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2014/03/14 | 349 | 1,558 | <issue_start>username_0: Some time ago I put up a question on the SE network. I ended up writing an extensive answer myself and published it in the same question and on my blog. Later, I put a lot more thought into the topic and found additional results, which I did not publish yet.
I have since considered if that que... |
2014/03/14 | 1,276 | 5,378 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a Bachelor's Thesis.
I found a seemingly convenient way of making my research paper successful, but I'm not sure if it counts as plagiarism.
This is mainly concerned with the methods section.
I have gathered many research papers that use the same methodology but discuss differen... |
2014/03/14 | 994 | 4,377 | <issue_start>username_0: I have some results, related to *imposing group structures on subspaces of finite fields with a metric*, and I would like to publish my work. My advisor asked me to choose a journal, but I have no idea how to decide.
I have some further results on a paper published in [Linear Algebra and its A... |
2014/03/14 | 4,158 | 17,821 | <issue_start>username_0: In class, over the course of a semester, I tend to build up a mental model of individual students' communication abilities. For example, one student might seem more or less eloquent than another when they speak. One might make more cogent points than another.
Occasionally, I will receive an es... |
2014/03/14 | 955 | 4,032 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to Proc. Am. Math. Soc. My advisor said to submit to this journal. It's been over 3.5 months with no response. I have made several edits to my paper, but none that essentially change the structure of a proof. The original email contained the following message:
>
> Sub... |
2014/03/15 | 425 | 1,903 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to extract a paper from my MSc thesis. But I am not sure how to point out that this paper is the synopsis of my thesis. What is your suggestion? In which section should I refer to the thesis, in introduction or related works? Is it allowed to insert some part of my thesis to my paper... |
2014/03/15 | 877 | 3,949 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a bachelor student at the second year of studies (Physics), but I'm an independent programmer since many more years.
Now, I have some data about an algorithm I've done and I would like to present the results on a research paper - I have a high level of understanding of the theory behind,... |
2014/03/15 | 3,824 | 15,689 | <issue_start>username_0: I am taking a course in a may-not-be-top-but-still-decent university located in North America. **The course lecturer forces us to pay for an online learning kit from Pearson by adopting all the graded quizzes provided in that learning kit.**
That is, if one refuses to pay for the learning kit,... |
2014/03/15 | 1,530 | 6,358 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I received an invitation for Phi Kappa Phi honor society. I do not know too much about those organizations and I was wandering what are the benefits (or possible disadvantages) of joining?
I was searching online and people keep mentioning that it is good for your resume, networking et... |
2014/03/16 | 525 | 2,034 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any information about the trend of journals' preferences regarding LaTeX and MS Word?
My main concern is computer engineering and linguistics fields of study.<issue_comment>username_1: Both ACM and IEEE accept LaTeX publication format, which represents computer engineering to a large ... |
2014/03/16 | 549 | 2,204 | <issue_start>username_0: I am using a research handbook written by Creswell to guide me in writing my Bachelor's Thesis.
Specifically, I followed his research design model.
Should I justify why I structured my Methods Chapter the way I did by saying that such structure was recommended by Creswell?
For example, I may... |
2014/03/16 | 458 | 2,014 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a rather extensive research project for one of my courses, and would like to submit it to arXiv. But, I am not entirely sure about the copyright/other issues behind it. Is it acceptable for a student to submit their term papers online, and in doing so can I, as an undergrad, claim affil... |
2014/03/15 | 875 | 3,824 | <issue_start>username_0: [My book](http://www.mathematics21.org/algebraic-general-topology.html) was rejected by a publisher saying that my research is "unmotivated". To motivate it, should I solve some long standing open problem? Or are there other ways to motivate publishers?
This is despite I have some short sectio... |
2014/03/17 | 622 | 2,641 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on a nearly completed paper in CS. It deals with a memory module design, which, apart from being a novel idea, turned out to be of potentially commercial value. Now I was thinking of patenting it, of course, I doubt I will be able to make its commercial development a priority of min... |
2014/03/17 | 391 | 1,757 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a research paper and the reply has come back. The reviewers are positive overall, but one of them pointed out a flaw in one of my proofs. This happened because I made a wrong assumption regarding the proof. Now I have found a way to get around this and have a better proof. How do I ... |
2014/03/17 | 764 | 3,314 | <issue_start>username_0: For most journals, the reviewer is aware of the names and the institution that the paper is coming from. IMO, if the paper is from a top institution, the reviewer might judge it differently than the same quality of paper coming from a low tier institute (not always the case, but there is a chan... |
2014/03/17 | 722 | 2,956 | <issue_start>username_0: I've received offers from two UK universities (Masters degree), first conditional and second unconditional. There's always a possibility that I won't meet conditions so I'd like to keep the second university as a back-up. Is it possible to do it like this, that I accept both offers and after I ... |
2014/03/17 | 300 | 1,252 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently came across a journal article that included and referenced a figure (photograph) from a US patent. I found the patent, and I would like to use the same figure, and I'm wondering who the copyright holder is. Might it be free to use since the patent itself is public, or do I need to as... |
2014/03/17 | 503 | 2,216 | <issue_start>username_0: In my country, several universities are prefixed by "Universidade Federal", which can be translated to "Federal University" (e.g., "Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro" to "Federal University of Rio de Janeiro"). When publishing a paper, should we translate this part of the name?
This is a... |
2014/03/17 | 1,168 | 4,838 | <issue_start>username_0: Out of five needed members for my doctoral thesis committee, four are fixed. For the fifth member, I approached Mr.A. He has no real connection to my research or topic but I contacted him because he was just as good a fit as anybody else in the department to be the fifth member. I have never wo... |
2014/03/18 | 476 | 1,900 | <issue_start>username_0: It's been one month since the graduate advisor (also the POI) said will get back to me regarding my grad application, should I send a follow up email or should I just wait? He said in the last email that he is checking something for me and will get back to me as soon as possible, but it's towar... |
2014/03/18 | 879 | 3,551 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been considering a career change for awhile and recently discovered the Two-Slit Experiment, which, to put it frankly, blew my mind. I then started some hefty reading and investigation into all things Quantum (Bell, entanglement, QIT), which has led me here.
I have 20 years experience in ... |
2014/03/18 | 550 | 2,025 | <issue_start>username_0: Which ISBN number should I use in my literature list?
I have for example used a book about Design Patterns for my thesis. But I found that books have two ISBN numbers. Which is prefered to use?
This is an example from a book I used as reference:
```
Print ISBN:978-0-596-00712-6 | ISBN 10:0-... |
2014/03/18 | 1,484 | 5,882 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the initial process to become a Mathematics's lecturer at a University in London. I want to be able to lecture in a top university in the United Kingdom such as Kings College.
What is the academic ladder that I will have to climb?
Would my undergraduate program have to be from a good ... |
2014/03/18 | 1,540 | 6,632 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been appointed to teach one course in Artificial Intelligence in one university. The reason was that the main lecturer is involved in other duties and for that reason he could not teach one group (there are two groups actually). The thing is that this lecturer has given me all the materi... |
2014/03/19 | 1,321 | 5,461 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm interested in mathematical research, but want to know if there are good jobs besides being a professor. Are there any lucrative research-centric careers out there for someone with a PhD in pure mathematics?<issue_comment>username_1: If you're interested in the job market for mathematics Ph.... |
2014/03/19 | 366 | 1,659 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to submit my article in a peer reviewed journal which requires the contacts of three potential reviewers of my work. I can think of a few names whose works I have cited in the paper (who, I think will be the best judge). Is it polite to contact them via email to check their availabil... |
2014/03/19 | 380 | 1,636 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in the agonizing period shortly after an academic job interview at a regional research school and I'm trying to analyze the day to estimate my chances of getting an offer.
Overall the interview seemed to go well. The talk was fine and the one on one interviews and meals seemed ... |
2014/03/19 | 1,332 | 4,975 | <issue_start>username_0: As per the title, I would like to determine whether a paper cited by a student comes from a reputable source or not, **given that the paper's content lies outside my field**. My first thought was to check the journal's website, as well as doing a Google Scholar search to see whether papers in o... |
2014/03/19 | 1,487 | 6,533 | <issue_start>username_0: I am still working towards an undergraduate degree in Mathematics, however I don't believe it's possible to think about research too early. I'm thinking about going in the direction of Pure Mathematics - possibly in the area of Number Theory and Logic.
I have edited the above title, as I thin... |
2014/03/20 | 950 | 3,972 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a glaring omission in my CV because I do not have any scholarly (peer reviewed) publications to my credit. However, I have good industry-based experience (more than 10 years when I have written a number of manuals and submissions), and have recently completed a Social Science PhD from a ... |
2014/03/20 | 442 | 1,777 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there recommended or standard published papers (not books) that show great research methodology/ scientific methods? I am trying to help out a friend who is in business and they are trying to study aspects of humans (in terms of their clients). I gave him the book [*The Craft of Research*](... |
2014/03/20 | 688 | 2,662 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering whether it is a good practice for someone to emphasize that he obtained his degree from a prestigious university by including the name of his university always after his title, something like:
>
> Name, PhD (Caltech)
>
>
>
I have seen this in few occasions, but felt that i... |
2014/03/20 | 1,929 | 8,837 | <issue_start>username_0: Many times I heard about papers published in conference. But still I am not able to find the major difference between papers published in a conference and those published in a journal. What is the difference?<issue_comment>username_1: Conference papers refer to articles that are written with th... |
2014/03/20 | 938 | 3,899 | <issue_start>username_0: In [ISI Web of Knowledge Journal Citation Report](http://admin-apps.webofknowledge.com/JCR/JCR), we can find any journal Impact Factor (IF) and 5-Years Impact Factor (IF5), which is, as far as I get it, the Impact Factor over the last 5 years (well, the name is quite self-descriptive...).
What... |
2014/03/20 | 1,811 | 6,616 | <issue_start>username_0: What are best practices (if any exist) for labeling axes in plots/graphs for academic documents, such as theses, publications, or presentations?
Possible options are to use the variable, spell out the variable, or a combination of both. For example, to label a time axis, we could write: ***t*... |
2014/03/20 | 994 | 4,060 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is rather short one, how much information should I include when writing the introduction, and how much should be left out for the literature review
**Note:** the reason for this question, is because my advisor told me that my introduction is to light and he raised several question ... |
2014/03/20 | 898 | 3,699 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a research paper in English but the topic is about a different country and the data is written in a different language, Arabic.
Should I translate the data into English?
If yes, should I include a version of the excerpt in the original language?
If yes, how?
Apart from using excer... |
2014/03/21 | 420 | 1,898 | <issue_start>username_0: A common way to handle grant applications seems to be to request external reviews, to which the applicant can then respond. Reviews and response together are discussed at a panel where the proposals are ranked, and the top x% then are funded.
I've found myself in a nice, but perplexing situati... |
2014/03/21 | 676 | 2,925 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm interested in learning about how to go about writing a paper, and obviously, an integral part of this process will be to read papers written by others, and study those. I'm curious about the idea of using software mapping tools as a means of logging connections between certain papers of int... |
2014/03/21 | 2,165 | 8,701 | <issue_start>username_0: Being a US citizen and native, my view of degree progression is
1. Bachelors, 4 years of study
2. Masters, 1-2 years of study, thesis or portfolio required
3. Doctorate, 3-4 years of study, comprehensive exams and dissertation required
How does this compare globally? My current understanding... |
2014/03/22 | 4,135 | 18,117 | <issue_start>username_0: So a TA came to me asking for advice. He gave wrong information in office hours leading a student to a wrong answer.
The TA showed the student how to solve the problem via the wrong statistical test - the assumptions for the statistical test he used do not hold in this case. The answer genera... |
2014/03/22 | 296 | 1,144 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an article with in-text citations and list of references. I have not used any of reference managers, just used word.
Is there any way to automatically link in-text citation to individual references on the reference list?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes. It is quite easy to do, once you kn... |
2014/03/22 | 856 | 3,682 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a research student. Though me and my advisor used to meet regularly, nowadays due to workload, I usually remain outstation and not able to meet him personally.
I do work continuously and meet him at least once a month but am not able to take as much input from my advisor as I would like.... |
2014/03/22 | 493 | 2,178 | <issue_start>username_0: What are pros and cons of using public version control system such as github for writing my papers and reports ?
Is it good to store copies of papers/reports being submitted to conference/journals on such repos. If no, wouldn't it make sense to not use them at the first place itself.<issue_com... |
2014/03/22 | 367 | 1,608 | <issue_start>username_0: How far should we go when considering the possibility that a (non spectacular, bur relevant) result has already appeared in any other language different from English?
Is it safe to ignore non-English publications in some fields like computer science, chemistry or physics? That would be assumin... |
2014/03/23 | 1,244 | 5,857 | <issue_start>username_0: Can we send our research paper to two IEEE conference simultaneously, and then after acceptance, decide which conference proceedings to publish it in?<issue_comment>username_1: Short answer is yes, but it is unethical. Even when you read the agreement before submitting your paper it appears tha... |
2014/03/23 | 815 | 3,420 | <issue_start>username_0: In the book *Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory* (10th edition) by Boylestad and <NAME>, I have found a [technical mistake](https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/9317/how-many-ga-atoms-are-connected-to-one-as-atom-in-solid-state-gallium-arseni).
* What can I do about this?
* To who... |
2014/03/23 | 1,099 | 4,700 | <issue_start>username_0: Do students with Masters Degree complete their PhDs (in US, but I am curious about other countries too) sooner than the one's who have entered the PhD program after their undergrad?
I know it depends upon the individual, project, major and the supervisor but is there a general trend?<issue_co... |
2014/03/23 | 817 | 3,425 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been offered a place for a masters program in 2 places. One which is fully funded and another one where there is no aid that has been offered at the time of admission.
I guess if the everything else was the same between the two then the answer is obvious, which is to go for the funded ... |
2014/03/23 | 564 | 2,558 | <issue_start>username_0: I hope this question is appropriate for the forum here. I was hoping to locate and read a thesis outside of the United States, specifically for someone who went to a reputable University in mainland China (Shanghai Jiao Tong University). However, all of my internet searches have been largely fr... |
2014/03/23 | 1,024 | 4,488 | <issue_start>username_0: This post concerns grad school options. I am an undergraduate math major and will soon complete my studies. I am considering finance/financial engineering. How math-heavy is the financial mathematics compared to pure mathematics? Is it equally as challenging and tough?
Basically, I am consider... |
2014/03/24 | 621 | 2,691 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a PhD in physics, and my career path of choice has always been in physics. Unfortunately, I have been struck with a series of chronic health problems which have caused me to be fired and homebound much of the time. However, as physics research is mostly a mental activity, I am still able... |
2014/03/24 | 459 | 1,830 | <issue_start>username_0: I am aware of US News which publishes the rankings for US Universities every year.
But somehow I feel that they try to emphasize more on private universities than public(state) universities.
Also they have recently stopped showing the rankings according to fields of study(CS, ECE, Mechanical, e... |
2014/03/24 | 1,031 | 4,414 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to find out what the average duration of PhD studies are in the USA. Here in Spain it used to be 4 years, but it seems that Europe is moving towards a 3-year scheme since students are expected to do their MSc before they start. What is it like in the USA? Is some kind of shortening ... |
2014/03/24 | 813 | 3,618 | <issue_start>username_0: I have had a paper accepted for a conference this summer, which presents the preliminary results of my PhD research. However, I'd like to present my final results at another conference in the fall, the deadline for which is in a few weeks, and which requires a full paper submission. My question... |
2014/03/24 | 968 | 4,180 | <issue_start>username_0: I conceived and co-developed (including the program itself and training protocols for participants)/piloted the program locally/managed three national pilots, and assessed the effectiveness of the program including formulating the written proposal to public and private funding agencies that lai... |
2014/03/24 | 13,274 | 54,074 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in the situation where you have a very interesting result. For instance, you have solved a very important open problem. However, you are not known in the field and do not have any remarkable publications. Your supervisor thinks the work is good and you submit the work to a high ... |
2014/03/25 | 13,138 | 53,431 | <issue_start>username_0: I received the following comment from a journal reviewer:
>
> There is a need to conduct a research-based intervention program which
> compare between other solutions and your solution. Such research can
> provide evidence and support to the importance of this solution over
> others.
>
> ... |
2014/03/25 | 449 | 1,917 | <issue_start>username_0: I was reading this Harvard Business Review article, [The Making of an Expert](http://hbr.org/2007/07/the-making-of-an-expert/ar/1) and they were offering a PDF purchase.
Are there major differences between the content of the PDF and the free article?<issue_comment>username_1: Many publisher of... |
2014/03/25 | 1,698 | 6,123 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently trying to read an article on a particular topic. I really want to read and reference the proper original article, and attribute the work to the ones who deserve it; however, I'm finding it hard to determine just who that is.
I have found articles, all of which seem to be ripped ... |
2014/03/25 | 6,529 | 27,774 | <issue_start>username_0: When I wrote my syllabus for this term, I added the line "Late work will not be accepted." In the past, I just took off a large percentage of the grade per day, but I became tired of the added work of managing papers that students handed to me at random times and places.
The students, naturall... |
2014/03/25 | 2,348 | 10,450 | <issue_start>username_0: I apologize for the length of this post but I feel it is necessary to accurately convey the severity of the situation. I greatly appreciate those who take the time to offer advice.
I am a prospective PhD student in a major research institution and am writing on behalf of numerous students frus... |
2014/03/25 | 1,592 | 6,588 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a fourth year graduate student of information science. Broadly, I work in a rather interdisciplinary area at the intersection of location based social networks, usable privacy and surveillance studies.
I am post [A exam](http://gradschool.cornell.edu/requirements/exams/exams-phds) - whic... |
2014/03/25 | 774 | 3,278 | <issue_start>username_0: Main Issue: What credit should be given (and how should it be given) to the alma mater in publicizing old work?
Background: I entered and left a Ph.D. program in another millenium. During this time
I produced some results, one group of which was to become my dissertation. (At one point, my adv... |
2014/03/25 | 2,204 | 7,105 | <issue_start>username_0: If I am not wrong, turbo codes was submitted to the ICC conference and rejected but accepted later on.
I want to know if there are other similar works (strong works) that were rejected at first but then accepted and considered revolutionary.<issue_comment>username_1: **Higgs**'s 1964 paper on ... |
2014/03/26 | 1,147 | 4,897 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to an internationally reputed journal. Two months after submission I was asked to suggest possible reviewers, which I did after a couple of days reflection. Since then it has been 4 months and the paper is still "awaiting reviewer invitation." I sent an email to the editor-i... |
2014/03/26 | 1,138 | 4,542 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a scientific manuscript in German and since I want to give the German readers the opportunity to understand everything of it, I will include translations of all foreign quotes.
How would I do this? Let's assume the following hypothetical English text, where I want to include the or... |
2014/03/26 | 647 | 2,503 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Computational Biologist as part of an academic lab group working on the Immunogenomics of disease vectors (which may be relevant to the following).
I am designing part of a web-page that showcases the members of the group by:
* Two portrait photographs
* A personal statement (50 words... |
2014/03/26 | 881 | 3,919 | <issue_start>username_0: I always want to read a high profile publication papers. It is true that they are in general hard to understand but they have very important results (in general).
It happens to me sometimes. Sometimes when I read a high profile paper, I found that the contribution is not very interesting, not ... |
2014/03/27 | 1,540 | 6,754 | <issue_start>username_0: In my syllabus there is series of writing assignments that are worth 10% of the final grade. Over the course of the semester there were supposed to be 4 assignments, however as a result of snow days and other extrinsic issues, the students have only turned in one of these assignments and I am n... |
2014/03/27 | 782 | 3,257 | <issue_start>username_0: I am on the faculty of a large American university, and I have bought a lot of equipment (laptops, tablets, batteries, etc.) for research purposes using a startup package. I will be leaving for a new university in September, and I am wondering what, *in practice*, will happen to this equipment.... |
2014/03/27 | 953 | 4,207 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently teaching at a local college an Introduction to programming using C#. Most of these students have never had any programming experience. The only prerequisite is an ICT course that teaches basics of computing.
I am finding that the students are facing issues with comprehending th... |
2014/03/27 | 756 | 3,009 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to the Fulbright Foreign Student Program, and they require a transcript. Now, I have a problem with my grades, in that I had good grades until my final year, where a combination of depression and a death in the family tanked my non-major GPA. During my final year, I went from a cu... |
2014/03/27 | 1,024 | 3,983 | <issue_start>username_0: How much of the teaching content at universities in the US is delivered in imperial units instead of SI?
I imagine that industry (e.g. Engineering) is still stuck using imperial units, but research and physics are much better suited to SI units, so I am interested to know how this is dealt wit... |
2014/03/27 | 790 | 3,281 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm in my third year of university and I'm at the point where I have to choose my modules for next year. This is a simple question, but I really wish I asked it a long time ago because I have no idea of the answer.
Should I pick modules I know I can easily pass that will get me a better fi... |
2014/03/27 | 440 | 1,946 | <issue_start>username_0: I went on a trip to Oxford with my school, and I asked a lady whether or not you have to go and discover something in a PhD? She said no, and it's more research. But I read up somewhere that you do have to discover something to get a PhD.
I just want to know precisely how a PhD works.
Will so... |
2014/03/27 | 578 | 2,497 | <issue_start>username_0: In the University in which I will start teaching the course sequence for Programming goes in this way:
* Algorithms and Data Structures
* Structured Programming Languages
* Object-Oriented Programming Languages
So as you see, the first contact of the students with Programming is the "Algorith... |
2014/03/27 | 3,165 | 11,683 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD advisor and lab colleagues think that Springer, IEEE and Elsevier journals non-open-access charge authors for publishing a paper. (They usually only publish in local journals.) All the info I've found points to the contrary (except for "gold" open access journals, which do charge authors... |
2014/03/28 | 878 | 3,873 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, some students skipped some lessons without note (within the drop policy limits). I post basic instructions to a course Web site where any student can check, but since these students missed classes, the instructions are insufficient, so they send me E-mails or call asking me "explain w... |
2014/03/28 | 1,183 | 5,208 | <issue_start>username_0: I work with some students who will attend graduate school in the US. The schools they are applying for list minimum required TOEFL scores. Some have just reached the minimum scores required for admission to their schools of choice. Do admissions departments ever care about how close this number... |
2014/03/28 | 1,026 | 4,098 | <issue_start>username_0: A newbie here :)
I am currently a PhD student in a computer science program. My research interest is about quantum information science. Back then, I also got accepted into a Physics PhD program, but I decided to join my current department because the project is much more interesting.
Here is ... |
2014/03/28 | 1,091 | 4,588 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that a top-N department at a big research university (for very small N) has the choice between two candidates for a tenure-track position:
1. Candidate A: a bright young researcher just done writing her dissertation, and
2. Candidate B: a more seasoned veteran with several years of suc... |
2014/03/28 | 335 | 1,361 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague of mine would like to compare 25+ different Java implementations of the same homework. Is it OK (ethically/legally in the US) to share my students' class homework solutions with him for his research purposes?<issue_comment>username_1: You need to run this by your Institutional Revie... |
2014/03/29 | 477 | 1,954 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it a good idea to submit a paper when you are about to leave academia, say in the next year?
In my field (Mathematics), the review progress is typically very long (At the moment I'm waiting for the first review for almost a year). I do not want to receive a review while I'm in the middle o... |
2014/03/29 | 1,475 | 6,283 | <issue_start>username_0: All the three types of research revolve around an argument, a thesis. They of course differ in terms of student level, that is complexity.
But, what makes a bachelor's thesis different from master's and PhD theses in terms of procedures of researching given that all of them may follow the same... |
2014/03/29 | 628 | 2,576 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing the questionnaire for my Doctor of Business Administration research; for the purposes of this question (on Academia SE), I am investigating techniques used in customising cars. It is conceivable that a respondent has used several techniques, so I envisage repeating the same quest... |
2014/03/30 | 2,205 | 9,499 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not sure if this question is okay to post here (I am only an undergrad), so please feel free to close/migrate if necessary. I won't be offended.
I am an undergraduate taking an undergraduate CS class right now. I feel the class is being taught like a graduate-level course, but we are being... |
2014/03/30 | 1,081 | 4,551 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to go to graduate school to study computational molecular biology and biochemistry.
During my first three semesters as an undergraduate I finished my distribution requirements and started doing research with one professor. During my fourth semester I started doing research with two mor... |
2014/03/30 | 373 | 1,467 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working on my thesis and facing the problem of choosing between "I", "We" or "the author" when I want to talk about things I defined, decided etc. I am the only author of my thesis, but using "I" is not very common, is it? I saw quite a lot of work of single-authors that used "We... |
2014/03/31 | 603 | 2,503 | <issue_start>username_0: Most colleges and universities in the US base their admissions on high school grades plus a standardized test (SAT or ACT). To decide whether a particular piece of data X is a good admissions criterion, people seem to focus on how well X correlates with college grades. (This may be freshman gra... |
2014/03/31 | 1,391 | 5,957 | <issue_start>username_0: I believe that the majority of Elsevier journals use a standard dual column document class.
However, some journals that are owned by Elsevier use an alternative single column format (e.g. [J. Comput. Phys.](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00219991); [J. Sound and Vib.](http://www.... |
2014/03/31 | 449 | 2,003 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my master's dissertation with an adviser and was interested in the PhD program. Unfortunately I was told that my master's adviser didn't have funding and the other professor in department was doing an interesting research about an emerging field and he agreed to fund my PhD for next... |
2014/03/31 | 935 | 4,272 | <issue_start>username_0: It is not unusual for institutes to advertise positions (faculty or not) for which there is an internal candidate. In such situations, for external candidates, it may be difficult if not impossible to get in. When a position is advertised, is it appropriate and useful to inquire if a position h... |
2014/03/31 | 752 | 2,730 | <issue_start>username_0: I realise this is a bit of a silly question, but I'm writing up a conference paper on a model that's named after a Hollywood movie. What is the appropriate way to cite the movie in the paper? Should it have its own entry in the references (and if so, in what format?), or should I simply say som... |
2014/03/31 | 744 | 3,208 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to write up my PhD thesis at the moment and for the theoretical part I have drawn some graphics that are of rather generic type -- crystal structures, crystal lattices and the like, similar to the image below (taken from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_crystal_system),... |
2014/03/31 | 4,440 | 15,283 | <issue_start>username_0: I have three years of experience teaching as part of a team (many teachers, some with more experience, agreeing on a syllabus and preparing the tests together), but this year is the first time I am fully in charge of some courses.
After grading the mid-term exam for one of my class, I noticed ... |
2014/03/31 | 4,083 | 14,238 | <issue_start>username_0: If I have a paper accepted in a *known* conference of my field but am not able to present it at the the conference due to certain factors, should this be mentioned on my Master's application?
Also, where/how should this be mentioned?<issue_comment>username_1: There are several possible factor... |
2014/03/31 | 1,490 | 5,880 | <issue_start>username_0: I was accepted into Ohio State University CS PhD without funding.
I have heard that people who can show their capability may get funding after getting into the program. Is this understanding correct?
Is being accepted without funding a dangerous sign? Does this means that the faculty doesn't... |
2014/03/31 | 4,965 | 12,450 | <issue_start>username_0: I came across yet another infogram, originating from [this Nature article](http://www.nature.com/news/365-days-2011-in-review-1.9684), showing the top-40 countries in terms of scientific publications produced for 2011.
The d... |