in this situation, but none worked very well.
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