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2018/09/12 | 593 | 2,615 | <issue_start>username_0: Many grant applications have page limits. They also often allow the writer to chose their preferred format for references.
Thus, I was wondering:
**What is a good concise referencing system that minimises the impact of references on page count?**
Equally, perhaps there are other consideratio... |
2018/09/12 | 1,197 | 5,134 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a theoretical physics postdoc. A while ago I began collaborating with a certain group of experimentalists on a joint project. This group has a good reputation in the field and I regarded the collaboration as a good opportunity. They work at a different institution from me and I am the only... |
2018/09/12 | 915 | 3,656 | <issue_start>username_0: I found the following bibliography in a book:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lj9Iw.png)
Is there a website which generates this kind of references automatically, that is short references?
On google scholar there are only long ... |
2018/09/12 | 536 | 2,392 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student of computer science ( senior year ). I have worked on problems given by my senior collegues in the past. Now I am at a stage where I have to pick a new research problem. I have tried to read as much as possible about particular topic, but still facing difficulty in picking a ... |
2018/09/12 | 838 | 3,535 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year BSc student in pure mathematics. I like to continue my PhD studies in Sweden, directly after BSc or otherwise after having MSc. Unfortunately, not only free education for international MSc students has been stopped several years ago but also the living cost in Sweden is very v... |
2018/09/12 | 458 | 2,005 | <issue_start>username_0: Is age a hindrance of getting acceptance in a PhD program?
For instance, what if a student applies at the age of 45 for an admission?<issue_comment>username_1: A PhD is about specializing in many regards. Your dissertation should lead to a specialization.
I think you will also find it much e... |
2018/09/13 | 4,800 | 20,649 | <issue_start>username_0: A reviewer declines to review a paper because he wants to be paid. Some time later, this reviewer submits a paper to the journal (or to another journal who's aware of what happened – very possible with today's editorial management systems). How should the journal handle this?
Possible options:... |
2018/09/13 | 4,519 | 19,424 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for a phd position in a Austrian university. Then I got a mail which said "We will soon contact you for an interview" and I have been waiting for four days now.
Is it appropriate if I ask an update about the interview?<issue_comment>username_1: First of all: Is there a rule that you n... |
2018/09/13 | 757 | 3,271 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently saw a paper (biological sciences, genomics) that had such poor figures that made consider if I as a reviewer could have suggested rejection based on that. Issues in said paper:
i. 3D-barpplots;
ii. Multi-layers 3D donut [plots](http://6.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/users-gui... |
2018/09/13 | 932 | 3,965 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my close collaborators passed away last year and since then I have become curious about the question of attributing work to deceased authors. Each journal has its rules but there doesn't seem to be any consensus what the ethical ground of these decisions is. Recently a different collabor... |
2018/09/13 | 836 | 3,432 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD (I have 1 year left in it) started out at institution A with supervisor A. For reasons not worth going into, I am now, in most practical senses, being supervised by supervisor B at institution B. It is the case, for example, that supervisor A asked if supervisor B could be the external e... |
2018/09/13 | 492 | 2,085 | <issue_start>username_0: I just had a student inform me that software solutions to my labs (I teach a course in microcontrollers using the ATmega328P) is available on Chegg. She was uncomfortable giving me any further details. She's a very trustworthy student and I don't have any reason to doubt the veracity of the inf... |
2018/09/13 | 507 | 2,212 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it allowed that someone use the same paragraph in two submitted articles for two different journals? Note: both of these articles are unpublished still so it's not possible to cite one in another one. Also, those articles are submitted concurrently. If it is considered self-plagiarism, it sh... |
2018/09/13 | 1,981 | 8,383 | <issue_start>username_0: I was a first-year PhD student but was forced to quit although hard-working day and night! I am disappointed, I am now 27 and did not create family, left my home country. Problems from the past in my family hugely affect my mental health. I have OCD and some other health issues.
Everyone admi... |
2018/09/14 | 213 | 639 | <issue_start>username_0: I often see in a CV that certain papers are labelled as ‘communicated’. What does that mean? (Not ‘communicated by’.)
E.g. [this document](http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/172148/3/03_list%20of%20papers%20of%20the%20candidate.pdf) which is a list of papers including entries li... |
2018/09/14 | 1,419 | 6,192 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was looking for jobs, my website and Curriculum Vita (CV) were more or less updated in real-time, since I needed to make sure recruiting committees were aware of my latest work. Since landing a position, I have become a lot more lazy about putting up my latest papers on the website/CV. I... |
2018/09/14 | 1,350 | 5,357 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a 60 hour work-week due to work/school/commuting/homework, so I've had to make sacrifices -- usually this is attendance of mindless gen-ed classes. I'm worried that the university may revoke my degree if this comes to light.
Described in the answers to [this question](https://academia.... |
2018/09/14 | 399 | 1,772 | <issue_start>username_0: How valid is to refer to previous literature reviews in other papers to 'create' a thorough review?
The thing is that I am working in a new methodology, which I will compare with the current state-of-the-art (published in 2017). In there, the authors have done some literature review, which is... |
2018/09/14 | 4,144 | 17,855 | <issue_start>username_0: I was a post doc at a large US university for a year and after took another postdoc position in my home country. My mentor was a tenure track assistant professor. It pretty soon became clear that working together was going to be difficult due to different ideas on how to approach and manage pro... |
2018/09/14 | 412 | 1,868 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an electrical engineer with basic programming skills in C, C++, Python and Java. I wish to pursue my masters in computer science to pursue research (PhD) after working for a couple of years in the IT industry (preferably product development).
So what are the programming languages one mus... |
2018/09/14 | 1,143 | 4,809 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a paper all by myself,the research problem and its solution all were formulated by me.
As a result I wrote the paper and submitted to a journal citing only my name.
As I told my advisor today that I have submitted my work,he is insisting that I should include his name in the pap... |
2018/09/14 | 634 | 2,638 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a thesis seeking to analyze the ideological thinking of a newspaper through its editorials in a political situation during a certain period of time (1985-1991). I couldn’t count on my advisor and I have written my thesis by myself. My advisor approved my thesis and I must defend ... |
2018/09/14 | 337 | 1,319 | <issue_start>username_0: So I've done plenty of APA papers, but I have never done one with two authors, so I came here since it's the fastest source for information, in my opinion. I would like to know or see an example of how to present both authors on the cover page.<issue_comment>username_1: According to the APA 6th... |
2018/09/15 | 2,052 | 8,610 | <issue_start>username_0: Well, this is kind of embarrassing for me and I am judging myself as well.
I have just started my PhD. And there is another woman who has started in the same lab as me. Over the first week, I found out that she does not know how to program well. She does not understand many basic terms and had... |
2018/09/15 | 1,531 | 6,714 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a hypothetical question inspired by a flip side of [the situation described here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/116916/1-5-years-later-how-to-make-sure-unprofessional-behaviour-by-former-mentor-has).
Consider a PI on tenure-track position, facing tenure / promotion panel... |
2018/09/15 | 306 | 1,306 | <issue_start>username_0: I am finishing my Ph. D. in physics and I have a degree in mathematics. Currently, I am planning to apply for a lecturer position in Australia. Will it be more feasible to apply for a lecturer position in mathematics or in physics?
Update: Thank you all for your advice. Currently, my papers ar... |
2018/09/15 | 247 | 1,070 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written an article (2-column type), and would like to put an acknowledgement to acknowledge the non-substantial contribution of a colleague in the analysis of some data.
The structure of the article is
```
Introduction
Main body
-> chapter with the data
Conclusion
References
```
Wher... |
2018/09/15 | 744 | 3,279 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reviewing a survey paper in a good journal, where the paper missed important papers in the field including my previously published articles. I plan to suggest a rejection due to this serious lack, but I want also to encourage the authors to resubmit it again by pointing out the weaknesses ... |
2018/09/15 | 1,050 | 4,144 | <issue_start>username_0: While teaching a class last week, I made the widely-recognized hand gesture (an open circle with the thumb and index finger, with the other 3 fingers loosely or sharphy extended... I'm not sure exactly how mine looks, as it's like muscle memory and I don't consciously think about the exact shap... |
2018/09/16 | 1,994 | 8,254 | <issue_start>username_0: I took a semester where a professor was teaching Statistics. He gave out **no lecture materials** nor the name of any text books.
When I asked him for a text book name, he gave me a name of a 900+ pages' book.
I could not find anything relevant in the text book which matches his lectures.
Fina... |
2018/09/16 | 1,492 | 5,848 | <issue_start>username_0: Co-authors are increasingly required to report their individual contributions to a research paper. But can they report their (internal) disagreement?
Co-authors may disagree on parts of a final draft. Each may have own interpretation of (parts of) the results or view of their implications.
Th... |
2018/09/16 | 425 | 1,668 | <issue_start>username_0: This is in reference to my previous question:
[How to mail the editor asking to withdraw my submission?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/116927/96599)
I wrote to the editor regarding my problem for 2 consecutive days.
I sent 4 mails to him regarding the withdrawal of my manuscript.
But I... |
2018/09/16 | 886 | 3,927 | <issue_start>username_0: This summer I was involved in a long distance collaboration with a researcher at an institution for clinical research. I was essentially CC'd to this person via an old colleague who currently works with this professor as a faculty member when the professor I collaborated with apparently express... |
2018/09/16 | 837 | 3,739 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my Thesis in finance field and I am using Machine learning methods. Therefore, I wrote many Python and R scripts for collecting data, cleaning it and applying some statstics.
1. should I reference my own code that I wrote? if yes can you please tell me how?
2. should I reference ... |
2018/09/17 | 474 | 2,049 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach computer science (USA - graduate level). I am teaching a software design course, and for a lecture I am to give on software anti-patterns I would like to use a real world example from an institution I was previously employed with. To share the example I would create some abstract UML cl... |
2018/09/17 | 2,017 | 8,663 | <issue_start>username_0: As a lecturer, at the start of each semester in all of my courses, I have students complete a first-day diagnostic quiz on topics from the prerequisite course. There are usually a few significant under-performers (say, 40-50% success where most students are in the 70-100% range).
I then follo... |
2018/09/17 | 609 | 2,796 | <issue_start>username_0: Say you're working on two papers A and B simultaneously, and the content and topic of the papers partially overlap such that normally you would be required to cite paper A in paper B. But since both papers are being written simultaneously how do prevent self-plagiarism?
Should you cite paper ... |
2018/09/17 | 993 | 4,573 | <issue_start>username_0: A few months ago a very well-known (and controversial) authority in my field published a theoretical model of a phenomenon that one of my collaborators addressed many years ago. Interestingly, the paper does not reference my collaborator's work at all, even though the authors of this new paper ... |
2018/09/17 | 1,953 | 8,169 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing a seminar talk. Currently the presentation contains some theorems and some proofs. Probably, I will not have time to explain all the proofs - I will have to skip some of them. My question is, which of the two options is better:
1. Keep the slides with the proofs visible, and dur... |
2018/09/17 | 2,810 | 11,920 | <issue_start>username_0: In a recent review, one reviewer said we must rework the paper in light of two other papers. One paper was a highly valuable suggestion, and we've enthusiastically taken it on board. However, the second paper seems to be an ultra-specific paper (one example among thousands) and not applicable t... |
2018/09/17 | 1,286 | 5,037 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a medical doctor, but decided to go into a graduate program because I wanted to contribute to progress of humanity with new knowledge ( I know, very romantic). I got accepted into a graduate program in Germany (I am not German).
Now that I am in science, I have realized **it is not what ... |
2018/09/17 | 3,557 | 13,916 | <issue_start>username_0: While thinking about [this recent question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/116752/should-i-retire-early-from-my-tenured-job), I was reminded of an issue at two different institutions I've taught at, as well as a third institution I am aware of via my father.
One complication I h... |
2018/09/17 | 680 | 2,976 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a two year contract as a visiting assistant professor. Is it normal to be keeping an eye on the market and perhaps selectively sending out applications now in my first year, or should I be holding off completely until next year?
I suppose the tricky thing is I'd ideally want a letter fr... |
2018/09/18 | 3,304 | 14,316 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate studying math and I'm taking a graduate math class for the first time this semester. I've taken the undergraduate prerequisites, but it's still very challenging, which I was expecting.
I'm starting to get overwhelmed by the content and the pace of the course. The professor... |
2018/09/18 | 1,534 | 6,324 | <issue_start>username_0: I have observed two recurring trends in Academia, both in Europe and in North America. I don't have statistics in hand but I can present quite a few examples of budgets in which the investment for new infrastructure is 1000 fold what is invested in hiring permanent research staff. For example t... |
2018/09/18 | 1,470 | 5,888 | <issue_start>username_0: Ok, so I'm in a pretty dire situation here. I'm coming towards the end of my PhD contract in France. For a litany of reasons, it hasn't gone too well.
* I had extreme difficulty getting my experiments to work, and as I'm working with living organism (microalgae) this often meant months of del... |
2018/09/18 | 400 | 1,704 | <issue_start>username_0: My colleagues and I are looking into ways to get a list of all articles published for the history of a given journal. Primarily, we are looking to for a list that includes title, authors, year, volume, and issue number, but more/less information is good too. Our primary function is to just use ... |
2018/09/19 | 643 | 2,882 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted my manuscript to a journal. After several weeks the editor sent me the comments of two reviewers. The editor said that "*the authors should provide proof that the paper has been proofread by a native English speaker*".
So how can I provide the proof? Should I send the proofrea... |
2018/09/19 | 2,116 | 8,775 | <issue_start>username_0: I notice that often a lot of Chinese mathematicians collaborate with other Chinese, and Americans collaborate with other Americans. Many of the journal papers that I look up seem to indicate this sort of self-segregation too.
Is this real or perceived?
If it's real, is it due to racism, fami... |
2018/09/19 | 593 | 2,323 | <issue_start>username_0: [Wiley](https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/Promotion/journal-cover-image.html) journals request payment from authors who want an image to appear on the journal cover. Is this a common practice followed by many publishers? Why do authors pay the fee?<issue_comment>... |
2018/09/19 | 1,169 | 5,013 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a failing for a course; however, one of my project (which worth around 10%) was not graded. It is possibly due to my late submission (one minute late). Previously many of his students submit their works late (I mean super late), and he accepted them all. So I politely asked him by em... |
2018/09/19 | 1,083 | 4,567 | <issue_start>username_0: A course came up that I was interested in (C\*algebras). It's a grad class but was offered to a select group of undergrads including myself. I accepted the offer but then once the class started I received an email saying the following:
"Dear XXX,
I have just noticed that you have not complet... |
2018/09/19 | 757 | 3,122 | <issue_start>username_0: I came across a paper published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics in the year 2016. In the paper, the authors claimed to have developed a methodology which extends the dimension of an existing method. But this extension has already been discussed in a paper published in 2014. This seems to... |
2018/09/19 | 1,525 | 6,442 | <issue_start>username_0: In my writing, teaching and research, I always do much more than I should. I produce excellent work, but it's always late because I seem to be incapable of scaling back my (unrealistically high) expectations due to time constraints. I am exhausted and demoralized. I know this isn't group therap... |
2018/09/19 | 6,672 | 26,973 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Background
In the U.S., many colleges adopt an A–F grading scheme, topped with pluses and minuses.
Professors vary in the way they assign A to F grades, but my sense is most rely on discrete “bins”. For example, some professors use relative grading and (roughly) give an A to the top third... |
2018/09/20 | 2,538 | 10,592 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder if is it okay for a researcher to suggest a new technique in a field of research and prove that this new suggested technique is a bad suggestion and gives no or negative gain and publish his work as a research on bad idea? (I'm in computer science but my question is a general question ... |
2018/09/20 | 839 | 3,546 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an MSc student in math in Europe (I'm doing mainly analysis and applied math). During my Bachelor's I've had mainly average grades (I'm not sure what the exact GPA equivalent is, but it would be around 2.5, I guess). Now, in Master's, I've been getting only good grades and I am l... |
2018/09/20 | 654 | 2,392 | <issue_start>username_0: I wanted to publish a research paper which has less relevant stuff compacted and would be more focused on important and relevant items.
Also, I have failed to find a guide to publish small compact research papers.<issue_comment>username_1: It is entirely up to the journal or conference.
Most... |
2018/09/20 | 934 | 4,005 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate student looking to publish 2 papers in materials physics on novel research. I've lead the project on my own as an independent research, but have worked with the departments and faculty to gain access to several of my universities labs to conduct the research. I have no clea... |
2018/09/20 | 912 | 3,875 | <issue_start>username_0: I know somebody, let’s call him Joe, who had been a good student. Being a good student, other students asked help from him to understand the class materials. In the meantime, our university started recruiting a lot of international students. These new students, especially those who had a lot of... |
2018/09/20 | 610 | 2,493 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently applying for a research/study grant, and need three letters of reference. Would it be out of line to ask the recommenders to coordinate with one another so that they don't say anything conflicting, and don't double up on the same exact content? Not sure what the norms are.<issue_... |
2018/09/21 | 319 | 1,477 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a grant proposal. The topic of the proposal is in a technical study and do not have any direct social interaction. And the grant only provide salary for the applicant and project costs; therefore, there won't be any other recruitment.
One of the question in the grant applicatio... |
2018/09/21 | 893 | 3,666 | <issue_start>username_0: I started my PhD some months ago. My advisor was also my Master's advisor. He was impressed by my skills and passion so I enrolled in a PhD program with him.
What happened is that my topic changed quite lot and he didn't tell me clearly before enrolling. Basically my master thesis topic is in ... |
2018/09/21 | 2,767 | 11,147 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a masters student at one of the top two universities in the UK and will be applying for PhD positions soon. When I google my (unique) name, the first few results are what you'd expect, my LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and some university web pages.
However if you keep scrolling and go thr... |
2018/09/21 | 1,447 | 6,126 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Background about me
I am an early-to-mid-career teaching-track faculty (four years of cross-curricular teaching experience in engineering) in the USA. I teach courses both at the undergraduate and graduate level. I also try to keep up with research and publish a conference or journal paper... |
2018/09/21 | 2,437 | 9,897 | <issue_start>username_0: I am now studying Computer Application, a bachelor degree in India. I can get a job in the IT sector if I try only a little harder. But I have this deep desire to study Physics starting from undergraduate.
My high school science scores were average. I consider myself as a smart working scienc... |
2018/09/21 | 279 | 1,228 | <issue_start>username_0: As the title suggested, if you have been doing research consistently with a professor, can you write RA as your title in CV? If not, what should be the title to put there instead to show that you have done research in that lab? Thanks a lot.<issue_comment>username_1: The different faculty has d... |
2018/09/22 | 749 | 3,193 | <issue_start>username_0: I am exploring some new research fields in CS from my unrelated field in math.
Many papers I have stumped upon during research seem to completely ignore the fact that notation and symbols have meanings. Coming from math, this is a bit unsettling to me.
I hate to provide example, but [here i... |
2018/09/22 | 353 | 1,537 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted my replies to peer review to a journal. After submission I found out I had missed out on turning on track changes to the last part of my manuscript. Will this cause a problem? Do issues like this irritate journal editors and reviewers and lead to rejection of a manuscript?<... |
2018/09/22 | 507 | 2,238 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it common for a PhD student to be asked to contribute to a grant proposal (one of those that require faculty to submit them, the "big" ones)?
I've been asked to write a small section but I'm really worried that whatever I will write will be used to shoot down the proposal and that if that h... |
2018/09/22 | 1,273 | 5,165 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated with Ph.D. in 2012 from SUNY-Albany College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, with B.S. in Physics. Then I could not find a related job to this day.
In 6 years, I managed only to get two different full time jobs in entirely different fields, and they did not last. I believe one... |
2018/09/23 | 773 | 3,318 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a situation when two students trying to apply for a PhD position in pure mathematics and they both have same GPA, same Rec.Letters, etc except for their published papers. Let both applicants have one paper published each, but applicant A has a "much better" research done compared to app... |
2018/09/23 | 743 | 3,300 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm talking about a narrow sub-field of Computer Science - algorithm execution high-level simulations. However, I guess, this applies to many fields to some extent.
When you are submitting an article to a journal (peer-reviewed, indexed, with a track, not from a ranking bottom), you can't sen... |
2018/09/23 | 1,026 | 4,414 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper and some of our findings validate the conclusions from an already published peer-reviewed article in a respected journal. We also find things that differ.
However the authors of the paper uses techniques that are not ideal for making their conclusions, and furthermore, som... |
2018/09/23 | 368 | 1,699 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say that you thank Professor X in your paper that you will submit to a Journal Y for providing you some insightful comments. It is never possible to know but let's assume that Professor X is the anonymous referee for your paper. This is possible since you make a list of potential referees... |
2018/09/24 | 423 | 1,758 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted a paper to the international journal of adaptive control and signal processing Wiley. The statute of the paper is:
STATUTE:
ADM: Not Assigned
Under Review
Can someone tell me what exactly this means?<issue_comment>username_1: A previous [question asked about "ADM"](http... |
2018/09/24 | 752 | 2,851 | <issue_start>username_0: My situation: I have finished university more than 10 years ago. I work for company X. I also own a small startup company called Y (no employees). I am in the process of publishing a paper and I was asked to provide an affiliation. Not providing one is not an option, in the sense it's a mandato... |
2018/09/24 | 1,865 | 7,549 | <issue_start>username_0: What do you do to write better proposals, grants, and papers?
Do you think reading books about how to write scientific content is a good way to improve it?<issue_comment>username_1: There are many ways that one can improve their scientific writing skills. Because humans learn in diverse ways, ... |
2018/09/24 | 471 | 1,916 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated from CS from a university in Canada. Although I did pretty well, I cannot help but wonder what would have happened if I had gone to a different university. For example, I cannot help but suspect that if I had gone to Stanford or MIT, that my GPA would have been lower (but maybe not)... |
2018/09/25 | 926 | 3,666 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics. I'm now applying to research internships and some of these need recommendation letters from faculty.
I did very badly during the first 2 years at college (having scored around 6/10 (=2.4/4) GPA in my courses until the end of my 4th s... |
2018/09/25 | 5,547 | 24,130 | <issue_start>username_0: The situation: we have many subjectively understandable articles in English. But they will never be published publicly in any peer-reviewed scientific journals. Why?
Some reviewers seem to be very sensitive about the quylity of English. This all isn't about the fields where it is a must, of co... |
2018/09/25 | 810 | 3,548 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is triggered by the (somewhat off topic there) [comment thread](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/117390/725) about an employer who does *not* want to appear as affiliation for a paper, and the subsequent thoughts of whether an employer can deny an employee the right to give th... |
2018/09/25 | 1,245 | 5,259 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been a faculty member at two universities. Both have been very "disorganized," generally speaking. By "disorganized," I mean things like: Faculty are not formally hired until after the semester begins (due to administrative failure to sign contracts on time); courses are scheduled in rooms... |
2018/09/25 | 1,773 | 7,602 | <issue_start>username_0: I was a first year PhD student and have mentioned before I was forced to quit although hardwork and grants. Now the head of the school admit that the supervisor was wrong and he had nothing to do with the supervisor which is awkward, he also confused about another student who hadnot passed his ... |
2018/09/25 | 562 | 2,394 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to ask a more general question that relates to a renowned mathematician’s recent proposed proof of a famous hypothesis, which seems to be widely considered not even close to being correct – that it’s not just not correct, it’s “not even wrong”.
Since now, all the top mathematicians have... |
2018/09/25 | 999 | 4,207 | <issue_start>username_0: I was watching a math PhD thesis defense on YouTube and it seems that after about an hour of the talk, a committee member tells the audience to leave except for the graduate committee and the PhD candidate.
What typically happens next? Is there a separate defense session with the graduate comm... |
2018/09/26 | 787 | 3,255 | <issue_start>username_0: In [our lab](http://nbjl.nankai.edu.cn/) (at Nankai University, in China), students often write papers where they are first author. However, we use a convention where the last author signifies the student's teacher. I feel that this is uncommon.
I have not heard of this done outside of our lab... |
2018/09/26 | 674 | 2,644 | <issue_start>username_0: In a statement of purpose for PhD applications, should one talk about their undergrad research like
>
> I did X ...
>
>
>
or, should one (rightfully) say
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> My advisor and I / we did X ...
>
>
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Would admissions committees be concerned that the applicant "lacks confidence", when ... |
2018/09/26 | 1,977 | 8,354 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a master's student about to start writing my thesis. After I wrote my research proposal, my advisor said that when I write my thesis, I should make it less "popular" (I believe he referred mainly to the introduction, where I presented the field and the subject in a rather detailed manner a... |
2018/09/26 | 645 | 2,716 | <issue_start>username_0: I am rather new to the academic so I am bit insecure about the whole process. I have a small question regarding the publication process.
Context:
Recently I submitted a paper to a physics journal. Two referees were consulted by the editor and recently we received their comments. While one ref... |
2018/09/26 | 796 | 2,609 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently stumbled upon a published article entitled "ANCOVA versus change from baseline had more power in randomized studies and more bias in nonrandomized studies," which has an errata stating the following:
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> The publisher regrets that in the above-mentioned article the title was change... |
2018/09/26 | 682 | 2,870 | <issue_start>username_0: The Australian government pays for the research study fees.
Who will, in such case, have the intellectual property rights for the research: the PhD student or the university?<issue_comment>username_1: Laws vary and I am neither a lawyer nor Australian. But in general, unless the grant or unive... |
2018/09/26 | 610 | 2,594 | <issue_start>username_0: I start by describing the situation: a friend of mine is a master student in Italy, and is going to graduate soon. She wrote her master thesis and submitted it, and should have her final exam (the one in which the thesis is discussed) in about a month. In the meanwhile, she is sending PhD appli... |
2018/09/26 | 2,125 | 7,906 | <issue_start>username_0: I did a masters 8 years ago. am 38, unemployed, and don't have any fund.
I want to go to the USA for a PhD. But, **probably** won't get a visa for having a study gap and/or being unemployed and old (on most occasions refusal letter would reply "*You haven't satisfied us that you would leave t... |
2018/09/26 | 1,098 | 3,245 | <issue_start>username_0: Like, this document, for instance:
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc791>
It's an official Internet Engineering Taskforce document that defines things like network protocols, etc. Often times there's really no specific individual(s) credited as the author(s), and even the official title can s... |
2018/09/27 | 1,377 | 6,017 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any reason why most non-governmental organizations (NGOs) tend to publish non-peer reviewed literature? I have seen some NGO scientists as co-authors, even in some important papers, but most of their production is reports which are not peer-reviewed. While it is true that most NGOs do ... |
2018/09/27 | 974 | 4,181 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an external PhD candidate at a university in Germany, meaning that I have neither a post at the university nor funding. I know this isn't ideal, but my question is this:
My research is related to language education, and for my field work I'd like to compare students from a certain Asian co... |
2018/09/27 | 1,154 | 4,958 | <issue_start>username_0: I am teaching classes of a size of 20-25 persons.
During a class, what is the best way to get feedback from students? Concretely, I would want to get the following questions answered every ~15-20 minutes:
* Did the students understand what I was explaining?
* Are there any questions related t... |
2018/09/27 | 451 | 1,762 | <issue_start>username_0: Many scientific papers (at least in computer science) use present tense in the evaluation section to describe the setting of the evaluation (e.g., "In our experiments we **use** dataset A.)". Wouldn't past tense be more appropriate?<issue_comment>username_1: There are several reasons to use pre... |
2018/09/27 | 797 | 3,304 | <issue_start>username_0: Excuse me for keeping things abstract, I do not want to include more details than necessary.
I'm working on an internship. The internship goal is applying known (published) information and evaluating it in practice. I will conclude the internship by writing a report.
I want to include as much... |