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2014/05/01 | 1,505 | 6,265 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to start preparing for GRE. I have great enthusiasm for reading novels rather than memorizing words. Will words learnt from novels be helpful for GRE vocabulary? Which novels/writers books should be read for GRE vocabulary?<issue_comment>username_1: No doubt you can encounter useful w... |
2014/05/01 | 1,776 | 7,095 | <issue_start>username_0: Possible arguments:
Pro
* For brevity for trivial deductions
Contra
* Looks like the writer could not be bothered to write an extensive explanation
* Definition of what is trivial to which reader and what not<issue_comment>username_1: I don't agree with any of these assessments. Often the o... |
2014/05/01 | 427 | 1,840 | <issue_start>username_0: I have done some work and I thought of publishing it. This is my first attempt to publish. After searching a lot, I found out that SCI indexed journals are good. But I am seeing publishing price at about $1500-$3100 which is absolutely impossible for me. (Just out of question). My work is on im... |
2014/05/01 | 989 | 3,999 | <issue_start>username_0: My case is the following, I have already got a MSc in Computer Science, but my field of specialization was Theoretical Computer Science. Actually I am really interested in the field of Machine Learning, but unfortunately I did not follow any course about that topic in my previous master's degre... |
2014/05/01 | 490 | 2,127 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received a Call for Presentations for a conference and I have a topic that could be interesting to present.
The Call for Presentations describe the various forms of presentations that one can submit, and then links to a form asking for a title, presenter name(s) and an abstract. This ha... |
2014/05/01 | 253 | 996 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm preparing my application for a master degree scholarship, would it help to put the MOOC's I took in the application, I earned five MOOC certificates and expecting another two in the near future.<issue_comment>username_1: Yes! Why not? It shows that you go beyond what is required of you, and... |
2014/05/01 | 666 | 2,562 | <issue_start>username_0: I was told that universities in USA are generally better that the ones in Italy. I will take the undergraduate degree this July, and I need to decide whether to continue my studies in Italy or to move to the USA.
[This site](http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject... |
2014/05/01 | 1,389 | 6,012 | <issue_start>username_0: A good friend of mine had an interview for a psychology Masters degree. The interviewer asked my friend: **"Tell me about yourself"**.
* How should one approach such a question?
* What do the admission committee expect to hear?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> How should one approach such a ques... |
2014/05/01 | 959 | 4,337 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in mathematical physics. Typically, papers in my field are either published either in general math journals (Annals of Math, Transactions of AMS, Proceedings of AMS) or in specialized math physics journals (Communications in Math Physics, Reviews in Mathematical Physics, Ann<NAME>, etc.)... |
2014/05/01 | 2,698 | 11,663 | <issue_start>username_0: I was speaking with several professors in my department about submission to high-profile conferences like CHI in human-computer interaction. Most of the professors were of the opinion that acceptance in most of these high-profile conferences (typical acceptance rate of less than 20%) is heavily... |
2014/05/02 | 1,371 | 6,063 | <issue_start>username_0: By this, I do not mean I did not obtain significant research results. My supervisor has told me to finish up a draft of paper for submission, I wrote it, then after few months, he told me to correct some parts and did more experiments on certain area, I followed all his instructions and wrote a... |
2014/05/02 | 746 | 3,124 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read many questions on this site that relate to Journal impact factors, for example, in relation to how that may affect where to publish etc.
I am wondering is there an independent oversight body that regulates the area of impact factors?
I was thinking along the lines of something li... |
2014/05/02 | 613 | 2,591 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to use/find the correct term for the *practice of publishing research results in academia*, mainly a reference to the practice of publishing research findings in a formal journal or conference.
The term has to have a clear contrast to the practice of *publishing full data-sets of ... |
2014/05/02 | 451 | 2,076 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been using some online proofreader tools for checking for grammar issues in my writing, but I have found that the solutions they give are not so good at all.
For that reason I would like to know any human-proofreader service that somebody could recommend me. Some of the characteristics o... |
2014/05/02 | 990 | 4,682 | <issue_start>username_0: Some journals bundle relevant papers on a currently hot topic into special issues. As far as I know, potential manuscripts must be specifically submitted for inclusion in special issues rather than the journal itself (or get selected from conference proceedings).
In my field, special issues te... |
2014/05/02 | 295 | 1,225 | <issue_start>username_0: When a professor goes on unpaid leave from her university, can she normally continue to use her grants to fund graduate students and postdocs? Or, do all grants "freeze" until the professor returns?<issue_comment>username_1: I don't see any reason that a professor wouldn't be able to continue t... |
2014/05/02 | 688 | 2,871 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to apply for a Master program in U.S. as I am about to graduate in Bachelor of Engineering. Though I heard that all my grades during all my academic life is taken into consideration (GPA). Here in Brazil is very common to have a huge gap between universities both in teaching level an... |
2014/05/02 | 522 | 2,201 | <issue_start>username_0: Would it ever occur, historically, that a PhD student could not obtain his degree from a university due to the high costs of publishing his thesis, such that he would have to publish it at another university and get his degree there instead?<issue_comment>username_1: Emphatically, I don't see h... |
2014/05/02 | 313 | 1,133 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there anything like a directory or list of notable leading living figures based on subject area or research concentration?<issue_comment>username_1: I think the American Academy of Arts and Sciences might be a good place to start, at least if your focus is primarily on academics in the U.S. ... |
2014/05/02 | 486 | 2,114 | <issue_start>username_0: Should I modify my CV to emphasize certain traits before including it in my application for a master's degree or just include my usual professional CV?<issue_comment>username_1: An academic CV typically contains items you wouldn't want to list in a professional resume, such as a complete publis... |
2014/05/02 | 325 | 1,507 | <issue_start>username_0: Completely unrelated to my field (I do not work in languages) but I have written a small piece of software that proof reads my work for grammar and syntax. I'm interested in finding a few documents (ideally from a range of academic disciplines) that I can use to check my proof reading software.... |
2014/05/03 | 1,705 | 7,311 | <issue_start>username_0: Say you have a homework assignment and you're struggling with it. You ask a question about some portion of it on a site like physics.stackexchange or math.SE or stackoverflow.com, etc.
You then cite the help you received in your homework, as well as including a link to the post which helped yo... |
2014/05/03 | 1,027 | 4,262 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently completed a manuscript and I want it to submit to the arXiv. But there I find that there is an endorsement requirement. But since I am quite new in this field (and this is my first time wanting to submit to arXiv), I don't know how to find an endorser myself. I have mailed the *... |
2014/05/03 | 1,105 | 4,758 | <issue_start>username_0: *I tried to search in the previous Q/As, but I do not think my case falls in any of the previous entries.*
While looking for a certain topic in my field, I found two papers.
The first paper was authored by authors A, B, C, and D and published in some conference proceedings. The second paper w... |
2014/05/03 | 364 | 1,476 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to add a photo with some additional data drawn over it to my thesis in computer science. But the photo is large and I want to crop bottom half of it. But then it could be misleading, that there is a part of the image missing.
I will write it to the image description, but I want it to be... |
2014/05/03 | 648 | 2,765 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering whether there's any way to enter the academic world, do research at a university for a living, without an undergraduate degree, but instead with several years of experience in industry (the same field of the research).
This is actually my situation. After 8 years of software deve... |
2014/05/04 | 1,731 | 7,226 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been teaching a humanities course at a higher education institution for about more than three years now. I am expected to get full tenure this year. Perhaps it is the only chair dedicated to my field in my country; it is certainly the only one in the subfield I teach. In other words, yes... |
2014/05/04 | 1,863 | 8,293 | <issue_start>username_0: In short:
I have ported a package in another programming environment, and I want to write a paper of my ported package. Would it be considered cheating?
In details:
I have implemented a package in Python, that is modeled after an R package, which means my package has the design and APIs simi... |
2014/05/04 | 303 | 1,255 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to apply for a scholarship, but my TOEFL score is 81 and I think it is not good enough. Sending language proficiency scores is not compulsory for scholarship application but it is encouraged. I am indecisive to send it. What is your idea?<issue_comment>username_1: If you are not satisfie... |
2014/05/01 | 948 | 4,244 | <issue_start>username_0: Can anyone recommend an open source system for students to submit programming assignments? Ideally it would be something that would run on the web, do some level of testing on the server side, and provide feedback to the students based on testing.<issue_comment>username_1: I've never done this ... |
2014/05/04 | 1,233 | 5,315 | <issue_start>username_0: I started a PhD program few years ago. My first PhD supervisor decided he wanted to quit university and stopped supervising PhDs (he was 70 years old). I lost about a year trying to convince this supervisor to continue, and another year trying to find another supervisor when he quit (he pretty ... |
2014/05/04 | 687 | 2,882 | <issue_start>username_0: Everybody I have met in academia uses recently-published journals entirely through electronic means. They may print out articles for their own use, but they will not receive printed subscriptions.
Does *anybody* receive modern journals in printed form nowadays? If so, who and why?<issue_commen... |
2014/05/04 | 1,197 | 5,232 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering what I should do in this situation as an undergraduate student:
About a month ago, I applied for and did not get into a program that allows first-year students to work on research projects that professors put forward, with the intention of introducing students to research, whic... |
2014/05/05 | 595 | 2,455 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it plagiarism if I copy several paragraphs from another's source (let's say a CS paper) into my work and then footnote `Source: ...`, for example, as background information?<issue_comment>username_1: If you copy something verbatim, you are required to put quotations mark around it, and also ... |
2014/05/05 | 1,116 | 4,366 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning on applying to a Master's degree program (in Canada, if it matters) and I've noticed that there seems to be quite a few grade cut-offs for applications. I've [read](https://www.quora.com/Graduate-School-Admissions/If-I-contact-a-professor-for-research-graduate-school-and-he-asks-f... |
2014/05/05 | 758 | 3,400 | <issue_start>username_0: Some time ago I contacted a professor at another university and, after some discussions, he agreed to supervise me and told me to make a formal application to the department. Unfortunately, the admission committee rejected my application. I asked that professor why, and he said he had no idea a... |
2014/05/05 | 739 | 3,256 | <issue_start>username_0: How should one go about trying to teach students to "unlearn" a previous skill/principle they believe is correct but is actually wrong?
Hypothetically speaking as a really basic situation, if your student was adamant that the formula for the area of a rectangle is 2\*l + 2\*w, even though you... |
2014/05/05 | 623 | 2,316 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering whether existed some software that would take as input a text file bibliography (for instance a bib file if you use bibtex), and that run it through google scholar (or any other database), so that it can return a uniformized bibliography.
As an example, suppose you have two ite... |
2014/05/05 | 1,389 | 6,109 | <issue_start>username_0: I failed to complete my research project (undergraduate) in the time I said I would, because of overconfidence. It seemed like a quite simple project to both me and my advisor initially considering that it was very similar to a project another student of his had worked on, however for some reas... |
2014/05/05 | 566 | 2,573 | <issue_start>username_0: I am pursuing a PhD (computer science) from one of the reputed Indian universities. I have prepared some white papers for publication in coming journals. I prepared these papers by myself. I referred various links and study guides, books etc.
After getting these papers published, I received on... |
2014/05/06 | 1,670 | 7,055 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate writing a paper for a philosophy course in logic. My paper is exploring a relationship between Leibniz' logic and graph theory. In writing the paper, I've found some material in Leibniz' work on combinatorics that (to me) strongly resembles graph theory. However, I can't fi... |
2014/05/06 | 1,296 | 5,126 | <issue_start>username_0: There are essentially two ways for plotting three-dimensional data:
* Colour maps (or heat maps)¹:
* Surface plots:
While surface plots are quite nic... |
2014/05/06 | 1,594 | 6,937 | <issue_start>username_0: I know you should build a good network with your professors as early as possible, not only it will help your study, but also you can get great recommendation letter from them.
But not all students aim at graduate school when they start their undergraduate, for example, I only became interest ... |
2014/05/06 | 573 | 2,566 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD candidate in Computer Science and I'm working on my first paper that should be published in a peer-reviewed journal (until now, I published only papers in conferences).
My project is a FPGA memory module, which uses a specific approach (the main idea) to obtain better performance in t... |
2014/05/06 | 321 | 1,379 | <issue_start>username_0: I am analysing data from a commercial instrument. I need to set a threshold that has to do with the precision of the instrument, so I looked up the value from the manufacturer's online specifications. How do I cite it?
The university does not have any official policy, and other papers in the f... |
2014/05/06 | 634 | 2,578 | <issue_start>username_0: I am seeking some help to find research papers (preferably in the area of Markov chains) for my undergraduate research for reference. Any guidance on how to find research papers in general for undergraduate level research will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance<issue_comment>username_1: The... |
2014/05/06 | 240 | 1,000 | <issue_start>username_0: My graduate program is a non-research based. However, I am interested in writing and presenting a conference paper. Is it possible for me to do this even as I am not into research work?<issue_comment>username_1: Of course you can submit any paper you want. There are a lot of people, for example... |
2014/05/06 | 1,948 | 7,801 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper describing some of the research I have done. As part of my work I have developed an open-source library and made it available on Github.
How should I link to it?
Should I cite it in the bibliography or make a footnote with the link to the software?<issue_comment>usernam... |
2014/05/06 | 663 | 2,508 | <issue_start>username_0: I remember of some article that was published in which the author showed a world map with circles that represented the number of articles published by country and their frequency in which a groundbreaking academic work was released in each country(One of them was represented by the size of the ... |
2014/05/07 | 1,102 | 4,684 | <issue_start>username_0: I was working with my advisor on a research topic for six months and we had some results. The important idea was his, but the initial idea was mine and we worked on it together. Now my advisor has published the results without my name in the authors. The paper is in an important conference.
Wh... |
2014/05/07 | 517 | 2,123 | <issue_start>username_0: I am just finishing my PhD and I have now been on the job market and started to speak at many universities. I have realized it is a time commitment for a person to host a seminar speaker and am really grateful for the experiences that many of my hosts have given me at these universities. For th... |
2014/05/07 | 2,917 | 11,501 | <issue_start>username_0: This question has two parts. First, a comparative question. Second, a broad question about why PhD students get so stressed and complain so much.
**Do PhD students complain more than people in other professions?**
In my limited and biased experience, yes. More generally, there are so many we... |
2014/05/07 | 1,173 | 5,077 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student halfway through my journey. After I published a few papers, I am getting review requests from some medium rank conference and journal editors. While certainly it is an honour for me, doing good review takes some time since I am not an expert of my broad field with everything ... |
2014/05/07 | 1,311 | 5,687 | <issue_start>username_0: My primary interest is in Data Mining. Secondary interests are Intrusion Detection and Energy Efficient Buildings.
I have done projects in data mining approaches for intrusion detection. I have also done research in data analysis on energy consumption patterns in smart-buildings.
I will be ap... |
2014/05/07 | 928 | 3,770 | <issue_start>username_0: This topic has already been described to some extent, e.g. here:
[Is verbatim copying several paragraphs of text with citation considered plagiarism?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/20270/is-verbatim-copying-text-with-citation-considered-plagiarism)
But I do no think that it has... |
2014/05/07 | 1,375 | 6,064 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been trying to write a paper. Reading the introduction part I am getting different behaviours from different papers.
Some papers cover themselves more than 50% with introduction content as if they are the only source of information present anywhere while some give it very briefly expec... |
2014/05/07 | 784 | 3,339 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate in Computer Science who's has just completed his 2nd year. However I could not get an internship for the summer leaving me extremely tense about the future since there would be only one summer left (i.e., the summer of 2015 since I graduate in 2016).
I intend to apply to g... |
2014/05/07 | 667 | 2,906 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from engineering, and I would like to know if I am able to find a job in industrial research lab after finishing my master, will there be any advantage or disadvantage compared with entering the same lab after finishing PhD? Possible advantage may be that I have more industrial experience ... |
2014/05/07 | 3,334 | 14,579 | <issue_start>username_0: My research group has regular group meeting but I usually think it is not effective. In particular the research area of the group is very diverse, every time I just listen on something I cannot understand and have totally no interest on it, and I believe other members think the same way as I do... |
2014/05/07 | 322 | 1,380 | <issue_start>username_0: Could my institution get into legal hot water if we were to make copies of blank Scantron sheets? If so, are there good free alternatives for machine readable bubble sheets?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, there are some [open source alternatives](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_mark_recogn... |
2014/05/07 | 869 | 3,669 | <issue_start>username_0: I hold a BS in Mathematics with a minor in Statistics and I've been out of school for several years. I recently began applying to part time online master's programs in Statistics and Computer Science. I've been accepted to the online MSCS program through Johns Hopkins University and I'm hoping ... |
2014/05/07 | 1,398 | 5,801 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my graduation project to become a Software Engineer. The project aims to study the behavior of freelance developers to subsequently design a process that allows more quality and efficiency.
To know the freelancer behavior I have made a survey, but I don't know what is the best way t... |
2014/05/08 | 1,229 | 5,130 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a PhD in chemical engineering, and my advisor mentioned to me today that I'm on track to finish in about half a year. I only have one class left to fulfill the course requirements and I have a few papers published, with a couple more almost finished.
Personally, I'm in no hurry... |
2014/05/08 | 705 | 2,971 | <issue_start>username_0: As a beginner researcher, several years ago, I sent some (2-3) papers to a quality journal (with ISI IF). The papers were rejected.
Now I am preparing a manuscript, which is in my opinion much more mature.
In the meantime I had some papers published in other journals.
Now I am considering the s... |
2014/05/08 | 3,220 | 12,604 | <issue_start>username_0: People in my program complain a lot and usually not in good humor. How can I handle this socially and professionally?
Some of these people are my friends and some are no more than peers. In general I want to be respectful but not allow them to harangue me with complaints. Generally, [much of ... |
2014/05/08 | 514 | 1,972 | <issue_start>username_0: The [ABET accreditation criteria document for Computer Science](http://www.abet.org/cac-criteria-2014-2015/) lists some course requirements as
* One year of Science and Mathematics
* At least one half year of Mathematics
* One and one-third years of Computer Science
* At least one year of up-t... |
2014/05/08 | 570 | 2,521 | <issue_start>username_0: During my undergraduate, I have a publication, however I am listed as the second author. I know it is not as ideal as being listed as first author, but for graduate admission, will it still play a role?<issue_comment>username_1: No-one would expect an undergraduate to publish papers so the fact... |
2014/05/08 | 840 | 3,556 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to apply for a PhD through a government or a military research laboratory?
If so what would be the process? Is the qualifying exam required? How is that scheduled? How about course work?<issue_comment>username_1: I am in the UK so in other countries things may be different.
Som... |
2014/05/08 | 1,729 | 7,349 | <issue_start>username_0: The graduate students at my university (a relatively large state school in the US) are considering joining a union. To help decide whether to sign a union card in support of joining the union, I'm interested in more information about how unions have helped graduate students at other universitie... |
2014/05/08 | 1,326 | 5,512 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not famous enough of a scientist to be frequently solicited by the media\* (plus my field has little political/social controversy around it), but I had a few encounters with local newspapers and one with a public national television. The results were not entirely bad, but the general sentim... |
2014/05/09 | 768 | 3,344 | <issue_start>username_0: It just came to my mind, currently if one wants to obtain an
academic degree one must to do a thesis. This is a widely accepted
method to prove the knowledge of certain academic level, sort to say.
But my questions are, where this method was originated? Which historical
or social circumstances ... |
2014/05/09 | 821 | 3,360 | <issue_start>username_0: I've worked for an university for one year after my master's degree. Now I'm searching another job. For the moment I've tried to ask to several professors via email if there is any internship opportunities but only a couple of them answered me. I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong or this... |
2014/05/09 | 1,627 | 6,863 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to prepare some exercise sheets for a course. I am wondering whether or not it is OK to take some exercises directly from the textbook.<issue_comment>username_1: The big concern is copyright. How important it is depends on how complicated the problem statements are. For instance, if the ... |
2014/05/09 | 1,266 | 4,630 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper that I want to cite in my own work, in the form
"<NAME>" (for <NAME>) in the bibliography part of the paper and `Wayne` in the body of the paper.
The full name of the author appears on the paper as `Aaaa Bbbb Cccc`, and is typically a non-western name.
Say, consider something li... |
2014/05/09 | 1,212 | 5,325 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to look for a PhD position by contacting potential supervisors through email. I have made a list of professors who I found interesting through searching some papers and their department websites. Now I decide to write to them for asking opportunity and in order to show my sincerity,... |
2014/05/09 | 4,405 | 20,084 | <issue_start>username_0: *(This is a reworking of [Software for submitting and testing programming assignments](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/20226/13852).)*
First, a bit of background. Many courses in applied mathematics have a programming component, where students are asked to implement algorithms (say, in Ma... |
2014/05/09 | 991 | 4,247 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ethical to use WolframAlpha on a take-home exam for a math class? A couple qualifiers: this is a make-up exam where the original exam allowed for a scientific calculator but not a graphing/symbol-solving calculator.
The professor has made no other stipulations about the exam yet (no word... |
2014/05/09 | 649 | 2,730 | <issue_start>username_0: I am often in charge of researching new sub-topics in my discipline for short papers. I find my default technique is:
1. Search Google Scholar for best-guess keywords
2. Open relevant-looking resulting paper, skim
3. Find new references in that paper, open new tabs for those papers while readi... |
2014/05/09 | 633 | 2,708 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing an application for a dissertation fellowship, which according to the application is "to a truly outstanding doctoral degree candidate in the last semester of residence".
I need to write a 'personal statement' which is only described as follows:
>
> a statement of how the fellowsh... |
2014/05/10 | 1,393 | 5,577 | <issue_start>username_0: My school has a recommendation, but not a requirement, not to let students eat during class. I am wondering if I should make this a rule or not for the classes I teach. I am concerned about my undergraduate students.
On one hand, the noise from rustling bags and crunching chips and bottles fal... |
2014/05/10 | 1,154 | 5,078 | <issue_start>username_0: I have gotten a job in a sort of university of Applied Sciences; this work place wants to start a small research group, but one issue that I started to notice is the orientation they want to give it. I mean, they want that all research to give a profit. For that reason, I was wondering how to c... |
2014/05/10 | 849 | 3,462 | <issue_start>username_0: What are some common methods for assessing how well a exam works, once you have the results back? This is something of a generalization of [How to measure entropy of exam results](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/15335/how-to-measure-entropy-of-exam-results).
I've seen professors ... |
2014/05/10 | 519 | 2,308 | <issue_start>username_0: Do departments look at MOOC's certificates favorably during the graduate admissions process? Will it give me any advantage over students who don't have them if I am trying to enter a PhD program?<issue_comment>username_1: You're free to mention the certificate in your application. How much weig... |
2014/05/11 | 834 | 3,624 | <issue_start>username_0: I was working on a problem in the field engineering. I have used one approach and it turned out that it does not work well. After that I got into conflict with my supervisor, and realized that it will be hard to publish the original paper with him. So, I have redone everything with another appr... |
2014/05/11 | 1,344 | 5,888 | <issue_start>username_0: I've majored in computer science (BSc: close to MIS, MSc: advanced software engineering), I've worked on dissertations on totally different topics in every stage at college, now I'm planning to do a PhD and I've been looking at different topics from various sub-fields but I frankly can't pin on... |
2014/05/11 | 1,011 | 4,348 | <issue_start>username_0: I found a useful advice if I cannot reproduce computational published results in ([What should you do if you cannot reproduce published results?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7900/what-should-you-do-if-you-cannot-reproduce-published-results)). However I would like to ask the sam... |
2014/05/11 | 2,404 | 9,734 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in my final year of undergraduate. Another student, call him John, sent me a message on Facebook saying basically:
>
> Can you send me the solutions to the assignment from unit X, that you
> took last year. In exchange, I will tell you what the future minitest
> questions are for unit Y ... |
2014/05/11 | 2,157 | 8,891 | <issue_start>username_0: Some people try to complete their PhD asap, others try to make major breakthroughs. I think these aims are mutually incompatible, one is going against the other.
What are pros/cons of each for somebody whose intended career is research in academia?
The answers should be general, but I myself ... |
2014/05/12 | 1,249 | 5,706 | <issue_start>username_0: In the following situation: I made research about some topic X in the field of Computer Engineering, submitted a paper and it got accepted. Actually it was an independent research that I have done while working as an information technology lecturer. Now the institution in which I am working doe... |
2014/05/12 | 793 | 3,211 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student starting my second year. Last semester, I took part in a research project and earned co-authorship of their paper, which got recently published.
However, when adding names from our anonymous submission to the camera-ready version, the primary author misspelled my ... |
2014/05/12 | 899 | 3,365 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed that my university has a glass blowing service in the same building as the chemistry precinct, supposedly to make the glassware for the chemistry labs. At first I thought this was kind of quirky and I chortled to myself, "man, the chemistry students must break a lot of beakers."
Late... |
2014/05/12 | 3,533 | 14,398 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been receiving mails from (most probably amateurs), who claims to have proved famous mathematical problems, like the ABC Conjecture or Goldbach Conjecture. But invariably, they all contained mistakes. I decided not to waste my time on such unsolicited documents. But recently something in... |
2014/05/12 | 509 | 2,133 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there journals that may consider articles of the type "new proof of old results" but the paper is exceedingly short(1-3 pages)?<issue_comment>username_1: Depends on the field and the nature of your derivation. If it gives new insights and uses completely new techniques that might in themsel... |
2014/05/12 | 467 | 2,089 | <issue_start>username_0: In a Program Committee (PC), can PC members non assigned to a paper still have a look at it and make comments influencing the decision, assuming that the reviewing system allow them to access the papers and the reviews?
If they only make a comment, should this comment be sent to the authors (... |
2014/05/12 | 2,022 | 8,709 | <issue_start>username_0: As part of my PhD, I have already published a paper and am working to expand it further. Recently, a PhD student (who I didn't know) from another university contacted me regarding my paper. He showed interest in the paper and the direction that I'm working on, wanted me to explain it further an... |
2014/05/12 | 508 | 2,007 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that after submitting a paper through Elsevier Editorial System, the corresponding author can check the status of the submitted paper online. But how about co-authors? Can the corresponding author give a permission to the co-authors to enable them to check the status of the paper as well... |
2014/05/13 | 473 | 1,738 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a situation where for a particular algorithm, it first shows up in a paper [1].
This makes [1] a primary source.
I found [1] a bit hard reading when it came to describing the implementation and fine details of the algorithm. But it was good at describing why the algorithm was needed.
I ... |
2014/05/13 | 6,610 | 27,110 | <issue_start>username_0: I am at the moment dealing with an academic dishonesty incident in a class I'm teaching (a few groups of students submitting identical code, when the class policy forbids getting help from another person on a graded assignment).
When I noticed indications of plagiarism, I emailed each affected... |
2014/05/13 | 1,231 | 5,402 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 29 years old and am about to finish my PhD thesis in the field of remote sensing (i.e. somewhere between computer sciences and geosciences in a broad sense or applied signal and image processing in a more narrow sense) at a university in central Europe.
Due to the fact that there are onl... |
2014/05/13 | 921 | 3,760 | <issue_start>username_0: According to [this article](http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR.html), a student was arrested for downloading ~4 million articles from an on-line database.
I want to review all existing articles in my interest area before writing my paper, so I need to download and skim... |