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2014/01/07 | 1,717 | 6,967 | <issue_start>username_0: I heard one of my lecturers says that it is always better to start the paper title with a verb. According to the lecturer, the verb leave that impression about something has been accomplished. For example, use `Design`, `develop` etc. I tried to find any supportive resources about that but I co... |
2014/01/07 | 6,936 | 28,510 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a master CS student. I had so many troubles in my life. I didn't have proper schooling and were in difficult situations which led to me being not so good compared to my peers now at the graduate school. For example I had problems with math and so and when I got into my new graduate school e... |
2014/01/07 | 1,037 | 4,390 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a friend who is considering a part time (~10hr/week) consulting gig with a large, well-established software company, doing a mixture of research and coding. However, there appears to be little quantitative data on past consulting rates for **academics**, i.e., professors, postdocs, and P... |
2014/01/08 | 290 | 1,185 | <issue_start>username_0: The question is pretty much the title. If you are an academic, is it possible to get anyone to pay you to do research in mathematical finance?
You can interpret the question broadly, to include mathematics or computational science that is used in finance, as long as this research has some rea... |
2014/01/08 | 1,330 | 4,679 | <issue_start>username_0: The tag [grants](/questions/tagged/grants "show questions tagged 'grants'") currently has the description "Academic grants are non-repayable funds disbursed by government, trust, foundation or a society." The tag [awards](/questions/tagged/awards "show questions tagged 'awards'") currently has ... |
2014/01/08 | 655 | 3,001 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a journal and I got extensive reviews, and the paper was rejected, but they encouraged resubmission if I successfully did a bit more science and made other drastic revisions. Note this is not the same as being conditionally accepted; I had to resubmit the paper. Well I di... |
2014/01/08 | 2,081 | 6,802 | <issue_start>username_0: In the desktop application for Mendeley, it's possible to import a PDF and have the bibliographic data automatically extracted (or perhaps looked up, I'm not sure). This feature is more or less reliable. However, Mendeley's code is closed source (they once promised to release the source, but th... |
2014/01/08 | 8,517 | 35,427 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in a very [cross-disciplinary field](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/10798/interpretation-of-a-phd-degree-in-a-very-broad-interdisciplinary-field), which has caused me some headache\* over the past couple of years, partly due to the fact that my supervisor isn't very knowled... |
2014/01/08 | 1,788 | 7,564 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm always confused when I see a lot of PhD students looking to publish papers, even if the papers are not so good. They publish them in not so important conferences or workshops. Is that a good thing? Is it good to have a lot of papers published even in not so popular conferences? Like what is... |
2014/01/08 | 1,193 | 4,420 | <issue_start>username_0: I happened to visit [the website](http://www.ijpam.eu/en/index.php/ijdea) of the *IJDEA* (International Journal of Differential Equations and Applications) and was wondering – how good is this journal? There was a [question here on Academia. SE](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1121... |
2014/01/08 | 1,407 | 5,141 | <issue_start>username_0: If I am conducting independent research (ie no university affiliation), do I need to worry about institutional review board (IRB) approval, if I am working in a field where it is normally required?<issue_comment>username_1: This really depends on if you are planning on publishing the research. ... |
2014/01/08 | 1,585 | 5,906 | <issue_start>username_0: Since I graduated from law school almost ten years ago, I have been working as a fellow for a law professor at a US law school. In that time, I have drafted over 25 articles and book chapters, but only been listed as a co-author on 8. I don't begrudge this split: The Prof has the established na... |
2014/01/08 | 1,099 | 4,720 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisor and his PHD Students are writing regularly to journals published by a publisher, which is on Beall’s list of Predatory Journals. I emailed Beall and he told me that the journals were advertising as non-profit but usually publish if you pay them.
I am in US. So recently the PHD Stude... |
2014/01/09 | 1,368 | 5,865 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently deciding where to do my next Postdoc. I have had many Interviews, and have two solid offers on the table.
The first offer is in a highly ranked private University (not Ivy League nor MIT), with a professor who seems real nice.
The second offer is from a somewhat lower ranked i... |
2014/01/09 | 1,134 | 4,104 | <issue_start>username_0: When I write something like
```
x is a stochastic function of y:
x ~ N(2y, 3) (1),
```
how do I refer back to that... non-equation? Do I still put "see Eq. (1)" although (1) is not an equation?<issue_comment>username_1: Mathematically you are true... it's not an equa... |
2014/01/10 | 1,101 | 4,298 | <issue_start>username_0: If I have already completed a master's degree, but no longer belong or have contact to the institution in which I followed my master's degree; how to approach one professor to see if he or she wants to supervise me? Actually I see lots of different areas that I would like, but I feel afraid of ... |
2014/01/10 | 1,163 | 5,293 | <issue_start>username_0: After reading [this answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/15572/2692), and the subsequent comments, I found myself wondering if it is a rule for publishers to get author approval after edits before publishing a paper? I would assume so because of copyright issues but I would like to know... |
2014/01/10 | 525 | 2,347 | <issue_start>username_0: After reading [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/15575/information-about-valuation-of-postgraduate-study), I started wondering about students applying for graduate school and the letters of recommendation accompanying their applications.
Let's say Student is studying ... |
2014/01/10 | 4,385 | 18,487 | <issue_start>username_0: I am pretty sure that anyone who has spent some time reading academic papers have come across quite a few "lemons" among them, with bad grammar, strange word choices and incoherent sentences. Such papers are always a chore to read, even if the topic is interesting and the research is good, and ... |
2014/01/10 | 1,114 | 4,003 | <issue_start>username_0: This is probably not 100% on-topic here, but this site is closer to *appropriate* than others. Let me give it a try: I have collected about 50 publications relevant for a project of mine. For these publications, I have all the important information like author, title, journal, etc, but most imp... |
2014/01/10 | 965 | 4,291 | <issue_start>username_0: During my Ph.D. research I encountered a mathematical problem. I found solutions in some cases, but in other cases I couldn't find a solution. My advisors also could not help with this. I asked at Math.SE and MathOverflow, even offered a boundy, but got no hint.
Although I can proceed in my re... |
2014/01/10 | 832 | 3,461 | <issue_start>username_0: For my bachelor thesis I needed a certain source. As it wasn't accessible neither on the net, nor in my library, I decided to ask the author directly. She was kind enough to send me a draft of the text in question, explicitly allowing me to use it for private academic purpose.
Now I'm in the ... |
2014/01/10 | 3,454 | 14,563 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm considering a PhD or Master's in engineering in the US, and I haven't really decided which makes the most sense for me. There are many questions and answers here that mention leaving a PhD program with a Master's and how it's not a "failure" or "dropping out", but it occurs to me: what effe... |
2014/01/10 | 254 | 1,026 | <issue_start>username_0: I am organizing a workshop and have invited a featured speaker to give a synthetic talk. What is the appropriate term for this role?<issue_comment>username_1: I came up with this answer while asking the question:
Both terms indicate a sort of synthesis, but [plenary](http://www.wordnik.com/wor... |
2014/01/11 | 924 | 4,028 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD research interest is very aligned with my advisor. However, my concern is that if I want to stay in the academia, will my advisor become my competitor in the future?<issue_comment>username_1: You might end up as competitors someday. I've never felt like I was in competition with any of m... |
2014/01/11 | 748 | 3,060 | <issue_start>username_0: I majored in information systems and I deeply regret it.. I had an internship where I ended up doing some programming assignments, and I really enjoyed them. But it was also my senior year so I didn't want to switch to CS and spend another 2-3 years..
So I have been trying to take the gre to g... |
2014/01/11 | 1,133 | 4,101 | <issue_start>username_0: I am citing a Dutch work from the late 19th century. Not surprisingly, the spelling differs from the contemporary spelling. In APA, how would I use [*sic*] in such cases of old spelling? In the guidelines it is [advised](https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/01/) to "insert the term s... |
2014/01/11 | 638 | 2,827 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm confused by what the term "research experience" actually means in a PhD application. The following examples come into my mind:
* working as research assistant with university professor
* publishing research papers in conferences
* work in R&D division of company (industry research)
Do all... |
2014/01/12 | 2,523 | 11,071 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a serious problem with HW usually submitted by students. A considerable fraction of the students are not neat with their HWs. By neat I mean respecting the guide lines I provided them to follow, such as:
* A4-size paper, do not use detached papers from a notebook
* Use only pencil, so y... |
2014/01/12 | 561 | 2,088 | <issue_start>username_0: I was asked the following question by someone who was interested in pursuing a career in devops, but wanted to learn things in a more formal environment such as a masters degree. Is there / Can anyone recommend any graduate program in the US that would help prepare said person for a career in D... |
2014/01/12 | 1,002 | 4,183 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a CS master student in a German university. Here we have to do a master project in one semester and the master thesis in another semester, so in total 12 months. In the project you start in defining and exploring the problem space and so on and building a preliminary software framework that... |
2014/01/12 | 689 | 3,005 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a CS master student. During my early days looking for a thesis I noticed two categories of projects:
1. Projects a about completely new idea.
2. Projects about improving an existing technical concept.
By the first one I mean completely new stuff (something I'm doing now as my thesis). Suc... |
2014/01/12 | 1,176 | 4,903 | <issue_start>username_0: My thesis (Canadian Research Based, Computer Science), collects three separate research projects (with a tenuous connecting thread).
While collating these projects into a single document, I have looked into other theses coming out of my university and others in my field, and have realized tha... |
2014/01/12 | 966 | 4,225 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on a extensive paper for my study. It's about some computational stuff, has 5 chapters and will be - all in all - roughly 60 pages long. Reading some papers and theses I noticed, that often people start each chapter with some kind of an overview, describing what's going to happen ne... |
2014/01/12 | 421 | 1,733 | <issue_start>username_0: In EndNote, I know there's an option to automatically download PDF files for the references you have in your library. Is there any way to do the same thing in some kind of non-commercial software, like for example Mendeley or BibDesk?<issue_comment>username_1: As suggested by @embert in the com... |
2014/01/13 | 1,104 | 4,859 | <issue_start>username_0: When I read general recommendations on how to choose a PhD programme/advisor, it seems that many academics agree that one of the most important factors is the reputation of the advisor.
Next year, I may have the opportunity to undertake a PhD under the supervision of a "superstar" faculty who ... |
2014/01/13 | 1,856 | 7,881 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a college sophomore and I am debating transferring out of my current school, Hunter college. My GPA is 3.56 and I am a CS and psychology major, concentration of behavioral neuroscience.
Now, I have always been interested in research but the resources in my school seems very tight and my ... |
2014/01/13 | 1,201 | 5,390 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an independent researcher working outside of academia with no past track record so far. Is it still possible to apply for research grants anyway, and how should I go about doing so?
I do have a very good research plan, but the catch is, I need some funding before I can carry them out. How... |
2014/01/13 | 1,383 | 6,059 | <issue_start>username_0: [This is related to this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9523/is-it-acceptable-as-referee-to-contact-an-author-on-a-paper-you-review), but it is more a special case of it.
I reviewed a manuscript, which was submitted to a reputable traditional journal. The journal has a ... |
2014/01/13 | 1,875 | 7,482 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting a post-doc in Cognitive Neuroscience and I am interested in publishing my work in high impact journals (e.g., Nature, Science, Behavioral and Brain Science). I have already published review articles in not-so-high impact journals, and I would like to know your thoughts and tips fo... |
2014/01/13 | 636 | 2,534 | <issue_start>username_0: How many interviews does a typical good liberal arts school do at the Joint Mathematical Meetings every year?
Background: I'm on the math job market for the first time this year. For the most part I applied to postdocs, but I also applied to a handful of very good liberal arts places this year... |
2014/01/14 | 2,363 | 10,167 | <issue_start>username_0: I am consistently facing this issue: NO one (*except some reviewers when I submit a manuscript*) provides me with a detailed/core criticism of my PhD work.
My supervisor usually gives me general advice; sometimes he tries his best to understand and propose some trial-and-error approaches for ... |
2014/01/14 | 1,700 | 7,275 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked for a publicly funded body. Whilst there I designed and developed a number of epidemiological surveillance applications.
I have left the organisation but since then I have noticed that some of my ex-coworkers have started to publish papers based on the data collected by the systems th... |
2014/01/14 | 950 | 4,258 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student applying in different places for postdoctoral positions and asking various faculties for position. It happened that, due to limited resources, I am not getting much response. However more than one faculty (from different institutes all in Europe) gave positive responses. The cave... |
2014/01/14 | 2,380 | 10,241 | <issue_start>username_0: Reviewers are expert in their fields who can understand your work but are also potential competitors if they worked in the same field as you do. How frequent is a bad review from the reviewers due to the potential competition with your work so they can stall your publication?
For example, if y... |
2014/01/15 | 587 | 2,386 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently admitted into a PhD program, and am currently a MSc Student. Both me and my advisor expected me to graduate this spring, which would mark the 4th semester. Because of that, I applied to PhD programs, and got into a good one. But now I think I might need a bit longer to complete t... |
2014/01/15 | 1,259 | 5,154 | <issue_start>username_0: I am using an [old paper](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v323/n6088/abs/323533a0.html), published in 1986.
It is in the form of a "Letter to Nature" (which is a scientific journal).
It doesn't appear to be typeset in TeX, at least not TeX as we know it today.
Furthermore, it is a scanned ... |
2014/01/15 | 2,586 | 10,571 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a senior undergraduate (electrical) engineering student, exceedingly interested in **physics**. 4 years ago when entering university, for some reasons (better: *illusions*) I chose engineering as my major, while I was interested (and also really knowledgeable) in physics . Soon after the f... |
2014/01/15 | 2,883 | 12,180 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my professors has been in the IT development fields for over 40 years. He thinks he is up-to-date with all the latest research and technology. But I believe he's not.
The problem is - he hates when a student (like me) dares to point out his mistakes or flaws in reasoning. Or when a stud... |
2014/01/15 | 1,157 | 5,286 | <issue_start>username_0: When I started searching for a graduate programs that fits my research interests in the United States, I noticed that some universities have separate "Computer Engineering" and "Electrical Engineering" departments, while other universities have a combined department "Electrical engineering and ... |
2014/01/15 | 3,298 | 13,329 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second year PhD student in probability from the UK. I enjoy what I do, but here is a problem:
as I dig deep into my study, I realize I have to read a lot of stuff I do not fully understand and they often arise in fields of study which are not probability, but related areas: e.g. PDE the... |
2014/01/15 | 1,426 | 6,460 | <issue_start>username_0: This has been a subject that has occupied my thoughts for the past years but haven't really managed to formulate it completely for myself. I have this feeling (and I can't say it's more than a feeling at this point) that native speakers of English have an easier time with getting their article ... |
2014/01/15 | 594 | 2,696 | <issue_start>username_0: My undergraduate research adviser is expelled from the university for political reasons (in Middle East) after more than a decade of teaching and research. Now they have even forced the department to remove his name from the faculty list on the website of the department and they have taken away... |
2014/01/15 | 554 | 2,471 | <issue_start>username_0: What do the admission committees learn about an applicant by knowing which other programs and schools one has applied to? Does applying to another program which is more prestigious make the applicant seem more serious?<issue_comment>username_1: Some things I (as someone sitting in academic admi... |
2014/01/15 | 309 | 1,414 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a medical school graduate student. However, I wish to apply for a PhD program in molecular and cell biology, I'm interested in understanding the interactions within and between cells at molecular level. However, it seems that at many programs, courses on physics and mathematics are required... |
2014/01/16 | 790 | 3,306 | <issue_start>username_0: What percentage of PhD theses (e.g., physics ones) are rejected nowadays? And why?<issue_comment>username_1: Very small, as every failed PhD defence is also a shame for the professor. As a result, the professor will not allow to proceed with defence of the really weak work. And he will listen f... |
2014/01/16 | 1,736 | 7,857 | <issue_start>username_0: Many times I learn or look for some information, I find scientific article on [ieeexplore.ieee.org](http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/) or similar, where articles are paid. Most of the articles are written by some professors of universities or students about their work.
My question is, why do they se... |
2014/01/17 | 508 | 1,897 | <issue_start>username_0: My tex based on Espanta's answer
```
@techreport{AAMI,
title = {Recommended Practice for Testing and Reporting Performance Results of Ventricular Arrhythmia Detection Algorithms},
institution = {{Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation}},
year = {1987},
addre... |
2014/01/17 | 495 | 2,104 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to figure out if a paper is open access or not. My university subscribes to many non-open access journals. Some journals offer mixed models where some papers are open access and others are not.
Some journal websites tell me I have accessed them through an institutional subscription... |
2014/01/17 | 574 | 2,210 | <issue_start>username_0: Say a paper submitted for publication in a journal by Prof. <NAME> references a paper by Dr <NAME>, but that paper was the subject of a critical peer-reviewed comment by Prof. <NAME>. Should I insist as a reviewer that Prof. Spode's paper should also be referenced and the criticism at least men... |
2014/01/17 | 1,906 | 8,088 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in pursuing my own part-time postdoctoral research in computer science, with a view to getting one or two publications over the next two to three years. My motivations are personal interest, and also to keep my options open in case I decide to apply for an academic or research p... |
2014/01/18 | 1,132 | 5,064 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm beginning my graduate study in theoretical computer science soon, and I've been admitted to two graduate schools in Northeastern Asia.
One of those makes it a rule to grant compensation for travel to conferences to graduate students who finished their master's thesis. However, for beginnin... |
2014/01/18 | 409 | 1,584 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received an email from a department administrator that NSF rules have been changed ([link here](http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf14001/gpg_sigchanges.jsp)), such that *all investigators must fill out a conflict of interest (COI) form.* They then go on to list a cadre o... |
2014/01/18 | 1,120 | 4,664 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently deciding my next step in life and am pretty confused about my options. I am an English language teacher with an MSEd in TESOL and have a growing interest in both computer science and linguistics. I have been considering getting my PhD in linguistics, possibly with a focus on comp... |
2014/01/18 | 648 | 2,923 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper is accepted in one of the Taylor and Francis journals and Today I figured out that I made a mistake in one row of one of my tables ( the minimum of one of variables in statistic analysis table is 0 in the paper but the actual value is 1). In fact, it does not affect the other parts of ... |
2014/01/18 | 680 | 2,801 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently thinking in which country to spend my undergraduate period, UK or US. I'm going to apply for PhD program of Molecular Biology in US university after graduating from undergrad school. So, it seems better to stay in US during undergrad period to prepare for PhD program admission. Bu... |
2014/01/19 | 1,157 | 4,987 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a very difficult personal problem. My head was not in the right place, and outside of getting through my administrative duties, my brain just couldn't function the right way to run wet lab experiments and come up with good research ideas. As a result, I did not work as much as I should ha... |
2014/01/19 | 1,338 | 5,570 | <issue_start>username_0: Say you made a smart move in solving an important question that your advisor did not think of and all of a suddenly your advisor becomes jealous because you have made your advisor look bad. What are the best way to manage situation like this?<issue_comment>username_1: If your supervisor is alre... |
2014/01/19 | 647 | 2,606 | <issue_start>username_0: In US education system, the university academic positions start with Assistant Professor. But there are some occasions that positions for Endowed Assistant Professor are advertised. I could not find what exactly is *"endowed Associated Prof"*. Is there any difference with assistant professor? I... |
2014/01/19 | 916 | 3,926 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently hunting for research internships and going to apply for several positions. To make the admission officers accessible to my stories and experiences in further detail, I have created a personal Google Site showing those details and added the link into my CV.
Now it comes to my res... |
2014/01/20 | 842 | 3,485 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a finishing Ph.D student in pure mathematics in the US.
In November, I received a 3 year postdoc offer in Europe on a PI's grant with a December reply deadline and accepted starting in 2015. Recently, I was offered an NSF MSPRF at an American school, starting in 2014. My plan is to use the... |
2014/01/20 | 404 | 1,699 | <issue_start>username_0: How can you find the top journals in a scientific field? I am an HCI graduate student, but I sometimes write to industrial engineering articles if it involves ergonomics. Right now, I'm trying to understand what standing the journal "IIE Transactions" has compared to other journals in the field... |
2014/01/20 | 395 | 1,652 | <issue_start>username_0: Would I be accepted at a Phd Program @Harvard when my '''education''' didn't go beyond high-school? I have however done lot of self-study after graduating from high-school by studying:
* Electrodynamics.
* General Relativity.
* Quantum Mechanics ...
and all the maths that is related to those ... |
2014/01/20 | 547 | 2,384 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started my 2nd semester of my part-time master, I was given a thesis topic last week and expected to submit an abstract this week. Because advisor told me -> I would have not choice. However, I just wonder:
Is it normal to submit an abstract to a conference when the research is NOT compl... |
2014/01/20 | 593 | 2,370 | <issue_start>username_0: I was just offered a postdoc at 34 000 USD a year.
I am wondering whether this is an ok offer. Can someone give me feedback on this?<issue_comment>username_1: It sounds like it's on the low side for the sciences, but not unheard of. For comparison, [NIH NRSA postdoc stipends](http://grants.nih... |
2014/01/21 | 2,088 | 8,372 | <issue_start>username_0: I am aware of this post
[Some questions about math postdoc offers](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/15041/some-questions-about-math-postdoc-offers) but please let me ask a similar question.
I am currently on the math postdoc job market. Some of my friends were informed that they ... |
2014/01/21 | 516 | 2,078 | <issue_start>username_0: I was offered an admission of offer (math) today and I found out that I have till Feb 15th to accept the offer. Most schools in my country (Canada) actually send out offers during Feb, and there is a low probability that I will get an offer then, is it okay to ask schools to extend the offer da... |
2014/01/21 | 755 | 3,086 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently won an NSF mathematical Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at University 1. At this University, the math NSF postdocs have a have a much lower salary and benefits than regular "named postdocs" (XYZ Assistant Professor)and during their 2 years of half-time NSF support teach two ... |
2014/01/22 | 325 | 1,059 | <issue_start>username_0: I am creating an email signature and I am not sure what the protocol should be.
Should it say
>
> Dr. Locc
>
>
> Department of Social and Consumer Sciences.
>
>
>
or should my position within the dept. be referenced??
>
> Dr. Locc
>
>
> Social and Consumers Science Department Chair... |
2014/01/22 | 1,796 | 7,224 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I have received an offer for PhD studentship in Biology from a lab in Germany. I have completed my Bachelors degree and I have solid 2 years of research experience with 3 peer reviewed publications. Now to formally enroll as a PhD student they are asking me for Masters degree which I d... |
2014/01/22 | 1,142 | 4,095 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes a thread on StackExchange could help your research. A technical problem, an inspiring discussion or even an idea. How can I acknowledge this kind of contribution? (considering that many users on SE do not use real name and it is very difficult to reach them privately) Has anyone done ... |
2014/01/22 | 1,283 | 5,435 | <issue_start>username_0: In [academia.edu's terms of service](http://www.academia.edu/terms), it says
>
> By making available any Member Content on or through the Site or Services, **you hereby grant to Academia.edu** a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with **the r... |
2014/01/22 | 2,263 | 9,326 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student in Australia studying Bachelor of IT.
Australian education system as the norm here is to take 4 subjects per semester and these subjects are pretty much "dumbed down". So a lot of subjects don't really teach much, for instance for Algorithms and Data Structures sub... |
2014/01/22 | 1,096 | 4,358 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, if I want to get the reference in APA, what web resources provide this style? I found a way through Refworks, but it requires several steps. Is there a faster way?<issue_comment>username_1: Write in [LaTeX](http://www.latex-project.org), and use [BibTeX](http://www.bibtex.org) whic... |
2014/01/22 | 708 | 2,849 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been recently offered a couple of Postdoc positions, and I was wondering how you as professors would prefer to be informed if a candidate would rather work with another institution.
I know we are professionals, and these things are to be expected, and probably the professor has another ca... |
2014/01/23 | 442 | 1,917 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new worker in real functions with little experience and few published papers but not in top journals.
I together with my two colleagues found a new characterization of a well-known class of functions (first Baire class). I am pretty sure this is new. However, we cannot decide the extent... |
2014/01/23 | 591 | 2,503 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD candidate in computer engineering. I saw an announcement for a post-doctoral position on the internet.
I wrote to the professor having that open position asking him if I could come to visit him and his lab, and talk about the position.
He replied yes. We agreed on the date and I as... |
2014/01/23 | 855 | 3,504 | <issue_start>username_0: I am Computer science major at University of Wisconsin Madison.
I just want to ask you if i can get into graduate school with such a low GPA.
My current GPA is 2.9 and i have 20 more credit which makes me possible to go over 3.0
But I have finished my freshman year with 2.0 GPA and took 2 years... |
2014/01/23 | 1,358 | 5,542 | <issue_start>username_0: A professor, call **X**, who is with strong probability about to be my future MS Thesis supervisor/advisor, seems very interested to work with me. Mostly on lectures, **X** seems interested in my ideas and is very encouraging.
However, out of the class, **X** is totally unreachable, uninterest... |
2014/01/23 | 1,898 | 8,095 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing my dissertation and I have drawn a diagram explaining how a algorithm works. Recently, I've found an ebook, legally obtained, illustrating the same algorithm, but with more details and better drawing.
Is it ok to use their figure instead of mine if I properly give the source?
He... |
2014/01/23 | 340 | 1,523 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes professional bodies issue diplomas and postgraduate diplomas which, for example in the UK, are recognized at a very high training level.
What I am not sure about is whether these, even though not issued by universities, can help enter university at academia or research level?<issue_c... |
2014/01/23 | 579 | 2,414 | <issue_start>username_0: So here's my situation: I'm a senior electrical-engineering major student in a decent-ranked university (60-80), and I've been working in a lab in our department and published 2 papers as the second author (conference paper, IEEE) and currently I'm in charge of two projects so I may publish mor... |
2014/01/24 | 1,425 | 5,800 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated from the University of Michigan with Psychology and Communication Studies degree.
I am planning to apply to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) master's degree and Information Science master's degree.
For those of who do not know, HCI is an interdisciplinary field, combining mainly co... |
2014/01/24 | 660 | 2,770 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for postdoc positions and I received a few interview offers. I thought not many institution have interview process for postdoc positions and they give offer only based on application material. Do I have false information?<issue_comment>username_1: Honestly, I think it depends on the s... |
2014/01/24 | 2,434 | 10,639 | <issue_start>username_0: I am having a lot of trouble understanding the material in one of my courses. I feel like the professor often rushes through the material, leaving me without enough time to catch up in my busy schedule.
This professor is also really esteemed for his/her research contributions and speaking to m... |
2014/01/24 | 2,024 | 8,242 | <issue_start>username_0: Q: Should I keep [Eagle Scout](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Scout_%28Boy_Scouts_of_America%29) (the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America) on my CV?
I do not think that this is an appropriate item to include on a CV. However, CV is loosely trans... |
2014/01/24 | 1,200 | 4,907 | <issue_start>username_0: What should I do if I have lost faith in my PhD advisor (leadership, research direction, everything)? I have worked in this lab for three years and from my observation, none of my advisor's project work out and zero publications so far. Since I already had a gut feeling that everything would ev... |
2014/01/25 | 988 | 4,420 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for an assistant professor job in engineering. While working on my Ph.D., I had the chance to mentor graduate students in my research group (suggesting experiments, helping them analyze results, etc.), and I also mentored an independent studies student for a summer. Would these typ... |
2014/01/25 | 1,361 | 5,582 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an international student and I'm currently studying pure mathematics in undergraduate level with a relatively low GPA (~3.5/4.0). I've recently read so many positive reviews about the universities in Singapore. I checked the "National University of Singapore (NUS)" on the internet for its i... |
2014/01/25 | 751 | 3,132 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year postdoc in pure mathematics (geometry/topology with strong background in analysis) with undergraduate statistics and probability background (with also measure theoretic probability). I also have some programming knowledge in ForTran, C and Matlab, but I never used them in my pu... |