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2020/12/13 | 1,545 | 6,038 | <issue_start>username_0: How do academics (faculty members, PhD students, etc.) balance their work and life?
I am a PhD student and I find myself spending at least 10-11 hours working everyday.
Sometimes even 10 hours is not enough for the day, I need to burn midnight oil.
However, everyone (mostly my parents and fri... |
2020/12/13 | 472 | 1,910 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm having a postdoc interview coming up, which is not in my doctoral topic or not so closely related to my previous postdoc research. While applying for it, I thought I'd not called for an interview, but luckily enough, I did. The reason I didn't think I'd get called for an interview, as I can... |
2020/12/13 | 1,641 | 6,424 | <issue_start>username_0: In academia we do a lot of presentations, it is the way we show our work to colleages. (I am a PhD in physics.) This is usually done with the help of slides (PDF, PowerPoint, etc). A slides presentation is basically a collection of images. Sometimes there are fancy animations (like the case of ... |
2020/12/13 | 3,276 | 14,257 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be completing high school at the end of this academic year. I have a strong love for Maths, and I am considering becoming a pure mathematician or pure mathematics researcher when I'm older. I have a few questions about the academic world of Maths in general:
1. I have discovered some fo... |
2020/12/13 | 383 | 1,588 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a manuscript under review at Nature Scientific Reports. The editorial system shows eleven reviewers invited but only one has accepted. Is this a problem? Is it normal?<issue_comment>username_1: I think it really depends on the field. Having published a lot of work in Systems Biology inte... |
2020/12/14 | 846 | 3,107 | <issue_start>username_0: I just learned from this question [My professor skipped me on Christmas bonus payment](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/159891/my-professor-skipped-me-on-christmas-bonus-payment) that in some cultures/degree-programs, PhD students get bonuses.
I had never heard of this. However, I'... |
2020/12/14 | 3,074 | 12,747 | <issue_start>username_0: A student (let's call them A) in my class that I just finished teaching asked me to write them a recommendation letter. I said yes, and the first deadline is Dec 15, as they often are (FYI, I'm writing this post on the very early morning of Dec 14).
Unfortunately for the student, as I was grad... |
2020/12/14 | 994 | 4,369 | <issue_start>username_0: As a postdoc, my research is funded from a grant that's 70% government and 30% aerospace industry.
I work in collaboration with experimental groups and these groups have the collaboration with industry. The part of the industrial funding was acquired by the experimentalist PI working on the pr... |
2020/12/14 | 839 | 3,652 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it a good idea to keep my comments in the chapter draft to be sent to my supervisor?
Sometimes when writing, I comment on the text, like personal notes.
I am feeling that it may sound like incomplete work. But there mostly notes for possible future investigations.<issue_comment>username_1: W... |
2020/12/14 | 707 | 2,944 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper and received reviewers' comments on it. Would using an exact sentence (just a single sentence) that one reviewer used in their comments be considered plagiarism? The sentence is so beautifully put that I can't say it any better.
The comment is:
>
> The problem is X. Maybe... |
2020/12/14 | 751 | 3,132 | <issue_start>username_0: Here is an example:
```
Theorem 1 (Important Theorem). Consider f(x). If something, then
1. The function has property A:
f(x) = g(x).
2. The function has property B:
f(x) = h(x).
```
**My question is the following:**
1. **do I capitalize the first l... |
2020/12/15 | 915 | 4,106 | <issue_start>username_0: In the projects of one of my courses, I have asked the students to provide peer assessments of the presentations (recorded as videos) of other groups. Peer evaluations is something I have introduced recently: with classes online I wanted to find a way to encourage students to watch the presenta... |
2020/12/15 | 946 | 4,199 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm new here and am not sure whether this is the right place to post such a question or not so rather than downvoting just tell me I'll move the question (as I don't want to be banned for having low rep).
I'm currently in my 3rd semester of university majoring in Computer Science and this ques... |
2020/12/15 | 1,177 | 5,021 | <issue_start>username_0: I went through 2 rounds of interviews with a public university in the United States, was given a verbal offer 10 business days ago. The professor who spoke with me said that I should get a written offer the following week (last week) but so far - silence. I reached out to my contact person last... |
2020/12/15 | 575 | 2,619 | <issue_start>username_0: The major at my school was cut and I am first to go in the department.
What do I do different when applying for new AP (in US) now compared to when I was coming off a post doc?
Do I address the reasons for being let go in my cover letter?
What other tips are there for coming up with a good ap... |
2020/12/15 | 793 | 3,069 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a mathematics lecturer at a state university in the US. I still do research and put a lot of effort into publications, although it is not required for my position. My question is: Will my publications (in good journals) be seen as a positive by the math department and/or universi... |
2020/12/15 | 2,072 | 8,879 | <issue_start>username_0: Posting this to academia stackexchange, but if this may fit better in other place please let me know.
My girlfriend is a new PhD student in a male dominated field, and is supervised by a postdoc in a research group led by a professor. For the last few months, her postdoc supervisor was constan... |
2020/12/15 | 1,936 | 8,122 | <issue_start>username_0: I have noticed while reading CVs of professors in STEM fields that universities only hire up. First-tier and second-tier universities seem to only recruit professors from first-tier PhD programs, third tier universities only hire from top and second tier PhD programs, and so on. It seems like i... |
2020/12/16 | 1,590 | 6,492 | <issue_start>username_0: After writing to a potential postdoc advisor in the US, I got replied like;
```
"... will follow up soon.
....................
...new project is matching with your profile.
....................
Again, I’ll be in touch soon. "
```
I genuinely like this research group's work. This is o... |
2020/12/16 | 554 | 2,294 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for college in the state, one of the question in the application is "Will you have graduated from high school, earned a GED, or received and international equivalent prior to enrolling at the University of Oregon?".
My question is
1. What is "international equivalent" refer to? ... |
2020/12/16 | 619 | 2,662 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I am working on a book that is a broad expansion of a survey article I wrote with a collaborator, Dr. Y, who passed away recently.
I sent Y extremely early drafts of some chapters and invited Y to be a coauthor.
Y gave a lot suggestions in the structure, content, and style of the book, ... |
2020/12/16 | 5,911 | 25,248 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently taken a new position within a math department at a large university. The department has an official policy that in most lower-level undergraduate classes (let's say anything in the calculus sequence and below), roughly half of the students should receive A's and B's, and the other... |
2020/12/16 | 709 | 3,048 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, I see a "book" on Springer published in 2017 that is identical to a conference article presented in 2011. What is happening here?
In my opinion, duplicate publications are not good for the research community. I am annoyed because if I cite the Springer version in my paper, then th... |
2020/12/17 | 746 | 3,084 | <issue_start>username_0: There are algorithms/prescriptions for treating some diseases. There are also personal trainers who can guide people to fitness goals. Is there anything like this for achieving academic goals?<issue_comment>username_1: This is touched on by JeffE in [this answer](https://academia.stackexchange.... |
2020/12/17 | 1,201 | 5,122 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the transaction being made by paying tuition at most US colleges/universities? Are you paying for the time spent teaching, the price of education/intellectual property, or the diploma itself?
More specifically: Assuming it is not being repurposed for profit etc, is the IP covered under... |
2020/12/17 | 1,022 | 4,528 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a published journal article and a book chapter (both are single-authored). I am in the process of getting permission from the publishers respectively to make the most of them for my PhD dissertation.
Well, my question is about what actions are okay as 're-use.' I asked these questions t... |
2020/12/17 | 3,296 | 13,765 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD candidate in computer engineering. I've just finished my 2nd year. I finished all courses and passed the comprehensive exam. Currently working in a nice research project in collaboration with a big company but I haven't published yet.
I applied and got accepted into a one-year-long ... |
2020/12/17 | 364 | 1,688 | <issue_start>username_0: There were two open positions at one research institution. I already applied for one because of the deadline. The second position has deadline in January. They are in different departments, the number of employees is above 100. I think I would prefer the second position because it is more senio... |
2020/12/17 | 590 | 2,417 | <issue_start>username_0: I see a lot of people use Google Scholar and ResearchGate alerts, but I find those alert systems too overwhelming to the point I get inundated and treat them like spam. Perhaps I'm not using them effectively, though (e.g., too many AND operators in my searches). Any tips to improve my experienc... |
2020/12/17 | 1,197 | 5,136 | <issue_start>username_0: Two students decided to consult each other about term paper formatting, because the teacher didn't provide guidance on the format. They used the same format, but different topics and totally different content on the subject matter. Is deciding to use the same format plagiarism?<issue_comment>us... |
2020/12/18 | 2,953 | 11,985 | <issue_start>username_0: I am nearly finished with a paper, as well as some accompanying open-source software. We are planning on submitting this to a prominent statistics journal. One of the more promising methods that we discuss in the paper deals with the [normal-inverse Gaussian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma... |
2020/12/18 | 2,689 | 10,992 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an Asst Prof. I started during COVID so I know things aren't normal. I love my colleagues but I have been having problems with my chair. This week after a reasonable request regarding my career, the chair escalated to using disrespectful and abusive language (mainly because I asked if we c... |
2020/12/18 | 983 | 4,165 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student (not in maths) looking for a topic and supervisor for my thesis.
What criteria should I use to judge whether a project/supervisor combination will make for a good thesis and productive experience? I don't plan on going into academia (although this may change) and ... |
2020/12/18 | 355 | 1,579 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted the major revision and one reviewer's comment was to improve the overall writing. I'm trying to improve the flow and writing, but some grammatical errors and typos are still left.
Will they reject it directly or give me another chance?<issue_comment>username_1: First: If you know y... |
2020/12/18 | 990 | 4,115 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 30 years old now and I graduated with a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering when I was 26. I have worked in the industry after I graduated, in 2 companies for one year each and then in 1 company for the remaining 2 years. In the last company I worked mainly in Machine Learning. Now, I... |
2020/12/18 | 857 | 3,509 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a response to reviewers. One reviewer's comments included typos and other incorrect English phrasing, but the intent of the reviewer's points was clear.
When I reproduce or quote the reviewer in my formal response, should I correct these minor errors? I don't want the editor or ot... |
2020/12/19 | 938 | 4,009 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to apply for a faculty position via online system. In the announcement of the position they have just asked for cover letter, contact info of references and C.V. But in the online process of application I noticed that there exists some taps related to uploading transcripts of B.Sc, M... |
2020/12/19 | 1,120 | 4,818 | <issue_start>username_0: I am theoretical computer scientist. I am currently working in a local university in south asian country. I have tried my best in the past to publish the research in good venue but have been failed. Now I am okay or fine with publishing in low tier conferences.
I have one doubt about my approa... |
2020/12/19 | 887 | 3,811 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I have a paper only accepted as an extended abstract by a AI conference. Is it still possible to submit this paper to other conferences like KR (International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning)?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> I do not know whether they... |
2020/12/19 | 1,206 | 5,107 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a second-year graduate student in a large and well-known American physics department. For a variety of reasons, I've decided to "jump" sub-fields -- into biophysics, though I hadn't really started a project in the field I was initially interested in due to covid -- and am reaching out to fa... |
2020/12/19 | 1,377 | 5,705 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the professors for my MSc in Computer Science told me that students should not read textbooks that have more than (around) 250 pages during the 4-month semesters of coursework. The reason is, according to him, that a 4-month semester is a limited time to study and successfully pass all t... |
2020/12/20 | 612 | 2,643 | <issue_start>username_0: I came across a website specific to my country (EU/Hungary) that offers to commit academic fraud. Basically, they offer to solve assignments, homework, even online tests, for money. The student sends them the assignment and the money, and he gets back the written solutions. No coaching or live ... |
2020/12/20 | 725 | 3,029 | <issue_start>username_0: Last spring, I did a research project where I tried to develop code, modelling a physical system using a method developed by a researcher and presented as his PhD. thesis.
Now I have completed my work and am required to present documentation of the theory used and the performance of code. Now,... |
2020/12/20 | 539 | 2,102 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Korean with my first (given) name comes last and my last (family) name comes first, just like many other east asians. So, I write my name as "Aaa Bbb Ccc", where "Aaa" is my family name and "Bbb Ccc" is my given name. There are literally several millions of other Koreans who also have "A... |
2020/12/20 | 641 | 2,778 | <issue_start>username_0: With TA/RA stipends continuing to decrease relative to CoL, I'm wondering if there is any ongoing work to open up more PhDs with a continuing education model? I know some companies basically do this(Raytheon is one of them) where a relevant industry problem is being worked on and selected for P... |
2020/12/20 | 962 | 4,106 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently researching where I would like to do my PhD. I have always been drawn to Israel (this has nothing to do with religion or politics or anything similar but rather with warm weather and hummus) so I also included it in a list of potential destinations. However, I am very surprised t... |
2020/12/21 | 1,247 | 5,172 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't know much more about the transition - only that the professor is becoming the new head effective [date], and that they have the support of the department.
Do I send congratulations (because it's a promotion) or condolences (because apparently some professors don't actually want the pro... |
2020/12/21 | 569 | 2,446 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently applying for postdoctoral positions in Mathematics in a field rather different from mine (computational complexity/algebraic combinatorics). It's a broad question, which I am sure some have asked before, but what questions should I expect, given that I am likely to have different ... |
2020/12/21 | 455 | 1,978 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently been awarded an individual postdoctoral fellowship (independent external funding for my own project) to join a research group at institution A. At the same time, I was applying for other postdoc positions, and finally I was offered a position by a professor at institution B. The... |
2020/12/22 | 2,150 | 8,863 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year PhD student in science. I have a good advisor, the kind that will spend time with you (he is busy not emeritus), read what you send him, reply emails, give good advice for future, good project management. I've googled for what are traits of good advisors and what to avoid in b... |
2020/12/22 | 1,158 | 4,835 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from a reputed university in **India** and despite informing the department professors and higher authorities of the rampant cheating in the online exams, they haven't taken any steps to curb it (they use Google Meet/Zoom proctoring which is basically useless because students can still tex... |
2020/12/22 | 379 | 1,547 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from India and am preparing for the JEE exam for admission to engineering colleges in India.
I am very much interested in physics, chemistry, biology, and maths. I am not interested much in computer science. But my family says you can only get a job with BTech in computer science but will... |
2020/12/22 | 402 | 1,620 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergrad student in a certain field. However, I am also interested in another, very different one in which I would like to submit a research paper to a journal.
Which affiliation should I put? That of my university even if the education I receive there is not related to the article?
... |
2020/12/22 | 1,038 | 4,376 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a few reference letters to students for US universities in this recruiting season, and just got an email from a colleague in a university a student of mine was applying to, asking why am I not as enthusiastic about that student.
Here's the thing - I really was enthusiastic about... |
2020/12/22 | 1,376 | 5,721 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach psychology to undergraduate students while I am studying in my PhD. The module's assignment is a research report on a subject of the students' choice (the report has to be written in English). Before the data collection the students had to send me their research proposal and their ethic... |
2020/12/23 | 2,502 | 10,690 | <issue_start>username_0: Why do universities check for plagiarism for their internal assignments? The goal of these assignments should be to study and do research from the internet about topics and enhance one's knowledge. Not everybody comes to the university with an intention to do research.
Should the university no... |
2020/12/23 | 3,156 | 13,092 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is from a young person who feels a bit lost and who would like some career advice—and possibly some encouragement, too. I will try to be as concise as possible and get straight to the point, but I still I may not be as brief as I would like to. After all, I am to sum up a few year... |
2020/12/23 | 310 | 1,315 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a letter of completion for my degree (PhD) from my University in the United States.
"He should be granted all privileges of this degree"
Can I use the degree by now in Europe for applications / official use? Or do I need to wait for the official date when I receive my diploma / tra... |
2020/12/23 | 150 | 569 | <issue_start>username_0: "I am taking your course in Spring 2021. Is it possible for you to send the syllabus if there is one ready?"
Is the wording okay?<issue_comment>username_1: LGTM. I think it's very fair to ask a professor if you can see the syllabus for their class before you sign up. How else would decide if i... |
2020/12/24 | 702 | 2,954 | <issue_start>username_0: I took courses named A, B, and C during my master. They are all strongly related to the field I want to apply in, and I got top grades in them.
Due to administrative reasons, my transcript shows course names D, E, and F instead. They are all either slightly or not at all related to my field.
... |
2020/12/25 | 406 | 1,746 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to send a paper about performance optimization in the field of Cloud computing. My target conference has a limit of 10-pages for the main section with unlimited pages for appendixes/references. My question is whether it's a good idea to move small details of my evaluation results to t... |
2020/12/26 | 283 | 1,127 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm just writing my bachelors thesis and I need to reference to a book for an in-depth derivation of something.
The concluding sentence in this work is just perfectly formulated, there is no way of making it shorter or more precise. I wonder whether I should write something like
>
> As [4] p... |
2020/12/26 | 654 | 2,879 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently a colleague hired a postdoc from a pool of several candidates who applied. This candidate had the most suitable skills for the job but failed to acquire some other relevant skills, and the project is going nowhere fast. I think these stories are not rare at all.
Given the specificity ... |
2020/12/26 | 370 | 1,570 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to prepare a research statement for a tenure-track position. How is the structure of a research statement for a tenure-track position? Must the sections be separated into "Past Experiences" and "Future Plans"? Or it is possible to describe future plans within the text of past experie... |
2020/12/26 | 914 | 3,726 | <issue_start>username_0: Some time ago, I gave a 60 minutes Zoom presentation in a department seminar.
I usually ask simple questions during my talks, in order to keep the audience awake.
This time, about 15 minutes into the talk, I asked some simple questions and no one replied (I waited for about 30 seconds). I guess... |
2020/12/27 | 958 | 4,078 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering if some peer reviewers may nitpick about the choice of variables in a math-heavy paper, namely whether they follow alphabetical order throughout the succession of the presentation of concepts. For example, variable ***N*** may be defined, variable ***K*** may be subsequently defi... |
2020/12/27 | 916 | 3,829 | <issue_start>username_0: For students, some textbooks publicize no solutions, some just half (either odd or even numbered exercises), and some all. How's this decided? Does the author have the final say? Can publishers override an author? A debate between both?
I'm not asking about instructors' solution manual that di... |
2020/12/27 | 799 | 3,407 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm writing my undergraduate thesis and I have written around 80% of it. My project was to develop a device to use in the lab, but my first prototype doesn't work at all and I don't know if I should just write that it didn't work. I don't have time to make another one. I have to finish this ... |
2020/12/27 | 263 | 1,156 | <issue_start>username_0: If making use of standard statistical notions such as arithmetic mean, do peer reviewers still expect to see a formal definition such as μ = ( Σ Xi ) / N, or is the notion so common that it'd be redundant to define it this way?<issue_comment>username_1: You do not need to define common "notions... |
2020/12/27 | 4,072 | 17,437 | <issue_start>username_0: In the field I specialize in (I'm currently a moderator of [crypto-SE](https://crypto.stackexchange.com/)), I see many obviously pointless papers published, often in publications where that costs money. I imagine that's the same in many fields. **Why are such papers published, or worse, studied... |
2020/12/27 | 754 | 3,041 | <issue_start>username_0: Is the word "iff", meaning "if and only if", recognized outside of logic?
In particular, is it appropriate for a physics text? Or is this kind of abbreviation frowned upon?<issue_comment>username_1: The abbreviation *iff* is generally understood in several fields outside logic, and in my exper... |
2020/12/27 | 231 | 932 | <issue_start>username_0: As the title suggests, I would like to know if it is correct to use 'herein' to refer back. For instance, I have used the phrase 'in this paper' several times in a document and I wish to use another term to avoid repetition. Instead of saying 'In this paper we presented' I would like to say 'He... |
2020/12/27 | 921 | 3,983 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year I submitted a paper to a IEEE conference that was going to be held in the US. I got funding from my university and registered to attend the conference. Unfortunately, my visa was rejected, which was unexpected for me because I had been in the US before for another conference.
Since c... |
2020/12/28 | 675 | 3,003 | <issue_start>username_0: I️ applied to 3 programs within the same school (2 of which are joint with another institution). All of the programs are related to my research interests, and the main professors I️ would want to work with are affiliated with all 3 programs.
I️ ended up getting interviews at all 3 programs whi... |
2020/12/28 | 465 | 2,056 | <issue_start>username_0: I hope to apply graduate math department for MS/PhD in math. My area of interest are discrete math, combinatorics, graph theory... etc.Now I have few questions :
1. Which are the prerequisites for these courses ? and Which grade of my undergraduate are more important ?
2. I am also a bit confu... |
2020/12/28 | 359 | 1,496 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm co-organizing a workshop in conjunction of a leading conference. Since the topic is quite close to my work I'm considering to submit my own paper to the workshop.
Given the fact that I'm serving as one of the workshop chairs (and the review process is single-blind)- Is it ok to submit my o... |
2020/12/28 | 1,048 | 4,509 | <issue_start>username_0: Earlier this year, I contacted this Professor (Applied Math) from a top Canadian university and we talked twice this year. He earned his PhD from an Ivy League school and must be around 60 years old. He seems to be a really nice guy, happy to have me as his student, and the university is in a c... |
2020/12/28 | 925 | 3,837 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a second masters degree at the same institution I am currently at.
I have requested my current course teacher to write me an LoR (letter of reference). However, I am facing the problem that he may not know me that well. I didn't have many interactions with him during the onli... |
2020/12/28 | 3,700 | 15,594 | <issue_start>username_0: In a course, students were required to sign a consent form to share their final course project. There were two options that they could choose from: either anonymous sharing or sharing with attribution/credit. There was no option to opt-out. But the scope of the sharing was not limited in any wa... |
2020/12/29 | 961 | 3,721 | <issue_start>username_0: I learned a math course in a Russian university many years ago. For silly discrimination and other silly reasons I didn't finish it and didn't receive any diploma.
Recently (2020 Oct 27) I have confirmed my education by the US standards: 100.50 semester hours of undergraduate credit, grade Poi... |
2020/12/29 | 934 | 3,520 | <issue_start>username_0: **My Background**
I graduated with a master's in CS from Rutgers in 2017. I was a part-time lecturer for an intro to CS course for two semesters and I barely focused on the master's course work. I got a 3.33/4 GPA. I have an 8.04/10 in undergrad from an unknown college in India. No research exp... |
2020/12/29 | 1,138 | 4,797 | <issue_start>username_0: When advisors edit our thesis work, what kind of changes can they make? Is there a limit to what they can do? There's proofreading and also editing for style and clarity. Is asking students to paraphrase what they wrote something that occurs commonly? If it's not, what can I do?
Does anyone kn... |
2020/12/29 | 1,128 | 4,736 | <issue_start>username_0: I know about the calculation for the "Entgeltgruppe" and the following "stufe". My question is: if someone had a contract for, let's say, 3 years then this person needs 2 more years (non paid) to finish the PhD, this 2 extra years can be counted as working experience for the "stufe" calculation... |
2020/12/30 | 869 | 3,563 | <issue_start>username_0: I have one incident of academic misconduct on my record from my sophomore year (I was guilty), and I received a grade sanction and disciplinary probation. This does not appear on my transcript and I am no longer on disciplinary probation.
I am now applying for PhD programs and some application... |
2020/12/30 | 746 | 3,039 | <issue_start>username_0: I use Mendeley reference manager and sometimes import articles from browser to my Mendeley Library using browser extension. Import is totally fine but I am having two confusions after importing:
1. Some conference papers are published in **Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)** an... |
2020/12/30 | 348 | 1,454 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for PhD programs in the USA, one of the schools requested a PhD research interest. The problem is I do not know how to write it, and I didn't done any research in my masters degree, are there any solution?<issue_comment>username_1: You need, at least, to name a subfield of your ma... |
2020/12/30 | 1,769 | 7,257 | <issue_start>username_0: A potential masters thesis advisor became pretty famous (in his field) for the development of a certain theory in behavioral economics. However, I find that his theory is relatively unexplainable, and I feel that I have come up with an alternative theory that would explain the exact same phenom... |
2020/12/31 | 1,133 | 4,358 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a comment from a colleague that starting a sentence with "let" is not good practice. I know that starting a sentence with "let" is grammatically correct, so that is not the question. My question is if starting a sentence with "let" is good practice and acceptable in technical writing... |
2020/12/31 | 536 | 2,355 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a conference paper to an IEEE conference via edas system. **I included the details of co-author in the uploaded document but missed to add in the system**. I noticed it when I received the acceptance notification. When i read the Commsoc policies, it says "it is not possible to add ... |
2020/12/31 | 949 | 4,107 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I have submitted my paper to IEEE Access Journal which has a binary peer review process, and I got rejected. Still, they allow me to answer the reviewers' concerns and resubmit again.
One of the reviewers asked: "For the consideration of reproducibility, the code of the proposed method... |
2021/01/01 | 916 | 4,214 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a paper which explores a new forecasting method. I compare the results with those of an existing algorithm as a baseline. Plenty of literature already exists on the existing algorithm, and the definitions for the new forecasting method already make the paper very math-heavy. Being i... |
2021/01/01 | 2,490 | 10,846 | <issue_start>username_0: From what I heard, in German universities there is a push against foreign cloud applications such as Microsoft Office 365, Google [G Suite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Workspace), [Github](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub), and even [Doodle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doodle_(we... |
2021/01/01 | 572 | 2,327 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc in mathematics. I read a paper of another mathematician some time ago and I found out that I could extend it. Therefore, I dropped an email to him, and then he told me if I could do it, it would be an interesting result. He also told me "I would be happy to know if you have anyth... |
2021/01/01 | 359 | 1,501 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting my PhD and have two equivalent supervisors at different universities in different cities. I am going to city A first and then later to B and so on.
What is the etiquette regarding emails? Is it impolite to address emails to just one supervisor even if it's not an important subjec... |
2021/01/01 | 1,237 | 5,072 | <issue_start>username_0: This happened in my group. One of the master students in our group had a manuscript derived from her thesis, and the manuscript was planned to publish with she and her advisor (who is the PI of our group) to be the authors. However, she put the manuscript on the internet some time ago without t... |
2021/01/01 | 367 | 1,680 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently conducted a set of qualitative interviews with a particular group. Their interviews yielded interesting info about a certain phenomenon. However, based on the information gathered from the first group of interviewees, it led me to a different type group whom I also conducted int... |
2021/01/02 | 326 | 1,449 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a master's student applying to PhD programs this round, and a few schools will be bringing in new professors in my field of interest starting from 2021. When I sent in my applications and checked off faculty of interest, I chose "Other" and wrote their names down.
I'm just curious if these... |
2021/01/02 | 784 | 3,392 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the fourth year of a part-time PhD. Lately I have found it very difficult to stay focused. I was really motivated at the start of this academic year, but my supervisor wanted me to do things in a slightly different way to how I was doing them: I wanted to collect field data from all ove... |
2021/01/02 | 857 | 3,828 | <issue_start>username_0: I see a few questions about open peer review (OPR), as more publishers move towards open access and open review.
As an early career scientist I wondering if publishing my name as a reviewer is a risky business as I am usually very thorough in my reviews but also try to be as fair and friendly ... |
2021/01/02 | 1,180 | 5,074 | <issue_start>username_0: I was given a paper to peer review. A result of that paper has been obtained with some extrapolation trick and so they present it as highly plausible conjecture.
It turns out that me and another collaborator computed the exact same thing (for other reasons) in a work that is still unpublished ... |