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2018/04/24 | 778 | 3,386 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a situation. I want to apply for Ph.D programs in the United States at the end of this year. And right now, there are many programs in Europe open for application. Hence, I wonder if I should try to apply to them, get accepted and then refuse the scholarships.
Is it ethical? I am worrie... |
2018/04/24 | 2,110 | 8,617 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the throes of writing my first substantial research paper in the field of Information Science. The topic looks promising and my advisor seems pleased with the work. Because of the nature of the work, there are a lot of intermediate steps involved in obtaining the raw data, preprocessing ... |
2018/04/24 | 1,522 | 6,149 | <issue_start>username_0: As an undergraduate student, I wrote a science paper. Because I was learning to write, I used the form and structure of a paper on a completely different topic; in fact, it was a slightly different discipline all together. So my paper has a similar layout, transitions, and structure as said pap... |
2018/04/24 | 795 | 3,501 | <issue_start>username_0: ArXiv expects (La)TeX sources to be submitted rather than a PDF. But - if you build a document on a different system - different TeX distribution with different updates - you are not guaranteed to get exactly the same result. Worse than that - some packages/functionality which you're using may ... |
2018/04/24 | 788 | 3,130 | <issue_start>username_0: Judging by a lot of the questions on this site, a career in Academia sounds very grim. Lots of pressure, extreme working ours, few benefits, mediocre salary, and, because one has to work with so many different people (supervisors, students, collaborators, HR, editors, etc., etc), one is more li... |
2018/04/24 | 1,488 | 5,688 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm interested in the academic history of creating a bibliographic reference list. The time period is early 1990s. I want to understand how former researchers have done their writing.
**Introduction**
25 years ago in the year 1993 scientific publishing was not done with Internet but somehow e... |
2018/04/24 | 742 | 2,985 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently I am reading a textbook (in financial mathematics), and the bibliography is just huge. Pages upon pages of books and articles and whatnot. I'm talking hundreds of sources.
Did the author really read all of those things during the course of writing the book? Is that normal?
Or is it... |
2018/04/24 | 983 | 4,167 | <issue_start>username_0: I can't seem to find a answer regarding this point, I would like to know what the usual timeline from the point of application (for tenure track faculty position) submission to contact for interviews looks like. I have applied to numerous positions, some in February of this year. More than half... |
2018/04/24 | 445 | 1,835 | <issue_start>username_0: I maintain a technical blog (posts are in direct correspondence with my interested field of study) which has around 150000 followers. I have two questions:
(a) Do I mention the number of followers in my SOP/CV?
(b) Would mentioning the fact that I maintain this technical blog have any impact ... |
2018/04/24 | 768 | 3,420 | <issue_start>username_0: In the United States, if anyone, be it a relative, a colleague, potential employer, or colleague, requests to the pertinent department, in the university I study/ied in, certain information about myself, will they be able to have it?
Is all this information, such as grades, year, internships I... |
2018/04/25 | 778 | 3,299 | <issue_start>username_0: I am concerned to the fact that how a professor whom I am asking to write an LOR, **will change the name of the person every time before sending**? I am applying to like **100 different persons** for the position of postdoc. Does it really matter that it should be addressed appropriately (name ... |
2018/04/25 | 854 | 3,520 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a post-doc offer in physics from a German University. The position has a fixed three-year term, which might be extended up to three more years. The original position description says that this is the A13 Z position, *Akademischer Rat auf Zeit*. It corresponds to a *Beamter*, or civil... |
2018/04/25 | 1,569 | 5,784 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently accepted a new academic position in the Netherlands. Netherlands has a generous so-called 30% rule for high skilled expats:
>
> you are paying taxes only for the 70% of your income and the rest 30%
> is given to you as a tax-free allowance. This, in practice, means
> about 20%... |
2018/04/25 | 1,045 | 4,411 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been given comments for a major revision from a respected journal. But suddenly, I guessed with a high probability that a person who is a long time adversary of my supervisor may be behind this comments and he won't be satisfied no matter what I do.
What should I do? Can I disclose a c... |
2018/04/25 | 637 | 2,691 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a working professional and I wish to try working on some research projects after 9-5 job. My average skills doesn't allow me to be a part of big research groups, however, I would still like to volunteer (little or no pay expected) and work with a research group for some time and experience... |
2018/04/25 | 652 | 2,788 | <issue_start>username_0: It is becoming common for authors to upload raw data of their research when publishing their papers. However, it is still a small fraction of papers include the dataset.
Is there a way to search for papers whose data are available in repositories?
My field is computational chemistry, and I ho... |
2018/04/26 | 1,890 | 7,779 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a theoretical/mathematical physics PhD student in Brazil. I still have little more than a year until my PhD finishes, and as far as tradition goes, it's soon time to look for a post-doc position somewhere.
Brazil has recently suffered a coup d'état, with its legitimate president ... |
2018/04/26 | 1,308 | 4,736 | <issue_start>username_0: I remember reading a while ago that there was a proposal going around in the European Parliament. If I remember correctly, it said that all publicly funded research should be publicly accessible.
Did the proposal pass? Is it in effect? What are the exact requirements? (e.g. "green" vs "gold" o... |
2018/04/26 | 719 | 3,351 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm doing a PhD in computer science. I've been working in my research question for a year and a half now and I still didn't publish any article yet. Lately, I found out an idea that can improve the current solutions. I believe my idea can provide better results than current tools. But, my quest... |
2018/04/27 | 1,048 | 4,248 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently finishing a paper, and I am writing the acknowledgements section.
There is a colleague with whom I have discussed several times about the question answered in the paper, who certainly spent some spare time thinking about it, and suggested some interesting ideas. However, none of... |
2018/04/27 | 682 | 2,864 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> **Situation**: I started my PhD (Pure Maths) in January 2018. My research interest lies on functional analysis but not on applied side.
> If possible, I would like to stay at academia as a Maths researcher or lecturer (or even better, professor).
>
>
>
Recently I came across a few co... |
2018/04/27 | 2,839 | 10,545 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not an American, but I know that the number 101, often used postpositively, is used to mean fundamentals/rudiments of a particular scholarly subject. I know (partially as a hunch but I also looked it up) this is because introductory courses in American, or maybe North American college are g... |
2018/04/27 | 562 | 2,446 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm drafting a job offering for a paid PhD position at a German university. It's a temporary position, so it's offered under the terms of the *Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz*, a German law that limits the number of years that people can be employed with temporary contracts by German universiti... |
2018/04/27 | 428 | 1,794 | <issue_start>username_0: A reviewer of my paper told me that the discussion section is not well developed.
What does this mean? What should I work on to improve my discussion section?<issue_comment>username_1: If the reviewer says the Discussion section is not well developed, it suggests you either need to cover more ... |
2018/04/27 | 1,063 | 4,470 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently [asked about the ethicality](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/97826/ethicality-of-continuing-my-ph-d-with-intentions-of-leaving) of staying in a Ph.D. program (first-year) while attempting to transfer to a different university that I had declined previously. Unfortunately... |
2018/04/27 | 1,522 | 6,443 | <issue_start>username_0: I am little confused about the goal of PhD in the middle of my PhD. I used to think that PhD is equal to Research but in the middle of my PhD I find out that it is much more than only research. It involves TA work plus some other academic work and research also. Before joining the PhD my goal w... |
2018/04/27 | 2,481 | 10,034 | <issue_start>username_0: When you turn in a manuscript to an academic publisher, they may insist (referring to their style guide and publication process) that ***all*** figures are placed on top/bottom of the manuscript's pages rather than exactly where you need them (e.g., in the middle on one page and on top on anoth... |
2018/04/28 | 2,378 | 10,146 | <issue_start>username_0: It was recently shared with me that a professor in my department (and if anyone saw my question about [the verbally abusive ex-advisor](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/107777/how-do-i-talk-about-my-abusive-former-advisor-if-people-ask)...yeah, same guy) offered one of his PhD stude... |
2018/04/28 | 986 | 4,055 | <issue_start>username_0: In a recent manuscript, we used a first principles calculation A and used it to explain experimental results B. A and B are based on existing methods, the novelty primarily lies in combining them and going from theory to real world application.
The reviewer gave several comments (fair & helpfu... |
2018/04/28 | 559 | 2,366 | <issue_start>username_0: A reviewer of my paper told me that "TABLES & FIGURES: To many and difficult to follow in text. Not optimized for readers" What does this mean? What should I work on to improve my paper?<issue_comment>username_1: It means what it says:
1. there are too many figures and tables
2. In the main t... |
2018/04/28 | 400 | 1,712 | <issue_start>username_0: There is already one review article on a topic of interest published few years ago. I want to write a review paper on that broad topic with some new insights.Can I cite the papers that are already used in that older review article?? Or should I only use the newer research articles which were av... |
2018/04/28 | 305 | 1,368 | <issue_start>username_0: When calculating my GPA in major, should/can I only count courses that are meeting the requirement for major or should I count any course on the same topic and from the same department as my major? For example, if my major is Physics, and I have completed my major with courses A through J, but ... |
2018/04/28 | 601 | 2,485 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my master’s thesis. It is like a survey and contains lots of theorems with or without proofs. Everything that I am writing, I studied and proved before. However, I see that I forgot some proofs or even definitions and cannot do it without looking at the books. So, I am st... |
2018/04/29 | 956 | 3,977 | <issue_start>username_0: This summer I have arranged to do research under the advisement of one of the professors at my university in the field of Computer Science. I am still and undergraduate, looking to go into graduate school (eventually to PhD) and would like to test out if research is for me.
My overall questio... |
2018/04/29 | 1,125 | 5,064 | <issue_start>username_0: My institution uses Moodle as our learning management system. I want to send some information to each student that is personalized to each student but without any other students seeing it. This is a need I often have from time to time, but my most recent need is to give each student a unique ID... |
2018/04/29 | 1,667 | 7,130 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just completed my PhD in Mathematics and accepted a job as a visiting assistant professor. The course I am assigned to teach allows me to pick the textbook I wish to use.
I am currently looking for lower-cost/free textbook options for my students, and I have found a textbook that I rea... |
2018/04/29 | 1,090 | 4,577 | <issue_start>username_0: Like many Americans, after last year's Equifax fiasco, I froze my credit with the big three. I'm on the job market, and at least all the Universities in the US do (or will do) a background check on the tenure-track faculty candidates (not sure if schools from other countries do so for internati... |
2018/04/30 | 726 | 3,116 | <issue_start>username_0: I am mid aged person going back to school and planning to take MicroEconomics I and Econometrics in the Summer. In order to take these classes, I am planning take Calculus as Pre-requisites.
However, we have two levels of Calculus taught in Summer. Calculus - I which is of beginner's version ... |
2018/04/30 | 1,798 | 7,554 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree, in Computing Information Systems (IS) and in Information Technology (IT), respectively, at a university in Australia four years ago. Both degrees are from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
In back home, computer science j... |
2018/04/30 | 576 | 2,702 | <issue_start>username_0: In computer science, we usually implement our work into algorithms and codes. So in order to compare our work to others, we also need to implement their approaches as well.
But the problem is that usually there are recently published works in each area which have used complicated mathematical... |
2018/04/30 | 413 | 1,660 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to submit my doctoral thesis, one of the optional things we can do in our university is having a photo of author on the back cover of hard copy of thesis. I have no idea for that. How do you think about that?<issue_comment>username_1: It is very likely that nobody except you and the ... |
2018/04/30 | 2,135 | 8,966 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a junior research fellow with a bit of a luxury problem. I am in a field with many good, open problems. I have a grant which could easily support salary for a couple of exchange PhD students for say, six months, to solve some of those under my supervision - but how do I find those?
I have... |
2018/04/30 | 1,079 | 4,689 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student who is currently undertaking a Master of Physics (coursework & research) at the University of Western Australia. I have also previously completed two Bachelor's degrees: one in physics and one in electrical engineering (with honours). Next year, I am hoping to start a PhD in high-... |
2018/05/01 | 617 | 2,524 | <issue_start>username_0: After doing research for a while, I figured out a topic (1) that nobody has done it before (2) and I think It's pretty cool and valuable (3) to the community in my field. So, I proposed the idea to my professor with some drafts. But, my professor told me to find out if there is any interest in ... |
2018/05/01 | 2,245 | 9,348 | <issue_start>username_0: We are preparing a new paper and my supervisor tells me that we have to put the name of a person on our paper because he was involved in getting us the grant. He says it is because of future grants and that we want to show that he was involved in the research -- and obviously he was not. I thin... |
2018/05/01 | 856 | 3,727 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the more efficient way of self-teaching, when the return is diminishing? Keep on trying? or study more basic stuffs?
I am currently teaching myself a few subjects, but I have noticed that the learning curves are quite tricky now and then. Sometimes, it gets steep at the beginning, then... |
2018/05/01 | 1,264 | 5,319 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an Italian Ph. D. candidate in Linguistics and I am in my penultimate year. My research focuses on nominal structure in Southern Italian Dialects, Balkan and Indo-Iranian languages.
I would love to work on a post-doc in Iran. Does anyone have experience on doing one in Iran? Would it be ... |
2018/05/01 | 1,699 | 6,756 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student who works in theory. I have been patient but nowadays I am losing my temper, patience, etc. Many publications have been rejected as well as my proposals for grants. I have submitted one research paper which was also recently rejected.
I am working very hard but also feeling... |
2018/05/01 | 763 | 3,240 | <issue_start>username_0: I do research on particular elites of a particular society and rely heavily on interview data. In one fortuitous dinner, at the table behind me sat three people who are exactly the people I wanted to get access to.
Furthermore, they were discussing something that I am precisely investigating! ... |
2018/05/01 | 556 | 2,320 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a medical student planning on taking a year off in the middle to do research. I'm currently at the same intitution as when I was an undergrad (~4 yrs ago) and want to do research in roughly the same area. I did a decent amount of research as an undergrad, all in a single lab. The research a... |
2018/05/01 | 1,125 | 4,053 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to use [this image](https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/how-close-are-we-to-a-real-star-trek-style-medical-tricorder) of a Star Trek tricorder in my PhD thesis as cover art for an "Outlook" style chapter. It is listed as being under CC-BY-SA. I believe this is fine, but I wanted ... |
2018/05/01 | 2,664 | 11,208 | <issue_start>username_0: I've noticed many situations where a researcher will put their spouses as co-authors in a paper. This is commonly seen in situations where both spouses are in the same field. Valid collaboration between spouses is possible (and exist).
The question is not meant to attack spousal collaboration... |
2018/05/01 | 815 | 3,511 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a review paper and I came across many research articles in which the author tries to explain the cause of the experimental observation, where the observation was the aim and main output of the paper.
Can I include those yet-to-be-verified hypothesis about their observations in my... |
2018/05/01 | 353 | 1,540 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m planning to apply for an internship. There is a professor who represents the school who asked me to submit some necessary documents. He wanted me write a detailed paper about the project I am interested in, and then he will choose the host supervisor for me.
Before that, I checked the lis... |
2018/05/01 | 538 | 2,263 | <issue_start>username_0: I have attended many presentations where one person is presenting work that was completed by multiple people. In most of these presentations, the presenter listed the names of each coauthor in a different way. For instance, two common styles I have seen are:
[presentation slide with presenter'... |
2018/05/01 | 7,806 | 31,037 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that academics are [not paid a single dime on their publications](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/36543/will-i-be-paid-a-percentage-of-the-fee-that-readers-pay-to-download-my-article). In my field (computer science), IEEE, ACM, Springer, Elsevier are some known journal... |
2018/05/01 | 867 | 3,357 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to write an email to the department of an English speaking University (I'm not a native speaker) to clear up some doubts I have regarding enrollment. I have never spoken to them before. How formal should I be?
My questions: is it OK to use contractions ("I've... I'm...")? Is it OK if... |
2018/05/02 | 747 | 2,909 | <issue_start>username_0: I have practically the same question as [in here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/94162/scopus-inclusion-of-papers).
My most read/reference article is published in a Scopus indexed journal. The article is from 2016, and its indexed by Google Scholar.
However, when browsing the pa... |
2018/05/02 | 1,720 | 7,559 | <issue_start>username_0: To give context for the question I have volunteered to do some work for a local charity. The work they do is literally lifesaving and almost certainly something the government should be responsible for, but the reality is that various charities are filling the breech.
What I will do for them ... |
2018/05/02 | 1,537 | 6,529 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like request some advice regarding my situation. Here is a summary: I submitted an article for review for publication in an upper-tier academic journal. I have been published in this journal before and thought I had a good relationship with the editor in chief (EIC). Six months after su... |
2018/05/02 | 607 | 2,704 | <issue_start>username_0: Do committees look down on a candidate reapplying to a PhD program one year after being denied? My field is social science, if that impacts anything. I currently work at a research org and am wondering if it's worth it to apply this year, although I know my CV will be stronger the following yea... |
2018/05/02 | 1,658 | 6,759 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently enrolled in a master’s program in the Middle East, which does not seem to be possible to finish / worth finishing for various reasons. The main problem is the lack of research facilities that would allow me to generate data for my thesis. The facilities that do exist seem to prio... |
2018/05/02 | 473 | 2,091 | <issue_start>username_0: So my friends professor had his class take the final last week, but the problem was that the whole final was online even with all the answers, but he didn't find out till today and he is making everyone of his students retake it, and it got me wondering if that is legal and fair for the student... |
2018/05/03 | 801 | 3,299 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a third year undergrad in a public university in Texas. Because of a personal situation, I'm currently unable to attend most lectures (lately none) of a particular math class. However, I have a friend in my section who keeps me updated with the material covered, homework assignments, and ex... |
2018/05/03 | 1,700 | 7,071 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been offered a PhD position by an inexperienced professor in a great institution in Europe. Despite the fact that the institution is very strong in my area, since the position was offered by this particular professor, I would have to commit myself to working with him for my thesis. This ... |
2018/05/03 | 572 | 1,972 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the British English way of referring to a source in-text.
Is it plural because there are two authors, like this:
>
> X and Y (2011) describe ...
>
>
>
Or is it singular because you are referring to a singular source, like this:
>
> X and Y (2011) describes...
>
>
>
So what... |
2018/05/03 | 503 | 1,824 | <issue_start>username_0: During a UG physics degree , what other certificate/diploma courses can i simultaneously pursue which would be of use in a physics career ?
I hear many colleges offer such optional courses along with main course.<issue_comment>username_1: In literature I generally see references to people much... |
2018/05/03 | 915 | 3,865 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently correcting assignments (pass/fail) for a Bachelor's course in which I am a TA. Students write some code and then discuss their results and approach in a report (in groups of two). My task is to "review a report and provide feedback for students how to improve their report" then t... |
2018/05/03 | 842 | 3,530 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm building a personal website where I'd like to list my publications. Perhaps one of the most efficient ways to do that would be to use or build something that pulls data from an online bib file, and lists entries. I found [BibBase](https://bibbase.org/), but it has only a few options for dis... |
2018/05/03 | 988 | 4,212 | <issue_start>username_0: For my final thesis in university, I have created a dataset of third-party applications for macOS. For each version of each app, the dataset contains the original executable, the original Info.plist file containing app-specific metadata and a couple of other files summarising the app's contents... |
2018/05/03 | 2,173 | 8,932 | <issue_start>username_0: One "rule of thumb" that is often given out by writing centers and tutors (for example, see the [Yale Center for Teaching and Learning](https://ctl.yale.edu/writing/using-sources/understanding-and-avoiding-plagiarism/common-knowledge)) is that anything in a *general-reference* print encyclopedi... |
2018/05/03 | 3,167 | 13,764 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently got "arm-twisted" [2] (by the department chair and the dean of faculty) into passing the whole (undergrad Math) class who appeared for the final (minus that one student who we all knew was not going to make it anyway) by the most lenient grading-on-a-curve I have ever done. Isn't it ... |
2018/05/03 | 921 | 3,740 | <issue_start>username_0: Does anyone know how to write good letters of reference into a Chinese university? I have an awesome former PhD student who is looking at a position that exactly suits their experience. Is China like the USA that you can write something that is all praise, or is it like some countries in the EU... |
2018/05/04 | 1,255 | 5,428 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any quantitative evidence that using social media helps academics disseminate their research results? What about the cost-effectiveness of social media?
My guess is that search engines are much more important than social media, and take less effort?<issue_comment>username_1: An articl... |
2018/05/04 | 2,580 | 11,020 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international master's student in the US. I am currently finishing my last semester of courses.
This semester has been very tough on my personal life because of some family issues. I also had major unexpected technical difficulties with one of the projects which made it practically imp... |
2018/05/04 | 611 | 2,613 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a theorem which requires a lot of notation and explanation and hypotheses in order to state. I usually tend to put all theorem statements in the introduction of the paper so that someone can skim through the introduction to know what the paper is about. I am not sure how to put this very... |
2018/05/04 | 763 | 3,039 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a machine learning manuscript for publication.
In a figure I had two learning curves for parameter 1 (P1) and parameter 2 (P2). Now, the reviewer asked to incorporate parameter 3 (P3) and show the learning curve for that.
The assumption is that the curve for P1 is better than P2 ... |
2018/05/04 | 789 | 3,163 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be starting as a freshman in August 2018 in an undergrad institution. My school does not have the best reputation for mathematics in my country. Although it has a tie-up with another nearby graduate institution, which is the well known to top 10 US graduate program in Mathematics. Some F... |
2018/05/04 | 418 | 1,848 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor and I have an accepted paper in a journal. The journal will publish it online very soon. However, I have decided to leave my current school and continue my education somewhere else. My question: is there any possibility that journal editors will remove my name if my professor asks ... |
2018/05/04 | 1,078 | 4,624 | <issue_start>username_0: I took a university course where the final exam was a multiple-choice type with the answers going into a "scantron" sheet that gets fed into a machine. This is reasonable, since there were about 600 students taking it.
My final grade for the exam was such that I was about 1% short of the next ... |
2018/05/04 | 1,683 | 6,862 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm at a community college in the US.
Early on in the semester, one of my professors made a rape joke. I was too stunned, tired, and sick (I have a moderate physical health condition) to get involved at the time. Now we are in finals. I have spoken to other students and at least one person int... |
2018/05/04 | 447 | 1,939 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a journal in linguistics. It was accepted pending some minor revisions w.r.t. typesetting and a few sentences that had to be reformulated. The reviewers gave eight comments on the introductory section, comprising roughly 1/3 of the paper, and only one on the rest. On the ... |
2018/05/05 | 675 | 2,748 | <issue_start>username_0: What effect might it have on my chances of getting into a graduate school and my employment prospects if it took 5 years (or 4.5 years) to graduate?
My plan currently is to take a double major in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering, while going through all the Japanese and Russia... |
2018/05/05 | 597 | 2,231 | <issue_start>username_0: I've personally witnessed a talented scientist spend a lot of time writing more than one grant for pretty specific geochronology work. On the [question that spawned this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/108956/what-a-phd-student-should-do-when-their-supervisor-orders-them-to-ha... |
2018/05/05 | 597 | 2,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a professor I really care about and our professional relationship as a student/teacher has been growing in a positive direction. The professor has been really kind to me in many ways including giving personal/academic advise and providing motivation towards certain goals.
My professor ... |
2018/05/05 | 518 | 2,283 | <issue_start>username_0: I am presently undertaking research on a particular topic in control systems. That particular topic has a long history and I found a image which summarizes the history in one image only. I want to use that particular image in my presentation. I have also taken permission from the authors of tha... |
2018/05/05 | 843 | 3,275 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I'm writting a (mathematics) paper proving that a famous conjecture is true in yet another special case. Should the introduction to the paper include extensive background explaining why this conjecture is important and what is already known?
On one hand, my first instinct is that, of c... |
2018/05/05 | 482 | 1,729 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper was accepted with major revision and the 2nd reviewer pointed in a comment that the problem I'm tackling in my paper is not obvious or as important as I'm thinking it is...
Yet, almost all of the references I used point out that this problem is a major drawback! And it was the main mo... |
2018/05/05 | 4,426 | 18,176 | <issue_start>username_0: Usually I am quite clear that cheating and plagiarism are unacceptable. Although every semester I have to deal with several cases of plagiarism, I had not expected students to brazenly cheat in exams. A few seconds after one student handed me the exam, as she was leaving, I noticed that she had... |
2018/05/06 | 613 | 2,989 | <issue_start>username_0: I often see PhD students and faculty members describe their research interests on their web pages as something like:
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> I am broadly interested in applied and computational mathematics.
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What is the difference between applied math and computational math?
Do applied mathematicians ... |
2018/05/06 | 550 | 2,574 | <issue_start>username_0: Assessing the impact of an academic paper on other academics can be done (with its pros and cons) using the number of citations the paper attracts. For more detailed information on how the paper influenced the citing work, one can read the citing paper, visit the authors' webpages and even emai... |
2018/05/06 | 4,934 | 20,714 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been following threads on this website for a few months now. However it's my first time posting. I am a postdoctoral researcher from a Western European country who has done reasonably well since my PhD a few years ago in terms of attracting funding, publishing, teaching etc. My professio... |
2018/05/06 | 503 | 2,186 | <issue_start>username_0: Employers often ask job candidates for their transcripts (official or unofficial). How can employers truly verify that what you have submitted is in fact real? Will they send your transcript to the university for them to verify?
It seems to me that the only way to verify academic records would... |
2018/05/06 | 1,544 | 6,668 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing here to get good advice for my career. I completed my PhD in Mathematics last year. I was quite happy after my PhD that I have gained a PhD degree, but I don't have any idea what I could do with this degree. Normally people apply for postdocs after doing PhD to become more independ... |
2018/05/06 | 2,685 | 10,879 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's take the Times Higher Education world rankings. Oxford is first, and the University of Bonn is 100th. (Nothing special about the THE - I just used it to pick examples of a top-ranked university and a lower-ranked one.)
Suppose I'm the rector of the University of Bonn and I want to make m... |
2018/05/07 | 1,608 | 6,577 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is similar to this one
[Career for a mathematician outside academia](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/12239/career-for-a-mathematician-outside-academia?rq=1)
but slightly different: what can I do with an MS in Math degree, if I don't continue for a PhD?
I wrote an MS ... |
2018/05/07 | 626 | 2,420 | <issue_start>username_0: Correct me if I'm wrong: identity of publishers affects quality of a publication. E.g., [OUP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press) and [CUP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press) feels like the most reputable and trustworthy in the UK, as Oxbridge are globa... |
2018/05/07 | 1,024 | 4,501 | <issue_start>username_0: I started my PhD last year in November. I've now heard of an incredibly attractive program that is just starting this autumn, with insanely good working condition (the salary is basically twice as high as my current salary and there are also nice internship options, which my program completely ... |
2018/05/07 | 1,272 | 5,049 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student (middle stage). I have read only 2-research papers from last six seven months. I have seen some research papers in which they have cited around 12-15 research papers and I think this is the case with every research paper. To me it seems unrealistic to read 12-15 research pape... |
2018/05/07 | 979 | 4,279 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated last year (Bachelors in Computer Science) and am currently working in the industry. I am thinking of applying to grad schools next year but don't have any research experience under my belt (did not pursue any research-oriented project during my undergrad, regret it now).
Therefore ... |