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2020/05/26 | 2,393 | 10,170 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my classes had a midterm scheduled right after we were all sent home due to Covid-19. The professor said that for this midterm, we were allowed to use notes, both his and our own, browse the internet, and talk with peers during the exam. While this seems abnormal, we, as a class, checked... |
2020/05/26 | 1,000 | 4,311 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently half-way through my graduate research program. I have two advisors, one that was supposed to be my main advisor (who
admitted me into the program) and a co-advisor. Over the past few months, I feel that my main advisor has all but abandoned my efforts.
1. We're supposed to have w... |
2020/05/27 | 535 | 2,342 | <issue_start>username_0: Have you all ever had different results when repeating your own experiment? I did some work for my dissertation and am now redoing it for better images and hopefully for publication. The results are not replicating at all which leads me to think either an error was made before or is being made ... |
2020/05/27 | 1,197 | 5,305 | <issue_start>username_0: **Main Question:** Should someone gain good computer programming skills/experience **through a software engineering job** before entering a 5-year PhD program in Computer Science (Tentative specialization: Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Deep Learning)?
**IMPORTANT NOTE**:-
The r... |
2020/05/27 | 781 | 3,354 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student and I submitted a paper formally co-authored with my advisor months ago. The core idea of the paper is mine. During the first (major) revision, among other much needed, yet very time-consuming, improvements I had to implement, I had to take the methodological section over in ... |
2020/05/27 | 619 | 2,600 | <issue_start>username_0: English is not my first language. My pronunciation and grammar are not perfect. I tried to write an essay in my own words. After that I asked for help from my friend to proofread the essay.
She told me I’m cheating to have someone help in this way, because when I submit the essay, the words an... |
2020/05/27 | 1,709 | 7,760 | <issue_start>username_0: After an incident where a complaint has been submitted against my private social media profile by students (with whom I had no interaction, nor were my posts directed towards) I felt attacked in a way I didn't feel before. Since my research is the most valuable thing to me in my life, I decided... |
2020/05/27 | 10,382 | 44,559 | <issue_start>username_0: I am female and an early-career PI (principal investigator) in a discipline that tends to attract women, and people with high levels of anxiety (this is documented). In my first years as a graduate supervisor, I have selected a balanced group of men and women from a variety of backgrounds based... |
2020/05/28 | 367 | 1,568 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to apply for a visiting lecturer position at a US university. The job posting is mentioning that applicants should send (email) CV including a summary of teaching experience, and a teaching statement. I have two questions.
1. I am confused about the part "CV including a summary of t... |
2020/05/28 | 249 | 1,199 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a systematic review of the medical field. I am looking for the current definition of exacerbation in CF patients used in the literature.
my question is..
Should we include a book in the data extraction process of the systematic review?
Or just include the primary research articles?<... |
2020/05/28 | 1,353 | 5,935 | <issue_start>username_0: I wanted to know your opinion about this: I had interviews (separate) with three professors that they know each other. One of them which is not my first choice has accepted me, the others still have not answered. How should I reply to his email? Is it okay (=accepted) to tell him I am waiting f... |
2020/05/28 | 1,478 | 6,494 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently found a mistake in a mathematical proof of a result I published in 2016. In a nutshell, a subtle error led me to claim that two conditions were equivalent. Unfortunately one of the two implications is not true. Luckily, the main result of our paper relies only on the correct implicat... |
2020/05/28 | 2,055 | 8,630 | <issue_start>username_0: When giving grades to students, I often find it interesting to disclose some information about the grades distribution. I imagine that it helps to know where one is situated in comparison to others.
I usually don't want to disclose the maximum grade and the minimum grade, the latter obviously ... |
2020/05/29 | 4,204 | 17,520 | <issue_start>username_0: Despite experiencing a lot of drama and negativity at my university, I love my city and hate the idea of relocating. Sometimes I even think of reapplying there just so I could stay in this city (this is its only university) and still attend grad. school, but the negativity would be a lot to dea... |
2020/05/29 | 326 | 1,318 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was presenting a paper at a conference ~3years ago, a researcher (who also happens to be a professor) gave me her business card after discussing with her after my presentation.
Now that I’m almost done with my PhD, I’d like to approach her to see if there could be a possible job opport... |
2020/05/29 | 409 | 1,748 | <issue_start>username_0: During my PhD thesis, I supervised the creation of Bachelor's and Master's theses. The official supervisor was always my own PhD supervisor (since I am officially not yet allowed to do university-level teaching on my own), but in practice I did almost all of the supervision. Topic and technical... |
2020/05/29 | 2,836 | 11,772 | <issue_start>username_0: HI everybody I am a physics PhD student working in the field of theoretical physics. I am currently in my third year. I am currently at a point where I am thinking of quitting my PhD. I have no ambition to continue in academics and the environment I am working in (including relationship with my... |
2020/05/29 | 536 | 2,464 | <issue_start>username_0: I've had a really bad relationship with my supervisor since I started. I've even had to take time off to get a mental reprieve from everything that was happening. At this point, I really want to go somewhere else. This is not an American university, and I'm in the social sciences. In order to a... |
2020/05/29 | 1,995 | 8,868 | <issue_start>username_0: In the current state of the technologies, what ways can be used to track clear yet directly untraceable cases of academic misconduct specific to students who post questions from and view answers to a take-home exam using on-line (homework) sites?
My case is specific to Chegg, although answers ... |
2020/05/29 | 616 | 2,511 | <issue_start>username_0: I know this question has been asked before but here is the Covid-19 Pandemic Edition:
I emailed my professor asking if they would consider writing me a LOR almost a month ago and haven't gotten a response. Normally after a week or two I'd sent a follow up email but email etiquette seems a litt... |
2020/05/30 | 849 | 3,673 | <issue_start>username_0: If you are been accepted into a Master's program which grants a scholarship to its participants, they just send you a letter outlining the scholarship in a brief manner. Is this common in academia?
**Question:**
Is it common in academia to not have any written "contract" when you get a schola... |
2020/05/30 | 407 | 1,516 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been using Mendeley for a while to create my bibtex files and use them in Latex. However, recently I came accross some papers such as [this](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.09252.pdf) one, which have math symbols in their titles and when I try to create an entry in Mendeley and use it in my L... |
2020/05/30 | 905 | 3,865 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been accepted into a Ph.D. program at a school that is a decent top 50 on the US News. Has anyone had any experience with 'trading up' after one gets their terminal master? At my undergrad, there have been cases of students entering the Ph.D. program and then transferring after 2 years t... |
2020/05/31 | 1,098 | 4,664 | <issue_start>username_0: Say someone wants to enroll in two unrelated disciplines: e.g. a Ph.D. in, say, *Arabic Literature*, and Ph.D. in, say, in *Math Education*.
I am not going into the capability of the candidate, or whether it is reasonable to seek multiple PhDs.
Is it **logistically possible** to work on two... |
2020/05/31 | 4,036 | 12,658 | <issue_start>username_0: In the comments to the question
[Methods to track behind cheating on exams using on-line sites?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/149811/methods-to-track-behind-cheating-on-exams-using-on-line-sites)
, <NAME> states that cheating is considered a felony in Italy (see
<https://www.n... |
2020/06/01 | 3,406 | 14,773 | <issue_start>username_0: Earlier in the semester, I was informed by both an advisor/academic counselor and a professor at my university that it is a good idea to connect with professors on LinkedIn if they have interests in the same area as me.
I sent a connect request to one of the professors I had last semester (alo... |
2020/06/01 | 1,400 | 5,665 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I am interested in doing more research in a particular area in order to strengthen PhD applications, but I have just finished my undergrad degree.
Is it considered bad form to cold-email professors who say on their websites that they are accepting undergrad researchers in their lab aski... |
2020/06/01 | 1,159 | 5,147 | <issue_start>username_0: I know these questions have been asked before but I would like some advice and perspectives on what I should do when mental health comes into the equation.
The context is: an undergraduate class with a significant project component (40%). The project consists of a research proposal and a prese... |
2020/06/01 | 8,463 | 35,778 | <issue_start>username_0: In a discussion with some of my close friends in other academic institutes, we noticed the common experience\* in which it seems that well over 80% of the advertised job postings for permanent or tenure track positions at the departments close to our working environment where we are working are... |
2020/06/01 | 7,714 | 32,851 | <issue_start>username_0: An MSc and PhD are quite different both in terms of the length and the expectations placed on the students undergoing the program. First, let's just assume that the 'students' I reference below are hard working, want to be in their programs, and make an effort to be a good mentee.
Trying to p... |
2020/06/02 | 766 | 3,314 | <issue_start>username_0: I am finishing my PhD soon. The area in which I pursued my PhD is very challenging as I was only able to publish couple of papers even after spending many years. I want to switch into other research are due these reasons
1. to attract more students
2. to be comfortable to do research (along wi... |
2020/06/02 | 782 | 3,320 | <issue_start>username_0: Whenever I'm attending a class or even watching an educational video on internet (mainly any educational activity where I'm required to focus), I keep yawning constantly and all the time (I didn't count it before but I think I might yawn once, or maybe even more, every minute), with my eyes get... |
2020/06/02 | 967 | 4,037 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to use a short (5 lines) mathematical proof from someone else's machine learning paper in my master thesis. Should I provide it, to help comprehension and save readers the trouble of looking it up, or should I just refer to it? Is it OK to copy-paste the proof, as long as I make clear wh... |
2020/06/02 | 1,063 | 4,503 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student. I recently completed the review of a submission and its subsequent revision for a journal in my field, in the peer review process. My comments were taken into account by the authors, and the entire process went fine.
Since it was my first time, I'd like to get some fee... |
2020/06/02 | 935 | 4,207 | <issue_start>username_0: Due to Covid-19, I am having to switch to a "hybrid" format, where I see students less often each week, in smaller groups, and more assignments are pushed on-line. The school is in an extremely rural reservation, where those students who live off-campus are unlikely to have running water, elect... |
2020/06/03 | 1,065 | 4,596 | <issue_start>username_0: Who decides the paper acceptance rate at a workshop organized as part of a conference: the workshop organizers or the conference organizers?<issue_comment>username_1: This can depend on the conference. My experience (CS, various ACM conferences) is that the workshop committee is responsible for... |
2020/06/03 | 293 | 1,300 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently thinking about pursuing a public policy PhD after my MA is completed. One of my top target schools employs a visiting professor who has been at that university for the past several years. The main reason I wanted that particular professor is that his previous background included ... |
2020/06/03 | 1,028 | 3,865 | <issue_start>username_0: This is my first question in this forum and although I have gained a lot of information about proper citation from the web, I am still confused in this case. We are assigned a task by college to make a study from resources available online on a particular topic and prepare a project.
Now, I kn... |
2020/06/03 | 729 | 2,895 | <issue_start>username_0: I experienced a lot of stress and an episode of depression during my last undergraduate semester. The stress was caused by constant moving and housing insecurity for half the semester (giving me a late start on the paper) and the depression by learning of my professor being in the process of re... |
2020/06/03 | 2,719 | 11,982 | <issue_start>username_0: Right now I am preparing a paper for my bachelor's degree thesis in computer science. I myself is an active programmer at work in my company and have created many programs till now.
I want to take some of my programs and take it for my thesis paper, my supervisor the program itself is good and... |
2020/06/03 | 1,489 | 6,215 | <issue_start>username_0: I was taking a look at my first published papers, which are published in (peer-reviewed) A\*/A/B level proceedings. Thanks to these papers, I finished my PhD a few years ago.
I was surprised by the quality of the papers and I felt ashamed that I wrote these papers -Of course, this was not my ... |
2020/06/03 | 1,108 | 4,548 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently came across reviewing policies which make it a requirement for authors submitting a paper to a conference to also accept reviewing for it. Here is an [example](https://2020.emnlp.org/blog/2020-04-26-reviewing-policy):
>
> In order to submit paper(s) to EMNLP, you must nominate at l... |
2020/06/03 | 619 | 2,559 | <issue_start>username_0: I decided to pursue a PhD degree after a few years in industry, so I contacted a professor from the university where I had received my Diploma a few years back. We had some conversations, she was rather positive as I had good grades and I used to attend her lectures. I could not apply officiall... |
2020/06/03 | 623 | 2,672 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an MS in CompSci grad who wants to do a PhD someday. The one thing I don't have from my time in undergrad and MS is significant research experience. Of course, I did undergrad research but was never published in any papers. I make a lot as a professional and want to volunteer(read, free) pa... |
2020/06/03 | 2,162 | 8,517 | <issue_start>username_0: I struggle with staying focused during lectures. However, while listening to online lectures, I started sewing and it has made life so much easier. I am able to listen and follow along. When the time comes to do practice questions, I do a lot better than I usually do.
So the problem is, I cant... |
2020/06/03 | 652 | 2,899 | <issue_start>username_0: I might, or might not, need letters of recommendation for a PhD application in the future. My plans are vague, I am just finishing my master's and planning to work for a while before deciding.
There are just a few people who could write a letter about me that doesn't just say "they did well in... |
2020/06/03 | 2,160 | 9,204 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a master's thesis in Computer Science. It's the first document I write, so not much experience.
My supervisor told me to include some previous/related work on the topic I am writing about. In short, it is about computing influence in social networks. I have found about 10 papers ... |
2020/06/04 | 1,664 | 6,855 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to know if there is any scientific field that focuses exclusively on scientific instrumentation research? I know that each field (and sub-field) has its own instrumentation and apparatus, but my question is about the existence of a community that explore the nature and the methodol... |
2020/06/04 | 1,975 | 7,993 | <issue_start>username_0: I no longer have a university affiliation and in particular no longer have access to a unviersity email account. I've have had two papers recently accepted for publication in *closed access* journals (published by Elsevier and Springer). My university affiliation appears on the papers
because ... |
2020/06/04 | 996 | 4,393 | <issue_start>username_0: I am hoping to apply for a PhD in mathematics in Germany, where the most common method of pursuing a PhD is to put together a research proposal and then find a professor who will support you. This is vastly outside of my experience in the US and UK, so I am struggling to understand the norms an... |
2020/06/04 | 726 | 3,326 | <issue_start>username_0: Context: MSc student, first time having a paper accepted to a conference.
I submitted an extended abstract to two conferences which were ultimately accepted. In the original extended abstract, I did not yet have results. The original extended abstract was also based on a particular methodolog... |
2020/06/05 | 2,362 | 8,981 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm filing a formal letter of complaint (for a grade litigation request) over a grade dispute in an English literature course. I've got 90/100 (an A) in each of the 3 exams in this course. These exams make up 85% of the course grade. The other 15% is based on daily work (worksheets and response... |
2020/06/05 | 994 | 3,950 | <issue_start>username_0: What should I do if the paper is misleading (say deliberately done due to lack of money to buy hardware resources like GPU or lack of time)? What if a section of the paper has misleading information but, the rest of the paper is gold? What if it is just the Dunning Kruger or Impostor Syndrome m... |
2020/06/05 | 1,247 | 4,749 | <issue_start>username_0: To write a review, does the author must find some "implication" over the papers it based on?
Example-1:
Suppose author 1 has a theory or a proposal or framework but the language is unclear, not very comprehensible, not pointwise. Author 2 did a lot of improvement by adding short notes, defini... |
2020/06/05 | 913 | 4,214 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an accepted paper in CS, in which I proposed a new method in data-science related topics (data-intensive analysis, a lot of hyperparameter tuning and design decisions).
The reviewers opinions are positive, the method is clearly described and the results are validated properly. Thus, the... |
2020/06/06 | 624 | 2,623 | <issue_start>username_0: I suffer from anxiety, and this condition has led to some situations that hurt my relationships and reputation at my undergraduate institution. Anxiety also affects me in other ways -- for example, I fear flying.
Now I want to apply to graduate school for a master's degree. At what point shoul... |
2020/06/06 | 1,092 | 4,473 | <issue_start>username_0: For an early career researcher in physics or science in general, is it a good idea to send a "thank you" email to other authors who cited one of the researcher's papers? Will this be perceived in a positive way and even start a possible collaboration, or it will be cheesy?
Notice that in physi... |
2020/06/06 | 422 | 1,756 | <issue_start>username_0: I handed in my undergraduate thesis in mathematics and since I had extra time due to COVID-19 lockdown, I had made a cover drawing for it that I included. I've never seen a thesis with a cover in the STEM field before.
Was it a bad decision on my part? Will it look like kowtowing/bootlicking ... |
2020/06/06 | 1,239 | 4,883 | <issue_start>username_0: A similar question was asked in [Having a lot of papers published in unimportant conferences VS very few in good ones?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/15528/having-a-lot-of-papers-published-in-unimportant-conferences-vs-very-few-in-good), but my question is only about reputation, ... |
2020/06/06 | 514 | 2,361 | <issue_start>username_0: After the coronavirus pandemic, most conferences have switched to the virtual mode and it is most likely that this will be the norm for some time now. I understand that networking will be much harder in this setting and that is a major let down for researchers/graduate students especially the o... |
2020/06/06 | 651 | 2,809 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a soon to be fourth year graduate student in mathematics (PhD track). Originally, I wanted to work in academia, but am realizing this is an uncertain path. I feel compelled to finish my PhD degree because I have only two years left (next academic year I must attend as well) and am already ... |
2020/06/06 | 2,573 | 10,463 | <issue_start>username_0: I was discussing the possibility of entering a PhD program from a professor who I had during my masters degree.
We discussed the level of commitment he expected and he stated he expects PhD students to be committed to PhD completion above all else, regardless of subject interest or circumstanc... |
2020/06/07 | 1,026 | 4,072 | <issue_start>username_0: Inspired from [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/150128/when-someone-cites-one-of-your-papers-is-it-a-good-idea-to-send-an-email-to-the), I think the reverse can be an interesting discussion so I will set up an artificial example.
Suppose I cite XYZ in a published or... |
2020/06/07 | 1,363 | 5,277 | <issue_start>username_0: Think of a tenured (in the US!) professor who asserts something like "Jews are nepotistic" or "Shoot all Muslims and let Allah sort them out" (the latter statement is a real example although better described as xenophobic rather than racist). Assuming that such a professor grades fairly and sho... |
2020/06/07 | 580 | 2,462 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm almost at the end of my research dissertation for my MSc program and my results could not prove any improvement in the techniques already well established. I relied too much on a paper talking about some interesting application and results but when I went deeper to apply the technique in a ... |
2020/06/07 | 2,762 | 11,654 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing a presentation in LaTeX and got **at least seven pages** for references only.
In general, as far as I know, a "thank you" slide of a presentation is the termination slide of the presentation, i.e., it comes at the end after references.
Since my presentation part, which demands ... |
2020/06/08 | 2,442 | 10,765 | <issue_start>username_0: Dear Academia Community,
I am a young PhD candidate biostatistician and the lead data analyzer for a particular medical group's project. For context, the project is led by two medical students, who are under the guidance of MD physician professors. The two students came to me directly to stat... |
2020/06/08 | 762 | 3,296 | <issue_start>username_0: Does writing to a Department Chair always have to result in a grievance and/or official investigation, or does the Chair ever help the parties work things out?
I had originally posed this question with student-faculty conflicts in mind, but I guess it could apply to faculty-faculty or student-s... |
2020/06/08 | 894 | 3,613 | <issue_start>username_0: Is the [Octogon Mathematical Magazine](https://www.uni-miskolc.hu/~matsefi/Octogon_pre/index.php?menu=home) still accepting paper submissions?
The latest contents in the [Archive section](https://www.uni-miskolc.hu/~matsefi/Octogon_pre/index.php?menu=archive) is Volume 20. No. 1 April, 2012, t... |
2020/06/08 | 438 | 1,954 | <issue_start>username_0: We have submitted an article in a finance journal ( ABDC rank A) more than one year ago. After around 6 months they sent us the review of two reviewers where one reviewer reject the paper with few correction suggestions and another gave relatively good comments with additional correction sugges... |
2020/06/08 | 615 | 2,667 | <issue_start>username_0: During my study or even phd I had no chances to draw up a paper as a main author. Reasons do not matter here.
Now I'm already in the industry for a while and I wonder why not preparing some papers based on my phd. I have no external pressure or goal or whatever so I would only do this to simpli... |
2020/06/08 | 932 | 3,959 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently received an email from the editor manager of the journal. In this email, they mentioned, because of unforeseen circumstances, they need to cancel their request.
I am really confused because I spent a lot of time reviewing the article and I don't know why they did that.<issue_co... |
2020/06/08 | 581 | 2,269 | <issue_start>username_0: I recruited N participants for an eye tracking study and had to reject the data of 3 participants because of bad recording quality or technical issues.
* Where should I report that the data for 3 of the participants was rejected? Up front in the "Participants" section? Or later, such as in the... |
2020/06/08 | 1,160 | 4,181 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on a chemistry paper about the [Belousov-Zhabotinsky-reaction](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26872038_B_P_Belousov_and_his_reaction) (a chemical oscillator).
I included some information about the history of that oscillation reaction, in particular about [<NAME>](https:/... |
2020/06/08 | 1,746 | 7,448 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently doing a postdoc in mathematics in Europe (staying vague for anonymity...). For various reasons I am seriously considering leaving academia at the end of my current postdoc, which ends in a few months. I have some teaching/supervision left to do, but very little. My postdoc is a m... |
2020/06/08 | 880 | 3,705 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc now, it is okay, but I do not really see any prospects (unfortunately haha). How do you get out of the vicious loop of postdocs? How to progress in academia careerwise? Great totally new questions. I am tired of the uncertainty and I do not want to do an infinite number of tempor... |
2020/06/09 | 541 | 2,263 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student who has signed up for a 4 months internship at a Canadian university with the Mitacs global intern program.
The initial deal was to travel to the Canadian university for the internship where I would get paid and work closely with the supervisor.
Due to the pande... |
2020/06/09 | 1,153 | 5,087 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a particular result from another author that I wanted to use in my research which is a central component to my research question (it’s an animal’s growth rate). However, deriving the results computationally requires an understanding of some areas of mathematics that neither I nor my su... |
2020/06/09 | 1,422 | 6,270 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked as a TA for several courses. Some courses fall into the domain in which my research also happens. *But some other courses are not at all familiar to me*.
My Institute conducts tutorial classes with an objective of addressing students doubts in that course. Only TAs attend to this clas... |
2020/06/09 | 1,102 | 4,792 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a NSF RUI (research at undergraduate institute) proposal is funded. Can the funding be transferred to a research university if the PI move to that university?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> Is it a true phenomenon that the respect on TA decreases with an increased frequency of I don't k... |
2020/06/09 | 798 | 3,151 | <issue_start>username_0: Appreciating that what even counts as an invited talk in the first place for CV purposes will vary by field (links to related questions: [Do presentations given during interviews count as invited talks?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1157/do-presentations-given-during-interviews-... |
2020/06/09 | 1,613 | 6,637 | <issue_start>username_0: After finishing my M.A.Sc. in Canada, I had been interviewed with my current supervision team in my current Swiss university to start a Ph.D. In that time, it was fairly obvious that the project I was supposed to work on would not prolong for whole four years. In the course of those interviews,... |
2020/06/09 | 818 | 3,528 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying to graduate school and there is a professor at my home university I am interested in working with. As a bit of background, I have been doing undergraduate research with this professor for about a year now and he seems to like me (though maybe he's nice to everyone. I can't be certa... |
2020/06/10 | 858 | 3,470 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing PhD in IT
I have Bsc in Math (there wasn't writing in my study)
and my masters was course based not research.
Today I got my paper returned with many comments
some of these comments are (boring, need more focus)
There are papers that I enjoy reading, as they have nice flow, they t... |
2020/06/10 | 759 | 3,215 | <issue_start>username_0: A lot of universities are expecting not to be able to run in-person exams for at least part of the 2020/21 academic year. I believe, for example, that no UK universities is currently planning to hold in-person exams this coming January. I can see how other forms of assessment might be possible ... |
2020/06/10 | 888 | 3,859 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing my second paper.
Although the focus is completely different of my first paper, some aspects of the context are similar.
I am perfectly aware that self-plagiarism needs to be carefully avoided but what is the limit?
Indeed, a couple of sentences of my abstract or introdu... |
2020/06/10 | 6,275 | 26,582 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a college professor, and sometimes I learn of a student's career goals. I think some should drop out despite having good grades. If they do not learn much (because they are advanced or because they do better on their own), or if a degree will not help them with their specific career goals,... |
2020/06/10 | 736 | 3,171 | <issue_start>username_0: My niece in Germany is applying for undergrad colleges, at this point she likes medicine and biology both. But she is not sure if she wants to end up being a doctor or a molecular biology researcher. It seems that the German system bifurcates from undergrad itself between medicine and biology -... |
2020/06/11 | 961 | 4,036 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my higher ed in the U.S. (from B.A. to Ph.D.) and have been in this country for 12 years. I received a TT offer from a teaching university ( I didn't enjoy it but appreciated the opportunity), but the visa thing didn't work out. At this point, I'll have to leave the country because ... |
2020/06/11 | 1,003 | 3,968 | <issue_start>username_0: Someone told me that there is a search engine that gets you most of research papers I may need for free.
He told me that this search engine is working based on using other members access to researches and make it available for all.
I tried searching for this search engine, but I could not fin... |
2020/06/11 | 615 | 2,470 | <issue_start>username_0: I once heard that nontraditional students are less likely to be funded for graduate school. Supposedly (according to this person), this is because 40+ year old students rarely get tenure track positions. Thus, I guess they aren't profitable for the school/program (perhaps unless they're self-fu... |
2020/06/11 | 1,878 | 8,275 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first-year mechanical engineering PhD at a Canadian university. I had by undergrad and a master's degree in materials engineering. My previous master's research was mostly experimental with some implementation of a mathematical model in Matlab and Fortran. All graduate courses were on pr... |
2020/06/11 | 2,173 | 9,447 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the following situation: currently I'm finishing my Master's in (mathematical) Logic in Amsterdam. I'm interested in doing a PhD (preferably in the US), either in something more applied or in continuation of my current research (set theory/proof theory). I've understood this logic depart... |
2020/06/11 | 1,228 | 5,152 | <issue_start>username_0: I know this is relative to a person's unique situation or career objectives, but generally speaking, what can a Master's in Business administration do for a computer scientist?
The reason I ask is because I have a bachelor's in CS and I jumped right into a semester of my MBA, having it a third... |
2020/06/11 | 388 | 1,533 | <issue_start>username_0: **Original Text:**
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> The questionnaire was designed by the researcher to gather data on the
> perceptions of students based on their experiences in the blended
> environment. It consisted of Likert-type items and open-ended
> questions. The content of the questionnaire was derived from a
> ... |
2020/06/12 | 1,032 | 4,603 | <issue_start>username_0: Using alphabetical ordering for authors' names is a long established tradition in mathematics.
In the situations of extremely unequal contributions, is it reasonable to break from this tradition? Has there been any examples? If it is common, what is the threshold for breaking from alphabetical ... |
2020/06/12 | 1,268 | 5,395 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reading a paper published in a SCI-core journal.
After a very careful and tedious evaluation, I have come to the conclusion that the authors have made serious mistakes.
Should I write to the editor of the journal about it so that other people do not waste their time on this paper and may... |
2020/06/12 | 2,251 | 9,479 | <issue_start>username_0: My concern is that I completely lost interest in science over the past few months, however, I am still towards the end of my first year of my PhD studies. I will offer some background:
I have always been a straight-A student, studying my field of current research (let's call it X) from the ver... |
2020/06/12 | 1,748 | 7,064 | <issue_start>username_0: Watch [Sold in America: The Workers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRQqN0qPEus) at 5:15, the owner of the [*Moonlite Bunny Ranch*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlite_BunnyRanch) [Dennis Hof](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hof) says:
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> *I have three PhDs working for me. One of th... |
2020/06/12 | 1,616 | 6,910 | <issue_start>username_0: I am seeking to re-establish my research career after a 7-year career break. The first step involves submitting a paper to a peer reviewed journal which reports a study that was conducted 7 years ago. In the cover letter to editors that I have prepared, I point out that the topic remains timely... |