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2018/08/30 | 2,759 | 11,731 | <issue_start>username_0: This question [Inadmissible theorems in research](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/116019/inadmissible-theorems-in-research) mentioned a scenario in which a student was not allowed to use a theorem that he knew because it wasn't in the course. I've administered exams in which the in... |
2018/08/30 | 1,339 | 5,628 | <issue_start>username_0: I can find a bunch of articles about the skills gap between university graduates and job requirements, but it seems that there are limited resources on the skills gaps that high school students have coming into university. Does anyone have any good references that might illuminate any skills ga... |
2018/08/30 | 744 | 3,179 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to be applying for a Master's program at the end of this year. The problem is that I need a recommendation letter from my professor who would know me only for 4-6 months. Does that make the letter less credible? I don't want my application to be dismissed on the grounds that the profe... |
2018/08/31 | 966 | 3,938 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose (*only suppose*) I have implemented the following 3rd-party research article for my MSc thesis:
>
> *[Deep learning and image processing for automated crack detection and defect measurement in underground structures](https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII... |
2018/08/31 | 418 | 1,757 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a masters student. This semester I had a course with my supervisor. This course was not directly related to my thesis. During the term, the professor assigned me an in-class project (which was his previous work). I became interested in this course and project. How can I ask him to assign m... |
2018/08/31 | 1,244 | 5,039 | <issue_start>username_0: My doctoral advisor did something that seems odd to me. I did a bunch of unpaid work for him, with an explicit promise from him (but not in writing because I trusted he would keep the promise) that in exchange he would do one of two mentoring-type things for me, and he has now reneged on his pr... |
2018/08/31 | 1,781 | 7,785 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to communicate to graduate admissions committees that I know the equivalent of a standard course in machine learning as a result of my self-study. If possible, I would like to avoid taking the machine learning course at my home university to prove this.
Is there any way I can show my pr... |
2018/08/31 | 794 | 3,570 | <issue_start>username_0: is it possible to update (minor edits) a paper after a conference/workshop before proceedings?
If that's not possible, why is that?, I'm just trying to understand the rationale, not critiquing. Aren't workshops/conference mechanisms to get feedback?
The paper acceptance has already provided a ... |
2018/08/31 | 531 | 2,270 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a master’s student and have done some original research work which may not be that great.
I have asked my professor who works in that area where can I publish my work or is it at all publishable.
But he seems to be not so concerned about my work nor does he say whether I should publish it... |
2018/08/31 | 1,470 | 5,809 | <issue_start>username_0: Take a look at this [subject-wise QS Ranking (CS/IT)](https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2018/computer-science-information-systems).
We see that ***Shanghai Jiao Tong University*** is sitting on the **46**th... |
2018/08/31 | 1,107 | 4,332 | <issue_start>username_0: A few days ago, I went to have lunch with my colleagues (working in the same group). Somehow, the conversation turned towards politics and the "immigrant emergency" that Europe is currently facing.
To put it mildly, I as a person have very strong convictions regarding such issues. I am from I... |
2018/08/31 | 953 | 4,150 | <issue_start>username_0: From a computer science conference, I have received 4 reviews. Two of the reviewers have accepted the article and have appreciated the work, while the other two have given "weak reject". The conference has asked us to submit a rebuttal within 3 days (seems a hard deadline; but it is okay).
My ... |
2018/08/31 | 1,052 | 4,672 | <issue_start>username_0: Some journals do not require article submissions to be in any particular format. Would it still be better to try and copy that journals usual format, or use a generic draft format? Would you as an editor or a reviewer prefer one over the other?
For example, many articles use a two column forma... |
2018/08/31 | 970 | 4,250 | <issue_start>username_0: I don´t know what is exactly the value of publishing a high impact paper in a journal or magazine (electronic or not, open-access or not). I have several doubts about the benefits of publishing on a journal. Sorry for asking so many questions in the same post but separately it would result redu... |
2018/08/31 | 1,090 | 4,427 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I've had three different sets of co-authors give up on the publication process. Here are the three cases:
1. Publication was rejected on the basis that additional work was needed, amounting to repeating all the experiments. One co-author has retired, another left academia, and a third... |
2018/08/31 | 1,022 | 4,444 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student interested in doing research in the field of (transcriptomics) that is lacking in my country. There is no possibility for me to travel in the next four years due to obligatory military service.
I am concerned about emailing some researchers in the field and ask for a remote sup... |
2018/09/01 | 1,239 | 5,242 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a master's student and want to publish a paper in a specific subfield in mathematics. I have written the paper all by myself.
The problem is my advisor won't check my draft. He says he is busy and so he could not find time.
My question is:
* When papers are submitted to reviewers and ed... |
2018/09/01 | 1,276 | 5,727 | <issue_start>username_0: I am asking this question regarding to the documents (thesis, research papers, and publications) that contain original, novel work.
Before starting to write a research paper/ thesis, searching for a problem statement, submitting to a journal, staring research work for Ph.D., etc., every resear... |
2018/09/01 | 1,211 | 4,467 | <issue_start>username_0: The [SAT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT) comprises two sections, each scored on the range 200-800 (in 10-point increments, so it's really 20-80), so the final score is on the range 400-1600. It used to have three such sections, for a total range of 600-2400.
The [GRE](https://en.wikipedia.... |
2018/09/01 | 687 | 2,922 | <issue_start>username_0: I am crafting applications for US faculty positions and Californian universities require diversity statements. Now, the problem is I have no idea what to write in it, since diversity can mean literally anything. I've seen various examples that are all based on personal struggles by people belon... |
2018/09/01 | 447 | 1,910 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it reasonable to ask for a research assistant position (field of economics) over email to a professor who doesn't live in my country/city?<issue_comment>username_1: This comes off a bit to me like "this application asks for a teaching statement but I haven't ever taught or thought seriously ... |
2018/09/01 | 1,204 | 4,703 | <issue_start>username_0: I am unaware if this question has been asked anywhere on StackExchange before. However, I would like to know what is the major difference between a top 6 and a top 10 graduate school in Mathematics. Forex: Top 6 would include Princeton, Harvard etc. Top 10 would have a few more like Michigan or... |
2018/09/01 | 6,112 | 23,956 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a PhD in the US. I am in my mid-twenties and will graduate next spring. My advisor was very good and nice to me. He invited me to have dinner at his home many times and then I met his daughter. I did not realize at the beginning but she told me she had a crush on me. I have known her... |
2018/09/02 | 282 | 1,121 | <issue_start>username_0: Do universities know that you are a re-applicant who applied to the same program last year? Do they keep that database? And if they do, does that hurt your chances? (Specific to universities in the US and the UK)<issue_comment>username_1: Certainly *some* will retain that information. It would ... |
2018/09/02 | 924 | 3,996 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been working on a text which you could call a short monograph. Without going into details (which might lead to another question) - I'm considering posting/uploading/"publishing" it on arXiv.
It's not a draft - I've gone over it several times and it seems in pretty good share; but, at the... |
2018/09/02 | 1,327 | 5,256 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a specific question. I am working on my academic paper.
I came across this unpublished paper online written by a PhD student. Although, his topic is different, some parts of his paper relates to the background section of mine. For my background section, I am using three different books ... |
2018/09/02 | 617 | 2,564 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in mathematics starting my third year with the goal of a tenure track position at an R1 university. I believe I have enough research completed that I could graduate this year if I chose to, however my funding situation allows me to stay in my program for up to 6 years fully f... |
2018/09/02 | 1,106 | 4,224 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from a country controlled by a repressive regime. I was able to leave the country and continue my academic activity in a top US university. Most of my work is focused on equality, human rights and distribution of resources. Until now, I couldn't publish using my name. Always ends up collab... |
2018/09/03 | 347 | 1,307 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate research assistant, who is paid hourly, I run a script that scrapes data for my professor's research. It is automated, meaning that I don't have to even click a button. But it runs for 1.5 hours everyday on my laptop. I get paid hourly. Do I clock in for the 1.5 hours on a daily... |
2018/09/03 | 1,524 | 6,433 | <issue_start>username_0: It is no secret that industry labs are competing with academia at a pace never seen before. Most of the tech conferences now are dominated by industries with superior funding, human resources, and data.
What surprises me is that papers from industry are often written by a large number of auth... |
2018/09/03 | 688 | 3,035 | <issue_start>username_0: I dont know much about paper submission as I am not that matured enough.
Can someone kindly say what does it mean for a paper to be "under review"?
First I was informed that it was "Initial version" and now the status says "under review".
How long will the tag "under review" stay?
As I am a ... |
2018/09/03 | 871 | 3,615 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a computer science student. I have done some work on algorithms and I have got one result. The result is small, 6-7 pages long (entire paper). I want to publish it and my adviser is also motivating me to publish.
**Question:** Is it worthwhile to publish short paper as graduate student? W... |
2018/09/03 | 768 | 3,343 | <issue_start>username_0: I encountered in a Master's thesis some of my original and important findings. I finished my experiments and left the lab to home to write and while I was writing my supervisor put my data into someone else's thesis.
Funnily enough the data is also in my thesis but masters thesis came earlier.... |
2018/09/03 | 986 | 4,089 | <issue_start>username_0: How to know which journal is open access?
I have searched many journals homepage which give an option "Supports Open Access"
But I know open access journals after accepting papers charge huge amount of money from authors which I wont be able to give.
So can someone please help me to understa... |
2018/09/03 | 492 | 2,094 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on writing my PhD thesis after four long years of work. I'm writing the hypothesis sections, and I am finding it extremely hard to write one single hypothesis that is comprehensive and specific enough without using vague wording. **Can I have three hypotheses for my thesis?**
For ... |
2018/09/03 | 1,732 | 6,840 | <issue_start>username_0: About me:
About to start final year ChemE
Top of class/grades
Have completed 6 month co-ops in pharma and biopharma
Liked the work but think that I would much prefer development or research type work
I need to make a decision over the next month to either:
Take a graduate program/job in ph... |
2018/09/04 | 7,327 | 30,460 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a syllabus for a Calculus for Business class. When I taught the last year, I had some very weak but vocal students whine that the tests were tough (despite other students doing fine), the practice exam was not similar to the actual exam (actually it was, but weak students don't kno... |
2018/09/04 | 1,552 | 6,690 | <issue_start>username_0: Situation: My university has an online course registration system. Students (including me) choose courses in the system and submit their requests at certain time.
Sometimes, the course information is not detailed enough. A lot of course information in the catalog contains no or unreasonable pr... |
2018/09/04 | 575 | 2,516 | <issue_start>username_0: In my field (data science), undergraduate students usually have to compete for research opportunities. Many resort to things like Kaggle competitions. At the same time, faculty are constantly being asked to do more with the same amount of resources.
There seems to my naive mind an opportunity ... |
2018/09/04 | 831 | 3,506 | <issue_start>username_0: When I want to publish academic code, should I use my personal GitHub account with a pseudonymous username or create a new one with a username based on my real name?
My current account uses a pseudonym as username and I write code for which I use my real name in the commits and an e-mail addre... |
2018/09/04 | 338 | 1,536 | <issue_start>username_0: When presenting a new method in a paper and you don't have any/sufficient empirical evidence of the limitations, what is the best way to introduce speculative challenges and potential mitigations?
I'm looking for the title of the section: is this part of the limitations section? my understandi... |
2018/09/04 | 485 | 2,128 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering how I could frame/explain in my CV that I built the datasets used in several publications outside of my field. I'm in the health sciences but have worked for a couple social science professors for several years. In this work I built several of their datasets that were used in pa... |
2018/09/04 | 719 | 3,210 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing a presentation for a conference. After reading many style guides for designing presentations and talking to other people, I have decided that the best way to make slides for a presentation is to have only a picture or formula on each slide. Then I will just talk about the topic o... |
2018/09/04 | 1,363 | 5,911 | <issue_start>username_0: As a follow up question to [my previous one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/116372/61201), under which circumstances is it reasonable to include the name and/or the address of a publisher in a citation?
In my opinion the most important characteristic of a citation is that it uniquely ide... |
2018/09/04 | 787 | 3,277 | <issue_start>username_0: I am submitting a data article to an open access journal, with the data available in a repository (Open Science Framework). I need to add a license to the data repository. It seems from some internet research that the CC0 would be the correct option for a data set, but I have a hard time findin... |
2018/09/05 | 1,532 | 6,980 | <issue_start>username_0: For my computer science programming-based course, I'd like to:
1) host my course and assignments (without solutions) open and free to all (e.g., as public GitHub repos)
but this seems at odds with also wanting to
2) not have to deal with rampant cheating.
Any open source assignments seem to... |
2018/09/05 | 1,362 | 5,501 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a mathematician whose work often connects with physics, so I often have to read papers in physics journals. I find that the two-column format popular with physics journals annoying, and based on the following questions on this stackexchange I am not the only one that feels that way:
[Diff... |
2018/09/05 | 817 | 3,002 | <issue_start>username_0: Scenario:
My own version: The authors in [5,6,7] focused on the problems associated with the production of X.
[5] ABC et al 2018
[6] DEF et al 2018
[7] GHI et al 2019
A corrected version from editorial production team:
ABC and Co-workers [5,6,7] focused on the problems associated with the... |
2018/09/05 | 1,384 | 5,803 | <issue_start>username_0: As a tutor marking assignments, I regularly come across cases of plagiarism. As someone who put a lot of effort into my coursework studies it really offends me to see what students think they can (and ultimately do) get away with - it's making me incredibly jaded about the way universities are ... |
2018/09/05 | 1,290 | 5,384 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a third year undergrad in computer science, at a US university. Even before I was an undergrad, I was considering pursuing a PhD in theory after graduation; until the research internship I did this summer (for CS people, it was in quantum comp. complexity). I really enjoy the courses I tak... |
2018/09/05 | 345 | 1,457 | <issue_start>username_0: Say I have introduced/defined some not-so-common terms like "clock register", "ancilla", etc. in the first section of a research paper, and while doing so I kept them within double quotes. However, I was wondering whether even during the subsequent occurrences of those terms I should use double... |
2018/09/05 | 1,358 | 5,784 | <issue_start>username_0: I have completed my Masters in Pure Mathetics in India and I want to join a Ph.D. program in Algebra and Number Theory.
For that reason, I am checking the profiles of the faculty members of the different institutes where I can join.
But the problem is I don't understand how to judge the profi... |
2018/09/05 | 444 | 1,954 | <issue_start>username_0: Almost 5 months ago I got an offer for a postdoc in USA. As we knew due to my nationality it will take some time to get the visa, I started working on the project from distance. Even though, my postdoc will be in USA but the project I was working on, was for a company in Canada which has some c... |
2018/09/05 | 1,831 | 7,925 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received an email asking if I would be willing to evaluate a colleague's application for promotion and tenure. We are both at R1 universities in the US. According to the guidelines, I am qualified to serve as an external evaluator even though I am neither tenured nor in a tenure-trac... |
2018/09/05 | 4,915 | 21,411 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently taught an undergraduate seminar course, in which each student has to read a research paper, summarize it and present it to the class. In the first lesson I explained to the students the components of the grade: attendance, summary writing, and presentation quality.
Most of the stud... |
2018/09/06 | 607 | 2,480 | <issue_start>username_0: I wanted to know that whether it is possible to sit in a grad-level course or undergrad course without registering?
What should I do before going to the class? should I talk to the professor?
Is it illegal to participate in a class without registration?
I need to learn about some other area tha... |
2018/09/06 | 1,556 | 6,698 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year Physics MSc student. This semester I'll attend to a practical course where we learn to use Python for scientific computing. The course is beginner-level. We will work on our own laptop, not institutional devices, and are expected to install all necessary software.
Yesterday, ... |
2018/09/06 | 617 | 2,421 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not sure if this is the place to ask about graduate admission, so please let me know if the question is off-topic.
I'm currently in my senior year doing my undergraduate degree. I recently made the decision to pursue graduate studies (M.S. CS), but my GPA is a bit low. I will graduate with... |
2018/09/06 | 1,268 | 5,383 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a group in our small field that almost exclusively cites themselves. Their latest paper has 35% self-citations, which is 80% of the citations within the field. They only reference their own work in talks, presenting it (e.g. to industry) as if they are the only group doing research in ... |
2018/09/06 | 313 | 1,303 | <issue_start>username_0: This is fairly inconsequential, but I'm not sure how people typically count years for graduate studies. In my case, having an MA means that I have fewer years to do in the PhD program. This is physically my first year at this particular university, but would I technically say I'm a 3rd year sti... |
2018/09/06 | 346 | 1,440 | <issue_start>username_0: As far as I'm aware, the base requirement to be a teacher or substitute requires a degree. However in my case, I've been working in my career field for going on 10 years. I'm wondering if it's possible to move to Academia, either part-time or full-time without having a formal college degree.
L... |
2018/09/06 | 1,175 | 5,020 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in my second semester of a MS in engineering.
While classwork is fine, research is not going well. I wrote the first few pages of my thesis and basically everything was wrong: formatting, writing style, poor graphs and figures. The results my codes are calculating show that my method mak... |
2018/09/06 | 504 | 2,264 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a prestigious postdoc in social sciences. I need to make a case for why the sponsoring university is particularly well suited to support me, and what unique forms of support it has to offer me. A representative of the postdoc informed the dean that the support has to go beyond... |
2018/09/06 | 800 | 3,397 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for PhD and thesis masters programs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. In one of the schools, there is a specific faculty member I'm extremely interested in working with. However, admission into her lab is really competitive. Realistically, my odds of getting in are mediocre a... |
2018/09/06 | 3,600 | 14,939 | <issue_start>username_0: As a publisher, every now and then I saw reviews which are so good, I thought I should thank the reviewer with something more than "thanks". What can a publisher offer that will actually be useful?
Ideas:
* Cash. This is probably not happening. Cash is too liquid, too precious a resource to o... |
2018/09/07 | 801 | 3,496 | <issue_start>username_0: I have finished my PhD in pure mathematics 3 months ago, and have just (one week ago) started a 1 year post doc appointment in another area of applied mathematics (it has only very very minor links with my PhD, and I really don't know how it will turn out - but I am not very into it so far).
... |
2018/09/07 | 899 | 3,480 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it considered ethical to sign yourself with name followed by PhD when in fact your doctorate was a DTech?<issue_comment>username_1: Ethically, you should portray yourself accurately. So don't say PhD unless that is your degree. It might even be considered, by some, as an attempt to defraud. ... |
2018/09/07 | 461 | 1,910 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to finish my first postdoc (2 yrs) and the positions and grants that I am applying to frequently require me to specify and explain any career breaks. I feel somewhat uneasy about this since I was out of work for a year and a half after finishing my PhD, due to the fact that I could n... |
2018/09/07 | 1,266 | 5,423 | <issue_start>username_0: The Duale Hochschule has published [this guideline (German)](http://www.dhbw.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Dokumente/Dokumente_fuer_Studierende/Richtlinien_fuer_Bearbeitung_und_Dokumentation.pdf) (this question might be specific to the studies in Germany) and it does quite a good job explaining how ... |
2018/09/07 | 1,231 | 4,906 | <issue_start>username_0: Context: Back in May I had asked a prominent professor whom I really admire for research opportunity. He gave me some study material to do over the summer and said he'd decide in the Fall. So in August, he "accepts me", but he also decided to let me work together with another undergraduate (who... |
2018/09/08 | 3,126 | 8,140 | <issue_start>username_0: Belgium recently passed a law allowing researchers to make any of their article open access if the majority of the research funding came from Belgium public funding
Here is the [law](http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi/article.pl?urlimage=%2Fmopdf%2F2018%2F09%2F05_1.pdf%23Page81&caller=summar... |
2018/09/08 | 504 | 2,197 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that I am submitting my application form for admission to a PhD program in USA/Canada. When I am asked to declare my GPA, should I declare it the same original way that my university has calculated it in my transcript?
Here's the thing: I have a failed course in my transcript that was ... |
2018/09/08 | 959 | 4,161 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student (after mid stage) working in theory. I do as much hard work as I can, but there is something I think I am missing. My experience so far is many people don't know what I do and many people don't want to know what I am currently doing. Many of my fellow researchers (Ph.D. stu... |
2018/09/08 | 2,554 | 9,807 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm dealing with a very weird case here. I'm a PhD student and my wife is currently taking a history course at a different university. Apparently this instructor says he has tenure so no one can do anything about his rambling.
He spends a sizable chunk of the course ranting about how evolut... |
2018/09/09 | 819 | 3,545 | <issue_start>username_0: My physics professor's course is BASED on a book, so he recommends buying one particular book. The book is good, but there are many other, better books.
Would it be a good idea to buy books other than what the professor recommended?
Note: I can't buy both, because those books are expensive!<... |
2018/09/09 | 758 | 3,212 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student. I submitted my paper to a highly prestigious journal and also answered with a very detailed and long answer to a reject & resubmit type of revise to this journal. I think it took a long time for the journal and its referees to read and decide.
At the same time, I have a ... |
2018/09/09 | 555 | 2,427 | <issue_start>username_0: I am revising a paper submitted to IEEE TVT journal. I'm quite tight on time and trying to complete the paper revision by its deadline which is on Sep 10,2018 (Monday).
Does anyone have a paper on TVT and know the exact meaning of deadline for this journal ? Is it on Sunday night or Monday ni... |
2018/09/09 | 452 | 2,022 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to apply for a postdoc position. I exchanged emails with one of the professors as potential mentor and he told me to mention his name in my research statement. In which part of the research statement his name must be written? Is it enough to write it in the first paragraph?<issue_com... |
2018/09/09 | 1,687 | 7,363 | <issue_start>username_0: Brief explanation:
I have came up with an M.Sc. thesis idea to my advisor 11 months ago. She supervised but especially in last months not sufficiently for reasons, and I have added very much content at those times. She then led me to the committee without being able to read thesis completely a... |
2018/09/09 | 1,012 | 4,507 | <issue_start>username_0: Yesterday, I deposited an online document into my ResearchGate. My adviser prepared this document for a research proposal. I did not change anything and even I did not wrote that document at all because he just wrote that proposal and because my name was there I thought it's a good idea to put ... |
2018/09/10 | 969 | 4,067 | <issue_start>username_0: In the context of preparing a CV for a math academic job search
Is it advisable to list preprints which are not yet accessible to the wide public in the CV?
If so, should it be in a rubric of its own (i.e. separate from "research publications"), or can I put it in the same rubric but write s... |
2018/09/10 | 614 | 2,460 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor announced the grades. He told us in each part what grades we had.
My oral presentation for the project was way better than other students. But he just gave me 89 for oral and gave others 88.
I think it is not fair at all, because most of the students were not clear or the did not ... |
2018/09/10 | 1,136 | 4,789 | <issue_start>username_0: I did a bachelor's degree in a creative industries subject (Audio Technology) because at the time, I didn't know what to do with my future so I decided to do a "hobby" (regretful, to an extent but many skills gained are transferable).
However, I am now starting my Master's degree in Computing ... |
2018/09/10 | 1,159 | 5,132 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my paper to a journal in July 2017 and I received an email of acceptance on May 2018 but it hasn't been published yet. Suddenly, while I am searching on my topic I found that someone else through another journal published an article on the same topic of mine (same basics and main id... |
2018/09/10 | 860 | 3,245 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested if teaching is a part of duties for people employed on the positions funded by the German Research Foundation (SFBs in particular). To the best of my knowledge, these are pure research positions. However, what is the legal status?<issue_comment>username_1: As far as I know, you ... |
2018/09/10 | 798 | 3,487 | <issue_start>username_0: I would be interested in conducting a survey of Japanese learners of English to find out what they find difficult about learning English. I'm a university graduate, so no longer part of the university in effect, and am not connected to any research institution, nor any business. I would be an i... |
2018/09/10 | 6,145 | 25,919 | <issue_start>username_0: I am curious about the worldwide accepted ethics in publishing. I have never seen any other economic sector in which someone legally sold someone else's product for their own profit, apparently without paying for it in any way. I don’t intend to accuse any publisher, I just want to know how thi... |
2018/09/10 | 1,373 | 5,861 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm taking a class this semester through an online program. We have an essay exam due on Thursday every week that is open-book, open-notes, etc., we're even asked to cite the textbook and other course materials. The professor emails us the question or questions two weeks in advance.
I've been ... |
2018/09/10 | 1,329 | 6,038 | <issue_start>username_0: When teaching students (especially in code, but this can apply to any subject), how do you prevent near verbatim answers that match your examples?
For example, I tell students how to find a document by ID in an array of documents. I show them the code `foundDocument = documentArray.find(single... |
2018/09/10 | 1,160 | 5,121 | <issue_start>username_0: I've completed a project in computational physics. 100% of the code and running of the code completed by me and the introduction, theory and code description in the paper written by me. Results section written by supervisor with some feedback from me.
When we put the latex together I was liste... |
2018/09/11 | 1,458 | 6,002 | <issue_start>username_0: This feels uncomfortable to ask, because I know my actions have undermined what I've worked toward.
A little background: I graduated with a bachelors degree, and then went on to get a masters degree in a different field from a different school. I did well in both programs, including a few year... |
2018/09/11 | 607 | 2,621 | <issue_start>username_0: A couple of month ago, I was in a conference with my adviser. I had a poster and he had a talk. His talk was about my project. In fact, it was newer results that I presented in my poster. After he gave his talk, someone asked me "why while you are here your adviser present your work instead of ... |
2018/09/11 | 826 | 3,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my PhD in October 2017. I have tried to write a publication from my thesis, however I am finding it quite a struggle. I am not receiving any help from my PhD supervisor. So my question is, what should I take into account in order to write a paper (I have not written any papers before... |
2018/09/11 | 1,036 | 4,388 | <issue_start>username_0: Sorry, I believe that the title of this post is a little misleading, but can't understand what the best keywords are.
For my thesis, I have asked some help for a statistical analysis to a faculty member, getting more or less a 3-hours tutorial on the analysis. After my thesis, I have written a... |
2018/09/11 | 2,109 | 9,098 | <issue_start>username_0: I took a course a couple years ago and was doing well until I could not attend any longer and abruptly had to stop. I am currently retaking the course and wanted to hand in the work I submitted years ago since I worked hard on it and did well. Is this plagiarism or against some academic code?<i... |
2018/09/11 | 736 | 3,139 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a thesis that seeks to analyze the ideological thinking of a newspaper through its editorials in a political situation during a certain period of time. I couldn’t count on my Thesis Advisor and I have written my thesis by myself.
My methodology is simple. In short, I made a com... |
2018/09/11 | 1,324 | 5,510 | <issue_start>username_0: As is common practice, I usually have used a red pen to grade student work and provide edits and comments on papers I collaborate on. However, I was speaking recently with an elementary school teacher who told me that they are instructed to avoid using red pen when grading student work. This le... |
2018/09/11 | 1,346 | 5,497 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a tenured professor and like my job overall. I don't go to work giddy everyday, but I enjoy research, and usually enjoy teaching. I don't enjoy stuff like playing department politics or being part of a system that puts students into debt, but I don't think you can feel positive about every ... |
2018/09/11 | 662 | 2,921 | <issue_start>username_0: A few years ago I wrote a paper with three collaborators, where we introduced a model to describe a specific phenomenon. In the end we were not fully happy with the result, so we wrote it up, put it on the arXiv without submitting to a journal, and agreed to revisit the subject after a small br... |
2018/09/11 | 3,275 | 13,443 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not going to give details about the situation (for obvious reasons) but here it is: I got accepted for PhD to a very good American university, in experimental particle physics and I met a famous professor here who is willing to be my mentor.
I talked to some of his old students and they ... |