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2021/03/19 | 738 | 3,358 | <issue_start>username_0: What is meant by "salami slicing" ? I see that a few researchers present papers at multiple conferences with a very similar theme or topic, but was not sure if this was permissible. My own research could fit multiple conferences, even if the topic at each of these papers would be virtually the ... |
2021/03/19 | 555 | 2,368 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a book and am seeking feedback on different chapters before submitting for final publication. Can I use the draft chapters as conference papers or at visiting lecture seminars?<issue_comment>username_1: That is up to the book publisher. Some will be fine with it, others not. Copyri... |
2021/03/19 | 1,248 | 5,079 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently undertaking my PhD and I have plans to get married before I complete my candidature. In particular, I will be double-barreling my current surname with my fiancée's current surname. We are indifferent to which name will appear first, and/or hyphenation. I have not begun publishing ... |
2021/03/19 | 2,524 | 10,626 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergrad student taking a chemistry class. We have a 50 minutes quiz every week during the discussion section. The TA usually emails this quiz to us, and while my class is at 1:00 pm, the TA usually emails it to us at 1:01 pm. So, once I get the quiz on the email, I need to print it ou... |
2021/03/20 | 530 | 2,088 | <issue_start>username_0: I got accepted in two different US schools for CS PhD programs. My prospective advisor/supervisor for the two schools are Professor X and Professor Y respectively. Professor Y was a PhD student of Professor X. Professor X has a lot of successful PhD students coming out of his lab and he is a he... |
2021/03/20 | 957 | 3,824 | <issue_start>username_0: Different ways I thought of:
1. Looking at the size of the potential PhD advisor's lab: e.g., if many (>10) PhD students or post-doc, then likely to be quite hands-off.
2. Asking current or former members of the potential PhD advisor's lab. (but sometimes it is difficult to establish contact w... |
2021/03/20 | 2,195 | 8,225 | <issue_start>username_0: It is encouraged to cite relevant software in research papers (e.g. [MIT guide](https://libguides.mit.edu/c.php?g=551454&p=3900280)). The question is,
Are these citations indexed at all by any engine?
I can hardly find any software on e.g. google scholar to navigate the citations. For example... |
2021/03/20 | 892 | 3,852 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm interested in research in the field of educational sciences. I may enroll in a Ph.D. course in the future. But right now, I'm not a student anywhere and I want to do research in my interested field even without being in the university.
I think one of the most important benefits of being a P... |
2021/03/20 | 912 | 4,125 | <issue_start>username_0: I work industry (I'm an engineer with a decent background in math) and for work I often read through papers and I attend conferences to keep up with the state of the art.
I've noticed there're few papers (not very recent but not very old either) whose methods can be derived in a more elegant w... |
2021/03/21 | 342 | 1,418 | <issue_start>username_0: I am international applicant for a PhD program in Molecular Biology. I have interviewed with a professor and have had a chat with all of the members of the lab I am extremely interested in working in. It has been over 4 months since I first got in touch with the lab as of now. I am trying to be... |
2021/03/21 | 493 | 2,168 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to submit my research article in a Mathematics journal and the online system is asking to mention three Referee/Reviewer names.
Should I take the consent of a few experts in my topic before I enlist three expert names as referees, by individually mailing them?
I think, I should tak... |
2021/03/21 | 1,758 | 7,332 | <issue_start>username_0: So this is my first research paper, I just wanted to know whether these things are considered unethical or idk creepy way to lure your paper in or its totally okay and people do that.<issue_comment>username_1: First, you should check available materials on the scope of the publication. They mig... |
2021/03/21 | 1,229 | 5,654 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes, there are good reasons to use synthetic data in research. In my case I am using data from Synthea, a program that simulated patient data including medications, names and addresses. I know that no hospital would hand me such real data, so there is no alternative. In my thesis I want t... |
2021/03/21 | 754 | 3,085 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an economics major in my second year looking to pursue a master's in statistics after graduation. This semester I am taking calculus 2 and will be taking calculus 3 this coming summer. I am weighing the pros and cons of taking the class at a community college in my hometown. Obviously the ... |
2021/03/22 | 226 | 895 | <issue_start>username_0: I have noticed one thing that whenever I submit a paper in arxiv on Friday, they keep "on hold" from Saturday to Sunday and then accept it later Monday or Tuesday. On the other hand, it happened that when I submit a paper during Monday, Tuesday etc, then process of submission becomes much faste... |
2021/03/22 | 1,501 | 5,994 | <issue_start>username_0: Similar to the [following question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17740/open-source-the-project-code-before-or-after-publication), I have developed a code to produce results in a manuscript that I've written which I wish to now share with the community. But this manuscript, which... |
2021/03/22 | 5,907 | 24,882 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an adjunct professor at a University for a course where the students have to use a certain software "X" during the course. The software is distributed under a proprietary license; our University has bought a number of licenses, which have been made available for the students. Due to COVID ... |
2021/03/22 | 784 | 3,357 | <issue_start>username_0: Basically, in this IEEE paper, the writer states an equation that he has developed and consequently plots a graph to validate such an equation. The equation is a model of a wireless system.
At first, I didn't give it much thought, but then I notice something wrong. I started plotting some of h... |
2021/03/22 | 743 | 3,175 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two inquiries, please.
1. Suppose that authors X, Y, and Z submit 3 different papers to the same conference. Will they all get notifications of acceptance/rejection at the same time (or a short period of time) or not necessarily?
2. Is it possible to get a notification of paper acceptan... |
2021/03/22 | 709 | 2,417 | <issue_start>username_0: So, in testing in the USA, an A is the best score you can get. Then comes B, which most students desire, and then comes a C, where you're on the verge of shattering your gradebook by getting a bad grade. Then there's D (even worse), and an F, where you will surely be very ashamed of yourself. T... |
2021/03/22 | 3,390 | 14,503 | <issue_start>username_0: I am relatively new to academic publishing. However, there is an uncomfortable situation which I have already encountered multiple times by now (about five). It is what I would call **"low-key plagiarism"**. I will explain what I mean by this (completely made-up) term in the following.
I don't... |
2021/03/23 | 1,004 | 4,653 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there any good methods for doing this? I can find papers with algorithms, but they usually do not show their computational results with the same problem sets and the publishing year of two papers is usually different so they will most likely use different equipment for solving the problems.... |
2021/03/23 | 1,697 | 7,376 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:**
I got an acceptance at a conference and now need to register for it. They said that only the person who registers, gets the certificate and not all authors (we have 5 but only 2 primary authors).
[](https://i.s... |
2021/03/23 | 864 | 3,719 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently finished a project that has accepted for publication in a preventive medicine journal.
I was hoping to submit the abstract to some conferences to improve my presentation skills, and my supervisor informed me that I should make sure my paper is not published before the abstract is pr... |
2021/03/23 | 1,331 | 5,646 | <issue_start>username_0: I am being accused of academic dishonesty on a problem for a class this year. I have already accepted an offer to a Ph.D program and if I am convicted, there will be no mark on the final transcript I send them, and the effects are probably going to be nonexistent on my actual grade. Should I be... |
2021/03/24 | 1,362 | 5,731 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** I just got an acceptance for a conference paper. While the conference isn't half bad (Nothing top of the domain. It's a top 80 conference in my domain as per guide2research), they are asking a hefty fee for registration and I won't be sponsored for it by my university.
**Questi... |
2021/03/24 | 2,052 | 8,225 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an associate editor for some international scientific journals. Unsurprisingly, I receive a number of submissions from Chinese scholars (working in China), which go through the standard peer review process and publication. However, when I ask Chinese researchers, working in China, to perfo... |
2021/03/24 | 1,821 | 8,022 | <issue_start>username_0: I had postdoc at a top 10 university in the world. The email of the first interview said I should expect questions around the job description. The first interview was very smooth and I felt very good about it.
A few days later, I received an email in the **afternoon**, the email said I have a ... |
2021/03/24 | 693 | 2,714 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** I am an undergrad student who took a CS elective.
My software engineering professor has asked us to review a bunch of research papers on certain topics in software development. **He specifically wants us to review papers only from IEEE and ACM Transaction papers or conference p... |
2021/03/24 | 1,246 | 5,431 | <issue_start>username_0: In my university, professors in Computer Science decide by themselves the licenses for the code of their research group. This happens without consulting the university legal team (or the university, more generally). As an undergrad researcher, this strikes me as incredibly odd.
I have the foll... |
2021/03/25 | 1,053 | 4,631 | <issue_start>username_0: If it greatly simplifies the explanation, is it possible to present an algorithm in a paper without a high-level mathematical description but simply with pseudocode and very clear elaboration? Or should a high level mathematical description always be included?<issue_comment>username_1: Patents ... |
2021/03/25 | 466 | 1,964 | <issue_start>username_0: Imagine a paper which has unconventional ideas which could be controversial. Does publishing it on a preprint server have the same negative career implications as publishing in a journal? Or is a preprint server actually an appropriate place to get feedback on this type of paper?<issue_comment>... |
2021/03/25 | 690 | 3,017 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it safe to write research paper on Overleaf? Some of my friends say that it is not safe to write research papers on it as it is connected it internet. Please suggest. I am afraid of plagiarism.<issue_comment>username_1: Overleaf is unlikely to be a problem
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2021/03/25 | 456 | 1,637 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing my PhD in computer science. I want to do a state of the art about the topic I am working on, are there any criteria to consider when choosing papers to review? Thank you in advance :)<issue_comment>username_1: A very rough criteria is to have a read of the 30/40 most cited papers... |
2021/03/25 | 255 | 1,087 | <issue_start>username_0: I would want to include content in my PhD thesis from one of my research papers. I am a coauthor of the research paper. The order of the names of the authors in the research paper is not based on the importance of the individual contributions, but it is alphabetical. The point is that the conte... |
2021/03/25 | 1,224 | 5,187 | <issue_start>username_0: We published a paper, me as first and corresponding author. There was a technician who repeatedly refused to work, did useless measurements after having been forced, which he never evaluated and basically said "help yourself", never had a look at the publication during working on it, and now tr... |
2021/03/25 | 2,062 | 7,271 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is about the necessity of the qualification for teacher-researcher/[enseignant-chercheur](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enseignant-chercheur) ([maître de conférence](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C3%AEtre_de_conf%C3%A9rences_(France))- abbreviated as MCF below) positions in Franc... |
2021/03/25 | 839 | 3,636 | <issue_start>username_0: At what level does someone become skilled enough in math to publish their work? I am an undergrad student currently in calculus 2. My dream is to publish work of my own, but I know that will come to fruition quite a while down the road due to my current level of math. I would appreciate any adv... |
2021/03/25 | 1,240 | 4,952 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder if my head of the program/dean (1 man) actually reads 10 theses of approximately 10,000 words each, when there are only 2 months to graduate.
And does he actually check every reference as, for example, "*this paragraph does not belong to the reference [3]*." In other words, does he re... |
2021/03/25 | 1,116 | 4,522 | <issue_start>username_0: During the presentation I need to access a text file on my computer. However, it is required that the presentation file is displayed in full screen during the presentation.<issue_comment>username_1: Realistically, it's unlikely he reads all 10 theses cover-to-cover. But who knows, perhaps it's ... |
2021/03/26 | 2,805 | 11,823 | <issue_start>username_0: So a professor used a grad student's paper (anonymously) as an example of what not to do or what she doesn't want to see in the papers. The student was blindsided as the student wasn't notified that his paper would be used as an example, the student hasn't received a grade yet, and was not givi... |
2021/03/26 | 616 | 2,698 | <issue_start>username_0: So in a few weeks I will be submitting applications for Master's Programs in Germany. I am a resident of the United States living in Ohio and am required to submit certified copies of my Bachelor's Diploma and Transcript. The German website that handles several online applications list these as... |
2021/03/26 | 391 | 1,503 | <issue_start>username_0: This is for Ph.D admissions in STEM area.
I was put on the waitlist for >5 schools where I have applied to, some of which have emailed me asking if I am still interested for consideration of their "second round of offers."
The dilemma is, what if I expressed interest to (say) >3 schools that ... |
2021/03/26 | 2,641 | 11,244 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, I'm doing my bachelor's in science. I wanted to write a bachelor thesis so I tried contacting many professors so that I can get some projects and can write my bachelor thesis but most of them were busy or better to say all of them were busy. So I decided to do a project by myself and... |
2021/03/26 | 511 | 2,079 | <issue_start>username_0: Posting here rather than on StackOverflow as the question is not code-related.
I have been wanting to make the switch to RMarkdown for academic writing (as opposed to Word) for a while now, but there is one question that has prevented me from doing so. Does writing in RMarkdown permit exchange... |
2021/03/26 | 897 | 3,889 | <issue_start>username_0: I thought of my question when considering if I wanted to be a math professor.
**Background:** Currently I’m an undergraduate studying math with a concentration in computer science, and I am interested in subjects like algebraic geometry, specifically derived geometry and stuff like combinatori... |
2021/03/26 | 259 | 1,092 | <issue_start>username_0: Can I include other students' master thesis in the literature review of my master thesis? These master thesis that I found are published in Google Scholar and other online libraries/archives.<issue_comment>username_1: Actually, it might be *essential* to do so. Especially if you draw on or exte... |
2021/03/26 | 2,688 | 10,849 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted an under-review paper to arxiv. I mistakenly chose CC BY 4.0 as the license. I suddenly found out that I've done that mistake. Can anyone publish my paper in a journal or conference? Is there any way for changing the license? Would you please guide me on how bad is the situ... |
2021/03/27 | 1,146 | 5,019 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in masters and came from a very developing country to EU for study. The classes started online due to covid19 and exams were supposed to be on campus but they started online due to the situation. This was my first exam of the first semester.
I came to EU country for an online exam to save... |
2021/03/27 | 3,416 | 13,196 | <issue_start>username_0: Actually, this is my question: [which option should i prefer Thesis vs Non-thesis for MS in CS?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/68766/which-option-should-i-prefer-thesis-vs-non-thesis-for-ms-in-cs) but I hope this post will not be closed as either off-topic or duplicate because I ... |
2021/03/27 | 518 | 2,245 | <issue_start>username_0: My manuscript is rejected by the editor after receiving the reviewer's comments. The rejection is based on the comments from the reviewers. Two reviewers rated my manuscript as important. I received a full 2-page long comment from reviewer 2, which after all recommends re-submission after exten... |
2021/03/27 | 3,443 | 14,031 | <issue_start>username_0: Related to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/18491/i-believe-i-have-solved-a-famous-open-problem-how-do-i-convince-people-in-the-f), except I do not believe (and have not claimed) that I have solved an open problem, famous or otherwise.
I came up with [an idea](https... |
2021/03/27 | 1,308 | 5,686 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year undergraduate student studying philosophy. One of my lecturers does not speak English as their first language, and is extremely difficult to understand. I could get over this if the lecturer was any good, but unfortunately they aren't. The module is a history of philosophy one... |
2021/03/27 | 378 | 1,648 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, I am working on my Master Thesis. Before whenever we had to write reports, we had a section called "Literature Review" and a separate section called "Theories". Sometimes the second one was merged with Methodologies - "Methodology and Theory".
In the Theories section, we used to inc... |
2021/03/27 | 577 | 2,611 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not far away from finishing a PhD in molecular toxicology. However, with time I have gotten more and more interested in topics such as renewable energy, environmental/climate science and engineering. My education so far is not completely alien to environmental science, but my background he... |
2021/03/27 | 1,039 | 4,460 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a low-income undergraduate student at a US university. Last semester, another student approached me and offered to pay me a lot of money if I take one class for him. Because of my family’s financial situation, I accepted this deal. Long story short, I have completely taken one class for hi... |
2021/03/27 | 2,617 | 10,711 | <issue_start>username_0: I will try to make this short.
1. My Ph.D. was in life sciences. I was a part of an "International Ph.D program in life sciences" in Germany. The Ph.D was a nightmare of its own. I had to start the project from zero, there was a strict time limit of 3.5 years to finish. The worst part, after s... |
2021/03/27 | 1,329 | 5,794 | <issue_start>username_0: A journal claims to have a policy that if a paper is rejected then any later improved version of the paper is unwelcome.
A quick editorial review happens before the paper is sent to a referee, and rejection often happens then. At that stage, a reviewer wrote of a very short letter saying that ... |
2021/03/27 | 1,061 | 4,562 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a sophomore in college (undergrad) so I still have a while to go before applying to grad school. I am currently majoring in CS with a minor in Bio since I am also very interested in computational biology and bioengineering. I am definitely more interested in research than going into industr... |
2021/03/28 | 957 | 4,062 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** I'm preparing research about a music-based arcade game, playable in the arcade game center. Requiring video dataset (including music in it), I recorded videos from the game playing by myself.
**Question:** Is it legal to use the videos for publishing an academic paper, even tho... |
2021/03/28 | 354 | 1,567 | <issue_start>username_0: Some conference organizers recently emailed authors who submitted a paper to the conference the following rebuttal policy change:
>
> 1. You are not allowed to include new links (e.g. to datasets or repositories) in the text of the rebuttal
>
>
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Why would the conference organizers ban th... |
2021/03/28 | 816 | 3,426 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been working on a project with a faculty member (let's call him S) that is not my advisor (let's call him A).
They are in different departments, and have little overlap. I am working on something with S (actually I am doing it mostly by myself, with a bit of advice from S) and am planning... |
2021/03/28 | 1,280 | 5,560 | <issue_start>username_0: I hope this question is appropriate for this site. Maybe community wiki might be a good option.
I was the TA in a course for undergraduates last term. I student approached me after the course ended and wanted to know how he could dive deeper into the subject of the course. I suggested him that... |
2021/03/28 | 598 | 2,524 | <issue_start>username_0: My MS advisor who is a tenured professor in a US school is padding his wife's name into my publication papers. His wife is an PhD candidate from the same department too and she didn't have any contribution on my research work. This is ethically and morally wrong but as the advisor is my thesis ... |
2021/03/29 | 1,152 | 4,565 | <issue_start>username_0: There is legislative proposal in our small country (Republic of Latvia, Baltic Country, European Union) that proposes to allow elected associate professors, full professors and provosts of the research universities to be without doctorate (e.g. PhD or MD or other doctorate). The authors of prop... |
2021/03/29 | 361 | 1,483 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my MD thesis, which is about therapy for MS, and some drugs come up in more than one specific subchapter. Should I discuss them in detail in the first subchapter they come up in, or should I discuss them in the last chapter they come up in?<issue_comment>username_1: The answer vari... |
2021/03/29 | 502 | 2,035 | <issue_start>username_0: Four weeks ago I contacted the department of the University to ask whether there are PhD positions open. They emailed me some questions I needed to fill in and said that they will review my application and let me know if they have something available for me as soon as possible. After two weeks,... |
2021/03/29 | 1,381 | 5,849 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a Computer Science Dissertation and am wondering if I should make all mentions of terms in my glossary hyper linkable to the corresponding glossary definition. Should I or shouldn't I?
EDIT: Thanks for the feedback guys. Although the advice is somewhat conflicting, I think I'll hyp... |
2021/03/29 | 1,438 | 6,037 | <issue_start>username_0: There are already some discussions on whether it's illegal to use Sci-Hub for research purposes, such as in [this Academia SE thread](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/87688/what-are-the-consequences-of-using-sci-hub).
But [one answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/111057/) a... |
2021/03/29 | 1,820 | 7,465 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently have a postdoc at a university in the US whose contract stipulates only that I "produce research" relevant to my field. I have no supervisor and have not been hired as part of a particular grant requiring regular updates to a funding institution. I have been offered a second year of... |
2021/03/29 | 746 | 3,002 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a bachelor's degree in Physics. I am currently doing my master's in Physics with a focus on machine learning. I want two thing for future:
1. I want to gain coursework experience from different country - I am fascinated how coursework, be it undergraduate or graduate level, is done in d... |
2021/03/29 | 1,262 | 5,371 | <issue_start>username_0: Let assume a journal accepted a topical review proposal I submitted. It's often a good approach for a student like me (PhD student) to coauthor the paper with a more experienced researcher who is quite known in the field. In my previous papers, when was the first author, I wrote the whole paper... |
2021/03/29 | 4,870 | 21,127 | <issue_start>username_0: I quit my current research group after four and a half years. I am currently looking for other opportunities to join a new research group and finish my PhD.
Based on recent meetings with my former PhD adviser, our graduate coordinator, and our department chair, I was asked to sign and accept a... |
2021/03/30 | 1,051 | 3,687 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the top Italian research centre for applied physics, the Area Science Park located in Trieste, just elected its new president.
The president's CV can be found here:
<https://ginko.unipg.it/ws/sitopersonale/cv.php?humanid=caterina.petrillo&tipo=EV>
By reading it, I discovered she got he... |
2021/03/30 | 172 | 776 | <issue_start>username_0: Mathematicians don't seem to have a consensus on which questions are mathematical, and which ones are interesting but sometimes one pronounces with an air of *authority* on a question or solution or unfamiliar new method. So what exactly is the *training* that mathematicians have had that allow... |
2021/03/30 | 1,506 | 6,382 | <issue_start>username_0: I am facing a very difficult situation. I sent a paper for peer-review in a SCOPUS indexed journal. My supervisor though did not contribute anything rather than reading my draft insisted that I put his name in the manuscript. I had put his name as the second author as otherwise he would stop my... |
2021/03/30 | 668 | 2,700 | <issue_start>username_0: I was reading over some of my supervisor's old papers and I have found one from 7 years ago in which part of the analysis is fundamentally flawed which effectively undermines half of the conclusions. The issue is in a paper in a subfield of a subfield so it's unlikely that any other people will... |
2021/03/31 | 2,420 | 10,636 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in a Phd program right now and it seems there are some unethical practices going on in my department. Examples include: testing over irrelevant material or material that was not really covered, not grading/giving feedback on homework, instructors breaking college and department policy for c... |
2021/03/31 | 418 | 1,849 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I learned someone who received a university fellowship (with no TA duties) turned down the fellowship and position at a department I applied to for a doctorate. I was placed on a waitlist for admission to the program.
I'm wondering whether this creates a vacant spot (in the same depar... |
2021/03/31 | 618 | 2,597 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a master student at UFMG, a university in Brazil. I am at my last semester (out of 4) and, due to the pandemics, it was given to us the possibility to extend our study for one semester.
Here goes some details: I'm studying Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT), I have a scholarship, I'm a... |
2021/04/01 | 6,822 | 29,242 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working as a teaching assistant for several courses in STEM in the US at the college level.
During the past two semesters since Covid19 started, I have noticed that whenever a deadline is approaching, on or close to the day of the deadline, a student will inevitably email the in... |
2021/04/01 | 1,240 | 5,196 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 16 year old who is currently at an intermediate German level. I also have previous experience on working with data science - specifically, Bayesian statistics. I would like to do a summer internship at a recognised German-speaking university for practising my German and getting work/rese... |
2021/04/01 | 513 | 2,145 | <issue_start>username_0: Long story short, I did bad in a graduate interview because I was not prepared and I am in a depressive episode but was trying to fight it, I am way better than what I presented myself as, I felt that the committee found it weird because my cgpa is very high, the referees wrote me very strong r... |
2021/04/02 | 298 | 1,324 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing my thesis/dissertation and was wondering if there is a preferred convention for the way paragraphs are formatted and spaced in a thesis.
Would they all have indents; would they be spaced or not spaced apart from each other.
I'm doing my best to separate topics but sections... |
2021/04/02 | 870 | 3,678 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, at a broad level, the scenario I am observing is as follows:
**Tasks by Instructor** (assistant professor, associate professor, professor)
1. Collecting presentations from either the internet or asks TA's to make a presentation or rarely prepares a presentation for a given topic an... |
2021/04/02 | 1,043 | 4,499 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in applying to PhD in Mathematics in University of Luxembourg. In the webpage it is written that "We recommend that you contact potential thesis supervisors by email to discuss your areas of general research interest and specific ideas for a thesis topic. You may consider sendin... |
2021/04/02 | 1,239 | 5,367 | <issue_start>username_0: I am stuck at an implementation of a scientific paper's algorithm, could I ask help from staff to code a part with me or even my advisor to do so?
Thanks for the clarification.<issue_comment>username_1: Yes you can ask, but whoever you ask, make sure you check with your advisor first so that y... |
2021/04/02 | 720 | 2,997 | <issue_start>username_0: I have not enjoyed my undergraduate math program, primarily because it is not challenging enough - not enough advanced courses offered, too few research opportunities, classes are just not at the level I feel they should be for junior-senior math majors. I am choosing to apply to grad schools (... |
2021/04/03 | 257 | 1,177 | <issue_start>username_0: I am conducting a survey to measure the impact of social distancing on family dynamics, for which I came across a tool that fits my study perfectly. However, I am not able to find information on the scoring key, manual and interpretation, and I'm unable to contact the author. I couldn't find an... |
2021/04/03 | 777 | 3,256 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** I read this Quora post where someone mentioned they TA'ed pretty much their entire PhD tenure and took up extra TA spots as well for the same because they really liked teaching. The person only ended up publishing 2 papers (very good ones) during their tenure because maximum amo... |
2021/04/03 | 907 | 3,740 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering if it is possible to do an unpaid post-doc in the united states (Boston, MIT) for one year, especially in regards to the needed visa (I am german). I am unsure if I would be eligible for a visa when my plan is to cover all the expenses during that year with my own saved-up money... |
2021/04/04 | 1,138 | 4,796 | <issue_start>username_0: I asked a professor I know (we are outside the US) to write a strong letter of recommendation for me and he said he would be glad. However, the possible content of the letter (we have only talked about it together) gave rise to two questions for me:
Firstly, he wants to include a line to the e... |
2021/04/04 | 1,914 | 8,409 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm collaborating with another person on a public-key cryptosystem that we intend to publish. I could only think of two references (one to the 1976 Diffie-Hellman paper, and one to SHA-3 FIPS-202), even though most of the contents are completely original.
I put my content onto Grammarly Premiu... |
2021/04/05 | 2,229 | 10,365 | <issue_start>username_0: I find myself in a very unusual situation. After sending the paper to a top journal, we received two positive feedbacks after 12 months, asking only for minor revisions.
We promptly did the revision and 6 months later we received the reports: one reviewer recommended acceptance and the other r... |
2021/04/05 | 316 | 1,384 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a full professor in a US STEM field about to go on the job market for teaching professorships because of a terminal financial emergency at my current institution (a liberal arts college). I am fortunate to have worked with someone very well-known and respected in my field, especially for hi... |
2021/04/05 | 1,131 | 4,876 | <issue_start>username_0: As an academic, you are in the business of producing research. I know it might sound odd to call it a "business", but frankly, you get paid to do it, and most of you wouldn't do it if you didn't get paid, hence it is a business and you're selling a product (your research) to your clients (the r... |
2021/04/05 | 959 | 4,192 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student who is submitting my thesis for committee review. However, one of the committee member is unsatisfied and thinks that I attempted plagiarism from my advisor's paper. However, in my situation:
1. I am writing a result in extension to my advisor's paper;
2. I have p... |
2021/04/05 | 4,258 | 18,729 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I taught a class of five students. I asked for their native place and all said that their hometown is X, but I didn't tell them my reason for asking.
I asked them because I can communicate *easily* with them if they are from Y, since I can speak the language of my hometown Y well.
A... |
2021/04/05 | 2,241 | 9,912 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the basic difference between being a researcher in a corporation, and being a researcher in a university?
Is there really any difference apart from giving lectures and grading student's exam papers?<issue_comment>username_1: The *basic* difference is that research in corporations is mu... |
2021/04/06 | 1,824 | 7,437 | <issue_start>username_0: Many college instructors have been struggling with a significant rise in cheating in the last year, notably in the context of required distance learning and online testing during the time of the COVID pandemic. Among websites that facilitate such cheating, foremost may be the [Chegg](https://ww... |