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2019/07/25 | 2,645 | 10,985 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a current PhD student who just finished my third year in a Computational Biology program at a respected university, and I am looking for some advice. Basically, I am trying to decide whether or not I should stay in grad school.
I have finished all my coursework and my qualifying exams, an... |
2019/07/25 | 398 | 1,543 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got the reviews for the paper I submitted to IEEE TCSVT and one of the reviewers asked me to provide them with some supplementary results. I am planning the create a website for them so they can go and download the results. Any suggestions on how I can create such a website for my paper?... |
2019/07/25 | 378 | 1,478 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper by using Mendeley and I want to cite many paper at the end of a sentence such as [1-5]. But when I have inserted the citations contiguosly, it seems like [1],[2],[3],[4],[5]. How do I change the appearance of citations from plural to single square bracket?<issue_comment>use... |
2019/07/26 | 8,249 | 34,622 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a rising sophomore at a top US university, and I've become really fascinated with the world of academia over the past year -- so much so that I'm considering doing a PhD after I graduate and entering it myself. But there's something about academia that bothers me.
I'm doing a summer inter... |
2019/07/26 | 5,695 | 23,669 | <issue_start>username_0: I just received an email from a student from a distant country, asking me to accept him as a Ph.D. student. I do not know this person, his advisors, his references or even the university he studied in.
His master's thesis looks good at first glance, but I cannot be sure since it is not in my f... |
2019/07/26 | 5,449 | 22,876 | <issue_start>username_0: In most of the European Universities I know, research groups are created from the equivalent of Assistant Professors and the Principal Investigator is voted in some sort of election, where there are elections every 2/4 years. In groups with such profile I have usually seen that scientific outpu... |
2019/07/26 | 1,076 | 4,280 | <issue_start>username_0: Publish...Publish, I am worried about publications as I don't have any yet, I just have few in masters, but was not a good quality, now in Ph.D., I am working on a new topic and to get a significant and validated results it takes times, I focused on developing a model that could really explain ... |
2019/07/26 | 602 | 2,559 | <issue_start>username_0: I did really well at school except for the final exams where I got terrible grades. Thoughout the years, my grades were above average but I got terrible grades in my finals(which count for 50% in my country) and that caused me to get a GPA of 2.4.
Should my math teacher talk about how/why i got... |
2019/07/26 | 765 | 2,843 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an article on google scholar that was published with an open source journal and also put on arxiv, however google merged these two and sees the arxiv version as the main one and therefore messes up the citation.
Is this something that can be changed?
<https://scholar.google.com/schola... |
2019/07/27 | 1,167 | 4,924 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent an e-mail to a professor that I did undergraduate research about 9-10 years ago wondering if he could write a letter of recommendation. He replied saying that he didn't think he would have anything meaningful to say, which is completely understandable. I didn't really do any publication ... |
2019/07/27 | 625 | 2,603 | <issue_start>username_0: In several international collaborative projects I am working, it happens that in some cases I have to teach and do a thorough supervision of PhD students from the other groups. This is something that I like and I am motivated to do, but in such situations I think I might deserve to be her/his P... |
2019/07/27 | 1,163 | 4,950 | <issue_start>username_0: I am composing this question on behalf of someone but as a first person. I am a postdoc at a top university in the US. I had recently been requested by my PI to help with setting up experiments and getting data for the latter part of a research that was to be submitted as a paper.
I spent 3 mo... |
2019/07/27 | 2,174 | 9,210 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was fresh out of college, I worked with someone who had their Ph.D who I'll call **X**. They told me that they had lunch with a person from Facebook who had told them about a Novel Algorithm Facebook had created. **X** decided to do a patent search on this algorithm, and it did not exist... |
2019/07/28 | 820 | 3,557 | <issue_start>username_0: I live in the US and have been working as an engineer in industry for over 10 years. I graduated from a top UK University, with outstanding grades in a Masters degree and several university-level prizes.
I have decided that I want to pursue a PhD, as I have a strong desire to be doing more adv... |
2019/07/28 | 585 | 2,659 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a research proposal in art history. I had a studio visit to the local artist and had a chance to ask her some questions. Unfortunately, I have not recorded it because, well, I was not even planning to interview her this time. However, in my research proposal, I want to state her pe... |
2019/07/28 | 425 | 1,859 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to present a piece of work done with a former PI in a conference. If I go to this conference, I use my own funding. Do I need this PI's approval to allow me to present this work in that conference? I need answers considering the 2 different scenarios: the work is either published or not ... |
2019/07/29 | 355 | 1,504 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate student, and one of my teachers asked me & my friend to work with him in the summer break (1 month remaining) and he would award us internship certificate from his lab (paid internship), to which we agreed. Additionally, he is also expecting us to be doing our final year pr... |
2019/07/29 | 1,133 | 4,756 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to know from an academic standpoint on what steps that an amateur scientist would have to take in order to get his/her scientific breakthrough published in a major academic journal/scientific magazine.
Say that this person is outside of academia, he/she has no college degrees, and... |
2019/07/29 | 459 | 1,977 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, having half of the lessons taught by one professor, and the other half of the lessons taught by another professor.
If this isn't possible, why isn't it possible? Can you provide any links to further information on how it's done (e.g. dividing the compensation)?<issue_comment>usern... |
2019/07/29 | 615 | 2,703 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student starting my second year of PhD. I don't expect any major publications to come out of this within the first year or so, but I often find myself wondering if something smaller - a measurement setup, comparison of simulation techniques, etc - is worth publishing or not.
On the ... |
2019/07/29 | 646 | 2,568 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there any valid alternatives to google scholar?
I am currently living in China. almost the whole internet is blocked, including Google. I tried to bypass the firewall, then google scholar tends to deny my access claiming that the traffic is suspicious.
Are there other valid alternatives ... |
2019/07/29 | 439 | 2,071 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a grant application a few weeks ago where I was asked to list some potential reviewers. One of these potential reviewers just invited me to give a talk at their university. I would like this potential reviewer to be able to review my grant application because I feel that they are kn... |
2019/07/29 | 1,204 | 5,205 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year PhD student, and there is an older (by which I mean further ahead in his PhD) student who has been rather unperturbed by me asking him to stop flirting with me. This has been going on ~6 months now after I first met him (we don’t work at the same institute but see each other r... |
2019/07/29 | 812 | 3,592 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a master student in psychology. A year ago, I downloaded a lot of free clipart online to create my study stimuli. For example, some clipart are from this website: <http://clipart-library.com>.
I basically created my study stimuli using clipart from multiple sources. I finished writing up m... |
2019/07/29 | 6,745 | 28,024 | <issue_start>username_0: Basic Premise
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Can a microbiology professor require students to run laps on the track during class for a grade, even if the class usually has no physical component to it?
Background
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As part of my role as a university professor, my college requires that I advise a numb... |
2019/07/29 | 1,531 | 6,393 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a final year PhD student in chemical engineering. Since the start of my PhD, I was clear on one personal philosophy. I will put my name only on those papers where I have made substantial contribution. And I will put my colleague's name on a paper only if he/she has contributed substantiall... |
2019/07/30 | 964 | 4,101 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been invited to participate to a special issue of [Entropy](https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy) for some work that I have done in statistical physics.
I received from other journals many such invitations which looked like spam, and I wonder whether I should take this one more serious... |
2019/07/30 | 736 | 2,967 | <issue_start>username_0: If someone would have obtained two MSc degrees from the same university for example MSc politics from UCL and MSc international relations from UCL too, how do you put that on a business card?<issue_comment>username_1: This will very likely depend on the laws of the country you are in and the no... |
2019/07/30 | 757 | 3,242 | <issue_start>username_0: I am PhD student works in a computer science. I have given lots of presentations in the institute level and one or two at the conference level. I have been told by my fellow researchers that they did not get much from my presentations/talks. Even I have presented one paper in the conference als... |
2019/07/30 | 383 | 1,607 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the process of revising my MA thesis for a publication. I am not clear whether I can just copy and paste information from my thesis and do minimal revisions, or I should paraphrase my thesis to a large extent so as to avoid self-plagiarism.
Any feedback would be appreciated!<issue_comme... |
2019/07/30 | 504 | 2,217 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to a Masters Program at a top university. I already have a Bachelors and a Masters degree, in addition to work experience. I have strong letters of recommendation and my Masters degree grades (both quant and social sciences) are excellent (all A's). Unfortunately, during my bachel... |
2019/07/30 | 6,231 | 26,632 | <issue_start>username_0: Something I never understood is how in so many undergrad classes North America, the students are allowed to have past exams that they are allowed to study over.
It never made sense to me because it is apparent that this practice could cause so many problems, especially as exams accumulate over... |
2019/07/31 | 875 | 3,709 | <issue_start>username_0: It is to ask that I sent my original article in some journal, reviewers asked me to make some amendments which I did on time. The editor then sent me an email with their decision of acceptance.
Now they have published their journal new edition, but my article is not published. Is it legal or et... |
2019/07/31 | 1,056 | 4,632 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a non-student/private citizen and I am eager to meet with professors at universities in my area so I can ask these professors a particular question about a particular subject matter. I want to ask them the same question to see if they all will give me the same answer. Based on their answer... |
2019/07/31 | 1,111 | 4,747 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a master's degree (in maths) and would like to pursue a PhD in future and have at least a year in hand. So I thought of picking some new research topic by reading articles in journals. The problem is how do I know the material I am reading is of a suitable standard. I often hear (and I d... |
2019/07/31 | 439 | 1,922 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a physics major in my second year. I do well in Physics, but math is my weak point. I struggle through it, I understand it, but my grades are poor. I am interested in studying specifically aerospace in grad school if I can (that's a separate matter). Would graduate admissions turn me down ... |
2019/08/01 | 3,110 | 13,692 | <issue_start>username_0: In the past when I've given presentations at my lab and conferences, I've not had to deal with this problem. But at my new institution I'm constantly dealing with the following phenomena.
**I'm constantly being asked questions that will be answered later in the slides.**
**First try**, I tr... |
2019/08/01 | 656 | 2,723 | <issue_start>username_0: A professor recommended me to take PhD program A. However, I want to take PhD program B. Would it be still OK to ask this professor to write a recommendation letter for this PhD program B despite he recommended me to take PhD program A?
He would be an ideal professor to write recommendation fo... |
2019/08/01 | 316 | 1,404 | <issue_start>username_0: Can we submit comment paper to some other journal other than the paper's journal on which we are commenting ?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, you can submit it anywhere you choose. The question will be only whether it will be accepted there. If your paper has substance then it has a better chanc... |
2019/08/01 | 1,359 | 6,346 | <issue_start>username_0: What would I learn as a Ph.D Student in Statistics that I wouldn't learn and vise-versa in Machine Learning Ph.D program?<issue_comment>username_1: Both are about getting answers from data, both can lead to good jobs (if you are good at them), and makes a lot of sense to take courses from both ... |
2019/08/01 | 650 | 2,665 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to quote something from an author.
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> ... during an economic downturn, it is no easier to find a job in a region with lower prevailing unemployment than in one with a higher unemployment rate.
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As you can see, the sentence is a bit awkward as it does not have a parallel stru... |
2019/08/01 | 360 | 1,527 | <issue_start>username_0: We are preparing a manuscript to be submitted to a peer-reviewed international journal. We have an author that contributed significantly to our research work in which we would like to include her as a first author of our manuscript. The main problem is that she doesn't have an affiliation.
1.... |
2019/08/02 | 847 | 3,711 | <issue_start>username_0: As part of my research I am using data was provided by hospitals to my research. The data is for medical reports, but no patient information has been identified at all. No patient privacy has been affected at all.
My aim is to make a business project from my research, which will be an artifici... |
2019/08/02 | 1,536 | 6,718 | <issue_start>username_0: I have discovered recently that I had ADHD, and possibly some other mental condition, which explain some past academic difficulties. This gave me hope that with treatment (which I will start soon) and newfound motivation, I can improve my academic results dramatically and aim for a PhD.
My opi... |
2019/08/02 | 1,620 | 7,321 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m working in the area of adversarial examples against neural networks. A standard research paper generally starts off an introduction with something along the lines of the below, but probably with a bit more guff:
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> Neural networks are increasingly used in safety and security critical app... |
2019/08/02 | 1,482 | 6,671 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a scientific paper and I want to add the contribution of a book in my paper. Generally, we use to write like that way ''authors in this work present [1].....'' but this is the case when we are writing about any other scientific paper. But for the first time I'm using the reference o... |
2019/08/02 | 1,468 | 6,643 | <issue_start>username_0: Many top universities in north America accept international ph.d. students and pay their tuitions, insurnace and other funds. To get visa, international students should convince the officer that they will go back to their home countries. I am wondering why universities should accept internation... |
2019/08/03 | 1,787 | 7,907 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a post-doc in the USA and was a teaching assistant in the same university. During my TA appointment, I attended a one-week course outside the city. Prior to leaving, I got permission from the head TA, e-mailed the course instructors, and got one of my colleagues to cover my class and offic... |
2019/08/03 | 724 | 3,031 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose there is Al and Bob.
* Al is a frustrated graduate student who is lacking in the creative department and can not establish any new results in his field. He has some trivialities in the thesis and will most likely get his degree but it is unlikely he will ever land a tenure-track positi... |
2019/08/03 | 776 | 3,202 | <issue_start>username_0: As I've contemplated the future over the past year, I have returned over and over again to the idea of becoming a doctor -- specifically, a neurosurgeon. However, I recognize that as a 28 year old Physics BS who would need to take a year of postbac courses before even applying to medical school... |
2019/08/04 | 1,698 | 7,110 | <issue_start>username_0: For faculty lack of funding, how to find conferences that allow people to sit in without paying? For those that don't allow officially, will they check attendees' badge?<issue_comment>username_1: Conferences might give a discount for people from developing countries, for students, and for peopl... |
2019/08/04 | 1,287 | 5,124 | <issue_start>username_0: I will soon submit my PhD thesis. The thesis is written in Latex and version controlled with git. I want to add a license file, but don't know what to choose. For my software, I choose the permissive MIT license, but I have no clue if that is suitable for a thesis as well. Searching on the web,... |
2019/08/04 | 509 | 2,139 | <issue_start>username_0: Would love to hear stories if anyone has followed this path!<issue_comment>username_1: Admission to a "really good" PhD program in the US depends much more on what you do than on where you do it. If you do well and can show aptitude for research, you will have a good chance at many excellent un... |
2019/08/04 | 1,017 | 3,979 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just graduated 2.1 in a bioscience subject and have been offered an MRes / MSc(Res) (masters by way of research). I really want to do the MRes because I want to test my aptitude for research, publishing and continuing to a Ph.D.
It's a well-worn trope, but I had also hoped to build upon... |
2019/08/05 | 2,159 | 9,560 | <issue_start>username_0: I have attended quite a few large conferences in mathematics where experts from different fields participate. Naturally I talked to some people and asked them a very basic question: what they are working on. In some cases the answers were not very precise and even rather misleading. I had the f... |
2019/08/05 | 1,396 | 5,519 | <issue_start>username_0: We are four social scientists working on a dataset that is in a secure server accessible via remote desktop. We have a shared folder where we put our code and datasets:
```
root
-functions
-data
-documentation
-output
```
Right now all we have done is to:
```
git init
git add --a
git commit... |
2019/08/05 | 1,382 | 5,774 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated around 3 years ago with a degree, from a Russell Group university, in Mathematics. I had some mental health issues in my final term which essentially bombed my grade. Since I had no previously reported issues with anxiety, my extenuating circumstances were denied, (despite me having... |
2019/08/05 | 554 | 2,386 | <issue_start>username_0: My manuscript was rejected without sending to peer review, of course the editor whom I sent my paper is an expert in my field and he rejected it without any report. (it took one and half month with editor). Just the editor in chief told that the editor can not recommend this paper to publish in... |
2019/08/05 | 490 | 2,105 | <issue_start>username_0: I've read that in Belgium academic salaries are based on years since PhD. If this is the case, is this always the case? Are there special cases where someone would be paid more than their "years since" rate? Like, for example, if an early career scholar brings in a very large research grant: st... |
2019/08/05 | 1,418 | 5,932 | <issue_start>username_0: For the first 11 years of my career, I worked as an academic in my home country. I moved to the United States two years ago to begin a new faculty position at a flagship state university. During these 13 years, I have used my full name as my "academic" name (as would be the usual practice). How... |
2019/08/05 | 1,181 | 5,296 | <issue_start>username_0: In research work, I'm guessing that the primary product you want to create is some sort of publication. But what happens if you don't get you published? Does that mean the research you did is invalid / you can't reference what you learned in any future work?
For example:
Let's say someone gets... |
2019/08/06 | 403 | 1,701 | <issue_start>username_0: I have passed several loops of evaluation by a professor, who would like to be my future advisor. He told me that he made his final decision on me and was pleased to offer me a RA position in his lab. He asked me to submit my application and he could expedite the application so that I could get... |
2019/08/06 | 939 | 3,636 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an academic interview. During the interview, some panel members showed positive body language. In the end, they asked me for a reference. After that, the main interviewer said that they had some more applicants to interview and would get back to me after a few days. I wonder if that means... |
2019/08/06 | 720 | 3,011 | <issue_start>username_0: After reading [this post](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/81625/787) and [this post](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/121439/787), and after I also encountered a production team that made many unwanted edits in my paper (such as changing words and numbers in the text itself, removing s... |
2019/08/06 | 1,200 | 5,072 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed a masters in Chemical Engineering long ago. I have since done some research which I think suffices to achieve a PhD. Can it be done (and how)?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> How and where to get you research work assessed for PhD?
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The first person to evaluate if the work i... |
2019/08/06 | 3,370 | 14,162 | <issue_start>username_0: Say I have written code that performs a physics calculation. After this, I get a paper published based on the results of the code. In the interest of advancing the progress of science, I upload the code used for the paper on, say, GitHub. I also post a link to my code on GitHub on my website. I... |
2019/08/06 | 3,263 | 13,715 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that depending on the department and the school the duration of the TA funding for a Phd student can vary. However, I’m interested in learning whether it’s common for departments in STEM field to have less than two semesters of TA funding for the same student in US.<issue_comment>u... |
2019/08/07 | 434 | 1,846 | <issue_start>username_0: My class decided to bunk today's lectures. Because there is so much chaos in my city due to heavy rain and blockage. Many student can not come and some of them are not coming due to their parents not allowing them to go. So we executed our plan.
Now, our class teacher want us to meet HOD and t... |
2019/08/07 | 2,059 | 8,883 | <issue_start>username_0: The situation is as follows:
1) I and supervisor dont understand each other
2) supervisor keeps the PhD group fractured
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What it means ?
The supervisor is way off from my research area. But I know that happens. Unfortunately, he is the one speaking the most during meetings. To me it see... |
2019/08/07 | 462 | 1,685 | <issue_start>username_0: For masters degree, I have contacted one of the professor of university of Tokyo. He told me in his 1st email reply that he would not like to have students only for 2 years. He wanted a student for 5 years(MS+Phd). Then I emailed him saying that I am ready to study for longer time. He replied f... |
2019/08/07 | 878 | 3,821 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I served as a Program Committee member (=reviewer) in several conferences in computer science. In these conferences, there is a "hierarchy" of reviewers: there are "PC members", "senior PC members", "area chairs", and the "PC chair".
Do I need to do anything in order to "advance" in ... |
2019/08/07 | 1,200 | 5,206 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just finished my bachelor degree and I will be entering a PhD program in mathematics. On the home page at my schools (and others) I have seen that there are various groups, composed of teachers and students, who study a subfield of mathematics. For example, I have seen "Mathematical Logi... |
2019/08/08 | 2,617 | 11,228 | <issue_start>username_0: Would it still be possible today to go from relatively unknown to a respected figure in physics by writing some spectacular papers being outside the academia?
(Just like Einstein did)<issue_comment>username_1: There is nothing that prevents you from doing so. It's just very hard for a couple o... |
2019/08/08 | 922 | 3,839 | <issue_start>username_0: I and my coauthor wrote a paper and the project involved creating a (small) software library. Part of the novelty of the paper is the output of the code, which is a digital object not intended for by-hand manipulation. The code (open source) would ideally also be useful for others. One journal ... |
2019/08/08 | 1,654 | 7,046 | <issue_start>username_0: Referencing my question [here](https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/141743/are-children-a-reason-to-be-rejected-for-a-job?noredirect=1#comment458198_141743) and the multiple suggestions to ask here as well.
What could be the reasons for (so far) only getting rejections on my applicati... |
2019/08/08 | 571 | 2,621 | <issue_start>username_0: For example in Cambridge website of math department, it lists [University Academic Staff](https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/people/utos.html) and [Research Staff](https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/people/nutos.html). What is the difference?<issue_comment>username_1: Research staff in this context are mostl... |
2019/08/08 | 450 | 1,894 | <issue_start>username_0: I am still waiting to get an answer from my prospective Ph.D. supervisor.
On July 15, 2019, I have sent my master transcript and initial statement of research upon his request, and a week after I sent him another e-mail in a very polite manner to make sure that he could open my file without dif... |
2019/08/08 | 554 | 2,227 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two ideas (manuscripts) that I am working on, both in the field of physics.
The first is theoretical, mathy and generalized. It is steered toward computer vision. Probably if finished, would be published in a multidisciplinary journal for physics and computer science.
The second is a m... |
2019/08/08 | 1,950 | 8,328 | <issue_start>username_0: If you already have funding, is TA-ing (i.e. being a teaching assistant) worth the opportunity cost of doing more research?
What are the relevant considerations?
I've always heard that focusing on research is a better use of time for boosting one's CV for applying for competitive and research-... |
2019/08/08 | 1,489 | 6,148 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently gotten a job as lecturer and economics course module developer at a new university this fall. The position is intended as permanent. There is opportunity for funded research but that isn't an objective of the chairs due to the newness of the university.
What is strange is that t... |
2019/08/09 | 1,521 | 6,264 | <issue_start>username_0: It is general that most of the journals now a days publish article in online first and later give the volume and year name when they print it.
I have many papers in such case. However, I am confused to list them in recent publications. For example,
I had published 2 papers in 2012 which were ... |
2019/08/09 | 554 | 2,274 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been asked to consider being a second supervisor on a Ph.D. project for a doctoral candidate at a U.S. university. As I am in the Netherlands, this does not fall under my normal employment. Does anyone know where I might find information about the normal fee for this type of supervision?... |
2019/08/09 | 629 | 3,006 | <issue_start>username_0: Could/should scholarly book chapters and published theses (dissertations) be included in the literature review as sources?
In theory, those are scientific publications, right? However, those are also usually based on previously published work.<issue_comment>username_1: (Almost) everything is b... |
2019/08/09 | 1,414 | 5,359 | <issue_start>username_0: As an administrative assistant at a major university, I regularly field questions from prospective applicants and students. Occasionally, in response to my reply the author will address me as "Professor" or "Doctor".
What is a concise yet polite way to reply with regard to this (in my case) mi... |
2019/08/09 | 806 | 3,441 | <issue_start>username_0: Long story short, I have some ideas regarding the field of psychology and I looking into ways to validate them with people with experience.
Options I see:
1. Submit a paper and wait feedback from a journal. I understand the hurdles that come with this option. I'm wondering if this is totally ... |
2019/08/10 | 619 | 2,699 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to clarify a writing style issue concerning separating related work from my own work:
Does the related work section need to be strictly about other work only? Or may you also explicitly explain the relevance of the related work to the text at hand?
That is, should you avoid expl... |
2019/08/10 | 662 | 2,655 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my undergraduate degree in engineering at the best university in my country of origin, almost a decade ago. I completed the undergraduate program with a 2.9 CGPA on a 4.0 GPA scale, which roughly equates to an overall B grade (74.5%). Owing to my very difficult personal circumstance... |
2019/08/10 | 929 | 3,924 | <issue_start>username_0: In terms of success as a PhD-level researcher either in academia or industry, what are the pros and cons of doing a PhD after 2 years or more in industry following undergrad.<issue_comment>username_1: I worked in industry for 3.5 years before starting my PhD. I believe I've been more successful... |
2019/08/10 | 2,557 | 10,967 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting a PhD this Fall, and I'm absolutely terrified that I'm nowhere close enough to the "frontier of knowledge" to enable me to do quality research.
For background purposes, I have a BSc in Chemical Engineering and a BSc in Pure and Applied Mathematics. I finished both of these simult... |
2019/08/11 | 677 | 2,866 | <issue_start>username_0: Following a question on [here](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/507932/chinese-names-in-english), I also decided to reflect on my referencing skills. My style guide APA Harvard 6th wants names as Last, First. But with Chinese names I have this problem: do I reverse their name or has ... |
2019/08/11 | 901 | 3,667 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a math PhD student in North America about to enter my second year. Last week I attended a conference and was interested in a research presentation by a professor at another school. The presentation was about some of his current (unpublished) methods and results to attack a problem in combi... |
2019/08/11 | 2,840 | 12,521 | <issue_start>username_0: When the NSF decides to fund a project, they post an abstract of the project, but they do not post any of the material that the project's PIs actually wrote. Why not?
Some good reasons for publishing these proposals are:
1. It increases transparency, so that the public directly knows what w... |
2019/08/11 | 1,159 | 4,814 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a master's student outside the U.S., and I plan to contact professors in U.S. universities for PhD applications. I have a bunch of email addresses available, and I don't know which one is the most appropriate for communication.
My main objective is to make sure my email **doesn'... |
2019/08/11 | 1,032 | 4,241 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing my master thesis. I'm a bit conflicted with what I do... Reference stealing.
So let's say article A talk about something that was reported from X, something else from Y and Z.
I talk about article A and I find that X, Y and Z are actually really good too so I end up ref... |
2019/08/11 | 2,366 | 9,677 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been looking up some PhD students' websites, and there are people who somehow got 10~30+ total papers with 5~10+ first author papers. Many such students are in computer science, but there are a few in fields like bioinformatics. **Some garnered 100+ citations before graduation.**
How did ... |
2019/08/11 | 1,057 | 4,703 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international PhD student in an engineering department in US and was fully funded for all two years, but just two weeks before the fall semester (without any warning), my advisor informed me that he cannot support me, apparently he lost all the funding sources this July. He is quite hap... |
2019/08/12 | 384 | 1,661 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student in the field of computer science, researching on my own. I have completed writing a paper for my recent research project and all set to submit it to a relevant conference. Since I worked on the paper and project by myself, I am a bit unsure about some parts of the ... |
2019/08/12 | 363 | 1,588 | <issue_start>username_0: In my subfield, there is a highly regarded journal. I just finished a manuscript, which I thought would be suitable and ‘good enough’ for this journal.
Coincidentally, another manuscript that I had originally submitted to the journal two years ago, after long periods of waiting, revision, etc. ... |
2019/08/12 | 1,784 | 7,480 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on my final thesis for a CS grade course and I want to use a common sorting algorithm ([quicksort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort) for the curious ones). Do I need to include a reference to this algorithm (cite or quote)? Or it is so common that I don't need to? Take into a... |
2019/08/12 | 898 | 3,673 | <issue_start>username_0: I took the GRE for the 2nd time recently and unfortunately, after 4 months of studying (again for the 2nd summer in a row), received the exact same score overall as my score last summer.
Last summer, I got a 157 on math, 154 on verbal, and 5 on the essay. Recently, I got a 157 on math, 153 on ... |