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52,016 | A reason that researchers sometimes give for not working in the open is the fear of having a publication 'scooped' by a competing researcher. Is there a clear, verifiable example where scooping has happened as a result of work being shared informally on the web prior to formal publication?
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52,032 | A DOI is a commonly used *digital object identifier* to refer to an electronic document. How do I secure a DOI for a research dataset, to help share and identify it? | [
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52,037 | For instance, say a published paper demonstrated new possible invention or technology by analysing the data and publishing it publicly.
Is there any way to protect such research or its data which can lead to unauthorised private patents worldwide?
If not, is prove of being first into specific area of research/technol... | [
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52,041 | I am set to do a masters degree in the UK starting in mid September this year. It is exactly one year long.
I intend to do another masters after it which begins in October next year.
The structure of the course is we are examined on 4 modules in January and examined on 4 modules in June. We then write our dissertation... | [
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52,043 | As a graduate student, I'm involved in an industry-sponsored project in which they provide us with a large dataset (the only source of data that we have) and money, but no guidance, as they have no clue about our work. In the draft of the agreement between our university and the company they wanted full ownership of an... | [
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52,046 | The requirements for applying for a master's programme in National University of Singapore are stated as
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> * A good honours degree in computing; or
> * A good honours degree in a related discipline with 2 years IT industry experience; or
> * A good bachelor's degree in computing... | [
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52,047 | Office hours can be selected at any time, but how they can be selected to benefit all? The students to ask the instructors and the instructors to have some time to conduct research? Before a class or after a class? In the same days as the class, days with no classes, or all days? | [
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52,051 | I'm not an English native speaker, and my question is, probably, only relevant for non-native speakers.
Sometimes, native speakers just don't care how easily the presenter can understand the question. Such a carelessness usually embarrasses the presenter enormously and makes him appear incompetent.
What is the prop... | [
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52,057 | I'm a 5th year Ph.D. student. I've worked on several different projects in the last couple years, some of them not related to my dissertation topic, so I don't yet have enough results to say for sure when I will defend. I'm working solely on my dissertation project now, and I'm working as quickly as I can.
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52,060 | If a private, third party wants to fully fund one's PhD studies, how would one mention this in an admissions essay? | [
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52,066 | I'm in the process of transitioning from industry to academia. Over the years I've been minor contributor to a number of publications and conference presentations and published once as an undergraduate in the school's peer-reviewed journal. This work was in a number of different fields that are different than the direc... | [
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52,073 | In a paper I proposed an algorithm for something (extracting data from a webpage), I described the steps and the result of the algorithm using a sample webpage. Do I need provide experimental results on various websites?
Here I think my purpose is not to compare something with another thing, the precision of the algor... | [
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52,075 | The main weakness in my application was my weak research experience in the field I applied to. Say I got two new writing samples and greatly improved my research experience. Would it be acceptable for me to reapply to a school I got rejected from? I really want to go to that program. | [
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52,082 | There are departments in many schools that offer "hybrid" majors, such as:
* Computer Science and Engineering
* Electrical and Computer Engineering
* Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
* Materials Science and Engineering
* Molecular and Cellular Biology
* Nutritional Science and Toxicology
etc.
Let us say y... | [
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52,097 | Is there any general advise on when better to submit a paper?
I mean, should one consider the seasonal differences in the way journals work.
Let's say, I have a manuscript ready to submit at the beginning of June. Would it make any sense to withhold it until the beginning of the new academic year as there is low ch... | [
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"text": "You should submit it once you finished. You should not wait or think about for new academic year. This is your misconc... | 2015/08/22 | [
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52,098 | Other than attending classes and meetings, faculty differ in their daily attendance. Some faculty may show up only during days they have classes, others are in their offices daily from 8-5, others arrive around noon and stay late. Are their any rules or it is up to each department or faculty? | [
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52,117 | I am doing a PhD in economics. I had an idea on an issue of my interest. With making some research, I found out that there was a previous student at my university, who did not finish his PhD, but he made an unpublished paper on the idea that I had, which has been presented at a conference, and it is not a working paper... | [
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52,131 | I see lot of industry postdoc positions these days. I am interested in working for industry (R&D/product development) and not academia. But would a industry postdoc be helpful to find a good job in industry? Or would it be better to get a regular job & get experience that way?
I know postdocs are seen as necessary in ... | [
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52,132 | When applying for example to a postdoc position, is it appropriate to write the text of the cover letter directly into the email, or should it be attached as a seperate file?
One advantage of stating the content of the cover letter directly in the email I could see is that there are good changes that the potential fut... | [
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52,137 | I am visiting an American university for a year. In my invitation letter and further instructions, it is written that I can audit any course that I want (subject to the agreement of its professor).
Since it is not common in my country, I have no idea what this auditing process is. What should I do?
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52,142 | This is a bit confusing. I'm currently writing a cookbook, and a chef said he would send me one of his restaurant's recipes. When he did, it was in the form of a scan of the recipe as it was featured in another book. So clearly the recipe came from him and I have his permission to use it, but it also exists in this boo... | [
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52,148 | I just started a postdoc position in England, but I have a personal problem with the place. I want to apply for another postdoc position in other cities.
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52,155 | I have seen couple of syllabi that used a disclaimer similar to "Instructor reserves the right to change the syllabus at any time". For the instructor side, it could be good, but from students side it could be good or bad, depending on the change. Any other thoughts? | [
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52,163 | Next semester, I will be leading exercise sessions in a first year course of mathematics. More precisely, the course is Linear Algebra and the audience consists of young, first year undergraduate mathematics-students. The course is taught at a university in continental Europe. Judging from my personal experience, I kno... | [
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52,170 | I wonder what determines the copyright year for a publication. I thought that the copyright year would be the same as the publication year, but seeing in (1)
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52,188 | I am asking this question for two reasons: first to work on activities to strengthen my CV for the future, and second to write a plan for professional development activities as part of a grant proposal.
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52,195 | Our institute has an open position for a student research assistant where it is hard to find qualified applicants. Currently, I'm supervising a very good student who is in the final weeks of writing down his bachelor's thesis. He has experience with the requirements of the position and I would love to have him as an as... | [
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52,217 | I'm on my last month before the deadline to hand in my dissertation.
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52,237 | I recently completed my PhD thesis with minor corrections and I presented most of the data in international conferences (posters and talks). Now I am focused on writing up the data for publication in a journal.
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52,244 | Based on this question: [Is it unethical to accept extra time on exams when I still do well?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/19426/is-it-unethical-to-accept-extra-time-on-exams-when-i-still-do-well)
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52,247 | I have two papers in CS published during my Master's studies. The idea, the experiments and the writings were done all by myself, but my previous supervisor took the first-author place forcibly.
I am planning on applying to US PhD programs. My questions:
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52,259 | I'm taking a higher math class because I'm a math major. The class is called Partial Differential Equations. I was wondering if I should just use the first week to review the prerequisites because the prerequisites are classes that I had some difficulty understanding.
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52,267 | In a few questions/answers on here (e.g., [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1378/what-steps-could-universities-take-to-reduce-ph-d-drop-outs/1380#1380)), passing reference has been made to the difficulty of determining a good/acceptable/healthy dropout rate for a PhD program. However, I haven't seen a... | [
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52,270 | Most top univerities in the world prefer candidates with work experience for their MBA programmes.Why so? | [
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52,278 | How does one choose which speakers to invite to research seminars? There are some obvious points of consideration, for example if it is a seminar with a more or less specific topic, then the speaker should have some work related to the theme of the seminar. However, there are still a few other points of consideration:
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52,284 | I am looking for a 2nd post doc position but i dont have any publications in my first post doc. Is that lack of publications really matters to get another post doc? or shall I stop applying and look for a position in industry? My field is materials chemistry. | [
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52,294 | The usual recommendation I have [read here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/644/when-should-a-supervisor-be-an-author) is that when you publish together with a (PhD) student of yours, the student should be first author, and the supervisor will be second author. Although this is not explained explicitly, th... | [
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52,314 | It is becoming apparent to me that, outside my field, use of [Blackboard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Learn) and other [LMS software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system) is becoming extremely common. Indeed, a rash of technical problems here is making it apparent students and administ... | [
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52,316 | I only have 2 research experiences, one of which lasted more than a year and is starting to look very promising for high impact factor publication (I'll be the second author though, and it's not likely to be published by the time of application). The other is with an highly esteemed professor from the U.S. who's quite ... | [
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52,322 | We get occasional questions here from people who are applying to PhD programs, and are worried because they have no publications. This is puzzling to me, because most of my friends in PhD programs did not have any publications when they applied.
We've also previous agreed that it is not generally [*mandatory* to have... | [
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52,326 | I finished my master in computer science about 2 years ago...
And I just started to apply for PhD... I have received a prompt reply to one of my email and I really don't know what should I do!? here is the response :
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52,333 | I spent a considerable amount of time to write my thesis. Now I have to create the slides for the defense. I thought it was going to be easier, but found important difficulties creating them. I would like to have a method to make it easier, at least the first draft. Starting with a section, I will try to create a slide... | [
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52,336 | Let us say you have a paper drafted up and asked someone to comment on it. If this someone replied to you with compliments but with no suggestions on possible improvements, is it academically conventional to mention this someone's name in the acknowledgement of the paper?
I intend to do that, verily. However, my conce... | [
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52,352 | Since graduating I have maintained contact with a number of professors at my university and have gone back on recruiting trips. I check in on the courses being offered from time to time and have noticed several have changed.
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52,363 | My advisor is leaving academia and I will graduating and writing a dissertation on the work that I have done in his lab under his supervision. I have no problem to include him on my dissertation but the university is not allowing me to do that.
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52,368 | I've already applied for one post-doc fellowship with one project with the consent of my possible future supervisor. I will know whether I've been succesfull in 6 months.
Now I realised that there is another fellowship to which I could apply - my potential host supervisor agreed that she would support me for both fell... | [
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52,386 | I just finished my 2nd year of PhD, and my mom has been dying of cancer since the end of my 1st year. She nearly died in January but thankfully pulled through. She was just diagnosed again a few weeks ago and her prognosis is not good (resistant to chemo and can't get another surgery).
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52,399 | I have observed that most papers with titles starting with "On the ..." are theoretical ones, like pure mathematics, physics, computer science, etc. Most of these papers are relatively old, though I can find a few recent examples as well.
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52,402 | I am a student from a new undergraduate programme with only one batch of graduates. The administration is planning to create and send an official brochure/document with information about the programme to admissions committees of graduate programmes (mainly in the United States) where students may apply.
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52,412 | For grad school application (US univerisity), we need recommendation from prof. I guess the process is that system send out recommendation letter request to prof's email.
Do you guys know how long does it take to submit these recomendation letter? Does it need to fill extra form while submitting these letter?
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52,436 | I am an instructor, and the head of my department is a professor that refuses to fail students.
I found out about this situation through multiple semesters where students would complain about this professor treating them unfairly, both to other students within my classroom, and to me directly; my ultimate question is... | [
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52,459 | I will shortly be giving a seminar presentation on a research project that I worked on with collaborators X, Y and Z. We have not yet submitted our paper for publication, and one question we have yet to resolve is the authorship - it is not yet decided whether Z will be a coauthor on the paper.
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52,468 | In the question [Is it common to review papers assigned to your supervisor?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5662/is-it-common-to-review-papers-assigned-to-your-supervisor), it is answered that it is not uncommon for the advisor to ask a student to review a paper.
I was ok with it during my PhD program. B... | [
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52,477 | I have a scatter(log-)plot with some 10,000 data points that plots the running time of some algorithm against the input on random instances of some problem.
I have a lot of these plots, and due to space constraints I can't exactly dedicate a large amount of space to them. The plots are 1-2 inches tall. The trouble is ... | [
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52,488 | I recently created a profile on [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net). And to add your publications list it requires you to upload the paper. Is it legal to upload published journal articles on public servers, where everyone can download it for free? | [
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52,499 | I am an assistant professor for a course on audio signal processing (for engineers) and I often write snippets of code to try to help the students follow the material. In addition, I get to lecture (1) one session of the course.
I have a lot of code I wrote over the last couple of years for this particular session bu... | [
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52,509 | I wrote an essay for a professor of mine, in which I cited a book he had written. As it so happens, the citation is based on my having obtained a (most likely) pirated PDF copy of the book. The text is quite expensive, not readily available anywhere (library, textbook store, or Amazon) aside from the publisher, and the... | [
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52,515 | So I'm bipolar, and earlier this year my doctor put me on antipsychotics. They made it really hard for me to think, and my advisor expressed frustration with me not doing calculations fast enough, and not being able to keep our entire project in my head at once. (I didn't tell him about the medication.)
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52,516 | Today I got letter from the editor of a journal saying that the reviewer found my work interesting but there are some points which he wants me to clarify. Now, one of the points he made is that he doesn't understand how I got from equation x to equation y and he wants to clarify how. Does that mean that I need to expla... | [
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52,523 | Going to sound dramatic, but something just isn't right about my research adviser who is trying to give my research to another student. I don't know the student at all, but they are attempting to force me into a "partnership" with them. The student has zero research accomplishments in my research area, but I've been to... | [
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52,528 | This is going to be a long post but I believe is the only way to understand my situation.
I studied B.Sc in Information Systems Engineering in a small private university in Latin America, it's not a research oriented institution and thus does not have a high reputation, especially outside my country. My GPA is very hi... | [
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52,531 | I'm a recent BA graduate. In my field (linguistics), it seems like most successful applicants to PhD programs at top schools have Master's theses, and writing samples in the field are probably the most important part of the application. My writing sample will probably be only 20 pages long at best, even though I think ... | [
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52,539 | As a student, I almost always prefer when instructors use the board, rather than slides. As a relatively inexperienced instructor, though, I keep reverting back to slides (unless I'm working out problems), because frankly, it's a useful crutch.
Specifically, I find it difficult to teach from the board because:
* When... | [
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52,553 | In my PhD, I am assigned mathematical modeling topics and my supervisor's work is related to mathematical biology. But I don't want to work in mathematical biology. Because actually there is not so much real application of that and I don't like biology. Instead, I want to work in fluid dynamics. But my supervisor's res... | [
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52,561 | I am an undergraduate student at a university in the US.
Unfortunately, I have a concern regarding one TA of a class I took this past year. This individual insults other students in the university during his TA session, and I also found out from other people that this TA has been talking to other people (not just the ... | [
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52,562 | I find myself experiencing back to school anxiety as a new semesters begins in less than three weeks, mainly because the unpredictability associated with graduate life.
In some ways it feels less structured than other endeavors such as starting a new semester as an undergrad, starting a new job or moving to a new cou... | [
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52,580 | I sent an email to a professor for possible acceptance as a PhD student, but sometimes it takes too long to hear back.
I know another professor, that has a good knowledge (experience) with the first professor. Can I ask this second professor, in polite way, to contact the first one, and discuss with him whether to acc... | [
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52,586 | It seems that if I were to just express interest in a single subdiscipline (computer networking for example), and none of the networking professors are taking on students, I would not be considered based on any other merits my application may have. But if I were to express interest in several subdisciplines it may be d... | [
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52,603 | I've been working as a TA for an on campus program for the last year and a half. The director really likes me; she has a Masters in Mathematics and runs the learning services program for the STEM programs but she doesn't teach or do research.
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52,613 | When I went to college, I remember there was an office that would help students, graduates and alumni get their first job. What is that office called?
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52,622 | ### Context
I've submitted a paper - it was sort of a side-product of my main project - to a high ranked journal from an adjacent field. Recently I got a revise & resubmit that was close to a reject, but the editor sounded really interested in the paper being multidisciplinary. I'm suggested to contextualize my resear... | [
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52,639 | I'm a mathematics student just starting my third year. Since entering grad school, I have become rather firmly convinced that academia is not the place for me. The intellectual work is great, but the life side sucks. I hate the administrative bloat, the grad student/post-doc slavery system, being constantly surrounded ... | [
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52,642 | I'm planning to see a professor today, in our department, he is the director of one of the labs there and a PI of a couple of projects. I knew that, he's looking for some student to join his project/s. I contacted him, he told that he's a couple of funding projects and make an appointment for me to see him. So, I'm thi... | [
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52,647 | I have been invited to review a manuscript written by several authors. One of them has been the editor of one of my recently published papers. This is the only interaction I have ever had with the author of the manuscript.
Would it be OK for me to accept the review request?
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52,649 | ***Is*** there any upper limit for the number of recommendation letters for an application?
***Does*** the strength of an application get enhanced by containing more recommendation letters?
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52,658 | I have recently been admitted to teach some TOEFL courses in an institute and the course I lecture is reading and writing. According to the institute policy, each teacher is free to have his/her own material of teaching.
I am spending a lot of time observing classes and I prepare powerpoints to present in my class whi... | [
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52,659 | I'm writing a paper on graphs. Personally, I've always disliked the vertices/edges terminology. I found it very confusing when I started working with graphs, and I much prefer the alternative names **nodes** and **links** respectively. These terms are used, but far less than vertices/edges, and it depends highly on the... | [
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52,660 | I submitted one of my papers to an IEEE conference: [NGCT 2015](http://www.ngct2015.com/home) which is supposed to be happening soon (the final paper submission deadline is gone) and I had submitted my paper in PDF format, written in latex, without getting it approved using [PDF express plus](http://www.ieee.org/confer... | [
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52,662 | I am about to finish my undergraduate thesis. The interpretation/conclusion i wrote is basically a statement which matches well with research of other groups and has a widely accepted scientific background.
After letting my supervisor (who has been mentoring me) and then my professor(who gave me the topic and is in c... | [
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52,663 | I get confused with some comments of [JeffE](https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/65/jeffe) on [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17933/good-slide-design-for-teaching). Those are:
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> ...avoid bullets entirely.
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> Powerpoint doesn't kill people. Bullets kill people.
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52,669 | I have a class in a US university that is using a 3rd-party site to charge students a fee to access some of the homework essential to the course. One of the instructors (not mine) holds the copyright to these required Excel spreadsheets, and so every student is being assessed a small fee in order to complete their home... | [
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52,675 | Over the last four years I did a bunch of experiments (biotechnology, protein purification). Some of them are more valuable, some of them were just poorly designed (e.g. temperature not controlled, etc.). Some of them turned out to be important one year after I collected the data.
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52,678 | I never really understood the point of having a course with lectures when the course has a textbook. Sometimes the subject is so high-level or specialized or so modern that the contents are changing rapidly that there is no textbook (for example at the graduate level). But more often the textbook includes everything th... | [
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52,686 | Several months ago, I was undergoing the process of transferring to another university overseas, and I asked my undergraduate adviser if she could write me a letter of recommendation. However, since she gave the letter of recommendation to me (I was supposed to include it in the mailed transfer application), I've had s... | [
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52,693 | I am curious about how competitive is publishing a paper in the United States' [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)](http://www.pnas.org) *in comparison* to leading journals in a field. Is PNAS on the same level as *Science*? Thoughts will be appreciated, but factual materials (i.e., links to researc... | [
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52,696 | My school is offering a graduate school fair in one week, and I am interested in graduate school. I am already planning to take my Biology GRE as soon as possible, but not soon enough to bring the results to the fair. **So, how should I prepare myself for this event, this being my first time at one?**
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52,705 | I am thinking of quitting my PhD program to leave with a master's degree. I don't think I learned much in my PhD so far, and I would have gained more skills if I got a normal master's and took a bunch of classes instead of spending the past two years doing research.
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52,710 | I'm from an empirical social science background and observe that several research projects build project websites, similar to job market websites of academics. Those that I am aware of are often related to data collection projects (see for example [Ester Duflo's indian data](http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/eduflo/soci... | [
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52,717 | Strangely I could hardly find any information about it on the internet. The question is simple: should a student expect to shake hands with a professor who is
* academic advisor
* the supervising professor who you're going to do your final year project with
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52,726 | Consider the scenario where an author sends his paper to Journal A. Journal A then sends the paper to reviewer X and the reviewer rejects the papers. After rejection, the author send his paper to Journal B. Journal B then sends this paper to reviewer X.
Does this ever happen?
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52,732 | I know a PhD is supposed to be an apprenticeship for future researchers. But what if you enjoy getting the PhD, but have no intention of doing research in the future? It seems like being a professor is really stressful and there is a lot of competition, and same thing for other sorts of non-grad-school research jobs. I... | [
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52,735 | As part of the introduction of a paper I want to write some critique on previous research which was published at some reputable conference. It basically amounts to their research methodology being invalid. Their results are useless, because they did some things which basically amounts to cheating their scores. However ... | [
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52,757 | I am PhD student and I started working with my advisor a year ago. We wrote a paper and submitted it a couple of months ago to a good journal. In the meantime, my advisor told me that he got a better position in an other university and he will be leaving without having the intention to take me with him. So I found a ne... | [
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52,762 | I want to cite a paper `[A]`, which has been corrected by an erratum `[B]` in the same journal. I have not found a rule how to cite this case.
Is it proper to cite `[A,B]`, or just `[A]` or just `[B]`.
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52,764 | I know some of you may say "it depends", but in the US is a lecturer position inferior to Asst Professor? I am in the job market and get lots of calls for adjunct or lecturer. In the interviews, it is emphasized that "you will be teaching large classes and your job will be just teaching".
My question is that if I get ... | [
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53,766 | When the time has passed (5 years I think) and a faculty is being evaluated for tenure what aspects play a role for anyone getting tenure or not? do comments from current students play a role in it? | [
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53,771 | Ideally any research paper should contain novel thoughts, ideas, procedures, observations, methods, etc. of some form or another. That being said, is it really necessary to remind the reader about it by using the words *novel, revolutionary,* or *never been done before* as opposed to just comparing it to existing studi... | [
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53,782 | I got a major revision and I will prepare a revision letter. The editor asked me to review my manuscript for grammatical errors, in addition to the scientific comments he made. Should I present all the grammatical changes I made on the manuscript one by one? There are lots of minor changes (i.e addition/insertion of co... | [
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53,789 | I've recently published my first paper.
Do journals usually send authors a copy of the issue in which their paper was published? Does Science magazine do that? | [
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53,796 | With regards to PhD thesis that spans several disciplines, at what point does one assume that an article doesn't require explanation and it is standard knowledge?
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