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2016/04/27 | 649 | 2,417 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an interview at a university for a tenure track position. They decided not to give me an offer, but I met a professor there (for the first time) that supported me as a candidate. This professor saw my application, went to my talk, and was not on the search committee, but participated in m... |
2016/04/27 | 151 | 548 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there some webpage with a collection of thousands of theses of undergraduates, graduates, and PhD students from all kinds of sciences and where they are freely accessible like on ArXiv or (mostly) adsabs.harvard.edu?<issue_comment>username_1: researchgate.net has research from many academics... |
2016/04/27 | 844 | 3,454 | <issue_start>username_0: A paper describes a computational method for solving a problem, and we made a significant improvement to the method and applied it to a new case study. Is it appropriate to publish a response paper?
Most response papers I've seen dispute the findings or methods of the paper they are responding... |
2016/04/28 | 490 | 2,131 | <issue_start>username_0: Not too complicated of a situation -- I'm graduating with my bachelor's degree (Mathematics) in a couple weeks, but to support my wife, I'm going to get a job for a while before looking at attending a master's program. The soonest I am considering starting a master's degree would be something l... |
2016/04/28 | 1,633 | 5,431 | <issue_start>username_0: If some measure of quality improves to 150 % of its original value in a study from condition A to condition B, would it be most appropriate, in terms of scientific writing (computer science specifically), to describe that as:
* >
> a 1.5-fold improvement
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> a 1.5× improvement
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>... |
2016/04/28 | 691 | 3,024 | <issue_start>username_0: I was looking at submitting to a conference where the call says:
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> completed work only
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Q1: Now what exactly is considered completed work here?
1. That I have already submitted that paper to journals and put a pre-print/working paper version of it online?
2. That it is a complet... |
2016/04/28 | 1,321 | 5,584 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently completed a postdoc at a prestigious R1 university, in a high profile lab. My publication record is not prolific, but those that I have published as first author are well respected journals, and a handful of middle author publications in top journals as well. I have a consistent teac... |
2016/04/28 | 867 | 3,575 | <issue_start>username_0: I am close to graduating and am going to an assessment center for a very large tech company. One thing we need to do is hold a presentation about one of their products.
I want to stand out a bit from the crowd and show that I spent a lot of time on this presentation. So I had the idea of drawi... |
2016/04/28 | 1,415 | 6,139 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been having doubts about the progress I've been making during the start of my PhD. About 2 weeks before I was due to go abroad for a placement at another lab I raised these concerns with my supervisor and they traveled the length of the country a week later to meet me in person to help wit... |
2016/04/29 | 638 | 2,754 | <issue_start>username_0: *This question is about Computer Science firstly, I don't know if it applies to other domains*
I am a PC member of some international conference in my field. I got a large number of papers to review, so I need to find subreviewers for many of them. Most of the time I would give the paper to a ... |
2016/04/29 | 845 | 3,455 | <issue_start>username_0: Does the submission number in any way influence the way a paper is treated?
For instance, is it likely that an early submission will be picked up by a member of the program committee, rather than being handed over to a subreferee? When I'm going through a list, I do have a tendency to be more... |
2016/04/29 | 6,933 | 27,719 | <issue_start>username_0: When my supervisor pitched the PhD to me, it was all about analyzing "big data". I had BSc/MSc experience in wet-lab biology (mainly culturing cells), however I wanted to branch out into Bioinformatics since I am, and always have been, fairly good at programming in C, and data analysis in gener... |
2016/04/29 | 620 | 2,476 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been reading a sample PDF of a book by a professor at a research university published in 2007 on the publisher’s website. For some reason the book’s title was not included in the PDF’s footer (as it should be) so I had to google a passage from the book with the hope that Google Books wou... |
2016/04/29 | 1,754 | 7,568 | <issue_start>username_0: I asked a professor from my online graduate degree to write a letter of recommendation. It was when I first started looking at graduate school, so was not prepared with what you would usually want to give a professor, especially one you had never met in person. The exchange went like this
Me: ... |
2016/04/29 | 1,711 | 7,561 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a problem...Once folks learn my academic specialty within the medical sciences and of my strong background in statistics, they often want to form a collaborating - mostly they want me to conduct analyses, develop the study methods, write methods, results and discussion sections of their ... |
2016/04/30 | 813 | 3,335 | <issue_start>username_0: ### I've heard that you should wait 15 minutes for a professor who is late to a class, before leaving.
Some of my classmates have said that the 15 minute rule is only for professors without PhD's, and that you must wait at least 20 (and up to 30) minutes for professors that do have PhD's.
The... |
2016/04/30 | 974 | 4,088 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a high school sophomore student who is very passionate about the subject of number theory and college level calculus. However, I am currently only in the high school class of precalculus/trig. The paper contains material beyond high school calculus, but am afraid that it would not be good ... |
2016/04/30 | 946 | 4,105 | <issue_start>username_0: I have heard from three professors internally at my school that my master's thesis will likely not be looked at by Phd admissions committees - these professors are frequently on the admissions committee at our Department, too - and that at most my abstract or graphs / pictures might be looked a... |
2016/04/30 | 2,328 | 10,010 | <issue_start>username_0: I am taking a graduate class requiring that I submit a paper to a journal at the end of the semester. The professor sent out an email informing us that we can either hand off a copy of the paper in an addressed envelope to her, which she will then mail, or email her a copy of the submission rec... |
2016/04/30 | 687 | 2,974 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm teaching a course that has two exams which together form a large part of the students' grades.
On the first exam, the mean score was very high (~90%) with the majority of students scoring over 80%.
On the second exam, the mean score was much lower (~70%), with many students scoring below ... |
2016/04/30 | 2,086 | 9,016 | <issue_start>username_0: I know somebody who works in a department that discourages giving students A's. Basically, a few years ago, there was a professor giving everybody A's. The department was labeled as a "vacation spot" at the university. This led to a hardline stand on giving A's that is in effect to this day. If... |
2016/04/30 | 333 | 1,510 | <issue_start>username_0: Yesterday I received an email that I have to give a two minute scientific presentation as part of an interview for a masters program on this coming Monday. Now I am really struggling whether I have to include scientific data in my presentation or that I can explain a concept. My time is very li... |
2016/05/01 | 1,865 | 7,777 | <issue_start>username_0: My wife is defending her thesis soon, and in her department, defenses are open to the public. I will be there along with several of her friends/colleagues. Her mom also wants to come to the defense. In terms of her committee's perception, I could see this being viewed as weird or maybe unprofes... |
2016/05/01 | 2,260 | 9,478 | <issue_start>username_0: Once you have tenure, presumably you're never going to have to search for a job again. However almost all professors have a CV on their website, and fairly recent ones. Why? They already made it.<issue_comment>username_1: **Everybody needs a CV to help others better know them.**
I am not a pro... |
2016/05/01 | 1,790 | 7,342 | <issue_start>username_0: This semester I participated in an independent study with a professor and one of his/her PhD students. In this independent study, I spent a very substantial amount of time building (coding) things to facilitate the research being performed by the professor and his/her PhD student. However, I di... |
2016/05/01 | 919 | 4,220 | <issue_start>username_0: Writing letters of recommendation must be a fine art. Culture across fields and countries vary wildly in almost any respect, and this is likely to the case for LoR.
How/when do professors learn how to appropriately convey the value of the person they recommend?
* As they write them, by trial ... |
2016/05/02 | 499 | 2,218 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a longer paper for a course as part of a final project. The paper is on a topic we didn't cover in class and is obviously intended as a way to let me teach myself something we didn't have time for. As such, I'm using other people's ideas for my paper nearly every single sentence. I'... |
2016/05/02 | 621 | 2,734 | <issue_start>username_0: I have the privilege of teaching composition. This requires me to read several dozen papers in a given class. I have rubrics but no matter what I have to sit down and read the papers word for word in order to assess them. They're not long papers (about 10 pages), but I still have to read them.
... |
2016/05/02 | 2,231 | 8,594 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on a formal paper about programming languages. I am going to talk about two intentionally difficult languages, brainfuck and JSFuck. Should I leave the names as they are, or censor the names? (e.g. brainf\*\*k, JSF\*\*k)<issue_comment>username_1: Depends on your audience. If you're ... |
2016/05/02 | 315 | 1,368 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper where I am talking about the [SSE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions) and [AVX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions) instruction sets. For a hardware feature like an instruction set, I am wondering how to figure out what is an appr... |
2016/05/02 | 479 | 2,024 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a well known result from 60 years ago that only ever has its result quoted these days. I found a 20+ year old MS thesis that had a very clear mathematical derivation of the result from first principles, although it doesn't have any (meaningful) citations.
The derivation is so clear I ... |
2016/05/02 | 324 | 1,400 | <issue_start>username_0: I was guided by a Post-Doc for my undergraduate thesis, but the one responsible for all and offering the thesis was a Professor, who I only talked to when discussing the thesis, agreeing to it, and the explanation of the grade in the end. Who of both would be the one to ask for a letter of reco... |
2016/05/02 | 448 | 2,004 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not sure if there's a word or phrase for a "reverse bibliography", but that's what I'm looking to put on my website - a list of other papers that have cited my own work. The goal is to show that my work has had influence and has spread beyond just the paper itself. Is this common in academi... |
2016/05/02 | 575 | 2,322 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that I am reading a marketing book and, while reading a specific chapter, I find like there are 10 footnotes with most of them related to specific examples or specific numbers; in other words, most of the information presented in the chapter are not cited and, judging by the context and... |
2016/05/03 | 474 | 1,883 | <issue_start>username_0: Tomorrow I have my master's project defense. So, I will be presenting and defending on my project "Course Advising System".
I just noticed that tomorrow is a National Teacher Appreciation Day. Is it a good idea to put one slide after "Questions and Comments" section in the presentation?
I wa... |
2016/05/03 | 1,182 | 5,233 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate about to finish my first year of undergraduate research in CS. This past year has been mostly engineering-based as I learned how things worked in terms of implementation.
I expressed a desire to my advisor about (for next year) moving from engineering / implementation of o... |
2016/05/03 | 2,857 | 12,080 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a student at a university of a friend of mine who has Asperger's Syndrome, which is a milder form of Autism. My friend, who is a teacher there, has told me that the student mostly does OK work but he is not always aware of socially acceptable behavior.
The major problem, and I mean m... |
2016/05/03 | 1,637 | 7,093 | <issue_start>username_0: A year ago a professor at my department and her grad student had plagiarized a journal paper and published it. The paper was retracted, and the journal published a clear notice that it was due to serious fraud, as several paragraphs and the results were stolen (verbatim) from a previously publi... |
2016/05/03 | 1,418 | 6,470 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I have read new papers and seen new different approaches and the very interesting physical effects in alternatives to general relativity, and I think I see a bit of ideas for future papers, but I don't have any expertise in these approaches, I have published papers only in general rel... |
2016/05/03 | 401 | 1,640 | <issue_start>username_0: First of all sorry if I commit any mistake in this question, I read all the instructions but it´s my first one on this useful site:
I am finishing some diapositives for a PhD current status conference, and I thought about these image as the last one:
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2016/05/03 | 688 | 3,180 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate about to finish my first year of undergraduate research in CS. This past year has been mostly engineering-based as I learned how things worked in terms of implementation.
I'm looking to move from engineering / implementation of others' ideas into creating my own novel idea... |
2016/05/03 | 1,394 | 5,279 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper that relies heavily upon some important work done some 10 years ago. The paper was well received gathering well over a 100 citations and is a must mention within my niche field. I would like to reference the paper as seminal as in "so and so, et. al., in a seminal paper..."... |
2016/05/03 | 1,141 | 5,225 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a manuscript of a project that I am first author on, and am wondering whether it is proper to include person X. X has been gone from the lab for 3 years, and none of her data is in the manuscript or really informed the conclusions. However, my experimental design (for one figure... |
2016/05/04 | 1,358 | 5,144 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a new PhD student, wrapping up my first year of coursework. To date, I haven't published any papers, and my body of work is essentially null. For this semester's class project in one of my courses, my professor has tasked me with using the IEEE format for papers and using the following sect... |
2016/05/04 | 1,854 | 7,904 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be teaching a course which is made up of 13 weeks of classes
in the Fall of 2016.
Unfortunately, I will also be travelling in the middle of the semester
to a conference in the US from my home university located in Asia.
This means that for one week, I will not physically be in my home un... |
2016/05/04 | 1,680 | 6,837 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing an essay and I have previously written and submitted an essay to a different professor about a similar subject. Would it be considered plagiarism if I copied my own exact sentences from my previous essay?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, it is called self-plagiarism. This happens whe... |
2016/05/04 | 7,048 | 28,527 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the most criticized aspects of the current publishing scheme, is that academics do pretty much all the work for free and publishers get the money.
Why don't people just charge a fee when contacted by a publisher to referee an article?
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I know [why do academics write peer reviews?](... |
2016/05/04 | 836 | 3,515 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague of mine had an excellent PhD project and she published good papers during her PhD. When I asked her to give me her PhD thesis, she told me she can't because her PhD project was confidential (commercial, military, ...).
I wonder if a PhD thesis can be confidential? Isn't it availabl... |
2016/05/04 | 393 | 1,716 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be on the job market, again, next year. I am looking for a position that emphasizes teaching. I wrote a new teaching statement each year for the past two years since I just graduated with my Ph.D. last year, and I am relatively new to teaching, my teaching philosphy continually changes.
... |
2016/05/05 | 582 | 2,246 | <issue_start>username_0: Since almost everything I have found is something I pulled from a source, how do I write my essay without citing basically every single line?
Edit: Yes, in my paper I am arguing something which will be said in my own words. I am writing a few paragraphs about the historical background of the ... |
2016/05/05 | 944 | 3,270 | <issue_start>username_0: In the time when I submitted a paper to a journal " Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology", ISSN: 2040-7459, they indicated in their website that the journal is indexed in scopus but now is not, so i checked scimagojr.com for information and i found that the Coverage ... |
2016/05/05 | 2,352 | 10,187 | <issue_start>username_0: I tested a hypothesis using some observational data, but did not find support for the hypothesis (the difference was not significant at the p < 0.05 level). I subsequently realised that the inclusion of a certain subset of individuals was dubious, since there was some doubt over their measureme... |
2016/05/05 | 676 | 2,707 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student who is looking forward to work in theoretical physics in the future and therefore, I chose a project advisor who is a string theorist. But since, my grades are average and I failed his QFT course (which I am going to repeat anyway), he believes that I may not get a... |
2016/05/05 | 558 | 2,459 | <issue_start>username_0: Does study abroad help enhance a PhD candidate's profile or does it not carry much weight at all? Let's say I took "regular" coursework while on study abroad for a semester, like a core course and not something research-focused.
Would my having lived in Prague or Florence or Shanghai be someth... |
2016/05/05 | 226 | 1,048 | <issue_start>username_0: If having some questionable aspects in the thesis - like not elaborated and rather simple theoretical models -, that did not influence the whole work and results, but might still arise the thought "Why didn't the student know/do better here?", can this have a negative influence when applying to... |
2016/05/06 | 1,192 | 4,514 | <issue_start>username_0: The journals *Science* and *Nature* seem like they are basically the flagship journals for most of the hard sciences, such as biology, physics, or chemistry. Is there an equivalent high-caliber journal for general engineering? For example, if somebody discovers a new algorithm that revolutioniz... |
2016/05/06 | 2,031 | 8,487 | <issue_start>username_0: Does anyone have any good advice for obfuscating one's writing style when reviewing papers? I have a fear that I would inadvertently use the same turn of phrase in a referee report as in some published work, thus revealing my identity, and I'm curious if there is a good general practice to foll... |
2016/05/06 | 753 | 3,066 | <issue_start>username_0: When I give students readings (articles, textbooks, etc), they sometimes literally come to class with entire pages colored yellow with a highlighter. I cannot begin to understand how they discern that everything on a page is of equal value to know.
As such, I would like to know of some sugges... |
2016/05/06 | 742 | 3,133 | <issue_start>username_0: There are weekly homework assignments based on a textbook. We will finish each problem set and hand that in every two weeks.
Since the assignments are straight out of the textbook, it is very easy to get a copy of the textbook solution manual from online sources.
As an undergraduate student... |
2016/05/06 | 416 | 1,856 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a paper accepted at a conference in theoretical computer science. However while revising the final version I found an error in the proof of an important lemma. Although I believe the error is fixable, It will require some effort. I will not be able to fix the error before the deadline for... |
2016/05/06 | 812 | 3,494 | <issue_start>username_0: I had submitted a manuscript to an Elsevier Journal in February 9, 2016. Usually it takes time of around 1 week to get the manuscript number assigned something like XXXX-D-16-XXX and status changes from "Submitted to Journal" to something else like "With Editor".
However, after waiting for 1.5... |
2016/05/07 | 411 | 1,801 | <issue_start>username_0: On StackExchange, some people use their real names, while others hide behind a username.
I was wondering, **do hiring committees look at a candidate's StackExchange account and consider the candidate's activity on these accounts?**
I know committees look at my website, they openly mention thi... |
2016/05/07 | 1,089 | 4,716 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 4th year Electronics engineering student studying in India. I applied to Master's of Science in computer science programs (I wish to change fields) offered by 11 universities in the US, but my application was rejected by all 11 of them.
One of the important factors (correct me if I am w... |
2016/05/07 | 483 | 2,089 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently checking one of my paper for similarity. However, TURNITIN checked the similarity against the papers present in student repository in its database. Surprisingly, the paper which matched 72% from the student rep is the same one which I had checked few days back. Now, the similarit... |
2016/05/07 | 522 | 2,164 | <issue_start>username_0: Other than obvious aspects such as being legible, clear, and understandable (at least in theory) are there any mainstream conventions for flowcharts in research papers? I'm talking about scientific based flowcharts which give an overview of the entire thrust of the paper.
For instance:
[, I emailed her abo... |
2016/05/12 | 510 | 2,222 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a list of libraries which are included in the Scopus database?
I am working in the field of Human Computer Interaction and searching for a list of included libraries (e.g. ACM, AIS and so on).<issue_comment>username_1: I don't think Scopus manages their indexing by what you call "Lib... |
2016/05/12 | 1,179 | 4,678 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it right practice to place "Dr." before name of PhD degree holder? What is reason for placing such "Doctor" label before name?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, this is the right practice.
A PhD degree is a "Doctor of Philosophy", and the appropriate formal title for that is "Doctor". That the... |
2016/05/12 | 391 | 1,627 | <issue_start>username_0: I see people here often use the term 'top-tier' when referring to journals/conferences. Is it used to refer to the top publications in terms of metrics like the impact factor? Or is it used to refer to venues which are traditionally highly-regarded but not necessarily having high impact factors... |
2016/05/12 | 391 | 1,632 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the difference between bursary, scholarship and fellowship funding?
Is a fellowship more prestigious than a scholarship which in turn is more prestigious than a bursary?<issue_comment>username_1: These three terms essentially mean the same thing. Bursary is the term for scholarship use... |
2016/05/12 | 3,246 | 14,029 | <issue_start>username_0: Often while reading a paper, I will see a citation that that seems more relevant than my current one. I'll switch to the new paper, only to experience a similar feeling. Or maybe I need to look something up on Wikipedia. An hour later, I'll still feel as if I didn't really **digest** anything. ... |
2016/05/12 | 897 | 3,703 | <issue_start>username_0: What concerns/worries a potential PhD supervisor might have when he/she sees an application from someone who already has a PhD and applying for the second one? The fields of study are distantly related (engineering - physics).
What questions should be addressed in the initial letter by the app... |
2016/05/12 | 1,993 | 8,213 | <issue_start>username_0: First, my question is **not** about how to write a good a paper, since there are already many guidelines on the internet, e.g. [this one](http://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/paper-writing.html).
What often happens to me is: I designed algorithm, did all the experiments, and got good results. N... |