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48,193 | Just to ask some advice regarding tutoring students while pursuing a PhD to supplement my income.
Is this a good idea? Tutoring pays well in my country, and I am intending to teach twice a week(2 hours each), which would generate a side income equivalent to 30% of my stipend.
(Side info: I am researching Mathematics)
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48,195 | I need to add some images to my thesis. I would strongly prefer that these are free (no cost) and not restricted by copyright. I have used Google Image to find images, I don't know how to determine what the copyright restrictions are, or what license types apply. I will not use them in any published paper, just for my ... | [
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48,207 | I'm doing independent research in computer sciences and i develop some program that i think i might be could write a couple paper for this.
My question is what should i do between
1. Publish a paper first then release its application
2. Release application first then publish its paper
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48,208 | Does anyone know if it is possible for a Ph.D. graduate of mathematics to successfully do research in his/her spare time?
The work environment and conditions in academia seem somewhat deplorable at the moment---no offence intended, but that simply very much appears to be the case from an outsider's perspective---and i... | [
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"text": "It should be possible, but it will be *hard*.\n\n* Whether seminars are barred to you will depend on your lo... | 2015/07/02 | [
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48,224 | I am a student in computer science and I recently started working on my M.Sc. thesis. Now I am reading a 2011 paper with about 170 citations that was published in a well-known conference.
In part of the paper, the author briefly states the complexity of their algorithm (in just one line) and claims a complexity order ... | [
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48,227 | I am in talks with a PhD supervisor for admission to university who likes my profile but has given me an article to review. Although the article is related to my broader research area, there are some terminologies that I don't have proper background knowledge. I have read the article and have fair understanding of it. ... | [
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"text": "You have two main options here:\n\n1. Write the review. When does he expect it by? Do you have time to learn an... | 2015/07/02 | [
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48,237 | This question is a variation of my [earlier](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/42918/does-one-need-a-masters-in-math-before-taking-a-phd-in-math) [questions](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/43926/does-one-need-a-bachelors-in-math-if-not-a-masters-before-taking-a-phd-in-ma).
Okay so in the US, I... | [
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48,238 | So from my previous questions and from what I heard, I found out (iirc) that people who apply for a PhD in the US make a [perso](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1145334/can-i-get-a-phd-in-stochastic-analysis-given-this-limited-background#comment2373667_1145334)nal statement or [statement of purpose](https://ac... | [
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"text": "Most of the people I know (in biotechnology, Austria) applied for a PhD position similar to a normal job offer. If ... | 2015/07/02 | [
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48,263 | Those of you, who had a chance to read some of my questions on this site, are likely aware of my ongoing job search, which I am doing on both academia and industry fronts. Since, *naturally*, I am leaning toward research-focused work, recently I ran across some additional industry positions, which are also research-foc... | [
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"text": "I can't speak for the IS field, but I think that there's a strong chance that your time in industry would be co... | 2015/07/03 | [
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48,266 | Is it a good idea to include participation in summer schools to my CV? | [
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48,274 | I am in a bind. I just decided to take a voluntary leave of absence for medical reasons (also partly financial reasons) from my PhD program and I need to look for a job. I have stupendous credentials and recommendations but most of my recommenders are academics who recommended me two years ago for this doctoral program... | [
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"text": "I recommend you list your PhD studies on your CV. Industry is full of people who have left a PhD program for one r... | 2015/07/03 | [
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48,280 | Why faculty usually have two official email addresses, the university and the department address?
1. Yumejy@university.edu
2. Yumejy@department.university.edu
Do they use the second more to communicate with students and the first for other tasks? They could use one and add emails to folders or labels. | [
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48,284 | In the United States, what is the common way junior faculty address senior faculty in the same department or different department?
1. Hi First or Last name
2. Hi Dr \_\_\_
3. Dear Dr \_\_
4. Dear Doctor \_\_\_
5. Dear Prof. \_\_\_
6. Dear Professor \_\_\_
7. No greetings, start the topic directly. | [
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48,306 | Few days ago I received an email from the associate editor. He apologized for my paper has mistakenly been left outside of the normal review process. This happened almost 14 months after my submission. I asked the journal editor for information on the status of the review process about 7 months ago and received an emai... | [
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48,310 | I have been admitted to a Master in the Netherlands, but my diploma will be awarded after the enroloment date there. However, the university says they can process my admission if I send them an official letter stating that *"I have graduated", completed my course work, and that the diploma will be awarded later.*
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48,319 | I will be soon joining a PhD program in US on an F-1 student visa. I will be entering US about 20 days before the university academic session starts. The university will be providing health insurance to me, and coverage will start with the academic session itself. So I will not be covered by university insurance for my... | [
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"text": "You are asking if it is risky not to buy the insurance. In absolute numbers, it is not risky. There is only a small p... | 2015/07/05 | [
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48,324 | I am re-drafting my cover letter for the tenure track faculty positions in the U.S. While I was finishing my dissertation, I quickly moved to a new research direction. Although I can make the case of how my new research direction grows out of my dissertation, I wonder when do people stop talking about their dissertatio... | [
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48,325 | 1. **How do universities train MBA students differently from MS students?** Statistics and quantitative reasoning are vital parts of the MBA as analytics have become crucial to many aspects of business. In what sense does an MS in Statistics have better training in analytics than an MBA?
2. **How do MBAs add value to a... | [
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48,336 | Reading the German universities' regulations on doctoral programs, one often comes to paragraphs about sanctions that can be demanded by the PhD board (*Promotionsausschuss*) as perquisites before they admit a candidate.
For example I have seen *[updated to reflect the given answers]*:
* own publication(s) needed
* t... | [
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48,337 | Papers written for conferences and journals are today mainly available as PDFs. There are [several usability issues](http://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/) with the PDF format, one of which is that it is not especially well suited for the modern way of reading on screens. Unlike e-book format... | [
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48,341 | I'm writing my PhD thesis (math) and struggling to find titles for the appendices. The thesis has three main chapters and for each one there is an appendix that contains some proofs that did not belong in the chapter itself (e.g. proofs of lemmas and technical details). What should I name the appendices? Currently I'm ... | [
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48,343 | Somewhere around the 3rd year of my physics PhD. program I came into this amazing subject of complexity theory. May be a motivating factor was that I was digging in my spare-time into this physics/complexity interface. Anyhow I took up courses in complexity theory and a few associated regions in the CS theory departmen... | [
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48,344 | **EDIT** Since there are some misunderstandings regarding my question I'll try to rephrase, and also avoid posting questions late at night when I am really tired :)
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A typical part of my work as a bioinformatician/data analyst is to check the relevance of my results, when I am drafting my articles, by doing a seri... | [
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48,357 | I took all my college level math courses when I was 16 in running start while taking 30 credits a quarter(don't ask me what was going through my head at the time). As you can imagine I got an average of about a 2.8, in most of these courses....However, when I went to a 4 year they restarted my GPA and I currently have ... | [
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48,361 | A colleague of mine recently used the word "herein" in a research article (of which I am a co-author) to mean essentially "in this paper". To me it makes the paper read more like a legal document than a research article, so I commented that I would I prefer a phrase like "in this research", "in this paper", or "in this... | [
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48,374 | I am thinking about going to graduate school soon after getting my B.A but I don't know if my background will let me in/what I can do to get in.
I have an A.S and almost a B.A in marketing. Since High School I have worked in a corporate office in the marketing department. I have had to pay for college myself because m... | [
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48,375 | If I am using images with a copyleft license (e.g. [CC-BY-SA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/)), each of them as a separate, properly attributed piece, does it mean that the whole work (be it slides, a thesis or a book) need to be licensed in the same way?
Reasoning 1
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48,380 | I recently heard about the possibility of submitting a proposal for a book to the publisher as "NN". I assume it has something to do with the fact that a couple of possible contributors have not yet confirmed their contribution but the editors want to go ahead anyway and submit the proposal already.
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48,388 | I am in a situation that I think is not uncommon nowadays.
I wrote software on my own time, by my own decision, and with my own resources during my undergrad career at a university in the US, and now I want to be monetarily compensated for it because my software is used on a regular basis by a department in the unive... | [
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48,390 | US News and World only ranks about 100 graduate programs in computer science 300 research universities in the US. How do graduate programs of small and/or unranked universities attract graduate students? | [
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48,394 | **Microsoft Word** is the standard product for documents in my department as far as the administration is concerned. Final exams go through a work-flow that involves department secretaries creating a standard cover page, professors providing "content", and the final product is approved by the department chair. In 2001,... | [
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48,399 | I am wondering how many papers does an average academia-bound PhD student in math try to get published? I want to eventually work in a research-oriented university rather than a teaching-oriented university. Obviously the more good mathematics one gets published the better, but what would be average for someone who goe... | [
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48,404 | I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor, coming up for tenure next year (no concerns about getting tenure). There is another university I would like to move to. Their department is of similar strength to my own, but is a better fit for my research, and is in a city I would rather live in. However I don't have any perso... | [
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48,408 | I studied in the US up until the 6th grade, came back to India, completed high school here and finished a bachelor degree in computer science here in India. All my education in India was completed in English only. I am also a US citizen. I want to pursue a masters degree in the US. Do I need to take the TOEFL exam or n... | [
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48,416 | I am a computer science student and am currently doing my Master Thesis in Germany. I am in the second month of the six month duration for the Master Thesis. I wish to pursue a PhD after Masters and I was wondering when the right time is to start applying for PhD positions. I found a few positions that start in Septemb... | [
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48,418 | I am writing a paper in Computer Science / Information Technology. At several points in the paper, I mention the existence of particular types of software products. For example:
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48,426 | My question is related to the fact that at a specific conference, if a submission is rejected then the reviewers may instead recommend that it be presented as a poster session.
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48,433 | Typically, scientific debates are published in the form of "letter to the editor" to comment on or criticize a previously published paper. Alternatively, papers within the same volume can refer to each other. In both cases the actual nature of the debate that takes place is rendered incompletely.
Are there some viabl... | [
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48,442 | My PhD is self-funded and I probably change in 2016. Can I apply for a grant now and then change my PhD later?
Does it legally or ethically force me to stay and finish the project?
Or my Prof can hire another PhD student after me to continue working on that project?
UPDATE
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Let's put it this way: I have a s... | [
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48,447 | I want to have a career as a tenure-track research professor. I have a little over a year left in my PhD in a science/mathematical field, and I don't feel I learned enough during graduate school. I know I can (read: have to) finish my thesis in a year because my adviser is the type to just cobble something together and... | [
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48,459 | I have a website and blog where I discuss an original topic for which I am considering trying to get a grant for undergrad research. I have basically fleshed out the entire theory on these websites.
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48,474 | I am interested in using truly free (FLOSS) fonts for my academic writing. What are the most popular free fonts used in academic writing? | [
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48,483 | I was re-writing my CV and I thought that it could be a good idea to include the general/ultimate questions that "drive me to do science" or in particular "the kind of science I want to work in".
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48,487 | Google Scholar allows you to do forward search via cited by - that is, you can get a list of references that cite a given reference. Is there any way to do backward search, i.e. get a list of references cited BY a given reference?
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48,491 | I am currently doing a PhD in maths, in the UK. UK PhD scholarship are typically only 3 years, and mine can't be extended. I do need every day of these three years to finish my thesis. For a small fee, I can hand in my thesis up to 1 year after the money has run out.
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48,497 | I used statistical language R to fit probability distribution to acquired data. Instead of doing it by hand I relied on code. I wrote something like "probability density function was computed using programming language R (for more details see appendix A)". And appendix A has exact code to compute this. I also put refer... | [
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48,504 | I just received an email of my paper which was submitted to a conference.
The paper submission webpage has the following type of status:
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> active (under review), discuss, withdrawn, rejected, minor
> revision, major revision, accepted, no show, published
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>
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The status of my paper shows "accepted". However, ... | [
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48,508 | I'm writing a research paper and there are some concepts which I think would help a reader to understand the study better. However, I'm not sure where to put this section. Should I put it right after the Introduction? Or before Literature Review? | [
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48,514 | Short and simple question. Am I allowed to *not* include my email at a publication?
On a related note, what should I do if I don't have an e-mail address, or have an e-mail address at my university which will expire when I leave the university? | [
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48,541 | When starting a Ph.D. position, one naturally expects that there should be some kind of supervision of his work. That is, their advisors should be aware of the state-of-the-art and be willing to sit and discuss research directions and provide pointers to the literature. In some cases, advisors may be too "bossy," expec... | [
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48,543 | I am wondering this because I love electronics, but I go to a college which is mostly for vocational training. Often times I feel like our courses are 40% waste of time (usually too much industry software and/or uninterested lecturers giving compulsory classes).
So I had this idea of taking a year off to focus on my o... | [
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48,552 | I am currently in my second year of my PhD and I am having a horrible time. I feel like I am not cut out for academia and I frequently have anxiety attacks. I would like to do something else, and if it was a normal job I would definitely start looking for another job.
I'm worried I'll lose my reference (And he's a goo... | [
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48,553 | One common piece of advice for weak students who want to go into academia is that they do a terminal master's degree first before applying to PhD programmes. This, however, bothers me for two reasons:
* If I'm not mistaken, master's degrees are, in some places, often seen as the first of a two-part process to getting ... | [
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48,574 | My friend moved to Los Angeles a few months ago and she wants to go to law school in here. She got a Bachelor's degree in Economics from another country (she is a resident in USA). The university she studied in is one of the top in the country but is not known in the world. She is thinking of going maybe to UCLA or USC... | [
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48,585 | Sometimes I have simple ideas that can be useful. They could be obvious or not, or it is possible that no one ever considered them the way I did.
For example:
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48,587 | I'm currently a postdoc interested in finding a tenure track faculty position. What are the best places to find job postings for such positions?
Seeing as this might be a very context/field dependent question, I am specifically looking for appointments in *physics* departments (preferably in the US). | [
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48,597 | For a recent position for which an offer has been made, a colleague of mine has been waiting for more than eight months for a visa to be issued. Is there any reasonable point at which it makes more sense to try to withdraw the offer (as the candidate has been unable to secure a visa, which would enable him to work) and... | [
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48,621 | It seems like Stack Exchange sites would be a great resource for real-world open-ended research-and-answer projects. E.g., as a teacher I might select one or several recent good questions from an on-topic Stack Exchange site and have students actually submit their answers on Stack Exchange. For more advanced students I... | [
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48,639 | I am currently supervising a Bachelors student for his thesis. I gave him a well-established paper to read of which I only knew the results but never checked the calculations in it. It was first published in 2006, is currently in its 6th version on arXiv and has about 330 citations, so I expected it to be mostly withou... | [
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48,652 | So I know there's roadblocks like FERPA (this is in the United States by the way), but if I already knew:
* Full Name
* Date of Birth
* Name of school (obviously, since I'd have to know who to ask)
* (Supposed) Major
Would a college/university be able to confirm or deny that the student is enrolled, since I'm only as... | [
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48,658 | How can you prove that you are a reviewer for a certain journal. For example, I have been invited to review a paper in a certain journal and on my CV I want to write that I have reviewed in this journal but since reviewers are supposed to be anonymous, how can I supply proof that I have reviewed in this journal? | [
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48,662 | I will go to a grad school this summer. I don't want to make mistakes in that email as I really work to work under him. I wrote an email before I applied and he said we can talk.
What should I write now? | [
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48,692 | There are some fundings which support early-career researcher by letting him to work/visit another institute/university for few months. Those fundings normally pay for travel and accommodation expenses (not living expenses) and require a candidate to be affliated of one organisation, e.g. to be a post-doc.
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48,696 | I am in the field of computer science, I developed some software to solve some problems and would like to write some papers about them. But I don’t know what to call the software in each of my works.
For example I developed software to extract structured data from web pages, (I called it *system*). In another project ... | [
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48,699 | I am working on a research paper where I am trying to format values in a table:
From −0.2 to −0.14. Is this formatting correct?
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-0.2 - -0.14
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Another question:
From −3 to 3. Is this correct?
```
-3-3
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48,714 | **I need a letter of recommendation, but am unsure how to get it.**
I am applying to graduate school. I need three letters of recommendation. I have 2/3. Some schools to which I am applying require the third to be from an academic, such as a professor.
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48,729 | Many people published their PhD theses in ProQuest, and it looks cool. The thesis is indexed by ACM as a book, so you can list them in the publication section in your CV. I wonder if there is any disadvantage if I do the same?
To be honest, I really doubt that anyone will ever read my thesis. But I have spent 3 (extre... | [
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48,740 | I'm a student intending to stay in academia, and I'm reaching the stage where I've begun to TA classes. If all goes well I'll be teaching courses for the rest of my career, so I want to make sure I'm doing it right.
I have a series of scars across my arm that anyone with experience or awareness of the issue will immed... | [
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48,749 | In our university there are a lot of great researchers and a very competent people in general. I've discovered today that one of our researchers is intentionally employing people who are totally incompetent. I think that he's doing this to appear as a great teacher and supervisor, because, as far as I know, he was a su... | [
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48,756 | My advisor introduced a new student in my work saying that I am doing X,Y,Z and he will be doing A,B,C. I was asked to explain X and share all the data, results, reports, all related publications etc to enable the student to do A,B,C. Once I have explained him X, Y, and shared my data and future plans, he changed/aband... | [
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48,764 | I am not a native English speaker, and I am writing a paper in English (maths) with the aim of getting published in a peer reviewed journal. If I write the manuscript myself, the poor grammar would prevent it from being accepted. If I give the manuscript to a native-English speaking expert in my area of maths, they may... | [
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48,771 | I live in country "A" (in Europe) and, a couple of months ago, I bought a round trip flight ticket to the US, for family reasons (not tourism).
A couple of weeks after I bought the ticket, I was invited to a job interview for a postdoctoral position in country "C" (also in Europe) by a university.
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48,781 | Apart from taking measures to maintain confidentiality, do I need my ethical approval to specify permission to publish raw data along with my study? I'm trying to facilitate reproducibility in my research. It is a retrospective, cross-sectional study of medical records. The information is sensitive.
I know that there ... | [
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48,791 | I wonder if it is allowed to cite a recent paper, published after the initial submission of my paper. In the revision phase I am adding some missing references and I would also like to refer to some very recent papers. Could this be a problem? | [
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48,796 | In this [comment](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/48740/is-there-a-standard-of-professionalism-in-academia-requiring-me-to-hide-self-har/48742#comment112842_48742) it was suggested that teaching in your underwear is a bad thing. While in general, I think academics are accepting of a wide range of dress (th... | [
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48,808 | I know there have been numerous questions on this site discussing the submission of papers to a conference and a journal (simultaneously and subsequently), but I'm curious about a slightly different scenario. Perhaps this is a duplicate but I couldn't find any answers already posted.
If I'm working in a field where th... | [
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48,811 | I will be teaching an introductory class, in which attendance is important, with approximately 60 students in 3 sections. I'd like to have a system that:
1. Enables me to quickly mark whether a student is present.
2. Allows students to see their own attendance record but not other students'.
3. Lets students provide i... | [
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48,815 | Numerous companies stylize their names or the names of products: adidas, eBay, iPhone...how should these be written (in APA style)?
```
The pair of adidas shoes lasted longer than the pair from Nike.
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vs.
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The pair of Adidas shoes lasted longer than the pair from Nike.
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The [Wikipedia Manual of Style](ht... | [
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48,821 | My question applies to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mozh disciplines (STEM).
Q: By what process does a graduate student determine his or her research direction?
(Assume that the graduate student is in the first year and has no previous publications with this supervisor.)
I can imagine several scenarios:
*... | [
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48,831 | So, a colleague at another university and I agreed to collaborate on a series of papers 5 years ago. To avoid clashes in style, etc. we agreed that I would write a couple and he would write a couple, with us both commenting and editing each other's. So far, so good. I produced my couple of papers in the first year or s... | [
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48,833 | So I'm a summer student at a lab and I feel thoroughly abused and I just wanted to know if this was normal. I only have a two-month summer this year as a medical student and I wanted to do some research, hopefully end up with a publication. I could have done clinical research and guaranteed myself a paper but I wanted ... | [
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48,844 | I'm currently looking for both postdoc position(preferred) and industrial position in areas where I'd need to do programming in the language(s) my lab/company will need me to. The academic areas I'm looking for are computer vision, computational neuroscience etc.
However, my Ph.D. was in pure mathematics and I didn't... | [
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48,848 | Due to bad personality a person was not granted tenure after working for six years in a university. Eventually, the person left and got hired as an associate professor in another university. Would this be a tenure position or tenure track position? | [
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48,850 | I tried looking up the answer for this one online already, but I couldn't find something for my specific scenario:
I am interested in reaching out to a few professors in the field that I am interested in, Computer Science, in regards to some specific problems I might be facing in the immediate future. However, I'm sli... | [
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48,861 | My paper has been accepted to an IEEE conference. But recently, I found some minor errors in my simulation data (using matlab software), and I would like to modify the existing graph before submitting my camera-ready version.
This change will not have major impact on my results as well as the quality of the paper.
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48,872 | 'm a computer science student in the UK and I've just finished my first year. I know next year I will be doing a lot more programming but there is very little C in the curriculum. I know some of my lecturers are avid C programmers would it be inappropriate to ask one of them to mentor me as I really want to be a compet... | [
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48,873 | In my project work I came up with a new method for solving a certain problem which has not been used before, by extending an already existing approach.
What type of wording should I use in academic writing to express this fact.
I wrote something in the lines of, but would like to have something more elegant:
>
> Fu... | [
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48,874 | In my field (linguistics) sometimes datasets are important and scholars tend to include them in their CV. I want to know how to include my dataset in my CV?
This is the approach I have in mind: Uploading dataset in [Harvard Dataverse](https://dataverse.harvard.edu/ "Harvard Dataverse") and include the DoI in CV with t... | [
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48,886 | What are some fields in which a professional programmer (specializing in Data Science technologies) can pick up hobby projects that can actually contribute something to that particular field.
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48,891 | I want to write to a professor and tell him about my research interests. What is the best way to say that my research interests include, but are not limited to X?
Is the following sentence a good choice?
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48,892 | When one is fortunate enough to have multiple tenure-track offers that are roughly similar (research-focused institutions, similar levels of prestige, salary offered and teaching load), what factors should one consider?
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48,921 | My motivation to ask this question actually comes from [here](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1363440/how-to-become-smarter-and-creative-in-mathematics/1363498#1363498), receiving negative reactions for 12 hours a day or even 7 hours spending time on Mathematics.
A person usually spends 4.5 years to accomplis... | [
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48,940 | I will be joining a graduate program in the US this fall. To keep track of important technical/research discussions with my advisor, I think it would be a good idea to record conversations with my advisor on a voice recorder/camera. It would be very helpful as I (and my advisor) will not forget/miss anything important.... | [
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48,943 | I study petroleum engineering; however, I want everybody from different fields to express their opinion based on their personal experience.
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48,947 | I published a methods paper about a data analysis method (in cognitive neuroscience), and I'm now working as a co-author with colleagues on two experimental papers using that method. Since the main audience of these papers will be much less technically inclined than that of my own, I have been asked to provide a concis... | [
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48,950 | I miscalculated the mark of one of my students and mistakenly notified him that he passed the class. However, I noticed my mistake after some hours and fixed it, thereby resulting in him failing the class. Obviously, the student is very upset now. Should I have left the mistake and pretend I hadn't noticed it? | [
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48,953 | I'm preparing my application to send it to my dream university (it's located in Germany), and my problem is:
Since I'm coming from a country that facing civil war (Syria), I had real troubles in high school (no electricity power and such things), so I had poor results,So I had entered college I don't like (I want to... | [
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48,957 | This question was actually asked previously, but it went on hold. So I simplified to make it visible, as I need a quick advise.
I am an international graduate student, currently working in a lab for 2 months now. I would like to know how to deal with an advisor who keeps changing his mind unexpectedly. His decisions a... | [
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48,959 | I have a doctorate already and have circled back to complete an MBA. My doctorate is in another discipline.
My MBA program just told me that, rather than using the proposed course numbers for an analytics track, they will be using the repeatable "Special Topics" 5000 number.
For example:
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48,963 | I am an undergraduate research assistant in a physics lab.
At the start of my research term, my supervisor suggested a project to me. The project is to design, test and implement a piece of apparatus in our experimental setup. With the new component I have built, we will be able to take very precise measurements that ... | [
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