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2018/02/11 | 637 | 2,315 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student in theoretical computer science. I have recently come across one problem on which somebody has already done work, but in that work I figured out one problem which may be small (I don’t how significant it is). I asked my colleagues about this, and some of them suggested me t... |
2018/02/11 | 1,507 | 6,517 | <issue_start>username_0: The deadline to register for a peer-reviewed computer science conference with proceedings is in three days and I cannot attend despite being the main author of a paper there since I am leaving the current institution for non-academic employment. **I cannot afford to lose this job and losing it ... |
2018/02/11 | 779 | 3,279 | <issue_start>username_0: I seem to be a bit stuck here. I am reading quite a lot, but I cannot find a topic to write about, which is original and which I could then publish as a paper. I am in the Humanities, so it's basically just about reading, reading, reading (so no research in a lab or something).
Are there strat... |
2018/02/11 | 3,865 | 15,183 | <issue_start>username_0: This is in reference to my question: [How to do a PhD to equip myself for a job as assistant professor](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/103616/86798).
I was told in the answer of the above linked question that chances of landing a job as an assistant professor in Mathematics are quite sli... |
2018/02/11 | 447 | 2,010 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently concluding my PhD in England and I’d like to do a postdoc preferably in the US or Canada. I’d like to know:
Does it make sense to contact the supervisors when I find an interesting project or should I only act upon explicit job advertisements?<issue_comment>username_1: I advise ... |
2018/02/12 | 1,366 | 4,193 | <issue_start>username_0: In Mendeley, the closest category for an R package appears to be "*Computer Program*"; however, R itself is a computer program, not its packages.
Other literature sources seem to cite technical documents about R packages instead of the actual packages.
Aside from manually entering the citatio... |
2018/02/12 | 1,346 | 5,474 | <issue_start>username_0: I just had an interview for a role that was a perfect fit for me. This is a research role in a University. During the interview, the professor who was making the hire commented on how my skills in computational modelling was a close fit to his research project including the amount of upper divi... |
2018/02/12 | 1,541 | 5,285 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Background
I would like to cite journal articles published by the [Royal Society](https://royalsociety.org/journals/), specifically in the journal [*Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences*](http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/).
Apparently, sometimes an *... |
2018/02/12 | 758 | 3,131 | <issue_start>username_0: For the past few weeks, I have been struggling to understand something and answer a very specific research question. I asked my advisor the same question and he couldn't give me a satisfactory answer.
1. Is it socially acceptable to bypass my advisor and ask a senior academic the same question... |
2018/02/12 | 605 | 2,714 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently an undergraduate student in the US but looking seriously into some master's programs at European universities for the international experience, cost difference in my field, and exposure to different styles of study. I'd also like to become a high school teacher someday at a public... |
2018/02/12 | 368 | 1,555 | <issue_start>username_0: This might sound a silly (probably it is!) question to ask. But whenever I go to give a talk at some other institute I face this dilemma of putting the host institute's logo or only my affiliation logo, on the title slide. Most of the time I put both.
Keeping aside my decade-old-hesitations, ... |
2018/02/12 | 703 | 2,773 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been invited to be an external examiner for a Ph.D. in electronic engineering at a UK University.
I work in the Electronics industry in a research role, regularly competing for external research funding with academics and sometimes collaborating with them too (including 2 or 3 of the ac... |
2018/02/13 | 598 | 2,549 | <issue_start>username_0: One one hand, there were attempts to give some meaning to the term on Wikipedia; there is [a page on SIAM's website](http://www.siam.org/students/resources/report.php) and a [Master's program at Stanford](https://icme.stanford.edu/academics/degree-programs).
On the other hand, there are very f... |
2018/02/13 | 628 | 2,839 | <issue_start>username_0: A month ago, I submitted a paper to a prestigious journal. In that paper, we proposed a general method (method A), and we proposed a set of methods for doing some work based on this method A. I now have to work on another paper, which relies on method A, which I will be submitting to a less pre... |
2018/02/13 | 574 | 2,597 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a front-end developer and I find it extremely difficult to find a bachelor's thesis topics since all the computer vision, machine learning, data mining stuff is done in languages other than JavaScript. I feel like the fact that I am a frontend developer limits me to topics like front-end J... |
2018/02/13 | 604 | 2,649 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two papers published at the same IEEE conference (at the same year).
Since they have been indexed in GS, they are being merged every few days. That is, I manually need to "unmerge" them, just for GS to automatically merge them again a few days later.
I'm not sure why this happens. They... |
2018/02/13 | 625 | 2,630 | <issue_start>username_0: I was working(in maths) for some months on a paper. After I got the results, I found out that some of those were already obtained in another paper that was not very related to my topic. In fact, in that paper, the result is stated as of 'minor' importance because the main purpose of the paper w... |
2018/02/13 | 1,285 | 5,230 | <issue_start>username_0: As you know, there are journals -predatory journals- which are just publishing scams, without actual peer review, etc. but look like genuine ones, and it is a problem for the honest researcher to avoid them.
Until recently there was a free blacklist, <NAME>'s (which had flaws), and now there i... |
2018/02/13 | 1,258 | 5,462 | <issue_start>username_0: I am using unlicensed simulation software (downloaded from torrents) for Doctoral Thesis (and Research papers) on my personal laptop without the knowledge of my institution as the university doesn't have the licensed software. 1) Is this safe?
2) Can I be questioned by the software vendor. 3) C... |
2018/02/13 | 2,523 | 10,831 | <issue_start>username_0: A few days ago I got an offer (yay!) from a US school. I have about another week before they want a decision. Over the last few days I have been tallying up costs for start up. When should I start negotiating?
And here's the bigger question: my wife and I are expecting our first child basical... |
2018/02/13 | 446 | 1,826 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an active participant in an academic reading group. I am co-coordinator, meaning I help pick topics, schedule talks, coordinate food, update the website, send emails, etc. I've also presented a couple times when we can't get presenters at the last minute. I think a link on my website is fi... |
2018/02/14 | 3,354 | 14,294 | <issue_start>username_0: Why would a professor doing pure math/ theoretical computer science want to take PhD students?
I understand that in computational and experimental sciences taking students is at least beneficial to them. However, in subjects like pure math, it is not obvious to me that there are any significan... |
2018/02/14 | 1,413 | 6,392 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently reviewing a paper for a journal and there's a section in the 'Methods' that may raise a questionable ethical concern on animal handling. The paper has a potential contribution to the field, however, there's this procedure that harms the animal in the study. I am thinking of rejec... |
2018/02/14 | 706 | 3,210 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a review of my journal manuscript that is not organised in a way to facilitate the author reply. Its main problems are:
1. Sometimes one long paragraph discusses many related points. Quoting each sentence separately does not separate the ideas but produces rough ideas, and on the ot... |
2018/02/14 | 1,035 | 4,220 | <issue_start>username_0: I received an official PhD offer from University A on Jan 30 (15 days ago).
In an interview with the faculty from University A, they asked me where A stands among my applications. I honestly replied that A was among the top 3 universities and said that I need to hear from the other two schools... |
2018/02/14 | 3,499 | 13,634 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there an unorthodox way to memorize formulas for daily use, similar to the assimilation of multiplication tables in primary school? I included 'without understanding' because I do understand the formulas: given pen and paper and time to think (about the physics involved and/or dimensions) I ... |
2018/02/14 | 2,121 | 8,723 | <issue_start>username_0: During the pursuit of my degree, which I received in '92, I took a class where motifs in folksongs were routinely discussed.
I don't remember the exact wording now but I noticed a few songs with wording about a couple going to bed and the man putting the woman "toward the wall". I couldn't fig... |
2018/02/14 | 1,361 | 5,279 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a question somewhat related to [another question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/19468/how-to-approach-potential-advisor-whos-going-on-sabbatical) about advisors on sabbatical.
I started what I thought would be my final semester of my PhD (applied math) in January. I hav... |
2018/02/15 | 355 | 1,501 | <issue_start>username_0: In [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/32274/is-it-better-to-submit-a-paper-to-a-journal-normal-issue-or-wait-4-months-and) both answerers suggest that papers in special issues are likely to receive more attention and citations than those in "normal" issues. [Wiley](htt... |
2018/02/15 | 475 | 2,068 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a grading system is used in which grades vary between 1 and 100. Grades below 50 are failing grades. If I want to grade the students on the normal curve, which grade should I choose as the mean of the distribution? In other words, what should be the mean of the new grades? The number 50... |
2018/02/15 | 916 | 3,976 | <issue_start>username_0: Before submitting a review for a manuscript, I noticed the appendix possibly contains an author name, but I don't know him/her. My file explorer automatically shows files' metadata, including author name.
The review should be double blinded. Should I inform the editor?<issue_comment>username_1... |
2018/02/15 | 334 | 1,352 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a respected conference. Reviewers accepted but commented this
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> Novelty of the topic! Abstract could be better
> explained and have figures.
>
>
>
Ok, I understand that I need to highlight novelty and more info, but having the figure? what does that mean? Graphical abstract? gr... |
2018/02/15 | 2,177 | 9,556 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a graduate student is found to be noticeably or even significantly behind in overall academic and research competence. For example, they may have significantly weaker language and comprehension skills and technical skills such as using a computer or navigating the web. They may also be ... |
2018/02/15 | 1,332 | 5,318 | <issue_start>username_0: According to Stanford's Computer Science graduate admissions department this year:
>
> 110 students were accepted. Nearly all accepted applicants were from Stanford (BS/MS), MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, Michigan, Texas, Washington, Tsinghua, and the other ivy leagues. About 10-20 were from non-t... |
2018/02/16 | 1,426 | 6,074 | <issue_start>username_0: In a statement of purpose (for graduate admission, in mathematics), how can one address the question of "why do you want to attend this university?" without making it sound like I'm stating the obvious or giving out gratuitous flattery?
In paticular, for reference's sake, I'd be interested in... |
2018/02/16 | 513 | 2,265 | <issue_start>username_0: If I have an internet presence where I am published on some websites, would that affect my chances of getting into grad school? More specifically, do grad schools google their applicants before getting accepted for a PhD program? For example, if someone posted some defamatory things about me on... |
2018/02/16 | 1,339 | 5,786 | <issue_start>username_0: I will soon finish my undergraduate degree in math, and I want to study mathematics as a hobby after I graduate.
Online, I see a general trend of people saying
>
> You can't learn real math without collaboration and feedback. Go to graduate school!
>
>
>
But I don't want to go to graduat... |
2018/02/16 | 1,344 | 5,792 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a good question about how to be a discussant [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/79576/how-to-be-a-discussant), but it does not cover my question.
I was chosen to be a discussant for an upcoming seminar (actually, it was proposed to me by the same author I am discussi... |
2018/02/16 | 1,330 | 5,713 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm getting way ahead of myself, but being nervous on the job market I asked an advisor what happens should a candidate receive **zero job offers.** To which the reply was, "That never happens."
I'm sure that some people have had this experience before. I'm in the social sciences in a discipli... |
2018/02/16 | 339 | 1,295 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from Colombia and would like to do grad school in the United States.
It seems in order to study I need to take the SAT and TOEFL exams? Is this correct or does it depend on the university?<issue_comment>username_1: No, you don't need to take the [SAT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT). T... |
2018/02/16 | 1,959 | 8,341 | <issue_start>username_0: During PhD admissions, our department assigns each admitted PhD student both a faculty and grad student contact, and we make every effort to express our excitement and enthusiasm about the student joining our program; often the faculty contact is a prospective advisor. Usually there are some ni... |
2018/02/16 | 1,693 | 7,201 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm looking for a term for describing this writeup of mine which is too long and detailed to constitute a paper, but seems to short to merit being called a [monograph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monograph). Is there such a term?<issue_comment>username_1: I am not a prospective PhD student bu... |
2018/02/17 | 3,620 | 15,055 | <issue_start>username_0: On a math exam recently, the students were asked to use the definition of a limit of a sequence to prove that the sequence given by 3n/(3n+5) converges to 1. Given a positive number Ɛ, the definition requires proving the existence of some number N such that if n>N then |3n/(3n+5) - 1|<Ɛ.
As a ... |
2018/02/17 | 580 | 2,304 | <issue_start>username_0: I got a revise and resubmit after a 4-month review in a decent Psychology journal, submitted a revision and, after another 4-month review, got a provisional acceptance with minor and clerical comments to be addressed, and was asked to submit my response within two weeks. I did response within t... |
2018/02/17 | 719 | 2,983 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, as a fresh graduate with a BSc in both physics and mathematics, I've met up with a mathematics professor from a University in my home country.
During the discussion, he asked for my motivation in collaborating and I've made it clear to him that my objective is
>
> 1) To indulge in ... |
2018/02/17 | 525 | 2,218 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 3rd-year PhD student in Theoretical Computer Science, having started the PhD program after completing my bachelor in Computer Science.
**Questions:**
1. Is it okay for a PhD student in their third year to start publishing?
2. More generally, when may researchers start publishing?<issue... |
2018/02/17 | 758 | 3,090 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two very good admission offers from good universities in the US, and I am having a hard time choosing between them. So much that I am starting to consider less relevant factors, such as the position of the department in the different rankings. I believe that the ranking from the US News ... |
2018/02/18 | 902 | 3,207 | <issue_start>username_0: I have looked everywhere for an answer to this question. I don't often use APA format. In Chicago, when referencing in-text an annual report over a span of years, one simply types: (Smith, multiple years). I'm referencing an economic report, published annually, to analyse performance over a spa... |
2018/02/18 | 924 | 3,811 | <issue_start>username_0: I've come to the conclusion that my advisor is incompetent (he does not have a good understanding of the fundamentals and doesn't know how to judge or generate research ideas). I mainly chose to work with him because he works in the research area I'm interested in. Having interacted with him fo... |
2018/02/18 | 429 | 1,916 | <issue_start>username_0: There really is only one topic that I find interesting, useful and that I have alot of knowledge of. However students of previous years had already chosen this topic and written Bachelors thesis on it.
How bad would it be if at least half of my thesis was already researched in previous years t... |
2018/02/18 | 731 | 3,317 | <issue_start>username_0: I have extensively researched about a new area as part of my Doctoral research and want to write and publish a review article in some Science Citation Indexed (SCI) journal. But the problem is that there are only about 20 articles published till date on this new area. I have seen many review pa... |
2018/02/18 | 2,705 | 10,987 | <issue_start>username_0: Not sure how this happened but I will have a postdoc interview with someone prominent in many fields, prominent even at their already prominent university, and who publishes in top journals with astonishing frequency.
How should I handle this interview knowing (and I do know) that I do not hav... |
2018/02/18 | 1,960 | 7,675 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm doing a PhD in mathematics at one of the world-leading universities. I spend a lot of time engaging in science communication: both speaking (talks for general audience, some of them quite successful) and writing (popular science blog, I started to publish also in some magazines). Even thoug... |
2018/02/18 | 2,381 | 10,539 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate electronics and communication engineering student (sophomore) at an Indian university. I joined this engineering course because I found the areas of quantum computing/information and quantum engineering quite interesting, and I felt an EE background would help me later on t... |
2018/02/18 | 704 | 2,972 | <issue_start>username_0: My master's mentor was a PhD student in my university.
I had an interview in a Dutch University for a PhD position, and the committee made me feel weird about my former mentor being a PhD student. Although the University and my supervisor have said it was okay, I am still a bit worried about m... |
2018/02/18 | 1,268 | 5,302 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been hearing things like nothing you write in an email is confidential in state universities because of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or other similar state laws.
**Questions:**
1. Can I file FOIA request to see all the emails that a professor receives including all of their un... |
2018/02/18 | 5,859 | 23,747 | <issue_start>username_0: If you want to teach mathematics at a high school for example, then why do you need to study it at a university? You will learn new stuff, but you won't teach anything of that at a high school.<issue_comment>username_1: On one hand, when I myself was in high school I was wondering about the sam... |
2018/02/19 | 443 | 1,936 | <issue_start>username_0: Say I have three names viz... Firstname Middlename Surname. My first name is quite long. My supervisor is requesting that I only use my Middle and Surnames. This occured with my first manuscript with him (he has two short names). Although, I have one publication (with my full three names) befor... |
2018/02/19 | 5,511 | 23,651 | <issue_start>username_0: I read a similar question
([Knowing that most students submit assignments right around the deadline, is it advisable not to set deadline that is very late at night?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/50035/8802))
about setting assignment deadlines at different hours of the day
(e.g., 9 AM, n... |
2018/02/19 | 685 | 3,089 | <issue_start>username_0: Usually to be accepted by a PhD program by a reputed university the admission committee looks for candidates who have made research contributions to the desired field (specially through publications). A Masters student however only starts his/her research work in the last semester and even if s... |
2018/02/19 | 682 | 3,032 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a PhD with concentration on continental philosophy in Hong Kong (my MPhil also had the same concentration too), but I am really interested in political theory and political science and often audit relevant courses. I am wondering whether it is possible to get another PhD of political... |
2018/02/19 | 451 | 1,835 | <issue_start>username_0: Can I put some references in the research article conclusion to clarify my future work?<issue_comment>username_1: The two main functions of a reference are:
1. Make sure that you don't take credit for someone else's work.
2. As an "external appendix", e.g. "you can read more about this in ..."... |
2018/02/19 | 552 | 2,220 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been thinking how I proctor and design exams, and I suspect (from things I hear) that there is much more cheating than I find evidence of. What are the most common ways university students cheat, say in a large lecture math or science class? For instance, some possible ways are:
* looking... |
2018/02/19 | 456 | 1,902 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m an executive in digital marketing for a Fortune 100. I have 14 years of experience. But I am a college drop out. To grow in my career I’m competing with highly educated people.
What are my options academically to add to my resume?<issue_comment>username_1: If you have 14 years experience, ... |
2018/02/19 | 759 | 3,270 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student and doing Ph.D. in Physics at a US university.
My teaching assistant (TA) duty is to tutor undergrad students. I am supposed to solve whatever problems undergrads bringing to me. The problem is that I do not know which problems they are having to prepare in advanc... |
2018/02/20 | 1,252 | 5,456 | <issue_start>username_0: A large portion of students in a class I'm taking did very poorly on the first project that was assigned in the class. The professor has decided to allow students that did not get full points on the project to increase their grade on project 1 by a percentage of their project 2 grade.
However... |
2018/02/20 | 1,691 | 7,034 | <issue_start>username_0: I was doing literature review and I came across a paper which is in the area of my interest but has been retracted because of duplicating the figures (technical drawings) of other papers.
Can I cite this paper in my literature review?
Also, is it ethical to work on the topic of this retracted... |
2018/02/20 | 333 | 1,359 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a Ph.D. position at Netherlands and I see that there will be a promoter and an advisor. I have never seen such a title as "promoter". What is the difference between the two titles?<issue_comment>username_1: As far as I understand, in the Netherlands, only full professors may b... |
2018/02/20 | 947 | 3,661 | <issue_start>username_0: The word "paper" on this site seems to be extensively used to refer to serious *scientific* publications/articles by PhD students and other researchers.
Now I am coming across its use by students completing a diploma in legal executive studies — which is not even bachelor's degree level. Here ... |
2018/02/20 | 1,991 | 8,113 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is prompted by two very similar examples reported online: [this one](https://medium.com/@dinachka82/the-teens-will-save-us-af5448b4ddfd) ([also on Twitter](https://twitter.com/dinachka82/status/965270163011620864)) and [this one](https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/... |
2018/02/20 | 1,482 | 5,156 | <issue_start>username_0: If I was invited to give a talk but was not able to attend, could it be listed under invited talks in a CV? My point is that there was an invitation and it worth to show it. Similarly, a paper can be accepted for a conference and no one of the authors presented it but it was published in the pr... |
2018/02/20 | 512 | 2,114 | <issue_start>username_0: As a theorist my chief capital costs are software and computers (for large calculations and simulations). If starting at a new institution I would ask for these in my start up budget (about 20k USD). But in 5 years these items might all be obsolete and incompatible. What do I do then?
I unders... |
2018/02/21 | 458 | 1,879 | <issue_start>username_0: If a paper is too long, I was advised to split it into two papers. What is the general opinion of reviewers/editors on having "Part I", "Part II" literally in the title of the papers?
Or is it better if I replace "Part I", "Part II" by more descriptive titles?
Thanks. (My field is in Math.)<i... |
2018/02/21 | 424 | 1,598 | <issue_start>username_0: Usually preface is written in books and myself personally have not seen it in a thesis.
But, can a master's or doctoral thesis contain a preface?
Thanks<issue_comment>username_1: It's your work, so unless there are rules to the opposite, I would say go ahead. Many theses contain acknowledgme... |
2018/02/21 | 907 | 3,885 | <issue_start>username_0: As an example let's take the [University of Southampton, Malaysia branch](https://www.southampton.ac.uk/my/). At face level, the university opened a branch in Malaysia because it's a symbiotic relationship: the university earns more revenue + spread its brand name, and Malaysia gets to leverage... |
2018/02/21 | 663 | 2,792 | <issue_start>username_0: I did an honours degree last year (4 year undergrad study with a research thesis). My supervisor shafted me towards the end of that year when I was coming up to submit my thesis by being absent with his own life issues and barely communicative, and gave me back drafts literally days before it w... |
2018/02/21 | 431 | 1,743 | <issue_start>username_0: I am considering applying to a university for a Ph.D. The university wants to know about papers I published - I heard that traditionally the first author (of e.g. 4) is often considered the main one.
I published 3 papers - I did have guidance by a Professor on how to choose a structure, but i... |
2018/02/21 | 1,532 | 6,357 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated in 2016 with a 2:2, which I feel was lower than what I could have achieved.
I had had some minor issues before starting university, however I had an amazing support system and managed to get these in check. I completed my first year with only the normal issues (homesickness at firs... |
2018/02/21 | 1,232 | 3,728 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently accepted a TT asst prof position in computer science at an elite SLAC in the US.
During my job search I perused <NAME>'s book "The Professor is In", and I found it very valuable, especially to reflect about different aspects of the job search process that I hadn't considered.
I'm ... |
2018/02/21 | 494 | 1,993 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a senior undergraduate student in computer engineering considering applying for Ph.D in the US. In my country we use a grading system based on percentages rather than GPA and it works as follows:
* 85-100% ---> Distinction
* 75-85% ---> Very Good
* 65-75% ---> Good
* 50-65% ---> Pass
My ... |
2018/02/21 | 3,078 | 12,825 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a mathematician. I recently formulated a conjecture, and was working toward proving it. Another mathematician I know only via email also conjectured the same around the same time.
I now managed to prove the conjecture. I think it is an important result.
However, my paper on this is not r... |
2018/02/21 | 2,123 | 8,897 | <issue_start>username_0: Does anyone experience a situation of blank mind during their presentation?
I had a presentation in last month in USA. My presentation was going very well, probably due to enough practice, but during the presentation my mind suddenly went blank at a point. The situation became so worse that I ... |
2018/02/21 | 732 | 3,208 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently developing the lesson plan for a large (~100 students) survey course in history for the fall semester. Since this is my first time as instructor of record for the course I'm having some problems balancing how I would like to teach the course (several books worth of reading) with f... |
2018/02/21 | 970 | 4,244 | <issue_start>username_0: We are re-writing a bunch of our lab manuals for a first year circuits course. We want to make a mix of focused questions ("what was the voltage across X?") and thought-provoking questions.
At the moment, the "thought provoking" questions in the current lab manuals are all variations on "comm... |
2018/02/21 | 856 | 3,905 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm curious about the pros/cons of including extra flavor text in quiz/exam questions.
For example, which would be better?
1. > What is the product of this reaction?
2. > The following molecule is found in a marine plant species, and has shown to inhibit cancer cell growth. One possible reaso... |
2018/02/21 | 1,431 | 6,115 | <issue_start>username_0: I know it's a free process and it depends on reviewer if they want the data and for author if they want to submit it.
**Questions:**
1. What are the chances of a reviewer asking for data?
2. Why might reviewers ask for data?<issue_comment>username_1: I've seen hundreds of reviews as an editor... |
2018/02/22 | 937 | 3,940 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm finding that this is a problem for me.
All of my papers have been solo efforts so, naturally, nobody else is really invested in them before I submit to journals. After I submit a paper, I either notice mistakes or cannot resist making significant stylistic changes. Then I send a revision ... |
2018/02/22 | 1,785 | 6,981 | <issue_start>username_0: Can anyone chime in whether if it is socially acceptable for a (graduate) student to directly contact renowned academics outside your immediate research department with comments on their work or your work?
*This is under the assumption that you are not a crank or a stalker or someone who is tr... |
2018/02/22 | 2,145 | 9,070 | <issue_start>username_0: I’ve been in correspondence via email with a potential PhD supervisor who has agreed to take me on. After a few emails back and forth and polishing my proposal with his guidance I submitted my application per his instructions.
It’s been a little over two weeks since I submitted. He suggested we... |
2018/02/22 | 483 | 1,959 | <issue_start>username_0: When I submitted my manuscript for a special issue of IEEE journal 3 months ago, the status of my article was:
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Yesterday it changed to:
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2018/02/23 | 560 | 2,345 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a two-word last name which gives as full name something like "<NAME>" (just an example) with "Mike" the first name and "<NAME>" the last name (no middle name).
I have published few conference papers and I noted that Google scholar is referencing me (author's name in the results) as "<N... |
2018/02/23 | 197 | 874 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd want to know whether the third recommendation letter is important. In other words, whether the order of recommendation letters is important in applied maths or all the letters of recommendation are equally important.<issue_comment>username_1: If somebody asks for your letters of reference, ... |
2018/02/23 | 315 | 1,194 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that you already have an advisor and an ongoing project. Suppose that you are willing to get a "side gig" and that there is a professor you know at your school who is working in an area that interests you (which is not your main area of interest though).
How do you preface and then as... |
2018/02/23 | 1,917 | 8,426 | <issue_start>username_0: This question follows from a MathOverflow question, ["*Why should one subscribe to print Journals*"](https://mathoverflow.net/questions/293667/why-should-one-subscribe-to-print-journals?noredirect=1#comment728974_293667).
It seems obvious to me that having print journals in a library is benefi... |
2018/02/23 | 611 | 2,641 | <issue_start>username_0: The question is self-explanatory actually.
Should I attend Seminars/Conferences that give Certificates upon achieving some number of attendance? And do they have any worth if I/ to put them in my CV?
I'm an undergraduate student currently in Electrical-Electronical Engineering program and eve... |
2018/02/23 | 1,001 | 4,279 | <issue_start>username_0: I have self-funded, 8-page long research which is highly suited a famous researcher, in both their academic and personal interests. How should I ask them for comments and advice? I am not asking them to be my advisor or to provide me funding, but a direction to continue my research. A letter of... |
2018/02/24 | 1,703 | 7,569 | <issue_start>username_0: Completed an essay worth 30% of our grade over the Xmas period and were given incredibly strict instructions (no sources other than the 10 pages given, 1200 word count, marked 50% language and grammar [german] and 50% content). Got my grade back and got 32% which is my first ever fail of my lif... |
2018/02/24 | 212 | 950 | <issue_start>username_0: The authors of a paper explicitly wrote that they included their code as a supplementary file, and the file is actually available, however, it only includes the header and no code whatsoever. Is it possible to make the journal take notice and correct this issue?<issue_comment>username_1: If a f... |
2018/02/24 | 281 | 1,112 | <issue_start>username_0: I already have a PhD, but now I'm graduating with a Master's in another field from another university.
**Question:** What academic robes do I wear?
I know it is normal to wear the regalia from the highest award but that seems strange in this case.<issue_comment>username_1: You should probably... |
2018/02/24 | 281 | 1,169 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the process of reviewing a journal submission and noticed that one of the figures is composed of a cropped out piece of a figure from another work. The authors don't cite the figure as coming from this work but do cite the other work elsewhere in the manuscript. Would this constitute as ... |