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2018/07/20 | 224 | 936 | <issue_start>username_0: Some journals invite well-known academics to write editorials about the "best" articles featured in that issue. I just had an editorial published alongside a paper I just put out. Should I highlight this somewhere in my CV? I didn't write the editorial and it's not exactly media coverage, but I... |
2018/07/20 | 1,062 | 4,187 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an Indian undergraduate engineering student in electronics and communication engineering. I recently had a conversation (via email) with a professor at the Royal Holloway, University of London. The professor works in my subject of interest, and so I had mailed him asking whether internship... |
2018/07/20 | 1,539 | 6,544 | <issue_start>username_0: So I have been trying to get an article accepted since 2016. It is an article dedicated to a machine learning based prediction of a biological dataset. It was rejected 4 times. Today, on searching, I found that another paper has been published in Bioinformatics journal (Oxford) on 2018 April. T... |
2018/07/20 | 589 | 2,658 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted a paper to a conference. Within days all of my co-authors and I received an email asking us all to select (bid for) papers in the same submission stream from the conference to review. The conference has purposely invited some authors to be reviewers. Our paper has not been ... |
2018/07/20 | 857 | 3,093 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor asked me to do a survey from -omics journals. I am however unsure as to what he means by -omics journals because a google search only gives me information about the predatory publishing group "omics journals". He said that one of the two I provided, Genome Research and Nature Gene... |
2018/07/20 | 1,582 | 6,711 | <issue_start>username_0: Health sciences researcher out of my area of expertise. I have an assistant calling businesses at random, using a publicly available registry, to ask about their automated external defibrillator (AED). We are sampling without replacement.
My question is, what happens methodologically if we ca... |
2018/07/21 | 695 | 2,941 | <issue_start>username_0: I 'm planning to apply for Masters in Computer Science (Non-thesis). I 'm wondering if both, pregnancy and school, can be managed at the same time. Or is better to wait until I get my baby and then apply for the school. I 'm trying to learn from others experiences.<issue_comment>username_1: I t... |
2018/07/21 | 855 | 3,627 | <issue_start>username_0: A somewhat distant relative has passed away and he had 2 papers he wanted to publish. He was a complete recluse in his later life, but not crackpot or anything (that I'm aware of). His field of study was physics. It's completely out of my expertise but it seems legitimate (if not necessarily re... |
2018/07/21 | 940 | 3,642 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated and got an M.Sc. degree from a German university.
I got a grade of 1.0 after my master-thesis defense.
In this case, can I use "summa cum laude" on my CV?<issue_comment>username_1: I would think that would be a dangerous move. List what you have the way it was formally granted. If ... |
2018/07/21 | 1,064 | 4,525 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to American universities. And just like many others, I intend to apply to many of them.
Anyway, I read a lot on the internet about this application thing and I notice that I should contact a relevant professor, read some of his articles and form an opinion (like in the answer of ... |
2018/07/22 | 2,471 | 9,755 | <issue_start>username_0: As part of the PhD programme I am enrolled in, we're encouraged to publish a review paper within our first two years. After talking to my advisors, a suitable topic related to the area was agreed and I set about writing.
From the beginning, we had a particular journal in mind, but toward the ... |
2018/07/23 | 2,431 | 10,494 | <issue_start>username_0: I have got assignments related to programming. They are tough and my friends could not get results. I wanted to ask my professor to run them to see whether I did them right or not. (the deadline is rapidly coming.)
I am a graduate student. It is my first term.<issue_comment>username_1: Most ins... |
2018/07/23 | 1,607 | 6,906 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I had an acceptance from a very good conference in our field. Three out of four reviewers gave excellent comments, while one gave a poor comment.
I was telling my friend that if I had had one more good/excellent review, I could be considered for the best-paper award.
He told me that ... |
2018/07/23 | 1,692 | 7,297 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD in CS student in USA. I will be submitting 2 manuscripts in September to a computer science conference (ACM CHI). I have been working on one of the papers with my advisor and the other paper completely independently. The other paper is a passion project of mine which is close to my a... |
2018/07/23 | 307 | 1,300 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a consensus that direct quotes should never be used in such papers?<issue_comment>username_1: I guess I disagree, but you have to think about what you are doing. Anytime you use another's words directly you should quote them and indicate explicitly that it is a quote. This can be done ... |
2018/07/23 | 1,203 | 5,082 | <issue_start>username_0: Our university is looking for a substitute teacher in **Computer Science** and I have an interview for the job this week.
My academic profile is making me a little bit nervous and makes me think that I might not be suitable for the job: I have a License degree in Mathematics and a Master Degre... |
2018/07/23 | 1,452 | 6,086 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say you are recruiting two groups of people, English monolinguals and bilinguals. If you're having a hard time recruiting enough bilinguals, the natural, free-market thing to do would be to offer to increase how much they are compensated to attract more.
Assuming that both groups complet... |
2018/07/24 | 1,114 | 4,729 | <issue_start>username_0: **EDIT:**
Let me clarify things and specify my concerns:
* I wrote a program for my thesis that solved a problem for the target establishment.
* The establishment now uses the program with my consent but nothing was signed and everything was verbal.
* I applied for a job and that company no... |
2018/07/24 | 5,190 | 19,879 | <issue_start>username_0: From what I've seen in the media, [almost all British scientists think Brexit is bad for British science](https://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.35380!/file/Brexit%20survey_full%20results.pdf). However I don't understand why. Some of the most common reasons I've seen are:
**Loss of funding** - U... |
2018/07/24 | 1,305 | 5,326 | <issue_start>username_0: I regularly receive emails from Open Access predatory journals or conferences asking me to publish an article or attend some kind of conference somewhere. Usually, those emails are easy to identify.
Recently, I received an email from a Journal called [*Research Features*](https://researchfeatu... |
2018/07/24 | 7,087 | 30,102 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a junior faculty in academia and I was asked to take a PhD student several months ago.
I was not involved in the hiring process, hence I did not have a chance to evaluate his abilities before joining the program. Indeed, this was the student of someone senior (full professor), but he was t... |
2018/07/24 | 858 | 3,768 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote source code for an assignment. After I was done and the program was functional, i uploaded a piece (a class) on the [Code Review SE](https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/199970/dsp-quantizer-class-in-c) and people gave me advice, which I then implemented. Should i credit them,... |
2018/07/24 | 1,432 | 5,483 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a companion question to [Why is Brexit bad for British science?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/114135/why-do-most-scientists-think-brexit-is-bad-for-british-science?noredirect=1#comment299172_114135) Judging from the responses to that question, a significant number of aca... |
2018/07/24 | 316 | 1,349 | <issue_start>username_0: A notable academic in my field has asked for a copy of one of my papers which he says he wants to assign to a class. For me this is a big compliment and a good opportunity to get my work out there. Now, I could share the post-print with him, which is allowed by the journal, however, this does n... |
2018/07/24 | 674 | 2,496 | <issue_start>username_0: As a Ph.D graduated in mathematics (combinatorial algebra), I would like to apply for jobs in industry such as finance and/or Data science. I have some knowledge on programming but no real-world experience. Do I have any chance to get a job in industry? I looked for industry jobs, in most finan... |
2018/07/24 | 926 | 3,974 | <issue_start>username_0: I performed part of my PhD thesis in a lab outside my university. After deciding to publish the result, the head of the lab did not give me the permission to publish it. He wanted to be the coauthor, himself and one of his students. But they did not have substantial contribution to the project.... |
2018/07/24 | 1,952 | 8,048 | <issue_start>username_0: I was taking a look at [Scimago Journal & Country Rank](https://www.scimagojr.com/countryrank.php).
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GCVzd.png)
Is there any specific reason why UK produces way more research paper than that of Ger... |
2018/07/24 | 1,260 | 5,266 | <issue_start>username_0: **What should do or consider to simultaneously succeed at my new professorship and my internet startup?**
I am starting a tenure track professorship in the fall. I am also on the team of an internet startup which has received an initial round of funding. I have expressly limited my availabilit... |
2018/07/25 | 852 | 3,521 | <issue_start>username_0: As a graduate student in a CS program, *"Who Owns the (rights to the) Code I Write"*?
I know that the answer is different depending upon:
(Case-1) I work for the University or am supported in some way (such as a TA, RA, and whether I receive financial assistance such as tuition).
(Case-2) Or... |
2018/07/25 | 311 | 1,149 | <issue_start>username_0: Im interested in collaborating with a researcher and he is willing to collaborate and share his data with me for the joint paper but I need to send him a formal email and ask if I can look at the data and use it for the paper? Does someone have a sample email?
Many thanks<issue_comment>usernam... |
2018/07/25 | 2,491 | 11,176 | <issue_start>username_0: I've noticed that most papers do not say explicitly (or at all) how much time did the research take. This excludes certain types of studies, such as epidemiological studies that usually say that the study's cohort was followed for some-and-some months etc., but what I mean is that in most paper... |
2018/07/25 | 508 | 2,043 | <issue_start>username_0: In my master thesis I included some definitions exactly (just translated in French) like they appear in a paper because they are particularly well written and easy to read for someone who has never dealt with the subject. Of course I do cite the paper, but should I explicitly tell that the defi... |
2018/07/25 | 1,198 | 5,305 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently developed an interest in a hot topic of computer science and I would like to pursue a master's degree in that topic.
Looking at the available grad school programs and their admissions process they all (very understandably) require recommendation letters.
The issue is that I gr... |
2018/07/25 | 567 | 2,406 | <issue_start>username_0: So I sent a thank you email to a professor who wrote me a reference letter. I updated her on the results of my applications. She replied back in a really nice email congratulating me and giving me some suggestions for my future career. I feel kind of rude ending our conversation this way, but a... |
2018/07/25 | 906 | 3,755 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a senior finishing up my bachelor's degree in Psychology through online classes offered at Washington State University. I intend to apply to grad schools (2 PhD programs and 1 MS as a plan B) thereafter. I will be engaging in Independent Study during the Fall, 2018 and Spring 201... |
2018/07/25 | 1,863 | 8,020 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was in my first year of M.Sc. a professor told me to work on a project for which the main data belonged to him. He had sent me an early draft and told me to translate it into English, so I did along with recalculations and adding some stuff to the paper. We sent the article to a journal ... |
2018/07/26 | 3,701 | 15,487 | <issue_start>username_0: I generally thought that these examples are rare and that I just had bad luck.
The first time I met with pseudoscience mumblings from academicians was by a statistic professor in my junior year (even though he is a reputable math modeling researcher). He was in a television talk show, debating... |
2018/07/26 | 1,378 | 5,517 | <issue_start>username_0: Tl; dr : Does a math professor get annoyed or think of it as a waste of time if he is emailed a difficult math question from an undergraduate student whom he is fairly acquianted with? Or is he ok with it?
I am currently an undergraduate at an U.S. university. I have taken two math courses wit... |
2018/07/26 | 464 | 1,825 | <issue_start>username_0: My colleague and I intend to prepare a paper on occasion of our advisor's birthday (he turns 65 in two years). As the preparation and publishing of a math paper takes some time, I commenced planning now. We both have defended our theses.
I would appreciate any tip on this issue. For instance, ... |
2018/07/26 | 576 | 2,193 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a blog post for a magazine run by scholars. A few months later, I read the post again. I hate it! I can think of three-four different ways I could have written it differently. Granted, I was asked to comment on an ongoing political issue at the time and didn’t have enough information ba... |
2018/07/26 | 891 | 3,703 | <issue_start>username_0: I emailed a potential supervisor at a US university recently. He replied promptly, cc'ing the graduate school dean in the email and saying I had a very good idea but then suggesting another research question that needs to be answered first.
I saw that no one has done it yet (nothing published... |
2018/07/26 | 1,037 | 4,292 | <issue_start>username_0: **I am considering seeking my first PhD student through a job site (indeed, etc).**
I am starting an assistant professorship,hope to attract a PhD student this fall, and lack the name recognition to have students banging on my door. I would, nonetheless, like to have a certain amount of choic... |
2018/07/26 | 1,047 | 4,352 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year CSE grad student. I have been working with a professor for more than half a year now. The topic looks like a deadend and I do not know how to tell him the same. Ironically, he is a nice guy and has supported me all the way through.
My prof meets with me twice a week and brai... |
2018/07/26 | 575 | 2,288 | <issue_start>username_0: Where to find the rankings of countries in research and scientific production?
For example, how can I find out the ranking of a particular country in the number of scholarly essays? What are the most credited websites for such data?
I need such data because I am doing a research on the rate o... |
2018/07/26 | 969 | 4,132 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the PhD students in my department is writing a paper and has listed me as a coauthor. I'm not sure if I deserve to be a coauthor.
I have been loosely involved in the project. I attended meetings and made suggestions and I actively proof-read the manuscript. But I don't think I had any s... |
2018/07/27 | 1,704 | 7,159 | <issue_start>username_0: My PI was guest-editing a (weak) special issue for a respectable Wiley journal. He asked me if I had "cool cover images" relevant to the subject matter. Indeed I did; I had had acquired them on my own initiative on another professor's microscope at my previous university. I provided my PI with ... |
2018/07/27 | 341 | 1,431 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a deadline for handing in my assignments. One of them is tricky and I need to think more. I coded it but I am not 100 % sure that is right. Can I think more about it after deadline of submitting the assignment are passed I give it to my professor?
* What will be his reaction?
* Will he ... |
2018/07/27 | 412 | 1,776 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently completed my PhD and have started a position at a different institution. I am writing a paper which extends a model I introduced in my PhD. It wasn't a significant part of my PhD, more of an aside (about 2 pages). The idea of how to extend it came out of a discussion with the externa... |
2018/07/27 | 681 | 2,643 | <issue_start>username_0: is it possible to reference a citation directly?
Example:
"the expected values considering the gain and the cost of each behavior as in [9]"
or should one instead explicitly mention the authors?
Example:
"the expected values considering the gain and the cost of each behavior as detailed by... |
2018/07/27 | 914 | 3,844 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first semester master's student. A professor has sent me an e-mail with an offer to tutor a bachelor class (this would be a paid job). I do not know him personally but he told me in his e-mail that I was recommended to him by a professor whose class I took this semester.
Now here is th... |
2018/07/27 | 3,026 | 13,220 | <issue_start>username_0: Let me say beforehand that this question does not refer to scientific correctness and treats it as undisputed, i.e. the paper is assumed correct in the sense that it clearly states a valid purpose, has an adequate literature review, the theory and methods are scientifically sound.
After a brie... |
2018/07/27 | 1,492 | 6,382 | <issue_start>username_0: In the next two months, I am supposed to devise a Probation Professional Development Plan for a lectureship in the UK. People often declare probation to be a "paperwork exercise" but looking at the documents, I am to set my own goals for what I want to accomplish and I am supposed to make it ch... |
2018/07/27 | 1,863 | 7,890 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got a permanent position. Hooray!
My question is the opposite of this one (that popped out as a suggestion from this site): [How to care less about teaching?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/93199/how-to-care-less-about-teaching)
During my PhD studies I TAed a little but w... |
2018/07/28 | 1,121 | 4,808 | <issue_start>username_0: Assume while someone writing his/her master's thesis, he/she found that there was a very similar paper to his work (90% similarities) 3-5 years ago? Does that make a problem and how to tell your advisor about this?<issue_comment>username_1: There is no question about how to tell your advisor. J... |
2018/07/28 | 1,201 | 5,188 | <issue_start>username_0: I'll be defending my Ph.D. this October. I submitted my dissertation in English and prepared an English presentation, but my supervisor along with the jury members surprised me by saying the defense speech cannot be in English and must be in French (“since we are from a country that has the sec... |
2018/07/28 | 1,607 | 6,475 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a Master's program which is graded 100% on my research thesis. I also have a first class Honours in mathematics with average grade somewhere between A- and A, where A+ is best. Also, my university's math department is ranked somewhere between 40th and 50th in the world.
In short, my gr... |
2018/07/28 | 2,323 | 8,974 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I read [the answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/102016/37441) by Hexal to the following question here: [Not including student who contributed very little as coauthor of paper](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/102014/not-including-student-who-contributed-very-littl... |
2018/07/28 | 2,315 | 8,980 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a companion question to [Why do most scientists think Brexit is bad for British science?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/114135/why-do-most-scientists-think-brexit-is-bad-for-british-science). Based on this [meta discussion](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/question... |
2018/07/28 | 855 | 3,798 | <issue_start>username_0: Where is the border line between a novel, creative work and work that is of scientific value? I have received reviewer comments like:
>
> the ideas are creative and interesting but work adds little scientific value.
>
>
>
What do reviewers look for when making such comments/judgements? Th... |
2018/07/28 | 1,721 | 7,435 | <issue_start>username_0: I am developing an algorithm for a type of classification problem that is a small-but-growing area of AI research. Until two years ago, there was no standard benchmark for this type of problem. In 2016, a benchmark dataset was made publically available to solve this issue and most subsequent pa... |
2018/07/29 | 5,268 | 21,357 | <issue_start>username_0: In a study where human subjects are given questionnaires, it may be interesting to analyze whether effects are gender-specific and/or more pronounced in one gender than in (the) other(s). How can this information be gathered in a way that respects every individual independent of gender? How man... |
2018/07/29 | 371 | 1,531 | <issue_start>username_0: Hi I am a Phd student (Phd thesis submitted). Recently, I have received a postdoc offer from a reputed university and accordingly accepted the offer by emailing them. Now this is just a offer letter, no salary is written there (the PI has told me unofficially the salary amount). In order to joi... |
2018/07/29 | 774 | 3,579 | <issue_start>username_0: My friend would like to achieve a Doctorate in Engineering, however currently has only limited research experience (She has completed an undergraduate degree and helped a few professors with some of their side projects). While I know that research experience is rather important for many science... |
2018/07/29 | 1,455 | 6,231 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from China, currently a 4th year physics PhD student in Boston. This is a small department with ~10 professors. I am working for one assistant professor now. But I am thinking about leaving this group/school if I have a better choice.
I have a colleague who is also from China and we joine... |
2018/07/29 | 1,389 | 6,000 | <issue_start>username_0: Around halfway through my spring semester (around April), I met up with my CS professor for research opportunities and he said he'd be happy to take me on for a project. He sent me papers to read over the course of the month, but also said he wasn't expecting me to finish them all since finals ... |
2018/07/29 | 540 | 2,281 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my manuscript to a journal (Q4), according to SCIMAGO ranking and unfortunately it got published. I say "Unfortunately" because I think it should be submitted to a better journal. Now, is there any way to withdraw this publication? According to my googling, papers published in Q4 jo... |
2018/07/30 | 396 | 1,805 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a young postdoc. I am considering submitting a single-authored paper in a journal. My former advisor is member of the editorial board. Would this be appropriate? Obviously she cannot be the handling editor, someone else would have to manage my submission and take the decision. But would it... |
2018/07/30 | 2,749 | 11,836 | <issue_start>username_0: Some time ago I submitted a paper to a preeminent journal, and yesterday I received the review letter from the editor.
The email contained reviews from two reviewers.
Reviewer 1 has been very professional, and wrote a detailed, constructive, useful report of the main aspects of the paper to im... |
2018/07/30 | 1,039 | 4,426 | <issue_start>username_0: I am posting this on behalf of my advisor.
A post-doc in my research group at US told that he'd be going home to meet his family who are in a different country, but after two months he emails that he is quitting. He has the laptop which my advisor paid for and important research data. He hasn'... |
2018/07/30 | 1,675 | 6,721 | <issue_start>username_0: *If a similar question has been asked before, then I'm sorry; it's just that so far I haven't found much here or elsewhere related to the specifics of my situation. Maybe I'm not using the right key words. Also, I'm posting anonymously because I don't want my university to know (yet) that I'm c... |
2018/07/30 | 6,094 | 25,600 | <issue_start>username_0: In Europe, we judge students based on their work and abilities. How are their grades? Do they have relevant work experience (TA/RA, maybe part-time industry work, etc)? What projects have they done? What courses have they taken? And of course the odd recommendation letter is always a nice bonus... |
2018/07/30 | 914 | 3,689 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently collaborating with three researchers on three non-overlapping and independent research projects/papers (i.e. one with each). I have been asked to review a paper for a journal, for which the same three researchers are the authors.
I am tempted to take it and try to do an objecti... |
2018/07/31 | 7,946 | 32,362 | <issue_start>username_0: **Main Question:** To what degree is a competitive (as opposed to collaborative or mutually-supportive) academic environment endemic of famous/top-tier/high-powered institutions?
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This question developed out of my recent experience doing a masters program at one of the top universities in ... |
2018/07/31 | 707 | 3,074 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not an American citizen but wish to pursue my degree in America. I am currently enrolled in a bachelor's program and I am expected to graduate in 2020. Do I need do a master's program in America to pursue PhD ? Or there is direct enrollment ? (In my country the understanding is first you d... |
2018/07/31 | 779 | 3,341 | <issue_start>username_0: I approached a supervisor about a PhD application. At this university, you must have two supervisors, so after a meeting, he invited the other "supervisor" to discuss the topic.
Honestly, this new supervisor doesn't suit my topic. In fact, he proposed some topic changes that I am not happy to d... |
2018/07/31 | 1,352 | 5,790 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a research fellow at my current university. I have been working under a very difficult line manager and we could just not be on the same page. I would be asked to publish 1 paper a month, expected to work 25 hours a day to meet deadlines and run personal errands. Our every technical meetin... |
2018/07/31 | 979 | 3,974 | <issue_start>username_0: I make mistakes too as a flawed human. Yet I always lose confidence in and doubt authors (whose native language is English) whose textbooks or journal articles contain glaring [typos](https://english.stackexchange.com/q/74145/50720) or [orthographical](https://english.stackexchange.com/a/24089/... |
2018/08/01 | 5,816 | 23,589 | <issue_start>username_0: *I'm posting from an anonymous account, for reasons that will be obvious.*
I'm an associate professor in China at one of the top 10 universities in China, and have been working in China for a number of years. Most research in our lab is respectable and unproblematic. We get some papers in top ... |
2018/08/01 | 668 | 2,910 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the last few semesters of my bachelors, and I have been preparing myself for applying to PhD programs in mathematics. However, as I was sitting with my research mentor today, he informally offered me a graduate assistance-ship for the masters program at my current university. He mention... |
2018/08/01 | 976 | 4,208 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to begin my master's research, and I'm in the process of formulating my research question. Therefore, I am searching for papers about the same topic to make sure that what I am planning to do has not been done before (at least not the way I am planning to do it), but so far I cannot f... |
2018/08/01 | 484 | 2,032 | <issue_start>username_0: I think I have found that squared magic squares cannot be constructed which [is an unsolved problem](http://www.multimagie.com/English/SquaresOfSquaresSearch.htm).
I have searched for months for any mistakes and I could not find any. I have sent this to Mr.Boyer who hosts the page yet I ended u... |
2018/08/01 | 817 | 3,688 | <issue_start>username_0: At the moment I'm looking for my next position (most likely postdoc level, potentially one step up from there).
When looking at advertised positions in Europe I generally expect to see a brief summary of what the job is about on the advert, and then have the ability to click through to see on... |
2018/08/01 | 851 | 3,637 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper with *revise and resubmit* in a journal of Elsevier. In one part of the mail, the editor wrote me this:
>
> If you choose to revise your manuscript it will be due into the
> Editorial Office by the Aug 30, 2018.
>
>
> The deadline is given only because we want you to give a ... |
2018/08/01 | 2,208 | 8,925 | <issue_start>username_0: Most articles and books are written in the conventional fonts like Computer Modern Roman, Times New Roman, etc. which are similar to each others. Why aren't more fonts used?
I wrote my course this year in a cursive font and it didn't cause any problem to any students. I'm afraid however that ... |
2018/08/01 | 6,347 | 25,596 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated last year with a BS in Computer Science. I do not come from a particularly wealthy family, (very low middle class), and was only able to afford my education via school loans/scholarships and working low-wage jobs, with no support from my family or anyone else. I realize some scholar... |
2018/08/01 | 856 | 3,388 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any difference between Ph.D, D.Sc, D.Litt and the similar degrees?<issue_comment>username_1: Speaking literally, nothing at all except an indication of the field. However, life isn't quite that simple. Doctorates in general are intended to be research degrees. Research in Literature, o... |
2018/08/01 | 378 | 1,716 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm reviewing a work in applied mathematics, and on it, the authors work on an equation that is derived from a previous work.
There is a parameter that has been chosen in a way I would like to be justified. Looking into the reference where they extracted the equation, the original authors also... |
2018/08/02 | 2,191 | 8,966 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently an undergrad who has been working at this lab for 1 year. In the beginning, I was pretty slow with research and I still make mistakes sometimes. For instance, it took me 4 months to get a western to properly work and 1 month to properly clone something. I'm not as bright as the ot... |
2018/08/02 | 861 | 3,997 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a person writes a research paper without doing a complete literature survey, and sends it to a peer-reviewed journal. Assume that the results in question have been obtained before by someone else. Is it mandatory for journal editors to check the novelty? If not and if the editors also d... |
2018/08/02 | 474 | 2,104 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to an Ivy League university in the US as an international student for a Ph.D. program. They have application fee waivers for students with financial hardship.
Would using it (or even asking for it) have negative effects on the result of application?
They also have a GRE waiver f... |
2018/08/02 | 1,086 | 4,807 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Phd student (thesis submitted in January 2018, not defended yet) in applied mathematics. My first paper was published in February 2018 in a tier 1 applied math journal, two other papers were recently rejected from tier 1 applied math journals.
I discussed the rejected papers with my ad... |
2018/08/02 | 452 | 1,806 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my essay where I analyze how different text search algorithms work and compare their efficiency in specific situations.
I did not actually take even a sentence from where I have read about the algorithms, everything is written by myself, how I understood it, but of course I did no... |
2018/08/02 | 1,177 | 4,957 | <issue_start>username_0: I know a person who falsely claims having a PhD in computer science.
His name card reads as "Name, PhD" and he has long been working in a high profile and remunerative position for a semi-government company.
However, **he does not have a PhD!**
He had enrolled for a PhD program in a X univer... |
2018/08/02 | 1,169 | 4,945 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently completed my undergraduate degree, in mathematics. As part of the final year, we had to complete a "project", which was effectively a 40-page (ish) dissertation on a topic of our choosing. This was done with the aid of a supervisor, one of the researchers in the department, for ... |
2018/08/02 | 565 | 2,444 | <issue_start>username_0: Given the title and the abstract of a yet-to-be-published paper, I asked the PC (co-)chairs of several A/A\* conferences whether my paper would be in the scope of the corresponding conferences. Surprisingly, I got an ***unconditional*** "yes" answer each time, even for really far fetches for wh... |
2018/08/03 | 945 | 3,402 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my PhD at a research institute, where we have just finished the draft of a 8-hands long paper to be published as a short book with a major editor. I have done the bulk of the work, i.e. at least 80% of the total. However, my coordinator sent me the draft back with the authors reorder... |
2018/08/03 | 1,513 | 6,571 | <issue_start>username_0: In the program of CS, in which I am currently working, we have a group of students that for ending their Honour´s degree they should submit and present a research in the field; limited to their undergraduate knowledge. The process is that they get an adviser, read some papers, ending up with an... |
2018/08/03 | 2,818 | 11,564 | <issue_start>username_0: **Is the informal Dr. ‹first name› something a starting academic should avoid?**
As my father was Dr. ‹my last name›, I have, since receiving my PhD, cultivated Dr. ‹my first name›. A senior colleague recently advised me to stop: she called this unprofessional, and suggested that over time it ... |
2018/08/03 | 1,038 | 4,323 | <issue_start>username_0: Hello Academicians and everyone,
As you noticed from my question. I am willing to do a Ph.D. in electronic/electromagnetism engineering. I am very interested in the topic of electromagnetism and its application. I love everything that has to do with Maxwell equations.
Nevertheless, I have a b... |
2018/08/04 | 1,074 | 4,646 | <issue_start>username_0: I started a postdoc about a year ago. At the time of my hire I was told another postdoc was preparing the large dataset I would eventually use. In the meantime, I was to run some sample models and develop a method on some small test data.
Ten months later when I finally received the data, it ... |