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2019/01/24 | 1,045 | 4,278 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been doing projects nearly 1 year with my future supervisor. I think he knows me enough. We were talking about many topics for thesis. Among all the topics, he is in favor of one topic which is pure science ie. development of new material. There will be lots of repetition and testing. On... |
2019/01/24 | 1,243 | 5,219 | <issue_start>username_0: My B.Sc. thesis advisor did nothing regarding my B.Sc. thesis. I chose the topic, I have done everything on my own. He didn't even read the work or provided me with any guidance or any advice. Just passive aggression is all I gained from him.
However. I want to try to publish it. But since he d... |
2019/01/24 | 838 | 2,756 | <issue_start>username_0: Numbered citations
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In my field, we usually use only numbered citations, e.g.
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> As shown in [1], the sky is blue.
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This means that we obviously refer to a certain the paper (which can be found under [1] in the reference list). Saying something like
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> As show... |
2019/01/24 | 1,137 | 5,071 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my dissertation and my supervisor recommended me this LaTeX template.
<https://bitbucket.org/amiede/classicthesis/wiki/Home>
However, I have been using MS-Word all along and don't know LaTeX. What are some approaches I can consider given this situation?<issue_comment>username_1: ... |
2019/01/24 | 571 | 2,305 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question about the proper way to format a title. If I have a slide with the following title, "Motivation". Then suppose on the next slide I have the same title, "Motivation".
What is the proper way to number this? For the first slide would it be, "Motivation (1)"? And on the second sl... |
2019/01/24 | 779 | 3,204 | <issue_start>username_0: I need some help deciding how to cite a paper that is rather similar to my own. I wrote a paper in Nov 2017 and presented it at conference that year when I was 8 months pregnant. Then I went and had a baby. I didn't submit it, because I was a bit overwhelmed and I felt like noone else was doing... |
2019/01/25 | 644 | 2,671 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm about halfway through my Sophomore year of college at LSU and on my way to a major in Mathematics with about a 4.05 GPA so far. My main objective is to be a desirable candidate for a good grad program. It doesn't really have to be a super top-tier school, but I wouldn't like to do a grad... |
2019/01/25 | 1,160 | 4,922 | <issue_start>username_0: I requested a recommendation letter to a professor and he agreed to write one for me. However, the application (a Google form) to which he needed to upload the letter required a Google account to sign in. He didn't have an account, so he emailed me what he should do, so I kindly told him that h... |
2019/01/25 | 1,265 | 5,432 | <issue_start>username_0: To erase any confusion, this question is geared entirely towards requirements and expectations of academicians. I am not asking for recommendations for universities or research topics, nor am I asking about preparation for a non-academic career. Additionally, I am speaking from a United States ... |
2019/01/25 | 1,334 | 6,079 | <issue_start>username_0: There was a course in our university regarding web design for which we were given a group assignment to build a website using HTML, CSS and PHP (we were allowed to use additional technologies as well if we wanted).
However, most of us felt that we were not given enough practical guidance, beca... |
2019/01/25 | 2,902 | 12,162 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my bachelor's thesis, and share advisors with a fellow student, who is also working in the same office as I am. We exchange daily about our progress.
I am under the impression that his work is going nowhere. He is working on a topic that has no previous work available, a... |
2019/01/25 | 2,693 | 11,547 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently accepted a tenure-track position at a university and will be on a 1-1 load my first year. My first course I will teach, I will get to modify and alter based on my expertise.
In my second semester, I am taking over a graduate course that was taught by a previous faculty member. This... |
2019/01/25 | 830 | 3,705 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writting my thesis, where are exposed unpublished results that I would like to publish (may be after my PhD defense). Can I directly re-use text from my thesis ?<issue_comment>username_1: It would be better to cite your thesis as you would another work. You can list it in the bibl... |
2019/01/25 | 936 | 3,789 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an abstract presented by my colleague at a local conference. I got an email from a company called David Publishing Company claiming that they are interested in publishing our paper in the Journal of Materials Science and Engineering A, B they had?
Things look suspicious for me and I wan... |
2019/01/25 | 1,278 | 5,336 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student in an European country. During midterms and finals, I realized that more than half of the students are overtly cheating. I do not mean just looking other student's paper, but rather very extreme cases like sending the questions to other people to solve, googling, g... |
2019/01/26 | 214 | 807 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted two papers to a conference on [EDAS](https://edas.info). I checked EDAS and I saw a change. They added this sentence at the end of both papers page submission:
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> "You have authored an accepted paper."
>
>
>
The results of the acceptance will be announced in 10 days, but I wa... |
2019/01/26 | 1,191 | 4,992 | <issue_start>username_0: I am someone with an undergraduate degree in physics and am currently a over a year into a PhD in maths. However I am not feeling happy for several reasons:
* I told my supervisor right from the beginning that my interests were
in physics (and very specific areas of physics), yet I have spent ... |
2019/01/26 | 875 | 3,562 | <issue_start>username_0: I contacted a professor in a foreign university for a possible research internship in his lab. He is willing to accept me as an intern, but has stated that since he barely knows me and it is the first time I will be working under him, he will not provide any financial support.
I have read his ... |
2019/01/26 | 406 | 1,714 | <issue_start>username_0: In my Phd, I was using tools of stochastic geometry for my research. But I realize now that the juice has mostly been drawn of this tool at this stage and the new kid around the block is now Game theory, Machine learning (ML), and AI in my field.
I don't have any idea of ML at this stage, but ... |
2019/01/26 | 922 | 3,858 | <issue_start>username_0: After completing my Phd in an area in pure Maths and going back to my country, I got a job as a math lecturer at a university, where maths is not the main subject for students there. Maths is like school swimming subject that every student at my university has to learn before moving on to other... |
2019/01/26 | 556 | 2,383 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied for MASc. (graduate research) programs in Canadian universities and there is a requirement to have a supervisor.
My question is: Should I contact more than one professor from the same department of a University with similar interests? What would happen if more than one professo... |
2019/01/26 | 427 | 1,790 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering what's the **difference between a research grant and a fellowship ?**
I am currently finishing my PhD and I am looking for **funding for my postdoc**. I came across a call for proposal of a fundation and it gives details of Regulations about "research grants" and Regulations a... |
2019/01/26 | 309 | 1,346 | <issue_start>username_0: I work as an instructional staff at a local university. The program is marketed and hosted by the university and the certificates are granted by the university signed by the department dean as well. That being said, I was hired by and on the payroll of a subcontracting company, which also provi... |
2019/01/26 | 563 | 2,204 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Pure Physics and Pure Math graduate. I wanted to do Ph.D. in Computer Science on AI. I am currently a research assistant on AI. if my undergraduate is not related to my area interest for Ph.D., will pursuing a master degree in CS increase the chances of Ph.D. CS admission? Or should I fo... |
2019/01/26 | 471 | 1,970 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m currently a high school junior who wants to major in a math field or physics, and possibly astrophysics. At the moment, I’m looking at <NAME> as an option for college, but they don’t have an astrophysics major: the have a physics major that lets a student focus on a specific topic like astr... |
2019/01/26 | 492 | 1,941 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that I have an idea "not fully developed" of course but a sketch somehow. If I want to convince an advisor by it and let him take me seriously. What should I do?
My field of study is Mathematics. I only got an intuition that might work or not. Should I make sure that the proposal is val... |
2019/01/26 | 1,967 | 7,128 | <issue_start>username_0: From other discussion in Academia SE and other source, I got an impression that redrawing is to avoid Copyright infringement. [link1](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16107/does-copying-the-books-figure-for-my-dissertation-fit-the-copyright?rq=1) [link2](https://academia.stackexchan... |
2019/01/26 | 424 | 1,846 | <issue_start>username_0: My recommender received the list of schools I would be applying to months in advance. She submitted 7 out of 10 letters and then just disappeared: ignores emails and notifications from schools. Why would anyone agree to write a letter and then do that? I have months of research experience under... |
2019/01/27 | 944 | 4,113 | <issue_start>username_0: I just wanted to know if transferring schools during your PhD is frowned upon?
I have spent a semester at school X which specializes in a very specific field in my major. After many classes, seminars, and interactions with profs, I've realized that I just don't see myself doing research in thi... |
2019/01/27 | 513 | 2,276 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it better to indicate 3 interests rather than one? Does it affect who looks at my file or affect my chances of acceptance in any way? For example, suppose I'm mainly interested in combinatorics but also am interested in algebraic topology. If I just put down combinatorics as my primary inter... |
2019/01/27 | 1,211 | 4,925 | <issue_start>username_0: it is my first time applying to a (pure math) PhD program and I just received my first admission letter (yay!). It says I'm considered for TA and "Teaching duties consist to up to 5 contact hours a week".
Before applying anywhere I was under the impression that TA required ~20h a week. My ques... |
2019/01/27 | 1,529 | 6,388 | <issue_start>username_0: There are already answered questions on academia.SE about the re-use of already published figures. [Here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49182/how-to-legally-re-use-images-in-paper-and-still-continue-to-use-and-distribute-t), a IMHO quite simple solution was proposed but triggered... |
2019/01/27 | 896 | 3,817 | <issue_start>username_0: There are many websites offering pre-submission review services for a fee of several hunderd dollars, e.g., [editage](https://www.editage.com/publication-support/rapid-technical-review.html), [editeon](http://www.editeon.com/presubmission-peer-review), [enago](https://www.enago.com/publication-... |
2019/01/27 | 655 | 2,836 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to an IEEE journal. The editor provided the following review:
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> Based on the enclosed set of reviews this manuscript is not acceptable for publication in its current form, but may be acceptable after being thoroughly reworked. If you choose to resubmit, please send the r... |
2019/01/27 | 595 | 2,415 | <issue_start>username_0: This might be a bit of an unusual situation. I was accepted to a workshop as a solo authored abstract, but a situation arose in which I was unable to attend. However, the organizer allowed for my colleague and myself to combine our presentations since we work on similar research. What would be ... |
2019/01/27 | 1,049 | 4,545 | <issue_start>username_0: My B. Sc. thesis is shortlisted for a young scientist award, which allows me to take part in the respective society's yearly conference for free, submit a full conference paper as well as present a poster. The paper has already been submitted after positive abstract review, I'm currently creati... |
2019/01/27 | 2,337 | 9,705 | <issue_start>username_0: I did my thesis using corporate data (I used to work there, they don't give their information freely or sell it), data is from 2009 to 2018.
I collect the data, analyze it, everything normal. However, after my thesis was approved and submitted, I saw that the company has modified some of their... |
2019/01/27 | 2,426 | 9,983 | <issue_start>username_0: I am accepted to a math PhD program and have a visit in a few weeks. I only have a few days to tell the university which professors I would like to meet.
Problem: I also still don't know what I would like to work on (which I stated explicitly in my SOP) and the departments has ~100 faculty mem... |
2019/01/28 | 1,697 | 7,102 | <issue_start>username_0: If I have the option of choosing between a (non-research) internship at Google and a REU program at a non-prestigious university, which one should I select? After graduation, I intend to pursue a PhD in Computer Science, hopefully in machine learning.
Which of the two offers should I accept t... |
2019/01/28 | 538 | 2,354 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper jointly with coauthors from another research group. In their contributions to the paper they include a lot of self-citations, many of which are (in my opinion) irrelevant.
How do I convince them that this is bad style and that they should reduce the number of self-citatio... |
2019/01/28 | 1,854 | 8,365 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been trying to give gamification a go for a while, but I'm struggling on how exactly to implement it.
I teach an introduction to programming course, and as I'm part of a team including a couple other teachers and we have too many students, our course is usually divided in two parts: one t... |
2019/01/29 | 627 | 2,406 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been in academia for roughly 8 years now. Wrote quite a few papers. Still, my heart starts *seriously* racing each time there's an email notifying me of a review for one of my papers.
Does anyone have any good tips on how to be less stressed out about this?<issue_comment>username_1: I've ... |
2019/01/29 | 439 | 1,774 | <issue_start>username_0: Should a researcher try her best to avoid using existing abbreviations (such as IEEE, WHO, DNA, ANOVA, BMI, CERN, NASA, UNESCO, OPCW, NHS, CDC ...) that are (well-)known in her fields, when creating abbreviations for new concepts (methods, substances, studies ...) in the same field?
Or is it O... |
2019/01/29 | 1,305 | 5,110 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year law student in the UK. For our EU Law class, our professor declared that we must bring an unannotated physical copy of [*Blackstone's EU Treaties & Legislation 2018-2019*](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blackstones-Treaties-Legislation-2018-2019-Statute/dp/0198818564) to our exam and... |
2019/01/29 | 782 | 3,250 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated with Computer Science degree from a Russell Group University(Leeds) in 2016. I managed to find my first job as a software developer 3 months after graduation. I am 2 years into my career development in the industry learning and developing software every month. I am considering going... |
2019/01/29 | 797 | 3,196 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a social sciences journal and it has been accepted. However, the publisher tells me it is going to be printed in the next weeks in the 2016 issue. How to make sense of this? Apparently the issue has been delayed a few years. However it will not mention the year 2019 and i... |
2019/01/29 | 444 | 1,892 | <issue_start>username_0: I used to have a big concern for a little statistical mistake in my thesis (which wont be published), and now I have overcome that fear.
During that time of fear, my parents told me that all the thesis have mistakes. Even teachers, friends, everyone told me that thesis aren't perfect.
what do... |
2019/01/29 | 6,320 | 25,353 | <issue_start>username_0: **Situation**
I have an academic conference coming up, and on the registration site we are instructed to optionally enter a personal gender pronoun (PGP) to appear on our name tags. To enter it or not to enter it?
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**Thoughts**
My personal view is the following: if someone does include a... |
2019/01/30 | 583 | 2,324 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is inspired by [How to make sense of a 2019 paper published in 2016 journal issue?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/123980/how-to-make-sense-of-a-2019-paper-published-in-2016-journal-issue) From the comments to that question, it's apparent that publishing a 2019 paper... |
2019/01/30 | 524 | 2,203 | <issue_start>username_0: In higher education, we know what is a major or a minor. What do we call it when there are only a cluster of courses, say 9-12 credit hours in the same discipline that is not part of a major like concentration or emphasis? The intent is to make them available to non-majors to broaden their cred... |
2019/01/30 | 2,270 | 9,143 | <issue_start>username_0: Apologies for the length, I don't know how to make this shorter. I also don't know where else to turn for advice. :(
I've recently started an MA in what promises to be a brand new humanities discipline that is not yet well established, and (critically) expects and requires a profoundly interdi... |
2019/01/30 | 911 | 3,788 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student designing algorithms for mathematical problems. I have the very bad habit of loosing my track on research problems. Suppose I am working on problem X, then, in the next week, I will start looking at Y,Z and other problems. Due to this, I feel tired at the end of the day with ... |
2019/01/30 | 667 | 2,791 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a currently in an MSc program in economics, and I'll be writing my master's thesis in about a year. I have a variety of interests, including game theory, statistics, and trading strategies. I'm also on the fence about applying to PhD programs in economics and finance. My question is as fol... |
2019/01/30 | 5,651 | 23,462 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the adjuncts that I work with found that one of their students had posted their assignment on a freelancer website asking for the solution. We joked that he should place a bid and fail them afterwards and had a lengthy discussion about sting operations and entrapment. In the end we came ... |
2019/01/30 | 775 | 3,475 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a cybersecurity professional well employed. I am almost 50 year old so since my employer would pay a graduate or undergrad degree I thought about going back to school to enhance computer science skills and apply more software development in my career.
My background:
18 years experience in... |
2019/01/31 | 645 | 2,585 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper (A) that has been submitted to a journal, but is as yet unreviewed, and another paper (B) that cites A.
(The citation is necessary because A includes details of the preparation of a dataset that is used in B. The preparation is not central to B, but it is relevant.)
I am about t... |
2019/01/31 | 754 | 3,064 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student. My friends and I found interesting results while applying game theory to biology. However, we have used only one datset and being undergrads can't get access to do experiments to get our own data. should we preprint anyway .Will retracting a paper from biorxiv hur... |
2019/01/31 | 4,795 | 19,524 | <issue_start>username_0: In the computer science field, an entry-level software engineer in top-tier tech companies (e.g. Google, Facebook, etc.) could earn as much as a 20-year experience professor. And the workload in academia is way heavier.
For example, my friends in Google work 8 hours a day and have the weekend ... |
2019/01/31 | 783 | 3,195 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working in a research position in a DOE lab in the United States for the past year or so, and my mentor wrote me letters of recommendation for my graduate school application. I have been, to put it bluntly, worse at my job recently than I had been when he wrote the letter, and I wou... |
2019/01/31 | 814 | 3,309 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in my third year, and I was originally planning to graduate end of my 5th year, but now I changed my plans, I'm going to graduate at the end of my 4th year.However, there is a pair of courses called Turkish I and Turkish II that every students needs to take in Turkey in any university, and ... |
2019/01/31 | 1,424 | 5,998 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in the field of education at the final year and I received a request from a well known journal (impact factor 1.6). I have published only conference papers. Is it normal to receive such a request? Or am I lucky?<issue_comment>username_1: There are several possibilities. One i... |
2019/01/31 | 1,160 | 4,898 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a person got PhD degree by properly submitting his/her thesis on a particular topic. Assume that neither the student nor the doctoral review committee including supervisor knows that the proposal is not a novel.
Later at some point of time if it comes to know that the student got PhD w... |
2019/01/31 | 1,539 | 6,423 | <issue_start>username_0: Related (not duplicates):
* [Is it appropriate to cite a paper in a language I don't understand?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/123448/is-it-appropriate-to-cite-a-paper-in-a-language-i-dont-understand)
* [Would it be ethical to hire a proofreader for theses and academic articles... |
2019/01/31 | 2,352 | 10,005 | <issue_start>username_0: The applications often ask for a publication list. If the only publication on the list is a thesis in preparation/preprint, would the candidate's application be rejected because of that? Is it necessary to have more than a thesis to be competitive/considered?
I ask this because one mathematici... |
2019/01/31 | 657 | 2,909 | <issue_start>username_0: I usually reply to e-mails from students asking for PhD positions to let them know if I am interested or if they are competitive / up to standards for continuing with an application but this tends to be more on the admin / funding and suitability to my lab. Yesterday, I received one such PhD ap... |
2019/02/01 | 744 | 3,331 | <issue_start>username_0: As in the question, let's say that a paper has four authors. Clearly, all authors contributed something to the work. However, can I deduce that only the first person wrote the physical paper? Or do authors normally write different sections of a paper? For instance, is it possible that author 1 ... |
2019/02/01 | 1,613 | 6,737 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes, there are questions on here about undergraduate students publishing research (see [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/117224/publishing-into-journals-as-an-independent-undergraduate-researcher), [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/115100/publish-as-und... |
2019/02/01 | 1,240 | 5,218 | <issue_start>username_0: A professor (currently Associate Professor) I used to collaborate with is being considered for the promotion to "full Professor". The Department asked me to write a letter supporting the professor's promotion as former student.
I am super happy to be able to support this promotion because I ha... |
2019/02/01 | 1,977 | 8,819 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a bioinformatician and former student of applied math. I want help to see if I should change my view).
Many academics, including all of my PI's on my major projects, justify their work by saying "We're the first ones to apply fashionable technique T on problem P". This is in situations whe... |
2019/02/01 | 590 | 2,596 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering whether I should include students I have supervised but have quit in my CV, especially for grant proposals where supervision history is assessed. I have a couple of students who could not finish their programme, either because they didn't meet the academic requirements of our uni... |
2019/02/01 | 724 | 2,899 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm on the academic job market this season for a position in a STEM field. I've had one on-campus interview and may receive an offer from this school within the next week or so. I've also had Skype interviews with a few other schools, but haven't received any on-campus invites from them. (The S... |
2019/02/01 | 1,342 | 5,723 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, here's how Academia works:
1. Study for many, many years, so that you have the necessary background knowledge to embark on your own research. You can still do a bit of research on the side, but mostly you are a *student* learning the ropes. You are (usually) not **paid** during this... |
2019/02/01 | 338 | 1,144 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider the following sentences:
* `foo` is `bar` (see, for example, `baz`).
* `foo` is `bar` (see, e.g., `baz`).
* `foo` is `bar` (cf. for example `baz`).
* `foo` is `bar` (cf. e.g., `baz`).
Which of these are valid to use, and which is better? Or - does it depend on what we actually instea... |
2019/02/01 | 1,337 | 5,646 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an exam yesterday morning which lasted 2 hours. There were two supervisors in the room for about 25-30 students.
Before the beginning of the exam and again 5 minutes before the end, they told us not to forget to write our name and student ID number on each sheet (we used our own paper t... |
2019/02/02 | 286 | 1,212 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been invited to a graduate recruitment weekend for a school where I have applied for a Master's, and they are offering to pay my travel costs. Unfortunately, this lines up with a vacation for which I have already paid some nonrefundable costs. I have not yet been notified of acceptance o... |
2019/02/02 | 1,546 | 6,290 | <issue_start>username_0: Lately I have some issues with my academic life and my life. I am not doing anything. literally anything. This week, I was home all day, doing nothing. Just sleeping. I am seeing a therapist, but it is not that helpful. I am going to give you some background. I hope somebody could help me out h... |
2019/02/02 | 1,011 | 4,248 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student works in the theoretical computer science. I am facing a difficulty while I have to write my work in a good manner. I try to write but when other students, collegues read my drafts they are not able to understand the idea I want to convey. I have written one or two research p... |
2019/02/02 | 575 | 2,298 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm on last year of my Ph.D. However, I got an offer from investors for my project and investor required to full-time work in a new company. Would it be an advantage or a disadvantage to have worked for a couple of years, when continuing Ph.D. again later?<issue_comment>username_1: Ultimately t... |
2019/02/02 | 987 | 4,265 | <issue_start>username_0: In my chemistry undergraduate I did a project with my supervisor, I worked on it for around 8 months. Around a year later they published a paper on this same topic, after my project was handed in they asked for more details about certain elements that weren't clear in my final draft and I helpe... |
2019/02/02 | 386 | 1,310 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to show the average response time based on number of tasks on a device on a chart. So the x-axis is "number of tasks" and y-axis is "average response time".
My question is which charts I can use? a line chart or a column chart?<issue_comment>username_1: Well, this should give you an ide... |
2019/02/02 | 5,646 | 23,603 | <issue_start>username_0: Our department is currently hiring a new faculty member. At the moment, the faculty gender ratio in our department is very skewed, even for our field. I believe that this has a negative impact on the department environment.
There is general consensus among the grad students on which candidate ... |
2019/02/02 | 1,250 | 5,013 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that there is such thing as "intellectual incest" and that many universities are against hiring their own PhD graduates for their faculty positions.
But what about the movement from being a Post Doc to a Tenure Track Faculty at the same university? If a person did his PhD at University ... |
2019/02/02 | 794 | 3,353 | <issue_start>username_0: I read on the Internet that most degrees in psychology and medicine are revoked because of data manipulation/fabrication. In other areas like engineering, degree revocations only happen due to plagiarism.
How can data manipulation misconduct only be detected in medicine or psychology, but not ... |
2019/02/02 | 1,384 | 5,703 | <issue_start>username_0: This is something I don't understand: how come many degrees have been revoked due to plagiarism after approval if Turnitin and many other software against plagiarism exist?
For example, there was a case in my country where a politician got his degree revoked when it was found that he copied fr... |
2019/02/03 | 409 | 1,914 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to a top tier ML/Data-Science Conference and I feel that I might have a higher probability getting accepted in the call for workshops over the call for papers.
Can I submit the same idea/algorithm to both the call for papers and the call for workshops?<issue_comment>username_1: W... |
2019/02/03 | 505 | 2,183 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm considering entering into a terminal masters in mathematics program. I was wondering if after completing the masters, if most US PhD programs will accept the masters graduate classes I took as valid credits or make me re-take the courses at my new PhD institution.<issue_comment>username_1: ... |
2019/02/03 | 2,210 | 8,990 | <issue_start>username_0: Whenever I receive an exam paper, I usually stare at the cover page. I use the word "stare" instead of just "see" because the cover page is translucent and I could faintly see the page behind if my eyes focused on the paper. I am able to read part of the questions by doing so, although most of ... |
2019/02/03 | 648 | 2,858 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working independently on an idea, and to test its conceptual feasibility, I have done a bit of math, and it seems to check out. The idea is in the area of web engineering, or web science.
Now, in order to simplify the math, I've had to make several assumptions, which may or may not be val... |
2019/02/03 | 587 | 2,359 | <issue_start>username_0: In mathematics or (mostly) computer science, there is a gap between the literature and the standard textbooks.
Many good research papers are also abusing the notations either with or without mentioning them explicitly.
Is there any standardised mechanism or authoritative body that deals with ... |
2019/02/03 | 1,723 | 7,044 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD work is on modeling a 3D printing process using a commercial FEM software. But I am not confident with basics of finite element theory, non linear Finite element analysis to be accurate, which I learnt by self study. My work was mostly application of established models, so I didn’t have ... |
2019/02/03 | 1,120 | 4,177 | <issue_start>username_0: As generally expected the doctoral review committee has to evaluate the PhD student by asking questions, by debating etc.,
Faculty in doctoral review committee can give soft suggestions and are capable to provide grade for student for that particular semester and can even fail the student.
A... |
2019/02/03 | 527 | 2,224 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to ask about a situation when a research done as a part of a master's thesis at one institution is submitted for publication and published while attending a subsequent PhD program at another institution (US university). The content of the paper is mostly unrelated to the subject of... |
2019/02/03 | 1,597 | 6,527 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was in community college (2016), I wasn't on good terms with the school. I was harassed occasionally and complained about it very forcefully to representatives of the administration. I passed my classes, but didn't do homework and had an average GPA. In my last semester, I decided to sto... |
2019/02/04 | 670 | 2,859 | <issue_start>username_0: What are some characteristics of top quality research work in math? What do papers in top notch math journals have in common?<issue_comment>username_1: Since you ask about *top* quality research, I'll say some things about the extremes. Perhaps you can extrapolate a bit from the extremes to com... |
2019/02/04 | 506 | 2,030 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently asked my professor to write a LOR for my taught master program application. We are not so familiar with each other, but at least I have attended one course of him (got A grade) while my final year project literature review was also supervised by him (luckily A grade also). Origi... |
2019/02/04 | 1,910 | 8,180 | <issue_start>username_0: I am considering applying for graduate school at some point, and I am wondering how academia looks upon contributions to Wikipedia.
Essentially, the article will be a dedicated to a very specific subfield of the physics of spin glasses, with seminal papers written on it in the 1980's. It has s... |
2019/02/04 | 1,616 | 6,962 | <issue_start>username_0: In a conference in the CS field, what sort of changes are acceptable from an author of a paper in the camera-ready version over the submitted version?
Can the author add few new related findings?<issue_comment>username_1: The notion of authorship in wikipedia is rather antithetical to the noti... |
2019/02/04 | 1,525 | 6,380 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently started doing postdoc in an European country.
Since the first day, I am having problems with working in the lab environment. The research group is too individualistic (there is no shared protocols, project and any kind of support) and some people are behaving in quite toxic ways... |
2019/02/04 | 749 | 2,856 | <issue_start>username_0: arXiv does not allow PDF and other file types on the same submission. My (many)coauthors are not tex savvy, and want the paper describing the database to be in PDF format so that their (also not tex savvy) community can access it. The database is 4 files, csv & json, and small, within arXiv siz... |
2019/02/04 | 1,528 | 6,588 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student willing to apply for top 10 universities(MIT, Stanford, etc).
I have recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering field with GPA 4.5/5.
I have read about important factors for applying and I found out that these factors are the most important factors ( fr... |