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2018/08/04 | 947 | 3,968 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to start a 5th year Master's program in CS at my university (one extra year after B.S. for a M.S.). I've also been looking at applying to grad schools for a PhD program, and the main thing that I've been worried about is recommendation letters.
I know one professor somewhat well (too... |
2018/08/04 | 257 | 958 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for resources that can let me access scanned documents and memos to train my OCR application. I have some client documents but need more for product development. Any ideas?<issue_comment>username_1: Go the other way round: Find digital documents, render them as images (e.g. print a... |
2018/08/04 | 786 | 3,250 | <issue_start>username_0: So say if you graduated from a college that practices grade forgiveness, and you mention that you got forgiven at least this many, on a blog where PhD students appear frequently(without mentioning exactly the name of the college or my own name or the exact name of the company that I work for) c... |
2018/08/04 | 1,459 | 5,625 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Question
*Salami publishing* refers to the practice of splitting scientific work into overly small pieces (least publishable units) and publishing a separate paper about each.
I am looking for a term for the opposite practice, i.e., lumping together a lot of or too much scientific work in... |
2018/08/04 | 365 | 1,629 | <issue_start>username_0: As a student I wrote a paper for a course. I am now preparing the paper for submission to a journal. My teacher will get a general acknowledgment for the discussions we had on the topic as a footnote on the paper's title (as is the custom in my field). There are a couple (~3) very specific poin... |
2018/08/04 | 984 | 4,151 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the process of developing my academic profile and I am starting to create a shortlist of programs to apply for. I plan on applying to 8 Grad schools (although I do not know which ones yet). From what I've read so far, many of you recommend undergrads seeking to attend post graduate progr... |
2018/08/04 | 394 | 1,636 | <issue_start>username_0: When submitting a paper to a journal, often a cover letter to the editor is submitted as well. When this letter is sent by mail / uploaded to the journal's website, do I need to sign the cover letter? And if yes, how? With a certified electronic signature, or with a digital scan of my handwritt... |
2018/08/04 | 498 | 2,209 | <issue_start>username_0: What happens if one has a PhD scholarship and drops out in the second year of the PhD program? Should he pay back the money that he got in his first doctoral year?<issue_comment>username_1: This will depend on many things including local law and the details of anything signed. In the absence of... |
2018/08/05 | 2,384 | 9,866 | <issue_start>username_0: ### My situation
I could go into the details of the situation in some detail here, but I fear it would read like a shaggy-dog story. For the moment I'll limit myself to these (what I hope are) salient points:
* I enrolled for PhD in October 2011.
* I made a breakthrough in my second year, whi... |
2018/08/05 | 951 | 4,157 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in Applied mathematics. I submitted my PhD thesis (not yet defended) and am applying for postdocs. Until now I have gotten two unofficial postdoc offers: the PIs unofficially informed me about the offers mentioning the salary and duration. I accepted one offer by emailing the... |
2018/08/05 | 596 | 2,337 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently found out that [bioRxiv](https://www.biorxiv.org/), the main biology preprint server, actually does not allow postprints to be submitted (even if allowed by the journal) according to its [policy](https://www.biorxiv.org/about-biorxiv). This is in contrast to arXiv (after which biorxi... |
2018/08/05 | 1,035 | 4,181 | <issue_start>username_0: My full name on passport is <NAME> (first three names + surname). In my publication, I only used the first and the surname (i.e. Amir Al-Attraqchi). Is it going to be a problem proving the publications to be mine?
I'm worried about proving this when applying for new universities, promotions or... |
2018/08/05 | 2,323 | 9,979 | <issue_start>username_0: **TL;DR: I developed a way of solving systems of equations which is up to 25,000x faster than base methods. I want to publish but my advisor doesn't think it's worth it.**
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I work as a data scientist with hyperspectral data. In this area, we treat every single pixel as its own system of eq... |
2018/08/05 | 2,122 | 8,784 | <issue_start>username_0: I have returned to my country after [one negative experience as a postdoc](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/104541/persistent-issues-with-salary-pay-as-a-postdoc-in-china-what-can-i-do) in China.
In short, I was hired based on false salary & funding expectations supported by shady v... |
2018/08/05 | 1,265 | 5,697 | <issue_start>username_0: In my department, we hire graduate TAs as both graders and teaching assistants. The teaching assistants are assigned to lead discussion sections that meet twice per week. The graders are assigned to grade all of the homework and exams.
The department requests that both TAs and graders spend th... |
2018/08/05 | 1,194 | 5,262 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking to apply for graduate programs for Fall 2019 and I am so confused about my chances of admission for different universities.
I know it cannot be really calculated and there is no such formula (2\*GPA+5\*publications etc) but I think there should be a way to estimate a rough probabi... |
2018/08/05 | 2,139 | 7,593 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing several papers that require density plots of complex-valued functions of two variables f:R^2→C, where I'm primarily interested in the complex argument arg(f(x,y)) as a function of the input variables, but I wish to emphasize only the regions where the modulus |f(x,y)| is high.
Bec... |
2018/08/05 | 1,687 | 6,775 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I have submitted an early draft of a report summarising the results of a year-long project at my university, to my advisor for review. We have met up for a review of the paper, and he pointed out my frequent use of the word "we" in the paper. He considered it a mistake and asked me to... |
2018/08/06 | 1,889 | 7,681 | <issue_start>username_0: I just saw an ad for a new Statistics course that will be offered this fall semester and it states:
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> For postdoctoral, graduate, and advanced undergraduate students ...
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I am surprised and a little bit shocked from seeing "postdoctoral" in the ad as a potential attendee of that co... |
2018/08/06 | 919 | 3,832 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing myself for a job interview for a lecturer position. According to many articles on academic job interviews, a common question to be prepared for is that " what can you do to enhance our department?"
I'm not sure what exactly the committee would mean by that? I understand that I sh... |
2018/08/06 | 877 | 3,668 | <issue_start>username_0: My official, legal name is A, but I'm know by most people as B. B relates to A as Bob to Robert, however this connection is only obvious in my country of origin where I am no longer based. I am known primarily as B, among my friends and colleagues. In order to build a consistent professional pr... |
2018/08/06 | 811 | 3,514 | <issue_start>username_0: As a native English speaker, when I review papers I sometimes carefully go through the English and list my proposed changes, which adds a fair amount of time to the review process.
The most extreme case of this was for a good paper I reviewed for a top computer-science journal, but with fairly... |
2018/08/06 | 2,580 | 11,108 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently doing my literature review in preparation for my graduation (masters degree) thesis work at a Dutch university. The past semester I worked as a student assistent on a first-year project, that had quite a heavy focus on learning to properly cite and refer to source material. Togeth... |
2018/08/06 | 544 | 2,075 | <issue_start>username_0: Should I email the editor of a journal to ask for a final decision on an article when I know that all reviewers' comments were submitted weeks ago? The online article submission interface shows me that all reviewers' comments are submitted.
I'm applying for jobs in a few weeks, and I'd like to... |
2018/08/06 | 502 | 2,030 | <issue_start>username_0: For context there is a graduate student who has graduate from my program (at my school) working in my subfield (high energy theoretical physics) but he graduated before I joined the program so I never got to introduce myself.
He's now a post-doc at a highly respected university and is probabl... |
2018/08/06 | 933 | 3,978 | <issue_start>username_0: Can a postdoctoral fellow, who holds a PhD in the relevant field, serve on a PhD student's dissertation committee? This might vary by field, but I'm curious whether there is any general trend on whether being a committee member depends on holding a PhD or holding a faculty position.<issue_comme... |
2018/08/07 | 1,090 | 4,511 | <issue_start>username_0: When applying for US NSF grants as a PI, does it help my case to discuss how little funding I've had?
To give some background: I am a new-ish faculty member; so far in my career I've received 1/2 of a rather small NSF grant (shared with a co-PI), which didn't even come close to covering the ac... |
2018/08/07 | 2,676 | 11,836 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say someone young (~PhD student stage, possibly earlier) wants to become a professor. He doesn't mind moving around and will go wherever the best offer is. He'll obviously need English, but he's also motivated enough to learn another language. What is the best language to learn that will ... |
2018/08/07 | 667 | 2,831 | <issue_start>username_0: My greetings to all users.
I am a student with my UG in Electronics and Communications, planning to enroll in a masters program in computer science (preferably with thesis, but open to coursework option as well). In my UG, I had the following courses related to mathematics and computer science... |
2018/08/07 | 583 | 2,518 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD applicant and I am preparing to send an introductory email to a potential supervisor.
I have two questions:
1. I am self-funded. Should I mention this in the initial email?
2. Is the following sentence grammatically correct?
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> I would be delighted to undertake a research projec... |
2018/08/07 | 537 | 2,338 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to have a tool (software or website) that helps me in doing literature surveys. Here's how I pictured that tool in my mind.
Let's suppose that I've found myself a few relevant papers. As soon as I feed such references to the tool, it starts suggesting me other papers I might be interes... |
2018/08/08 | 1,382 | 5,952 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a tenure track assistant professor at a liberal arts college. I Iike my job quite a bit, but it is located in an impoverished, rural area. My partner works in the nearest large city, 2.5 hours away. I live there as well; the commute and the 2 nights a week I spend away from home are wearin... |
2018/08/08 | 1,303 | 5,446 | <issue_start>username_0: I was admitted to a PhD program last year with guaranteed funding for 4 years. The funding offer was structured as a fellowship for the first year and an assistantship thereafter. I'm done with my first year now, and I will be on an assistantship from this semester onwards. I was asked to sign ... |
2018/08/08 | 1,535 | 6,333 | <issue_start>username_0: The idea of working on multiple projects simultaneously during PhD study is introduced in Feibelman's "A PhD is not enough", Chapter 8. It identifies the following advantages:
* When you temporarily run out of ideas, you need not be blocked but can simply turn to another project.
* When a proj... |
2018/08/08 | 539 | 2,089 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a paper with a collaborator. The collaborator wrote a followup paper where they referred to their work in that paper in the first person, i.e. "in a previous paper, I presented the idea that...". To be clear, that particular idea really was their idea, not mine.
Is this acceptable, or... |
2018/08/08 | 1,598 | 6,482 | <issue_start>username_0: Assume you are reviewing a paper and discover that some general definitions therein have been copied from Wikipedia without mentioning the source. Should it be considered plagiarism or can it be considered legit because Wikipedia is freely available and anonymous?
Surely this behaviour shows p... |
2018/08/08 | 1,833 | 7,501 | <issue_start>username_0: I was asked to give a talk at a workshop. I plan to tell a short story, 5 - 7 minutes, about how my collaborator and I came up with the idea presented in the talk. This story would:
* Give the motivation: I have this problem, and my collaborator had a solution for a (seemingly) unrelated probl... |
2018/08/08 | 993 | 4,170 | <issue_start>username_0: I've contacted a professor who I have taken 2 courses from and who has known me for over a year. I asked him for a recommendation letter and he agreed to write one. The moment I got his letter, I knew it wasn't entirely his words since he doesn't have a good command over English. So I ran a pla... |
2018/08/08 | 721 | 3,025 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a lot of data from my PhD, which I believe confuses my supervisor quite a lot. Therefore, he is hesitant to publish them for now. How can I get good academic feedback on this data without submitting it as a paper?<issue_comment>username_1: Ok,
The problem is your Professors not yours.
... |
2018/08/08 | 525 | 2,260 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing a research paper draft, what should be the purpose? Is the goal to write the draft with the aim of producing a finished product but expecting that it may need changes? Or is the draft more of a glorified outline that shows the path in which the author is going to take?
I'm referri... |
2018/08/08 | 934 | 3,814 | <issue_start>username_0: Continuing [How to cite a technical report for a double blind review process?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/114470/how-to-cite-a-technical-report-for-a-double-blind-review-process), how would you proceed if your paper is acutally 53 pages long, most of it occupied by mathematica... |
2018/08/08 | 3,179 | 12,215 | <issue_start>username_0: [JeffE's answer here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/8085/would-getting-a-faster-msc-instead-of-just-bsc-affect-admission-chances-for-phd/8092#8092) indicates that holders of a master’s degree are held to higher standards when it comes to graduate admissions. The stated requiremen... |
2018/08/09 | 860 | 3,215 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for a PhD program in 2017 and got rejected. I'm preparing to apply again in 2018.
Could a professor who gave me a recommendation letter last year refuse to do so again? If so, why, and how could I approach this issue? Is there any unwritten rule regarding how long a referee will prov... |
2018/08/09 | 1,966 | 8,427 | <issue_start>username_0: What is more important in academia (bioinformatics, computational biology) for a person when he/she has already completed their PhD:
1. Number of first authorship articles he/she has
2. Number of published articles (he/she may or may not be the first author)
I wanted to know what do post-doc ... |
2018/08/09 | 492 | 2,098 | <issue_start>username_0: For my PhD thesis, I have conceptualised an experimental setup which is similar to an already existing patented design. Can I do research work on that setup (conceptualised by me) by simply citing that patent ? Are there other things to keep in mind ?<issue_comment>username_1: You should probab... |
2018/08/09 | 699 | 3,042 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to enter my second year in my PhD after two months from now. I start to think that I can write some chapters from now instead of waiting until the fourth year. This would help me to finish my study early is that possible or at least avoid the stress of writing in my fourth year.
How... |
2018/08/09 | 2,404 | 10,074 | <issue_start>username_0: While certainly there is value to learning something you are passionate about, one might also have to consider the finnacial responsibilities after college. Thankfully for me, what I am passionate about is also what I can expect to make a decent career out of.
I am entering college as a mecha... |
2018/08/09 | 1,095 | 4,857 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a strange situation a few months ago:
I was reviewing a paper which was on an interesting problem and the authors used machine learning to solve this problem. Unfortunately, they seemed to have little experience with the methods so they obviously ran into the problem of overfitting with... |
2018/08/09 | 1,497 | 6,035 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to be a senior college student in the fall. My gpa is close but not high enough for the bare minimum graduate school admission criteria (gpa=3.0). I am wondering whether I should wait until I finish senior year and see whether I get a cumulative gpa of 3.0 before I study for GRE/apply... |
2018/08/09 | 922 | 4,074 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the field of Psychology. One of my manuscripts is now under review after the 1st round of revision. However, I found one of the variables was calculated in a wrong way, the results are better with the corrected variable because the significance levels were higher (i.e., p values were low... |
2018/08/09 | 1,161 | 4,374 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to apply for (top) US PhD programs until this December for being potentially admitted in September 2019.
This personal information is relevant to my question:
* Bachelors in non English-speaking country (Sept 2013-June 2016)
* TOEFL exams (Sept 2015 - Overall score: 106)
* Masters in U... |
2018/08/09 | 910 | 3,819 | <issue_start>username_0: For most of university, I usually got around a ~3.5, with my GPA in my fourth year being around a 3.8.
However, during the first semester of my first year, I had some medical issues that made it really challenging to focus on school. Because of that, my GPA that semester was around a 1.7.
Thi... |
2018/08/09 | 3,457 | 14,537 | <issue_start>username_0: I find it very annoying as a reviewer when I get asked to review a paper several times as it gets submitted to different journals/conferences or, worse still, I help send it to the reject pile only to have it published elsewhere with my comments ignored. I definitely get the impression that a s... |
2018/08/10 | 1,056 | 4,307 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to apply for a PhD in Mathematics in Europe with my BSc and MSc in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (respectively), from two top-tier (say, top 10-20) US universities with advanced courses, and good GPA. Neither of my BSc and MSc had a thesis component though, and a capstone projec... |
2018/08/10 | 1,508 | 5,948 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to apply for a PhD in Mathematics/Applied Mathematics in Europe. I have a BSc in Math and a taught 1-year MSc in Applied Math (without thesis) both from top US universities. I have taken advanced courses during my undergrad, I do have research experience, but not in Mathematics (it was... |
2018/08/10 | 723 | 2,928 | <issue_start>username_0: I have come up with an innovation to obtain linear motion without using any external source of energy. The idea arose from a paper I wrote on an alternative model of magnetism. I have built and tested the innovation and have written a paper describing it, which I wish to submit for publication.... |
2018/08/10 | 702 | 3,187 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in the 3rd year,studying BSc in Economics. This period I finished a project which ended up with statistical significant results, covering a topic which was not mentioned in the literature. I found a journal of Elsevier that matches the Field of Research. My question is whether I ... |
2018/08/10 | 769 | 3,114 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my bachelor thesis and want to cite the ISO C++ standard. However I am unable to get my hands on a copy of the standard, since the library does not have a physical or digital copy. I do get the information I need from the working drafts, and there isn’t much of a change in the chap... |
2018/08/10 | 1,200 | 5,040 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate lecturer. I have been bothered by this question lately.
I never and never want to claim that what I know, or even what I discover, is mine. Also, things that I discover, small or huge, more likely have been discovered before by someone, but of course I never claim that I ... |
2018/08/10 | 348 | 1,442 | <issue_start>username_0: The paper is one I'm working on as part of my current role for which I'm not the PI. Is it safe/sensible to share this with my interviewer? I don't have any published articles at present, so I assume they are just interested in seeing writing samples and such. Should I offer them a copy of my P... |
2018/08/10 | 964 | 3,658 | <issue_start>username_0: What does it mean that a journal is ranked Q1 according to Scimago Journal and Country Rank?<issue_comment>username_1: You can read all about their formula [here](https://www.scimagojr.com/SCImagoJournalRank.pdf).
Q1 presumably means "first quartile." Currently, if you mouse-over the icon for ... |
2018/08/10 | 1,146 | 4,506 | <issue_start>username_0: I have 3 years of work experience in cloud computing and virtualization and am intending to illuminate this in my SOP. With what degree of credibility will the above mentioned work experience be accepted by admissions committees if I do not have any letter from my workplace at all? Also, since ... |
2018/08/10 | 374 | 1,689 | <issue_start>username_0: Is transfer credit transitive? If B accepts credits from A, and C accepts credits from B, will C accept credits from A, provided a student transfers to B before coming to C?
I have transfer credits at my current, American, university. Some of them are from a previous American university, some ... |
2018/08/10 | 926 | 4,105 | <issue_start>username_0: Can a student with a bachelor's in engineering with very little chemistry take some courses in chemistry to get into a chemistry masters? How do US masters view courses taken from Open University, particularly in chemistry?<issue_comment>username_1: Some of this may be superfluous but the US sy... |
2018/08/11 | 708 | 2,758 | <issue_start>username_0: People say that the impact factor and number citations somehow correlated. However; since 2012, I published 7 articles in well reputed top-10% journal, 5 papers in flagship conferences. Yet my total citations are just 51. On the other hand, one of my friends published his work during same time ... |
2018/08/11 | 3,834 | 16,194 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student with an MSc in Physics who is supposed to start a PhD next month. The reason I am writing is the bad psychological situation I ended up after a hard choice between grad programs. I will try to go straight to the point omitting details on how frustrating the whole application peri... |
2018/08/11 | 1,222 | 4,752 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in computer science (theory). I am currently writing a research paper. It is a short paper consisting of about 7-8 pages. I have written it two time and have taken few advice from research supervisor. I am struggling with the part where we give the overview of our approach.
... |
2018/08/11 | 2,509 | 11,034 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach an introductory programming course at university where 99% of my students are 18-20 years old. They are used to the old and boring education system they know from high school, so they are not precisely "motivated" about learning. And since we have to have exams (I'm with a team of teach... |
2018/08/11 | 1,481 | 6,384 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a good journal, it was refereed, and after a year it got accepted for publication.
But now that a year has passed, I no longer find the results or methods of that paper to be that great (novel?). And much of my more recent work, which has been submitted to other good jo... |
2018/08/11 | 569 | 2,597 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague of mine has notified me of an upcoming opening for a TT position in my field in the US. She told me to contact a colleague of hers in the department hiring to "ask for advice" regarding the position.
Being from Europe, this a bit unusual and I am at loss about what I should ask for... |
2018/08/11 | 815 | 3,332 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a co-author on a mathematics paper, and we have submitted it to a journal. It will take a long while before we hear back from them, and I wanted to share my paper with friends and family.
If you share a paper before it has been submitted, it is theoretically possible that other people cou... |
2018/08/11 | 2,237 | 9,190 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague has approached me with a tough situation. I'm unsure how to advise her.
She is a postdoc, and will soon take a month-long planned medical leave. Her adviser, a senior research scientist, has a history of reshuffling authorships of papers of his subordinates during leave, sometimes... |
2018/08/12 | 1,242 | 4,071 | <issue_start>username_0: The screenshot beneath is from [Prof. <NAME>'s profile](https://7kbw.co.uk/barrister/james-goudkamp/). See the red arrow.
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1. What's meant "by resolution"?
2. Why was this... |
2018/08/12 | 1,049 | 3,565 | <issue_start>username_0: There are several important journals out there that are not peer-reviewed, such as [Network Security](https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/network-security). Do such papers provide any value for the author(s), especially for whom want to apply for a PhD program.<issue_comment>username_1: Basic... |
2018/08/12 | 445 | 1,998 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider the scenario in which a PhD student of the subject X published good research papers on subject Y. X and Y are not related. Will those papers any way useful for getting PhD or any benefits related to PhD?<issue_comment>username_1: I don't believe there can be a general answer to this ot... |
2018/08/12 | 618 | 2,679 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been accepted to a funded master’s program under an advisor. I already came up with a research proposal months ago with the advisor’s help as I needed one in order to apply. The last time I spoke to my advisor was about two months ago when we discussed courses to sign up for and anything... |
2018/08/12 | 967 | 4,286 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently applying for masters in CS. My undergraduate main project, which was later made into an IEEE publication, was done under the guidance of an assistant professor, who is currently pursuing her PhD abroad. Being a student at present, she would be unable to obtain a letterhead from h... |
2018/08/12 | 952 | 4,199 | <issue_start>username_0: As an example, let's say someone with 1/16 of African American heritage applies for a minority scholarship and claims themselves as African American. Would they be rejected, all other factors being equal? If so, do universities generally publish a guideline of what constitutes a particular race... |
2018/08/12 | 652 | 2,762 | <issue_start>username_0: During my career as a researcher, I have attended many high-quality conferences in my research field and presented papers. In general there are some rules about the number of papers accepted which belong to a researcher as an author. I can take it normally one person can be an author for a pape... |
2018/08/12 | 617 | 2,524 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a senior Ph.D. student in software security in Germany. I am looking for some grants for my postdoc. I have a proposal ready, but I do not know good enough about the grant opportunities. So, I think that I need to submit my proposal to many places to increase the chance of obtaining a good... |
2018/08/13 | 966 | 4,111 | <issue_start>username_0: One school I know of, University of Pittsburgh, has an early admission program to its graduate schools (law, business, medicine, and others) for qualified juniors. That is, students can apply to the program in the second semester of their junior year, and if admitted, can use the first year of ... |
2018/08/13 | 685 | 2,079 | <issue_start>username_0: The report is called The Path Forward: Rethinking Federal Policy on Marijuana. I have no idea how to cite this online source. It seems confusing since it isn't a bill but rather just something he wrote to inform. Website: <https://blumenauer.house.gov/sites/blumenauer.house.gov/files/Blumenauer... |
2018/08/13 | 5,737 | 24,435 | <issue_start>username_0: [8 Scientific Papers That Were Rejected Before Going on to Win a Nobel Prize](https://www.sciencealert.com/these-8-papers-were-rejected-before-going-on-to-win-the-nobel-prize)
[Funding Analysis: Researchers Say NIH Grant Funding Allocation Seems No Better Than Lottery](https://scicasts.com/ins... |
2018/08/13 | 585 | 2,584 | <issue_start>username_0: (Within the standard review process) I received review comments on a paper, one of the reviewers, say A, waived his anonymity in the review submitted to the journal (I know A personally). Now, A made some suggestions (essentially about some way of using software developed by students of A) whic... |
2018/08/13 | 1,234 | 5,480 | <issue_start>username_0: I am waiting for my PhD viva and I would like to start applying for Post-docs or faculty positions. We all know that a CV is never too good, so I would like to ask some things about the elements of evaluation for Post-Doctoral/tenure-track faculty positions. I know each university has its own r... |
2018/08/13 | 786 | 3,271 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently at the end of my PhD and will be defending my thesis in the next two weeks. I have been offered a postdoc position at a university in the USA that is set to begin in October 2018.
I have asked the HR department of my new employer in the USA for information about the visa applic... |
2018/08/13 | 2,050 | 8,802 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I did not publish any papers till now in reputed journals and I want to publish a paper with a novel idea. Colleagues are suggesting me to ask any expert to proofread the paper and then to include his name as one of the authors. But I don't want to involve any other person and want to d... |
2018/08/13 | 2,628 | 11,044 | <issue_start>username_0: In [this recent academia.SE question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/115212/how-credible-is-an-lor-without-a-letterhead-for-ms-in-cs/115214?noredirect=1#comment302906_115214), the questioner mentions that as an undergraduate they did research with an **assistant professor**. That ... |
2018/08/13 | 2,189 | 9,018 | <issue_start>username_0: During my first post-doc one of the primary researchers just dropped all communications. The upshot is that I have 3 years worth of research that I can't publish without his consent. He was initially keen to publish but when pressed to do his side of the papers he kept pushing the deadline & ev... |
2018/08/13 | 2,018 | 8,225 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working in TCS as an Oracle analyst. I did my bachelor's of engineering in Mechanical Engineering in 2017. Now I want to pursue my Master's in the same field. I am planning to apply to universities in Germany. Will my two years of working experience in IT sector affect my admissi... |
2018/08/14 | 2,226 | 8,614 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two citations of groups of authors (same lead author) from the same year. Thus, in-text I am using (Smith et al. 2001a) and (Smith et al. 2001b).
For the bibliography should I list these references in the order that there were cited (2001a followed by 2001b) even if this bucks the alpha... |
2018/08/14 | 2,637 | 10,878 | <issue_start>username_0: There are plenty of questions asking about how exactly to cite certain things in certain citation styles. I tend to find these puzzling, as for me this is not something the author needs to care of, but something to be done automatically by BibTeX.
Now I am vaguely aware that some disciplines a... |
2018/08/14 | 2,825 | 11,620 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an undergrad and while I am attracted by research and a career in academia, I am on scholarship with a government body in my country and am contractually obligated to complete a 6 year bond in the civil service. I am allowed to complete a Masters degree before then, but not a PhD... |
2018/08/14 | 1,199 | 5,298 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently interviewed for a Postdoc position in a Scandinavian country, where the short-listed candidates have access to ranking and comments on how they were selected. I saw that the other person selected for the interview, already works there as a Researcher, probably on a temporary con... |
2018/08/15 | 2,459 | 9,609 | <issue_start>username_0: The New York Times [article](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/nyregion/sexual-harassment-nyu-female-professor.html) reported a female professor at New York University was found to be responsible for sexual harassment of a male student.
There's a [letter of support](https://leiterreports.type... |
2018/08/15 | 1,370 | 5,496 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I am writing a Mathematics paper to a peer review reputed journal. I have to go from step 1 to step 2 in the paper which needs the knowledge of some well-established theorem X. Can I go from step 1 to step 2 without saying anything about X?
For example, [this](https://proofwiki.org/wik... |
2018/08/15 | 805 | 3,626 | <issue_start>username_0: In my field, computational condensed-matter physics, the last author name in a paper is regarded as having a supervisory role. I know this is common to many fields but not all (notably, math).
I am a postdoc associated to a professor's group. By "associated" I mean that I have my own project a... |
2018/08/15 | 577 | 2,457 | <issue_start>username_0: Google Scholar wants me to add areas of interest, photo, and co-authors. I understand why I may want to add the first two, but why add co-authors? All the publications already list the actual co-authors. Is it an attempt to turn the site into more of a social network? Is it an excuse for Google... |
2018/08/15 | 919 | 3,879 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student in a bachelor program at a local university, while I'm also a teacher (professional school) of apprenticeship students within the same sphere of study.
A few days ago I received the participants list of a class which I going to teach next semester. I went briefly through the name... |
2018/08/15 | 1,301 | 5,300 | <issue_start>username_0: I went to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where I got a BA in Philosophy and graduated with a 3.4 GPA. During my senior year, I discovered an incessant love of physics. However, I’ve had to start over practically from the beginning, such as learning pre-calc.
I am now attending UT K... |