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2015/10/01 | 3,166 | 13,515 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm enrolled in the last doctoral-level course required for my PhD, and the course material is very difficult, requires a tremendous amount of time, and yet has no relevance to my research. I'm a hard worker who regularly puts in 90+ hour weeks balancing a full time job, research and course wor... |
2015/10/01 | 1,341 | 5,976 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be working as a waiter to make extra money, but I am also an ardent academic. I want to know if I can make audio and/or visual recordings of interactions with customers *without* having them sign some sort of waiver. Thus I won't necessarily have the names of participants.
Can I later ... |
2015/10/01 | 673 | 2,918 | <issue_start>username_0: Does anyone have any information, either formal or anecdotal, about being a research assistant as a nondegree student, specifically with the aim of getting published?
In particular, I am referring to a situation where someone with a bachelor's degree takes coursework as a nondegree student an... |
2015/10/01 | 825 | 3,446 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently informed that a manuscript that I submitted to a journal a long time ago has been accepted.
I submitted it as the sole author, however, my advisor had some comments and suggestions that I applied to the manuscript.
As a courtesy I would now like to add him as an author.
My q... |
2015/10/02 | 629 | 2,287 | <issue_start>username_0: Right now, I work full-time and am applying to EE grad school (part-time) for next Fall.
Does a person apply to Masters Program, earn the Masters, and then they are eligible to work on Phd?
Or is applying to Phd a separate application process? I am in USA.<issue_comment>username_1: The answer... |
2015/10/02 | 758 | 3,168 | <issue_start>username_0: When applying for undergraduate schools it was relatively easy to look up average ACT/SAT scores and GPAs of admittance to know if I would be a competitive applicant. As of right now I want to pursue a PhD in math and I'm struggling to know if a program is within my reach or not. Last year my g... |
2015/10/02 | 1,280 | 5,439 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the difference between MBA and Masters in a specific subject of Business studies like, master in Management?
What will be a better option for one if he intends to be a researcher in future?
And does MBA degree specialize a specific subject of business studies?<issue_comment>username_1... |
2015/10/02 | 295 | 1,288 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently Microsoft has released a dataset, [Microsoft Academic Graph](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/mag/). I have used DBLP dataset before. I want to know what is the difference between these two datasets.<issue_comment>username_1: I am not very familiar with both data sets. But ... |
2015/10/02 | 1,281 | 5,795 | <issue_start>username_0: In a number of questions raised here, it has been implied / asserted that research involving human subjects which has not received IRB approval cannot be published. In my own area of research (which is not experimental), I know of no evidence for such a restriction by journal policy. I am there... |
2015/10/02 | 1,799 | 7,190 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm aware, that this question is going to appear too emotional and exaggerated, but I'll try my best to describe the whole situation as it is, unbiased.
**The point** is, I'm major degree student who changed his field of study from Informatics and Computer Science (I've got B.S. from it) to Co... |
2015/10/02 | 842 | 3,543 | <issue_start>username_0: Solving research problems is *hard*. After a while I feel mentally spent. I want to be as productive as possible but I don't know of many good ways to "recharge my batteries" after I have been thinking hard.
I have tried taking walks but in the winter it is snowy and cold outside. I have tried... |
2015/10/03 | 2,284 | 9,693 | <issue_start>username_0: How essential is having my advisor's letter for post doc application?
I had a pretty bad relationship with my advisor for more than 4 years since I joined his lab and sometimes the relationship feels like slow inflammation that can easily flare up. We had very different opinion on how I want ... |
2015/10/03 | 771 | 2,989 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen several English translations for "PhD", but seems to me that it did not originate from England. Who introduced the term, what did it originally stand for and where did it originate from? I'm curious where anyone has traced out this history.<issue_comment>username_1: Term *Ph.D.* is an... |
2015/10/03 | 396 | 1,512 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a Google scholar [account A](https://scholar.google.si/citations?user=gty0SkUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao) which is linked to my Google account and it all works well. But there is also another copy of me, a Google scholar [account B](https://scholar.google.si/citations?user=u7JW7bIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao... |
2015/10/03 | 1,582 | 6,944 | <issue_start>username_0: It has happened to me the second time that I was turned down by a referee (different one) not taking his responsibility seriously. Of course, I let each of them know about my application and the reference request well ahead of time.
The first time I requested the reference letter I was told th... |
2015/10/03 | 282 | 1,187 | <issue_start>username_0: If a quarterly journal wants to publish a special issue, should it be published as an additional issue or it should replace a regular seasonal issue? Are there any guidelines on this or it's a matter that depends on the journal's policies?<issue_comment>username_1: As far as I know, special iss... |
2015/10/03 | 405 | 1,485 | <issue_start>username_0: If I have a list of numbers 24 x 105, 15 x 105, 2 x 105, etc. In a medical journal article, is it acceptable to write 24, 15, and 2 x 105?<issue_comment>username_1: Acceptable styles for anything, including the treatment of exponents, tend to vary journal to journal - the only certain way to kn... |
2015/10/03 | 2,066 | 8,903 | <issue_start>username_0: As a grad student (Note: I am in the humanities, so nobody is really technically inclined), I have an address from my institution (.edu) but I rarely use it. I suppose I do "use" it, but it forwards to my gmail and usually I reply with my gmail address. Almost all of the other grad students, as... |
2015/10/03 | 1,502 | 6,466 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a mechanical engineering graduate student, and am working on my final project. I am doing a finite element analysis of a particular phenomenon. I was hoping to find test data of that particular phenomenon using a quick google search, and sure enough, I found some. The test data will be hel... |
2015/10/03 | 964 | 4,227 | <issue_start>username_0: I always thought that the way journals elect their reviewers is that probably they or their editors ask some famous researchers to review some of their papers. I mean, reviewers are probably *asked* to review papers.
Recently, I have seen some journals and publishers which advertise on their w... |
2015/10/03 | 787 | 3,362 | <issue_start>username_0: So let me tell you my story: I studied Industrial and Systems Engineering in the 24th best university in my country, which is around number 1683 in the world. I am from Mexico and thankfully our government is eager to pay our full tuition if we are accepted to one of the best 200 Universities i... |
2015/10/04 | 1,145 | 4,758 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the second year of a master's program and I'm considering taking a year off before doing a PhD. I am excited to do a PhD and have some idea of what I want to research, but I am not sure if jumping right into it would be beneficial. The main reason is, simply, I've been in school my whole... |
2015/10/04 | 861 | 3,515 | <issue_start>username_0: Hi I am doing a phd in theoretical computer science, and will be finishing this year and applying to postdocs for Fall 2016. I am an American, but for various reasons would like to study in Europe. Ideally the professors I am interested in would have postdoc funding available, but since that is... |
2015/10/04 | 535 | 2,373 | <issue_start>username_0: I am coming to the end of my present post-doc position which is in a fairly narrow area, one that I am deeply interested in pursuing further. I am struggling to find a new role in the same area.
What are the implications for someone in this position when i) taking up an unrelated post-doc rol... |
2015/10/04 | 775 | 3,431 | <issue_start>username_0: I got an idea for a research paper in the field of Computer Science, the topic related was about computer networks. At the beginning, I was working with a colleague who had a lot of background in programming networks protocols, but the problem was that due to some other tasks of him he had to l... |
2015/10/04 | 534 | 2,285 | <issue_start>username_0: It is common practice - at least in mathematics - to refer to people one cites in the paper simply by a surname. Hence, one could see sentences like *"This awesome theorem is due to Smith."*.
However, occasionally the initial is added, and so the above might turn into *"This awesome theorem is... |
2015/10/04 | 941 | 3,994 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Background
I am having a lot of trouble wrapping my head around papers for my distributed systems class. I and two partners have to write a research paper, and we must cite around 20 research papers for the paper in our bibliography and also use them as a jumping off point for our material... |
2015/10/04 | 3,868 | 16,137 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, we were working on a new idea in physics and engineering. At the end (after writing almost 6 drafts and even ready to submit draft) only I realized that I had made a stupid error in calculation and some errors crept up from numerical simulations. So it changed one main result which wa... |
2015/10/04 | 1,872 | 8,166 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an assignment for a psychology class that is "requiring" me to contact dozens of family members to find out their traits and what health conditions they may have. Truth is, I don't have the best relationship with many of my family members.
**My question:**
Can my professor *require*, a... |
2015/10/05 | 1,840 | 7,766 | <issue_start>username_0: So here is my conundrum. I am in my last year of my undergraduate degree which is a specialist in math and economics. In the early years of my program I was having a out school issues that I didn't think were affecting my performance but in the end did. I am in the process of getting good grade... |
2015/10/05 | 1,810 | 7,770 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't understand why a research institution (that awards PhDs) would employ (expensive) full-time research officers. Why couldn't those jobs be done by a group of government-funded PhD students instead? (The PhD students seem to be free or at least less expensive to the institution.)
No fund... |
2015/10/05 | 928 | 4,060 | <issue_start>username_0: As professor I have to organize a lot of digital documents. I have working systems to do this for research and teaching and I am quite happy with these. Moreover, questions on such topics have already been asked, e.g., [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/52675/organizing-data-an... |
2015/10/05 | 1,301 | 5,608 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a computer science engineer with around 3 years of experience designing and implementing large scale software systems. I chose to join a job right after my masters, to get a feel of what the industry holds. Having spent my bit here, I now want to get back to academics, especially back into... |
2015/10/05 | 1,020 | 4,448 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a job and I have to submit (among other) the list of all my citations (excluding autocitations of course). I wonder how the list should look like. Should it look like references at the end of any scientific paper? I guess not since then you could not tell which papers of yours... |
2015/10/05 | 924 | 4,129 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed that scientists are one of the most hermetic societies around. Does anybody know how can some "nobody" safely publish an interesting idea, at least, interesting for that someone?
I think that there are plenty of people that have regular jobs and didn't make it through to the scientis... |
2015/10/05 | 980 | 4,178 | <issue_start>username_0: It's the time of year we lecturers get asked for references from graduating taught postgraduates who seek to move on to do a PhD. While I'm generally happy to act as a referee, I'm unsure whether there is a best / standard practice here. I'm naturally more inclined to agree to providing a refer... |
2015/10/05 | 2,511 | 11,414 | <issue_start>username_0: On my course my university provides past exam papers but does not release mark schemes and I know this is the case for other universities. I am dyslexic which makes reading hard, and for my high-school exams I used exam papers with the mark scheme as a self-study method, (meaning I attempted qu... |
2015/10/05 | 772 | 2,696 | <issue_start>username_0: How to cite a paper with a typographical error in the title. In the reference list, should I correct it (and make it hard to find) or let it as is (and make an impression I was sloppy)?<issue_comment>username_1: **Do not correct it.**
The purpose of references is to help readers locate your so... |
2015/10/05 | 1,252 | 4,834 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a paper that contains a fairly long and intricate proof. Now I have a new paper I am working on that extends this proof to a slightly different setting. Even though the overall setting is only slightly different, in my opinion this small difference is still quite noteworthy. For example... |
2015/10/05 | 705 | 3,184 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a paper accepted by an Elsevier journal about two weeks ago. I’ve already gone through the process of submitting the publishing agreement form and manuscript proofs online.
Then, a few days ago I received a rejection notice. No new reviewer comments were included. I thought this might b... |
2015/10/05 | 612 | 2,742 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to apply for Ph.D. programs in history, but I am a graduate of a science program. Do I need another degree in order to apply to history Ph.D. programs?<issue_comment>username_1: I cannot speak from experience here (fortunately), but my next steps would probably be (skip steps, you ... |
2015/10/05 | 971 | 4,209 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of looking at applying to do a Masters degree. I finished my bachelors degree about 4 years ago, and this will be a different university I am applying to, in a different country (bachelors was in UK, masters will be in NL)
Since I don't know who works at the previous univer... |
2015/10/06 | 695 | 2,973 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to do a Master's in CS, but I didn't do the undergraduate in CS, so I want to know if I can get a letter of recommendation from a professor that I know but who didn't actually teach me.<issue_comment>username_1: The general rule when it comes to letters of recommendation is that you shou... |
2015/10/06 | 961 | 4,034 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an important question, so please try to answer it precisely and carefully as possible.
If I want a career in one field in academia, would it be inadvisable to publish some other academic researches in other fields.
I have seen an [article in a blog](http://www.preposterousuniverse.com... |
2015/10/06 | 407 | 1,668 | <issue_start>username_0: There's a job application (UK based) which says something about having to have around 2 or 3 years research experience, but not necessarily have obtained a PhD.
What if I have a PhD and 2.5 years research experience postdoc? Does the PhD also count towards the "research years" ? I increasingly... |
2015/10/06 | 906 | 3,851 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm preparing a paper about *Web UI Automation Testing*, and would like to publish it in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
In this journal description they said:
>
> The IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) is an archival
> journal published **bimonthly**. We are interes... |
2015/10/06 | 1,126 | 4,833 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to apply for a graduate program, whose outcome totally depends on the potential supervisor's propensity to recruit any applicant for his/her research group.
One of the professors' research interests have a myriad of overlap with mine. But he does not answer my emails. He is not in s... |
2015/10/06 | 803 | 3,507 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently was given a job offer for a ([edit] research support/IT support) staff position at a university in a city I have been trying to relocate to for family reasons but I am concerned that if I take the position any chance I have of getting a tenure track position will be over. My backgrou... |
2015/10/07 | 467 | 1,980 | <issue_start>username_0: I live in Mexico and I go to a private University where doing a thesis isn't a requirement for graduating (many universities in Mexico follow this). I only take classes and do small projects for exams. But I want to do a graduate program in Canada or USA or Europe. I don't have any experience i... |
2015/10/07 | 849 | 3,311 | <issue_start>username_0: This may be a silly question, but why do people in academia tend to write their emails as `jhon(dot)doe(at)gmail(dot)com`?<issue_comment>username_1: To avoid email harvesting spam-bots. (As if someone can't write a Perl script to make the appropriate substitutions.)
Upvotes: 6 <issue_comment>us... |
2015/10/07 | 416 | 1,731 | <issue_start>username_0: I am invited to interview for a PhD position. I am very afraid about the questions which will be asked. However I have a big fear, and it is that I am currently PhD student, started 1.5 year ago. I was the only PhD student in the group who was not paid, so I needed to work extra for an internat... |
2015/10/07 | 4,323 | 18,994 | <issue_start>username_0: I have witnessed multiple doctoral examinations at my (top-10 rated) university in which the student did not, in my opinion, demonstrate the required level of knowledge and understanding under questioning but was awarded the degree anyway. The committee consists of the advising professor, usual... |
2015/10/07 | 714 | 2,345 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to cite an IEEE norm in a document. They provide several way to cite it on their website and in particular `bibTeX`. This is perfect because I use LaTeX.
However, the citation does not contain any author field. This raise a warning.
Should I keep this warning or modify the entry to avo... |
2015/10/07 | 8,076 | 27,381 | <issue_start>username_0: I am subscribed to the arXiv daily digests for my subject area. I find myself, every day, doing the following, when I get to work:
1) Browsing through the arXiv email and right-clicking on the articles of interest to me (to open each of the pages in a different tab in my browser)
2) For each ... |
2015/10/07 | 323 | 1,459 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in the process of preparing a journal club presentation (I'm a Psychogeriatrics physician). I've done a couple before, but always seem to re-invent the wheel when it comes to what basic information should be covered.
For example: checking author biographies and previous work so t... |
2015/10/07 | 1,283 | 5,227 | <issue_start>username_0: The situation is as follows:
Once upon a time, the university where I have served as an adjunct decided to bring me on in a fixed-term role spanning a single academic year. This was to get them out of a low-manpower bind due to medical and retirement cases with some of our tenured faculty. The... |
2015/10/07 | 1,353 | 5,552 | <issue_start>username_0: I saw a job posting that says
>
> PhD or equivalent required.
>
>
>
What is meant by *equivalent?* What can be an equivalent for PhD? Expertise gained through work experience and publications?<issue_comment>username_1: In an advertisement for a tenure-track position (assuming from the tag... |
2015/10/07 | 825 | 3,489 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a distinction (first-class honours) in my undergrad degree from one on the top universities in my home country, which sadly is not in the top ratings worldwide.
This followed by a MSc in the UK, in one of the top-20 world universities. My grades were very low, I failed two subjects.
I w... |
2015/10/08 | 366 | 1,474 | <issue_start>username_0: I notice that when someone asks about GPA, they usually mean an undergraduate GPA. Is there GPA for a masters degree or MBA? If not, how a student's performance is measured (in UK and US)?<issue_comment>username_1: In the US, a student's performance is typically indicated by GPA from high schoo... |
2015/10/08 | 5,472 | 22,529 | <issue_start>username_0: How can I overcome the tongue-slip problem in conferences, meetings and seminars? I have read many discussions regarding conference presentation, such as delivering a good presentation, staying confident during presentation, avoiding nervousness, maintaining time and many more. But I have not f... |
2015/10/08 | 346 | 1,393 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any resource (blog or website) where one can find all communication related to any published scientific paper? For example I found some advise on how to write a "rebuttal letters" but not a "real life" rebuttal letter. Same is true for cover letter or reviewers comment. Is there any op... |
2015/10/08 | 533 | 2,403 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted a paper for publication and received feedback that the paper was too complex. It contained two relatively independent concepts. The material would best be served by splitting it into two papers and submitting them independently.
I have to say I agree with this editorial an... |
2015/10/08 | 357 | 1,578 | <issue_start>username_0: My application for admission to a degree program or research position at universities in Europe, USA, Australia, and so on has been rejected. If I then write several new papers for journals and conferences and again apply to the same university, is there any chance for me to obtain admission, o... |
2015/10/08 | 1,256 | 5,718 | <issue_start>username_0: If 2 proposals were similar, the first asks for travel and equipment and the second didn't. Would the second have a better chance of being funded?<issue_comment>username_1: Interesting question for sure. This depends on a lot of factors, the type of student (performance, etc.), institution, res... |
2015/10/09 | 1,315 | 5,935 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a mediocre (3.3) GPA in undergrad due to illness (legit - I had to take a medical leave and was hospitalized), but I have great grades from my graduate institution. I worry that search committees will not look highly upon my application. As I would like to apply for these positions, so h... |
2015/10/09 | 1,675 | 6,820 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a TA for a class on graduate-level Digital Signal Processing, and one of my responsibilities is to lead a discussion session. It's a 50-minute session that happens once a week, and the professor teaches the class for 3 hours in the week.
The professor had suggested that I discuss the solu... |
2015/10/09 | 796 | 3,551 | <issue_start>username_0: I asked a professor for a letter of recommendation for graduate programs and she mentioned that she normally doesn't write letters for people who haven't done research with her. I took advanced classes of hers and did well though, and she agreed to write the letter, although hesitatingly. She m... |
2015/10/09 | 985 | 4,578 | <issue_start>username_0: At my university, PhD students need to give a presentation at the end of their first year. A panel of academics judge the work and then have a Q&A session with the student to assess their progress and aptitude. The panel has the power to delay progress if they have any concerns. It can be a str... |
2015/10/09 | 1,285 | 5,180 | <issue_start>username_0: Can I mention someone's(academic) name and comment which I got from a mail, to another academic (to increase the credibility of my work) without informing the first academic that I am going to use his name and comment?
For example, I sent my work through an e-mail to Professor X( Ph.D ). He wr... |
2015/10/09 | 2,932 | 11,853 | <issue_start>username_0: An American professor lectured in our university about American higher education. He mentioned that the university environment is not limited to formal education (what is the case in Europe more or less). A university courtyard is like a park and students are always hanging around.
He also men... |
2015/10/09 | 1,361 | 5,556 | <issue_start>username_0: The amount of endowments that American universities receive is much more than European counterparts. Why alumni of American universities and other people have such a big desire to donate money to universities.
This happens in Europe too, but much less than America. Almost all American universi... |
2015/10/09 | 1,133 | 5,048 | <issue_start>username_0: In the past, most education centers were boarding schools in which students live full time. Still there are boarding school at high school or college level. However, for universities, students just tend to attend the class and leave the campus. Even, dormitories are just like rental projects ra... |
2015/10/09 | 253 | 1,115 | <issue_start>username_0: I submit a paper to a journal which allows to publish the preprint as a working paper. After submission, I thought I can just take the version I just submitted and publish it on ResearchGate. But then I thought that it might be problematic to use the same format I used for submission, since the... |
2015/10/09 | 184 | 752 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 16 years old high school student. I want to publish a new piece of work. Writing a research paper is quite difficult for me. If some body has any idea about how to do that then help me.<issue_comment>username_1: Personally, I wouldn't bother changing the format. As a wise colleague once ... |
2015/10/09 | 529 | 2,264 | <issue_start>username_0: I got my paper accepted to a conference, whose proceedings will be published in IEEE digital library (Xplore). The General chair asked me for the paper source, I was astonished when she insisted on me submitting a Word version even though the conference offered LaTeX template which I used.
My ... |
2015/10/09 | 777 | 3,369 | <issue_start>username_0: Many professors say on their websites not to email them because they cannot make admission decisions alone, but rather it is the decision of a whole committee. However, my undergraduate advisor said there is nothing stopping a single professor from admitting a student if they see fit. Is this t... |
2015/10/09 | 510 | 2,322 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering that how explaining your work with a talk with slides differs from a poster presentation. Since I do not have any idea, I always explain my poster to the viewer just same way as I would have give a talk: starting from intro, methods, etc. Doing this it takes more time and I lack ... |
2015/10/09 | 329 | 1,459 | <issue_start>username_0: Is attending conferences considered an absence? If not, then is there a limit on how many conferences a faculty can attend?!<issue_comment>username_1: While I have never experienced a department that defined "absent days", if your department regulates these things, you need to ask you departmen... |
2015/10/09 | 6,887 | 28,238 | <issue_start>username_0: In any ranking system, at least 50% of top universities (top 100, for example) are American. What is special about American higher education?<issue_comment>username_1: This is due to many factors, and some can actually be tied to historical reasons. For example, the Cold War - this lead to high... |
2015/10/09 | 1,374 | 5,646 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student in a rather small (20-40 students) lecture. This lecture is mandatory for the students of this subject in this semester. In the course of the lecture the professor regularly asks students questions or encourages them to theorize about possible solutions to a problem before reveal... |
2015/10/09 | 3,765 | 16,109 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in mathematics. I've been having a difficult relationship with my advisor, and I need some help on the matter.
**Some background**
When I just started my graduate studies, my advisor warned me that he tends to be strict, and that sometimes he can have anger outbursts. ... |
2015/10/10 | 1,418 | 6,062 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student with an assistantship. I met an undergraduate and we hit it off (talking about sex, but not sex with each other). But now I assist a class with her (and I'm not good at hiding my feelings) and she is very flirty. She also put her hand on my arm outside of class (which wa... |
2015/10/10 | 375 | 1,589 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to give a presentation in which I want to use the title of famous books as some of the titles of my slides to add some taste to it. Am I allowed to use for example (Great Expectations) in the title of a slide regarding the copyright?<issue_comment>username_1: It sounds like you want to u... |
2015/10/10 | 671 | 2,837 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a PhD. There is a professor at my undergraduate institution I would like to ask for a LOR. I emailed him, but after a full week he has not replied.
From this I can infer that either he doesn't want to write the letter, or he is behind on email. I have to hope it is the latter... |
2015/10/10 | 996 | 4,410 | <issue_start>username_0: I am asking this question, as my previous [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/55791/how-much-is-the-importance-of-campus-life) was closed because of being opinion-based. This made me wonder if there is a conceptual mission for higher education or not?
In most European count... |
2015/10/10 | 1,229 | 5,000 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started my Masters in CS at EPFL. I got accepted here with their university wide scholarship as well as a unique opportunity to do research in a lab. My problem is that the course load (typically 7-8 courses per semester) is so much for a Masters degree here that I don't have any time to... |
2015/10/10 | 914 | 3,782 | <issue_start>username_0: From some discussion here, I surprisingly found (by googling) that there are some ranking for top universities for partying. From USA Today and Time to Playboy, they list top universities for party and nightlife.
I understand that there are not quantitative factors to make such rankings, but a... |
2015/10/10 | 969 | 4,539 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written an article in Persian and then translated it into English. Is it possible to send them to two different journals (one in Iran and the other one in Belgium)?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, this is a problem. You should **not** submit the same work to more than one journal at a tim... |
2015/10/10 | 784 | 3,082 | <issue_start>username_0: I am following a dual degree program in my home country (Sri Lanka). One degree, B.Sc in Computer Science will be awarded by an Australian University and the other degree which is a B.Sc (Hons) in Software Engineering will be awarded by my home country University.
Will I be able to get in to a... |
2015/10/10 | 385 | 1,565 | <issue_start>username_0: Having done bachelors in electronics and instrumentation and a research experience in the field of image processing and computer vision and some publications in the same, what are the possible MS options where I can study computer vision and image processing? Can I opt for MS in robotics, compu... |
2015/10/10 | 2,635 | 11,224 | <issue_start>username_0: As a postdoc and junior faculty member I was involved in mentoring and training a PhD student who went on to a faculty position. I have now heard that the person I trained has been investigated and suspended by their university for harassing students.
Looking back I cannot think of anything th... |
2015/10/10 | 1,885 | 8,215 | <issue_start>username_0: I was curious, what is academia's perspective on the following type of student, assuming that the student is well qualified via research experience, letters of recommendation, grades, GRE, passion, and other things CV related:
The student is very, very good at asking innovative questions and ... |
2015/10/10 | 469 | 1,963 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that it is a good idea to publish my working papers and preprints so that they are accessible to other researchers. But there are many different ways to do this, e.g:
* ResearchGate;
* arXiv;
* CiteULike;
* Academia.edu;
* The university website;
* My personal website;
etc...
Is... |
2015/10/11 | 2,358 | 10,074 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a junior in mathematics at UIUC. I have been doing pretty well in my math courses (mostly A and A+). I will be completing a graduate course in topology, a second course in abstract algebra, and a complex analysis course before I graduate. I feel that I can work hard to maintain go... |
2015/10/11 | 889 | 3,568 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in compiling a list of learning dependencies by subject matter. E.g., you must know certain kinds of algebra before you can learn certain aspects of trig, and you must know how to add before you can do certain kinds of algebra.
This kind of hierarchy could be applied to math, ... |
2015/10/11 | 779 | 3,181 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder how you keep tracks of what you've been reading **over the years**. I'm not talking about things that are 'relevant' and 'precious' to your academic work (to that end, all hail to EndNote or Docear and such, perhaps), but I'm keen to know how you track the 'miscellaneous' books you hav... |
2015/10/11 | 1,171 | 5,398 | <issue_start>username_0: Let me explain in more detail... I currently occupy a fixed-term temporary faculty position that is set to expire at the end of this academic year. The position I have now will go up for a national search for a tenure-track appointment starting next academic year.
My current department head an... |
2015/10/11 | 2,366 | 8,025 | <issue_start>username_0: I narrowed the outperformed in this question to the US and UK, but please feel free to include other First World nations' universities (eg: Canada, France).
[[Source:]](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/55792/why-are-most-of-the-top-universities-american#comment129349_55807) The to... |
2015/10/11 | 1,102 | 4,517 | <issue_start>username_0: Do case reports involving people with medical ailments require ethical approvals? If they do not, then why?
I am located in Sweden, but am (almost) equally interested in conditions elsewhere.<issue_comment>username_1: From a legal point of view, in the United States, preparation of a case repo... |
2015/10/12 | 1,518 | 6,236 | <issue_start>username_0: In my university, some, but not all, professors upload online the grades of every student and their names next to them a few days before making them final at the end of the semester. This is done to give a chance to the students to point out any mistakes the professor may have made.
No one oth... |