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2018/05/07 | 1,680 | 7,191 | <issue_start>username_0: I was working 3 years on a project, that I came up with on my own, worked on my own, published 2 papers on it. I want to drop out of Phd (or take leave) and do start up at this point using my code.
Can I do it? Or because I developed this code while doing my Phd it cannot be used for commerci... |
2018/05/07 | 1,094 | 4,677 | <issue_start>username_0: I got a B- in my biology course this semester and the day I received this grade I checked my requirements for a specific course I want to take next year and it said the minimum requirement was a B-. However when I checked it again the grade is now a B. I am off by 1 point. Can I ask my professo... |
2018/05/08 | 9,203 | 38,191 | <issue_start>username_0: I slept through my 8 am final last Thursday, and I didn’t wake up until 11:50 am. By the time I scrambled to remember what day it was, it was already noon. I frantically sent the professor an email telling her what happened and asked if I could take it in her next section (the syllabus said no,... |
2018/05/08 | 725 | 3,091 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently (one year ago) started work in academia as an assistant professor or a lecturer in NZ system. We don't have tenure track system which is great. I was wondering how long does it take one to get used to academia. I will clarify my question.
I really enjoy research and working wi... |
2018/05/08 | 570 | 2,497 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc working in one university till 1. July. I am leaving for another university after that. During my stay at my current work, I wrote a paper as a first author for a conference that will kick off in September.
Which affiliation should I use? Taking into account that the conference ... |
2018/05/08 | 306 | 1,207 | <issue_start>username_0: I am submitting my paper to a journal that requires to cite Arxiv pre-prints within the content of the submitted article (presenting the same work) to avoid self-plagiarism. How would I practically perform such a citation:
* In which section of my manuscript should I cite the Arxiv reference?
... |
2018/05/08 | 620 | 2,377 | <issue_start>username_0: In connection with Scholia (<https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/>), we are making OpenStreetMap plots online with the tiler from Wikimedia Foundation. When presented online OSM-derived maps are not a problem. However, if we take a screenshot, use that as part of a scientific article (likely a "C... |
2018/05/08 | 2,101 | 7,167 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering about the health aspects of black boards and white boards.
Black boards have now been around for centuries. Their only detrimental health effect is the chalk dust. Some senior colleagues tell me that they are having breathing issues after several years of teaching. Then again, i... |
2018/05/08 | 384 | 1,618 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated 8 months ago with 7 SCI article published. Recently, I submitted another article based on my thesis work. My supervisor, who actually has no supervisory role in my thesis except for providing a monthly stipend, wants me to add him as a co-author. He argues that he supported my resea... |
2018/05/08 | 781 | 3,447 | <issue_start>username_0: Is a degree in physics the same everywhere in terms of what is being taught or are there differences from one institution to the other ?<issue_comment>username_1: There are not only differences between institutions, but also within institutions. For example, at [MIT](http://web.mit.edu/physics/... |
2018/05/08 | 562 | 2,515 | <issue_start>username_0: I have discovered that a co-author has submitted a book chapter to a major publisher omitting my name of co-author list without me knowing. I was included in the first submissions, but corresponding author made an executive decision to not include me, based on unknown grounds. I have substantia... |
2018/05/08 | 6,683 | 28,499 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a master's student, and I will complete my master's program soon. During my second year of my MA program, I had to work on a two-semester group project because it was a requirement for the program. **My question is the types of critical issues universities care about because universities s... |
2018/05/09 | 750 | 3,124 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ever appropriate to ask to be included in an acknowledgements section of a paper?
I contributed bug fixes to proofs in a CS paper without which it would have been incorrect in significant ways. Others who made writing-level contributions were acknowledged. As a female student, I worry I ... |
2018/05/09 | 716 | 2,947 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a permanent email aliasing from my previous institute. My current academic affiliation (let's pretend it is Horvord University) does NOT give me a permanent email address.
Now, I am going to submit a paper to a journal and I wonder if it is considered professionally appropriate if I li... |
2018/05/09 | 764 | 3,092 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just completed an M.Sc. in Economics with a specialisation in Development Studies from a reputed university in India.
* I am interested in eventually working in the development sector.
* I have a reasonable level of interest in doing research in areas related to development economics.
*... |
2018/05/09 | 873 | 3,775 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a part-time PhD student coming towards the end of my first year – I have another five years left. My PhD is in Music and I do like my topic a lot. However, in the last 18 months I have also become very interested in an area that is not that related to music – computing and open source. I s... |
2018/05/09 | 443 | 1,934 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm asking this from the perspective of the future supervisor. After a round of interviews I approached the highest ranked candidate. My error was not including a deadline in the initial email.
Now a week has passed from the last response I got from the candidate. I have sent another reminder... |
2018/05/09 | 727 | 2,981 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently my paper was accepted pending major revisions (i.e., not yet accepted), and while following the reviewers' comments and revising my paper, I realized that both reviewers missed a mistake that I made in a function block diagram. What should I do?
1. Correct it and let them know in the ... |
2018/05/09 | 1,076 | 4,276 | <issue_start>username_0: My book manuscript of ca 250 pages was accepted by a publisher. The book contract obliges me to either prepare an [index](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(publishing)) myself or to delegate the task to the publisher, who in turn would hire a freelancer at my expense, which the publisher est... |
2018/05/09 | 1,706 | 6,906 | <issue_start>username_0: **TL;DR**
**I want to maintain full time status *for now* but my department is asking me to switch to part time status, I'm not certain that is a good idea since international students need to maintain a full time status. I'm being asked to sign and hand over a form giving up my power to be a... |
2018/05/10 | 402 | 1,673 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an interview today (my first one) for a teaching stream position at a college, and I'm unhappy with a couple of my answers.
Should I just consider the matter closed and send a follow-up email to the committee thanking them for their time? or is it appropriate to include a few remarks and... |
2018/05/10 | 762 | 3,256 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a PhD in the USA. I already have a masters in France and a 5 year bachelor. I didn't think it was a bad idea to take courses again in the US, as I am changing of area. My acceptance was recomended by an advisor who is paying partially my stipend (I receive 73% of my stipend from my g... |
2018/05/10 | 523 | 2,113 | <issue_start>username_0: I asked my professor to write a letter of recommendation for me. She said she would in general be happy to do that. I am quite self-conscious and worried, I would like to send an email back and say thanks, but I don't want to sound overly grateful. Since English isn't my first language, I would... |
2018/05/10 | 686 | 2,801 | <issue_start>username_0: My BSc thesis was on general relativity
MY MSc thesis was going to be on modified theories of gravity and cosmology, in hope of pursuing a PhD in this area or similar one day.
I know replies are going to be why would you want to do a PhD in an area you don't want to do master's level research ... |
2018/05/10 | 2,262 | 9,213 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 5th year PhD student, and I have been writing scientific papers for conferences for a few years now.
One constant in the feedback that we get from reviewers is what I call, for lack of a better definition, the "you didn't consider this" comment.
I am working on an emerging technology, l... |
2018/05/10 | 787 | 3,228 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** I started my undergraduate career in computer science and transitioned to mathematics leaving computer science as a minor. I have just recently completed my Bachelors in Mathematics with a research project in Galois theory, algebraic geometry, and additive number theory. For the... |
2018/05/10 | 1,781 | 7,699 | <issue_start>username_0: "A", an independent researcher, has accepted a tenure-track offer\* and will be starting in few months from now. "A" also has few manuscripts that are currently under review in high impact journals. Say that 1-2 manuscripts are accepted before "A" joins his/her new institution, will it be ethic... |
2018/05/10 | 643 | 2,556 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second-year assistant professor who is hoping to make a pre-tenure move to a school/location that is better for my family. It is not a situation where my current department is bad or toxic, but I think my partner (job) and kids (schools, time with relatives) would be happier elsewhere.
... |
2018/05/10 | 1,288 | 5,319 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been offered a <NAME> Fellowship as a PhD researcher. That means I would be employed by the business school to carry out 3 years of a PhD project approved by European Commission. I would simultaneously have the status of a PhD student and a business school employee.
However, the busine... |
2018/05/10 | 1,256 | 5,345 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 19 years old. I was average in high school in Mathematics. I never participated in IMO or related competitions. As a result I didn't join a prestigious undergraduate school. However during 2nd year in abstract algebra courses I developed an obsession for the subject. My advisor told me to ... |
2018/05/10 | 484 | 2,184 | <issue_start>username_0: When transfering a rather complex equation from another authors published article, to a computer programming language such as R, does the intellectual property of the script itself belong to the programmer?
Or would it be like translating, say a quote, to a different language?
Does it depend... |
2018/05/11 | 4,091 | 16,772 | <issue_start>username_0: So I lecture at a university on the department of mathematics and statistics, and this year I am teaching calculus for future mathematicians. One good thing about the mathematics course is that very seldom I have seen students cheating, since people who choose the academic path are more bound t... |
2018/05/11 | 1,086 | 3,726 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm from the UK, and currently writing my dissertation. I'm citing several sources from publishers in the USA, and am unsure what the best practice is for writing the place of publication. The publisher is based in Hoboken, New Jersey. I could write it in any number of ways:
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> <NAME>. (2011... |
2018/05/11 | 938 | 4,107 | <issue_start>username_0: I came in as a liberal arts major freshman year, and by around February realized it wasn't what I wanted to do.
I took general chemistry last summer. By the end of the summer, I had begun working in a research lab and was already on track to graduate with the rest of my fellow biochem majors. ... |
2018/05/11 | 674 | 2,900 | <issue_start>username_0: How is it received by the readers to see the dedication in, say, Chinese, while the entire other parts of the thesis or a book is in English?
Would that annoy the readers who do not know the language of the dedication?
Would that be considered as "putting private message in a publicly-designat... |
2018/05/12 | 1,410 | 6,139 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a terrible situation. My two supervisors said that my thesis (about to be submitted) is borderline because I do not have any published paper (two submissions only). It is because I tried hard to submit A/A\* journal.
My program does not need the paper though, but it sorts of culture a... |
2018/05/12 | 923 | 4,030 | <issue_start>username_0: Some universities have a rule that, for example, "if it appears that a student in your class may be guilty of academic misconduct, you must promptly ask the student to meet with you informally to discuss your concerns." The [quote](http://www.uwc.edu/sites/uwc.edu/files/imce-uploads/employees/p... |
2018/05/12 | 1,052 | 4,512 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to submit my thesis. At the moment, I am looking for jobs, but my relationship with both of my Ph.D. supervisors is not good. Now I am facing another complication where I have to find a recommender for a job. I am too scared to get them to be my recommender, yet I will probably have ... |
2018/05/12 | 250 | 1,007 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there universities that offer PhD in Mathematics without GRE or TOEFL in Europe?
I have completed my Masters in Applied Mathematics with a cgpa 8.0. I am keen to pursue research in Mathematics but I am not aware about the same. I would highly appreciate the comments in this regard.<issue_c... |
2018/05/12 | 2,599 | 10,701 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a follow-up question to [What does it take for a lower-ranked university to compete with a top-ranked one?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/109274/what-does-it-take-for-a-lower-ranked-university-to-compete-with-a-top-ranked-one).
<NAME>'s answer says that "Faculty will gen... |
2018/05/12 | 1,790 | 7,749 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Background
I am organising and conducting the exercises for a graduate course.
The exercises mainly exist to give the students the opportunity to learn by doing.
However, the students also need to participate to some extent to be admitted to a final exam.
Exercises are given out as homewor... |
2018/05/12 | 1,211 | 5,234 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student. At the beginning of my study, my supervisor told me that they are able to help me with my topic. However, later I found that they cannot even understand what is my topic. They wasting my time for more about one and a half year without any comments or help with my topic. Then... |
2018/05/12 | 198 | 874 | <issue_start>username_0: Or will some journals reject submissions if you have already published them on a website?<issue_comment>username_1: To make sure what your rights are, including:
* preprint publication before submission
* preprint publication after acceptance
* publication of revised version
* publication of p... |
2018/05/12 | 2,051 | 8,693 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read a few posts here about the matter, but I don't think other posts fully address the situation I'm in. I apologize if this thread is redundant.
I would like to do research in the future, I think getting a Ph.D might be a reasonable step to take (if I were to be capable of doing resea... |
2018/05/13 | 743 | 3,041 | <issue_start>username_0: How does one find postdoc positions after completing a physics Ph.D.?
Does there exist a central website listing opportunities?<issue_comment>username_1: The journals/websites that advertise faculty positions in physics will also advertise postdoc positions. In North America, the canonical plac... |
2018/05/13 | 356 | 1,459 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to add some additional results after submitting the "complete" thesis to advisor. I must add that my advisor has already sent the thesis to Ph.D commission.
The additional results are *not* a correction of the thesis. I just want to add some more results to it.<issue_comment>us... |
2018/05/13 | 7,350 | 29,525 | <issue_start>username_0: In academic work, when we are writing or have written a paper for example, there might be strong feelings of shame about the work done or to be done. These feelings can get in the way of finishing or revising the paper, or sending it to colleagues. These feelings may often lead to the writer fe... |
2018/05/13 | 815 | 3,344 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student and will be teaching my first class in the fall. I would like to have an engaging class. Meaning that I would rather not just stand at the front of the class and lecture the entire time. I have had some teaching experience with smaller class sizes (up to 20) but am not sure h... |
2018/05/13 | 4,243 | 17,961 | <issue_start>username_0: I will try to keep this as short and concise as possible.
I am a 3rd year PhD student in theoretical physics (condensed matter theory) in a US university. I worked for a certain professor for a year and things seemed to be going well, until he announced one day that he could not continue worki... |
2018/05/14 | 1,039 | 4,076 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to choose a scientific paper template in LaTeX for a Deep Learning (Artificial Intelligence) project. I think the AAAI or the IEEE are interesting, however, I'd like to know under which terms I can use their templates if my work is not intended for publication. (I am also open to sugge... |
2018/05/14 | 364 | 1,524 | <issue_start>username_0: The class and year has ended. I wanted to meet with a professor who served as a great mentor with me during this year. I wanted to thank her in person and discuss pedagogy. I unexplainably dissed her by leaving at the end of the last class without thanking her or saying goodbye.
Feeling great ... |
2018/05/14 | 728 | 3,131 | <issue_start>username_0: I am finishing my Master's degree in Mathematics and will be enrolled in a PhD program in the U.S. starting from fall. In my country (Russia) we have thesis as a mandatory requirement for all degrees (including BSc and MSc, not just PhD). I hoped that my Master's thesis would be good enough to ... |
2018/05/14 | 750 | 3,157 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the Humanities, and I have a rough idea about the general field I want to work in. I have identified several professors who also work in this field. However, I am not sure how I can now find a topic for my dissertation. I am reading and reading, but as of now, I do not have a great idea... |
2018/05/14 | 483 | 2,035 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in statistics, writing the methods and data analysis section of an epidemiology paper. I used an obscure but highly relevant statistical method to analyze our data. I genuinely believe this is the first novel application of this method outside of toy problems in highly t... |
2018/05/14 | 620 | 2,793 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm hosting an academic competition, and I need to get the word out to any peers that may be interested in participating. My advisor told me to search for academic mailing lists, but I can't find any. What are the best venues to get the word out about academic information? I'm particularly inte... |
2018/05/14 | 2,032 | 8,647 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read about many great researchers in various fields who were not involved in academia throughout their lives. Some were involved in academia only part of their life, but almost invariably, their greatest work came after a period of solitude and isolation from others. In fact, most great ... |
2018/05/14 | 1,877 | 8,403 | <issue_start>username_0: Related: [How to motivate students to complete low-point homework?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/23420/how-to-motivate-students-to-complete-low-point-homework)
One of my undergraduate professors had a similar problem to the OP's in the above question, that is, that students wou... |
2018/05/14 | 1,027 | 4,676 | <issue_start>username_0: When you email a professor to inquire about an available PhD position is it a good idea to ask if they have any available projects?<issue_comment>username_1: Would I use this policy? No. Is it so unreasonable that I'd call it bad practice or unethical? No. After all, blowing off small tasks wou... |
2018/05/15 | 1,352 | 5,687 | <issue_start>username_0: I am well aware that, when it comes to preparing to give a talk at a conference, "practice makes perfect". The problem is that, realistically, it tends not to be possible to find an audience for more than one or two run-throughs, so the only remaining possibility is to practice on my own.
Unfo... |
2018/05/15 | 2,965 | 11,619 | <issue_start>username_0: tl;dr: please skip to the last paragraph.
I am currently an international undergrad at an US university, studying math. I am currently thinking of going to graduate school and becoming a university professor after that.
My dad thinks that there must be some unforeseen and implicit racial/ethn... |
2018/05/15 | 390 | 1,368 | <issue_start>username_0: Someone has a title Lord and is a Professor. How will I address a letter? And what will the correct manner be after Dear?<issue_comment>username_1: Looking at this link, [Professions](https://www.debretts.com/expertise/forms-of-address/professions/), as provided by [erstwhile editor](https://ac... |
2018/05/15 | 4,445 | 16,994 | <issue_start>username_0: *Moderator note:* A [follow-on question about how to avoid the behavior described here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/109937/how-can-i-avoid-being-intolerant-and-unsupportive-of-diversity-at-scientific-mee) has been posted.
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In recent news, two academics are at odds over th... |
2018/05/15 | 311 | 1,329 | <issue_start>username_0: I wanted to state the source of the illustration I made by myself. The illustration shows the structure of the company, which is based on my research and a number of other sources. What is the best way to state the source? Can I just write *Author* or is there a better alternative?<issue_commen... |
2018/05/15 | 1,114 | 4,793 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international applicant from a less prestigious school. Although with help of my coursework and recommendations letter from my advisor and internship advisor I hope I can make to Budapest Semesters in Mathematics. I also hope to get a letter from those professors in Budapest. However I ... |
2018/05/15 | 639 | 2,975 | <issue_start>username_0: I am supposed to receive research funds from a Chinese university while I am working for a US university. The issue is that the Chinese university, as a part of contractual requirements, requests fund recipients to place the university name before my current university in the affiliation sectio... |
2018/05/16 | 592 | 2,511 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been admitted into a college in the US for a master's program. I am applying for TA positions under various professors because TAs get tuition benefits.
One of the professors who taught me as an undergrad (Prof. X) knows a professor in the department where I will be studying (Prof. Y). ... |
2018/05/16 | 674 | 2,840 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Physics PhD student in a US university who qualified for the PhD level and waiting for the comprehensive test.
In the first year of my PhD, I wasn't able to cope up with the pressure and that caused bad grades. The result from first and second semester is below:
A, B, B ; A, B+, B+.
... |
2018/05/16 | 2,991 | 12,639 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in a problem-solving mode of my PhD (theory, middle stage). I am working on something which is incremental on the last half a year. Until now, I did not get anything **non-trivial**. I noticed that I have become slow as compared to the initial two years of my PhD.
I am wondering... |
2018/05/16 | 1,709 | 6,383 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an international student, originally from a country in South Asia. I have been admitted to a PhD program in Mathematics. The school is ranked in the top 70-80 range.
While I'm interested in getting an academic job in the future, I'm aware that it would be very difficult for me to get an ac... |
2018/05/16 | 326 | 1,485 | <issue_start>username_0: For German undergraduate and graduate math classes, does the professor or assistant write the exercise sheets?
In the United States it is typical for the professor to write them. I am curious what the situation is like in Germany.<issue_comment>username_1: At my university in every class I had... |
2018/05/16 | 3,601 | 14,857 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an interview a few days back for a grant for graduate studies. The interview panel consisted of various judges including some of the most renowned and well known researchers/professors in my field(s) of interest. Some of them almost have a celebrity status given the kind of respect they c... |
2018/05/16 | 1,170 | 4,690 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently completed my PhD in mechanical engineering and have been applying for postdocs in neuroscience for the past 5 months.
My field is dynamical systems theory and statistics, so I look up professors working in neuroscience who use those techniques and send them emails. I have sent 3 doz... |
2018/05/16 | 555 | 2,463 | <issue_start>username_0: I am teaching a large Humanities class (150+ students) in the US this semester and am in the process of grading midterm essays. This is my first time teaching a class this large and I'm not sure how to handle feedback.
With smaller classes, I always liked to give students very detailed feedbac... |
2018/05/16 | 6,166 | 25,896 | <issue_start>username_0: I have some undergraduate students doing research in my lab, and I pay them by the hours. I've observed that the students usually do what I tell them and don't go beyond that (as we usually expect from research) even though I encourage them to do so. They also work exactly the assigned hours (s... |
2018/05/17 | 2,615 | 11,175 | <issue_start>username_0: This July I will be in the fifth year of my PhD. I am doing my PhD from India in bioinformatics. Within my four years, one year was for coursework, so that I did not get to delve deep into research in that time. In our institute, every year we have an annual evaluation, where it is decided whet... |
2018/05/17 | 697 | 2,767 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a cover letter that takes 2 pages: 1 for the main text explaining the purpose of the research and why it is important, and 1 consisting of my name and institutional details plus references.
1) Should a cover letter be of 1 page maximum in general?
It is not mentioned the journal's web... |
2018/05/17 | 8,606 | 35,030 | <issue_start>username_0: Attention has been drawn recently to an incident that occurred at a scientific conference and its sequelae [described in this article](https://www.chronicle.com/article/He-Makes-a-Joke-She-Isn-t/243350):
>
> The fuss started when [Prof. X] and [Prof. Y] ended up in the same crowded elevator d... |
2018/05/17 | 988 | 4,132 | <issue_start>username_0: I am halfway through my PhD (given 3-year contract) and I feel I'm in my worst phase. The PI (let's call this PI **X**) who recruited me as a PhD student left my institute for a better position somewhere. Before X left, X assigned us (Ph.D. students under **X**) to a new PI in our department wh... |
2018/05/17 | 625 | 2,718 | <issue_start>username_0: Basically I was offered a PhD after my bachelor's degree based only on my performance in the BSc but I enrolled on an MSc and kept this offer as backup. I have been offered another PhD but it is based on the MSc results rather than the BSc results. The second offer are asking if I could accept ... |
2018/05/18 | 1,032 | 4,433 | <issue_start>username_0: On the applicant side, did admissions require the same documents as today? Also, since gathering the required documents presumably took longer (especially for an applicant who had already graduated), how soon did the applicant have to apply before intake? For example today's graduate programs c... |
2018/05/18 | 243 | 956 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a £1000 of funding that I can use for my research or teaching. I have bought a few books with it, but I have no other immediate necessity (conference trips etc). I do not like the budget to lapse (by the end of this July) and I am afraid I may have looked past some potential benefits I c... |
2018/05/18 | 1,472 | 6,303 | <issue_start>username_0: For reasons I had very little influence on, most of the projects I participated in over the course of my PhD did not produce reasonable results. I managed to get involved in small side projects and publish at least something, but those are not very novel in itself and not "on the edge of knowle... |
2018/05/18 | 977 | 4,177 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering if anyone has experienced conflicting feelings of failure associated with their work? Essentially, I am struggling to continue my students and maintain a proactive attitude while continually facing an ever growing list of tasks.
I find myself struggling to even start the list i... |
2018/05/18 | 410 | 1,872 | <issue_start>username_0: From my understanding of the reviewers' comments, it means our proposed solution adds nothing new to the body of knowledge even if we get better results than the state-of-the-art work.
The reviewers believe our work is just an application of existing literature. While many published works do i... |
2018/05/18 | 1,201 | 5,063 | <issue_start>username_0: Some time ago a professor gave me a small mathematics problem for independent research. While doing reading for this problem I found a substantially different but not unrelated problem mentioned in one of the professor's papers. I did this problem instead.
I would have thought that this means ... |
2018/05/18 | 1,976 | 8,322 | <issue_start>username_0: I am having a problem and I need some input to reflect.
Long story almost short:
I am in the UK. I have started an interdisciplinary PhD research. At the end of the first year, during the progress panel review, I wrote some potential problems about inter-communication, difficulties in running ... |
2018/05/19 | 1,484 | 6,411 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a CS PhD student in an East Asian institution, in my fifth year, one year overtime over the normative period. I have passed all my qualification and thesis proposal exams and just need to submit and defend my thesis. Unfortunately, I don't have any serious publications in top con... |
2018/05/19 | 679 | 2,220 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that every subject GRE test has the maximum score 990 and the maximum percentile 99. However, upon looking some data on the ETS website, I found that the math subject GRE score starts from 920. Also, I heard that somebody got score 930 and percentile 99. What is the truth? What is the ma... |
2018/05/19 | 1,360 | 5,759 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a text for a website where I'm going to sell nootropics.
I was wondering if it is illegal/fraudulent to copy the text directly from the scientific papers onto my website without directly referencing the papers? (I will reference the papers at the end of the text).<issue_comment>us... |
2018/05/20 | 1,684 | 6,965 | <issue_start>username_0: I had intentions of applying for higher education in Korea or Japan, but I was told many times that "Doing PhD in an Asian university is a career suicide".
Why is that?
My field is cognitive neuroscience, and to be more specific I'm interested in a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Seoul N... |
2018/05/20 | 667 | 2,879 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a keen interest in some interdisciplinary fields such as neurophilosophy, neuroethics, and neuroaesthethics. In the end, I have chosen to study biology, but I am not entirely sure if it is the best possible choice, and maybe philosophy would have been a better choice.
What advice would ... |
2018/05/20 | 1,194 | 5,093 | <issue_start>username_0: Should I submit my paper to a journal that accepts quickly?
One of my batch-mate got accepted in a [journal](http://www.mecs-press.org/ijigsp/) within 1 month. The journal was also listed on **predatory journal's list**.
Please advise.<issue_comment>username_1: Quick acceptance (a month) is p... |
2018/05/21 | 770 | 3,101 | <issue_start>username_0: **Context:** Undergraduate computer engineering student in the US looking at attending graduate school in two years. I’m trying to figure out which research topics interest me—hopefully to find one to pursue in graduate school. I’ve only done one semester of research so far and I’m switching ou... |
2018/05/21 | 690 | 2,804 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent an email to a professor and asked him if there's any PhD position available in his group. I also told him that I want to apply for SINGA scholarship program if he agrees to supervise me.
The professor replied:
>
> My experience with the SINGA program is that it is very competitive. A... |
2018/05/21 | 301 | 1,102 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm making presentation slides, which will be on the work of my Ph.D. advisor (Dr. X, full professor), a postdoc. (Dr. Y, the job title is visiting assistant professor) and myself. I'm trying to find a way to most accurately/politely address them.
Should I address them using the same generic t... |
2018/05/21 | 628 | 2,833 | <issue_start>username_0: I was accepted to a master program in data science in the UK. However, I am also interested in specific program on machine learning at another institution also in the UK.
The thing is that my data science program has some overlap to the machine learning program, but not completely. The machine... |
2018/05/21 | 5,217 | 17,281 | <issue_start>username_0: According to the [Times of Higher Education](https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/democrats-far-outnumber-republicans-social-sciences#survey-answer), there are more liberals\* than conservatives in the social sciences. The ratio of Democrats to Republicans in economics is 5:1, in law it is... |
2018/05/21 | 2,887 | 11,330 | <issue_start>username_0: I've often read that having more than one PhD is badly seen. Is there a good reason for this? Good obviously means with some kind of evidence to back it up beyond plain and simple "personal experience" and opinion.
I've seen many comments about this matter, but often rely on a kind of judgment... |
2018/05/21 | 2,419 | 10,212 | <issue_start>username_0: In my field (economics), there are many co-authored papers. People are even writing some chapters of their PhD thesis with other colleagues.
I know that single-authored papers are more appreciated when you are a Ph.D. student and when you are in the job market.
Until now, I always prefered w... |
2018/05/21 | 1,930 | 7,455 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished this year with a cumulative GPA of 2.498 (pretty low, not gonna lie). The main concern that I have is that when rounding to 2 digits, it will be pushed to a 2.5, and I'm worried that in interviews when I say that I have a 2.5, and if the interviewer checks my transcript, he/she may t... |