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49,544 | I'm starting in a phD program in September, and am in the process of finalizing my three lab rotations. The two PIs I'm really interested in working with are not available for the first rotation, so I'm going to do my second and third rotations in their labs. In our program, we hand in a list of lab preferences for the... | [
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49,554 | I'm preparing to teach an introductory course and to teach the content through assigned reading and viewing of A/V materials plus seminar-style discussion. This approach won't work if students don't do the homework. How can I design the course so that they're motivated to do the reading/watching/listening in preparatio... | [
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49,556 | I have completed masters in Pure Mathematics a year back. I was preparing for an exam for pursuing a PhD program in the same. The results came out in this year in the month of April and found that I have failed to clear it.
Most of my friends have cleared the exam and have got enrolled in it. I feel left out. Now I am... | [
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49,565 | I am a Bioinformatics PhD student at a US university. I left the university (stopped enrolling after informing my advisor) in Aug 2014 since I was not making much headway with my research for a long time, and felt that I needed to see the "outside world" for a bit. So I took up a temporary position at another local uni... | [
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"text": "Of course, if you have not dropped out of the program then they can put you on notice or kick you out. You shoul... | 2015/07/29 | [
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49,573 | A few years ago, I found a conference paper, of which I was a co-author, being re-published as an article in a (not highly ranked) journal. It was a textbook example of plagiarism, copy-pasting whole sections and using figures from our paper, which the author did not even cite. The author came from a foreign country an... | [
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49,582 | I was assuming these two were the same. What is the difference between them? How does one relate to another? The context here is an MA (Master of Arts) level social science dissertation in UK education system.
Should background talk about relevant research done? If so why does literature review exist? Or should the ba... | [
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"text": "I see this as relevant question which many junior researches ponder. \n\nLiterature review is usually longer and ... | 2015/07/29 | [
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49,589 | Is tuition in Europe really [US$300 or €200 a year](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/42304/with-a-background-in-mathematical-finance-and-desire-to-apply-for-a-mathematics#comment96266_42503)? That is one tenth the cost of the tuition in the developing country university where I took my bachelor's and master... | [
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"text": "Yes, the education in Europe is pretty cheap. The school does not have to worry about the finances as they ... | 2015/07/29 | [
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49,595 | What do undergraduate students in mathematics do for their thesis, if they have done one, besides expository or applied math?
I was thinking that the kind of research they do is something applied, say using math in social sciences or a problem in one of the less rigorous natural sciences, or discussing such a problem ... | [
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"text": "Yes, undergraduates frequently prove new things, in the sense that every year there are new, publishable res... | 2015/07/29 | [
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49,604 | I'm getting curious about all these online predictive challenges going on, such as [DREAM](http://dreamchallenges.org/), [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/) and [Innocentive](http://www.innocentive.com/).
Surely they all are good occasions to work on new projects and new ideas, to know other collaborators, to get importa... | [
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"text": "I don't think that just \"*participating\"* would be an advantage. Because if you paticipate but perform very poorly,... | 2015/07/29 | [
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49,605 | Since my Ph.D., I have occasionally received emails from publishers (that I've never heard of before) about writing a book. They all seem like mass emails that have my name and some title of a paper I wrote or the name of a course I've taught pasted in. The majority seem fishy and I just ignore them, but the most recen... | [
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"text": "Get used to this: you will receive one or more spam emails for every single piece of work that you will p... | 2015/07/29 | [
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49,615 | Given a student coming to the end of their undergraduate career working on both a thesis for their bachelor degree as well as a separate research project in a research lab, which would hold more weight towards graduate admissions in US schools.
The main questions started with; in admissions, do people read the bachel... | [
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"text": "Assuming both are closely related to your subject for graduate studies, either could be more important. Even if yo... | 2015/07/30 | [
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49,633 | This morning when I opened my email I was very excited to find a Google Scholar update telling me of two new citations from two different sets of authors each to a different paper of mine. As usual, I immediately checked the papers to find out if the authors were praising or criticising my work (or perhaps they found a... | [
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"text": "It is no different from finding any other mistake in a paper that you read --- just write e-mails to the authors po... | 2015/07/30 | [
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49,639 | I am a couple of months off my defence and started thinking about postdoc possibilities. I seem to have an opportunity at a **very prestigious** lab in the U.S. (I'm currently located in Europe).
After a brief chat with the PI at a conference, and some e-mails back and forth I was invited to come for a visit, meet th... | [
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"text": "I think all your concerns are very reasonable. Honestly, I am not really buying into the \"money is no concern in a... | 2015/07/30 | [
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49,644 | A student co-author drafted a response letter to the reviewers in which they apologize numerous times. I found this strange, but I can't pinpoint why.
*Question*: Should one apologize in response letters to reviewers? If not, why not?
I'm not sure if this is just my personal feeling, or if there are some underlying, ... | [
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49,657 | Of course, the best way to improve citations is to write good papers which presents sound, interesting, and important results.
However, assuming that one has a nice paper published in an important journal (e.g., PRL, or PRB), what one can do to improve citations, and in general to make people read, or at least aware ... | [
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"text": "Go to conferences and give talks that describe the results in the paper, giving the citation as part of your sl... | 2015/07/30 | [
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49,661 | I have used Microsoft PowerPoint to make posters so far, and I am considering giving Adobe Illustrator a shot for my next poster. What features does Adobe Illustrator lack compared to Microsoft PowerPoint to make a poster?
For example, [one cannot generate bulleted lists automatically in Adobe Illustrator](https://gra... | [
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49,666 | I am often called upon to give a "lab tour" to visitors, including but not limited to:
* prospective graduate students
* candidates for summer research positions (including undergraduate and high school students)
* researchers or executives from our "industrial partners"
* professors and graduate students from other u... | [
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49,686 | For quite some times this question has popped up to my mind. In many jobs, you can take paid leave for some days. As a PhD student (F1-visa) in US, I am being supported by the department in the form teaching assistantship (TA) . Is there a provision for taking paid leave for TAs? | [
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49,699 | I'm currently working on a minor problem in information extraction. The idea behind the system is relatively simple and contains small modifications of existing algorithms. However in the process, I ended up creating a whole new dataset of a different kind - which did not exist before. This dataset would foster new nov... | [
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"text": "Make your paper a [data paper](https://www.gbif.org/data-papers), and add in the bit about the simple algorithm into th... | 2015/07/31 | [
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49,705 | I'm currently enrolled in a Master's degree Program in Statistics in Italy. I just started working on my thesis and my advisor asked me if I wanted to write it in Italian or in English. Apparently, both languages are accepted but presenting a thesis in English would mean having to discuss it in English too.
It's a 10-m... | [
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"text": "The reasons I write all my work in English, regardless of the country in which I work, are threefold: \n\n1. The s... | 2015/07/31 | [
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49,708 | I recently sent a paper for review to a conference whose results will be out in 4-5 months. In last few days to the deadline, I've been tuning one subsystem, which didn't work out by the deadline. I simplified that part and sent the papers explaining the older method for that subsystem which I had done few months ago, ... | [
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49,709 | It was like more than 6 years ago, I was an undergrad senior in a south asian university, we did not have much internet connectivity back then.
I wanted to publish something on a journal/conference to get a feedback on my undergrad thesis (I was curious to know about the quality of my work) and submitted a paper to o... | [
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"text": "Of course you can try to contact the conference 'organizers', but I am afraid that a scam conference, like ... | 2015/07/31 | [
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49,712 | I will defend my thesis soon. It would be great if someone could suggest me any good course or resource to improve my skills. | [
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49,727 | I submitted a paper to a good journal in theoretical computer science. Today I received an email from the editor stating that the status of the paper is:
"Accepted subject to minor revisions".
The revisions suggested by the referee were only typos. More precisely, there were only 5 typos. The referees strongly reco... | [
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"text": "\"Accepted subject to minor revisions\" is not yet accepted. You can list in your CV just like any other non-pee... | 2015/07/31 | [
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49,737 | I have finished my mathematics undergraduate degree in the UK at a low ranked university. I just missed out on a 2:2.
I struggled with modules such as statistics and Operations research but excelled at pure maths and applied maths modules.
I have miraculously still been accepted by a university to study for MSc in m... | [
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49,759 | I have come across this term fairly often, where full/associate/assistant professors are referred to by the term ‘clinical’. Given that their departments had nothing to do with medicine, I thought the term referred to the [second meaning](http://thefreedictionary.com/clinical) of *clinical:*
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> scientifically detach... | [
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49,763 | I have completed my Master's degree 25+ years ago, and I decided to go back to college to further my education with a Doctorate degree. I fulfill all the requirements, except for the need to provide 2 academic references.
How should I proceed to obtain the references? Should I hunt down my former professors in their ... | [
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49,774 | In a research paper, is it appropriate to use the word *like* meaning *similar* or *similar to?* For example the sentence:
>
> Like in Eq.(2), we will substitute *y* in Eq.(6) to simplify the equation.
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49,783 | One chapter in my thesis is going to have the following style:
```
3.1 Topic A
3.1.1 Problem Description
3.1.2 Proposed Solution
4.1 Topic B
4.1.1 Problem Description
4.1.2 Proposed Solution
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Is it OK to have subsections with the same name? Or should it rather be something like:
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49,788 | I run a small blog about both the academic and professional aspects of my industry as I both teach a course at the university I am attending as well as work in the industry full time. The blog answers viewer questions and has even made some changes to core industry values which has boosted productivity and efficiency i... | [
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49,796 | I am a senior physics major and I recently applied to a national lab that is associated with my university. I applied for a student research position through their website (uploaded my resume and wrote a cover letter etc.) I was contacted by the PI of the research team to come for a 'visit' for an hour with him and his... | [
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49,798 | In my academic paper, I have well over 100 figures, and would like to use an artwork I found online in one of my figures - it is not published in any book, it is just something they made and posted online. I would be using 1/6th of the author's artwork figure, and it would be so heavily modified it would barely be reco... | [
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49,800 | While looking for a journal to publish my paper I noticed that one of the people I follow on ResearchGate has published his paper in
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>
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49,809 | My supervisor wants the paper at another huge conference where all the funding are given and it's more valid than the current accepted one. But I have paid all my air fares and hotel fares for the current travel. Refunding is not possible it seems. Can I go to a conference and just present without publishing?
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49,820 | Back in France I had a few teachers handing back exams in order from the highest grade to the lowest grade, and I recall there was some tense suspense, especially for for the people at the bottom of the stack. Is there any point in handing back exams ordered by grade? Assume there is no online platform to release grade... | [
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49,822 | I will be starting my first semester of an online graduate program in ~20 days. Because of my full-time position, I am expecting things to be quite chaotic over the next month or so and I have considered asking the professors whose classes I will be taking for homework assignments (not exams or lecture notes) in advanc... | [
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49,833 | Is it inappropriate to mail a senior academic (e.g. professor), whom I don’t know, asking –
1. to check Lemma, Theorem ( less than 3 to 4, short/ little)
2. how a graph can be constructed (with given conditions), this might require his ‘intellectual time’ as the class of graph is unlikely to be familiar.
3. reference ... | [
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49,851 | There are certain academic jobs such as Baylor or BYU that require a certain way of life. BYU, for instance, requires one to adhere to the Church Educational System Honor Code and Baylor typically requires a letter of recommendation from your Minister/Rabbi (their words) with one's application. For example, being in a ... | [
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49,854 | I have been reading about how authors deal with negative peer reviewer comments. This got me wondering what kind of reviewer comments would authors consider as negative? Of course, most authors would consider harsh or rude comments as negative, but I feel that harsh comments, if directed at improving the paper, are at ... | [
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49,865 | I am getting ready to apply to mathematics graduate programs this semester. As far as I know most school require 3 letters of reference. I've secured two letters but for my third letter I have a couple of options. I can simply ask another professor whose class I have done well in, but I am not confident in the strength... | [
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49,874 | After a Skype conversation and several correspondences with an Irish professor, the professor wrote that he will take me as PhD student.
Although we had agreed on which project to work on and we planned to discuss about research questions, we have yet to discuss about research questions and proposal. As I feel that h... | [
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49,881 | I just taught my first course that finished last week and I was asked to teach the same course for next semester. The only difference is that this time I will be teaching the course online.
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49,883 | I'm a college graduate and now working as an EMT in the hopes of going to physician assistant school next year. While working, it's easy to get sidetracked by many different points of view. I don't want someone to end up persuading me to become a paramedic.
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49,886 | I saved the home page for the [Academic Libraries of Indiana](http://academiclibrariesofindiana.org/home/start) to Zotero, and it pulled back an author from the metadata embedded in the page. After pulling up the source of the page, I found a meta field defined as "DC.Creator" (which, according to the comment above the... | [
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49,896 | My question is: I would like to thank the committee members of my PhD dissertation explicitly thanking them for their time and effort and writing down their names Prof. Name1, Prof. Name2, etc...
This is of course before the formal defence after they found the dissertation worthy of being defended.
I am a bit concern... | [
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49,897 | I am in this peculiar position whereby I started off my grad school in subject X and got very boring projects in it and eventually around my 3rd year I started studying a new subject Y (partly because I met some inspiring profs in Y who motivated me)
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49,902 | As a relatively new lecturer, I'm always looking for ways to improve my teaching. After doing a bit of research around how different lecturers etc approach student feedback, a number had stated that using anonymous feedback solicited during the semester can be really helpful.
So following on from that, I put on my lea... | [
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49,911 | I came across a faculty vacancy announcement at a US university where it is mentioned that the candidate will be expected to perform teaching, research and guidance duties in area(s) of expertise. In addition, the candidate will share responsibility for committee and department assignments including administrative, sup... | [
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49,923 | I have recently been doing a revision in my CV. I organized my publications into "Peer-reviewed journal articles", "Peer-reviewed conference papers", "Other published papers" ...
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49,927 | I liked the questions on various surveys I examined. Rather than paraphrasing, I want to copy some of them directly, and use them in my survey, which is required for my dissertation.
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49,934 | Some universities say that "The minimum number of letters of recommendation are 2 but we highly encourage 3". If I know that I can get 2 good letters of recommendation but they "highly encourage 3", should I send in a third? | [
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49,937 | While working my way through one textbook, I spotted several errors, [TeX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX)ed them up and emailed to the author of the textbook. He thanked me and asked for my physical address so he could send me a copy of his new textbook (a more advanced one). I was planning to work though his new t... | [
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49,941 | I am in a Ph.D. program in Engineering and I do probability, statistics and differential equations. My relevant previous works are: Modelling of blood flow, programming using DNA molecules. (But most of things I do, which will lead to a Ph.D. are very mathematical and don't involve any medicine.)
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49,967 | I have just started a new job
as an assistant professor in a tenure-track position.
* What are the most important things that I can do
to build good working and social relationships with my colleagues?
* Related to the above question,
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and how do I work... | [
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49,971 | How do you normally indicate a subsection, or a part of the text that it is not so important for the rest of text. Let me give an example:
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> [...] This method uses ABC as a coefficient.
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> **Subsection: how to measure ABC**
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49,980 | I have been asked to help teach a one-week class (a scientific conference-type class in Italy). I am one of about six other teachers involved.
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49,986 | I am wondering about what incentives professors have to teach a large class (vs. a small class). To put it differently, when a professor is assigned to a class, what motivates him/her to attract students to his class? I am looking for external motivations, not personal ones, such as willingness to share the class mater... | [
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49,991 | I am interested in journals of finance and the conference in mathematical and computational finance. Few give the template in the website, while few others don't.Where can i find some standard template? | [
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49,999 | In addition to various US-based positions, I am currently considering (applying for) several research positions at a couple of well-known UK universities. While I researched the topic somewhat, I am not too familiar with *specifics* of academic system in **UK** and, thus, would appreciate clarifications.
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50,007 | I will soon submit a paper to PRL. In the main text, I refer in many places to the supplemental material, which is divided in 3 parts.
Let's say that at page 2 of the main I show a result, and I refer to the 1st section of the supplemental material, at page 3 to the 2nd, and at page 4 to the 3rd.
Should I write in t... | [
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50,015 | After doing well at science fair, I started working with an extremely nice professor at the local university who encouraged me to submit my work to the relevant conference. I was rejected at large, but accepted to one of the workshops. The workshop is the day before the conference. The professor reviewed my paper twice... | [
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50,020 | This is a phrase that I have heard on multiple occasions, both on this forum and in real life. But what exactly does that mean (in reference to talking about students)? When I hear this, I can't help but imagine a group of emeritus professors with grey beards sitting around in a room gossiping about the latest incoming... | [
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50,027 | I'm currently applying to a combined pre-med/medical program. This program guarantees a spot in the school system's medical school (assuming a certain GPA is maintained etc.). I'm between high school and undergrad, taking a few years off for intensive Judaic studies.
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50,035 | Like many on this site, I use a Moodle-type online Content Management System to give assignments to my students, and receive the finished work for grading. This is in a traditional context where the students are physically present in the classroom, and the online part is seen as a simple tool to be used in addition to ... | [
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50,038 | TLDR: A student posted my lab assignment as a “project” on [Hackster.io](https://www.hackster.io/) and [Instructables](http://www.instructables.com/). His posts hide its origin as a lab assignment, in which a lot of the materials (texts, circuit diagram and similar) were *given* to the students. If you were a potential... | [
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50,040 | I am finishing my PhD and strongly considering changing my field (Artificial intelligence in computer games) to a very weakly related field (Bioinformatics). The nice part is that I got a very interesting job offer at a Bioinformatics lab, starting next spring, and I will very likely take it. So my question is a bit di... | [
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50,068 | I'm a maths student who did his BSc at a top 10 university in England and got solid first.
After this, I decided to go to Cambridge to do Part III of the Mathematical tripos (a Masters). This was a HUGE step up for me and I felt like a fish out of water. It didn't help that I had personal problems going on in my life ... | [
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50,093 | Should I mail the professor? Should I meet him in person? I am a MS student in CS who wishes to take a graduate level course in Statistics department. The course is Machine Learning and I did cover most of the prerequisite course's content in multiple undergraduate courses so I want him to waive the requirement. I have... | [
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50,096 | A student I had emailed me to ask about working in the industry-because I have years of experience in it-after they finish school and how their past may affect how an employer will react to them. To paraphrase the email:
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50,097 | **Does anyone know any good, effective tool that people use to synthesize large amount of information from research?**
*By "tool" I am referring to softwares or practices that effective researchers use to:*
**1. retain/recall large amount of research information,**
**2. progress quickly into a completely new field,... | [
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50,105 | What penalties might be imposed for a postdoc taking the work of multiple graduate students (even from other institutions) and passing it off as his own without even providing an acknowledgment of their effort?
I understand that in cases where this is suspected, an email is sent out to the journal editor presenting ev... | [
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50,110 | I'm an enthusiastic contributor to one or two sites that help learners of English. I've noticed a problem that crops up again and again.
Many non-native speakers of English make efforts to disguise a quotation that they haven't understood when asking for help with its meaning.
I suspect this is because they have had ... | [
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50,113 | While writing a review article as an undergraduate student, can I directly copy some information from another article or book? Or should I summarize it in my own words to illustrate a topic? | [
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50,118 | I have to send my doctoral dissertation to the members of my committee and I wonder how I should write the email. It is not a question of inviting them to be on the committee (they have already agreed with my advisor), but on how to tactfully send them the dissertation.
Besides, is there anything else I should send be... | [
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50,124 | I have been told that having a published review article is viewed as an advantage for higher education. The topic of my review article is the impact of information technology on the practice of human resource management.
What are the sequential steps that I have to follow to make my review article acceptable to renown... | [
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50,139 | This is a follow-up to the question [Posting to ArXiv a longer version of a submitted journal paper](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49486/posting-to-arxiv-a-longer-version-of-a-submitted-journal-paper). The general consensus on that thread was that it is probably okay to do what I proposed, but that I sho... | [
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50,141 | Very often there are people that choose to enter the work force after high school instead of starting college. Many of those people decide later in life to go to college and get a bachelors. I believe this usually happens in your late 20's to early 30's but it's not unheard of to have people in their 40's in college. T... | [
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50,150 | I'm in the process of making a decision with regards to graduate school and my number one choice is an interdisciplinary PhD program in Computational Science and Engineering. On the computational side of things I'll be focusing largely on data science, but I'll be looking to apply those skills to land use modeling. So ... | [
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50,162 | I have written a research monograph.
I think that the work on the first volume is finished **except** that it is not yet checked for errors. Well, I am not 100% sure that I won't make any changes, however now no changes (except of hunting errors) are planned.
I am going to send the monograph to a competition of such ... | [
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51,167 | I will get a master's degree early next year. I would like to do a PhD somewhere else than at my current university. However, since I have already a more impressive publication record than many of the second or third year PhD students at my department, my supervisors are expecting me to stay. I need their reference let... | [
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51,171 | First of all I am a second year M.Sc. Student in Computer science, working on information networks and enjoy my research a lot. In my B.Sc. final Project I had worked on intrusion detection systems, which was actually a computer network protocol related area and irrelevant to my current field.
I should mention that ac... | [
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51,173 | Is there any research/study that looked at the usefulness of giving awards in academia? By useful I mean weighting the positive and negative effects. I'm interested in three kinds of awards: awards to students, awards to teachers, and awards to researchers. (let me know if I should post as 3 different questions) | [
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51,177 | I'm planning to go a large Earth Science conference (couple thousand attendees expected) that does not result in refereed publications. Some other fields (like Computer Science) have conferences that result in publications, but I'm in Earth Science and it's extremely rare our conferences result in publications. Only jo... | [
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51,185 | I am a 3rd year PhD Student (Computer Science, India). I have two advisors, one internal and one external.
The internal advisor has no knowledge of my area and he doesn’t care what I am doing. He has no contribution to my research so far, but he keeps forcing me to make him co-author (2nd author) of my papers. I am a ... | [
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"text": "1. How are 'attitude problem' and not obeying your adviser a 'crime'? In my university, there is a 'co-a... | 2015/08/09 | [
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51,191 | This is related to advisor selection for North American universities, STEM majors.
I noticed some profs tend to have a lot of "solo" publications, meaning that he or she is the sole author of a journal/paper for over the span of quite a few years. This tends to be from earlier on during his or her career as a research... | [
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51,195 | Is it legal to upload a PDF of my non-open-access papers to research networks, such as ResearchGATE and Academia.edu?
I am pretty sure that it could cause some problems, because normally people should buy them from the publisher. But I have seen many researchers put the PDF of their (non-open access) papers for free ... | [
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51,206 | I am currently pursuing a PhD at [Technion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technion_%E2%80%93_Israel_Institute_of_Technology) (Israel). My area of study lies in [computational fluid dynamics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_fluid_dynamics) (CFD), which involves high performance computing. My research require... | [
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51,211 | * I am not a professional academic; I am an amateur mathematician.
* I have developed an entirely new mathematical theory.
* I have written a book about my theory and put it online at my web site.
I am considering whether to put it at an online Git hosting (such as GitHub.com) under a copyleft license instead of publi... | [
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51,214 | I'm a PhD student that is finishing up, and I want to do a postdoc. Yesterday I went to a lecturer's house (he was above 60 years old) and I was really shocked because it is not what I expected.
Right now I live in student accommodation where I pay about £500 per month (without bills) and it is decent. But now I am r... | [
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51,224 | In continuation of [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/51211/what-will-be-implications-of-not-publishing-officially):
I have written a book with a new mathematical theory. I am an amateur mathematician.
I want to publish my book as LaTeX source under a copyleft license.
Does it make sense to... | [
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51,230 | I planned that I could make myself money to continue education (by obtaining a master's degree), but what am I supposed to do to continue my education? It would be nice if it's going to be a part-time education and I don't have to attend to school all the time.
My candidate would be University of Toronto or McGill.
I... | [
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51,234 | Lately, I've been wondering why institutions with a primary emphasis on undergraduate education (e.g. liberal arts colleges) value research output amongst their faculty. This is not intended to dismiss the research of LAC faculty, but rather to delineate what value the institution/department gains by hiring candidates ... | [
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51,241 | Does anyone know a good online source for guidelines for shortening journal articles? I've just finished a paper that I'm going to submit soon, but I think it is far too long. Its current length is 30 journal pages. (I know that because I've obsessively figured out what formatting would get me to have 1 word processed ... | [
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51,248 | I am meeting him in his office on campus. I am a master's student in computer science. I figured that suit and tie would be too formal as it isn't really an interview since I already have the position. If I were just regularly attending grad classes, I may wear T-shirt, shorts and flipflops (during the summer/fall) and... | [
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51,272 | I am a tenured full professor in the humanities, teaching at an elite liberal arts institution. Currently our department is struggling to attract majors and student scholars in our particular humanities field, for a number of reasons - the academic work is perceived as exotic, irrelevant vis a vis the more valuable STE... | [
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51,283 | I am currently a student doing research in Neuroscience, and as you can imagine it is a pretty big field. I am trying to better familiarize myself with my own subfield and other fields such stem cell research and genetics.
What is a good way to find some landmark papers and authors who are highly regarded in a certai... | [
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"text": "As already mentioned by @fkraiem, ideally your supervisor should be able to help here. \n\nI know it happen... | 2015/08/10 | [
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51,284 | Two years back, was working as an research associate then have to leave the lab due to some family issues. My work was significant enough to be included in the manuscript and I was told that my experimental results will be a part of the manuscript and I will be coauthor in the paper.
Time has passed, the paper was re... | [
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"text": "Authorship wars are common and they suck. I suggest you discuss your plans to reach out to the journal editor wi... | 2015/08/10 | [
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51,288 | I'm looking into a variety of grad schools, but really the only places I know to look are at top 15 or so schools. Now, I know often times certain research areas within a discipline have top-tier research groups at otherwise average-ranked schools in other areas. Unforunately, I have some areas of interest that I'd lik... | [
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51,289 | Lately it feels like I haven't been doing enough both personally and professionally. I am very productive at both my place of employment and my graduate studies (i.e. PhD in Soil and Water Science) however I want to be more active. I am perfectly content with crunching numbers, developing models, researching the litera... | [
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"text": "Collaborations almost never start with a cold email in my experience. All of my collaborations have involved pe... | 2015/08/10 | [
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51,305 | **tl;dr:** Should I report this large grant fraud, and what consequences could it have for me?
For obvious reasons, I will try to maintain some anonymity here.
So I defended my thesis. Which was funded through a government grant.
In order to obtain this type of grant, a professor needs to cooperate with several othe... | [
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"text": "**Warning**: Harsh answer following\n\nLet me state some facts:\n\n* You probably took a PhD you did not deserv... | 2015/08/11 | [
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