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2016/04/14 | 315 | 1,318 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a muslim sounding name. But I was born to a christian family and I consider myself an atheist. I have been trying to get fellowship in Canada. Will mentioning my religion in the CV help?<issue_comment>username_1: Mentioning religion on your CV is not standard practice. I can't see how it... |
2016/04/14 | 686 | 2,837 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate student (United States) majoring in *X*, applying to PhD programs with a research focus in subfields *Y* and *Z*.
I conjecture that the best universities for *Y* and the best universities for *Z* are not necessarily the same, and I want to narrow down my PhD applications t... |
2016/04/14 | 658 | 2,705 | <issue_start>username_0: This is my cousin's problem. In the first week of March he was offered a PhD offer (Upper Middle ranked School in USA) in Physics and he received his I-20 to get the visa.The admit was fully funded. He accepted the offer because he didn't have any offer at that time. But few days ago, a top ran... |
2016/04/15 | 1,501 | 6,545 | <issue_start>username_0: This semester I started working with a professor and a PhD student on one of their major projects, which is an application of their research. Though I was not involved with the research that went into developing the "idea" for the project, I have spent a significant amount of my time helping th... |
2016/04/15 | 1,157 | 5,017 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a fashion designer student. I have given numerous presentations but one thing always bothers me: the level and frequency of questions by the questioners. By that I mean some folks in the class ask difficult questions sometimes which makes me a little nervous. And by frequency I mean repeat... |
2016/04/15 | 707 | 2,970 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in a situation where I am continuing to work on some of my M.S. research work after I have filed and will receive my M.S.
It is fine with me and I think it's good because there were loose ends. This is computer science field, and it involves a programming project we want to improve.
In th... |
2016/04/15 | 715 | 3,147 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from electrical engineering background and I want to do PhD in machine learning. But machine learning is a multi-disciplinary field and available in many departments. So I am bit confused that from which department I should pursue PhD and what is the difference in PhD programs in different... |
2016/04/15 | 956 | 4,257 | <issue_start>username_0: During the time to prepare for my application to applying to grad school, I have learned a lot of new knowledge. They are from various sources: scientific papers from insiders in the field, blog posts from them or other individuals, articles explaining the ideas for popular audience, Wikipedia,... |
2016/04/15 | 1,587 | 6,713 | <issue_start>username_0: The process for obtaining funding for graduate work in the UK seems much different than it is in the US. In particular, in the UK, funding decisions often come after offers of admission. What is the process by which a good, accepted graduate application at, say, Oxford, is given funding?<issue_... |
2016/04/15 | 1,371 | 6,136 | <issue_start>username_0: Can we ask a journal to assign another reviewer to review our paper if we think that his/her review is not satisfactory, for instance if we have reason to believe that s/he is not familiar with the subject of the paper? For example, s/he points out that s/he does not understand a term which is ... |
2016/04/15 | 173 | 537 | <issue_start>username_0: If I hold a MSc and a BSc should and I want to show that next to my name in my CV, should I use:
>
> Sosi, MSc, BSc
>
>
>
or simply the highest one:
>
> Sosi, MSc
>
>
><issue_comment>username_1: Highest followed by any professional titles, i.e., XXX PhD, PE
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>u... |
2016/04/15 | 671 | 3,011 | <issue_start>username_0: What should I do after BS Maths before applying to a well reputed institute for masters and PHD in maths, given that my BS was done from a less developed country where quality of math education is very low?<issue_comment>username_1: **EDIT:** This answer was initially based on the field of Comp... |
2016/04/15 | 357 | 1,612 | <issue_start>username_0: I've read in the law that logos are protected by the United States Trademark law, not laws of copyright. Essentially this means that you have immediate permission to use a logo that doesn't belong to you, without asking for direct permission from the logos owner (as long as you follow legal usa... |
2016/04/15 | 643 | 2,814 | <issue_start>username_0: How can one find out how many funded PhD openings there are at a particular university in a particular discipline?
For example, MIT might have openings for 2,000 PhD students in all disciplines. 1,000 of these positions might be in the field of engineering. But only 5 of positions might involv... |
2016/04/15 | 726 | 2,663 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a grad student, and will have an appointment as an assistant professor in a few months. For various conferences I am attending, I am to provide my title. I would prefer to mention my future position, if for no other reason so that people I meet will know where to find me in the f... |
2016/04/16 | 1,017 | 4,323 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an engineering PhD candidate at a US university. I left the university a couple of years ago after 5yrs of PhD work to work as an independent scientist, while also working with my advisor on the completion of my PhD on the side (while not being enrolled in the university all this while). I... |
2016/04/16 | 1,260 | 5,281 | <issue_start>username_0: I am really in a fix in my career.
I completed my Masters in 2014. I qualified in a PhD Scholarships Test in 2015 and in the same year joined in a University for research work.
My interest lies in Linear Algebra, Topology, Abstract Algebra. My guide offered me to work in Spectral Graph Theory... |
2016/04/16 | 1,732 | 7,082 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student, and I was recently invited to visit a university which happens to be at a very attractive touristic location.
It goes without saying that the purpose of the visit is purely scientific, and any other matters are tangential. On the other hand, it has occurred to me and my lo... |
2016/04/16 | 505 | 2,330 | <issue_start>username_0: For most of the undergraduate courses I teach, I also prepare lecture notes and students usually buy a printed copy at a copy shop at the university. Sometimes I think it might be beneficial for the lecture notes if I include additional material which I might not cover in the course.
Is it et... |
2016/04/16 | 689 | 3,008 | <issue_start>username_0: Say I have a deep knowledge of an advanced technical topic, and have written a book on such a topic. Though this book does not contain any original research ideas, it is a well written and thorough treatise on a technical topic that is relevant in both academia and industry.
Would writing (and... |
2016/04/16 | 1,362 | 6,275 | <issue_start>username_0: Why are schools offering software development degrees as opposed to computer science? Are computer science degrees not as good for software development jobs as the software development degrees? I see companies advertise jobs that say they want a computer science degree or related. Also, some co... |
2016/04/16 | 905 | 3,743 | <issue_start>username_0: So I am doing a PhD for nearly 3 years now. I am self-funding my PhD, and I think I already have enough work for my PhD (in Mech. Engineering).
I have 4 papers already published in ISI and Scopus conference proceedings, and one journal paper submited. Apart from that, I have another 2 confere... |
2016/04/16 | 1,627 | 6,900 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a high school student who is interested in mathematics. As such I have been emailing several professors from prominent universities. I have been running into trouble when trying to figure out what their research is from their websites (it's either way too specific and jargon-filled, or so ... |
2016/04/17 | 374 | 1,614 | <issue_start>username_0: I interviewed yesterday for a lecturer position at computer science. At the end of my interview, the Head of School asked me if I have any questions to ask them. This is my first time to interview, and I don't know what to ask, and just said to the HoS that ``I saw your research project on Yout... |
2016/04/17 | 2,316 | 9,712 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently declined a really good PhD offer in the US for another offer from an American university and I'm terribly regretting it now.
I made my decision on the 15th of April and it's past deadline now. I really want to go to the other school and since the 15th of April was the last working ... |
2016/04/17 | 3,628 | 15,000 | <issue_start>username_0: According to the [***research paper***](http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/65/11/1088), where the comparison of postdocs in China and US was done, there are several global cons of Chinese postdoctoral positions, like low sallary and lack of permanent jobs. But, what are the other unof... |
2016/04/17 | 543 | 2,477 | <issue_start>username_0: I got review reply with three reviewers comments. Most of them are workable. I can address them while revising the manuscript. However, one reviewer is asking much more work, and based on my understanding, I feel that can be a another work. Thus, I want to politely answer that query with proper... |
2016/04/17 | 327 | 1,347 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the difference between hours carried and hours earned on a college degree audit. For example, I have this:
```
LSU Totals: 68 carr, 60 earn
Cum Totals: 77 carr, 69 earn
```
Can anyone explain to me how to interpret these 4 pieces of information individually? I can't find a direct ans... |
2016/04/17 | 382 | 1,742 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in a dilemma between 2 internship offers and would like to get some professional opinions here.
I'm an environmental engineering master's student (in US) and I have been professionally doing research during my studies, I have two offers for internships this summer:
1- Small startup compan... |
2016/04/18 | 1,075 | 4,859 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a friend who'll be attending a graduate program in Physics, at a school I would be interested in for when I am applying to grad schools. However, I'm a CS major, so I'd be applying for that.
My question is what can he do that would help at all in making my admission more likely? I know ... |
2016/04/18 | 837 | 3,648 | <issue_start>username_0: If wanting to end up in a specific graduate program at one university, but having had failures along early paths, like college dropouts, mediocre to good GPA and GRE, having become an adult/unconventional student, how can one still end up in the specific program of dreams? Would it help to coll... |
2016/04/18 | 216 | 795 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm assigning weights to different course assessments.
```
Assessment Weight
============================ ======
Assignments (best 5 of 8) 50%
Mid-term exam 20%
Final exam 30%
```
Is there a word or phrase for a grading scheme ... |
2016/04/18 | 396 | 1,632 | <issue_start>username_0: I am told that any changes in content beyond correction of small mistakes, like obvious wrong use of a term or typographics is not allowed. This makes sense to me.
Is this a common opinion or are there institutes somewhere where no chances at all are allowed?
Of course one can ask, why the al... |
2016/04/18 | 1,856 | 7,860 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD supervisor has contributed 0% to my research and he even does not know the basics of my research. On the other hand, I have a collaborator from another university who has contributed significantly to my work. Now that the manuscript is ready to submit, my supervisor demands to be the sec... |
2016/04/19 | 397 | 1,706 | <issue_start>username_0: I was a former college instructor (as an adjunct), but ultimately left academia due to low pay. I have no intention of going back to academia any time soon (for a variety of personal and non-personal reasons). However, I am still interested **in** academia, and would sometimes write about inter... |
2016/04/19 | 325 | 1,399 | <issue_start>username_0: If I am reading and analyzing a particular case study and then answering its questions, if I am just giving my opinion or a solution, should I 'cite' it? For example, if we are talking about branding and the question is about the power of the brand in the market, if I answer with the following:... |
2016/04/19 | 1,241 | 5,182 | <issue_start>username_0: Many in this community know of the struggle of finding a job in tertiary education after completing a PhD.
However, there are many options available for people who are willing to work overseas in exotic locations in Asia, Africa, and the other developing areas of the world.
I am wondering if ... |
2016/04/19 | 433 | 1,866 | <issue_start>username_0: My secondary advisor approached me; he is on the program committee of a conference and asked if I were willing to review a research paper that is in my avenue of research. The review is part of the peer-review process, to determine acceptance.
I accepted, but it turns out it he is planning to ... |
2016/04/19 | 2,111 | 9,402 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there (general) guidelines for creating an exam? I am a TA, and one of my tasks is it to design a written exam for the students. The students know that it will be based on one book, and on which chapters. I am using the questions after the chapters as guideline (and modify them). Course the... |
2016/04/19 | 899 | 4,208 | <issue_start>username_0: Every paper that I have worked on originated from the following timeline: a small team works on data and obtains results; one member is designated first author (always the one who did the biggest chunk of work); first author elaborates a draft version of the paper (may request other members to ... |
2016/04/19 | 844 | 3,402 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc researcher in AI field. I was hired as a lead scientist in governmental project (named project A). I need to work on it at least eight hours on week days.
Apart from the study in the project A, there is another topic which is really what I'm interested in (named project B). I s... |
2016/04/19 | 2,257 | 10,008 | <issue_start>username_0: While adding references to a .bib file the other day I found myself putting the title field first as it provided more information about the citations than the author names. After some thought, I wondered why most bibliography formats don't do that to begin with; if the primary goal of reference... |
2016/04/19 | 1,749 | 7,092 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 27 years old unmarried male teacher. I have been a teacher (lecturer) for the last 6 months in an Engineering institution. My students are 4 to 5 years younger than me.
The problem is that while teaching I have soft corner towards female students. I don't understand whether it is due to o... |
2016/04/19 | 2,349 | 10,854 | <issue_start>username_0: *Note: This question was asked before GitHub offered free private repositories.*
Short version of my question: Is there a good way to provide students with free, private, Github-like git repositories, that won't become public later?
Background: In computer science, it is considered best pract... |
2016/04/20 | 2,070 | 8,613 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m thinking about taking a 70-year old math professor as my PhD advisor, in a US school. I like his teaching and research. If I don’t choose him, I would probably have to switch fields, which I can do with some pain, since I have not specialized deeply yet. My main concerns are:
* As he is fa... |
2016/04/20 | 291 | 1,228 | <issue_start>username_0: I had submitted a research proposal to a group during Post Doc application in an university. But I did not join the same university for post doc. Now I got to know that they are conducting the same research I had proposed.
How to deal with this? Though I am not working in the same area now, b... |
2016/04/20 | 756 | 3,144 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently attended a workshop at a renowned research institute, to which you can participate only if you're invited by the organizers, who were rather well-known researchers.
I'm wondering if there's a point in including this information on my CV? On the one hand, it shows that some recognize... |
2016/04/20 | 1,217 | 5,247 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in computer science. My advisor is a Professor in another department and complains that computer science has a poor culture, where people publish lots of rubbish papers instead of a few good ones. My advisor prefers to publish in journal papers rather than conferences, and wh... |
2016/04/20 | 661 | 2,918 | <issue_start>username_0: Can anybody post a template letter on how to ask a science journal to serve as a reviewer. Here's what I have..
I would like to serve as a peer reviewer for manuscripts submitted to your esteemed journal, XXX. My areas of expertise are XYZ. I have published n articles in this field and have rev... |
2016/04/20 | 1,726 | 7,359 | <issue_start>username_0: Whenever I've heard math professors talk about job prospects in academia, they indicate that the job market has gotten much tougher over the years. Is it true that it is harder now than it used to be to find a good position? If so, why is that?<issue_comment>username_1: The number of tenured/te... |
2016/04/20 | 2,947 | 12,336 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc and I have been talking to a PhD student about his research, as his interests are closer to mine than to his advisor's. He is generally nice, smart, and hard working. However, I think he has an unrealistic opinion of his own work.
He has written a paper and wants to submit it to... |
2016/04/20 | 1,032 | 4,074 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently we have written a research paper and posted a preprint on the Arxiv to obtain some non-official peer review and to increase the quality of our paper. Till now we have not submitted this paper to any conference or journal (it is unpublished), but we are interested in sending it to a con... |
2016/04/20 | 799 | 3,476 | <issue_start>username_0: I was writing a draft for an essay for a Political Philosophy course and I was extremely cramped time so I decided to pull quotes from the authors (Machiavelli and Hobbes) off the internet. Along with the quotes I took some of the leading sentences. I submitted the draft and changed up the quot... |
2016/04/20 | 1,600 | 7,158 | <issue_start>username_0: In computer science field is common to produce papers that present algorithms that estimate something with a certain accuracy and a certain speed.
Many algorithms can clearly be tuned to have high performances, compromising a bit accuracy, or high accuracy, compromising in this case performanc... |
2016/04/21 | 1,562 | 6,872 | <issue_start>username_0: Each conference is on a different continent but is in the same discipline
(A & H). If my proposal is accepted, I will be chairing both sessions but will obviously have different speakers.
I am concerned that the governing associations may not be pleased due to a fear of redundancy.
Is this... |
2016/04/21 | 537 | 2,202 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> When referencing previous results, should one cite the original
> paper(s) or a recent comprehensive monograph?
>
>
>
Specifically, in my area of interest (a relatively recent branch of mathematics), in the last ten years, several monographs have been published (by different authors) ... |
2016/04/21 | 499 | 2,050 | <issue_start>username_0: Hoping someone can shed some light, or at least quell my worrying. Probably the latter. Anyways I emailed a professor with just an introductory email, I had read some of his work and would like to speak about my opportunities at the university if he had the time. He replied the next morning sim... |
2016/04/22 | 872 | 3,545 | <issue_start>username_0: My understanding is that Masters and PhD students often need to TA -- even if they're already research assistants to a professor.
I'm a first year undergraduate who took courses heavily TA-reliant last semester. My impression is that my TAs (oh they were helpful people) don't really get much ... |
2016/04/22 | 2,874 | 12,302 | <issue_start>username_0: So, before I tell my story, I'll qualify by saying I have a bit of a guilt complex and its possible I'm overthinking all of this.
I was looking through my university's honor code and I came upon "collusion," in which students are forbidden to work together on assignments unless explicitly aut... |
2016/04/22 | 388 | 1,647 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my PHD in computer-engineering (1st year), and am publishing at computer science and hardware conferences.
My department receives requests all the time, on confernces with high probability of acceptance. (Usually there are too few submissions, so they request for more) These confere... |
2016/04/22 | 969 | 4,007 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m wondering about whether it might hurt to use the "no derivatives" clause when licensing a scientific article under a Creative Commons license. My impression is that nobody ever creates "derivative works" in academia, that would simply be considered as plagiarism.
A related question is the ... |
2016/04/22 | 719 | 3,098 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to finish my undergraduate degree in mathematics in France, and expect to be close to the top of my class in a top university here. Next academic year, I will be studying for a master's at UPMC (Pierre and Marie Curie University). I intend to apply for PhD programmes in the US or the ... |
2016/04/22 | 602 | 2,643 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted a paper to a Management journal, usually if the manuscript is in the review process, it shows "under review".
This time, once upon submission the status turned "in review". I wonder why it turned like this right away and anyone has any idea if there is actually a differenc... |
2016/04/22 | 992 | 3,911 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an academic and would like to start a scholarly journal. My reasons are manyfold: primarily I want an open access journal, and think that my field needs an own journal.
How do I start a new open access journal?<issue_comment>username_1: See the list of "OA journal launch services" maintain... |
2016/04/22 | 1,052 | 4,257 | <issue_start>username_0: In many questions on this site, I see the suggestion to contact one's university's "ethics board" (or "ethics committee" or similar) to decide in the case of disputes related to research or general ethics. A few examples of many:
* ["Of course, before deciding any course of action, consider co... |
2016/04/22 | 1,549 | 6,785 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student at a university in Germany. I already hold a bachelor's degree in an unrelated field from a university abroad, and I also have a solid secondary school background with above
average grades in my school transcript. So I consider myself as having the necessary skills... |
2016/04/22 | 1,070 | 4,549 | <issue_start>username_0: I often work with graduate students at a particular university in Europe (I am in the US), in a kind of supervisory role.
In the past, I've used a shared wiki for this kind of collaboration. The students take informal but very detailed notes on the wiki as they work. I regularly check on the ... |
2016/04/23 | 1,199 | 5,199 | <issue_start>username_0: Any standard presentation starts with an opening slide which displays the title of the presentation, name of the speaker and collaborators, affiliation and some attractive image.
Before any conference presentation the chair of the session usually tells the audience the name of the speaker and... |
2016/04/23 | 1,483 | 6,322 | <issue_start>username_0: As a TA I conduct computer laboratory classes (the lecture is conducted by one of the professors). These are part-time studies, so labs take place during weekends, 3 clock hours each. Some students are older than me and are mostly male (I'm female). Some students have longer job experience than... |
2016/04/23 | 974 | 4,375 | <issue_start>username_0: In the past I used to use a lot of Python/R/MATLAB which are the standard in many scientific disciplines. However, recently I have dived into Julia and now everything I'm doing is in Julia (including workshops, blogs, etc. to help teach and promote it!). And there are a lot of very good reasons... |
2016/04/23 | 2,304 | 9,722 | <issue_start>username_0: I majored in philosophy, Late in my undergrad career, I decided I wanted to get into linguistics instead, so I applied for PhD programs. I had a 3.95 GPA, had taken around 15 graduate-level courses as an undergrad (5 in B and 10 in A), good recommendation letters (I think) and an interesting wr... |
2016/04/23 | 372 | 1,635 | <issue_start>username_0: I used results from derivations of a theoretical physics paper in my paper. Is is appropriate for me to include the derivations with a few adaption specific to my work with citations like: 'most of the derivations can be found in paper XX' or should I just cite the final result of their derivat... |
2016/04/24 | 480 | 1,976 | <issue_start>username_0: I was working on a project with my PhD advisor that was going kind of slowly. Now he has hired two masters students to "help" me. They are better at coding than me and seem a lot more interested in and involved with the project than I am. What should I do? This is my only project with my adviso... |
2016/04/24 | 845 | 3,981 | <issue_start>username_0: When submitting a paper to a highly profiled publication, like Nature or Science, author contributions must be clarified. This may include study design; data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation; draft preparation and/or critical editing and review of the manuscript.
Among these aspects, I... |
2016/04/24 | 4,611 | 18,618 | <issue_start>username_0: It is really difficult for me to decide on this situation: when someone calls me and asks for work-for-hire for his/her thesis. I don't know what to do. I want to help and earn money but I think this way of earning money is unethical.
I think that receiving the title of thesis and giving back ... |
2016/04/24 | 852 | 3,230 | <issue_start>username_0: From searching online, I see that the salaries for math adjunct professors are about 36k. That's insanely low for New York City standards. An undergraduate business school student that graduates from a decent program will make 3x more money in his first year of work than a Math Phd Adjunct Prof... |
2016/04/24 | 183 | 804 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently taking up a bachelor's degree in history at a distance-learning college. Since history is not a popular degree in that school, they don't revise their history books/ modules regularly. In fact, most of the modules they gave me were published about twenty years ago and contain few ... |
2016/04/24 | 2,802 | 12,326 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a fourth-year undergraduate looking to apply to graduate physics program this year.
My problem is this: I don't know how to pick a study/research area for graduate school. I enjoy my undergraduate courses greatly yet I have no idea how I could develop an interest in a specific topic.
For... |
2016/04/24 | 544 | 2,450 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in a situation where I've probably bitten off more than I can chew. I decided to do my master's thesis on an original (as in, invented by me) machine learning algorithm, which I believe (and my advisor agrees) is interesting and might have something to contribute to the academia.
As a part... |
2016/04/25 | 4,914 | 19,858 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been in the PhD program for a couple years now and I feel like people have a lot of expectations about the way I should think and feel about things. Not just my technical competence, but also my motivations and personality. I am wondering if my motivations disqualify me from being a good P... |
2016/04/25 | 346 | 1,534 | <issue_start>username_0: I am developing an algorithm, and I want to compare its performance with various existing state-of-the art methods. I would like to contact the authors of these methods and ask if they can send me the code for their methods.
What should I tell them? Should I say that I am developing a method t... |
2016/04/25 | 508 | 2,182 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a master student at one of the best universities in Europe. As I am studying finance, I would like to have an experience in the US or London.
I will have to start working on my master thesis next year, and I would like to use this opportunity to go abroad to an important institution; my i... |
2016/04/25 | 1,835 | 7,274 | <issue_start>username_0: I have what might seem like the nicest problem in the world: I've got offered funding for both of my dream PhD's. I am stunned, incredulous, gobsmacked, but also deeply confused: both are with supervisors I would absolutely love to work with, both are topics that genuinely fascinate me. Having ... |
2016/04/25 | 917 | 3,851 | <issue_start>username_0: I took an exam which was very difficult. I am a senior in college and this is the first time I failed an exam. I was surprised to find out most of my classmates, which usually don't do as well, got an A on the exam.
Apparently, I found out after the exam that they got their hands on the solut... |
2016/04/25 | 319 | 1,301 | <issue_start>username_0: I am updating my CV and applying to jobs in medical research. I am wondering if I should put all the trials that I have worked on with various other doctors or just the most significant ones? I have like 40 research trials I have worked on and it seems immodest and overdone.<issue_comment>usern... |
2016/04/25 | 441 | 1,515 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read research claiming the idea of multiple styles of learning does not hold up. If so, what does the research say is the best form of learning/teaching?<issue_comment>username_1: Recent eagle's-eye overview of best-practice study methods: Dunlosky, John, et al. "What works, what doesn't... |
2016/04/25 | 763 | 3,278 | <issue_start>username_0: I read the "[Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation](http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030102)" article by <NAME> and <NAME>. It gives me the general idea of how to prepare a poster.
However, I wonder whether I should add references to the poster a... |
2016/04/26 | 1,709 | 7,484 | <issue_start>username_0: I have this class where at the beginning of the term the lecturer pretty much randomly creates groups of 5 people (who usually do not know each other at all) and assigns them a project.
At the end of the term we do a presentation and a written exam. A friend of mine who took this class before... |
2016/04/26 | 380 | 1,607 | <issue_start>username_0: I just read an article where the description of a software package was lifted *verbatim* from the package's site itself.
It's a whole paragraph where not a single comma was changed. There are no quotations, nothing to indicate that this is a verbatim transcription of text. The site of the pack... |
2016/04/26 | 1,734 | 7,209 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been shortlisted in the Phd application process at a research institution in a neighboring European Country.
I have therefore been invited to go there for a serie of interviews, visits to their laboratories and informal meetings. All of this will last from Tuesday to Friday and the inst... |
2016/04/26 | 822 | 3,664 | <issue_start>username_0: Background: I'll be starting a 1.5 - 2 year master's program in mathematics this coming Fall in the US. Because of my non-degree graduate courses relevant to the program and my research interest, I can easily fulfill the requirements of this program within a year. However, my main goal is to ga... |
2016/04/26 | 500 | 2,079 | <issue_start>username_0: I have conducted experiment that had unexpected result which goes against consensus in my community and I worry whether it will be accepted by other researchers. For that reason I would like to make all my work public - the resources, the programs, the results.. Is there online service where I ... |
2016/04/26 | 1,392 | 6,048 | <issue_start>username_0: Two years into my PhD, I am troubled by a situation that made me having to decide on whether to focus mainly on my supervisor's assigned project or my own project as part of my thesis.
The story begins like this. My supervisor promised me a PhD project at the beginning of my PhD to attract me ... |
2016/04/27 | 266 | 1,042 | <issue_start>username_0: One reference book I'm reading contains religious undertones in favor of Christianity. In one chapter, for example, the author quoted a biblical verse in support of her claim that the 21st century is the "Asian Century".<issue_comment>username_1: The same as you do (hopefully) with every other ... |
2016/04/27 | 989 | 4,366 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose you are an instructor and you have given a (midterm or final) exam. This is a substantial portion of the grade; a student who misses it has little chance of passing the class. (I have in mind a college course, but maybe this a question in high school as well.)
Suppose that a few studen... |
2016/04/27 | 1,339 | 6,072 | <issue_start>username_0: I have published two conference papers at one conference in physics with two other authors and I am the first author in both articles. And I am currently in the second year of my PhD Thesis and these were my first published papers at all.
I have trouble with one of those articles and I am cons... |
2016/04/27 | 800 | 3,507 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a PhD student and I need to choose a dissertation committee as I will be graduating soon. (I already have a postdoc lined up.) It seems the only function of this committee is to read my thesis, attend my defense, and decide whether to grant me a PhD.
**Assuming my dissertation ... |
2016/04/27 | 727 | 3,174 | <issue_start>username_0: At University,say the lecturers hand out past papers with solutions for the students to revise from for an upcoming exam.
Is it common practise for the exam to contain a couple of the exact same questions
which are in the previous past exams?
Is it common for the exam to contain questions ... |
2016/04/27 | 264 | 1,161 | <issue_start>username_0: My friend wants an old assignment which I have done few semesters ago. I want to know whether it's ok to give the assignment to him and whether it's going to be a problem for me in the future. (I have already done that subject, but still following the degree) Please let me know.<issue_comment>u... |
2016/04/27 | 714 | 2,711 | <issue_start>username_0: My colleagues and I are planning to submit to a conference which adopts double-blind review. The deadline of the conference is **in 3 weeks**. The work we plan to submit is built on our previous work that has just been **accepted 2 weeks ago**.
The first paper was actually submitted 6 months a... |