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2016/02/02 | 1,162 | 5,012 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a mid-career scientist at a government research organisation, and I am considering a move back into academia. My current employer is looking after me very well and I know I am valued, but I have a hankering for more intellectual freedom and more opportunity to work with students, especiall... |
2016/02/02 | 3,165 | 13,118 | <issue_start>username_0: Allow me to first give some context. A friend and I have been discussing a business idea involving a technical device that I need some guidance on how to perfect. My friend just told me he is taking a class with a professor that founded a company with a device similar, but distinctly different ... |
2016/02/02 | 945 | 3,950 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working as a full-time research assistant at a university. I recently wrote a paper almost entirely independently. The contribution of the professor I work under was limited to telling me the topic that the paper is to be written on, and providing minimal inputs on the drafts (things like ... |
2016/02/02 | 572 | 2,236 | <issue_start>username_0: One Professor In economic said: If a student works with concentration only 40 hours per week (8 hours for 5 days) on his PhD project, he should be able to finish his PhD during only one year. What do you think about that? Then, what is the minimum period of time needed for a PhD project to be c... |
2016/02/02 | 611 | 2,689 | <issue_start>username_0: If I need to version control my thesis, which contains my latex report and code, should I create a Group with two separate projects (code and latex) or should I create one repository called thesis with two directories in the root (code and latex)?<issue_comment>username_1: For most cases, it do... |
2016/02/02 | 2,437 | 10,972 | <issue_start>username_0: My university is about to roll-out a Lecture Capture system (Panopto in this case), and I am in the business of promoting and supporting it. In case it makes a difference, I am in the UK. I suppose there might be some degree of cultural specificity here, but my suspicion at this point is that t... |
2016/02/02 | 685 | 2,757 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been chosen by my university (where I am a professor in science) to be part of a task force determining the undergraduate general education requirements. To be a better informed committee member, I am trying to understand the general situation at colleges in the country (the US) and the ... |
2016/02/02 | 2,621 | 11,284 | <issue_start>username_0: The business school I am currently at faces a very difficult situation. After a scandal involving fraud around the president a few years ago, in combination probably with fallout from the financial crisis and all, our public image is ruined. We have barely enough students applying to the open u... |
2016/02/02 | 2,095 | 9,023 | <issue_start>username_0: I am the grad student on the hiring committee, and I have been tasked with gathering feedback from grad students about our faculty candidates. All of the grad students were invited to attend each candidate’s job talk and an open meeting between the candidate and students.
My first attempt was ... |
2016/02/03 | 2,174 | 9,140 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first-year undergraduate finishing up a course that I've done very well in with a professor whom I have a great relationship with. I'd like to ask him for a letter of recommendation, but it's not "for" anything in particular. Rather, I'd like to have it "on reserve" so that I can use it w... |
2016/02/03 | 2,046 | 8,622 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any way to find all papers that acknowledge a specific author? (i.e., the author is mentioned in the acknowledgement section)<issue_comment>username_1: No, you can't. Here are some reasons that this would not be a reasonable request [in the US].
1. Your professor is not going to show ... |
2016/02/03 | 620 | 2,748 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ([ICIP](http://www.ieeeicip2016.org/Papers.asp)) 2016. The submission and revision deadline has passed yesterday, but the system is still accepting new revisions. Is it OK to revise my paper now? Is there any chan... |
2016/02/03 | 763 | 3,154 | <issue_start>username_0: I am part of a committee tasked to create a policy on creating incentives for publications of university employees. Right now, the highest incentive award is given to publications in journals "indexed in [Web of Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_Science) or [Scopus](https://en.wikip... |
2016/02/03 | 696 | 2,910 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently deciding between graduate schools for PhD programs and I am concerned that a potential advisor might be planning to take a leave of absence to start a new company. Is it socially acceptable to ask the professor if he/she intends to take a leave of absence?
Doing research with a ... |
2016/02/03 | 1,133 | 4,719 | <issue_start>username_0: Many times, research teams and departments just perform research on topics that the Department Chair or Research Head initiate -- but do some universities structure their research, postdocs, and departments according to an encompassing plan or agenda?<issue_comment>username_1: In the United Sta... |
2016/02/03 | 1,001 | 4,119 | <issue_start>username_0: I am self-educated software developer, and I believe I stumbled across something that is both novel and useful. I'm not talking anything large or groundbreaking, but still novel and potentially useful to others. I believe it may be suitable for publication.
The find in itself is related to a p... |
2016/02/03 | 450 | 1,919 | <issue_start>username_0: I've come across a university where I'm required to give details about my undergraduate program (including course transcripts). Nothing else has been mentioned about this submission. What should I include in this and how should I go about writing this part?<issue_comment>username_1: The basic p... |
2016/02/03 | 716 | 3,110 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently struggling to structure and organize my "related work" chapter of my PhD thesis.
I've stumbled across the terms "related work", "background", "preliminaries" and "state of the art". Mainly, I understand that some deal with established knowledge that is being taught in textbooks, ... |
2016/02/03 | 568 | 2,456 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a research paper to a journal on 30th July 2015 and its status went 'under review' on 19th August 2015. I did not receive any communication from the journal, so I sent a gentle reminder on 11th Dec. 2015. Unfortunately I did not receive any response again. I then waited until 29th J... |
2016/02/03 | 1,625 | 6,748 | <issue_start>username_0: This is related to but not answered in [this question about the difference between various stages of a manuscript in the publication process](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/13089/what-are-the-boundaries-between-draft-manuscript-preprint-paper-and-article).
After an author has sub... |
2016/02/03 | 989 | 4,271 | <issue_start>username_0: There are two parts to this question.
1. As a student interested in pursuing a doctoral degree; how important is it to publish an article or "something" before one applies? Will it help your chances? I plan on writing a MA thesis but whether it is publishable or not, remains to be seen.
2. Wha... |
2016/02/04 | 275 | 1,144 | <issue_start>username_0: When searching for graduate schools, I've found Professor A of University X with whom I'm interested in working. I'm also interested in working with Professor A's advisor, Professor B, who is at University Y.
Is it considered socially acceptable or a conflict of interest if I ask Professor A a... |
2016/02/04 | 390 | 1,642 | <issue_start>username_0: I've come to realize that there's a specific pretty basic topic at the level of college algebra/precalculus which is given competing, contradictory definitions in different textbooks ([link](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1628759/what-are-the-laws-of-rational-exponents/)). And this to... |
2016/02/04 | 673 | 3,022 | <issue_start>username_0: I know it sounds weird, but I don't want the transcript office of my US alma mater keeping records of where my transcripts were sent.
The reason is I don't want people I know to call the transcript office pretending to be me and get the names of schools I applied to.<issue_comment>username_1... |
2016/02/04 | 382 | 1,565 | <issue_start>username_0: I am introducing my first speaker at my university and, since the speaker is rather famous, I wrote a 1-2 minute introduction. The crowd will be interdisciplinary and between 100-400 people.
Should I lead the audience in an applause at the end of my introduction, or just finish with the title ... |
2016/02/04 | 592 | 2,608 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received the following referee comment:
>
> This paper is well-written and the results appear to be correct. But I don't think the research is significant enough to warrant publication in ....(math journal name). Perhaps it would fit better with ......(another math journal name)?
>
> ... |
2016/02/05 | 783 | 3,522 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ethical for a journal editor to provide the same response to many authors?
Here is an example generic rejection comment made by a journal editor:
>
> All manuscripts are initially assessed by the editors to ensure they
> meet the criteria for publication in the journal. After careful... |
2016/02/05 | 592 | 2,490 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year I finished my PhD in Europe and now I'm a **postdoc** in North America. I work on computer science.
An year ago I wrote a paper with my former Europen supervisor and a former colleague, and submitted it to a conference. My former supervisor presented the work at the conference.
Now ... |
2016/02/05 | 768 | 3,302 | <issue_start>username_0: When does a PhD student officially stop being a PhD student? To be more specific, are you no longer a PhD student when:
1. you have submitted your PhD (and thus stopped working on it),
2. been approved for the degree, or
3. graduated?
I have looked on the Internet and on Stack Exchange and I ... |
2016/02/05 | 637 | 2,827 | <issue_start>username_0: Who owns the intellectual rights for the newly developed software if it was developed during the employee's free time? The developer was
1) working as full-time employee at university X in Western Europe and
2) there was no funding supporting development of this software either directly or in... |
2016/02/05 | 1,981 | 8,511 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for funding of my project and it was approved.
When it came to spending money, this funding agency put constraints on some sorts of purchases (e.g. by putting unrealistically small limits for computer buys). This was not stated in the call for proposals.
The research along the prop... |
2016/02/05 | 1,592 | 6,959 | <issue_start>username_0: A person with allegedly academic affiliation from some foreign country approaches me with the request to help them in research being within my expertise.
The request anticipates about 10 hours of extra work without utilizing university equipment. The service can be referred to as consulting se... |
2016/02/05 | 1,504 | 6,543 | <issue_start>username_0: Does it matter if a faculty member teaches a small class or large class? Does anyone cares about the size of the class or only the number of classes the faculty teach each semester?<issue_comment>username_1: It is not illegal to do legal work for money. It may, however, fall outside of your ins... |
2016/02/05 | 805 | 3,396 | <issue_start>username_0: My ex student developed a useful program while working with me and some other students/postdocs in my group.
Nowadays the student is a postdoc at a European university. She has a copy of the code and applies it sporadically. Recently she informed me that her current supervisor requested her to... |
2016/02/05 | 554 | 2,485 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering how co-advising works in graduate school, specifically:
1. Is funding primarily provided by one advisor, or equally shared between two advisors?
2. Does the student work on two separate projects in parallel or a single project guided by both advisors?<issue_comment>username_1: ... |
2016/02/06 | 772 | 3,030 | <issue_start>username_0: I was just accepted to a PhD program and they wanted to fly me out for an open house. They said they would reimburse travel costs up to $500. However the issue is I have less than $500 in my bank account and certainly not enough to buy a plane ticket. I emailed asking if they could buy the tick... |
2016/02/06 | 481 | 2,239 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it correct to submit a revised version of a paper to the same journal while some application part of the paper is under review in a conference?
I have received a request for revisions on a journal paper, and am thinking to submit some part of it to a conference. I can't wait for the confer... |
2016/02/06 | 272 | 1,215 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in a last year of my bachelor degree of science in wildlife management that will be completed in July this year, 2016 at Sokoine university of Agriculture (SUA) in Tanzania. I would like to continue with masters degree especially outside the country but I would like to know if it is possibl... |
2016/02/06 | 358 | 1,476 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying to a PhD program and the application isn't centralized or anything. I don't upload the required documents to a server, I just send them as emails attachments. Is it kosher to ask them to confirm if they have correctly received my documents as well as the recommendation letters my r... |
2016/02/06 | 486 | 1,971 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to contact with a professor from another country to ask him to see my work and send me a feedback. But I don't know what is better to say that, someone told me that I must "sell myself" and tell that Prof. how awesome I'm and someone told me that just be abbreviated and be direct to ... |
2016/02/07 | 466 | 2,052 | <issue_start>username_0: I prepared a doctoral fellowship application package two months ago but I missed the deadline by a week because I confused the deadline for actual application with the deadline for recommendation letters. My advisors have sent the letters but I missed the application deadline. So I have made a ... |
2016/02/07 | 2,204 | 9,113 | <issue_start>username_0: in US PhDs, it's typical to start publishing (first author or not) in their latter-half years. How does that work in the EU? Since EU PhDs are shorter than US programs, is it common for EU phd students to publish in their final year or so? Or do some people not even make that and wait till thei... |
2016/02/08 | 844 | 3,672 | <issue_start>username_0: Through a colleague, I have entertained the idea of switching my current workplace. The program itself is relatively new, at a US research university, while the dean has been there for 20+ years. I get along with everyone, including the director. However, I am a bit cautious of the current dean... |
2016/02/08 | 1,470 | 6,197 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently my lab published a paper that uses a mouse line from another lab.
Without going into too much detail since not everyone here is a Biologist, this other lab has a mouse with a reporter gene in it for hetero/euchromatin formation (DNA "openness"). This took them a long time (and a lot o... |
2016/02/08 | 883 | 3,576 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a PhD program, in one of section they ask about my Current situation (professional/academic.
I finished my master and now I do not have job and just applying for PhD and writing my paper.
what should I write that have better effect on them?
p.s :It is a mandatory part and it h... |
2016/02/08 | 2,302 | 10,027 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD candidate at a university in Germany. My supervisor, along with all of my colleagues, are German. I am a native English speaker, hired for a position that does not require German. However, I can speak some German, although it is not as good as the English of most of my colleagues.
I... |
2016/02/08 | 2,799 | 11,634 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder how reviewers would react if authors of a submitted paper refuse to cite paywalled papers. Is it a valid reason to refuse citing some papers?
I am mostly interested in the field of computer science, and English-speaking venues.<issue_comment>username_1: It's a reason, it might even be... |
2016/02/09 | 662 | 2,679 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be presenting a paper at a major conference in the Spring: this will be my academic debut!
The issue is that I have a permament teaching job (middle school) that does not permit time off to pursue academic pursuits: how ironic. This conference entails an inter-continental trip and henc... |
2016/02/09 | 1,703 | 7,269 | <issue_start>username_0: I was actively working in a research project, contributing experiments, hypotheses and analysis. Suddenly, I was forced to leave the program. The adviser stopped to sponsor me and replaced me by another person (who had only contributed purification for 3 weeks). I was relegated from the second ... |
2016/02/09 | 685 | 2,832 | <issue_start>username_0: I was forced to leave a STEM program after a fight over whether I could apply the NSF sponsored summer abroad fellowship. I was given a letter of resignation and 2 month of notice. The situation was not good before the fight anyway. I left after those 2 months. The MS is not from a prestigious ... |
2016/02/09 | 1,196 | 4,956 | <issue_start>username_0: It's hard to pin down, but every time I ask a question in Japanese class, my teacher tends to do this long pause. Sometimes she'll look around the class as if to say "What does anyone else think?" and sometimes she'll say that explicitly, and get someone else to answer it. Other times she'll an... |
2016/02/09 | 927 | 3,804 | <issue_start>username_0: I got the comments from a journal where two reviewers asked almost similar query. How do I respond to it? Can I answer it at one place and in the other place, I can briefly describe the answer and say a more detailed response is presented before in page so and so..<issue_comment>username_1: Thi... |
2016/02/09 | 726 | 2,915 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a final year undergrad and applied for graduate programs in various universities for Fall'16 admission. I recently got an admission offer from one of the programs. The admissions chair cc'd the offer email to potential supervisors I mentioned in my application. Here's the email from one of... |
2016/02/09 | 765 | 2,971 | <issue_start>username_0: **The background**: The big news in the science world this week is that, on Thursday, [it will be officially announced that LIGO has detected gravitational waves](http://www.ligo.org/news/media-advisory.php). Some people have even started talking about a Nobel Prize. I agree that this is a mome... |
2016/02/09 | 670 | 2,699 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there higher education systems in which is not required to write a thesis as a part of the evaluation within the degrees? If yes, could you point me out some of them, please?
Furthermore, are these education systems in which is not required to write down a thesis a minority in the world? (... |
2016/02/09 | 942 | 3,989 | <issue_start>username_0: The lay summary of a research proposal is often needed to secure grants and get wide public support and engagement, especially in health research.
I understand that the more a scientist understands her research, the more her ability to explain it to the public and to write an excellent lay su... |
2016/02/09 | 696 | 2,845 | <issue_start>username_0: In the field of computer science, there are numerous conferences and journals to seek publication in. It's almost overwhelming! How does one go about organizing, prioritizing, and planning a workflow or "pipeline" for meeting the variety of submission deadlines?
For example, is there a "defini... |
2016/02/10 | 1,976 | 7,981 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to start applying to graduate schools (Masters and PhD) for Economics in a few months primarily in the US, but also to a few schools in Canada, Australia and the UK. During my time as an undergraduate I joined a fraternity, and was relatively active in sorority on campus. I was wonder... |
2016/02/10 | 5,363 | 22,533 | <issue_start>username_0: There is another graduate student at my school working in the same area as me that is extremely nosy about my work. His curiosity definitely goes beyond the normal amount of "What are you working on?" chit-chat that I have with other graduate students. He frequently asks me to list *exactly* (h... |
2016/02/10 | 976 | 4,372 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a mathematics grad student who is often the primary instructor for undergraduate courses, and I have been asked by one of my previous students to write a recommendation letter for [REUs](https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/), which are summer research programs for undergraduate students. This... |
2016/02/10 | 1,018 | 3,674 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to learn how to write scientific papers in medicine. I saw searching on google that there are many books regarding scientific writing but reading reviews it seems they are more oriented to editors that to writers. Is there a sort of reference which focus on grammar aspects or conventio... |
2016/02/10 | 451 | 1,794 | <issue_start>username_0: While I was doing my BSc in Applied Mathematics I took 5 electives that were part of the Data Science MSc program. Right now I am pursing a MSc in Computer Science at the same school and I'm taking two courses that are also part of the Data Science MSc. When I finish my master's program in a ye... |
2016/02/10 | 345 | 1,475 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in PhD and about to change my name. I already have a number of publications.<issue_comment>username_1: If your paper has not been slated for publication yet, you can probably change your name on it. I would contact the editor about making the change immediately. Depending on the system the... |
2016/02/10 | 652 | 2,872 | <issue_start>username_0: A friend of mine missed a deadline for applying for funding for a PhD positions.
Funding applications are handled through a different channel wrt to program applications (I believe by some Research Council committee, I do not know if internal or external to the University) and a separate (but... |
2016/02/10 | 434 | 1,935 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to cite an idea found in a journal accessed via the web and uploaded as a PDF file (or whatever mean). When I want to reference it at the end of my paper, should I cite it as if I've read the actual HARD copy of the journal article or just treat it as an electronic source and therefore, ... |
2016/02/10 | 1,515 | 6,633 | <issue_start>username_0: Many public scientific datasets are accompanied by a license, for example variations of Creative Commons are used quite often. However, in many cases public academic datasets lack any licensing information. Here are two examples:
At [PhosphoSite](http://www.phosphosite.org/homeAction.action) w... |
2016/02/10 | 644 | 2,539 | <issue_start>username_0: After an on-site interview, should I seek reimbursement for meal expenses that occurred to and fro the interview? They did give me a expense report so I know it is legit to fill it out but just not sure if this would give a bad impression.<issue_comment>username_1: Some universities in the US b... |
2016/02/11 | 1,536 | 6,935 | <issue_start>username_0: I have completed (my first) manuscript, which falls well within the scope of a particular journal.
However, a member of that journal's editorial board (or, to be precise, the editor's student) is aggressively advancing a model that, if valid, would essentially negate much of my work. At this t... |
2016/02/11 | 227 | 975 | <issue_start>username_0: Should I ask my teacher before using software of speech-to-text in classes ? The software in question does not record (the audio) at all, just "hear" the input and output text.
What about using it in conferences and lectures ? And is it OK to share this with other students ? I'm more worried ... |
2016/02/11 | 643 | 2,843 | <issue_start>username_0: I've just received an offer to write a chapter for a book that will be published with an important publisher. I was about to say yes, because the topic fits with my dissertation topic and I thought I could use it for my paper-based dissertation, but a colleague told me that a chapter in a book ... |
2016/02/11 | 422 | 1,673 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a paper in my own language. Is it right to write it in my CV as a published paper?<issue_comment>username_1: If you have published a paper, you should include it in your CV. It does not matter what language the paper is in.
For the aid of people who do not speak the language, ho... |
2016/02/11 | 260 | 1,073 | <issue_start>username_0: I had sent a paper for a conference and it was accepted recently. I am wondering under which title I should mention it in my CV? Since it will be published in April so I can't use the title "publication", so which title should I use?<issue_comment>username_1: For papers that have been accepted,... |
2016/02/11 | 802 | 3,195 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing an acknowledgment for my thesis. I looked at several written acknowledgments and realized that the people who are acknowledged are addressed by "you" rather than "He/She". For example,
"I'm thankful to Dr. Marry. You have been the weekly contact ...."
But I personally prefer to ... |
2016/02/11 | 1,114 | 4,526 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year student and twice now I have been unable to finish all the problems during the exam, which had never happened before I became a PhD student. And to be fair, even if I had been writing without stop, I might still have failed to finish the exam questions. Is this common? I believ... |
2016/02/11 | 691 | 3,015 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing a PhD grant application, and I completed the first draft. The project is ambitious, but I and my advisors think feasible, but my advisors told me that it is quite dense and could be daunting for the grant reviewers, who may label it as **unrealistic** (which is a criterio... |
2016/02/11 | 1,070 | 4,868 | <issue_start>username_0: Some of the work I grade does not seem to be copied verbatim, but also seems close enough that one student or another is being a parrot and does not totally understood what they are saying. My students are working under a collaboration policy similar to the example on [this page](http://gsi.ber... |
2016/02/12 | 602 | 2,648 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been gearing up to apply to grad school for some time now. Switching fields, working full time and other considerations mean that I keep pushing back my goal of applying. I have been strengthening my qualifications (small publication, open source work, git hub), but I still haven't applied... |
2016/02/12 | 951 | 4,305 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm submitting a paper to a CS conference, where I've just got the feedback from my professor. He wants to delete the few lines citing the implementation libraries such as sk-learn as well as more specialized libraries (3 in total). He feels that the lines don't fit in (which I kinda agree with... |
2016/02/12 | 1,347 | 5,599 | <issue_start>username_0: In my country, Egypt, some well-known institutes offer PhD degrees. I want to apply for a PhD program in biostatistics for which I will certainly pay a lot of money.
How much would such a program increase my chances of joining academia in the USA or Europe?
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EDIT: The OP didn't specify, a... |
2016/02/12 | 913 | 4,098 | <issue_start>username_0: I did three years of my four year undergraduate degree in the UK. I want to do my final year at another university in another country (still in Europe). I contacted the university that I am interested in and after sending my academic transcript they confirmed that they would be willing to accep... |
2016/02/12 | 1,179 | 4,841 | <issue_start>username_0: I am struggling to find conferences in my subject area, preferably in Western Europe. My supervisor tends to be otherwise very busy and is poor at actually providing this information in practice.
My area isn't terribly niche: it concerns text mining of medical information (therefore straddling... |
2016/02/12 | 2,037 | 6,630 | <issue_start>username_0: I am struck by the use of "Magn Reson Mater Phy" as an abbreviation by the journal "Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine" (a.k.a. "MAGMA"). See [here](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10334-015-0506-3#page-1) for an example.
Their [instructions for authors](ht... |
2016/02/12 | 5,564 | 24,138 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently committed to taking a mathematics TA position which begins in a couple of months and entails a weekly exercise class and the correction of problem sets handed in by students.
This is my first teaching experience and admittedly I am rather anxious about it.
My question to those who ... |
2016/02/12 | 794 | 3,343 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year grad student, and I'm TAing for a freshman/sophomore level general science course. The professor who is in charge left it up to me whether I want to use a rubric to grade the students' lab reports, and whether I want to distribute it to them if I do. They already have a "sugges... |
2016/02/13 | 1,556 | 5,618 | <issue_start>username_0: **Disclaimer**: I wasn't sure where to post this but I thought this was as good a place as any so sorry if this is the wrong place.
I am a high school student in Queensland, Australia studying for a Queensland Certificate of Education. I've lived in Australia a large part of my life. However, ... |
2016/02/13 | 1,150 | 4,809 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to know my academic standing relative to other students. This information would help me with:
* allocating my time and effort between classes
* deciding whether to take a follow up course offered by this professor.
How should I proceed? Is this a routine question? Or should I explain... |
2016/02/13 | 956 | 4,156 | <issue_start>username_0: When sending a mail to a professor/ academic, is it OK to send link of a document/draft/preprint instead of attaching it to the mail? What is the convention?
The reason is, if you attach it, it takes some space in the mailbox of recipient. Thus, the recipient might delete it to save space, aft... |
2016/02/13 | 441 | 1,826 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing a detailed explanation of how I have dealt with all of the reviewers' and Editor's comments for a manuscript. The editor's comments are as follows:
>
> I regret I am unable to accept your paper for publication in XXX, at
> least in its present form. I should, however, be prep... |
2016/02/13 | 744 | 3,137 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm interested in the research of a particular professor at University 1 (top 5 in my field), which recently rejected my PhD application. I do have an offer from another place, (University 2, top 20) which I now plan on attending.
1. Can I go to University 2, complete the requirements for a m... |
2016/02/13 | 785 | 3,198 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to convince a professor about my research idea, but when I would start writing that email, I get stuck: should I be optimistic, for example, If we apply my idea, then X, Y and Z could happen (Z could refer to "change the world") but I am not sure enough about X, Y and Z. Or to be rea... |
2016/02/13 | 2,400 | 9,858 | <issue_start>username_0: I was awarded my PhD in November last year and will be giving a paper at my first official academic "débtante ball": the most important conference of its kind (outside of N.A.) for my discipline.
The problem is that I am still suffering from the 'imposter syndrome' and this will likely inhibit... |
2016/02/14 | 1,635 | 6,620 | <issue_start>username_0: A professor expects a report for a project to be around 3-4 pages (but never said anything, this is only my guess).
Is it a bad idea to submit a report of 12-13 pages if it contains useful information and detailed analysis? Doesn't this show I am interested in the subject?<issue_comment>userna... |
2016/02/14 | 3,231 | 12,384 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a junior academic (just finishing a PhD in computer science) and I'm considering starting an academic blog. My reasons for starting a blog are:
* Fun.
* Improving my visibility.
* The benefit of science.
… basically, the same reasons I publish papers. (In a sense, academic blogging, is j... |
2016/02/14 | 3,060 | 11,767 | <issue_start>username_0: Kindly can one guide me about crescent classification in references citation.
I have received a review that is following
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> "for instance in the sequence of citations [5], [7] and [6], which must
> be changed to cope to a crescent classification"
>
>
>
I have searched through the googl... |
2016/02/14 | 1,848 | 7,693 | <issue_start>username_0: When I am at home and looking for journal articles I often find article PDFs through google that have been uploaded to various websites (e.g., universities, institutions, arbitrary websites, etc...).
I am worried that using these files may infringe copyright since these articles may be bought... |
2016/02/14 | 296 | 1,327 | <issue_start>username_0: "All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be recommended for publication in IEEE Xplore." The quote was taken from a conference site. Does this mean that accepted paper will definitely be published in IEEE Xplore once accepted, or does that mean that there is... |
2016/02/14 | 2,002 | 8,604 | <issue_start>username_0: I am asking this question to get further perspective on an issue that has come up with a student (undergraduate, mathematics) I am mentoring. At last summer's [REU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Experiences_for_Undergraduates) he wrote (in particular!) a solo paper. I was not directly ... |
2016/02/14 | 2,037 | 8,821 | <issue_start>username_0: I moved straight into the professional world after my bachelor's degree, and have no experience with formal research of any sort. Recently, however, my university has granted alumni access to a large portion of its collection of research journal subscriptions. I would like to leverage this acce... |
2016/02/14 | 2,215 | 9,817 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently at an institution that has a phenomenal library system. I think every journal article or book I've ever needed, no matter how old or obscure, was available to me. I consider myself very fortunate, and always try to hold on to resources that I may not have access to in the future. ... |
2016/02/15 | 3,370 | 13,754 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in taking up a postdoctoral position in a UK institution. The appointment details write:
>
> Appointment will be on a Fixed Term Contract for 3 years and with a
> starting salary in the range of £29,517 to £42,187 p.a. inclusive
> dependent on postdoctoral experience. It is ... |