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2016/03/09 | 1,749 | 7,261 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year PhD student intending to work in convex optimization and its applications. I don't have an advisor yet, so I am still TA-ing. I had a long talk with a very helpful senior grad student in this field at my university today, and he recommended that I focus on taking lots of class... |
2016/03/09 | 1,293 | 5,993 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague recently submitted an article to a reputable journal. The article went to 6 reviewers, one of which completed the review and the other 5 of which completely ignored the request. The ignored requests were not declined, they were ignored such that 3 weeks passed and the requests final... |
2016/03/09 | 3,217 | 13,381 | <issue_start>username_0: I just read this article about predatory colleges in the US:
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> <NAME>, [These students were ruined by predatory colleges. Now they’re getting even.](http://fusion.net/story/204007/students-ruined-by-for-profit-colleges-fight-back/)
>
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I am not from the US and didn't ask in the commen... |
2016/03/09 | 754 | 3,192 | <issue_start>username_0: **Setting**
I am a graduate student in a quant/informatics group (size = 2 people: my advisor and I) housed within a larger academic group that do wet laboratory/bench research. I have my own project independent of those in the larger bench research group.
**Problem**
We often get requests fro... |
2016/03/10 | 221 | 987 | <issue_start>username_0: In Google Scholar, you can create an alert, such as "neural networks", which will inform you any time there is an article related to "neural networks". However, suppose I am interested in neural networks applied to robot navigation. Is there a way to create an alert that will only inform you wh... |
2016/03/10 | 783 | 3,360 | <issue_start>username_0: Disseminating printed documents in many places on the planet is a very robust "backup" strategy for scientific literature. Printed documents (and other forms of ink-on-paper documents), or fragments of them, are known to last for millennia and with a high redundancy (many copies spread in many ... |
2016/03/10 | 903 | 3,774 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm preparing for a PhD interview and there is one question that I'm not too confident to answer, which is if they asked where do I see myself in 5-10 years or what I plan to do after my PhD.
I know I want to remain in science and do research in molecular biology, so I would do a Post Doc but ... |
2016/03/10 | 336 | 1,366 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate right now and in my junior year. I was overloading courses and fell behind one course, leaving me with a B+ as the highest possible grade for the course. Should I retake it next year if I know I can get an A in the class?
Also: it is a core class and I can technically get ... |
2016/03/10 | 2,416 | 10,648 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach programming, and I myself learned mostly self-taught about 30-35 years ago (pre-internet). I learned mostly by thinking things through and trying out alternate solutions. It never occurred to me that students could, or *would*, just "grep" the solution to many textbook assignments off t... |
2016/03/11 | 3,710 | 16,108 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a good friend who is in his first year as an assistant professor right now, having earned his PhD last year.
He is frustrated because in his new department, standards for graduate student research seem to be lower than what he was used to in his PhD department. Some PhD students in his ... |
2016/03/11 | 828 | 3,693 | <issue_start>username_0: Before saying anything I would like to point out I have no knowledge on the how to apply for graduate schools and this may very well be a stupid question.
I'm getting my Bachelor's degree in Spring 2017 and I plan on applying for graduate programs for art that Fall. I have been looking at diff... |
2016/03/11 | 855 | 3,738 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postgrad PhD student. I occasionally participate in answering academic questions a Q & A site when I hit a block with getting on with my thesis.
I often cite a particular large and well-known academic source in my answers. I have my own copy of this book. It costs between £180 and £240... |
2016/03/11 | 419 | 1,821 | <issue_start>username_0: I have used and/or adapted several questionnaires for my dissertation study. I have already asked the authors for permission to use their scales. However, I have not received a reply from an author about using his scale.
I wonder if we have to have the permission of the authors when we use the... |
2016/03/11 | 1,219 | 5,140 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in my second year of my PhD and am about to get married. I plan to take on my husband's name with my name and not keep my maiden name. But I have two publications already. What can I do so that I can associate my publications even after my surname change. Also, if I keep on publishing with... |
2016/03/12 | 491 | 1,950 | <issue_start>username_0: Will all European applicants count as ‘international students’ then?
Are there any proposals on this yet? I am finishing my BA in two years and was considering applying to the UK, but am worried now that I will have to pay international fees.<issue_comment>username_1: The following are opinion,... |
2016/03/12 | 593 | 2,413 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a 2nd year PhD student at a university in Canada. My PhD program is about environment chemistry. For a long time I wanted to learn computer science, especially machine learning, and I have 1 year work experience in an IT company.
I do not have a diploma in CS, though I have lear... |
2016/03/12 | 3,385 | 13,540 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering whether it looks odd if a speaker reads notes during a presentation? I am asking this because, I noticed that a few presenters can’t present their work or research well due to nervousness and other factors such as language, pronunciation etc.
So if a speaker makes notes and just... |
2016/03/12 | 565 | 2,263 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor gave me a module on history that contains several spelling and grammatical errors. Should I tell him about this or just ignore these mistakes?<issue_comment>username_1: Many professors are interested in receiving feedback about possible errors in their lecture notes or, more genera... |
2016/03/12 | 1,185 | 5,313 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any study/survey that tried to quantify to what extent visit weekends impact graduate school applicant's final decisions? (final decision = which school to attend)
I mostly interested in the computer science field in the US, but curious about other fields and locations as well.<issue_... |
2016/03/12 | 1,339 | 5,331 | <issue_start>username_0: I usually publish my research work at conferences in the field of Computer Science, I do not have so many papers and the question that I am doing here it might sound foolish for some (or maybe a lot) of researchers in different fields. A situation has arosen when a colleague of me wants to publ... |
2016/03/13 | 583 | 2,503 | <issue_start>username_0: I was a business student for my first two years of undergrad but then switched to computer science. I took classes over the summer before my junior year at another school. During my junior year (which I am in now) I am/have taken 7 CS/upper level math courses. During the summer I am doing resea... |
2016/03/13 | 668 | 2,903 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a postdoc from another group in my department that frequently helps PhD students in his area when they have questions or want to talk about a particular subject. I would like to know if this is expected/normal. In other words, can I go to a postdoc looking to talk and ask questions rel... |
2016/03/13 | 1,253 | 5,642 | <issue_start>username_0: Good Morning!
I'm a French student graduating this year in [Computer Sciences from Paris Dauphine University](http://www.mido.dauphine.fr/fr/apprentissage/licence-informatique/presentation.html) and I'm applying to master's degrees at the University of Virginia. I was wondering what was the di... |
2016/03/13 | 1,294 | 5,657 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a teaching assistant for both master and PhD students. Part of my work included helping and supervising them during several lab experiments (physics). One task of the lab experiments is to write a program to numerically calculate values and simulate them afterwards. The students ... |
2016/03/13 | 1,552 | 6,531 | <issue_start>username_0: Thanks to some great SE answers on a previous question I posted, I realized that even though I don't have an RA at the moment (I am a first year PhD student), I must start my research ASAP. I am convinced that this is great advice and want to follow it.
But the concept of 'doing research' is ... |
2016/03/13 | 917 | 3,845 | <issue_start>username_0: I would really like to help out my professor and get some 'research experience', and I asked her the other day, but she said that me writing my thesis would already be 'research experience'.
Does she maybe not want me to help her? Or is there no need? How can I prove myself useful?<issue_comme... |
2016/03/14 | 813 | 3,375 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently had a change of interest and would like to focus on a different area within my field. That being said, I want to stress that the area happens to differ quite a bit from my current area. I am not too far in my studies, so it's not like I am changing my PhD thesis midway or anythi... |
2016/03/14 | 985 | 4,426 | <issue_start>username_0: A month ago I received the referees' comments on a paper: two are positive, but the other one is negative. In particular, there is a very "negative" comment in this report:
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> All of the physical effects considered here have been considered before,
> and model equation is an obvious and not... |
2016/03/14 | 2,857 | 10,986 | <issue_start>username_0: There are questions on here about [getting married](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9192/points-to-consider-when-deciding-whether-to-get-married-during-a-phd), [having kids](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/11421/advice-for-having-children-during-graduate-school/11431?s... |
2016/03/14 | 1,507 | 6,172 | <issue_start>username_0: I gave a LaTeX manuscript file to the supervisor for revision. The paper is fairly long and complex, with lots of cross-referencing and citations. I use BibTeX for managing the otherwise unmanageable task of generating the correct list of references, which is recommended by the journal. Most of... |
2016/03/14 | 1,386 | 5,558 | <issue_start>username_0: I am giving a thesis for review by several supervisors, who will comment and request changes. It's written in LaTeX, but I don't want to bother the people involved with having to compile that themselves. Instead, I would send a PDF as it'll represent the final product most accurately.
My quest... |
2016/03/14 | 981 | 3,988 | <issue_start>username_0: There are many questions on this site which involve [authorship disputes and ethicality](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/authorship).
In fact, there are often people who are [greatly distressed](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29572/my-first-authorship-is-bein... |
2016/03/14 | 430 | 1,866 | <issue_start>username_0: A program I participated in for six years, while I was in junior high and high school has just had a huge chunk of their funding removed by the school. I credit this program with the majority of my success in college and my general interest and capabilities in science, and a lot of my maturity ... |
2016/03/14 | 3,025 | 13,658 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the fundamental features of science, maybe even the most important, is that publication of scientific results is peer-reviewed.
I want to understand why peer review is effective in the scientific community, because I want to apply principles of peer review to a different domain.
As I ... |
2016/03/14 | 486 | 1,947 | <issue_start>username_0: If you are applying for some [fellowships](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/19774/postdoctoral-fellowships-calls-to-work-in-europe-for-scientists-mathematicians-e/19781#19781), there are many fields which you have to fill in. For example, what will be benefits for a host country, wh... |
2016/03/14 | 395 | 1,741 | <issue_start>username_0: I have collected sea water samples from a location to study the microbes. The study is basically divided into 2; one is considering the total community and another one is specific to a particular groups. If I write 2 papers considering these two matters, can I use the same physico-chemical prop... |
2016/03/14 | 476 | 2,004 | <issue_start>username_0: I had my Mathematics paper today. Its of 90 marks. In the past, I have always scored 90 or at least 88. Today, the paper was extremely lengthly and I made a silly mistake in a question of 4 marks although I knew the answer perfectly well. I am sure other answers are correct. But I am feeling ve... |
2016/03/14 | 596 | 1,993 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing my thesis with Latex and I use Mendeley for the citation.
When I add a book and specify some attributes, like title, author and ISBN, Mendeley automatically adds some missing attributes.
One of those attributes is the URL of a book. Usually, this is a URL from `amazon.com` or ... |
2016/03/14 | 416 | 1,835 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for summer internship(BSc level) in applied math in one of the North European countries a month ago. I would consider myself as a good applicant but I suspect that they accept very few international candidates, and range of countries of applicants is pretty wide. It is stated that the... |
2016/03/14 | 149 | 574 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a Phd position advertised by the university. Should I address my letter of motivation to the potential supervisor? Please help me out.<issue_comment>username_1: Usually, you address your letter to the contact mentioned in the advertisement.
As last resort, you can always use... |
2016/03/14 | 1,196 | 4,929 | <issue_start>username_0: I tried looking this up online and could not anything related to this, so figured asking here would make sense. Kind of related to [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/18755/implications-of-being-accepted-without-funding-to-a-computer-science-phd-in-the). Here is the story:
I li... |
2016/03/14 | 457 | 1,808 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm having a hard time understanding some concepts not explicitly taught in a course I took recently, but quite related nonetheless. I'm wondering if it's okay to e-mail the professor who taught this course and ask them for advice regarding this matter, considering:
* I am no longer a student ... |
2016/03/15 | 695 | 2,826 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to several tenure track positions this season. For some of them, I received an e-mail letting me know that I was no longer considered. That's cool and expected, since most of them were in US/Canada and I don't have any official experience working in neither...
My real question is: In... |
2016/03/15 | 1,709 | 7,458 | <issue_start>username_0: Maybe I'm just frustrated and nothing can really be done (or nothing that will affect me). But anyway...
I'm taking an upper level course (an elective directly related to my major of Computer Science) and the professor has been horrible. Lucky for me, I came in with a pretty solid knowledge of... |
2016/03/15 | 503 | 2,356 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say that one author has a paper under review, and continues on subsequent works based on the paper under review.
When the author puts preprints of subsequent works available online, should the author let the editor of the first paper know about those subsequent works?<issue_comment>user... |
2016/03/15 | 1,603 | 7,080 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in/from the US. I'm finishing my PhD this semester. I've been offered a research postdoc, via email, by the dept. chair at one of my top choices, but outside the US (would rather not give too many details). I replied to say I'm accepting the position. Everyone seems very happy: me, the chai... |
2016/03/15 | 1,357 | 6,090 | <issue_start>username_0: I have multiple questions regarding talks and poster presentations. I am in my second year of PhD (computational biology) and have not yet published any paper. Keeping my background in mind do answer my question if possible:
My question is: Is it okay to give poster/talk of your unpublished ... |
2016/03/15 | 249 | 1,066 | <issue_start>username_0: In theses, students typically write acknowledgments thanking their supervisor, co-supervisor, other advisors, etc.
Maybe everyone can just do it at will, but is there any best practice, if academic degrees should be used in the acknowledgements?<issue_comment>username_1: In the ones I have see... |
2016/03/15 | 848 | 3,606 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently attending the meeting of the American Chemical Society and was surprised by the way people were dressed for the poster presentations. In particular, many young women (and some young men) seemed to be dressed for a night out (tight clothes, heels, make up, etc.). This is not what ... |
2016/03/15 | 637 | 2,747 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it any biased view from a viewpoint of a big country, where you have many chances to change laboratories/universities/working groups, vs. a small one?
Suppose you are from a small country when there is only one laboratory in your field and you want to stay in that country due to family reas... |
2016/03/15 | 1,556 | 6,334 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is similar to [Is verbatim copying several paragraphs of text with citation considered plagiarism?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/20270/36457), but
I want to ask about very short, concise wordings. As an example, I read a paper in which the author uses the following sentence:... |
2016/03/15 | 726 | 2,908 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm starting my bachelor's degree thesis and i will do some research work. If I achieve good results can my work be published? If so , who should get the credits? I'm afraid that my prof or his research lab can publish/include my work in some their future papers without my name.<issue_comment>u... |
2016/03/15 | 899 | 3,818 | <issue_start>username_0: We submitted a research paper to a journal for publication and we received the reports of the reviewers. However, the two reviewers pointed out a flaw in one of our proofs. Unfortunately, we cannot find another proof and we cannot also find an exemple in which the result doesn't work. One of th... |
2016/03/15 | 516 | 2,237 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is asking how to bridge the gap between knowing programming to research.
I'm an undergraduate in a decent BA computer science program at a college with a decent-to-low reputation. Most of the professors here aren't PhDs. I can't transfer to another college, because a close relat... |
2016/03/15 | 398 | 1,592 | <issue_start>username_0: After reading this question on [What is wrong with continuing to publish with your PhD adviser](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/8709/what-is-wrong-with-continuing-to-publish-with-my-phd-adviser) I wonder whether there is something like an "unwritten rule" for how long after getting... |
2016/03/15 | 692 | 3,074 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to understand positive and negative effects for a host country and for a home country of a student.<issue_comment>username_1: **To the host country:**
Positive: A host country that is able to import top talent from other countries has a greater chance of keeping them in the countr... |
2016/03/15 | 826 | 3,515 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently applying for an intensive language program, and I've taken courses with a professor whose letter of recommendation would likely carry a lot of weight– he speaks the language fluently, and has spent years studying the country. His course is also the only one I've taken that is dire... |
2016/03/15 | 662 | 2,797 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a B.A degree in political science with a minor in natural resource conservation & management last year but after an internship in Washington D.C. and looking through job postings I have decided that I studied the wrong thing and would like to make a career change already. Ultimately ... |
2016/03/16 | 336 | 1,383 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is limited to only academic subjects that exist in internationally recognised universities (eg: exclude celebrities and Internet sensations), and is inspired by a discussion with a teenage family member who questions the maxim that interest is most important for deciding your acad... |
2016/03/16 | 1,414 | 5,974 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just had a look at admissions statistics for grad school. Oxford seems to have much higher acceptance rates than, say, Princeton or Stanford. I do not want to conclude that it therefore is easier to get into Oxbridge than Ivy League Schools, lets say (for grad school that is), because I ... |
2016/03/16 | 485 | 2,059 | <issue_start>username_0: I have got an email of invitation to review a paper in a best journal of my field. I had a paper there and somewhere else almost in that field.
As I must invest serious time and attention to complete the review, I wanted to know if that does any advantage on improving my resumé for getting a ... |
2016/03/16 | 751 | 3,352 | <issue_start>username_0: I came across a paper with an interesting title/abstract which was published in a rank-A journal. However, the article is missing from all online listings (Project Euclid, ScienceDirect, etc.) and is *also* missing from the journal's website. The article has volume, issue, and page numbers `x`–... |
2016/03/16 | 979 | 4,433 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new grad student who is both excited and scared as I embark on this transformational journey. One concern that I have is establishing a current snap shot of my field and identifying boundaries that are ripe for further exploration. This seems like an impossible task given the number of j... |
2016/03/16 | 502 | 2,277 | <issue_start>username_0: My ultimate goal is to secure a position in industry post graduation. I figured a solid approach would be align myself with current problems and try and partner to solve them. This gives me resume wins for when I am back on the market. Also industry may have deeper pockets than NIH for my field... |
2016/03/16 | 601 | 2,669 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently trying to manage around 100 references from [ISI Web of Knowledge](http://apps.webofknowledge.com/). To manage them in a useful way, I need to manage a table, one row for each reference, with 4-5 user defined structured columns (like: which climate variable they correlated with w... |
2016/03/16 | 956 | 3,667 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing an academic CV for artificial intelligence PhD programs. However, when it comes to mentioning my master's thesis, I am embarrassed at how horrible the title is. It was even criticised in my feedback for the work.
The title is:
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> INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS ON THE FLEXOELECTRIC R... |
2016/03/16 | 341 | 1,457 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a Masters thesis. Can I use a quote to begin each chapter of my Master's thesis?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes unless your university's rules forbid it. You should check your university's master's thesis formatting rules and guidelines.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: Epigraphs... |
2016/03/16 | 475 | 2,102 | <issue_start>username_0: Got a manuscript accepted and then pulled because of a similar manuscript submitted by another group to the same journal. Per the request of the editor, two groups combined the manuscripts. Now the manuscript was held up for unknown reasons.
I re-read the other group's manuscript and found a ... |
2016/03/17 | 578 | 2,549 | <issue_start>username_0: I am graduating this semester with a bachelors in physics. My goal is to do theory in my graduate level course work. The problem I am in now is that I missed the deadline to take the physics GRE (I'm taking it in April) so I also missed the deadline to apply to most graduate schools. Fortunatel... |
2016/03/17 | 1,279 | 5,445 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a thesis to hand in at my university.
Am I allowed to ask a grad student who is an expert in my field to have a look at my thesis and give me feedback (more than merely grammatical / stylistic feedback that is) before handing it in at my university?
**Some personal background to this:... |
2016/03/17 | 1,776 | 7,035 | <issue_start>username_0: **Context:**
As I am writing my first paper, I cannot determine what, when and how I should cite scientific literature. It is because I don't know why I should cite (or not cite) other work.
My fist 'newbie' approach was "*Every assertion you write should be proven by a relevant citation, so t... |
2016/03/17 | 1,114 | 4,424 | <issue_start>username_0: So during exams and as of late, I started to informally cite scholars sometimes and as much as possible to backup the written ideas, however and due to the very nature of exams, I am facing the below issues:
1. Sometimes I memorize ideas almost word-by-word from the textbook or course book, an... |
2016/03/17 | 1,058 | 4,317 | <issue_start>username_0: So let's say I have a problem (X) that needs to be solved. Most people in research use several approaches around a sub-topic Y. Most of these algorithms have performance of 80-95% accuracy so there is a space for improvement. I understand that a proper PhD topic would be to find a better soluti... |
2016/03/17 | 950 | 4,285 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ethical to withdraw a CS conference paper after being accepted, but before the final version is due (because of authorship disputes). What other consequences would there be (like re-submitting to other conferences if withdrawal is is successful)?<issue_comment>username_1: These sort of th... |
2016/03/17 | 629 | 2,690 | <issue_start>username_0: I am thinking about a career in synthetic biology, but I am not sure what route should/needs to be taken. I don't want to do technician work--I want to be involved in the planning. Y'know, the exciting stuff. :)
[By 'planning' I mean things like, for example, looking at symptoms (assuming we a... |
2016/03/17 | 683 | 2,975 | <issue_start>username_0: I had emailed a professor for a summer internship opportunity. He had accepted me and aksed me write a proposal for applying through a fellowship.
I replied back putting down some points for my proposal. I got no reply from his side. I emailed him again after 2 days and continued to do so for ... |
2016/03/17 | 775 | 3,158 | <issue_start>username_0: Here is my story.
I was accepted to top-30 world university to MS in Electrical Engineering(EE) progaram. In total I already have 3 degrees: MS in EE (GPA:4.0/4.0), BS in EE(GPA:3.9/4.0), and Bachelor in Economics(GPA:3.8/4.0).
In my application I misunderstood instructions, which wanted me t... |
2016/03/17 | 671 | 2,442 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing an introduction section, which says "this is an important question but currently there is few (or little?) literature available".
Which one should I use, few or little?
Thank you!<issue_comment>username_1: They both sound strange. I would personally say "limited literat... |
2016/03/17 | 1,695 | 7,181 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in an anatomy class and had an issue. I and three other students worked on an 18 page packet together. We had the same answers since we worked on it as a group.
However, two of us received a 35/50, one of us had a 50/50 and the other had a 30/50. When we asked the teacher why w... |
2016/03/17 | 833 | 3,633 | <issue_start>username_0: I came across the question "[Attitudes towards self-plagiarism](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2893/attitudes-towards-self-plagiarism)" on this site, which asks whether it is OK to reuse text from your own papers without quotation formatting. It seems the answer is no. I didn't kn... |
2016/03/17 | 620 | 2,632 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a sophomore student building some software with friends that are heavily based on various articles about distributed hash tables, networking, and various topological mathematical concepts. Since we do plan to sell it after completion, we are worried about potential legal obligations of cit... |
2016/03/17 | 1,826 | 7,529 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a math PhD student in a university in Europe, working in a highly abstract field. I’m halfway through the intended three years. But I have the feeling I’m not doing it right.
When I look back, two years ago I knew almost anything of the theory I’m working in. So from that point of view, it... |
2016/03/18 | 1,978 | 7,795 | <issue_start>username_0: My university subscribes to various online journals. Sometimes I print off articles that I know I will read over and over again. (I'm all for saving paper, but some things I do prefer reading on paper. I print on recycled paper and I bind the articles, so they will last a lifetime.)
Now I trie... |
2016/03/18 | 1,242 | 5,634 | <issue_start>username_0: I was asked to serve as a reviewer in a peer-review process. I remarked some issues and suggested a minor revision to the editor. Now I received the revision back and generally think the authors did a good job revising the manuscript. The field is psychology.
There is one issue that I was not... |
2016/03/18 | 1,160 | 4,611 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is in part related to [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/24285/what-does-it-mean-if-a-professor-does-not-answer-your-email-in-time) question and [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9542/is-ignoring-emails-acceptable-in-academia) one. In my case, I’... |
2016/03/18 | 364 | 1,514 | <issue_start>username_0: I have published a paper earlier in a journal and would like to submit a continuation of research paper to build on the earlier paper's results. I was wondering how is the second paper identified as a follow up of the original.
Also, I have changed my name since (same co-authors), do I have t... |
2016/03/18 | 1,272 | 5,451 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to know particularly how is regarded in a scientific community since it is not peer reviewed.
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> It should be noted patents do not go through similar peer review as journal publications. Of course, this is slightly depending on whatever requirements patent laws in a specific cou... |
2016/03/18 | 625 | 2,737 | <issue_start>username_0: Many postgraduate theses include as part of their front matter a List of Figures and a List of Tables, plus lists of various other special environments. Many institutions, including my own, directly require the inclusion of at least those two Lists at the front of the thesis.
However, I have n... |
2016/03/18 | 859 | 3,798 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning to apply to phd programs in economics and I'm hoping to eventually work in academic research on economic theory, social choice theory, welfare economics or related areas. I'm wondering if doing a masters in math before applying to economics phd would be worthwhile? Seems like it mi... |
2016/03/19 | 874 | 3,688 | <issue_start>username_0: This will be my first post on the Academia SE so apologies if there are some conventions I break!
I am an undergraduate student of mathematics at a university in the UK whose emphasis lies a lot more in statistics and applied mathematics than it does in pure mathematics, there being only 2 mod... |
2016/03/19 | 561 | 2,220 | <issue_start>username_0: It is commonly known that using LaTeX is the best option for formatting a scientific paper (including references). I know.
But recent versions of Microsoft Word use a quite interesting reference management system (see [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeVPoOWUT-4) for a demo). Howev... |
2016/03/19 | 686 | 2,773 | <issue_start>username_0: A friend and I are arguing about the number of pages needed for a coverletter, to apply to postdoc in electro-engineering.
Usually, the postdoc offer (what I called a job offer) says up to 3 pages.
My friend fills the 3 pages for the coverletter.
To me, he should stick to one page , present... |
2016/03/19 | 471 | 1,972 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied for a PhD position in October 2015. I was not informed about the result since then.
Is it appropriate to send a mail to a member of the hiring committee (with whom I have contacted before applying) to ask about the process? Or should I wait for them to contact me?
The universit... |
2016/03/19 | 745 | 2,828 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to figure out if I can put a PDF that I give Springer on arXiv.
Note that this PDF has had further changes made to it **after** it has been already accepted by a conference; it's not the same as the conference submission.
[Springer's copyright transfer form](http://www.springer.c... |
2016/03/19 | 701 | 2,867 | <issue_start>username_0: If my ultimate goal is to obtain a tenured teaching position, is it more desirable to get a PhD from a different university than the one where I obtained my BA? What are the possible pros and cons?
The original university has a large philosophy department, which is also a factor for me.<issue_... |
2016/03/19 | 2,812 | 12,123 | <issue_start>username_0: I gave my students an opportunity to rewrite one of their papers for extra points. As I was grading, I realized that two papers were almost identical. They had a similar structure, organization, and presented ideas in a similar manner. I asked the students about plagiarism but they denied it. S... |
2016/03/20 | 656 | 2,394 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a non-US citizen, considering a post-doc in the states. I'm eligible for a 'green card' through marriage (my wife is a US citizen). I'm deliberating whether I should apply for permanent residency right now or go through the standard path of a student visa (e.g. J1) once I find a post-doc po... |
2016/03/20 | 1,397 | 5,768 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a master’s student and I cautiously and properly cite in my essays and works as per Harvard’s guidelines. However, I only learned how to properly cite just this year which made me go back and look at my BBAs graduation projects (I have two licenses) and, frankly, they are horribl... |
2016/03/20 | 749 | 3,300 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent an article to Annals of Mathematics and after 4 months of review process it was rejected. I received a report from an anonymous expert. Could I send this report, together with the manuscript, to another journal?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> Could I send this report, together with the m... |
2016/03/20 | 945 | 3,865 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently been admitted to a few PhD programs, and have to decide where to attend. One of them has a massively famous professor (over 50k citations, 'Reuters Highly Cited Researcher'). Other potential supervisors at other institutions are still quite famous (~15k citations). Could anyone ... |