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2018/11/12 | 1,030 | 4,365 | <issue_start>username_0: At one school I worked at the strategy for dealing with poor teaching was to get feedback from students around midterms. If the students criticism was strong enough the teacher was pulled from the class and replaced by someone else in the middle of the semester.
Naturally this led to administr... |
2018/11/12 | 2,033 | 9,184 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a classmate who repeatedly interrupts the flow of lectures in various ways. We assume he has learning difficulties of some kind due to how he acts and because he has an assistant with him in most lectures.
Generally, it will be things such as asking an excessive number of questions. O... |
2018/11/12 | 2,683 | 11,732 | <issue_start>username_0: I think, in our current education system in universities, there are lots of problems, some of which are listed below, and I think we are wasting lots of time by repeating (possibly a worse version of) the same course each year. That is why, I have the following solution, and I'm curious, what f... |
2018/11/12 | 2,287 | 10,328 | <issue_start>username_0: My coauthor and I submitted our article for publication to one of the best journals in our field. After a long time of review, we got a rejection decision by the editor based on the referee report which we received. After that we wrote to the editor and explained to him/her that the referee arg... |
2018/11/12 | 526 | 2,294 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently applied for a national scholarship at my university. My application was accepted internally as one of few to be sent to the organization hosting the scholarship. However, the people screening applications at my university were slightly concerned about one of my reference letters from... |
2018/11/13 | 188 | 765 | <issue_start>username_0: Assuming the home university only pays 1/2 of 9-months salary in the period of one-year sabbatical.
Can it be legally allowed? or does it violate any rules in general? What would be the worst consequence if doing so?
Thanks.<issue_comment>username_1: The only legal rules that are likely to a... |
2018/11/13 | 615 | 2,596 | <issue_start>username_0: It is famously known that “visibility” of an article influences its citation count. Is it true that articles cited in Wikipedia page get more academic citations?<issue_comment>username_1: There appears to be some literature comparing citations on Wikipedia to citations in academic journals, but... |
2018/11/13 | 768 | 3,277 | <issue_start>username_0: A research paper of mine has been accepted at an IEEE conference. Although I submitted my best work as a research paper, my best was not good enough and the reviewers threw it with the poster papers. So, it will get published in the conference proceeding but will NOT get uploaded to Xplore Libr... |
2018/11/13 | 1,271 | 5,111 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a peer-reviewed paper for an Australian academic conference. The reviews are favourable with a number of small and helpful suggestions. However, one reviewer has criticised the use of the word "amongst", saying it is archaic and should not therefore be used in a technical paper. ... |
2018/11/13 | 823 | 3,668 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm just curious to know what are the most important requirements for filling up Ph.D. application, generally. is job resumes important if available? Or for example GRE, Publications or Research interest? What is more important?<issue_comment>username_1: Acceptance into a doctoral program isn't... |
2018/11/13 | 972 | 4,321 | <issue_start>username_0: I already asked [a question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/114271/what-kind-of-knowledge-is-required-to-do-a-phd) in the past about the requirement to join a PhD program, but I am now wondering what makes a PhD thesis what it is. As seen on a lot of different websites and for exa... |
2018/11/13 | 629 | 2,664 | <issue_start>username_0: For example PhD scholars working on ML/AI algorithms need a lot of data to train and test their research. Research on distributed systems might require terabytes of data to test.
Where do these scholars get so much data i.e. the scale which is only produced in big companies?<issue_comment>user... |
2018/11/13 | 1,396 | 6,213 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in the process of appealing a termination from my PhD program and although there are many facts concerning my case that I feel are relevant and important, I'm not sure how relevant they are in the consideration of my appeal.
My question is: how do I present my appeal in a way th... |
2018/11/13 | 1,955 | 7,684 | <issue_start>username_0: I hope this is not to much rambling, but there is a concrete question in the end. I really like being a mathematician. I like the constant learning, I like working on problems at research-level and I even like teaching university students. I did my PhD and definitely had fun, but during the tim... |
2018/11/13 | 2,012 | 8,519 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was taking my gen-ed classes for nursing school (anatomy, microbiology, etc), I could go to the end of the professor's Powerpoint and click on any of the references if I wanted to find out more information about a subject.
When I got to nursing school, I discovered that their Powerpoin... |
2018/11/13 | 602 | 2,656 | <issue_start>username_0: I am midway through the third year of a five year graduate program. Grad school has been fine and I am not struggling academically but there is a full-time job offering in my city (in a field related to my program) that is very interesting to me. If I take this job, I will leave my graduate pro... |
2018/11/14 | 2,364 | 9,988 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been recently thinking about the role of a university curriculum in CS. Computer science degrees immediately offer their graduates a lucrative position in industry; this is obviously making them highly attractive to prospective students who want to get in on the action, and as a result t... |
2018/11/14 | 579 | 2,474 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to write a paper that includes extensive searches on google with different queries. Is there any ways for me to show in my paper that this search provided these results at the time being?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> Is there any ways for me to show in my paper that this [Google] se... |
2018/11/15 | 340 | 1,488 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning to apply to a number of university (public policy) programs in US and I do not know how to express my dismissal from public service following the political turmoil in Turkey. I was dismissed with a decree law, no charges, without being questioned like tens of thousands. How can I s... |
2018/11/15 | 992 | 3,768 | <issue_start>username_0: For whatever reason, authors are occasionally able to guess who the reviewers of their papers are. Sometimes these guesses [have even gotten published](https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/best-academic-acknowledgements-ever):
>
> "We appreciate the very candid critical insights of 2 ano... |
2018/11/15 | 1,250 | 4,903 | <issue_start>username_0: In my Literature Review, I mention the authors of the published papers I use and the results found in their study. My question is whether I should reference the author's credentials alongside the field in which they belong to or is this unnecessary?
Ex.1 (With)
"<NAME>, a researcher in the dep... |
2018/11/15 | 904 | 4,078 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my faculty, during a lecture, told the following lines
>
> some good journals and conferences even consider the country of
> authors and sometimes they think that the research papers from a
> particular country may be not good. So, we need to be more careful
> while writing the pape... |
2018/11/15 | 1,337 | 5,470 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working as a young scientist after finishing my masters in physics in India. In last three years, I have published 12 research papers (Quantum theory) with my collabrators. I am facing problems in registering for PhD in my institute.
How can I get a Doctrate degree based upon my research ... |
2018/11/15 | 1,657 | 6,477 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to submit an assignment and I need to copy some part of my friends thesis with his consent because I do not have enough time to write in my own words. Another issue is that his thesis is not available online to refer it.
So, it it ethical to copy information with consent?<issue_comment>... |
2018/11/15 | 1,076 | 4,425 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm highly considering attending smaller, lesser known private university to pursue a PhD in cognitive psychology. The university gives full funding, I really mesh the with the professor I'd be working with, and the area is beautiful. The advisor I'd be working with came highly recommended to m... |
2018/11/15 | 1,522 | 7,015 | <issue_start>username_0: I study in an institution that never provided me or any other student with an institutional email address. I feel that this is highly prejudicial to my academic success because
1. it does not allow me to access closed content, unless I'm accessing it through an institutional computer; and
2. i... |
2018/11/15 | 319 | 1,178 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for some specifications on how to use the alphabetic style for citing properly. I know that there are different solutions and that this is highly related to personal preference or specific requirements. But maybe there is some common way to do it. Consider the following three examp... |
2018/11/15 | 1,116 | 4,884 | <issue_start>username_0: What is a good way to license your research projects?
Diving into the details of most licences, a lot of their wording and concerns seem centered around 'redistribution', and are not so much driven by the concerns of the spirit of academia.
Personally, I have been active in diverse fields; fr... |
2018/11/15 | 633 | 2,666 | <issue_start>username_0: I decided to go study Ph.D. in the United States. Is it necessary that my wife be good at English?
I am expressly interested in *legal* and *statutory* requirements of English proficiency for a spouse if I am going to be studying in the United States.<issue_comment>username_1: The short and to... |
2018/11/15 | 977 | 3,901 | <issue_start>username_0: I often attend talks given by famous presenters in which I’m pretty sure that the presenter has no idea about the topic. By have no idea I mean if you are an attendee that just attracted to this talk because of its title or somebody else told you this is a interesting talk you will be impressed... |
2018/11/15 | 632 | 2,728 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year recent science/STEM international PhD student. My advisor has mentioned to me that it is my responsibility to come up with a project all on my own. I believe the understanding is that I come up with a project and only will receive help when I'm stuck. I'm wondering whether this... |
2018/11/16 | 473 | 1,986 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a handwritten thank you letter to my professors who wrote the letter of recommendation for me, and I am also buying them a small gift because they really helped a lot throughout the application process.
I'd love to deliver the letter and gift to them in person, but that's just not ... |
2018/11/16 | 4,450 | 19,179 | <issue_start>username_0: **Context**: I work for a small private company in the US energy sector. Recently, my colleague found an application opportunity for the tool I developed as my PhD dissertation. We tested it out with a public utility to great success, and it's getting some press. There is a high likelihood of f... |
2018/11/16 | 1,852 | 7,500 | <issue_start>username_0: As a follow up on [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/23884/is-it-ethical-to-accept-small-gifts-from-students) I am wondering whether it is ethical to receive gifts from students before grading their MSc thesis (or any other project where students feel like they need to... |
2018/11/16 | 1,710 | 6,882 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to ask generally, do most U.S. universities offer on-campus accommodation for International Ph.D. students **Who are married**?
If the student is benefitted from scholarships `{Free tuition and fees + 2k monthly stipend}` will he/she need to pay an extra to use not-shared on-campus sett... |
2018/11/16 | 641 | 2,679 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been forced to leave my previous institute by my former principal investigator.
At the institute I have solved problems regarding the software, and I enjoyed giving help as much as I can to many users, even after resignation. I had a request from users to do a tutorial video.
I was t... |
2018/11/16 | 1,048 | 4,457 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my statement of purpose for my Ph.D. and I want to work in a specific field with a specific professor in the department that I am going to apply for and I have a very good experience in this field. I sent an email for that professor asking if he/she is accepting Ph.D. students and ... |
2018/11/16 | 757 | 2,697 | <issue_start>username_0: Something that is not clear by any kind of research is this:
>
> Is associateship (which waives tuition and fees) stipend enough (annually 20k) for a student and his wife to take care of all their necessities and carry on during the whole Ph.D. period, without any other financial support?
> ... |
2018/11/16 | 1,674 | 7,176 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for PhD programs at the moment in pure mathematics and was wondering if there was any sort of general wisdom regarding mentioning bad things that happened to you that have negatively impacted your grades. In the winter and spring quarters of my junior year my father was in and out ... |
2018/11/17 | 8,842 | 37,363 | <issue_start>username_0: I might soon teach at a university which requires that I record attendance of students, as follows:
>
> Attendance is a requirement for the course. A person with at least 75% of attendance is eligible to take final exams. A person with an attendance between 65% and 75% is required to submit a... |
2018/11/17 | 7,223 | 29,345 | <issue_start>username_0: I illegally download almost all the books I need for my studies. While I'm more than happy to give a middle finger to the publisher mafia, it does of course mean that the author of the book is not appropriately compensated for their work.
But: it is well-known that professors do not make subst... |
2018/11/18 | 481 | 1,890 | <issue_start>username_0: Many people have said that having a good putnam score could improve one's application for PhD programs in Math / Theoretical CS.
I have certain putnam score, and I am wondering whether to include it in my applications.
In other words, what is the cutoff percentile, where you would / would not... |
2018/11/18 | 2,717 | 11,364 | <issue_start>username_0: I hold a PhD in computer science. I've been travelling to conferences presenting my papers and sometimes as part of my teaching assistance duty, I had to give some very simple lectures to students.
I found a position as professor and researcher in a university, and I've been asked to deliver ... |
2018/11/18 | 619 | 2,580 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to a master program. The application requires a pre-proposal for a project that is relevant to scholarships. Although I have a specific topic to write my pre-proposal about, I am not totally aware of the latest research in this very special sub-field. Is it acceptable for both the... |
2018/11/19 | 1,973 | 8,521 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering if private religious universities consider hiring faculty members who are clearly not affiliated with said religion. For example, someone who is clearly Muslim applying to a Jesuit university for a tenure track position. Is it a waste of time for the very obviously Muslim candida... |
2018/11/19 | 2,741 | 11,085 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a beginning graduate student in Mathematics. I have a professor who always brings up the fact that my GPA is not great in my undergraduate degree even though my performance is above the norm in the institution I am enrolled at the moment, so far I got straight A's in the graduate courses t... |
2018/11/19 | 1,607 | 6,905 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m not quite sure how to handle this situation and hoping you may be able to help!
I am over a year into my PhD and have supervisors who, although we don’t have a bad relationship from their point of view (they would likely say it is good), in my opinion I have a very formal, structured and s... |
2018/11/19 | 673 | 2,968 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just received my reviews for a paper I submitted to a CS conference. I would like to address the concerns of the reviewers, but doing so would require adding new results. For example, if Reviewer 2 says, "This method looks great, but it lacks X and Y evaluations", am I allowed to perform... |
2018/11/19 | 725 | 3,092 | <issue_start>username_0: Our second semester group project is to bid for, develop, and attempt to "sell" a software solution. Local companies are the customer that provide the brief, and that we attempt to "sell" to.
I was under the impression until recently these were dummy projects, something the company already ha... |
2018/11/19 | 881 | 3,507 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m about to finish my PhD in Sociology. I’m from Pakistan, and I’m totally blind. My PhD research was quite interdisciplinary. I studied factors influencing environmental concern about environmental problems in Pakistan, as well as factors influencing environmental behavior at home. Now I want... |
2018/11/19 | 1,688 | 7,318 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked in some universities in Europe and currently work in Australia. All the universities I have been into supply their PhD students with a PC or a laptop. However, I recently started working with a collaborator in Canada and came to know that his university asks the PhD students to bring t... |
2018/11/19 | 881 | 3,721 | <issue_start>username_0: I hate my thesis and I hate my supervisor for he is one of the most manipulative and insensitive human beings I have ever met. He forced me to work on his ideas which I never liked. I could not quit my Ph.D. because I had some bigger problems of my own in personal front and cannot afford the pr... |
2018/11/20 | 1,016 | 4,365 | <issue_start>username_0: There are at least four benefits of releasing the code and data produced during a thesis or research project (citing textually [this laboratory](https://lcav.epfl.ch/reproducible_research)):
* Allows to reproduce figures in the revisions of a paper
* Other people who want to do research in the... |
2018/11/20 | 2,091 | 9,232 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently pursuing a physics major in college. My question mostly applies to those working in STEM, but I am definitely open to hearing answers from others.
Right now, in college, most of the work I am doing involves solving math/physics problems. I have an easy way of measuring my succes... |
2018/11/20 | 669 | 2,735 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a PhD program in Computer Science. The university asks each applicant to hand in an optional personal history statement. I have detailed my research experience, career goals clearly in my statement of purpose. Hence I don't really know what I should write in a personal history... |
2018/11/20 | 842 | 3,644 | <issue_start>username_0: We had a paper accepted to a reputable IEEE conference.
We have completed the copyrights form and one of the authors have registered and presented the paper at the conference.
After a couple of months, the conference proceedings were uploaded to IEEE Xplore but without our paper.
1. Is there... |
2018/11/20 | 984 | 4,238 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm on a short-term contract with a local state university. I have been teaching there as an adjunct for a while, but a full-time faculty needed to take emergency leave so I was asked to cover their courses.
As part of my full-time responsibilities, I was asked to a meeting for some administra... |
2018/11/21 | 761 | 3,173 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't know if this is the right place (or the right tags) to ask this question or not so please tell me.
I am doing a research project related to computer science in my university. This is my first research project and it's really hard.
How can I manage my big research project? I have a lo... |
2018/11/21 | 2,488 | 10,934 | <issue_start>username_0: I rejected a paper after careful review and consideration, writing six pages to justify my decision.
In less than 24 h I have received a petition to change my verdict to major changes. The rationale is that the other two reviewers have given major changes and that my review is too harsh and not... |
2018/11/21 | 2,159 | 9,332 | <issue_start>username_0: It has been 4 months that I have started my master's degree in North America. I got my funding letter from my supervisor when I was in my home country, in my letter it was written that I will be a fully funded student. Now I am here and he does not pay that amount money. even for my first semes... |
2018/11/21 | 2,362 | 10,587 | <issue_start>username_0: I am nearing the end of a semester-long bachelor thesis in computer science. My supervisor suggested I set aside the last month (around 20 working days) for actually writing the thesis document. As such, I have begun this period now.
Why is a thesis important?
--------------------------
Given... |
2018/11/21 | 827 | 3,518 | <issue_start>username_0: An assignment spec was released but it was poorly written and vague to the point where the requirements of the software system is unclear. As a final year undergraduate this unit counts a lot to my overall grade. After numerous emails, phone calls and face-to-face discussions with: other studen... |
2018/11/21 | 877 | 3,978 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for junior faculty positions at research universities. Most job postings request three references (either just names and contact details, or actual letters of recommendation), and I've already secured these from the three full professors who can best attest, in different aspects, ... |
2018/11/21 | 717 | 3,127 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper which the first two authors are contributed equally, is there any way to show in arxiv page (or scholar page) that authors are equal? Maybe a star on names in submit names or something.
thanks.<issue_comment>username_1: No, there are not any options for indicating equal authorshi... |
2018/11/21 | 447 | 1,873 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked at *University A* and did a research stay during one month at *University B*; I was not paid by them, but I got funding (from a third agency) thanks to them for accepting my visit during a salary gap, before going to *University C*.
About 80% of the paper I want to submit I wrote in ... |
2018/11/22 | 362 | 1,525 | <issue_start>username_0: How do I approach an unknown professor before a PhD interview? My defense (viva) will be held next March and I will be seeking a postdoctoral fellowship after that.
I want to contact a Professor relevant to my research interests to discuss potential future research topics and get short-listed ... |
2018/11/22 | 1,083 | 4,714 | <issue_start>username_0: I am halfway through the 4th year of my PhD and I have grown to find that I dislike the direction of my dissertation and the project that I am working on. My supervisor is extremely absent as he is running another research group overseas (bigger budget there so he puts his time there). On our s... |
2018/11/22 | 1,336 | 5,820 | <issue_start>username_0: For the sake of high-quality science diffusion, there is no doubt that reproducible research is a good practice as it helps to demonstrate the robustness of the proposed methods and boosts the possibilities of getting more citations for a published paper. Needless is to say that it also allows ... |
2018/11/22 | 1,295 | 5,326 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm three months into a fully-funded PhD programme, following on from an integrated Masters and two years in industry. I should also say upfront that after seeing more what academic research is around, I feel lukewarm at most about academia in general - which definitely contributes to any dissa... |
2018/11/22 | 335 | 1,477 | <issue_start>username_0: Can a college professor teach courses for an institution or a company that is independent of the university where he holds a faculty position?
An example: Say a professor teaches English courses at a university. Is that professor allowed to teach those same English courses at an independent in... |
2018/11/22 | 596 | 2,635 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently looking into applying for funding as an undergraduate summer research assistant. At the moment, two professors have agreed to allow me to work with them. Since I can't be sure that the funding application would be accepted, I am considering accepting the offer from both professor... |
2018/11/23 | 5,632 | 23,147 | <issue_start>username_0: This is about technology research specifically.
Often when reading a publication I'll be thinking to myself: *"Yeah, you've got that thing, but what about this and that limitation you brush off and this and that assumption which seems pretty poorly justified?"* After starting my PhD I got pret... |
2018/11/24 | 694 | 3,156 | <issue_start>username_0: We submitted a paper and got two rejections (from reviewers 1 & 2) and two acceptances (from reviewers 3 & 4) after the first round of revision. Now we have received a letter from the associated editor asking us to again revise the paper, and to include a response letter addressing the concerns... |
2018/11/24 | 666 | 2,657 | <issue_start>username_0: In my faculty job, I was bullied for a long time by a chair of the department (at a US state university on the West Coast). This included:
* Giving me bad schedules and classrooms
* His secretary telling students to avoid my classes
* Denying me operational information
* Excluding me from dep... |
2018/11/24 | 609 | 2,475 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently left academia and am looking for a job in industry, mostly in R&D, in the areas of machine learning, computer vision, data science etc. Should I mention in the header "<NAME>, PhD" instead of just "<NAME>" to catch immediate attention of recruiters?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, ... |
2018/11/24 | 627 | 2,575 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a prospective Ph.D. applicant in the area of Robotics Controls and Biomedical Engineering (US universities). As a part of universities' SOPs, I am supposed to talk about **my professional goals in pursuing a doctoral degree (or current degree goals)**.
I am really confused over what to d... |
2018/11/24 | 872 | 3,509 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 23 years old and finishing my associate degree (3 years part-time) in Computer Science. I've been thinking about pursuing a career in academia; I've started to do research and got a paper accepted to a relevant conference in my field (pattern recognition).
I already have some experience i... |
2018/11/25 | 465 | 1,705 | <issue_start>username_0: In my current paper I describe two methods for solving a problem in different ways. Both have advantages and disadvantages.
At the end of the paper I would like to compare the two methodologies with a table. So far it looks something like this:
```
--------------------------------------------... |
2018/11/25 | 1,376 | 6,137 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a PhD student (after mid stage) working in computational mathematics. I am currently writing and solving a couple of research problems. I feel very excited whenever I get new results, but when someone counters my solution, I feel very uncomfortable because of the time and energy ... |
2018/11/25 | 503 | 2,155 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a manuscript but cannot find someone to help edit it, but I want to submit to a good conference. So can I pay an unacquainted professor to help revising my paper?
Thanks!<issue_comment>username_1: Yes you can pay someone to edit your work. It doesn't matter that it is a professor... |
2018/11/25 | 531 | 2,315 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be giving a job talk and I need to submit an abstract for the research job talk. I was wondering if I should mention my collaborators and their affiliations in the abstract? The only thought that's discouraging me is that the talk is on my PhD work which may go against me because I have ... |
2018/11/25 | 2,649 | 11,159 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m pretty sure that I’ve solved a certain open problem in mathematics. My solution is currently in its third week of peer-review at some journal that is known for rejecting cranky papers within five days of submission.
I’m currently searching for the next relevant conferences where I can pre... |
2018/11/25 | 480 | 1,845 | <issue_start>username_0: The question says it all.
I am shortlisted for a campus interview at a state school in California. I was wondering about the dress code? Should I wear a suit or would it be too much?
**EDIT:** It's for CSU math position in Northern California.<issue_comment>username_1: I'm honestly just gues... |
2018/11/26 | 1,140 | 5,063 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted an article for a journal in which it was stated that the review time was from 80 to 120 days, that is approximately 4 months at most. The submission of my article was approximately 13 months ago and I did not get any answer in the allotted time they mentioned. I sent an email t... |
2018/11/26 | 563 | 2,443 | <issue_start>username_0: (Asking this since similar themes have come up in a conversation with a friend)
So-and-so physics department has decided to start teaching more astrophysics classes, because they need more students. Astronomy with all its pretty pictures is supposed to attract students - certainly the general ... |
2018/11/26 | 728 | 2,945 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting my PhD next year (2019), and I have some concerns.
I recall one of my Professors from my undergrad years was telling me that in my field (statistics), excellent Statistics PhD graduates are taken for a tenure-track Research Professor job directly after their PhD without having to... |
2018/11/26 | 957 | 4,046 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisors told me he wants to help me publish the theoretical section of my dissertation. He offered it! I have written my part, but he hasn't done his section. It's been a year. I have reminded him a few times, but he doesn't keep his promise. I know I have to move on and publish this piece ... |
2018/11/27 | 692 | 3,040 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a report to the state department of transportation for a research project they sponsored. Can I use the same texts/paragraphs from the report to write journal articles? In other words, does it consider plagiarism to do that? I am the author of both, the report and the research papers. D... |
2018/11/27 | 260 | 1,164 | <issue_start>username_0: i found some topographical errors mainly missing spellings in one of my published papers. However the errors does not alter the meaning or concept of the paper. I contacted the joirnal editor but told me that it remains topographical error. Am just worried about it when readers find these mista... |
2018/11/27 | 1,161 | 4,903 | <issue_start>username_0: I am facing maybe imposter syndrome that kills me everyday which leads to an intermittent sleep and a chronic headache. Unfortunately, the country I am in right now there is non-Anglophone speaking psychoanalysts, the university as well doesn't give any kind of support: there was a senior stude... |
2018/11/27 | 254 | 939 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm preparing a article for possible publication on the journal “Progress in Aerospace Sciences” (published by Elsevier).
I plan to reuse some figures cited from articles published and copyrighted by AIAA.
I tried the Copyright Clearance Center, but to be honest, I may not accept the price.
... |
2018/11/27 | 373 | 1,597 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a quick question. I have to send in official transcripts to some graduate schools. I am trying to apply for Mathematics. However, since i am also doing a B.A in Philosophy and Economics, the last semester has no mathematics classes as I have some classes I have to take. I have the option... |
2018/11/27 | 362 | 1,481 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I submit a grant application with other investigators. The application form has one "PI" and some more "co-PI"-s.
Is it important who of us is the "PI" and who is the "co-PI"?
E.g., is being a "PI" like being a first author on a paper, which (in some disciplines) is considered more hi... |
2018/11/27 | 885 | 3,791 | <issue_start>username_0: So I am an undergraduate student in my third semester and I am mostly done with my double major in Pure and Applied Mathematics/Statistics. I will be done with the requirements for my bachelors by my fifth semester at the latest.
If I want to go for a PhD in Pure Math, would I be better off gr... |
2018/11/27 | 860 | 3,700 | <issue_start>username_0: Dear Fellow Researchers,
I got my PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from a EU university some time ago. I've got a good cv in terms of publications, peer-review work, participation in R&D projects, conferences, etc.
I think I've got some good ideas for research and development projects. Ho... |
2018/11/27 | 956 | 2,803 | <issue_start>username_0: **How to cite [NumPy](http://www.numpy.org/) in BibTex?**
The [Scipy citing page](https://www.scipy.org/citing.html) recommends:
>
> <NAME>, Oliphant. **A guide to NumPy**, USA: Trelgol Publishing, (2006).
>
>
>
Is it correct to use:
```
@Misc{numpy,
author = {<NAME>},
title = ... |
2018/11/28 | 764 | 3,136 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been serving for several years as a reviewer for both Mathematical Reviews (MathSciNet) and ZbMath.
Earlier this year, I received an invitation for a paper for MR which I already reviewed for ZbMath. I dug up my old review and submitted it to MathSciNet without giving it much thought.
... |
2018/11/28 | 894 | 4,010 | <issue_start>username_0: As a supervisor, how should I reasonably set the task timeline for a new (Engineering) PhD student, given there is a candidature confirmation at the 9-month mark?
In other words, how long is reasonable for settling down to a new country, literature review, defining a research topic, data colle... |
2018/11/28 | 803 | 3,644 | <issue_start>username_0: How can I find out under what license a title was submitted to arXiv, and what conditions apply to sharing or redistribution?<issue_comment>username_1: There are too many variables in the equation. Each research project is different and publication requirements are different and so on. I would ... |
2018/11/28 | 1,367 | 4,875 | <issue_start>username_0: Citation is one metric of researchers. That is why some of them lend citation to one another. For example, A writes a paper and cites B's work in it, and then B does the same for A, without the citations being relevant to the works.
Is there any word for such academic misconduct? I can think ... |