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2017/11/25 | 9,138 | 38,025 | <issue_start>username_0: I am the course leader for an undergraduate course.
We have two quizzes each semester:
one around the middle of the semester, and one at the end.
For the first quiz,
students were allowed to bring a one-page "cheat sheet"
which could be either handwritten or printed.
Our original intention fo... |
2017/11/25 | 523 | 2,216 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been teaching economics in a university for the past 5 years and, before that, working in the area of economics for the past 15 or so years. 20 years ago, before I studied economics, I studied French literature. Recently, I dug up my master's thesis in literature, updated and polished it... |
2017/11/25 | 6,592 | 29,237 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently my faculty (mathematics and statistics) and I have been dealing with widespread cheating due to calculators that have been modified so as to have more functionality than is permitted.
At my university we have a standardized calculator that is to be used for tests. This brand of calcul... |
2017/11/26 | 536 | 2,308 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a teaching assistant for a biology teacher. When I took biology 3 years ago, she was my teacher. There is another teacher who she works EXTREMELY closely with, and there is essentially no differentiation between the two teachers regarding what I help out with, and I am close with both of t... |
2017/11/26 | 1,065 | 4,145 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Ph.D. graduate in biotechnology/molecular biology, who is actively seeking a post-doctoral position at a US or Europe-based institute. I'm neither from US, nor from Europe. Thus, I believe, my chances of getting a postdoc position is slightly harder, compared to some others.
My Ph.D. sup... |
2017/11/26 | 1,199 | 4,626 | <issue_start>username_0: Assume I’m writing a paper about randomness. I might have this text:
>
> Traditional TRNGs are (typically) external add on devices of varying size, cost and complexity [11][12][13].
>
>
>
How would I cite three specific examples such as:
>
> 11. TrueRNG v3 – [Hardware Random Number Gene... |
2017/11/26 | 2,075 | 9,095 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently accepted for a PhD position after going through the application process of submitting the usual documents (CV, motivation letter,...) as well as an interview.
I have heard, from my now colleagues, that during the application process, my supervisor had mentioned that I had come ... |
2017/11/26 | 1,009 | 4,373 | <issue_start>username_0: I am developing a tool for bioinformatics ... it is an application that will be open source when finished. It is something that has use outside of bioinformatics as well.
I am also using some open source tools to develop my application. When I need help with the open tools I'm using, it's kind... |
2017/11/26 | 478 | 2,057 | <issue_start>username_0: I am actively looking for a post-doc position, and I have found an interesting opening.
Nevertheless, this opening is asking three reference letters, not the contacts of three referees. This looks unusual, because, as far as I can see, usually three contacts are asked.
Concretely, this means ... |
2017/11/27 | 394 | 1,688 | <issue_start>username_0: As a part of one of the graduate course I am taking, I need to develop a business plan for a coffee shop startup. I have chosen a office building as the location of the shop.
I want to provide some numeric data about the building. I had a chat with the financial investor of the building and he... |
2017/11/27 | 3,020 | 13,176 | <issue_start>username_0: I am handling a paper as an associate editor that proposed an algorithm that I find to be weak. In fact, I was able to show that a very simple, brute-force approach actually has a better running time than their algorithm. Therefore, I will recommend rejecting this paper. Do I have an obligation... |
2017/11/27 | 848 | 3,462 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 2nd year PhD student.
I regret my choice of grad school severely. The program here has a good reputation and I have no idea how or why it has a good reputation. The program here is absolutely terrible. The location is terrible and depressing, classes are completely useless, the qual sys... |
2017/11/27 | 723 | 3,023 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a degree from a university in Germany, which I'm now trying to get evaluated by an institution in another country. This institution requires that the transcripts be sent directly from the university in a sealed envelope. Unfortunately, it seems this isn't something that German universiti... |
2017/11/27 | 398 | 1,687 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to include some pictures of patients in my manuscript, which will be submitted to a scientific journal for peer review. In order to keep the subjects’ identity and following the data protection act, I need to hide their faces.
My question is to know whether to put a black rectangle ... |
2017/11/28 | 1,071 | 4,840 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking to incorporate a license in the source code of a research project of University A, in which I was the last contributor. Historically the computer-science school has not forced researchers to publish the code with any specific license; they mainly care about the ranking affected by ... |
2017/11/28 | 1,502 | 6,354 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working with two fellow graduate students on implementing some algorithm for data extraction. We are in the mid-phase of our project and we still have roughly a month (20 days to be precise) to go before it is due.
However, recently I have been confronted with a pattern of negative, and ... |
2017/11/28 | 4,087 | 17,061 | <issue_start>username_0: An author has proven an interesting mathematical result, but notices that this result contradicts existing literature.
Does the author have to find an explicit error or counter-example to the existing literature before considering submission? Can she submit the proven result to a journal, if ... |
2017/11/28 | 777 | 3,444 | <issue_start>username_0: My significant other and I finish our master degrees at the same time and thus we are applying for PhD programmes at the same time. One major factor of accepting a potential offer would be if we could study at the same university, so I feel that mentioning a two-body problem would be advantageo... |
2017/11/28 | 1,237 | 5,003 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the fourth year of my PhD and I am due to complete in four years. My advisor wants 5 journal papers. I have:
* One published article.
* Two articles under review with two different journals, one of the articles has previously been rejected 3 times.
* One manuscript being checked by my ... |
2017/11/28 | 566 | 2,332 | <issue_start>username_0: I spoke with a professor and learned that The University of Tennessee chemistry department turns a net profit. It receives zero tuition money. It has patents and research grants. How does it achieve this? Is this a common thing? How to find/execute profitable patent producing research? And How ... |
2017/11/28 | 997 | 4,180 | <issue_start>username_0: A hypothetical situation: two (groups of) authors have independently proven the same result. How do we determine who gets credit?
There are some obvious bounds - if Group A posts a paper to the arxiv, and Group B posts the same result to the arxiv n time units later and claims to be independe... |
2017/11/28 | 2,025 | 8,289 | <issue_start>username_0: When I finished my PhD, I was working on a small grant project worth €6000 with the aim of integrating computational software and public services offered by another institution. In our final report, I stated why we did not achieve one of the objectives (due to technical complexity discovered du... |
2017/11/28 | 529 | 1,987 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is similar to ones about [accepted papers not being presented](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/11428/the-fate-of-an-accepted-paper-not-being-presented); however, one thing that other answers fail to mention is how to list the paper in your CV. Quite simply what is the... |
2017/11/29 | 2,198 | 9,131 | <issue_start>username_0: I did not have a good experience when I TA'ed the first time. I faced a hostile student who refused to accept that he was wrong and didn't give me a good reason why he should deserve more marks. He showed a propensity for violence, shouted at me loudly, punched the table and gave me an extremel... |
2017/11/29 | 272 | 1,073 | <issue_start>username_0: Pretend that there is some image on the Internet that is commonly circulated, like a meme template involving a picture of someone's face. If the original thing had no source, but one (for whatever reason) needed the image and its citation, how would one try to cite the image?<issue_comment>user... |
2017/11/29 | 1,038 | 4,370 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working on my PhD from home for several months now because my mom is sick, which was fine with my supervisor up until a few weeks ago. Before starting to work from home (in a different country than my supervisor is), we agreed that we would communicate every two weeks and that I wou... |
2017/11/29 | 1,050 | 4,124 | <issue_start>username_0: I've often thought it was strange that one's value as a scholar is determined largely on the basis of one's research, yet one's ability to perform "good" (in quantitative and qualitative terms) research is based largely on the type of institution where one works.
Consider the following scenari... |
2017/11/29 | 886 | 3,943 | <issue_start>username_0: As a part of my PhD. I supervise master and bachelor thesis. Even though, I get extremely smart students I find that they are having troubles in writing up their research as articles. Often I end up writing it for them. What is the best way to motivate the students to make their own first draft... |
2017/11/30 | 780 | 3,471 | <issue_start>username_0: I have worked in a research institute (R&D for a parent company) for 10 years after my postdoc. I used to teach occasionally as an adjunct professor. Despite our R&D theme, I have an excellent record of publication (comparable with my peers in terms of quality and quantity; unquestionably good)... |
2017/11/30 | 503 | 2,234 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently accepted academic offer from a UK university. I comminicated wtih the head of school via phone and email, and I have not yet received the official offer letter. I am wondering how secure this situation is? In particular if this is a good time to decline other offers (I feel bad to le... |
2017/11/30 | 588 | 2,621 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a master and bachelor degree in Aerospace engineering. Master degree was from the most prestigious institute in my country (India).
Then I moved on to my Ph.D., but this time into a different field. Physical Chemistry. Particularly because I wanted to do fundamental science rather than... |
2017/11/30 | 939 | 3,470 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a PhD and I have submitted an article to be peer-reviewed 9 months ago to a certain journal. I haven't got any response yet from the journal, their server indicates the "Under review" status.
The problem is, I cannot wait more longer since the acceptance of the article is a requirem... |
2017/11/30 | 340 | 1,414 | <issue_start>username_0: My GRE score is only 790 (77 percentile). I am an international student applying for PhD in applied mathematics at Tier 1 schools in the U.S. I am from the top university in my country and have a strong academic record and good recommendations. I have communicated with some faculty at some of t... |
2017/11/30 | 1,622 | 7,063 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in the process of writing my SoP for applications to PhD in Physics programs starting Fall 2018 (in the US schools). I am definitely writing about the content that I have studied rigorously as well as about the research projects that I have been involved in and so on. But I also ... |
2017/11/30 | 514 | 2,331 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two funded projects. One works great but the other is terrible (probably wrong postdocs and PhD students). When I send future proposals, my history is evaluated against the overall research output, right? There is no factor indicating one of my projects has failed, right?
I have two opt... |
2017/11/30 | 1,480 | 5,606 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to add non-cited references to bibliography for two reasons.
1. Sometimes, it is not clear whether I referred to it or not. Clearly, not only citing a statement is a citation, but also citing an idea is a citation. But if I didn't cite the ideas and if another idea comes across my mind,... |
2017/11/30 | 944 | 3,677 | <issue_start>username_0: As I read in some papers, most verbs in a paper are written in the passive third person. For example: "This method was experimented; satisfying results were achieved..."
My question is, is this a must and all types of papers in all journals should be this way? For example, if I write "I exper... |
2017/12/01 | 1,161 | 5,005 | <issue_start>username_0: **Summary of question**
I've been getting ready to apply to grad school, and now I have good reasons for not doing so. My letter writers have already uploaded their letters. Basically, it's the last minute, and I'm changing my mind, and not applying. How do I (a) thank them, (b) tactfully tel... |
2017/12/01 | 1,385 | 6,168 | <issue_start>username_0: I reviewed a manuscript submitted to a high-impact journal. The quality was low and I believed it could not reach the journal’s standards even by revision. I clearly recommended rejection.
Now I received the revised version for review. Two of three reviewers (myself included) had suggested to ... |
2017/12/01 | 1,170 | 4,973 | <issue_start>username_0: Two years ago, when I was doing my master’s degree, I was working on a computational project. My supervisor was well-known in the field and a highly reputed person. We were doing a great job, trying to solve a long-standing problem.
When we made significant progress in our work, we wanted to ... |
2017/12/01 | 2,441 | 10,020 | <issue_start>username_0: The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics at the University of Bonn hosts workshops such as 'Young Women in Harmonic Analysis', 'Young Women in Geometry' and 'Young Women in Mathematical Physics' biannually, I think.
I am very interested in attending such a workshop as they are seldom found wit... |
2017/12/01 | 2,168 | 8,681 | <issue_start>username_0: I read [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/99600/how-to-toughen-up-against-hostile-students-as-a-ta) question where a teaching assistant asks how to deal with an aggressive student.
In her answer, the user <NAME> gives advice to call campus security. Now, in my naive foreign th... |
2017/12/02 | 1,441 | 6,155 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Scenario
I am in college and in group projects. We have to work together with other team members to architect the design and dividing the tasks. Once the tasks are assigned to each person and when it’s over, we have to combine each other's task into a single system, which might need redoin... |
2017/12/02 | 512 | 2,333 | <issue_start>username_0: Thanks but what if I write an article in English and use some quotations in Turkish since my intended readers are bilingual; that is Turkish and English?
I refer to Ms <NAME>'s Bilingual Wordsmiths: The Challenges of Writing in Two Languages<issue_comment>username_1: Stick to English for the e... |
2017/12/02 | 606 | 2,736 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor agreed to give me a LOR. However, despite many reminders, he has yet to send it in. I called him up a week before the deadline and he was annoyed at this. I then considered asking someone else but he emailed me asking me for supplementary documents. Again there has been radio silen... |
2017/12/02 | 328 | 1,340 | <issue_start>username_0: I was reading a Introduction in a Master's thesis, and this particular example appears to be overly lengthy.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3GCOE.png)
Is there a consensus on how many points can be adequately addressed in an in... |
2017/12/02 | 232 | 989 | <issue_start>username_0: A reviewer asked for modifications, which are not necessary. It is obvious that he has not understood my work. What should I do?<issue_comment>username_1: No, there is no "manual" or restrictions on what can and cannot be done in writing the introduction of a paper or thesis. If there are any s... |
2017/12/02 | 273 | 1,229 | <issue_start>username_0: When I recently submitted a paper to a conference, there was a checkbox asking whether the first author is a student. Did you encounter anything like that? Does this means the reviewers will consider this and will be less strict?<issue_comment>username_1: As suggested in @Distic's comment, the ... |
2017/12/02 | 835 | 3,591 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is related to the articles that are often cited in introduction or motivation section of any article. Often while writing an introduction, I mostly cite the famous works that are relevant to my work. Some other time I also cite the recent works from high-impact journals that are r... |
2017/12/02 | 789 | 3,449 | <issue_start>username_0: Regarding to a course for undergraduates (especially in computer science, but i would love to hear opinions from others too):
Is it okay to assign free marks for assignments? Meaning, the students who submitted the assignments will be assigned full marks.
If yes, in total how much percentage... |
2017/12/02 | 1,112 | 4,401 | <issue_start>username_0: Due to the recently passed tax bill by the United States Senate, graduate students will incur more taxes on their income which is already small. This will certainly affect my academic performance and research productivity. One of the professors in the department promised his students to compens... |
2017/12/02 | 1,796 | 7,830 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently taking a class that doesn't have a required textbook, which is why I took it. My professor is now saying that due to her scanning and printing out handouts for use we are each required to give her $15. I'm confused by this because isn't the money supposed to go through my universi... |
2017/12/03 | 184 | 793 | <issue_start>username_0: How can I find (and execute) profitable, patent-producing research? Specifically, I want to produce financially rewarding patents. Are there any steps to success?
There always seems to be an element of luck, but how do I maximize chances?<issue_comment>username_1: Pick something that has just ... |
2017/12/03 | 922 | 3,628 | <issue_start>username_0: As a retired school teacher, and to become a professor at a university. Is it okay to get into a PhD program at the age of 65 and complete it to become a professor? Or is it too late and I can’t get employed at a university?<issue_comment>username_1: The realistic answer is: you can enroll in a... |
2017/12/03 | 1,042 | 4,363 | <issue_start>username_0: I started a postdoc in a new lab a few months ago.
In my former lab, people worked on a variety of activities all the time. By these I mean activities other than the funded project and teaching, e.g. reviewing papers, grant writing, participation in working groups/editorial boards/societies/etc... |
2017/12/03 | 1,223 | 5,225 | <issue_start>username_0: Firstly, I do not believe this to be a duplicate of the related recently posted question due to the key fact that **that user was anonymous to his class and I am not**.
This has happened 3 times now. While taking standardized tests, someone cheats. These aren't just classroom tests, but rathe... |
2017/12/03 | 339 | 1,339 | <issue_start>username_0: Following APA style, "[if you are citing a work written in a non-Latin script (e.g., Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Russian), the reference must be transliterated into the English alphabet.](http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2012/12/citing-translated-works-in-apa-style.html)"
Sometimes, for a given... |
2017/12/03 | 2,359 | 9,811 | <issue_start>username_0: If one looks superficially at the publications of author X, he seems to be one of the top scientists in his field. But looking more closely his citations are 60% from himself 35% from his co-author, and 5% from others. (Some people might say: “It doesn’t matter, probably he is the only one work... |
2017/12/03 | 490 | 2,084 | <issue_start>username_0: The professor I am trying to contact has multiple email addresses listed on the department page. I mailed to one and got no response since two weeks; then I mailed to the other and still no response since a week.
I was wondering if he was receiving my emails at all and I decided to check more ... |
2017/12/03 | 456 | 1,961 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in pursuing a particular program and I find the name of some of the past students from professor's website.
Is it odd to write an email to these past graduate students and ask about the job and their future career?
could you please tell me what should I write to be natural?
I a... |
2017/12/04 | 651 | 2,834 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was a undergraduate student, I worked in a professor's lab doing research about "A". I helped the senior members to do some work they didn't want to do, like designing a website for their demos, or doing some basic calculations. You don't have to have the background knowledge of A to do ... |
2017/12/04 | 727 | 3,045 | <issue_start>username_0: My potential Masters advisor seems very interested in taking me on as a student since my first email to him was 5 days ago and he is already discussing which project to do with me. He said he aims to work on a project with his grad students that will help them with their future goals. He mentio... |
2017/12/04 | 2,994 | 13,256 | <issue_start>username_0: I often get asked to review papers on new software tools. This always makes me wonder how one should review such a paper, or even whether software papers should undergo a typical review process at all?
My private checklist typically consists of:
* Is it available for download for others?
* Do... |
2017/12/04 | 1,037 | 4,375 | <issue_start>username_0: I am graduating with a pass grade in my Master's degree from a good university in London. I want to apply for a PhD scholarship at the University of Sheffield in non-communicable diseases.
I did public health undergraduate degree and became interested in non-communicable diseases in low incom... |
2017/12/04 | 242 | 1,048 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that CS journals usually accept extended version of a conference paper with some, say 10%, new contents. But is it still true for non-CS journals?<issue_comment>username_1: I think it would be a better strategy to submit the extended version to a CS journal and a different approach of th... |
2017/12/04 | 364 | 1,623 | <issue_start>username_0: I plan to apply for Masters. I am currently working as a research intern at a reputed University in my currently. I was assigned a Ph.D. mentor on joining the project by the Professor. Ph.D. mentor guided me on a daily basis and has a better understanding of my work and abilities than the Profe... |
2017/12/05 | 308 | 1,266 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently contacted a potential PhD supervisor expressing my interest in working with him. I attached all application materials (personal statement, CV, etc), as he requested on his website. I received a prompt reply that he is accepting graduate students for the upcoming semester and to let h... |
2017/12/04 | 1,127 | 4,545 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in a Ph.D program for pharmaceutical sciences. Long story short my background is cell biology and I originally worked in a Cancer lab. My lab relocated and I could not follow. I was placed into a medicinal chemistry lab. This is how things work here, we get little choice. Anyway, ... |
2017/12/05 | 507 | 1,971 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a scientific-assistant position from April 2012 till December 2016. I had two children in between and took the necessary time off, the extension of contract due to this break is also included in the time mentioned in the beginning. Now I am trying to finish the thesis, but I am not very h... |
2017/12/05 | 1,401 | 4,705 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently supervising a visually impaired student. I noticed that quite often I use phrases such as "from X, we can see that Y" or ask the student to "read paper X" or "you need to look at your maximization problem", etc.. Once the sentence hangs in the room I immediately feel awkward. The... |
2017/12/05 | 3,437 | 14,825 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an associate professor, who has received tenure in the US in 2014. After receiving tenure, I moved to Europe to help my family with some health issues, and found an associate professor position in a country where tenure is 'by law' meaning the position cannot be revoked or taken away. I am... |
2017/12/05 | 1,836 | 6,977 | <issue_start>username_0: I accidentally addressed my lecturer as Mrs instead of Ms in an email.
Should I send a follow-up email explaining it was a typo or should I leave it be?
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Since requested multiple times in comments: The lecturer does not hold a doctorate or any other academic titles. She also did not speci... |
2017/12/05 | 1,750 | 7,159 | <issue_start>username_0: I am the course leader for a course with more than 600 students.
This semester,
I decided to conduct our end-of-semester quiz
as a computer-based quiz using our school's learning management system.
We needed to reserve multiple computer lab rooms
due to the fact that the maximum capacity of a l... |
2017/12/05 | 1,169 | 4,639 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm on a what appears to be a 12 month contract (Sept.- Aug.) While we only work 9 months out of the year, the standard academic job year, we are paid over 12 months. Well, I am now leaving my post mid-year and thus think I am entitled to half my salary because I worked half the academic year. ... |
2017/12/05 | 735 | 3,219 | <issue_start>username_0: I think that I am pretty good at presenting my work during my PhD, and I am still being invited to conferences for some papers I did 2 years ago.
Now, I am working in industry. My manager always complains about my presentations and my reports.
I tried my best to follow his guidelines, but s... |
2017/12/06 | 1,618 | 6,888 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an undergraduate degree and I'm working as a medical researcher in a research lab, affiliated with a University. I've done very little since being employed, due to problems such as:
1. lack of usable samples for projects
2. equipment being broken down for long periods of time
3. issues ... |
2017/12/06 | 1,566 | 6,827 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a CS major, currently enrolled (about to finish) in a Software Engineering (II) course. My teacher told us at the beginning of the the first course (SE I) that the main objective of the class is to develop real world systems, as such she asked us to search for an NGO who was in need of an ... |
2017/12/06 | 533 | 2,358 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a journal in mathematics. For the last three and a half months, the status of the article is *with editor.* I sent a mail to the editorial office to update the status. They replied me saying they will ask the handling editor to contact me. After one more month I asked to ... |
2017/12/06 | 1,498 | 6,027 | <issue_start>username_0: I had my M.A. degree in a public university in the States. After working in media for two years in China, I want to pursue research and teaching career so I started to plan for PhD in media psychology (under communication).
I had my GRE tested (the last one has expired) in Sept and got good s... |
2017/12/06 | 436 | 1,991 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a top journal last week. At first, the status showed "awaiting AE recommendation". A few days ago, it was changed to "awaiting reviewer selection". So I thought it passed the associate editor's evaluation and now they were looking for reviewers. Even yesterday the status ... |
2017/12/06 | 9,215 | 34,666 | <issue_start>username_0: I copied (and failed to cite) two lines of code from [the OpenJDK source](http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/file/9b8c96f96a0f/src/share/classes/java/util/HashMap.java) for an undergraduate Data Structures project. Yet, the code comparison shows an alarming amount (40%) of similarity. Her... |
2017/12/07 | 1,678 | 7,337 | <issue_start>username_0: I was reviewing a paper related to my field (computational fluid dynamics) a while ago and, while reading a part of the methodology section where the numerical scheme and the equations were explained, I had a weird sense of déjà-vu. Regretfully, I found out that the author had plagiarized about... |
2017/12/07 | 667 | 2,595 | <issue_start>username_0: Our lab is having its holiday party tonight at a somewhat fancy hotel restaurant. How do I address a PI (Principal Investigator) of our lab? I’ve never met her this semester – she spends time at another research institute and communicates with us via group emails.
Given that a party will be a... |
2017/12/08 | 2,420 | 9,633 | <issue_start>username_0: When reading submissions by students, for example coding assignments or bachelor theses, I stumble upon code or text not originally written by the students themselves, usually not referenced properly (see the edit below). After being confronted with this, I often hear or read statements like:
... |
2017/12/08 | 2,230 | 9,767 | <issue_start>username_0: I reviewed a paper submitted for a smallish magazine. It presented an algorithm to perform some allocation task and compared its performance to that of several other algorithms from the literature performing the same task in several ways (the results, i.e. the allocation, can be evaluated based... |
2017/12/08 | 2,390 | 10,286 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in an interesting situation, I have a masters degree in electrical engineering but have been working as a software engineer for about 10 years. I have a lot of interest in doing peer reviews and contributing to research part-time in computer science. But I find it very hard to convince any... |
2017/12/08 | 1,720 | 7,514 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a hard time understanding statements such as:
>
> Scientist X discovered Y in 1960 and was subsequently rediscovered by Scientist Z in 1980.
>
>
>
How does one prove that plagiarism has not taken place? This is also extensively observed in some really old math theorems, chemistry a... |
2017/12/08 | 1,134 | 4,417 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm was doing some continuing education in a Canadian University this fall. I was looking at my list of final grades on their website (none of them seem to be in so far), but one of them is marked IPR.
I did a bit of Googling, and found that IPR stands for (supposedly, anyhow) Inward Processin... |
2017/12/09 | 738 | 3,199 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to submit a paper in which one of the algorithms I used is heavily based on the code available on one of the TensowFlow tutorials. In fact, I mostly copied the code from the page and made the necessary modifications for my specific case. I did cite, in the paper, both TensorFlow and ... |
2017/12/09 | 2,038 | 8,261 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a master electrical engineering student in a state university and I just took my very last final exam on Wednesday. I totally screwed up. I could not solve any of the problems (4 problems). It has never happened to me before. I thought I studied enough for it but I guess not. I'm looking at... |
2017/12/10 | 464 | 1,948 | <issue_start>username_0: Can I also have my finance/economics professor recommend me? I have a good relationship with her. Would it matter if she isn't from the CS department in my college?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, absolutely. Your references should be people who know you, your work and your capabilities best and... |
2017/12/10 | 632 | 2,579 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a 3rd year Ph.D. student in an engineering discipline, and I realize that I am better at starting projects than closing projects. By closing, I mean that the work gets published either in a good journal or a top conference.
I currently have 3 projects on the side (each of them started as a ... |
2017/12/10 | 225 | 1,005 | <issue_start>username_0: Some grant proposals mention that they only want funds for students and no funds for faculty such as summer salaries. Would this point increase the chances of being funded by some agencies? Specifically, if two similar competitive projects were proposed and one asked for faculty salaries and th... |
2017/12/10 | 386 | 1,781 | <issue_start>username_0: My references for my graduate program applications include an adjunct professor and an industry professional (both not very academic) and I am not sure if they really have time to invest in writing the recommendations for me, although I am pretty sure they will write for me if I asked them to. ... |
2017/12/10 | 438 | 1,970 | <issue_start>username_0: I have heard that while recruiting in faculty member positions people look at the career of the applicants very critically and if someone has a year without a paper might face difficulties in getting permanent positions. I was wondering how important the issue really is in the context of securi... |
2017/12/11 | 928 | 3,787 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a standard typeface and/or word template that people use when submitting to non/semi-technical Springer journals? Previously I have always used Latex, which typically meant a conference or similar template was used. I have obviously searched but could not find anything, so I am wonderi... |
2017/12/11 | 1,679 | 7,152 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a tenured professor and co-chair at a small teaching college. I received an email last Friday morning from the head of facilities requesting confirmation of my attendance at a meeting for this coming Thursday, with the subject line "Facilities storage needs and '*MY\_DEPT*' space." The ema... |
2017/12/11 | 3,131 | 11,682 | <issue_start>username_0: The [Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)](http://www.cnrs.fr/) is the major funding body in France. With nearly 32,000 staff members it is bigger than the [US NIH](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health) and [US NSF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Sc... |
2017/12/11 | 854 | 3,592 | <issue_start>username_0: There are lots of journals that only publish online. However they are indexed by scopus and ISI so they are unlikely to be predatory journals. Are they safe? What are the chances that some hacker erases the journal’s database and all the records of publications are lost?
Surely it’s better to... |
2017/12/11 | 3,206 | 13,347 | <issue_start>username_0: There is an optional prompt on my PhD application:
>
> censoredSchoolName University regards the diversity of its graduate
> student body as an important factor in serving the educational mission
> of the university. We encourage you to share unique, personally
> important, and/or challeng... |