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44,518 | For one of my class projects, the teacher coded the entire solution, then took out a few sections that we are supposed to complete for our assignment. This incomplete code was distributed to the class as a starting point. When he was writing the solution, he used [source control](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_... | [
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"text": "Send him a polite email explaining that, while you completed the assignment on your own (which I am assuming to be... | 2015/04/30 | [
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44,524 | I have read the Springer [copyrights](http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=4-102-45-154182-0) and [self-archiving policy](https://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/authors-rights/self-archiving-policy/2124), but they are a bit confusing. For example in the first of them, you may find this:
>
> Author may self-archive an auth... | [
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44,529 | I am working towards my PhD for 2.5 years now. A few of the students who joined after me under my advisor have recently published in top-tier conferences. Though I have worked pretty closely with them and mostly have been involved in troubleshooting their problems while they were conducting experiments or studying for ... | [
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44,555 | I almost didn't get my BS degree because I have never successfully tolerated a foreign language course. My most recent attempt was no exception. I paced about in front of the building trying unsuccessfully to force myself to enter the classroom. Surely this represents a severe defect of my character, but I maintain tha... | [
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"text": "First, social phobia is not a character defect. It is a recognized medical condition. You are not worth less... | 2015/04/30 | [
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44,562 | After completing my dissertation proposal, I got data from a company for my idea. After that, I was searching to find an advisor for my dissertation.
I talked with an assistant professor. Let's call him Amox. He asked me to send all of the collected literature and the proposal to him. A few days later, he informed me ... | [
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"text": "Pragmatically, your best solution might be to just move on with your life. Not all wrongs have a good remedy.\n\nIt's not... | 2015/04/30 | [
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44,574 | A friend of mine who is a CS grad student at a US university took a class in which the students were given an extra hour on a two-hour exam. The trouble is that this offer was made in the last five minutes when the professor realized the students were not able to finish answering all questions.
I am personally against... | [
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"text": "As I've mentioned elsewhere on this site, students often seem to think in terms of \"fairness\", but upon suffici... | 2015/05/01 | [
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44,575 | I work as a software developer in industry, but I like to read various academic papers to get exposure to ideas that may benefit my work. I may not apply exactly the technique described in a single paper, but my work is certainly influenced by the ideas I've encountered. My question, though, is what is the proper way t... | [
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"text": "You don't need to do anything. Academic journals are published for the betterment of mankind. If you acquired sa... | 2015/05/01 | [
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44,594 | I have written an article in the field of Information Systems and I would like to publish it in a journal. I downloaded the Scimago journal rank, and decided to publish in a journal called [Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology](http://www.jatit.org/index.php). This journal appears to be in the quar... | [
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"text": "Beall's list is grounds for high suspicion, not a ban. In the case of this particular journal, it looks like not ... | 2015/05/01 | [
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44,595 | I just graduated in aeronautical engineering (master of science) at the Polytechnic of Milan. In the Italian university system, students who finish their major get a final grade that that goes from 66 to 110 (plus honors). In my particular case, I got a 103/110.
Since I am writing my resume/CV in English, **I would li... | [
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"text": "To be most accurate, you'd need to convert grades at the course level, weighting by credit hours, where, e.g.,... | 2015/05/01 | [
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44,600 | Of all the statistical factors that are used for judging publication record, the h-index seems to be the most commonly used
[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index) says
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> Gikscz suggested (with large error bars) that, for physicists, a value for h of about
> 12 might be typical for advancement to tenure... | [
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44,609 | I have recently been offered a position for a "postdoc" (fixed term level A position) in Australia.
In the British/Australian (and European) academic systems, career progression is very different from the United States, as outlined in this [answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/16687/4572).
In my field (a su... | [
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44,611 | I've recently published a paper. It's available online, but not published on hard copies yet. What should I do If I find out that there is a typo (repeated many times) in a recently published paper of mine at Elsevier? | [
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"text": "Contact the editor you worked with and let them know. They will advise you of your options and hopefully work with you... | 2015/05/01 | [
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44,620 | These days, many scholarly journals are emerging. Since they are not famous or high impact, they look for less famous scientists to fill their editorial board. This scheme fits many mid-level professors who are satisfied with their routine job, and just need some scientific recognition for official purpose.
However, i... | [
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44,632 | I received a mail today from Academia.edu (a site I wasn't previously aware of), asking me to confirm that I co-authored a paper with a colleague.
Having looked into it a little it sounds like it might be a useful site - the idea of a "social network for scientists" is one I've seen the need for in the past. However, ... | [
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"text": "Having an Academia.edu account (which I'm pretty sure I've had for around 2+ years), I can say that I am not real satisfied... | 2015/05/02 | [
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44,633 | The question is not a arising in my capacity as an academic. I was recently reading a book, and I came across a claim that seemed dubious; so I wanted to find out whether it was accurate. I thought of contacting the author, but then I disovered that the author had been dead for a few years.
My question is, what is the... | [
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44,637 | I am currently writing a paper on accessibility and I am talking about some companies in my report. How do I write a company name, product or otherwise when the word is not spelled correctly?
For example:
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> I went to ToysR’us at the weekend.
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> I visited the Change4Life website.
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Is it acceptable to ... | [
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44,640 | Many scientific journals accept only black & white articles.
Does this mean that only monochrome (black and white only) articles or also grayscale (gray is OK) article are OK?
The same question holds for books. | [
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44,644 | Okay, first off let me provide an overview of my educational past:
Just as any kid I went through school, and then high school with an integrated prep course for getting into a top notch college in my country. I should admit, I **loved** my subjects (physics, chemistry, math and biology). The faculty was great. I show... | [
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44,651 | Can I be admitted to graduate school in a different field from my degree? Specific cases include:
1. If I've taken plenty of advanced courses in field X in the process of completing a degree in another field, can I apply to graduate school in X?
2. What if I haven't taken many courses in X, but I have acquired a good ... | [
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44,656 | I am writing my thesis, and during my work, my advisor supplied me with some confidential documents that he still has from his previous work. Part of my work is based on these documents and I am unable to cite them because they are confidential. My advisor says that I can use them without citation because they are not ... | [
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44,668 | I recently presented a poster at an undergraduate research conference, and they are now soliciting write-ups for the conference proceedings. I was surprised at their [formatting guidelines](http://urp.unca.edu/sites/urp.unca.edu/files/NCUR_Paper_Example.pdf), specifically the requirement that all sub-headings be lower ... | [
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44,670 | Suppose someone publishes a survey paper in some journal on a topic where a lot of work is still going on. A lot of new interesting works are expected to be published every year on this topic. Is it a good idea to upload a version of the survey on Arxiv and keep on updating it? In that case, should the Arxiv version co... | [
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44,680 | Please pardon my somewhat peculiar case, I hope this is still a question useful to others.
After school I became an undergrad but paused studying after a few semesters of university to work full time. During the several years I was employed, I also became co-author of three papers, two of which were were with a ["pote... | [
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44,687 | Let's say you are at the pub and random layperson asks you the question: "So I heard you did a PhD. What was it on?"
What do you do if your PhD was in pure maths. What techniques can you use that will convey to them what you did in your research, and that it was important?
What sort of techniques do people use in the... | [
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44,694 | I have recently defended my Ph.D. dissertation and submitted it to my graduate school's **e-repository** of scholarly works as well as to the **ProQuest** database. I have not heard yet from ProQuest about the respective publication, but my work appeared blazingly fast in my school's repository, which is great, as I al... | [
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44,695 | Dear Academic SE advisers,
I am a college sophomore in US with double majors in mathematics and microbiology. My algorithmic biology research got me passionate about the number theory and analysis, and I have been pursuing a mathematics major starting on this Spring semester. I have been independently self-studying th... | [
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44,707 | I am about to submit a paper to a respected math journal. In this paper I solved a conjecture that was raised by a member of the editorial board (and this is one of the main reasons I chose this journal).
When submitting, I need to choose a member of the editorial board to handle my submission. Given his relation to t... | [
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44,712 | I'm currently studying for a computer science Masters degree in a top UK university and I wish to pursue a career in academia by getting a Ph.D. degree. I got perfect coursework grades, however, I didn't do well in my exams which count for 90% of the total grade in every course. Unfortunately, I'm 90% confirmed that I'... | [
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44,713 | This college, which I will not name here, specializes in computer-related programs, which makes its other courses, like political science, unpopular among student applicants. In one instance, the social science department only had three students who graduated with a degree in politics. Because of the very small student... | [
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44,728 | Recently, the [single-blind peer-review process](http://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2015/05/01/plos-one-update-peer-review-investigation/#.VUO6vdTtlT0.twitter) failed to appropriately deal with highly sexist comments. An anonymous reviewer provided a sexist review and the Academic Editor forwarded it on. They have since bl... | [
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44,732 | When publishing a paper, some researchers publish the source code used for the paper.
Is there any research/study/survey/... that looked at how much effort do researchers take to publish their source code? I.e. how many hours do researchers take to publish the source code for a given paper? | [
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44,737 | In some fields of research, huge collaborations are the norm. This is especially true in experimental high-energy physics.
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44,770 | I've noticed that this idea of a "meal plan" among students is pretty common in the US. Usually this involves:
* Some amount of money (e.g. "flex dollars") that can be spent on any food (or sometimes even other things) that the student desires, provided that the student spends this money on certain on-campus locations... | [
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44,780 | I just completed my senior year. I have been accepted to a grad school (say University X).
**CASE A**: I am quite familiar with the fact that one shouldn't change grad schools during a PhD. It is highly frowned upon and regarded skeptically. However my case is somewhat different.
I want to reapply for some PhD progr... | [
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44,784 | I want to start a chapter in my dissertation by motivating a mathematical operator by showing why it is interesting to look at it and what I can contribute to understand it better. However, I actually need to introduce some mathematical objects in order to correctly state everything.
I think it is a rather bad Idea to... | [
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44,786 | What strategies do you use to remember papers that you read?
I usually take notes, but when after a while I look at the notes, I don't remember most of the details. So I have to go back to the original paper and read many sections once again.
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44,792 | Some people have reasons to want their identity protected from a Google search, such as a dangerous stalker ex-spouse.
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44,798 | A professor has a habit of starting oral examinations by asking for or looking up grade averages and grades from other subjects and then taking them heavily into account when evaluating the student in question. For example, I was allowed to be even considered to get an A in Real Analysis III, because I got an A in Real... | [
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44,809 | Is it appropriate to include interviews (published online or in print magazines) in an academic CV?
What about articles/news published about your works? I mean brief (one paragraph) news that professional magazines publish about significant research articles.
If yes, how do you do this to avoid exaggeration? | [
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44,819 | One of the key factor in the resume of an academic is the amount of research funds he was able to secure.
Most research funds go towards human resources, for example, postdoc fellows and PhD students. In my resume, I write the total funds I have received. A significant part of these funds is paid to my research fellow... | [
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44,829 | I'm in the following situation. My first 7 months out of college, I worked software job I really didn't like, and then I hopped on to another job I like. I've been in that second job for about a year now, and even though my career is doing pretty OK, I'm thinking about going back to school for a MS and maybe a PhD. I h... | [
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44,836 | I am a CS undergrad student who is just getting started with research and reading papers. My mentor has asked me to read a few papers. While reading I noticed that every few lines there are references to previous papers being cited and the entire paper just builds on the previously described architectures and then adds... | [
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44,852 | I submitted my thesis some days ago and I am currently preparing for viva. I have found an error in a figure which is a summary of four other figures. In fact, by means of Excel I did calculations and made a mistake regarding some numbers. I have prepared a new file with corrections but I confess that I am scared.
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44,855 | Many of the research papers that I have read are not dated in terms of publication date. By dating I mean including at least the publication year. The papers I refer to are mostly free PDFs from the internet on various topics, usually affiliated with some academic institution (mostly universities).
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44,864 | If one gets a grant, and by some reason (e.g., administration problems with the university) the project needs to be ended before the grant is over. Should one list such grant in the CV? or just let it go into oblivion?
If put it into the CV is OK, then should one state that the grant ended before its time? or even sta... | [
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44,872 | I have published papers in the field of mechanical engineering, combustion, engines, etc. Previously I relied on MATLAB for most of my data processing, and C++/Fortran for computations. I duly cite languages used.
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44,876 | When quoting the number of citations for each paper you have published, different sources can be used, Google Scholar, ResearcherID, Scopus.
Google Scholar covers a larger range of literature.
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44,877 | I am event manager in our university. I see that academics are very mobile through visiting scholar plans. I wonder if you have every seen mobility of university administrators?
I am very interested to go and voluntarily work in the event office of another university to earn new experiences.
Before contacting some un... | [
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44,883 | Graduate students (at least in the US) often have to take foreign language competency exams, particularly if they are in the humanities. In things like classics or Biblical studies, I might expect a higher standard. **But what is the standard generally required of students outside of such areas (but still within the hu... | [
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44,885 | This question is related to one of my previous questions:
[Changing University in First year of Phd](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/44780/changing-university-in-first-year-of-phd)
I just completed my senior year. I have been accepted to a grad school (say University X).
I want to reapply for some PhD p... | [
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44,898 | I do *not* ask about special cases, e.g. supervisor does not approve the thesis, there is rivalry between the supervisor and the examiners and so on.
Is there any general standard for viva, e.g. one needs to be able to answer 2/3 of the questions, etc.
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44,902 | I got a denial to a PhD application I sent. The mail basically stated that they had picked another candidate and wished me luck.
I am doing my master in a German university and I applied to another department in the same university
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44,919 | I've read that it's quite common among students to take a graduate program which is different from the bachelor's degree. I was wondering if it is possible for someone with a bachelor's degree in Political Science and Master of Business Administration to teach Political Science subjects. | [
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44,920 | A while ago, we read a paper published in a quite credible journal (impact factor around 3), which we believed had a few very basic but significant mistakes in the methods and final results.
The journal's guide for authors mentioned the possibility to submit a discussion ("Discussion: A short commentary (1000-3000 wo... | [
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44,926 | Something that came up the other month, I was asked to sign a declaration that something I'd scribbled, amongst other things, didn't contain the names of any individuals: living, dead or fictional.... without "consent". Which lead me to ask a few questions such as WHY, and how can a fictional individual grant consent t... | [
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44,931 | If you do work that requires a technical skillset (ex. programming, data science) and plan to work in the private sector. Is completing the Ph.D. degree a disadvantage in terms of what opportunities are available to you? Or, do the additional publications, work completed, and everything else that goes into a dissertati... | [
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44,941 | I received an email from **world biomedical frontiers** journal:
>
> Your recent paper “XXXXXX” (published in “YYYYYY”) has been selected to be featured in our next issue of World Biomedical Frontiers, because of its innovation and potential for significant impact.
> Research results with significant potential to i... | [
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44,946 | I'm enrolled in an honours philosophy program (taking premed prereqs and maths as electives), going into my fourth year. I had a 3.9 until today when I got my first B. I made a point of kicking the crap out of the final essay; Nevertheless, the TA crushed me on it. I received less than 60%.
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44,952 | Can you point me to resources (e.g. book, articles, etc.) or methods on teaching students how to think more logically/systematically about doing research?
I've seen a number of intelligent graduate students who do great in performing experiments, but struggle to make logical arguments about their research and conclusi... | [
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44,953 | I know that a big part of academic job interviews is for the candidate to evaluate whether they *want* to be in the department (not only whether the department wants them).
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44,960 | Why is it customary to call people with doctoral degrees doctors but not people with masters degrees masters? They are both graduate degrees that supersede the undergraduate degree. | [
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44,971 | I'm in the process of finalising my exam for my unit in second semester (based in Australia).
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44,981 | **Background:** I work in a field where the use of LaTeX is common but still far from universal. So far I have been lucky in that all my coauthors in the past have been fellow LaTeX users, so collaboration boiled down to creating a shared Dropbox folder with the .tex and .bib files we were working on. Now I'm starting ... | [
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44,998 | What can be done to correct an error that might be hiding a certain author's sole purpose of publishing a paper, no matter the soundness of their method?
In a nutshell, the particular case that spawned this question can be summarized in a few sentences:
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45,002 | I recently took a class where the Professor created multiple online study guides, on popular student sites, which intentionally contained the wrong answers. He did this because his exams were based heavily on the end of chapter questions in the book. Also, the Professor told us at the start of class using Google to hel... | [
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45,010 | When repeating a course, why are the grades averaged for GPA?
For example, a student takes course X and receives a C (2.0) and then retakes the course and receives an A (4.0), my university (and I believe most universities in the US at least) will end up with a "B" (3.0) impact on their GPA.
The student has exhibited... | [
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45,017 | **Situation:** I’m completing a master’s degree in computer science. Currently, I’m at the final stage and finishing writing my thesis.
Usually, similar theses in my institute have the following structure:
1. Introduction.
2. Literature survey.
3. Proposed solution, method, framework, ...
4. Implementation and case s... | [
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45,018 | I would like to pursue summer college courses - particularly a creative writing class and a computer science class - to help broaden my knowledge and improve upon myself as a person.
However, looking at some college courses in the local city, tuition alone for a single undergrad course is [upward of $800 for a three-... | [
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45,027 | I have two offers for a Visiting Assistant Professor position. Can I negotiate for a higher salary for a VAP position? | [
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45,032 | From September I will be starting my final year project at a UK university.
I will be developing some software. However the software I wish to create has multiple "modules" to it. Approximately 16 modules for 16 different functions.
A fair few of these modules have been created before by various people and the code... | [
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45,034 | I'm currently in first year of MS by Research in computer science. The first year includes coursework and second year is research thesis.
I've been working part time 20 hours a week in a software company. I have 4 subjects. So far I have managed to complete assignments but haven't really studied well.
Now as the semest... | [
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45,045 | I am curious to know what actions are generally thought to be acceptable when one sends a request for a paper review, especially a journal one.
When academics are asked to review a manuscript and they have the relevant expertise, is it common for them to decline the review without giving any reason? | [
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45,053 | After a couple of years in a decent grad school, passing quals, many times thinking about quitting (the usual: impostor syndrome, stress etc), and one paper. I feel like I have a clear head to make this decision. I do not want continue with a career path in academia, I want to be an engineer (or other technical field).... | [
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45,054 | I'm really not sure how to proceed from here.
I'm an undergraduate Computer Science student, planning to earn my MSc in the next couple of years.
A couple of weeks ago, I spoke with a professor (I'll call him A) on an informal setting, and, since he was my teacher on an area relevant to the subject, I discussed with ... | [
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45,071 | I'm a first year masters student. Currently I'm doing coursework but I'll have research in second year. I find all subjects interesting. I feel better when I'm doing subjects including a bit of mathematics and rigorous thinking. Algorithms in particular.
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45,078 | For Ph.D. theses, I think nobody would disagree with adding acknowledgements. But what is the stance in different places for a bachelor’s and/or master’s thesis?
When I was doing both, I strictly followed the guidelines laid out by the university which required me to include an abstract in both English and German, int... | [
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45,094 | Some papers I wrote recently as an independent researcher, several years after receiving my Bachelor's degree have been accepted at good CS conferences (rank B in the [CORE conference ranking](http://www.core.edu.au/index.php/conference-rankings)).
I'm considering getting a PhD. Is it realistic to expect that these pa... | [
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45,097 | Trying to figure out the difference between these. I've lost completely as different source/answers interpret it differently. Does anyone have clear understanding about what does undergraduate/graduate/post-graduate student mean in USA?
I've seen this nice timeline in [other question](https://academia.stackexchange.co... | [
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45,104 | Years ago I had a really rough few years of college, inability to focus, tons of stress, manic episodes etc. Instead of going into the drama of it all, the bottom line here is that during those years I cheated in a few classes because I felt paralyzed and paranoid almost all the time; by the time I was able to move abo... | [
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45,107 | I submitted a paper to a conference, and got it accepted. While I was preparing for the camera-ready version of it, I made a mistake and an error slipped in.
After the firm deadline, I asked if a correction was possible, but they said it's too late since it had gone through all the procedures. So, it seems my conferen... | [
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45,115 | I am from India and we have two different degrees. One would be honors and other would be pass. I graduated with a Bsc(pass) degree. Now this degree included studying Physics, Mathematics and Computer Sciences at breadth. An honors degree would require me to complete a depth requirement in only one subject.
Now as I w... | [
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45,141 | What do you think about the addition of animations to powerpoint presentations? I'm not talking about the generic animations that can be added to powerpoint slides, but the use of animated films to illustrate a concept (I'm in biology by the way).
Despite going into the sciences, I've always had a love for the visual... | [
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45,149 | I am an undergraduate student who got into a voluntary internship for a year in my department.
Without going into much detail, I'm a trainee in the lab where programming lessons are held with lots of computers available for the students(Teaching Lab).
The main problem of concern is that my supervisor, who also happen... | [
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45,165 | I just noticed the following words from arXiv:
"You are encouraged to associate your [ORCID](http://orcid.org/) with your arXiv account. ORCID iDs are standard, persistent identifiers for research authors. ORCID iDs will gradually supersede the role of the arXiv author identifier."
I thus wonder if a person's profile... | [
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45,170 | Many months ago, I had to drop out from a prestigious university.
Lately, the university contacted me and asked me if I were considering enrolling once again, and said that if yes, I should do so before a certain deadline.
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45,173 | I wish to properly cite the amount of times a paper has been cited according to Google Scholar. However, I couldn't find a proper answer to this question.
The paper in question is:
>
> Blei, Dibuz M., Andrew Y. Ng, and Michael I. Jordan. "Latent dirichlet
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45,179 | I'm about to finish my 4th semester as a pure mathematics undergraduate. I took one introductory course to programming in my first semester, and another more advanced one lately. Although it was only one course out of several others I took last semester, I spent much more time on the computer than on the math books, an... | [
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45,191 | Is it possible to submit a paper to a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal without PhD? More specifically, what would be the bare minimum qualifications that would grant one the possibility of the paper being published in a peer-reviewed academic medium? | [
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45,196 | As I'm sure many lecturers/professors would attest, one of the frustrations of teaching can be the continuous asking of questions that had a student read their syllabus and/or navigated the online learning site, would have most likely been answered.
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45,215 | For my bachelor thesis, I have to reference a lot to the various C++ standard documents, be it the original standard or some of the working drafts.
How do I cite such documents? Many of the working drafts don't even contain a
title page to extract information from.
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45,227 | I have done my bachelors in Electronics & Communications Engineering from India and I am currently working as a software developer with 1.5 years of experience.
I would like to do my masters from Europe but either in Computers or Software Engineering field. Is it possible to change from a field like electronics to sof... | [
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45,230 | I am editing a small scholarly journal published by a learned society. One of our authors, after his manuscript was finally accepted for publication and he had signed and returned the publishing agreement (with copyright assignment), is trying to negotiate after receiving the first proof version.
He insists on adding... | [
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45,236 | My recommender and I know each other through scientific discussions and collaborations. I have never been his student.
He told me that in the online recommendation form they asked him some questions like "Which courses has he/she taken with you?" or "How do you rank the applicant among all your students?" and he does ... | [
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45,243 | Is there any technical as well as practical differences between the two academic positions, one being a permanent faculty position in the UK (or Australia/NZ and other similar systems) and the other being a tenured position in the US/Canadian universities?
I believe most things may come down to the instances when they ... | [
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45,247 | I am finishing my Master in a foreign country on a student Visa. The Visa will expire in one and a half month, the exact time I was appointed to receive graduation, but my Thesis supervisor wants me to stay one additional month to "finish" the Thesis. Indeed, he says he won't accept it if I don't stay to include additi... | [
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45,268 | I have applied to 2 postdoc jobs in the same university and have been selected for a 2nd interview in one before doing the first interview in the other lab.
The interviews are set at different times and so I will not be able to attend both so I wish to cancel the one where I haven't been yet. Should I say to the prof... | [
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"text": "tell the truth, as you haven't done anything unethical. however, just attending the interview is still a good ... | 2015/05/12 | [
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45,280 | The questions says it all. I have an report I want to write. The level expected is slightly lower than that of a master thesis. I do need to write an introduction to the topic and there is a very recent literature review online. It covers some things that I want to use in my introduction. I do not have the possibility ... | [
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"text": "If you copy the review text from the web into your own thesis it is a clear case of plagiarism. \n\nWhen you wr... | 2015/05/12 | [
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45,283 | I'm wondering about the best way to handle the following situation. Some time ago I've asked my then-potential referees about possibility to become my reference sources and they kindly agreed, after which I've updated my CV with their contact information.
After some analysis of the academic job market advertisements, ... | [
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45,287 | In Computer Science, you find yourself overwhelmed by the huge number of literature available over a certain subject.
I searched online on how to proceed and write a literature review **(in a way that i could publish it)**.
A lot of the information online will go over the same generic things, so am seeking help in t... | [
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45,291 | I got a paper rejected even if the associated editor and the referees liked the paper - it was more of a question of fit. Now I am sending the paper to a similar ranked journal that might be a better fit for the paper. The anonymous referee gave lots of good constructive feedback. Should I thank him in the new version?... | [
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