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38,675 | In addition to the main sessions, the workshops, and the special sessions, many conferences provide also some **tutorials**, usually the day before the beginning of the event or the day after the end of the event.
Computer science [NIPS conference](http://nips.cc/), for example, is one of these.
I've attended some of... | [
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38,683 | I am a recent PhD student. My adviser is really a very nice, kind, and open-minded person. They are always open to discuss about subjects of my interest.
As I am almost at the half of my first year, my rhythm of working has evolved from making lectures to doing something concrete. So, I have started to contact my advi... | [
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38,693 | In my university department there is a professor who holds the position of Head of the department, and then there are also several Deputy Xeafs, who are in charge of different management areas —more precisely: Research, Teaching and Infrastructure. Notice that, in our case, the Head and the Deputy Xeafs are not necessa... | [
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38,702 | I know that it is important to have dates on papers that you hand in to teachers. I usually put the date that I start the paper, but sometimes I change it to make it seem like I'm not procrastinating. I've also used the date the paper is due. No teacher has ever said anything to me or taken off points for how I have th... | [
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38,715 | One of my classmates just got accepted into the graduate program I also applied for. We both are strong candidates but she is a stronger one, hence the earlier acceptance.
I was wondering if it hurts my chances for an admit if someone from my undergrad university already got accepted for the program I also applied fo... | [
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38,717 | I have heard a few times that having single-author papers is good for your career. I suppose this is because it shows you are capable of producing research on your own. But I wonder if it is a double-edged sword. Say you are early in your career and have only solo papers. Does this also look bad because it suggests you... | [
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38,728 | Although some guidelines can be taken from [this post](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/149/what-is-a-sandwich-thesis), additional details would be appreciated.
When building the introduction, I have difficulty trying to join and describe all the aspects of the 3 published articles I have. This will be als... | [
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"text": "Your introduction has to wrap the rest of the thesis, not replace it. So, DRY partially applies here too.\n\nA pap... | 2015/02/12 | [
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38,753 | I am writing my PhD research proposal. In "Research Aims / Questions" section, I have proposed two distinct research questions which are from the same sub-field but divert from each other a little bit.
Here is an example in my discipline, Computer Science, and subfield, Communications. The first research question inv... | [
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38,769 | Recently in a presentation about networking the presenter mentioned that it is important to maintain a good relationship with your past academic supervisors and collaborates (teammates) because employers (industry employer, not academic employers) will go contact these people to gain information about you, especially y... | [
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38,770 | I have a couple of papers that are works in progress or in the submission process. Can I list under my publications list (and clarify they are not yet published but on the road to it)? | [
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38,773 | I am attending graduate school this fall and one thing that I still could not wrap around my head is that some of the papers are written by seemingly a group of authors (5 people or more). I am curious how this is usually done.
Are each person assigned a small chunk of work and the paper is put together when everyone ... | [
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38,774 | Here is a situation that I have been in several times, but have only recently begun to give careful thought to. Suppose you are asked to teach a course that you have not taught before. A fairly common practice (at least where I teach) is to approach the colleague(s) who taught the course most recently and ask if you ca... | [
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38,777 | In the past I have included the following statement on my syllabus:
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> Office Hours: Mon 1-2pm, Weds 3-5pm, or by appointment
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However, I am beginning to get too many requests for appointments. Appointments are really inefficient. They waste both of our time trying to schedule them, and with multiple appoin... | [
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38,779 | For some reason I don't understand, Google Scholar thinks two of my papers are the same, despite different titles, co-authors, and publication years. When I click on one ("Resonant absorption as mode conversion?") it lists 27 versions, most of which are the completely different paper ("Three Dimensional MHD Wave Propag... | [
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38,780 | I am in contact with institution A about a potential tenure track position. Meanwhile another institution, let's call it B, has offered me a position. Naturally, I have to mention to A that B has made an offer.
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> Should I mention the name of B to A when being asked? Or should I just say "another institution has ma... | [
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38,781 | If you're hiring a postdoc, how much do you care about the techniques they've used in the PhD?
I'm thinking ahead to the postdoc search (will probably start in earnest in summer/fall). My current field is a somewhat obscure area of human molecular genetics, lots of old-school techniques. I'm very interested in moving ... | [
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38,784 | I am a coauthor on a psychology conference paper that was accepted based on a short abstract. The first author became unable to attend the conference and offered the opportunity to present to the coauthors. I accepted and later found out that I need to prepare the slides and text for the presentation.
The first autho... | [
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38,789 | I am an international student who has been admitted at a low ranked institute in the US. I also have an offer from an institute in my own country to do a Masters'. I ultimately want to get admitted at a prestigious program in the US.
I was recently advised to join the low ranked US institute, do my course work well, ... | [
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38,798 | Here is the somewhat awkward situation.
I am a TA for a class that I have never taken before. The professor (probably) knows this, but I don't think the students have caught on, since it is a lower-division class and as a graduate student I have significantly more mathematical maturity than most of them.
As a TA, I a... | [
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38,807 | I have had a privilege of knowing what concerns the admission committee about my applicant's file for pure math degree. As of right now, the most significant concern expressed was my weak performance on the GRE subject test (in math.) My question is, would the committee care about the perfect performance on AP Calculus... | [
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38,814 | Student societies are often fantastic fun. At the university I attend there are some members of societies who don't attend the university, they just come along because they happen to like an unusual hobby (Quidditch, table top rpg, fencing...). I have never seen any lecturers or professors however.
Is it considered o... | [
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38,829 | Is there something like a "standard dress code" for a Ph.D thesis discussion? And, if there is - how important is it? Obviously, one should not (I think) dress *too casually*, but I do not know what is deemed appropriate.
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38,831 | I understand that it is difficult for people with stuttering to verbally communicate and explain their ideas/research or to give lectures. Does that means there is no chance for them to work in academia even with the PhD degree? | [
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38,836 | I've sent the article to the conference and it has been accepted. However, I received a message that my paper has been accepted as the short paper.
I know that there's a difference in, for instance, the oral presentation time between those 3 kinds of papers. However, I wonder if the type (regular, position, short) ca... | [
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38,843 | I met someone who was doing a PhD in dance. What exactly do those people do? Do they do research in dance? Conduct experiments in dance? Prove theorems about dance? Do they become dance professors when they graduate?
Do they mostly focus on the history of dance, and compare different styles of dancing? | [
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38,857 | I'm currently finishing up my last year of study as an undergraduate mathematics major at a top 2 public school. I've been interested in getting a phD in mathematics for some time now, but my GPA and work in some classes in my 1st and 2nd years leaves a lot to be desired. Let's just say I got pretty bad grades in impor... | [
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38,861 | I am in high school but soon I will be going to college. I already have a hard time dealing with the silliness of high school (on an intellectual level), and in particular I have 0 interest in humanities courses (frankly I think literature is pathetic thing to study). I am interested only in maths and science.
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38,867 | I am an "abnormal" graduate student in the sense I had been diagnosed with [Aspergers syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome) by a professional psychiatrist when I was in college. In college days I mostly study mathematics on my own and covered the subject by reading textbooks/lecture notes online, a... | [
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38,874 | I have recently been given an opportunity to attend a conference on Robotics although I don't have any paper to present. The registration fee is around 7k. Before spending such an amount, I wanted to know if it is worth attending conference sessions just for its sake. Please help. | [
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38,875 | I'm a statistician being offered 45k CAD for a postdoctoral position in Canada. I have a few questions:
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2. Is it rude to ask for extra money to cover relocation expenses (US to Canada)?
3. The cost of a parking pass is 1000 CAD per year at this place (compared to 200 per year for ... | [
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38,876 | I am told that we can use copyrighted images in our lectures to students now as they are for purely educational purposes, as long as we correctly attribute them. That is to say there is no need to ask the permission of the copyright holders.
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38,887 | I am a 29 year old female. I want to go back to school. I have been told that I have a *very* good chance at getting into a very good graduate computer science program (machine learning, AI, robotics, theoretical cs, so many algorithms... it's the real deal here, you guys). Due to cost, the fact I need to work full-tim... | [
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38,889 | Do IEEE Journals accept LaTeX-formatted manuscripts using the standard `article` or `proc` class provided by LaTeX?
It is not made clear to me, if I should stick with the `IEEETrans` class IEEE has provided me with or I can just use the standard article classes - pre-installed with LaTeX - and submit my manuscript thi... | [
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38,905 | Why as the level of a college course goes up, is the course generally more specific and more specialized but not necessarily the easier one on the lower level, also you don't have to have the knowledge of the previous class, even if it served as a prerequisite?
For example, you study general biology first, then study ... | [
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38,916 | One of our thesis advisers insists (*not* suggests) that we include the title of the journal we are citing in the introduction, one part of which is a paragraph containing some of the reviews we will be expounding more on the next chapter.
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38,917 | I am trying to help assess grad school applications this year but have little experience. In most cases I can work out a rough ranking but I find Italian university grades very hard to understand. For example, we have one candidate with
* Master degree in Information Technology (Date) University of Catania
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38,930 | Why do professors take on service duties, such as reviewing papers for a journal, or sitting on university committees?
What benefit does this have to their careers? I can't imagine they *enjoy* reviewing papers, at least not more than all the other things they need to fit into their busy schedule. | [
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38,937 | One of my research papers have been accepted to a very prestigious conference (top most in my field of study in Computer Science).
Since I am not a full time student, university rules do not allow for funding my travel and conference registration charges. Also, I do not earn enough to support my own travel to a differ... | [
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38,942 | I'm currently an undergraduate at a prestigious private university in the U.S. I'm majoring in Physics, Mozh, and Computer Science and currently am a junior. I've taken 5 graduate level courses so far (including Real Analysis and Algorithms) and have undergraduate experience working in a lab in a field unrelated to qua... | [
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38,944 | I am a computer science student from Turkey. While I was checking the websites and publications of various CS Professors in Turkey for my future studies, I noticed a strange trend. (Excluding minor exceptions)
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38,952 | I work for a company that has several projects involving computer vision. The literature rarely has papers on the exact problems we are solving. Furthermore, the state of the art in much of computer vision is often not reproducible or not ready for actual applications. Furthermore, the rate at which new papers come out... | [
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38,959 | I'm currently a computer scientist, with work experience in both academia and industry. I'm starting to get very interested in the intersection of law and computer science. I do think we really need people that know law and computer science at the same time very well, to decide on the important issues currently we are ... | [
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38,961 | I just received the feedback from the Editor-In-Chief that my paper has been rejected for publication in this high-ranking journal.
>
> There are several concerns raised by one of the reviewers. Therefore, it would not be possible to accept this paper for publication.
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>
>
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38,969 | Prompted by discussion in [this post on Meta.MathOverflow.net](https://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/2139/an-interactive-graph-of-mathoverflow-tags) I got interested in comparing usage of tags from [MathOverflow](https://mathoverflow.net/) to submissions in the respective disciplines of [arXiv](http://arxiv.org/). (V... | [
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38,975 | I asked this question on Stackoverflow and was directed to ask it here. The question is:
I wanted to ask about plagiarism detection tools for source code written in C++. When I searched Google the ones I found compare between documents that you already have. What I'm looking for is a tool that compares against content... | [
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38,980 | I would like to know if assumptions are accepted among the scientific community. especially in the field of theoretical computer science.
To be more specific, is it OK to say something like: "The behavior X **might be** explained by . . ." when you are not 100% sure that it is the correct explanation, or you are not a... | [
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39,017 | I don't really want a degree. I just want to get married, and have weekends and evenings off, and chill out and play board games, and have nice conversations with friends, and have time to exercise and eat good food, and partake in hobbies, and read books and play computer games and watch movies and write a novel or tw... | [
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39,022 | As a young researcher, it is really interesting for me to gain knowledge in different topics related to my major. I attend many conferences and seminars in my field, I read papers and books which I find related to my major.
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39,027 | As I browse the Internet, I observe that a U.S. phd program may send its offers to the applicants at different time points.
However, does this difference imply the difference in favor? I mean, does getting an offer earlier imply getting a better offer? | [
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40,036 | I wish to know how the Graduate Admissions Committees for top Universities in the USA decide about awarding Teaching Assistantship to a prospective student. If one had preferred **both** 'RAship' and 'TAship' in his/her application, does that mean he/she must first be eliminated from the RAship race and then awarded TA... | [
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40,037 | I am starting a PhD, and an interested in getting technical skills I will need over the next few years.
Are there any ethical issues with paying for people to help you to get these skills, assuming they are fully acknowledged?
From what I have read, I am working with the assumption that it is OK, as long as they ar... | [
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40,043 | I'm a PhD applicant. I recently got an offer from a school I will not be attending.
The Professor that I spoke to politely asked that, if possible, I give an answer as soon I know if I'm attending the university.
I've already determined that I won't be attending, as I'm deciding between a couple other offers that I ... | [
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"text": "> \n> Regretfully, I am declining your offer. Thank you very much for considering me for your program. \n> \n> \n> Be... | 2015/02/17 | [
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40,055 | I'm a law student acting as a teaching assistant/fellow for a tenured and notable law professor. Between last year when I took the course myself and now when I am a TA/TF, his mental acuity and health has declined significantly. He has essentially no short-term memory, tremors, and can't follow conversations. He ramble... | [
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40,057 | I noticed some prominent academics omit where they got their undergraduate degrees from in a CV (I am sure it's not a case where they never earned an undergraduate degree at all; those people also exist).
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40,070 | Several weeks after I received the recommendation from Professor M, he sent an email to me and asked me about the result of my application to a graduate school. He wants to know whether his recommendation is helpful and my application is accepted or not.
Although I have submitted my application and supporting document... | [
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40,079 | Is it permitted in UK academia to have more than one Research Associate post which totals greater than 1.0 FTE? \*. What's the general opinion if no definitive answer is possible.
Obviously 2.0 FTE would be a stretch, but I was thinking more along the lines of 1.2 FTE or 1.3 FTE.
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40,081 | I'm currently a 20 year old undergrad studying CS at a reputed institute in my city. I'm one of the very few from my batch who's interested in studying theoretical CS and mathematics (about 10 students from a batch of 200) and want to pursue research as a career.
Thing is, out of these 10 students, I'm the dumbest. I... | [
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40,085 | Do all schools have candidates at tenure-track campus interviews meet extensively with faculty members and administrators one-on-one? Are there schools where it is customary to devote a campus visit primarily to group interviews (faculty and students), job talk and/or sample class, tours of the facilities, and meals (w... | [
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40,097 | Which free online academic plagiarism checker is closest to Turnitin by quality standard of rigour?
*Turnitin* features that even somebody plagiarize the context of a passage by use synonyms or simply rephrase the sentence, it is still able to catch the student cheating...
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40,098 | The situation I have in mind is concerned with teaching introductory probability and statistics to business students, and there may be similar situations in other fields. Because of the risks associated to cheating in exams where computers are allowed, exams are restricted to basic hand-held calculators and datasets ar... | [
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40,107 | I just noticed that most of the research papers published (in the engineering faculty) are formatted such that each page contains two columns worth of information, side by side, for example:
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40,112 | I ran across [this thread](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/10941/25375), in which the accepted answer mentions to *"[..] Start on a research project (independently or otherwise) if you have not already ASAP. "*
I'm an undergraduate studying mathematics and physics. I have an Associate's degree in Computer Science... | [
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40,119 | Context
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I am graduating from a Bachelor's degree (Computer Science) at the end of the year from a fairly large Australian university (top50 world). I am keen for a lecturing role (only teaching) at the university I am graduating from, specifically in the introductory computing subject (equivalent of Computing ... | [
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40,123 | Open book exams are exams that are taken in a classroom, with a limited amount of time, but where the student can consult notes, textbooks, and any kind of written material. They are usually meant to test problem-solving abilities and the capacity to apply the existing theory rather than memorization.
It seems natural... | [
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40,141 | I am an 'overseas' student in a university, currently pursuing a bachelor's degree. Although I am really interested in signing up for graduate school, I am bonded to work for at least three years as soon as I get my bachelors degree. I am afraid that this might weaken my application and my chances of getting into a goo... | [
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40,145 | Consider a research work that is present in another person's thesis, submitted two years before at the university, but not published online anywhere. Can someone extend that work and submit it to a journal? | [
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40,156 | I am a PhD Student in Australia and I have been asked to help out a research team in my lab on a grant related research project. I have a fair bit of knowledge in the area they are looking in too. I am 'close' with all members involved (two are my supervisors and one is a postdoc in my building).
All signals are going... | [
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40,159 | In academia, is there evidence that including phrases such as "refreshments provided" in a seminar announcement increases the average attendance (even slightly)? | [
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40,163 | If I write I paper in which I criticise a view or argument expressed by another author, is it considered polite or customary to offer the author an advanced/draft copy of my paper?
My criticisms are of course at an academic rather than personal level. | [
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40,164 | I have recently finished my thesis and submitted to both university and national thesis center.
However, it is not online yet (probably there are many thesis pending). Should I wait for the thesis center to make it available or can I just put it to my website? | [
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40,172 | There [are](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29219/how-to-address-a-mistake-in-an-old-paper-in-a-very-prestigious-scientific-journa?rq=1) [several](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/520/how-do-you-make-corrections-to-a-published-paper?rq=1) [questions](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions... | [
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40,173 | In the introductory chapter of my thesis, I've been surveying the previous work in my field. As part of this, I've used images from some of those publications and included them as Figures in my own thesis.
Occasionally, I have slightly edited them - for instance, changing the labelling.
I usually only use one image... | [
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40,174 | I published three papers during my PhD, I'm now writing my thesis.
I have written three chapters, each based around each paper, but re-written so as not to fall foul of self-plagiarism rules. However, I've still used ALL of the figures from the publication in the chapters.
My concern is not really with this aspect ... | [
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40,200 | I am currently working in a faculty where among the courses in CS there is one about Computer Graphics. That course was taught last year by a professor who actually has retired, and who was a specialist in the field. The thing is that the Diap has talked to me for putting me in charge of that course in the undergraduat... | [
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40,205 | My dissertation is drafted in a paper format which consists of three papers that I am planning to publish in future. Can I submit the manuscript to journals in 'as is' condition or I will have to draft new manuscripts based on the old manuscripts.
Please advise.
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40,208 | I'm a Computer Science graduate student enrolled in a US University. In a class I'm currently taking, the professor has just given us a strange assignment. The professor works full-time in industry and is teaching classes at the University by night.
He has given us a piece of legacy code from the company where he work... | [
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40,218 | In my thesis, I would like to refer to a set of links. These are tools/calculators/etc. related to my subject, included to show that there is an interest in society at large in this topic.
I'm wondering what the best way would be to include them. Options include:
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40,220 | A prospective employer requested a copy of my PhD thesis and some unpublished papers (still working on them). Is it wise to hand these to them? | [
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40,227 | I currently hold a bachelor's degree at Biomedical Engineering and I want to do a Master's Degree in Computer Science at California.
Would that be a problem?
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40,230 | Related to my work is a large project, with many publication. There is not a single recent publication that is particularly related to my work, and most of the publications have a particular focus on some aspect of that project that is less related.
What is the best way to reference that project’s work in general?
As... | [
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40,234 | I like to get as much practice as I can before an exam so is it permissable to use other colleges or universities' practice exams or handouts for practice. I am not distributing them to anyone, selling them or profiting. Just want to get as much practice as possible. I was wondering if this is ok? | [
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40,239 | I have only 2 publications from my PhD, and I am applying for a post-doc position.
My fields are: Theoretical physical chemistry; condensed matter physics;
computational chemistry; cluster science.
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40,257 | If all students of a class sign a petition claiming that a professor of a course is unqualified to teach, does the department/faculty change that professor?
Do students have this right? and what is the procedure to do so?
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40,260 | Our applied math department is beginning to have a serious attendance problem at our colloquium. The appropriate level for our colloquium is that any person with an undergraduate degree in a quantitative/theoretical field should be able to follow the talk as long as they are paying close attention.
In an invitation l... | [
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40,270 | My lectures (mathematics) are delivered in a theatre with full projection facilities, and my lectures are given as PDF slides. But I often need to explain something not covered in enough detail on a slide, in response to a particular student difficulty (my lectures are very interactive!). For that I can use the whitebo... | [
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40,275 | I am a mathematics undergraduate. I would like to get into a top 10 PhD school and might not do so this year. I would like to apply again and want to do what whatever is necessary to maximize my chances.
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40,283 | Why don't typical US colleges offer more online courses so that all of the classes could be taken online?
Online courses are cheaper, more profitable and more efficient to produce quantity of student(which translate into more people can be educated); students don't have to spend time traveling to classes. Students cou... | [
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40,288 | In a class, students asked the professor to give us a copy of his powerpoint presentations, but he refused and claimed this is personal property.
Students need the presentations to review the topics presented throughout the semester.
Is the course presentation personal property of the professor or part of the educati... | [
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40,290 | My question is in the title, but I'm specifically curious about the case where all students give a professor a negative evaluation. In that instance, does the department/university stop giving him new courses? Does it have any effect whatsoever? | [
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40,293 | 1. I want to know a way to find past IELTS questions. If they are available freely?
2. Are there good exams for all modules? (Specially Listening) | [
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40,294 | PhD program is new in our department, and first experience of the faculty members and department head.
Our PhD classes are exactly like undergraduate classes: monologue lecture, strict attendance rule, no discussion, etc.
We are PhD students, and we have not experienced PhD classes before, but our expectation was som... | [
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40,303 | Can an ABD (all but dissertation) return to the university to redo the dissertation? If yes, how do they proceed? | [
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40,306 | I am a PhD student in the social sciences at an American university. I have completed coursework, my prospectus, qualifying exams, and teaching. I am about to leave for one year of dissertation fieldwork.
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40,329 | After encountering a few official forms to fill out (tax, medical, LinkedIn, job applications), I don't know what my official job title is during my PhD. There doesn't seem to be a standard for this. I don't think "student" accurately reflects my role, because I'm doing research and getting a small stipend for it. What... | [
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40,336 | We have published a workshop paper last year. Now, we are planning to submit it to a conference. The conference paper roughly have 50% new materials. Basically, the workshop paper studied a 3.5-year data set while the conf version extends it to 4.5-year. The conf version also has a new data set. We also applied several... | [
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40,359 | Is it a standard practice for tenure and promotion committee to ask for referee reports of some published papers of the one evaluated? | [
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"text": "**Review reports** as in your title: yes. Asking an outside expert in the field for comments about the published work... | 2015/02/22 | [
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40,372 | Does this status mean it has been sent to referees? Or is could it still be desk rejected? | [
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"text": "Under review implies it has been sent out for peer review and has passed the initial check. T & F primarily use... | 2015/02/22 | [
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40,376 | I am applying to various universities to study for an msc in maths or pure maths.
After sending of my application I have realized that I have not mentioned anything in the way future career plans.
Was this a bad idea? | [
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"text": "I don't think so, unless they specifically asked for it.\n\nThis is not a doctorate- research is not the only goal... | 2015/02/22 | [
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40,378 | I am a graduate student and one of my research projects requires me to crawl a website using their public API. This is going alright but the amount of data we can collect is limited, since it is a public API.
As it happens, I will be doing an internship at the company that owns that website, and will soon have access ... | [
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"text": "You should ask the company where you do your internship. Perhaps they are fine with whatever you want to do. ... | 2015/02/22 | [
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40,381 | I keep hearing my teachers (high school and college) joke about how professors make their grad students write parts of textbooks for them.
For example, one high school teacher picked up a history textbook and joked that Spielvogel (the author) just made his grad students write all 1000 pages or so.
How common is th... | [
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"text": "Amongst the number of professors I have known who wrote textbooks, I have never known this to be the case. Of cou... | 2015/02/22 | [
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