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2018/03/26 | 1,768 | 7,741 | <issue_start>username_0: I had recently developed a method and submitted as a manuscript to a journal. Out of four reviewers, three accepted the method and asked for some clarifications about the method:- 2 with major revision and 1 with a minor revision. But the left one,say X, has rejected and just written one line i... |
2018/03/26 | 2,704 | 11,166 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in a quite competitive sub-field of computer science. In computer science, we have the publication culture where people publish mostly in the proceedings of different conferences. As in other sub-fields, we have several conferences that are super selective and thus highly prestigious, an... |
2018/03/26 | 1,021 | 4,441 | <issue_start>username_0: In a single sentence in a homework for a historical overview I mention that:
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> Video games [in academia] became relevant only after the new milennium. Before that, topics concerning video games mentioned them mostly as an application of computer graphics, but did not as a major part of rese... |
2018/03/27 | 684 | 3,085 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently have both my bachelor's and master's degree, and have accepted admission into a doctoral program starting this September.
Most engineering doctoral programs allow you to get a master's *while* in the doctoral program. In my case, it only requires taking one extra class and writing ... |
2018/03/27 | 731 | 3,220 | <issue_start>username_0: I've receiced double-blind reviews of a paper I submitted a while ago. However, it seems that only one reviewer actually seemed to "get" the point of the paper: They showed flaws in my work but also appreciated some parts and the review was in general very helpful to me.
The others, however, c... |
2018/03/27 | 443 | 1,950 | <issue_start>username_0: After writing the first draft of my paper, I sent the proof to an expert in my area. He responded my email in a neutral way, something like: I think if your argument is true then it would be nice,... I suggest you may read the paper ... to ...
Now, I would like to acknowledge him in my paper,... |
2018/03/27 | 2,536 | 10,785 | <issue_start>username_0: I personally see no practical difference between dropping out of a PhD program and quitting a regular job, at least considering the way PhDs work in the US, especially in STEM fields, but I'm sure many people will disagree. Please let me elaborate why I think that way, and let me know if I'm be... |
2018/03/27 | 384 | 1,633 | <issue_start>username_0: Please give an idea about the ideal length of a brief research statement and its format. Should I write about the research that I have done in my Ph.D. or should i propose a new research idea for post-doc research?<issue_comment>username_1: 1. I have often seen a limit of 2 pages, i.e. one shee... |
2018/03/27 | 1,364 | 5,942 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my master thesis in game theory and realized one type of situation where I am often stuck for a long time and feel frustration creeping in. It is, to no surprise, when facing a complex situation: one with too many variables or different cases to look at.
Example setting: I build ... |
2018/03/27 | 730 | 2,797 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing my BSc Physics dissertation and I'm using LaTeX with BibTeX so the format of the references is all correct, but there are a number of other papers that I talk about at several points throughout the paper. When referencing one of these papers do I need to include a referenc... |
2018/03/27 | 1,062 | 4,691 | <issue_start>username_0: As an undergrad, I took a wide variety of courses, but focused on one or two fields and took advanced courses only in those, and those fields are my strengths. I intend to do a PhD, but now I'm applying for Master's programs, and I actually want to focus on the fields that I received little to ... |
2018/03/28 | 3,675 | 14,834 | <issue_start>username_0: Everyone grows old, grow less dexterous and energetic, lose cognitive ability, and so on. In most jobs these don't matter that much since one doesn't need to be the best, and "good enough" is good enough. However, academia is unique because it lives and dies on ideas. Without ideas, there is no... |
2018/03/28 | 454 | 1,983 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in computer science, working in theory. I was recently reading a research paper, which was submitted to a tier-3 conference last year.
It gave me some idea (which may not work), which is a kind of incremental, but yields a significant improvement of the run time.
The only pr... |
2018/03/28 | 477 | 2,135 | <issue_start>username_0: We are currently reproducing several papers in a specific sub-field of computer science under different experimental conditions. When we submit the paper, we will be required to declare people who may have conflicts of interest. Most of the original authors of the papers we are reproducing are ... |
2018/03/28 | 1,118 | 4,877 | <issue_start>username_0: I am having the following trouble. Within a collaboration I was asked to prepare and pre-characterize some samples. I did so and sent the samples along with a report on the characterization results.
A year later I received a first draft of a paper: some paragraphs related to the collaborators ... |
2018/03/28 | 1,270 | 5,471 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m not a native English speaker but my reading ability is good. However, when it comes to academic books, I feel that my comprehension is slow. What strategies or methods can I use to help me improve that? I am in the field of computer science.<issue_comment>username_1: You are not alone. Even... |
2018/03/28 | 1,682 | 7,414 | <issue_start>username_0: I am teaching a course in a college and assignment homework on a regular basis. Usually I collect all homework in the class and later my student secretary grades all the homework and return them to the students through the mail room. If a student did not turn in the homework at all, a zero will... |
2018/03/28 | 1,747 | 7,350 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to write a journal article about real-world algorithms solving a practical problem for an IEEE Computer Society transactions journal. The section outline currently is as follows:
1. Introduction
2. Related work
3. Problem definition
4. Simple algorithm for a simpler problem that ... |
2018/03/28 | 298 | 1,269 | <issue_start>username_0: I've read posts from journal editors on Academia Stack Exchange that the first thing they do is check the word count of submitted articles.
How do journal editors check the word count of submitted articles, considering that authors may submit articles in pdf format with numerous tables and fig... |
2018/03/28 | 276 | 1,108 | <issue_start>username_0: I do not understand NSF grants.
Does the researcher make any money from them? I mean, if they spend 10 hours a week working on the project, are they compensated? Can they be compensated directly from NSF funds? Not to sound greedy, but let's say I'm a tenured professor who's perfectly capable ... |
2018/03/29 | 869 | 3,583 | <issue_start>username_0: As a final year student (B.Sc.) I wrote a paper, but didn't keep my supervisor as co-author since he hadn't contributed at all (in research and paper-writing). I am about to submit my paper to a journal(single-blind peer review).
Does the chance of being accepted a paper to a journal increase... |
2018/03/29 | 2,628 | 11,240 | <issue_start>username_0: In my PhD thesis, I often used the first person singular during the description of the problem and the discussion of the results. One comment from the reviewer states that because I did not use the third person, the entire thesis must be revised accordingly.
I understand that in a journal arti... |
2018/03/29 | 762 | 3,043 | <issue_start>username_0: I am talking about computer science. Recently I did survey on my own i mean informally. I find out that there are some researchers who were able to do PhD in same area in 4 year as compare to other researcher who did their PhD in 6 or 6.5 year's in the same research area. Is it depends upon the... |
2018/03/29 | 260 | 1,074 | <issue_start>username_0: I had several interviews in December-February in R1 universities for tenure-track assistant professor positions in a life sciences field.
I was told that they would get back to me in March, so I emailed them and some have not replied back and some said to wait some more.
So, I was wondering... |
2018/03/30 | 1,289 | 5,246 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm always baffled that the preamble in introductions in scientific papers is pretty much always the same for papers dealing with the same topic. And yet, no two papers have the same introduction, since doing so would be plagiarism. Even worse, one cannot even copy this preamble from papers one... |
2018/03/30 | 590 | 2,524 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a junior economics major who wants to get a masters and then possibly a PhD. I know that math background is a very important component of economics grad school admissions and so I'm also minoring in math. The problem is is that I haven't taken either real analysis or an upper-level linear a... |
2018/03/31 | 224 | 940 | <issue_start>username_0: I served as a judge in a science competition for high, middle and elementary school students. I am confused if I can put this activity in my resume. Also, I do not know in which section I need to include if I can put this on my resume.
Thanks!<issue_comment>username_1: What is this resume for?... |
2018/03/31 | 567 | 2,084 | <issue_start>username_0: Astronauts aboard the ISS help perform plenty of experiments during their flight. Do they get listed as co-authors for the research they help conduct?<issue_comment>username_1: [Here](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/results_category) is a page collecting research performed o... |
2018/04/01 | 2,315 | 9,934 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied to and been offered admissions to a masters program in a U.S. university, but I'm still waiting to hear back from some other places. The deadline to accept is before the 4/15 national deadline for funded graduate programs (as the program I've been accepted to is not funded).
I'v... |
2018/04/01 | 718 | 3,072 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a manuscript A, ready for submission, that describes a method for characterizing topographic features (computer sciences). I also have another manuscript B, ready for submission, that uses the method from the manuscript A where I extract the features I want and do some statistical analys... |
2018/04/01 | 847 | 3,466 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing for a timed post-graduate test (for example, GRE, GMAT etc.). I get hung-up on questions where I don't immediately find a path, and then beat myself over not doing it fast enough while I am still on the question. This further increases my time on the question by taking focus away... |
2018/04/01 | 653 | 2,639 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated with a PhD after 2 years (I was very efficient) and even though I have already received my degree and moved out of town, I'm still getting a stipend deposited into my bank account. I contacted my advisor about it but my advisor didn't reply at all, so I don't know what to do about t... |
2018/04/02 | 1,196 | 5,094 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking to publish a paper in computational biology. However, I have no affiliation (I have been affiliated with some institutions in the past, but am not currently affiliated with anyone now). I am also looking for a journal that will publish with no charge as I am low on funds.
I unders... |
2018/04/02 | 3,689 | 15,842 | <issue_start>username_0: Warning: The following are stupid questions. (Read in Kiefer Sutherland's voice)
**Question 1** Is it weird or stupid to apply for a research assistant post at some university or research institute, and not a company in industry, with the purpose to gain research experience to boost profile fo... |
2018/04/02 | 451 | 2,040 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a review paper and I came across a literature in which measurement of force is given in pounds and likewise for other quantities. In all the other papers, only the SI system of units is followed. Should I use the units used by the author or should I convert the measurement values t... |
2018/04/02 | 507 | 2,285 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Master's student. I have one problem. I have regular meetings with my research supervisor, but during the discussions he takes me in the wrong direction. This often leads to him coming to the wrong conclusions about my work.
For example, he will read half of a statement and try to concl... |
2018/04/02 | 1,067 | 4,358 | <issue_start>username_0: So I currently have a job in software that I really enjoy, however I've always wanted to do research, so I applied to a PhD program in CS to study formal methods and security. I've accepted an offer from the school I wanted to go to and met my adviser who seems amazing and I have full funding f... |
2018/04/02 | 722 | 3,019 | <issue_start>username_0: What's the difference between these newer computational science PhD programs and PhD programs in the traditional math, physics, cs, and engineering depts?
From checking out a few of these CSE programs online, it seems that they are *programs*, and *not* departments, in general, so that the pr... |
2018/04/02 | 1,140 | 4,889 | <issue_start>username_0: I am the lead co-organizer of a symposium at a technical conference later this year. The abstract submissions are now closed, and I'm working on slotting the talks into sessions. With the number of abstracts we have in hand, I'm planning to spread them across three sequential sessions in a sing... |
2018/04/02 | 897 | 4,011 | <issue_start>username_0: [**This**](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/14971/84565) question contains this:
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> 2. After months of work as an RA in a research group, at the end of the semester, my adviser informed me that he was not satisfied with my research and would not continue to fund me.
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I am just c... |
2018/04/02 | 972 | 4,289 | <issue_start>username_0: Since this is a longer story, let me first give some background:
We submitted a publication to a journal in the field of engineering. The article remained on the status “with editor” for more than two months. Our inquiries with the editor-in-chief and through the publisher’s contact form were ... |
2018/04/02 | 1,542 | 6,438 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently wanted to read one conference paper and one journal article. The conference paper is named [Division by invariant integers using multiplication](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Division+by+invariant+integers+using+multiplication). By clicking on the "All 9 versions" link on Goog... |
2018/04/02 | 2,205 | 9,228 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been struggling a lot recently with stuff thats been going on, I'm in therapy and receiving help but I'm still having a really hard time. I have a professor who's always asking if I'm doing okay even though I've never told him anything about what's been going on. The other day he came up t... |
2018/04/03 | 818 | 2,649 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to see how a given paper has impacted its own discipline and then spilled over to others.
Let's take Nash's paper on Equilibrium points in n-person games as an example. This work has eventually yielded him a Nobel prize and has +6k citations on Google Scholar.
I'm assuming it must ... |
2018/04/03 | 3,061 | 12,200 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a master's student in the US studying international relations, and I had a negative experience in one of my classes last week. It is my last semester of my master's program, and I feel very exhausted from being a student. I have a story about what happened in one of my classes last week, a... |
2018/04/03 | 291 | 1,190 | <issue_start>username_0: Can I do an internship during my first semester of college in a state other than the one where my university is located?<issue_comment>username_1: My understanding is that you generally cannot. F-1 visas holders are allowed to hold part-time (up to 20 hours/week) on-campus jobs during all semes... |
2018/04/03 | 953 | 3,583 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to know what license needs to be chosen in ***arXiv*** for a paper that is to be sent to an IEEE journal, ***IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)***.
[Arxiv licenses](http://arxiv.org/help/license):
1. non-exclusive and irrevocable license to distribute th... |
2018/04/03 | 4,156 | 17,315 | <issue_start>username_0: I spent more than half a year with a PhD supervisor, and am not happy with both aspects: relationship and academically. With time, it becomes obvious that our field of research doesn't match. He reassured me that he had sufficient knowledge on my topic, but it turns out that he doesn't. I'd say... |
2018/04/03 | 302 | 1,438 | <issue_start>username_0: When I write a paper comparing my algorithm to someone else's, how should I make sure that the results are not skewed because I implemented the other algorithm poorly? Is it acceptable to write that the other algorithm was implemented to my best knowledge?<issue_comment>username_1: It is usuall... |
2018/04/03 | 366 | 1,600 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that this question is related to a workflow of a journal and have tried to look at the answer of this specific query but am not able to find a specific answer anywhere else. The query is
I had send a paper to a reputed journal. Its status for the past month was "Review in progress... |
2018/04/03 | 1,052 | 3,558 | <issue_start>username_0: When citing two articles from the same author using different initials, one should cite each article with the relevant initials, even if they are different. This is answered [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/25993/how-to-cite-with-inconsistent-use-of-initials).
But what about... |
2018/04/03 | 809 | 3,409 | <issue_start>username_0: It seems nonsensical and backwards that university institutions can attract students by boasting with their brand value or exorbitant tuition fees rather than focusing on the actual educative quality their institution has to offer. Likewise, from the perspective of employers, it would be better... |
2018/04/03 | 449 | 1,845 | <issue_start>username_0: I read a very recent paper that describes something I am only starting to study. Basically, it looks like authors of the paper have covered almost everything that can be explored in the topic.
How can I know if there is room left to research the topic? Should I approach the authors with a simil... |
2018/04/03 | 1,254 | 5,120 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an undergrad degree in linguistics, and a masters degree in natural language processing from a department of linguistics. I would like to continue research work in natural language processing, but change fields to computer science. How can I make this happen? Many say its not possible, b... |
2018/04/03 | 694 | 2,808 | <issue_start>username_0: All PhD students are getting their PhD from a university (as far as I know).
1. But some PhD students follow a PhD program that is just a standard program at their department (e.g. department of math, or physics, or sociology), do research under a supervisor who is just affiliated with the de... |
2018/04/03 | 1,812 | 7,757 | <issue_start>username_0: Obviously, if you choose to either do a PhD in English literature, or in mathematics, this choice will heavily determine the possible career paths you can later take.
But to what extent does the choice between two different topics within the same discipline influence your career possibilities?... |
2018/04/03 | 992 | 3,913 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in computer science. I wrote few simulation programs, designed the experiment for a chemistry work with my colleague. I have no idea about the principal aim of the research; I was only involved with simulations and computer experiments. Also, I know that this publication (paper) will not... |
2018/04/03 | 1,175 | 4,843 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergrad teaching assistant of a physic BSc student's lab. My job is reviewing the (usually 8-10 pages long) reports the students make, arriving in electronic format. During the review, I add short comments (1-2 sentences) to the document: things like *"that's false because this and tha... |
2018/04/04 | 662 | 2,638 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a prospective PhD math student. This year's application season has brought me down to two schools to choose from:
1. Medium-sized department, ranked <80 on US News (whatever that means), very welcoming people, potential advisor is very young but seemed like we would "click", surrounding ... |
2018/04/04 | 574 | 2,416 | <issue_start>username_0: The UK offers a Post Graduate Certificate of Education which certifies teachers domestically and is useful in the international school system.
As an American teaching abroad, I am looking for an equivalent.
What is the US equivalent to this?<issue_comment>username_1: **There is no such certific... |
2018/04/04 | 696 | 2,903 | <issue_start>username_0: I revised and resubmitted my manuscript (rejected with the chance of resubmission) to the same journal. I listed all my answers to the reviewers' comments at the beginning of the document. Later, the editor asked me to highlight the changes in the text to make it easier to track them. Since I a... |
2018/04/04 | 694 | 2,878 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in mathematics education. As a part of my thesis, in the last year I designed a learning environment for tablets, similar to a computer game. The program is designed for children ages 6-10.
Up until now, I have not tested the program with any children, only some preliminary ... |
2018/04/04 | 703 | 2,919 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an early-career academic in a humanities subject and have been offered my first book contract. The offer is from a reputable international commercial publisher, which has published several recent and important works in my field.
The publisher has offered an advance payment of c.$700/£500 ... |
2018/04/04 | 1,638 | 6,923 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in Mathematics. I have solved my original thesis problem, and that will probably one or two papers, at least one of them very good. After that, my advisor basically told me: "Here is this paper that I wrote (together with two other very strong professors), there are some... |
2018/04/04 | 1,074 | 4,431 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the potential motives for an industry recruiter to want to know your PhD GPA?
Does this imply the position is more of an office drone position than a pure research position?<issue_comment>username_1: The most likely motive is your recruiter believes PhD GPAs are as relevant as underg... |
2018/04/05 | 965 | 4,057 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it okay to publish my thesis when it was done 2 yrs ago?
I defended my master's thesis in February 2016 but the data gathering was done in October 2015 and the final revision was submitted to my university in March 2016.
I thought of submitting my thesis for journal publication. Do you th... |
2018/04/05 | 1,060 | 4,663 | <issue_start>username_0: I was admitted to several Phd position and I am considering most interesting two labs. Their fields are similar and both interesting to me. The problem is, one lab has more general topic, but the other has more specific topic.
The 'A' lab is focusing on brain-inspired AI. It aims to develop d... |
2018/04/05 | 410 | 1,776 | <issue_start>username_0: This question concerns a problem related to a paper submission in the field of psychological methods. As part of the review process, I was asked by the journal's editor to provide my appendices as online documents at an author-controlled site, and not in the main text (simply to shorten the pap... |
2018/04/05 | 1,258 | 4,961 | <issue_start>username_0: I intend to apply for a call for a postdoctoral position. Is it necessary to contact professors before sending my application formally? If so, which documents should be sent? Is my CV enough or should I also send a research statement?
My field is mathematics and I am applying to positions in F... |
2018/04/05 | 2,309 | 9,867 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a master's student, and over the course of my studies I've conducted a few independent studies in which I investigate specific research questions that I formulate on my own. Those independent studies have culminated in final papers, and I then use the material in those papers as part of art... |
2018/04/05 | 777 | 2,939 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m an incoming grad student at a US university and I’ve been asked to set up my email alias. The university doesn’t have an explicit policy on what the aliases should look like, but I’ve noticed most faculty and grad students have gone with either of the following:
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> <EMAIL>
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> <EMAIL... |
2018/04/05 | 328 | 1,274 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently sent a thank you note to one of my college professors via email and never got a reply from her. I have not heard from her in a week and being that she is retired I would have thought that as a courtesy, she could have replied to my email (i.e. thank you for your kind words). Is it no... |
2018/04/05 | 814 | 3,361 | <issue_start>username_0: Although I do research in science as my day job, I spend most of my free time for my life-long hobby, drawing cartoon. But I keep this fact in secret to my research co-workers since the culture of scientific community and that of comics artists are quite different, and I'm tired of looking like... |
2018/04/05 | 1,765 | 7,174 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to ask you for an opinion on how to act in the following scenario.
A year ago, some colleague PhD of me has suggested an open problem to me. This problem was already published in his paper, which is on arXiv.
He suggested that problem to me and invited me to collaborate on it.
Ho... |
2018/04/05 | 1,282 | 5,341 | <issue_start>username_0: I am curious as to whether there are any accepted standard rules on when to cite, or not to cite, a published correction (erratum/corrigendum) along with a paper.
The meanings of these terms are [not universal across all publishers](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/119623/17254), so for the... |
2018/04/05 | 631 | 2,024 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for US equivalents of Russian academic titles, such as "<NAME>" and "Doctor Nauk". I've done my research and come up with a list of translations of these terms. I'd like to know which of these translated titles are the most recognized/appropriate in the US academic world and whethe... |
2018/04/05 | 387 | 1,555 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student that is about to graduate. Sometimes professors whom I know personally (and/or have collaborated with before) will say "Come work in my lab as a postdoc!".
However, when I approach them after a few days/weeks/months, they inform me they would like to hire me, but do not hav... |
2018/04/06 | 2,876 | 11,682 | <issue_start>username_0: The importance of a recent PhD’s [GPA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_point_average) was recently dismissed in another question ([What does an industry recruiter want to know my Ph.D. GPA for?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/107603/what-does-an-industry-recruiter-want-to-know... |
2018/04/06 | 1,140 | 5,006 | <issue_start>username_0: I am struggling a lot these days while presenting in front of my supervisor. I make many mistakes, sometimes very stupid mistakes, and he is now saying, "You need to avoid these mistakes." I am not able to focus on theorems, lemmas, etc. but instead focus on things like how to avoid mistakes in... |
2018/04/06 | 1,381 | 5,822 | <issue_start>username_0: I am part of a masters student's thesis committee for the first time in my career, and am unsure what I should be doing be during the question session following the public presentation. I have read the whole document and have made comments about edits and corrections I would like the student to... |
2018/04/06 | 2,949 | 12,318 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc at a European University. However, I am planning to quit my postdoc in a month or so since the research environment and the city life is not to me liking.
Also, I work with a Professor who is very polite, but also very busy with meetings. My salary comes from the project he admi... |
2018/04/06 | 629 | 2,498 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering if anyone knows of any studies that indicate whether students read online texts more or less than hard copy texts.
I am in the midst of trying to "reboot" the intro stats class I teach and a big question in my mind is how effective the text is. Active learning (like the flipped ... |
2018/04/06 | 1,309 | 6,011 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a decision on my manuscript, requiring Major Revisions. One referee thinks one of my result is abnormal and contradictory with previous findings.
After checking my raw data and analysis and I found I did make a big mistake about the calculation. I know my carelessness brought the co... |
2018/04/07 | 1,269 | 5,818 | <issue_start>username_0: When considering to publish a *paper* in a research *journal*, the journal's reputation itself is what people usually care about, rather than the editor's expertise and scientific status (although high-standing journals usually have well-known researchers as their editors).
Does the same rule... |
2018/04/07 | 582 | 2,331 | <issue_start>username_0: I've researched the "rules" regarding use of tenses in scientific writing. However, I'm still not sure how to describe the simulations I've done during my thesis.
Just a simple example:
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> **1:** An example model was developed to simulate the behavior during
> compression.
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Here... |
2018/04/07 | 2,140 | 8,290 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any research/study/survey/dataset that looked at to what extent the wealth, connections and alumni donation of a parent help their children be accepted into a college in the United States?
(E.g., a notorious case: [John F. Kennedy's Harvard application](https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/... |
2018/04/07 | 1,319 | 5,797 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergrad currently working in the lab with a great professor and doing interesting work. I promised the professor that I would take more relevant courses related to the research I'm working on to help me with my research.
However, I found that there are some other courses that are mo... |
2018/04/07 | 1,189 | 4,328 | <issue_start>username_0: I found [an exam online from the MIT](https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-093j-optimization-methods-fall-2009/exams/MIT15_093J_F09_mid_2008.pdf) that states:
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> You have two hours (academic time, 110 minutes) to complete the exam.
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What is this *academic time* ... |
2018/04/07 | 699 | 2,736 | <issue_start>username_0: [This journal issue](http://al-qantara.revistas.csic.es/index.php/al-qantara/user/setLocale/en_US?source=%2Findex.php%2Fal-qantara%2Fissue%2Fview%2F34) has contents that are grouped as "article" or "monographic section". What's the difference between these two sections?
I checked the dictionar... |
2018/04/08 | 6,098 | 24,741 | <issue_start>username_0: I was just at a conference where I met another grad student who - upon learning about my specialization and university affiliation - excitedly asked me if I knew Dr. -- and if he was my advisor (she's a fan). Deer in the headlights moment for me, as I did know Dr. --; he had been my advisor - o... |
2018/04/08 | 1,497 | 6,487 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a third year undergraduate at a good university studying computer science. I am planning to apply to top graduate schools when I finish my undergrad and I need a bit of advice.
In the first two and half (5 semesters) of my studies, I took the most challenging CS/Math courses in... |
2018/04/08 | 1,001 | 4,515 | <issue_start>username_0: Associate Prof. X is committed to reproducible research and makes his code available. He authors a paper with Dr. Y and others.
Dr. Y is the first author of the paper and the code is shared on Ass. Prof. X's website. It is clearly stated in the paper that the code produces the graphs in the p... |
2018/04/08 | 630 | 2,832 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to graduate with my BS and I'm trying to decide whether it's worth it to submit a paper for publication in an undergraduate journal, given that I've already applied to and picked a PhD program and I start on the fall.
What sorts of papers, presentations, and awards that I received as... |
2018/04/08 | 3,288 | 13,689 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in computer science (theory). I am worried about my productivity. I try to do as much as possible. I used to take four courses per semester during my first two years of studying. Now I have started doing research. In the last 4 months, I have only read 2-3 proofs and one rese... |
2018/04/09 | 795 | 3,462 | <issue_start>username_0: A master's program that I want to apply to is asking for two letters of recommendation. I can get one of them, because I am very close with a professor that I'm doing a research project for, and I'm doing a good job in it.
But the second letter might be a problem. Basically, I have other profe... |
2018/04/09 | 5,443 | 22,989 | <issue_start>username_0: This year I prepare a new course (in programming, but it could be any other course). I spend a lot of effort in creating homework exercises. This is fun, but also very time-consuming.
I wonder if I can use the same exercises next year, when I teach this course again. The main problem is that, ... |
2018/04/09 | 1,904 | 7,898 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my postdoc last year end of Aug. and have been unemployed ever since (not completely, I've been doing freelance work to support myself, but not research-related). The rest of time I've spent (1) applying to academic positions (mostly R1, some R2), (2) finishing writing manuscripts le... |
2018/04/09 | 1,202 | 5,289 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** I am a first-year PhD student in pure mathematics studying subject X. With my supervisors, I recently published on arXiv a paper on a particular example A that explores how X works when applied to A. My contribution to this paper was partial (a couple of proofs and calculations)... |
2018/04/09 | 1,249 | 5,012 | <issue_start>username_0: The title says it all. In many universities you see coaches for a team in some popular sport hanging around for many decades. I was wondering if in general those people had a status of tenured professor or equivalent, or if on the contrary they can be "fired at will", if for example the perform... |
2018/04/09 | 392 | 1,615 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interviewing within a couple of days for a position. As far as I know, that position has been rejected by at least one candidate before me.
I know why the position was declined in the past, this aspect of the job was discussed with me.
However, I just realized that the College has started... |