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2016/08/04 | 1,548 | 6,322 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergrad student working at a large research hospital over the summer. My research has been making very good progress; my PI has implied that we are likely to ultimately publish it.
My abstract was selected for a prestigious oral presentation (fewer than 10% of [not exclusively undergra... |
2016/08/05 | 389 | 1,746 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student getting ready to apply for graduate school in a few months. I have worked in two jobs in Physics (my desired field), one in experimental and one theoretical. At each job I have at least two people willing to provide reference letters, and I believe all of them woul... |
2016/08/05 | 2,501 | 10,939 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m currently doing my masters in chemical engineering in a relatively unknown university here in the Philippines. For my master’s thesis, I am planning to theoretically model transport processes of spray drying of nutraceuticals. Neither my advisor nor any other professors here are experts on ... |
2016/08/05 | 825 | 3,511 | <issue_start>username_0: My coauthor and I work at some organization. After I started working with him, people told me that he allegedly took some data (used in the paper) from the organization without authorization (He was let go from the organization.)
I received a letter from the organization stating that he indee... |
2016/08/05 | 2,155 | 9,540 | <issue_start>username_0: A follow up to [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/73544/41631) question.
There is an issue in science with experiments not being repeated. I asked if PhDs can be done on repeating experiments and the answer is kind of mixed. Most PhDs aren't that. I don't suspect that professors repea... |
2016/08/05 | 924 | 3,956 | <issue_start>username_0: I started a new job a month ago, the first one after my PhD employment. Recently, a conference organizer invited an established researcher from our group to give a talk at their conference. The researcher was not available at that date, but suggested that I hold the talk, which the organizer ac... |
2016/08/05 | 1,700 | 6,997 | <issue_start>username_0: I am submitting a manuscript to a journal. I wish to exclude a colleague from being the reviewer of the manuscript. The journal has a single blind review: authors are known, reviewers are anonymous.
Question in short: The reason for this exclusion request are personal (see below), and I'm not ... |
2016/08/05 | 923 | 3,715 | <issue_start>username_0: I got into a fully funded PhD program and accepted it. Somewhere along the line, my decision to attend grad school changed. My problem is that orientation week is in two weeks and I have not retracted my commitment.
I am afraid of what the outcome may be. My potential advisor was so nice to me... |
2016/08/05 | 2,425 | 10,325 | <issue_start>username_0: I just checked out my office. It looks like a dungeon. There are no windows. It is kind of cramped. Everything looks kind of industrial. I don't think I would like to study/work there. There are other places in the math building that look like much less depressing places to work such as the mat... |
2016/08/05 | 2,018 | 8,275 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to obtain a bachelor's degree without attending a university? I'm talking about passing some kind of test or series of tests to prove my knowledge. I'm not asking about buying a fake degree or anything related to that. Is there a name for this type of procedure/way of obtaining a... |
2016/08/07 | 2,010 | 8,161 | <issue_start>username_0: Professors in my department frown upon students working (part-time or full-time) during their MSc or PhD. Even extra TA hours are looked down upon...
The rent on-campus is ~$950/month and we are paid ~$18000/year. So there is enough money BUT the on-campus housing is very limited so students u... |
2016/08/07 | 442 | 1,896 | <issue_start>username_0: I have have a BA in Visual Arts and quite literally hate my field to death and back and want to pursue engineering. The problem is that, since I have a BA already, I can't get into JC classes I need to transfer back into a 4 year(all the math classes) since my priority is dead last and unchange... |
2016/08/07 | 834 | 3,381 | <issue_start>username_0: I am submitting an SPIE journal article. In between references to figure 5 and figure 6, I reference figure 14 (which appears in a much further section) as an example of something specific. One of my reviewers has complained that it breaks the ordering of the figures. I could, of course, insert... |
2016/08/07 | 693 | 2,999 | <issue_start>username_0: *Note that the difference between this question and a related question ([Recently published paper does not cite my very relevant work](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49208/recently-published-paper-does-not-cite-my-very-relevant-work)) is that the authors in my question are **fully... |
2016/08/07 | 1,920 | 8,728 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently doing Physics undergrad at a first tier university. Due to my previous experience in Mathematics and slightly advanced age (five years my classmates' senior) I look at my classmates from a different perspective, and am honestly slightly disturbed.
Despite having received a class... |
2016/08/07 | 480 | 2,051 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received a postdoc offer from a world famous university (ranking ~ 60 worldwide) early June and accepted the offer via email. The university helped me applied for the visa an I have obtained the visa. The hardcopy of the contract, however, has not been signed. in early Aug. I received an... |
2016/08/07 | 393 | 1,734 | <issue_start>username_0: In Europe, is it common practice to ask an external member of your PhD committee to be a reference on a resume for job applications?<issue_comment>username_1: If I understand correctly, you are talking about whether to include certain references on your CV (and not about who to ask to write a r... |
2016/08/08 | 510 | 2,203 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a good, reputable preprint service that is used in the environmental and earth sciences, and considered acceptable by the major publishers? Many journals specifically state that it is okay to submit a paper that has been uploaded to arXiv and I would like to take advantage of that, how... |
2016/08/08 | 736 | 2,738 | <issue_start>username_0: One way of identifying influential researchers in a field is to rank researchers by their h-index.
I found only a list of researchers ranked by h-index for those with very high h-indices ( >40). However, I cannot see the ranking researchers that are under this number.
Is there a way to get a ... |
2016/08/08 | 1,218 | 5,380 | <issue_start>username_0: Some journals require the author to propose potential reviewers. Should I just propose reviewers and let the editor contact them? Or should I first contact the potential reviewers myself and ask if they agree?<issue_comment>username_1: I never asked them and never heard of anybody doing so. It’... |
2016/08/08 | 504 | 2,260 | <issue_start>username_0: I am completing my first postdoc and I had a pretty bad experience with my current adviser. I finally got to publish something, contribute in a grant writing etc., but overall it hasn't been great...
Now, I am going to start a new postdoctoral appointment under the supervision of a faculty I ... |
2016/08/08 | 773 | 3,076 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand why people mention the grant agency, but what's the point in specifying the grant number in a paper's acknowledgments?
[Examples](http://aclweb.org/anthology/N15-1):
>
> The authors acknowledge
> the support of the U.S. Army Research Office under
> *grant number W911NF-10-1-05... |
2016/08/09 | 2,377 | 9,773 | <issue_start>username_0: [<NAME>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming), in one of his talks about research, said that scientists have to put up with stress, and he talked about his ulcers (and he was amongst other things a mathematician). I thought mathematical research should be mostly thinking / living a li... |
2016/08/09 | 684 | 3,289 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a PhD student in computational social science, and I feel like my work doesn't really contribute positively to humanity. Basically I feel like I am running analyses and producing plots to "prove a point" or (optimistically) discover new insights about the world. But I'm not actua... |
2016/08/09 | 397 | 1,813 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say that some person has a Ph.D. in mathematics and several publications in peer-reviewed journals. After that he worked several years in another field (not directly related to mathematics). Now he is thinking about returning to mathematics. The downside is that:
1. he doesn't have any t... |
2016/08/09 | 196 | 740 | <issue_start>username_0: I am intending to write a journal paper for Elsevier Gait & Posture publication, but so far I found contradictory answers to the above question.<issue_comment>username_1: Check the journal's guidelines. Different Elsevier journals have different preferences. Some are happy with either American ... |
2016/08/09 | 1,548 | 6,591 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a mathematician. In my subject, the normal means of disseminating research is to write it up with full and detailed proofs of the main results, which are then typically subjected to a rigourous peer-review process which can often take several years.
Much of my work, however, has an overl... |
2016/08/10 | 1,830 | 7,337 | <issue_start>username_0: For instance, one of my professors went to Princeton (for his undergrad math degree) for free, because his parents are tenured faculty at Princeton. Is such a benefit available to tenured faculty at most U.S. universities? This is assuming that a tenured professor's children are qualified to be... |
2016/08/10 | 1,482 | 6,349 | <issue_start>username_0: I am submitting a a paper to a top conference and I need to determine the reviewers with conflicts of interests.
There is a big competition in having papers accepted at this conference, among people working in this area. Also, it is very likely that my paper goes to people who are in the same... |
2016/08/10 | 423 | 1,848 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my thesis and am quite far already. However, I have discovered a paper now which troubles me quite a bit, as it pretty much destroys everything I am arguing for (and very convincingly so!). I know that this would not be so bad, had the paper been published only recently. ... |
2016/08/10 | 808 | 3,352 | <issue_start>username_0: In the various projects I've worked on, professors have insisted that a writeup for a journal submission should state and prove only the *final* results (rather than describe the process of arriving at those results). I see how this makes things concise, but it seems to obscure the process of d... |
2016/08/11 | 1,540 | 6,943 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently completed a course where a very large assignment was handed in just before the exam. After the course finished, we were never given feedback on this assignment. I am very frustrated about this because, even though I can see my grade and that I did well, it means nothing to me--I... |
2016/08/11 | 670 | 3,012 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper accepted as an oral presentation at a conference that has an acceptance rate of 3.5 %. My field is computer vision and the conference is CVPR, the largest and most important international conference. In my field, conferences, rather than journals, are the main publication medium.... |
2016/08/11 | 1,268 | 5,414 | <issue_start>username_0: A common interview question is "What is your greatest weakness?". Having done some online research on this, there are lots of articles on how to tackle this with generic job interviews, and the idea is to turn a negative into a positive. Some examples have been: "I'm not great at public speakin... |
2016/08/11 | 685 | 2,807 | <issue_start>username_0: I am considering trying to publish in an established Elsevier journal. I like the idea of having free available science.
As there is no fundings in my project for golden open Access, I researched a bit on the Elsevier page. The journal [Remote Sensing of Environment](https://www.elsevier.com/j... |
2016/08/11 | 375 | 1,633 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an idea that I would like to publish. However, the idea is so simple that basically everyone in the field could reproduce the experiment that shows its benefit within a day or so.
What can I do to ensure that my idea is not stolen during the review process by a reviewer, for example?
I... |
2016/08/11 | 919 | 3,785 | <issue_start>username_0: **[Long]**
I have been working in a very well known university in India. I am a faculty member in the department of Computer Science. My appointment to the university is somewhat temporary given the condition I have to finish my PhD within *x*-years (Please ignore *x* for the time). If I can n... |
2016/08/12 | 510 | 2,077 | <issue_start>username_0: I will travel to a conference at which I will present my work. My funder usually reimburses me for fees of conference registration, travel, and accommodation.
However, since my wife and kids will accompany me, I will book separate travel tickets for them, and a family room, which is usually mo... |
2016/08/12 | 2,789 | 10,584 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is about German academic system, but I would also like to know the situation world-wide.
Any research/educational institution strives (at least in theory) to produce scientific output of **high standards**. This is the motivation to introduce some kind of internal review for all t... |
2016/08/12 | 609 | 2,516 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I was talking with a professor in my department about potential supervision of my Master's thesis.
The problem is, he holds regular meetings with his research group, but he intends to supervise me separately, so I will be isolated and not have access to group meetings or anything re... |
2016/08/12 | 565 | 2,350 | <issue_start>username_0: Is a Lecturer in the UK or Europe considered pretty much the same as an Assistant Professor in the US, considering the fact that this Lecturer position involves teaching, research and service?
Do Indian institutions (IIT/IIIT/NIT) consider the experience as a Lecturer in Europe or the UK equiv... |
2016/08/13 | 1,708 | 7,445 | <issue_start>username_0: I supervise a few undergraduates doing independent study and internships in Computer Science. Some of their tasks are to assist me with various back-burner research projects. I can offer them college credit in exchange for their work. However, their labor is difficult to utilize. Their commitme... |
2016/08/13 | 725 | 3,303 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper on an engineering topic. We have an experimentally validated simpler model.
Questions:
1. The current paper extends the previous model for a more complex problem and explores the area numerically. Is it necessary to always include experimental validation for a numerical m... |
2016/08/13 | 5,059 | 18,619 | <issue_start>username_0: **Definitions**: Basic science is [research conducted without immediate applications in mind](https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1953/annualreports/ar_1953_sec6.pdf). It is driven by the ["curiosity [...] to expand [humanity's] knowledge, not to create or invent something."](http://www.sjsu.edu/people/fr... |
2016/08/13 | 382 | 1,752 | <issue_start>username_0: In the paper that I am writing, I am only showing some results from a more rigorous/full-scale study. So as to highlight the importance of the results in the new paper, I am thinking of including one or two statements which state the full results that we have obtained (not published).
However,... |
2016/08/14 | 2,225 | 9,153 | <issue_start>username_0: A couple of months ago I finished my masters in computer science. A few days a go the following happened.
My main supervisor wrote an abstract of results from my thesis. He put me as the first author along with the two others, and himself.Then he sent a group email informing that the abstract ... |
2016/08/14 | 1,413 | 5,479 | <issue_start>username_0: Do academic peer reviewers receive any salary?
If yes, what is the annual average?<issue_comment>username_1: The vast majority not a cent, of whatever currency (see [this answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/75163/20058) for exceptions).
Peer reviewers are asked to volunteer, and they ... |
2016/08/14 | 1,410 | 5,808 | <issue_start>username_0: Country: Looking for answers for US/Canada/UK/Germany, ideally Canada.
Subject: bioinformatics
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I am starting a bioinformatics MSc degree in a biology department of my university (no bioinformatics dept exists).
Until this point, I've talked mostly with grad students pursuing biology deg... |
2016/08/14 | 306 | 1,325 | <issue_start>username_0: I have worked at a processing facility for three years as the head of the shipping department. Last week, when my time with the company came to a close, my supervisor wrote a letter of recommendation and asked me to refer any future employers to him. He assured me that he would give them glowin... |
2016/08/15 | 413 | 1,786 | <issue_start>username_0: Can we use a technique (equations and approach) from a journal paper in one section of our paper if we cite it like this: "Method X has been adopted from [Y], modified, and used in this paper"?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> Method X has been adopted from [Y], modified, and used in this paper
>... |
2016/08/15 | 1,034 | 4,570 | <issue_start>username_0: I have completed experimental research on a novel topic. I was the instigator of the direction of the research and the one to find the results. Then, theoretical work was performed to support my experiments. While the theory confirmed all my work, there was nothing original or new in the theore... |
2016/08/15 | 1,071 | 4,669 | <issue_start>username_0: I was a PhD student in a Japanese graduate school until March 2015 when my professor retired. Just before I submitted my thesis and it got rejected by one vote. Indeed there were 30+ voters, of whom only 6 attended my open defense and one of them was a professor who hated my professor. He succe... |
2016/08/15 | 645 | 2,837 | <issue_start>username_0: I have published two research works in Q1 and Q2 journals, working as a research assistant (co-author). I am wondering whether the published work increases my chances of acceptance for a master's program, if all other factors are good but not exceptional. The two works improved the state-of-the... |
2016/08/15 | 1,390 | 5,953 | <issue_start>username_0: Out of 9 applications to graduate schools ranked in the top 25 according to US News, I was accepted to only one PhD program in Electrical Engineering, and just barely (see note below). According to my GPA, GRE scores, letters of recommendation, and previous relevant research/industry experience... |
2016/08/15 | 1,200 | 4,976 | <issue_start>username_0: Could removing outliers be called cherrypicking data? Because, to run some tests, outliers have to be removed. And they even turn up unexpectedly ruining good data.
I still haven't yet started acquiring data for my project. Still collecting samples. I've heard a senior say that he removes them... |
2016/08/15 | 479 | 1,998 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm editing a PhD dissertation and found that the author reused sections of his paper such as Methodology in Chapter 1 and Chapter 4. It seems that his Chapter 1 is a synthesis of the succeeding 3 chapters, so parts from those chapters were just repeated in Chapter 1. Is this acceptable?<issue_... |
2016/08/15 | 600 | 2,499 | <issue_start>username_0: My Master's Thesis title will be something like "*The clinical use of robots for individuals with X disorder*" but I was actually researching perception of individuals with X disorder towards robots in a clinical setting. I needed to explain what is the aim of my research so I indeed wrote abou... |
2016/08/16 | 3,808 | 16,105 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a TA teaching a class this fall for the first time. I've taught before, but never this class, and never felt an obligation to tell my students it's my first time teaching a given class. But, being a bit more experienced I thought it might be a good idea this time by perhaps endearing me to ... |
2016/08/16 | 539 | 2,218 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to an applied-mathematics journal in May 2015, and the first round review took a bit more than seven months. I only received one referee report (there would usually be two), which was generally positive. I submitted the revised draft in mid January 2016, and it is “under rev... |
2016/08/16 | 770 | 3,132 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I meet a scholar at my university or some other institute, who is a famous person known for his or her work. and I ask questions related to the subject I am working on, and I get some answers or other useful information. Ethically, can I cite this meeting in my paper or not? (Provided I... |
2016/08/16 | 176 | 753 | <issue_start>username_0: We developed a new method to calculate a characteristic value from measurement data. In my thesis I call the existing method 'Original Method'. However, I am not sure how to name our new method. 'Current Method'? 'Present Method'?
Is there an established standard for this?<issue_comment>userna... |
2016/08/16 | 455 | 2,031 | <issue_start>username_0: Job applications typically require the applicant to describe their research interests (research statements). Would it be a worry that an applicant's work-in-progress/current interests would inspire similar works from the reviewer's side? If so, is it wise to describe these ideas, or better avoi... |
2016/08/16 | 481 | 2,158 | <issue_start>username_0: I have found an R Package written up that does exactly what is required but cannot figure out a bug that has presented itself. I have gone through the code and source code for the function and cannot figure out the problem. The authors' emails were included in the documentation. Is it inappropr... |
2016/08/16 | 1,681 | 7,139 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I received a rejection to my submission of an article to a journal. Despite three positive reviews, an additional reviewer wrote a short response with an example to claim that a proof in my paper was wrong. The editor claimed to "carefully" check the example and for this reason rejecte... |
2016/08/16 | 410 | 1,848 | <issue_start>username_0: I just received the reviews of a paper I submitted. The paper was reviewed by three anonymous reviewers, two of the reviews provided valuable insight suggestions and comments. However, the third reviewer just copied text from the paper. Should I care about what the third reviewer did?<issue_com... |
2016/08/16 | 1,058 | 4,436 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a researcher, and I want to scrape a website (specifically, TripAdvisor) to collect data in order to use it for a research project. However, in reading the website's [terms & conditions](https://www.tripadvisor.com/pages/terms.html), I found that the company prohibits the user from:
>
> ... |
2016/08/16 | 1,066 | 4,428 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background**: I started a PhD in a CS-oriented field about 8 months ago, after completing my masters. At the very start, I was given a lot of duties besides my PhD project, such as responsibility for several of our servers, various software and hardware, user accounts, etc. I also serve as a ... |
2016/08/16 | 1,273 | 5,243 | <issue_start>username_0: Last semester I chose 12 credits, but the department said it can only pay for 9 credits, i.e. I have to pay for the extra 3 credits by myself.
No one ever told me about such rules before. I thought the tuition fees for phd students are just a fiction/imaginary/symbolic number. Is there anyone... |
2016/08/16 | 1,045 | 4,531 | <issue_start>username_0: My school and my department has a lot of undergraduate students from China. When I took this instructor's class, he routinely
1. pressured the foreign students to answer questions about their home country that they weren't comfortable answering. (This is a math department; his questions weren'... |
2016/08/17 | 889 | 4,065 | <issue_start>username_0: If one graduate at a developing country which lack highly ranked professors, how much weight should be expected to be given from Oxford University to recommendation letters for a Dphil? Do they weight it as much as letters of students with famous letters from famous professors? Are students wit... |
2016/08/17 | 224 | 958 | <issue_start>username_0: I Submitted a paper 2 months ago, the current status is "With Editor" and the status date of the manuscript (from With Editor to With Editor!) has been changed twice. What does it mean?<issue_comment>username_1: I would not deduce anything from this. Most likely the system changes the date when... |
2016/08/17 | 2,872 | 11,979 | <issue_start>username_0: Would it be rude to email a famous professor asking for a recommendation letter to Dphil, if I had published in a high or moderately high ranking journal in her/his field and just have letters from foreign unknown professors?
The professor does not know me apart from the published paper. *Inf... |
2016/08/17 | 1,327 | 5,675 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in engineering and I was warned by a colleague years ago that I should not cite materials on arXiv because they are not peer reviewed. Although it was never clear to me what peer reviewed meant because the papers on there seemed to be well maintained and the ones I have came across has b... |
2016/08/17 | 523 | 2,352 | <issue_start>username_0: Some time ago, I worked as a teaching assistant in a college. That college had an online form for collecting student feedback. After the end of the year, they sent me an official letter with my final "teaching grade" and the verbal feedback, both of which are very good.
Now, I am near the end ... |
2016/08/17 | 491 | 1,769 | <issue_start>username_0: How am I supposed to provide US Universities during my application process a GPA if there is no official way to convert a 1.6 (German grade) to US GPA ?
I have tried to find a ressource but every website sais something else and there is no official conversion table.
Do the admission offices c... |
2016/08/17 | 1,086 | 4,709 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning to attend a prestigious conference in computer science. The registration fees are very high (~150$ per day). I'm presenting as well, but on a co-located event directly after the main conference.
I don't know whether my university will fund my registration fee for the whole confere... |
2016/08/18 | 439 | 1,900 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for study in a particular area of math.
To keep matters short , I was an undergraduate that took the graduate version of a particular class and ended up with a B+ . I had never taken any class on the topic before this.
The department received several complaints about the professo... |
2016/08/18 | 664 | 2,788 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received a Japanese government scholarship for research and masters degree. While I originally thought it would be easy to get in touch with a professor after having received the scholarship, it's proven to be more difficult than I expected.
Do you have any suggestions?<issue_comment>us... |
2016/08/18 | 676 | 2,992 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been collaborating on a project with a researcher in another field (I am being vague on purpose here in case they read this), which so far has pretty much gone nowhere. I've done a few preliminary calculations, though, and they want to publish them - I suspect they are under pressure to up... |
2016/08/18 | 567 | 2,277 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently meet someone attended a US school still using the quarter system.
Most of the country uses semesters, and I've heard several theories as to why, the most popular being that the semester system is easier for university to administrate. I've also heard it is so the university breaks w... |
2016/08/18 | 1,987 | 8,425 | <issue_start>username_0: After reading some the posts here about graduate admissions for PhD/masters in mathematics in different countries, it seems like the requirements are quite a lot higher than what I have in my country. Just for clarification, in my university (the Open University of Israel), there's no undergrad... |
2016/08/18 | 1,628 | 6,945 | <issue_start>username_0: I've always wanted to study abroad simply because I believe knowledge expands a person's world view. However, I've not been able to find a program that I can fit into.
I had my undergraduate degree in Economics, which I really didn't find interesting, I enjoyed and can still recall after five... |
2016/08/19 | 2,239 | 9,513 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 2nd year PhD student in Germany. I am working on computational mechanics. It is on modeling the mechanical behavior of a composite coating. My background is metallurgical engineering. When I had started with the research, I was very interested in the field. It's a field which was a hot r... |
2016/08/19 | 306 | 1,188 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it acceptable or appropriate to use fonts, i.e bold, italic, in an email to an academic in order to do emphasise or organise the text ?
or would it be perceived as offensive ?<issue_comment>username_1: I think this cartoon answers best your question
[, it says Figure S3A at two places. It's very embarrassing, should I write to the editor about this?<issue_comment>username_1: You should inform your coauthors, use t... |
2016/08/19 | 835 | 3,405 | <issue_start>username_0: What shall I do with a student who self-plagiarized large parts of one of his previous work (for another class and another professor) for my own assignment (without stating it)?
Is it fair, considering he obviously chose to work on the same topic but without telling me that it was the case? I... |
2016/08/19 | 1,227 | 5,110 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to finish the 2nd year of my PhD and have been working in a field which is not the major research area of my PI. He promised there will be industrial involvement and collaboration with other professors so I agreed to work on this field, thought I have only a little bit background in ... |
2016/08/19 | 955 | 3,999 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a pure math (geometry/topology-oriented) PhD student at a top-level American university. I recently got interested in machine learning and read the recent papers. Unfortunately, machine learning will never need the mathematics I'm currently studying. There are some branches of machine learn... |
2016/08/19 | 2,683 | 11,021 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Background
A year ago I gave up on my (first attempt at getting a) PhD because I could not stand the needed time management. I am a mosaic autist but I do live with it without major issues. My only apparent problem is that I get emotional very quickly at anything that goes differently than... |
2016/08/20 | 368 | 1,603 | <issue_start>username_0: I am non-US citizen and I want to apply for an academic position in the USA.
At which point do I need to show up a language certificate? For example, together with the job application, or together with the visa application?<issue_comment>username_1: Normally TOEFL is required for admissions in... |
2016/08/20 | 324 | 1,326 | <issue_start>username_0: The code work for my master thesis is copied from a textbook.
Is it legal to copy the entire code from the textbook?
Can I write in my documentation that this project is solely developed by me?
I can mention the author of the textbook in my references.<issue_comment>username_1: You may be a... |
2016/08/20 | 785 | 3,412 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to use data mining to analyze some websites to understand the impact of the internet on health awareness and health concerns of people in my country. I hope to publish the results in a journal.
When do I need consent from websites owners? I may end up analyzing hundreds of websites.<iss... |
2016/08/20 | 681 | 2,676 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently close to finishing my first paper in a PhD degree (applied maths). I have a supervisory team of 4 academics, 1 of which is the designated main supervisor.
My problem is that in reality, **all** of my work for this paper has been in collaboration with only one of the supervisors (... |
2016/08/20 | 591 | 2,375 | <issue_start>username_0: Would students who drop out before they take any exam be blacklisted by the (prestigious) university?
Especially if those students have shown a resentment and a disagreement with the arrangement of the academic program they're enrolled in.
Or is it normal to be contacted by the university inc... |
2016/08/21 | 955 | 4,009 | <issue_start>username_0: There has been plenty of discussion on the basic issue of students [self-plagiarizing from one course to another](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/75461/student-self-plagiarism) as well as academics [self-plagiarizing prior but unpublished material in a later publication](https://ac... |
2016/08/21 | 472 | 2,059 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a telecommunication graduate (Bachelors holder) and currently getting my master degree"completed one semester" .
I am working on a project and developed a new original idea and constructed multiple algorithms based on it, however my professors could not provide me with a feedback about t... |
2016/08/21 | 794 | 3,272 | <issue_start>username_0: I was asked this question, and did not think it was possible. Is it possible without an integrated degree (i.e., after a bachelor's)? I do not really know. **If so, how?**
I mean for the US, but don't take that as limiting your answer (if from the UK or elsewhere).<issue_comment>username_1: H... |