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48,964 | *NOTE: I had asked this question in [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/48921/how-many-hours-a-day-on-mathematics-as-a-successful-student), in my edit, but since it is irrelevant to that question, I moved it here as it is a separate question...*
I chose to study bulky books instead of attending lecture... | [
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48,977 | What are the US equivalent ranks to the Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader (or Associate Prof), Professor ranks of the UK system?
Is it correct that in the US system they are Assistant Prof, Associate Prof, Full Prof and Chair/Endowed Prof, respectively?
I know that in the British system, there are further sub-levels in... | [
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48,987 | For those papers that have not been accepted, some people write "submitted to" in their CV and some others use "to appear in". I want to know the difference of "submitted to" and "to appear in". Thank you. | [
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48,991 | If one doesn't visit university/college and doesn't even take any courses in theoretical physics and learns PhD-level physics from other resources without stepping foot in college or university; Would it then become possible for him to do research?
Most people I've seen emphasize that "you need a real theoretical phy... | [
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48,996 | I wonder whether there is any university that *requires* students to release their source code (or at least part of it) in order to obtain their PhD. | [
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48,998 | I am a bachelor student. I have been working with a PhD on an article. So the article was supposed to be co-authored; however, he was mainly going to edit my draft so it can be published. This is, the content of the article was actually my work, while the edition was going to be his part. I have e-mails with all the dr... | [
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49,010 | I have my B.S in Marketing and for my degree I was required to take 2 science classes.
These 2 science classes were the only unrelated classes I had to take in my entire 4 years of Uni. While I excel in math I have always been completely awful at science.
I took both my science classes and got a C in both despite my... | [
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49,013 | I was charged with possession of marijuana earlier this year. In my state, it's not a crime, just a violation with a fine. Technically, it's not even a conviction because there's a diversion program that results in the charge being dropped after a year. The problem is that it won't be dismissed and expunged until after... | [
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49,020 | I'm currently finishing a PhD in mathematics from a university in Europe ranked top 10 in the world. I've always been torn between philosophy and mathematics, and I'd like to give philosophy a chance (now that I have the "safety net" of a PhD in mathematics). Also, for personal reasons, I'd like to move to the US.
It ... | [
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49,028 | I have to dig through a large number of scientific papers (~26K), all with DOI links. I've built a small Python script for searching through the papers. Now I want to have more data about those papers. For example, where the authors are from (country or university) or, at least, retrieving the DOI link for the papers (... | [
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49,037 | The chronic medical illness has affected my ability to take the most rigorous schedule and led me to withdraw from one class and also take a year break in my undergraduate education. I'm wondering how this will affect my grad school chances. I have excellent LOR and GRES, good GPA. Should the illness be discussed in SO... | [
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49,049 | In France the higher education is like this:
* 3 years of "Licence"
* 2 years of "Master"
* 3 years of "Doctorat"
But what about in the United States?
I heard that they have things called "undergraduate", "graduate" and "postgraduate". How many years do each of those take? And what are the equivalencies between thes... | [
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49,065 | Some weeks ago I went to a conference with some of the leading minds in my field of research. One of the speakers (professor A) mentioned a problem that bothered him and that was unsolved up to that point. After the talk (when most had already left the room to get coffee) professor B mentioned a possible algorithm to A... | [
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49,073 | I am currently doing research at a school that is not my home institution. When I create a poster board for this research, do I put logos of both the school where I am doing the research as well as my home institution? Or do I not mention my home institution at all?
If appropriate, where do I mention my home institut... | [
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"text": "I would put the logo of the funding agency (NSF, NASA, etc.) and the logo of the university where you are doing thi... | 2015/07/20 | [
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49,074 | I hold a 5 years "specialist degree" from a university in Belarus and I'm going to apply to a Ph. D. program in engineering in US. I have several problems regarding my reference letters.
The professor who was my Engineering Project adviser and who taught several important courses in my group for two years can give me ... | [
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49,079 | For a paper we're writing, we need to use a small image of a popular, easily recognized piece of consumer electronics.
In previous drafts of the paper, a long time ago, someone made an image for the paper that ended up being the "headliner" image, i.e., the largest image that explains and outlines the subject of the w... | [
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49,082 | I am on an integrated Masters in Physics course, otherwise knows as MPhys. This means that after my third year I will not be awarded with a BSc, but will graduate after 4 years with an MPhys. At my university (and I assume others as well), doing a 4th year after graduating with a BSc then gives you an MSc instead of an... | [
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49,086 | I will enter the academic job market after having received poor teaching evaluations for my first and only independently taught class. Some of the criticisms were well founded, and I am trying my best to improve the class in the future. The teaching evaluations for the next (and hopefully improved) installment of the c... | [
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49,087 | I wonder if someone (or eventually some country, organisation, etc ...) already evaluated the costs of the system of grants.
* It costs at least the salary of the researcher who writes and gets the grant
* but also the salary of all the researchers who didn’t get it, and could have done something else than writing a ... | [
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"text": "I know of one such study: [Cost of the NSERC Science Grant Peer Review System Exceeds the Cost of Giving Every Quali... | 2015/07/20 | [
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49,093 | What is appropriate or reasonable number of keywords in a conference paper (in computer network/security topics)? | [
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49,096 | I have a manuscript that is placed under review for a month now and during this month I have discovered that there are a few things I want to change/add in the manuscript and I don't want to publish this manuscript in this particular journal anymore.
How can I ask for this manuscript back?
Should I just send an ema... | [
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49,101 | I have an old family friend in Japan (born and raised). We were recently talking about academics as he is in his 2nd year of Uni and I have 1 B.S and soon to have another with the goal of moving on to a Masters this fall.
While talking he asked if I "Work or study" as he knew I completed my first degree but was unawa... | [
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49,103 | I am a grad student and I am reading a certain recent breakthrough paper. There is a part of the paper which is not making sense to me at all. So I wrote to one of the authors inquiring about it. But this person forwarded my email to *every* of the other authors! (and that includes some of the living legends in the fie... | [
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49,106 | So far as I heard, it is required to mention intended major in graduate school during GRE registration. I am curious to know, what would someone do if he wants to apply to different grad schools for different (but somehow related) programs? For instance, he wants to apply to the grad schools A, B, C, D for the grad pro... | [
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49,109 | I recently received a "revise and resubmit" decision for a submission to an Elsevier journal, and the deadline to resubmit is in about 5 weeks. Since I have to consult with my coauthors for my revision, and one of them is a professor who's not exactly fast in replying emails, I'm worried whether I'll be able to get a r... | [
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49,110 | I have been working on a topic(numerical analysis) for several years, and I discovered something new which can be verified by numerical experiments. But my supervisor doesn't allow me to publish it, though he does admit that my research is worth publishing.
So is it possible to publish my research without my supervis... | [
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49,112 | It is inevitable that several parts of a PhD dissertation come from published papers. The publishers who claim copyright (or exclusive right to publish) of articles are aware of this, and they allow authors to include their papers in dissertations.
As an example, the following is an excerpt from a typical [Springer co... | [
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49,126 | I'm submitting a paper to the journal Elsevier journal "Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications" (<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0362546X>).
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49,134 | I am about to submit a paper to a conference. I just found out that the conference falls in Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Since I am an observant Jew, I don't want to present on Saturday. What are my options?
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49,144 | I am finishing my PhD next month in *Philosophy*. I've been offered a Visiting Assistant Professorship (VAP) in *Mathematics* at a very good (nationally recognized) Small Liberal Arts College (SLAC).
I have alternative options, and I have a handle on the money situation.
I'm looking further down the road. Suppose I ... | [
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49,148 | I am about to enter a PhD program, and I am very interested in learning about opportunities that allow me to go abroad after I finish. During my undergraduate career, I studied in China for a year, and I really enjoyed the environment of learning new languages and living in a different culture.
Specifically, I want to... | [
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49,149 | I'm supervising an undergraduate research assistant this summer, who I hired for a full time position. There are several other full time research assistants in the lab, who work about 35-45 hours a week (specific hours of their choice).
This one student works about 25. He isn't unusually productive, either, and doesn... | [
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49,166 | I am wanting to know how necessary it is to work in industry after undergrad and before applying to a PhD. On one hand, I have a lot of industry/ research experience and have a good deal of specialized knowledge in the area of computer science that I want to research. On the other hand, most people I work with worked i... | [
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49,167 | Should a separate section list all retracted articles?
Should just a note (---retracted) suffice?
Is a short explanation expected (retracted for fabrication, plagiarism)?
Should one give a longer explanation (retracted due to Joe's work, my supervisor, who is a fraud. He is the rat, not me.).
Or should the retrac... | [
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49,182 | I have created several figures that are a part of presentation slides. As usual for presentation slides, those were not published in any official proceedings (just the underlying paper, that didn't contain the same figures, was), and no copyright for the presentation slides or any parts thereof was transferred to any o... | [
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49,185 | *As this has happened to me several times for different papers now, I am not describing a specific case here, but the abstract aspects that were common to all situations.*
Occasionally, in the "Tasks" or "Materials" section of the "Evaluation" or "User Study" chapter, papers of mine contain statements such as:
* "Fig... | [
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49,187 | You often hear that almost all UK universities are public. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_university#United_Kingdom), for example, says "There are four fully-fledged private universities in the United Kingdom, the University of Buckingham, BPP University, Regent's University London and the University... | [
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49,193 | I am asking this for a friend who hopes to enter grad school for a PhD next year in science. This person has a cell phone but almost always turns it off and has no voice mail (meaning there is no way to leave a phone message). I think not answering phone calls or being available by phone would make it difficult for my ... | [
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49,194 | The institute where I'm doing my PhD has a formal policy not to hire local PhD graduates as postdocs. Is this normal?
I live in Europe. | [
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49,205 | The university where I'm doing my PhD is asking me to register a co-supervisor.
However, I don't really know the role of co-supervisor. What exactly is it for? Does it mean that for every publications we do, we should also add him in the authorship?! | [
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49,208 | Before I start my PhD I worked in a group that researched on the application of a particular area to a particular domain. No other research group published work in this area+domain. So I can safely say that my previous group is among the first if not the first to research in the application of that particular research ... | [
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49,213 | I am a PhD student in mathematics. I was always brilliant in my studies. Now, I have a problem consisting in doing wrong things without paying attention.
For example, I was asked to do some computations, and I did and checked but after sending an e-mail to my supervisor, I discovered that it missed other details.
A... | [
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49,215 | I want to submit an article to a journal which uses the system of double peer review, the information that I found was the following:
>
> Confirm that you have prepared: (a) a complete manuscript text minus
> the title page, acknowledgements, and any running headers of author
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49,231 | When the review process is double-blind, I guess (although I have not read this anywhere) that acknowledgements should not be written in the submitted paper, as this might break anonimity. They should only be inserted into the camera-ready version, after the paper is accepted.
What is the custom when the review proces... | [
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49,239 | I've asked some professors this questions and none of them have seemed to been able to give an answer that didn't lead to both them and me having more questions.
To put into context:
I have my B.S in Marketing and have been working in the marketing industry for just under 4 years. Of all the jobs I have had and been... | [
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49,241 | I am an Indian citizen and I'm planning to go for my bachelors to Germany. Since schooling in Germany is 13 years in length, I'll study 1 year in India before going there. I wanted to ask that after completing my Bachelor's in Germany, will I be eligible to apply for Masters in USA straightaway right after my BS (I pla... | [
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49,245 | About a month ago I applied for a PhD position in Germany under a research training group funded by the German Research Council. There are 12 open positions for this program. Before I applied I was told that promising candidates will be contacted in July. Then I heard that the department received nearly 200 application... | [
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49,247 | I cannot attend any western university right now. I can relocate in future.
But I already have article which will soon go into publishing process. So affiliation could be useful right now.
I do not like idea of publishing without affiliation or with affiliation to institution which do not work within my field (molecu... | [
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49,249 | I said to my supervisor that I would like to finish my PhD very quickly. He said that formally I can submit my thesis 2 years after starting my degree at earliest, but that I am doing very well and it should be possible.
I verified the institutional requirements and indeed I cannot submit my PhD thesis in less than 2 ... | [
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49,270 | If I simply want to gain expertise in a very specialised area of scientific research that is in its infancy, and not necessarily go on to do further research, is a PhD the way to go?
Is a PhD solely a door to a career of research?
There is currently little known about the phenomenon I'm interested in and even less r... | [
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49,278 | I was asked by Program Committee members to be a sub-reviewer for some papers related to my research. The PC members are big shots and I really want to impress them.
It is easy to write a review if I can discover weaknesses in the paper. However, if the paper is strong or I am unable to find any weaknesses, I feel my ... | [
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49,282 | I prepared a short tutorial in [IPython Notebook](http://ipython.org/notebook.html) and want to release it on an open license. However, as it is something between code and slides, I do not know if Creative Commons licenses are suitable (they [are not meant to be used for code](https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Freq... | [
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49,284 | Two years ago I finished my thesis, at the time I wasn't interested in writing papers but I have since changed my mind.
The thesis has been made available online by the department. It has been cited by someone else since that time.
I would like to take a chapter of my thesis and publish it as a journal paper. And base... | [
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49,288 | I am currently finishing my PhD thesis (in Mathematics) and trying to find a post doc position.
My PhD supervisor is a very nice person and is, of course, one of my referees.
However, most places need 2-3, so I am not sure who else to ask.
I have a secondary supervisor but we only talked once really during a formal ... | [
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49,302 | I just finished a bachelor’s degree in applied maths. The thesis was designed to be a fairly formulaic implementation affair of an (obscure) NP-problem, but I happened to develop a novel heuristic algorithm for it, which had some very interesting properties, both theoretical and computational.
The problem is not a can... | [
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49,308 | I was recently contacted by a friend to give an academic reference, as we were both students at the same university.
The problem is that, he only completed the first 2 years of his degree and then stopped attending. I think he received a job offer and decided to take that instead.
Me and my fellow classmates finished... | [
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49,317 | There are [several](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/23421/which-problems-would-a-blind-person-have-when-applying-for-a-professorship) [posted](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/889594/who-are-some-blind-or-otherwise-disabled-mathematicians-who-have-made-important) [questions](https://matheducators.s... | [
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49,320 | I am looking to decrease the time I waste looking for a book in the library. I generally know exactly what book I want, but not where in the library it is located.
(Finding out what book you want, is a matter for a whole range of other questions.)
My university has 4 libraries across its campus.
One for Art/Humanities... | [
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49,331 | Modern academic publishing is based to a large extent on the use of the Internet, and many of us consult articles or even books mostly in PDF format rather than hard copy. URL links to both reference material, and data sets or complementary material the author makes available to the reader are becoming commonplace, and... | [
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49,336 | In research proposals, why do investigators, who usually are permanent faculty members, need to claim a certain fraction of their full-time salaries, from the proposed budget? Are they not paid in full by the university? | [
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49,340 | I'm preparing my grad school applications (CV, letter of intent, etc) and in these I need to include my GPA. My school uses the 4.3 scale and I feel as though not including this information is misleading since my GPA will look better when compared to someone who is actually marked out of a 4.0.
But I have not seen thi... | [
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49,343 | I have completed some work that I believe could well be worth a Ph.D. I have been working completely in private, with no affiliation with any academic institution.
I would like to use this work to start a career in academia. What should I do with it next? (In case it's relevant in any way, I am a mature professional ... | [
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49,346 | Here is the situation: I am looking for a PhD in a field somewhat different from the field of my previous studies. I have several research groups in this area in mind and they have a very large number of researchers each.
Being kind of an "outsider" to the field, I don't really have a basis to know which ones of the P... | [
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49,357 | Descriptions of graduate (and advanced undergrad) courses sometimes indicate that the lectures are going to be conducted in a "workshop style". I am unsure what a "workshop style" lecture entails and how it is usually conducted over a two hour span?
How does a *workshop-style* lecture differ from *formal lectures*? | [
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49,360 | In the spring, I briefly helped with a decently sized project. Shortly after it wrapped, I was asked if I wanted to be co-author on the paper being written on the project. I agreed, and subsequently haven't heard anything back. It's a database project so there will be a long list of co-authors, and I don't want to be a... | [
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49,361 | I am doing PhD in an Australian university. My thesis was approved by my supervisor, however, one of two examiners suggested revision and re-submission (with harsh criticism and no solid recommendation), and eventually failed it. The committee asked for another examiner and failed it. I would like to know if we can app... | [
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49,365 | In my country, if a PhD thesis is written in national language, the candidate must also submit an extended summary of the thesis in English, which will be deposited in a national repository and will be uploaded to the appropriate section of the university's website. This English-language document is approximately betwe... | [
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49,370 | I am from computer science and we typically submit to conferences and less often to journals. Publishing pre-prints to arXiv becomes more and more popular in my field. From the discussion here on AS I get the impression that arXiv is more than just putting something on a personal website.
For example from [What to do ... | [
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49,375 | ### Motivation
I'm soon going to start a Post-Doc in the Netherlands. The labor laws are different from where I did my Ph.D. work; the academic culture is somewhat different; the unionization situation is different; etc.
So, I've gotten the informal offer over email, and I'm now expecting the formal contract offer. I... | [
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49,385 | I've noticed that some publication venues add the degree type links to the author name, like MS, PhD, MBA or MD. What's the point? ([example](http://www.people.vcu.edu/~btmcinnes/publications/btmcinnes-amia2007.pdf)) | [
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49,386 | I just tried submitting my first paper to arXiv. To be honest, this hasn't been an unqualifiedly fun experience.
One reason for rejection was that my paper contained line numbers. I am a bit confused as to why arXiv would reject papers for containing line numbers. One reason for me to submit to the arXiv was to potent... | [
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49,393 | I am nearing the end of teaching a course for first year students with a fellow student.
We assigned a paper and 2 students have submitted almost identical papers. The policy is that if a student is caught they get a 0 and possible legal action on a case-by-case basis governed by department heads.
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49,397 | Do I reply to travel grant chair for notifying me approval of my travel grant award application for a conference? (Thanking him/her.. etc)
What is my appropriate action? Or is it not really expected and I should just follow instructions of submitting listed receipts to the specified person in email? | [
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49,398 | This researcher says something along the lines of "I welcome all contact regarding this book". | [
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49,403 | My job search (for tenure-track Assistant professor in Computer Science) last year failed miserably. I submitted applications to about 10 US schools (top 30 -- top-100 quality). In the end, I got only 1 on-campus interview, which I think I did well, but no job offer.
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49,415 | I applied for PhD programs starting from the fall of 2015 at several universities and I was waiting very eager to hear from them, because I just finished my MS last spring semester and don't want to waste time.
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49,417 | **Short form:** How should one lead a collaborative "book study group" amongst one's peers, particularly when the leader does not have deep prior knowledge of the book?
**Long form:** I'm an undergraduate CS student† (rising junior). In the remaining time before I graduate, I thought it would be a fun idea to read a v... | [
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49,418 | My paper was accepted in peer reviewed journal last week and is about to be publishing. Last night I thought the solution makes better sense if I change the definition of one of the variables. This is a minimal change which doesn't change any of the other equations or any of the conclusions or results.
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49,419 | I am taking a graduate-level summer course and have observed several problems. I would like outside opinion on whether these observations are valid grounds for an official complaint, or whether I am the one being unreasonable.
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49,420 | I started my PhD not long ago, and I have heard some of my colleagues something to the effect of since they did not get their submission to some conference accepted, they will not be going to that conference.
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49,438 | The following question is triggered by reading [this recent question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/49420/12391) as well as by a recent case of an organizing committee member approaching me with invitation to present at a well-known (at least, within my discipline of information systems and a larger management s... | [
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49,442 | I am an undergraduate student (final year, Computer Science). I am interested in research. I have worked and progressed (I believe) on a specific problem, namely graph isomorphism. Instructors in my department are not interested in that topic. I have contacted them a couple of times, and they did not reject my work nor... | [
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49,451 | I have written a paper for an IEEE Transactions journal. But now I have several improvements to the original paper. Can I publish the paper again with a slightly different approach? The introduction, etc., would be almost the same and hence I may retain and refer to the already published paper. But the implementation i... | [
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49,457 | Both the ACM and IEEE have their name attached to a host of conferences and journals. Some are known to be better than others, but I feel generally that any conference or journal with the ACM or IEEE brands attached are considered decent quality. (Questions like [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/26337/8469) i... | [
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49,459 | This is a question about academic ranks or positions. **I am interested in knowing the best equivalence for the Spanish *'Profesor Contratado Doctor'* in English language (UK, US, etc.).**
Description of 'Profesor Contratado Doctor':
* tenured (i.e. permanent) position,
* not a civil servant,
* not an entry-level pos... | [
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49,466 | I am one year away from finishing a PhD in neuroscience and looking at PostDoc/future career options. Though I love neuroscience, I don't enjoy working in the field very much and I have had a life-long (though non-academic) passion for ecology/conservation biology. I have a very broad background in biology (zoology, pl... | [
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49,468 | I'm a PhD student. A paper for a conference got rejected. I haven't met my professor yet to discuss about it. But is it bad for my PhD performance? I mean, probably the professor will not trust my manuscripts anymore. | [
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49,475 | As I am looking for a PhD scholarship in Germany, I've come across an internet site which contains a database of scholarships. One of the questions asked there is whether I am pursuing "interne Promotion" or "externe Promotion".
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49,476 | I'm new to academic writing. I submitted a paper which I co-authored with my supervisor to an upcoming conference. I wasn't too confident that the paper would be up to scratch because I'd never submitted one before, so I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the paper was accepted. Of the two peer reviews, one was ... | [
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49,483 | My question was originally designed to be very related to [this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/42546/can-a-professor-influence-the-graduate-admissions-committee-if-he-or-she-is-inte).
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49,486 | I have written a paper (about 14 pages long) and submitted it to a journal. The editors suggested I cut it down to a 5-page paper and resubmit. I can do that, but will end up leaving a lot of material on the cutting room floor. That material isn't strong enough to command a published article of its own, but I don't wan... | [
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49,487 | Though I read this style quite often, I was recently told unambiguously by a reviewer that I was NOT supposed to use citations "as if they are objects in a sentence." The following sentence is an example of what the reviewer considered unacceptable:
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49,498 | I'm a PhD student in computer science. In my university, the PhD process is divided in the following steps:
1. Qualification exam
2. Research proposal exam: presentation of chosen topics and methodology and plan (near 1-1.5 year after PhD program begining)
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49,499 | If i am the first coauthor of the paper, is it possible to change the order of names on the paper in my resume and show my name on the first place? | [
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49,504 | I suspect anybody who's a professor knows this story: you meet someone new in a social setting and it comes up that you're a professor. The inevitable next question is, "oh, what do you teach?"
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49,506 | I'm going to send manuscript for publication in IEEE Transactions. Some parts of this manuscript were published earlier in little-known journals (in Russian). But in general manuscript is significantly different from previous papers. Should I upload previous papers as a ‘Previous Published Version(s)’, and upload summa... | [
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49,512 | I was recently appointed to a new post (at a much better university) and my affiliation will change in a couple of months. I have to attend a conference next week and present work carried out with my current affiliation.
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49,526 | I just received the answer for my first submitted paper. It was rejected but they annexed the answer of just one referee. Is it normal to reject a paper based on the review of a single referee? Can I use this as an argument to ask for reconsideration? Of course this would not be my single argument, since I found issues... | [
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49,531 | I often hear it said that all jobs have to be advertised externally before anyone can be appointed to an academic post in a UK university. However, this rule about having to advertise externally is certainly not true in general in industry where the only obligation one might have to avoid discrimination claims is to ad... | [
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"text": "Yes, in my state (Texas), there's a [law](http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/GV/htm/GV.656.htm) that al... | 2015/07/28 | [
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49,539 | After my paper was accepted, I was sent page proofs with few corrections to some words and some references. Is it possible to add something to this page proofs. I want to change wording of a line that they didn’t mention so it makes better sense is that possible? | [
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