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2016/05/13 | 1,173 | 4,946 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/60576/can-i-as-a-reviewer-tell-authors-to-get-a-native-english-speaker-to-proofread) on suggesting someone get a native speaker to edit and check. But my situation is rather different.
Several colleagues and I wrote an art... |
2016/05/13 | 1,501 | 6,485 | <issue_start>username_0: It seems to me that there is a preoccupation within academia to getting published in venues which are highest-ranked in terms of some sort of metrics rather than venues most suited to one’s subject area albeit not high-ranked.
It occurred to me that any reason for this must be self-serving. I ... |
2016/05/13 | 633 | 2,720 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in life sciences. My PhD project's goal is to analyze specific data and to check a totally new idea in the field I am working in. This project is risky, however, very promising. With my supervisor, we planned all the studies and experiments before the start of the PhD, and he... |
2016/05/13 | 422 | 1,900 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a research article that has been accepted in reputed journal and is in final stage of publication. Now I want add acknowledgment in my article, as I independently written this article so nobody has academically contributed to my research. But I strongly believe that my research could bee... |
2016/05/13 | 423 | 1,713 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to visit certain laboratories at *Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITECH)* when I go to Japan three weeks from now to get a feel for the research they do and if I would be a good Master's candidate for their labs.
My advisor has offered to contact the professors directly so as to give my... |
2016/05/14 | 295 | 1,315 | <issue_start>username_0: I have come across working papers in economics. I have seen 'papers in progress' listed on some researchers website but have never seen the idea of working paper as is common in economics. Just curious if this is practiced in some sub branch or was used at some point of time in history.<issue_c... |
2016/05/14 | 1,060 | 4,237 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a PhD viva next week and have (very) recently that my examiner has no knowledge of the UK viva system
My first question is what is the PhD defense failure rate in Canada? (I'm not sure if I really want to know this).
How much weight is put on the defence in Canada?
Is there anything... |
2016/05/14 | 927 | 4,035 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to submit a paper in these days. I dedicated to it a lot of time, and a lot of effort to check that all the theoretical results in it are correct. Anyway, I am still afraid of having written something wrong without even realizing it, as the deadline is very sharp.
So my question is:... |
2016/05/14 | 489 | 2,096 | <issue_start>username_0: For a course with a final exam, is it more common to: (a) require that the final exam be passed to pass the course, or (b) allow for a student to fail the final exam and still pass the course?
How could we estimate the relative proportion of the two policies? If someone argued that case (a) w... |
2016/05/14 | 1,540 | 6,645 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a M.Sc. student in Machine Learning, about to finish my thesis this month. My advisor wants me to meet him in person to reproduce my results under his control. It is obvious that the main reason for this action is to be confident that I didn't manipulate the diagrams, etc.
I didn't do any... |
2016/05/14 | 769 | 3,312 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently reviewed a paper that made some very strong claims that were *not* supported by the data. However, it was much more than that. These claims were so extreme that that were actively misleading: e.g., "The present results represent the most important findings in personality psychology t... |
2016/05/15 | 838 | 3,089 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a PhD dissertation that contains two main themes/topics. These topics are fairly different from each other, but they do have (some!) common threads.
Within each theme, I have two rather related sub-themes. Each sub-theme is substantial enough to form a chapter.
How should I stru... |
2016/05/15 | 478 | 2,213 | <issue_start>username_0: It seems that for PhD programs the research is more important but, which is more important for masters programs?<issue_comment>username_1: Undergraduate GPA will normally matter more. If you have contributed to a research paper as an undergrad, but your GPA is very low then it may look like you... |
2016/05/15 | 493 | 2,254 | <issue_start>username_0: I've got admission for MS in Computer Science in a US university. Which option is better Non-thesis or thesis ? How do I decide which one I should take ?<issue_comment>username_1: Undergraduate GPA will normally matter more. If you have contributed to a research paper as an undergrad, but your ... |
2016/05/15 | 352 | 1,457 | <issue_start>username_0: Does all definitions need a reference? Is there any rules to when you need one(or more) and when you don't?<issue_comment>username_1: You need to make crystal clear what is your contribution and what isn't. In general, all definitions that are not your contribution need the proper reference.
I... |
2016/05/15 | 619 | 2,723 | <issue_start>username_0: BACKGROUND
I was previously an engineering PhD student but I left the program. I was really too inexperienced for the commitment of a PhD. Further, my wife wanted me to leave and pursue an engineering job with a salary.
A while back I submitted an abstract to a relatively prestigious conferen... |
2016/05/16 | 1,910 | 7,967 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a rising second-year PhD student at a big state university in the US. I'm seeking advice regarding the possibility of disputing a grade received this past semester in one of my core PhD courses. Here's the background:
The course involved is one of the pre-qualifying exam courses we're expe... |
2016/05/16 | 2,244 | 9,140 | <issue_start>username_0: A bit of a controversial question here. I am a PhD student currently away from campus on an internship in another state (in the US). I left campus with my advisor-provided laptop and some dataset I collected while working in my advisor's lab. We had the mutual understanding that me taking the o... |
2016/05/16 | 1,248 | 4,704 | <issue_start>username_0: I study in the UK. I just received an email from the academic registrar of my university regarding my forthcoming graduation ceremony.
Contained within the email was this disclaimer:
>
> Please ensure that you have paid any outstanding study related fees and charges to the University no late... |
2016/05/16 | 959 | 4,292 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been contacted by an individual with a request to remove their name from an article our journal published two years ago. The individual was identified as a Culture and Foreign Language Advisor of the U.S. Army; their post location (city) was also mentioned. This person claims that the au... |
2016/05/16 | 397 | 1,529 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a 3-paged paper to a journal of MAA at November.
I did not get a responce from the editor until the fifth of May so I decided to send an e-mail to the editor to ask (in a very polite way) if my paper is still under review.
But, I still did not get an answer and now I am not su... |
2016/05/16 | 563 | 2,426 | <issue_start>username_0: As a graduate student, I often discuss the performance and abilities of undergraduates in very frank terms with fellow graduate students. However, I would never do so in front of other undergraduates. To do so seems clearly unprofessional. My question is, should faculty members have the same co... |
2016/05/16 | 1,123 | 4,457 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first-year psychology doctoral student (PsyD) and am forming my dissertation topic. I am having trouble finding a really good book or article that outlines the guts of what makes a good dissertation. Really understanding the core purpose of this requirement for my degree is important to ... |
2016/05/17 | 1,783 | 7,604 | <issue_start>username_0: BACKGROUND
I am attending an academic (engineering) conference where I am schedule to speak for my paper which was accepted, using MS PowerPoint/videos to assist my talk. This is my first conference. Currently I'm only bringing nice clothes and my lap top and the basics. Due to lack of money, ... |
2016/05/17 | 1,074 | 4,665 | <issue_start>username_0: **When corresponding with administrators and/or academics regarding graduate school/PhD applications, are there any guidelines about which e-mail address to use (personal vs. professional)?**
In the non-academic world, it should be fairly obvious that [you shouldn't use the address of your cur... |
2016/05/17 | 1,562 | 6,558 | <issue_start>username_0: How was funding of research done in the medieval universities?<issue_comment>username_1: A lot of research during the Middle Ages was funded through the patronage system. Scientist and other scholars would receive financial support from aristocratic families, royalty, and even from clergy. For ... |
2016/05/17 | 1,499 | 6,014 | <issue_start>username_0: I'll be starting as an adjunct professor soon at a smaller university, and I'm starting to prepare lectures and slides for teaching there.
In the future, I'm also thinking of publishing a textbook based on the lectures and slides I prepare.
I'm trying to find out who owns the copyright to th... |
2016/05/17 | 1,845 | 7,621 | <issue_start>username_0: In particular, besides the more obvious fact that your courses and qualifying exams are going to be in different fields, are there any subtler reasons to prefer one department over another? Some possible refinements of my question are:
1. Is there a significant difference in resources availabl... |
2016/05/17 | 1,413 | 5,873 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there mathematics seminars to attend in the summer, or do they typically only occur during the academic year? I am referring to American universities.
An idea I had last night was to YouTube some math seminars to see what talks I can watch quickly - talks are about an hour long. I found a ... |
2016/05/18 | 2,423 | 8,809 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any data for the average number of papers published per year by individuals at different career stages (ph.d. student, postdoc, tenure-track, tenured associate/full professor)? It would obviously be dependent on research areas and I also realize that such data may not be easy to obtain... |
2016/05/18 | 3,729 | 14,229 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently accepted into an applied math Ph.D. here in the U.S., and being the 1st in my family to graduate from university, I had a hard time explaining to them why my university will be spending close to 50k on me per year (stipend, tuition, health insurance, fees).
I know that I will be... |
2016/05/18 | 816 | 3,401 | <issue_start>username_0: The title says it all. One thing to mention though, is that I am not too bad - I have B+ marks. Another thing to mention is that a lot of my doing bad had to do with mental health and family in war.
I am not sure what to do now, I wanted to apply to top universities, but fear I am not competit... |
2016/05/18 | 490 | 2,094 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to withdraw authorship almost 2 years after the paper has been published in a journal? Reasons could be anything ranging from disagreement on data interpretation, new data contradictory to the original one, etc.<issue_comment>username_1: I wouldn't retract authorship, science is ... |
2016/05/19 | 1,243 | 4,995 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I submitted a research article in the journal ["Applied Mathematics and Computations"](http://www.journals.elsevier.com/applied-mathematics-and-computation) and fortunately my work got accepted with a very good response from reviewers.
However, I made the mistake of submitting this ... |
2016/05/19 | 1,047 | 4,662 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing my undergraduate thesis (~25 pages) on a computer program I've developed. Naturally, I'm expected to explain what the program does and how it is implemented. However, the algorithm is quite complex and I simply cannot afford to include a full description.
What do you think, should ... |
2016/05/19 | 1,723 | 6,270 | <issue_start>username_0: As some of you may already know, family names precede given names in Eastern Asian culture, and furthermore given names (e.g., `Lingfeng`) are more differentiable than family names (e.g., `Li`). This is quite the opposite of Western names.
As an Eastern Asian who just started my career in acad... |
2016/05/19 | 394 | 1,742 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor emailed me asking if he can work on trying to publish my masters thesis, with me being the first author. I have said yes, is it common for supervisors to approach students asking to publish students research?<issue_comment>username_1: There are in all likelihood differences betwee... |
2016/05/19 | 438 | 1,812 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a few papers that have already been accepted and published.
I recently signed up for an ORCID.
Is is possible to add my ORCID to these already published papers,
and if so, how do I do this?
**Response to comment**
Ideally, I would like my ORCID to be listed on the paper itself or on the... |
2016/05/19 | 501 | 2,197 | <issue_start>username_0: A paper on arXiv can have multiple versions. It is rather frequent (at least in math) that the first version and the latest version are even from different years. When citing such a paper, is it better to put in the year in which the paper was first published on arXiv, or the year of the latest... |
2016/05/19 | 1,013 | 4,324 | <issue_start>username_0: In my Master's thesis I use a theorem that is recent enough that I could find the article where it is proved, but I've actually learned the theorem and its proof in two books by other authors. Is it necessary to cite the original article, knowing that I haven't actually read it?<issue_comment>u... |
2016/05/19 | 2,120 | 9,080 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just finished my PhD thesis defense in applied mathematics. My supervisor suggested me the initial problem. He was not an expert in the small area that I was working, and thus the assistance from he was minimal. As we had so many disagreements in the research direction, our relationship ... |
2016/05/19 | 374 | 1,552 | <issue_start>username_0: If you're a writer and you pull other words from an author's work to apply to your own vocabulary and work, just words, not full on sentences, is that considered plagiarism? I'm trying to learn and improve as a writer so when I'm reading other books from other authors and come across words I've... |
2016/05/20 | 2,094 | 9,056 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not sure if this is the right StackExchange to post this kind of question. If not, I apologize.
I currently have a problem in choosing a undergraduate program to study. I am mainly interested in software engineering, life sciences and mathematics. As a result of this, I have bought multip... |
2016/05/20 | 1,440 | 5,774 | <issue_start>username_0: I saw an offer in a research group described as 'Research position at master 2 level'. Can anyone clarify for me what that means? Is it a 2nd masters or anything else? Does it always need a masters degree for applying (sorry, it's not clear in the requirement, that's why I am asking).<issue_com... |
2016/05/20 | 1,576 | 6,548 | <issue_start>username_0: My question stems from this paper: [An analysis on the validity of the lexicon required by GRE® test takers](http://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/faced/ojs/index.php/belt/article/view/10333).
According to the paper, "the great majority of these words are too infrequent to be deemed as useful to... |
2016/05/20 | 2,657 | 11,603 | <issue_start>username_0: Should the fact that a journal's editor is 'human' be a factor in submitting manuscripts?
Example - say I'm writing 4 manuscripts. The first three are 'bad' and the fourth is good. Then I submit them to the journal, one every 6 months or so. The first three will be rejected. But will they affe... |
2016/05/20 | 951 | 4,112 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent a paper to a top-tier computer-science conference, it was rejected and I got several useful suggestions for improvement. I improved the paper accordingly and I consider to submit it to the same conference in the following year. It is likely that the paper will be reviewed by the same ref... |
2016/05/20 | 874 | 3,721 | <issue_start>username_0: I think my advisor may have done this to me. Initially he hired a master's student to "help me" with the project and he told me I would be supervising him. But now he wants the master's student to work on core parts of the project, and he says that since I will be busy this summer, the master's... |
2016/05/20 | 635 | 2,613 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently contacted a professor whose field of study is something that I really want to work on. He replied, that frankly his lab was pretty full at the moment, but he'd love to hear about my plans for graduate school. Since I have already secured funding, I guess this does not automatically d... |
2016/05/21 | 2,111 | 8,555 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently finishing up a master's thesis in computer science/applied mathematics and have for the last few years been sure of my goals: to pursue a PhD.
The decision to do a PhD or not should largely be a function of your research potential. There's a lot of questions of the "am I good eno... |
2016/05/21 | 801 | 3,493 | <issue_start>username_0: Some journals let authors to suggest who should handle their submission. How should one choose the suggested editors? In my particular case, I struggled with selection because
* One of the possible choices was an editor who was one of my co-author's opponent when his dissertation was publicly ... |
2016/05/21 | 483 | 1,891 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my master's thesis, which contains a lot of equations and figures referred to in the text of the report. I use Latex for my writing thus making it easy to refer to the figure/equation numbers, but it is also possible to refer to the page on which the figure/equation is to... |
2016/05/22 | 1,248 | 5,223 | <issue_start>username_0: Assume the student
1. recently graduated but works nearby;
2. has not been my student for over 1 year;
3. has never expressed any interest in dating until very recently;
4. has a father who is a coworker at my institution (different department).<issue_comment>username_1: I guess it shouldn't b... |
2016/05/22 | 4,057 | 15,710 | <issue_start>username_0: There are many publications explaining advantages of spaced repetition. I found a summary of some of them [here](http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition).
While a lot of studies show many advantages of spaced repetition, it is not formally applied to higher education. Why is that?
**UPDATE 1... |
2016/05/22 | 419 | 1,852 | <issue_start>username_0: If a amateur researcher believes that he has a result (average result,not ground breaking result), what should he do to communicate an academic (who is a stranger)?
How should one approach?<issue_comment>username_1: There are some general facts to consider here. First, researchers are always b... |
2016/05/22 | 2,390 | 9,173 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just discovered that the (psychological) instrument I've been reading up on for my research team has never been, itself, published, though research into its validity and reliability etc has been; one of these research papers says in a footnote that the instrument and the manual are avail... |
2016/05/22 | 856 | 3,472 | <issue_start>username_0: I've finished my Bachelor thesis, and it's been a fairly independent work since it was a very niche topic that I didn't really have anybody to talk with about other than my advisor. I also don't want to thank any friends or family for "support", it seems a bit silly and melodramatic.
Almost a... |
2016/05/23 | 1,574 | 7,030 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been tasked with writing an exam for a student who wishes to receive credit-by-examination for an upper-level course in my department.1 While the department head suggested just using the final exam as the basis, I don't really think that works as it misses out on a lot of the material th... |
2016/05/23 | 1,436 | 5,911 | <issue_start>username_0: Here's my dilemma. I met a post-doc at a conference a while back, and told him about the project I was working on at the time, and he subsequently invited me to give a talk in a session at an upcoming (next week) conference. I accepted, since it was my first invitation to speak at a conference,... |
2016/05/23 | 1,171 | 5,144 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a matter of concern that a friend of mine has been dealing with for quite many many years. They have done much research on the topic using a lot of different online resources and have emailed numerous different universities all around the globe but still have not found an answer. Theref... |
2016/05/23 | 973 | 3,864 | <issue_start>username_0: Keeping the need for my sabbatical secret is not realistic. Finding a replacement instructor and delays in my research will cause inconvenience to multiple parties.
What steps can I take to reduce embarrassment and protect my reputation as much as possible? This request will surprise most peop... |
2016/05/23 | 582 | 1,923 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently graduated with the highest GPA in my undergraduate class of 350 students. My current CV reads -
GPA: 3.x/4 (Ranked 1st out of Undergraduate Class of 350 students)
However, this feels slightly forced and awkward. Is there any better way to write this?
Thanks!<issue_comment>username... |
2016/05/23 | 1,407 | 6,189 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach programming, and it is painful to watch my students slowly arrow around the screen, backspace over something, then retype it. It would take less than a second for him to have grabbed his mouse, double-clicked the word and started typing the new word, all without looking down.
I taught ... |
2016/05/23 | 3,516 | 14,963 | <issue_start>username_0: **Instead of the typical 4 classes every 10 weeks, why not 2 classes every 5 weeks?**
Condensed courses usually means:
* Taking less courses at the same time which makes compartmentalization for memorization easier.
* You (typically) take the same course every day, thus actively refreshing th... |
2016/05/24 | 643 | 2,653 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my math professors (in a U.S. university) retired this semester. He was one person that I had planned on asking to write my letters of recommendation this coming fall semester, when I send out PhD applications in math / applied math.
He is very old and he seems anti-social and seems to ... |
2016/05/24 | 447 | 1,788 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's assume that 10 empirical studies have been done for topic x. If I want to mention the following: Several studies have been conducted to deal with topic x (study 1; study 2; study 3).
My question: when I mention the word 'several', am I obligated to cite ALL the 10 empirical studies in th... |
2016/05/24 | 1,147 | 4,863 | <issue_start>username_0: to give a stupid example of a rounding error: on a test, the student is asked to calculate the circumference of a circle with radius 6.2. You personally did the math with π rounded to 3.14 and calculated 38.936, but one of your students rounded to 3.14159, and because of that their result is 38... |
2016/05/24 | 733 | 3,175 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in my first year of a PhD programme in the UK. In this year of the programme we do a few short projects with different supervisors and then choose a supervisor and project for the next 3 years.
My current supervisor is fantastic - I work really well with him and he also thinks highly of me... |
2016/05/24 | 480 | 2,058 | <issue_start>username_0: If I 'publish' something online -say on my blog as a blog article, or on my website as a pdf for people do download it and give me feedback- will it then be less attractive to publishers to take that on? Am I shooting myself in the foot?
**background for anyone who is interested:**
I wrote a ... |
2016/05/24 | 470 | 2,047 | <issue_start>username_0: I will talk about computer science.
Which is the difference between doing a research job in an industrial research lab (as Google, Facebook or microsoft Research) and in a university?
Looking at my field (artificial intelligence) I can see many big shots moving from university to private R&D ... |
2016/05/24 | 429 | 1,973 | <issue_start>username_0: My department is becoming more and more annoying by posting everything in Facebook group, from exam results, seminar schedule, to private information about students ( telephone numbers, addresses, emails, etc.)
I don't know how to explain them that I care about safety of personal information a... |
2016/05/24 | 890 | 3,665 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm doing an internship as a high school student in a lab and am wondering about etiquette in research/life. The problem is that I interrupted my supervisor while he was having a meeting to tell him someone from another country was on the phone (I know he regularly collaborates with researchers... |
2016/05/24 | 811 | 3,491 | <issue_start>username_0: I have my first supervision soon, but I don't really know what to talk about. I am working on a particular problem in the Humanities; my supervisor has given me a reading list, and well, I am currently working through it. I haven't come up with any novel ideas so far, but I also cannot think of... |
2016/05/24 | 779 | 3,035 | <issue_start>username_0: If I am creating lesson plans, do I need to cite the various websites I use for my work? It is for math, and the information I have used is found in thousands of sites. I have not taken any lesson plans, nor have I taken their math problems and claimed them as my own. I instead used the differe... |
2016/05/24 | 807 | 3,326 | <issue_start>username_0: I am considering a master's degree in Japan.
From a purely career oriented POV, I should be aiming for universities in the USA, Germany or Italy as these are the leading countries in my field. However, I have a great passion for Japanese culture and language. I have considered applying for th... |
2016/05/25 | 2,434 | 10,475 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to a master's programs right now and am in a bind.
My professor accused me of academic misconduct in one of my undergraduate classes. After I submitted my assignment I had asked a question on an online forum about an assignment and posted a short excerpt of my work. I was asking ... |
2016/05/25 | 1,015 | 4,017 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a non-French-speaking mathematician submitting an English paper to a French journal that requires a French abstract (but publishes papers in English). I don't think I know anyone I'd be comfortable asking for help.
I took at stab at a translation using a combination of Google Translate and... |
2016/05/25 | 655 | 2,209 | <issue_start>username_0: I need DOI number of the book with ISBN 9780723437512. There is a kindle edition so it should have some electronic identification.
---
How can you get DOI from ISBN?<issue_comment>username_1: [DOI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier) and [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/w... |
2016/05/25 | 4,156 | 18,175 | <issue_start>username_0: Rationally, I should not be concerned about building a well-designed academic website for myself. But academic websites are consistently so visually spare and poorly designed that I would feel like a peacock designing the site in any way. I don't mean anything crazy, maybe a web font or a non-`... |
2016/05/25 | 897 | 3,950 | <issue_start>username_0: During my master's studies, so far, I have taken quite many postgraduate-level courses (i.e. courses that are accepted as a PhD-level course for a PhD student at my university). Some of these courses were a part of my degree requirement, so I was obliged to take them, but few of them were my pe... |
2016/05/26 | 370 | 1,734 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc who has been supervising a Master's student, who is applying for a PhD. The application uses an online system, and I have been notified that I have been designated as a referee. In general, will this be entirely confidential, such that the student will never see the reference I h... |
2016/05/26 | 413 | 1,881 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted my manuscript to Journal of optics (IOP Publishing). Unfortunately,I noticed that I forgot to add one specific figure to the paper. The general quality of the manuscript is good. I was wondering if I would be able to add that figure maybe in the revision process. Do you thi... |
2016/05/26 | 1,102 | 4,425 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the level of work expected in the masters thesis of a student of maths?
I know some people's works are worthy of publications while some involve only studying some topic in detail from a book and submitting a summary (since this is akin to a couple of courses, a year worth of work, in ... |
2016/05/26 | 1,678 | 7,225 | <issue_start>username_0: For the last few months I have been tutoring a student in a university math course and they just received their finally course grade which numerically was a 78, but to my surprise the letter grade they received was a D. The letter grade they received was due to a grading policy along the lines ... |
2016/05/26 | 619 | 2,444 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student. A few years ago, I won the best paper award at a conference.
However, they didn't post the list of winners on the conference website.
But when I google the name of the conference, the very first search results include someone who already graduated and claims on his personal ... |
2016/05/26 | 624 | 2,326 | <issue_start>username_0: So I am really looking forward to participating in math REUs after sophomore and junior years in college, but I just noticed that since I am on a quarter system I will only be done with finals at around June 14-15ish. Most REUs I have seen start like June 6-7 and some even (say like Texas A&M) ... |
2016/05/26 | 665 | 2,607 | <issue_start>username_0: I have dozens of papers in Mendeley. Most are filled with post-it notes, what Mendeley calls "**private annotations**". Unfortunately, these are not searchable.
Mendeley users have been asking this feature for years. It still hasn't been implemented.
There is a workaround: exporting the artic... |
2016/05/27 | 1,299 | 5,372 | <issue_start>username_0: Just to be clear: no, I don't believe in the flat earth theory.
However, a few years ago, I thought that the flat earth society forum is a good place to practice my debating skills and to have fun. Therefore, I joined it and made an online id that's close to my real name to debate on the forum... |
2016/05/27 | 959 | 3,753 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student. My advisor is great, but like all academics is very busy (administrative duties, other students, research...).
What happens almost every time I try to have a meeting, since the beginning of my PhD, is the following:
* We set some date, say Thursday at 10AM.
* He isn't in h... |
2016/05/27 | 476 | 2,119 | <issue_start>username_0: How much budget do faculty members in US have to travel to conferences every year?
I am looking for the average travel support in CS or Engineetring departments (not out of my own contracts) across US top 100 schools, for tenured professors with accepted papers at conferences. Consider places... |
2016/05/27 | 503 | 2,204 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a PhD student in a EU country and recently I was advised to pursue a European Doctorate Programme.
I thought that, being "European", it was some kind of regulated, inter-country program with specific rules, but I cannot find any "official" documentation from any European institu... |
2016/05/27 | 275 | 1,228 | <issue_start>username_0: I am really needing help. There is a typo on my University Name, however the paper is already published. Is there any way to still change it? The paper has been published on ACM Platform.
I am very concerned about the reputation of my research with this minor typo. I spent a lot of effort to t... |
2016/05/27 | 928 | 4,015 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been asked to give a seminar at an other research center about my work. Specifically about a device which was installed in an experiment.
I have an early prototype of it (Size is about 20x5x2 cm). The prototype was and never will be installed and as such safe for people to touch it.
I wa... |
2016/05/27 | 287 | 1,247 | <issue_start>username_0: If I refer back to a cited source in the literature review while writing the discussion section, (undergrad dissertation) should I cite the author again or am I free to use the information that has already been cited?<issue_comment>username_1: Just cite the author again. It should be clear what... |
2016/05/27 | 688 | 2,964 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently began working as a research assistant (in the humanities), mainly helping a professor with a book she is editing and with lecture notes for a future course.
The problem is that it is sometimes very unclear to me what she wants me to do. For example, when communicating by mail (wh... |
2016/05/27 | 1,818 | 7,933 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student in the math sciences. I've written a few papers, each officially coauthored with my advisor, although essentially all of the research and writing was my own. The story is the same for my advisors' other students; they regularly coauthor papers with my advisor on which all the ... |
2016/05/28 | 422 | 1,752 | <issue_start>username_0: I go to a government-owned school that has certain policies regarding a student's speech, namely:
1. That speech shall not be discriminatory/offensive.
2. That on-campus protests take place only at a "Hyde Park" location in the student center.
Suppose I decide to form a protest and violate ru... |
2016/05/28 | 796 | 3,563 | <issue_start>username_0: On a few occasions, I was asked to review manuscripts (for well-known, mainstream journals) with a 2-3 month deadline.
I found this to be a short period given that the papers published in these journals showed about a one year difference between the dates when the papers were submitted and the... |
2016/05/28 | 684 | 2,822 | <issue_start>username_0: In an editorial on the topic of Sci-Hub, <NAME> (Editor-in-Chief of Science Journals) [lists a few reasons why Sci-Hub may be bad for scientists](http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6285/497.full?IntCmp=scihub-2-12). One of the drawbacks she lists is (emphasis mine):
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> Authors do not ... |
2016/05/28 | 654 | 2,917 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed lately the increase of conducting shared tasks, what are they and what is the rationale behind them? why do we need them since we already have workshops and conferences?<issue_comment>username_1: The rationale is to get a bunch of smart people together to actually solve or at least ma... |