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2017/01/06 | 626 | 2,858 | <issue_start>username_0: So, this just happened recently - I and my colleagues were cited in a scientific, peer reviewed paper (our article was published in a scientific journal as well). The author summarizes our findings (to a degree) and then concludes that because of two failures, we compromised the study's validit... |
2017/01/06 | 1,086 | 4,629 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that postdocs can be too busy to even sleep, but if we put this aside - would US school allow a postdoc (full time appointment) having his/her own business in spare time? If so, what kind of regulation is applied here? Also, would the mentor be annoyed/alerted by this kind of plann... |
2017/01/07 | 3,152 | 12,854 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished up a final exam right before the holidays, it was 10 questions, fully mathematically explained questions, and just after the holidays, I got an email from my professor saying that I am being investigated for cheating and have a meeting with my professor next week.
Apparently the guy... |
2017/01/07 | 1,599 | 5,888 | <issue_start>username_0: I have to write an Extended Essay as part of my IB diploma, and I'm writing mine on the episodic adventure game of *Life is Strange* as an English EE. One of the issues I've encountered during the writing process was citing the game correctly.
After consulting online sources, these are the two... |
2017/01/07 | 884 | 3,750 | <issue_start>username_0: This is the first time I use Stack Exchange. Here are my backgrounds. I am a first-generation poor male immigrant from China to America. None of my members have education beyond middle school. So they cannot help me. Because I was 19 years old, I was too old to go to high school. I attended a c... |
2017/01/07 | 656 | 2,783 | <issue_start>username_0: I received my bachelor's and master's degrees from university A. I was then supposed to do a PhD at university B in a different country but relocating did not work out (I did not start in the program). Some time later, I took a temporary research assistant position at university C. I was hoping... |
2017/01/07 | 1,612 | 7,023 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not used to writing covering letters for journal submissions, and I believe this is pretty standard in maths. However, I got into a conversation with a friend in biology, who said they expect to write about a page explaining why the paper is so great.
To me this seems an unhelpful practice... |
2017/01/07 | 303 | 1,243 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in a PhD program and would like to work with a particular advisor. He is 69 years old now, and I am wondering whether he will retire soon, but I am not sure whether this is not a bit rude to ask. What can I expect, generally speaking? Shall I email him and ask him directly?<issu... |
2017/01/08 | 1,467 | 6,039 | <issue_start>username_0: I have talked with a friend that was the best in class PhD student at a top-200 university in USA, but she couldn't find any position as assistant professor position or fellowship in a top-20 university.
* Is it even possible to do this transition?
* What is taken under consideration when one... |
2017/01/08 | 1,220 | 5,344 | <issue_start>username_0: Like many other students in a lab where interaction with the lead Professor is very limited, most of my time is spent with the graduate student who is working on their dissertation/publication project.
This student is a Ph.D. candidate (Ph.C.) and will have their degree by the time I apply to ... |
2017/01/08 | 304 | 1,210 | <issue_start>username_0: I am following a graduate mathematics course. While in class, I noticed that my classmates notes almost sliding off her inclined desk, and I whispered to her that gravity was a bitch. I think I saw the lecturer, a woman, react to this but I am not sure. I am now worried that our lecturer thinks... |
2017/01/08 | 598 | 2,425 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering what type of questions an applicant should expect from a Skype interview for a postdoc position (in theoretical physics). I understand they must depend on the interviewers. But I am looking for a generic answer. Here are some specific questions that I have in mind.
1. How long ... |
2017/01/08 | 801 | 3,576 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say someone is named <NAME> applied for a job claiming that he was graduated from University X. How would an employer confirm that the applicant is <NAME>, who also has the degree from University X? Wouldn't it be incredibly common for someone else to have the same name from the same depa... |
2017/01/08 | 2,432 | 9,872 | <issue_start>username_0: A considerable portion of emails that I send to professors abroad to see if they have any position available remains unanswered. Not receiving a response, I can not imagine if they didn't attract to my CV or they simply forgot to open my email. In this way, I am wondering if it is normal(not ru... |
2017/01/08 | 1,664 | 6,671 | <issue_start>username_0: Emailing the authors of a paper is a [common way](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/51940/452) to obtain access to the paper when it is behind [paywalls](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/80496/452). However, publishing contracts may forbid authors to send their paper by email.
Is there ... |
2017/01/08 | 906 | 3,676 | <issue_start>username_0: Like many others, I did not get a tenure-track position right out of grad school. I have been moving from university to university across the US for the past few years, sometimes in the capacity of a postdoc, and sometimes in a junior (non-tenure-track) faculty position. (Many of these universi... |
2017/01/09 | 716 | 3,032 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose publication Smith (2016) had a study that investigated whether professors liked apples, and found that they did.
Now suppose that I wish to have my own study that investigated whether students also liked apples, and to what degree would this be compared to professors.
Would it be nece... |
2017/01/09 | 619 | 2,568 | <issue_start>username_0: Working on some journal paper, it has pseudocode-ish/equation-ish demonstrations of the way some equations play out, along with actual reference values in the example proper; along the lines of:
**i = i + 1**
i = 2
*Note: please assume the actual demonstrations are much more complex than thi... |
2017/01/09 | 6,403 | 26,889 | <issue_start>username_0: January seems to be that time of the year that I ponder this question often. After the grades have come out, I always get a few students with very low grades (D or lower) coming to talk to me, and wondering whether this grade will have an impact on their future ambitions of going to a top gradu... |
2017/01/09 | 481 | 2,109 | <issue_start>username_0: I am sorry if this is already repeated but it is a very urgent need of mine.
Actually in my CV for graduate applications, I put my industrial internship period as May to June 2016 and research internship period as May to June 2016. Actually it is may to June 2015 for industrial internship perio... |
2017/01/09 | 535 | 2,216 | <issue_start>username_0: My institution uses Moodle as online learning platform. I am enthusiastic at Moodle capabilities, and suspect this had a positive effect on my class. Would like to prove it (or disprove it) by looking at all possible ways students interact with the platform. My understanding is that Moodle stor... |
2017/01/09 | 2,782 | 12,150 | <issue_start>username_0: Last semester, I was teaching a class where
there is a small assignment (~2% of the total course assessment)
that students need to submit every week.
Unfortunately, some of the students joined the class late,
due to add/drop forms that needed to be signed manually,
or for other unknown reasons.... |
2017/01/09 | 1,422 | 5,504 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for academic promotion and as part of my case I would like to argue that having published x FOCS, y STOC and z SODA papers is impressive. However, I have been told by our head of department that those on the promotions panel will never have heard of FOCS, STOC and SODA and so this... |
2017/01/09 | 819 | 3,558 | <issue_start>username_0: I committed to a decision to attend graduate school starting the semester of Fall 2017. I made this decision around mid-December. I started applications 2 days ago and to my surprise, many of my schools had deadlines of December 15th or January 5th.
I don't feel I badly managed my time. This w... |
2017/01/09 | 807 | 3,494 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated in 2014, and my situation is that I have been out of school for three years (as of fall 2017 it will be three years). My first recommendation is from an undergraduate research advisor who I've worked with extensively, and who I published with this year, so it's current.
My second i... |
2017/01/09 | 892 | 4,050 | <issue_start>username_0: Many academic institutes are routinely evaluated by an advisory board. In addition to the public performance metrics, such as publications and funding, the board usually goes on site to meet the personnel and get a better picture of the institute, its culture and its performance.
As a panel me... |
2017/01/09 | 1,672 | 6,647 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm asking this question for a friend as he is not very familiar with SE sites.
**Context:**
My friend, let's call him **A**, has a physics teacher, which we will call **B**.
**A**, as the rest of the class, had a mid-semester exam 1 month and a half ago. He thought he failed, as some of oth... |
2017/01/10 | 616 | 2,454 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a project report for my master degree in STEM (U.S.). I have to cite a large paragraph of others' work. This paragraph describes some basic stuff (For example, a duck has two eyes and two legs). I did not change a word in that paragraph.
I have already cited this paper at the end ... |
2017/01/10 | 3,726 | 16,133 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a follow-up question to [a previous one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/82641/10643) asking for the potential impact of the typesetting tool (at the review level) on the chances of acceptance for a given paper.
I'm interested in the general case where reviewers will get a "feeli... |
2017/01/10 | 1,479 | 6,112 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a statistician working at a research institute. We work with data from patients with a certain disease. I am getting paid by the institute, but a part of the money comes from a research grant a doctor brought in. The doctor does not work at the registry, but at a hospital and is working cl... |
2017/01/10 | 467 | 2,096 | <issue_start>username_0: I have already been enrolled in a PhD program and published a couple of papers. When I eventually get the certificate, it will state that I have a PhD in Computer Science. However, I can submit a request to change that to whatever I find more appropriate. I am asking here to be better informed ... |
2017/01/10 | 322 | 1,504 | <issue_start>username_0: From what I have seen, academic position usually have 1-2 months deadline.
I know that for non-academic positions if a suitable candidate is found, the position may be filled in advance.
Does applying one month or some weeks before give particular advantages? Is it risky to apply close to the ... |
2017/01/10 | 2,104 | 8,825 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently studying computer science in a University in Canada.
I have just received my Schedule for the semester, and I have noticed that, during the finals week, 3 of my 6 courses put their final exams in the same day.
Specifically, I have an exam from 12:30 to 15:20, another one from 1... |
2017/01/10 | 515 | 2,253 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question and I searched a lot but couldn't find its answer. I write in English and there are a few books which are originally written in German and French, and unfortunately there is no English translation of them. I don't know these two languages but can read the Arabic translation of... |
2017/01/10 | 583 | 2,535 | <issue_start>username_0: I was announced as a recipient of a scholarship from an organization outside of the university, and the organization doesn't seem to be honoring the scholarship.
The announcement was made months ago (October, when the scholarship was supposed to be awarded for the fall semester in the first p... |
2017/01/10 | 2,217 | 9,565 | <issue_start>username_0: I started teaching as a part-time hourly paid lecturer in September at quite a prestigious school. I had no classroom experience and had just returned from a long break off career with depression (even did bar work to get back on feet). I am completely over depression and a new person (in early... |
2017/01/10 | 1,369 | 5,881 | <issue_start>username_0: My school is currently on a 14 week schedule where we're supposed to have 14 Mondays, 14 Tuesdays, etc. each semester. Because of various holidays, that's harder than it sounds, and so we have a couple days that have to get adjusted; for instance, tomorrow is a calendrical Wednesday, but an aca... |
2017/01/11 | 519 | 2,414 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in computer science, and chose to specialize in a research area that was interesting to me personally, but not interesting to most tech companies. I am approaching graduation and I am not sure where to find a job. What do I do now?<issue_comment>username_1: The specialised re... |
2017/01/11 | 748 | 3,288 | <issue_start>username_0: My university requires all written work (essays, reports and dissertations) to be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format. At my previous university, PDF was also acceptable (in fact, recommended).
In the UK, where I study, assignment length is determined by the number of words (not ... |
2017/01/11 | 461 | 1,852 | <issue_start>username_0: Let us think about this question in my online application.
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> Personal Statement:
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> Please describe your specific area of academic interest, and explain what motivated you to choose this area.
>
>
>
In my case 100% true answer would be the following,
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> I am interested in Image ... |
2017/01/11 | 774 | 2,939 | <issue_start>username_0: Starting from January 1st this year, access to all scientific databases and publications have been stopped for Slovak universities and Slovak Academy of Sciences. The reason is simple, the authorities have not paid the bill even for the access in year 2016. Of course, we can ask friends or auth... |
2017/01/11 | 982 | 4,225 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently decided to enter a grad school in one of the Japanese universities (namely, TiTech). It seems that the general recommendation is to start as a non-degree research student first and prepare for entrance exam while being a research student. After reading [this](https://academia.st... |
2017/01/11 | 1,368 | 5,827 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received a referee report on a math paper in a mid-tier journal.
In this paper I proved (to give an example avoiding technicalities) that all dogs are cute.
But the referee claimed in his report that I claimed that all animals are cute (that is, he claimed that I proved something mu... |
2017/01/11 | 3,893 | 15,049 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a mathematical topic that is basically my own concoction. I have days where even the simplest thing takes ages to do and I realize that's because, deep down, I am terrified that things might not work out. This is in different way: I am scared my topic might not be novel enough, ... |
2017/01/11 | 882 | 4,060 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two studies that are related to each other (The second paper depends on the first one, but it is another study.) I want to submit them simultaneously to the same journal.
Is this acceptable? should I notify the editor in the cover letter that I have 2 papers?<issue_comment>username_1: T... |
2017/01/11 | 8,785 | 36,298 | <issue_start>username_0: Since semester started, a female student has been attending classes scantily clad or wearing clothes that are too revealing, like a sport bra without shirt on top, booty shorts, semitransparent silk blouses without a bra, or even a bikini (this situation happened only once.) She does this once ... |
2017/01/11 | 4,601 | 18,967 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in Europe, currently in my second year, and I have some attitude problems concerning my work. I really want to work on my problem, that's fine, but what bothers me is the following. I struggle with "impostor syndrome", so I always think that I know nothing. This leads me to t... |
2017/01/12 | 1,429 | 5,881 | <issue_start>username_0: I know someone who is finishing a postdoc in mathematics and is in the thick of the tenure-track job search. He had something like 15 interviews at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) last week. At the moment he has four invitations for on-campus interviews. Of these, exactly one is one of his... |
2017/01/12 | 2,033 | 8,833 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student who is completing a course where the major assessment is a Project where you work in a team of four to complete it in different deadlines (Draft and Final).
However we have been informed that two of our group members have dropped the course and no considerations will be made. We... |
2017/01/12 | 504 | 2,183 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student who was asked to TA this semester for a class that I have wanted to TA for for a while. Duties would likely involve basic grading of exams and projects as well as answering questions during office hours, but no recitations or other classroom teaching.
However, a ... |
2017/01/12 | 2,021 | 8,527 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the potential consequences, if any, of being rude and abrasive with the lecturer of a course I am taking? Could I face disciplinary action? Could it affect the way my work is evaluated? Is there a serious risk of me alienating myself with other people at uni, if the lecturer speaks bad... |
2017/01/12 | 678 | 2,824 | <issue_start>username_0: I have developed a software to meet a specific requirement in a research field. There is only one such software developed so far, mine is second.
In the thesis, I explain the implementation of the software. However, I feel like I also need a "Results" chapter. Most of the master theseses I hav... |
2017/01/12 | 2,305 | 10,172 | <issue_start>username_0: Do tenured faculty get to micromanage clinical professors and other non-tenured instructors with respect to the classroom?
Shouldn't clinical professors be allowed control of their own classrooms and operate with intellectual freedom (in general)? Let us just assume for the sake of simplicity ... |
2017/01/12 | 3,909 | 16,317 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a classmate who frequently disrupts class by asking nonsensical or unrelated questions, or by making nonsensical or unrelated interjections to the professor. He is autistic, and all the professors I have shared with this classmate (he and I are the same year in the same field of study) h... |
2017/01/12 | 1,300 | 5,908 | <issue_start>username_0: My Ph.D. research is related to both computer-science and economics. I collaborate with researchers in both these disciplines, and naturally submit papers to journals of both disciplines. Now, while looking for an academic job, I find out that departments count only the publications published i... |
2017/01/12 | 369 | 1,594 | <issue_start>username_0: About two weeks ago, we submitted a paper to a Taylor & Francis journal that uses the ScholarOne manuscript-submission system. We also received an e-mail confirming that the submission process is complete and that the editor is considering the paper for publication.
Today, I checked the status... |
2017/01/12 | 284 | 1,236 | <issue_start>username_0: The grad school I'm applying to accepts extracts from longer essays. I want to send an extract from my strongest (and rather long) essay, but I'm unsure how to go about it. Is it acceptable to take an extract from the middle and send it with a cover note? Or should I keep an introduction and/or... |
2017/01/12 | 426 | 1,826 | <issue_start>username_0: I just submitted my SoPs for PhD programs in Earth Science and I realized I wrote "for these reason" instead of "for this reason". I also wrote "this inquiries" instead of "these inquiries". Now, I am worried that I'm not going to get into any grad school. I am an international student, valedic... |
2017/01/13 | 415 | 1,472 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been trying to find an IEEE publication which cites an arXiv paper.
However, it seems that electrical engineers shy away from citing anything arXiv related.
I have been looking around for a while but couldn't find any, can anyone provide a reference to a sample IEEE paper that cites ... |
2017/01/13 | 1,696 | 6,858 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a senior who is planning on applying to psychology graduate program after a gap year.
In the past three years, I have been involved in research projects and also internships that greatly enhanced my understanding of the subject matter, and I believe going to a graduate school will definite... |
2017/01/14 | 490 | 1,934 | <issue_start>username_0: Anyone who has been to the Louvre knows what a zoo it is. With creaking floorboards and gawking tourists stacked up five deep in front of popular works it is not a conducive environment for study.
Are there special visiting hours at major museums for art historians and other academics that all... |
2017/01/14 | 1,750 | 7,668 | <issue_start>username_0: Disclaimer: not all of what follows is relevant to the question.
I am a math student currently doing a Master’s. I plan on taking a break in the spring semester because due to many personal circumstances, my mental health had severely declined (I attempted suicide twice), and I completely lost... |
2017/01/14 | 956 | 4,205 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing to inquire whether or not the order in which the names of the authors is mentioned has any bearing? Here's my case:
I started working on a project with a professor in the physics department last summer. The project is almost finalized and we're in the stage of finalizing the final ... |
2017/01/14 | 1,273 | 5,615 | <issue_start>username_0: Sorry for yet another 'professor does not respond my email' question. I searched through other similar questions, however their context was slightly different from mine.
I am a M.Sc. graduated from Asia looking for a PhD position abroad (i.e. Canada).
About the 9th of December, I sent an ema... |
2017/01/14 | 1,205 | 5,249 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an interdisciplinary PhD student and I've heard conflicting reports on your publication record in your early career. Some members of my host department say that you should stay focused while others outside the department say it can help. Given that my dissertation is by publication and I've... |
2017/01/14 | 1,202 | 4,928 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a self taught developer who was worked in the IT management field for a while. My academic background is an MBA and I currently teach classes on database development at a community college.
I want to be a Professor one day, and had been considering what to do for my PhD. Ideally, I'd like ... |
2017/01/14 | 538 | 2,378 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in computer science. I am currently working on an applied paper that is based on a certain algorithm, let's call it method A.
Method A has been explained deeply in a my previous paper, that now is under review. So it is in arxiv, anybody can read it, but it has not yet being published on ... |
2017/01/15 | 310 | 1,389 | <issue_start>username_0: In a typical workplace (North America), it is accepted that all communications through your work email are not personal property, and can be accessed by managers, IT department etc. Is this also true for graduate students? Assuming the student works in an university or research institute, the I... |
2017/01/15 | 2,988 | 12,532 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a classroom (as opposed to online) course for which I set the date of the first exam about a week before the last date a student can withdraw without penalty, such that I can have grades returned before the withdrawal date. The date was in the syllabus, released on the first day of class... |
2017/01/15 | 2,538 | 10,610 | <issue_start>username_0: Even if the title might seem self-explanatory, I would ask you to read the entire post to understand what exactly I'm trying to understand here.
I'm from the Russian Federation. We don't have a lot of departments of pure mathematics. Most of those undergraduate programs named "mathematics" are... |
2017/01/16 | 555 | 2,133 | <issue_start>username_0: I am MA degree student. I consider to do a phd. But I have some worries. First, I do not want to take any kind of statistics course.
Second I dont want to use the SPSS programme at all in my dissertation. Do you think with these conditions, can I do a phd.
Or are these two a must?
Please help m... |
2017/01/16 | 1,728 | 7,382 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc in mathematics. I like doing math, but I do not feel like I belong to a community, in the true sense of the word.
My vision of mathematical research is that it should be a massive collaborative effort to solve puzzles and publish the solutions, and no one should be excluded with... |
2017/01/16 | 2,398 | 9,788 | <issue_start>username_0: And if they should, I assume that these things should go on a resume under something like "Activities and Community Service". I mean I consider being able to sight read music to play at my Church as a significant feat (how many people can do that?) and might sway one person on an admissions com... |
2017/01/16 | 1,756 | 7,290 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year PhD student in Physics in a very important university in Germany. I started five months ago and unfortunately my first advisor is moving to a company. The university is important, but I actually chose to be there mainly to be supervised by her. She is well known in this field.... |
2017/01/16 | 2,699 | 10,667 | <issue_start>username_0: [Meta-analysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis) represents the statistical pooling of several individual studies focusing on a specific research question, ideally conducted within the context of a systematic review of the scholarly literature.
Several examples of meta-analysis ar... |
2017/01/16 | 285 | 1,197 | <issue_start>username_0: The author guidelines for the Journal of Computational Physics [do not specify a word limit for the abstract](https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-computational-physics/0021-9991/guide-for-authors#39000), saying only that it should be 'brief'. But should I impose a word limit myself? I ... |
2017/01/16 | 3,985 | 16,469 | <issue_start>username_0: Results get sent around a group of biological collaborators for feedback. Comments come back from the senior members of the group about the implications of the results, possible extensions, etc. I look at the results and I tend not to be as good at the "big picture" stuff (I'm a relatively juni... |
2017/01/16 | 2,389 | 9,835 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm TeXing up a paper right now and I would like to ask for a sanity test about proper form.
In the paper, there are some statements which seem too simple to be called a Proposition or Lemma, let alone a Theorem. I use the word Remark for those. However, roughly speaking, there are three kinds... |
2017/01/17 | 2,196 | 9,239 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been admitted to a PhD at an american university. The practice there is that the university provides the fellowship for the first year and thereafter the group you are working with gives you the stipend.
I have 4 years of relevant work experience in my area of research. I believe that ... |
2017/01/17 | 216 | 893 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to submit a manuscript which has 5 co-authors. But one of the co-author is presently not working anywhere. So what could be the affiliation of this author? Is it Okay, if I provide the author's last affiliation address?<issue_comment>username_1: Check and see if the author's last a... |
2017/01/17 | 544 | 2,209 | <issue_start>username_0: At our institute it is not common to upload a pre-print of your submission to arXiv. I got told by a friend that it is basically a no-brainer and there are virtually no downsides in doing so. I checked with the journal I want to publish in, they even allow submitting arXiv links, so I am safe f... |
2017/01/17 | 1,392 | 5,853 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a third year undergraduate majoring in Software Engineering ,and hope to continue studies until a PhD.
I am from Sri Lanka.I intend to go for USA or New Zealand to do my masters and eventually my PhD
My High school subjects were Computer Science, Accounts and Economics.I didn't select Mat... |
2017/01/17 | 983 | 4,142 | <issue_start>username_0: Are control theorists (electrical engineering) considered mathematicians?
* If so, would they receive a Fields medal if they make a breakthrough in control theory?
* If not, is there a prize similar to the Field medal for control theorists?<issue_comment>username_1: I don't have references on... |
2017/01/17 | 1,264 | 4,542 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing the draft of a scientific article which greatly benefits from the well known quote:
>
> "The whole is *other* than the sum of its parts"
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>
>
However, I am unable to find the correct citation for it.
According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psycholog... |
2017/01/17 | 1,666 | 7,003 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning my first course, and I'm starting to realize that it's actually broken into a long string of smaller topics, and that each smaller topic is unlikely to fit into a single lecture. Teaching each sub-topic as a lecture would either make my lectures run short or too long. I'm consideri... |
2017/01/17 | 536 | 2,419 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to one Masters program in Biology which is a course-based program. Now the application is under review and will get the results at the end of next month.
However, meanwhile , I am also looking for other schools/principal investigators to contact about my interest in their graduate pr... |
2017/01/18 | 486 | 2,018 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a project for school and would like to know if it would be in the public domain.<issue_comment>username_1: If your country is a signatory to the [Berne Convention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention), then you automatically own the copyright to anything you write, fr... |
2017/01/18 | 959 | 3,873 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a top master's program for my field of study. I completed my first semester last month and got back my grades. When I was offered admission at my current school, I was offered a partial fellowship, most likely based on my GRE scores, which were much higher than the school profile averag... |
2017/01/18 | 845 | 3,581 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first-year PhD student interested in working with a professor at my university. I have had two nice meetings with him and liked the project ideas we discussed.
But a student told me that he thought the professor's work was derivative and mostly hyped. I asked my academic advisor (a prof... |
2017/01/18 | 1,229 | 4,836 | <issue_start>username_0: **Question**
What exactly is the definition of a *scientific* publication or journal?
**Background**
What fueled this question in particular is the current rise of predatory publishers. [<NAME>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Beall) had a list published online of suspected predato... |
2017/01/18 | 339 | 1,486 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent many emails to prospective PhD advisors looking for a position in their research groups. Recently, I got two offers from professors in different universities and I choose one of them as his research interests fit more with my experience. Now, I have to apologize to the second one that I ... |
2017/01/18 | 395 | 1,732 | <issue_start>username_0: I have always wondered about the differences between one having "training potential" versus him/her not with enough professional knowledge.
For the F31 fellowship and many other PhD/Post-doc grants, NIH seems to care a lot about whether or not the applicants have training potential. I underst... |
2017/01/18 | 1,284 | 5,591 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an internal candidate for a tenure-track position at a major university in northern Europe. I think I have an excellent chance, however I am slightly worried about negotiating a startup packages. Here's why:
1. My department chief has insisted that I ask for my own salary
in funding appl... |
2017/01/18 | 992 | 4,527 | <issue_start>username_0: Am interested in learning more about student publishing. Is there a list of courses where students are publishing their work instead of just turning them into their TA and professor?<issue_comment>username_1: Although this might not be exactly what you are looking for, I recently learned that a... |
2017/01/18 | 807 | 3,726 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for a PhD program which lists "Two references" in their required documents. The general university online application portal lets me submit details of more than two referees though.
I really want to provide three references for this course. Technically I do have two technical refe... |
2017/01/19 | 585 | 2,594 | <issue_start>username_0: For a teaching demonstration for an academic job interview (in mathematics, if that matters), **should I bring worksheets to my interview, and hand them out to my "students?**"
My teaching demonstration will be in front of a search committee rather than an actual class of students. I wanted to... |
2017/01/19 | 854 | 3,593 | <issue_start>username_0: I was interviewing for a faculty position in a large city. When I was done I took a taxi to the airport... the wrong airport! I ended up taking another taxi to the correct airport and catching my flight. However, the second taxi ride was around $100.
Should I include this when asking the scho... |
2017/01/19 | 1,403 | 6,172 | <issue_start>username_0: For me, publishing results only when they are final, complete, and positive is more of a tradition than a necessity. I would find it valuable if others were able to publish what they have tried, even if they have not achieved what they (initially) aimed for. Unfortunately, this is very often no... |
2017/01/19 | 1,018 | 4,648 | <issue_start>username_0: In most Australian universities, the engineering degrees contain three explicit MATH courses which they cover one and two variable calculus, linear algebra, complex numbers, statistics (probability, random variables, etc), Fourier series, differential equations and Laplace transform. For electr... |
2017/01/19 | 985 | 4,202 | <issue_start>username_0: I used to host some code I'd written for university assignments publicly on my GitHub account (after the deadlines had passed, of course). Before long, I received an email from the dep't asking me to take it down due to fears of plagiarism (if students were given the same or similar assignments... |