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2015/01/21 | 540 | 2,218 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say I'm a PhD student in a field, let's call it X, and my research is all based on taking the methods developed in field X and applying them to some other fields, let's call them Y, Z, and W. Let's further suppose that I do not make any contributions to the theory of X, I only apply it to... |
2015/01/21 | 753 | 2,566 | <issue_start>username_0: I am having problems with Endnote outputting a mix of citation styles (or possibly a broken citation style!) in the same document, despite applying the Endnote Frontiers Science style (official, from the Endnote website) throughout. Eg
>
> ...feline herpesvirus 1 (Thiry et al.) and terrapene ... |
2015/01/21 | 735 | 3,341 | <issue_start>username_0: One part of the work of any researcher is to referee the work of other scientists in his field. This is a time-consuming and volunteer work, that is made with the idea of service for the community.
**My main question**: What are the standards of organization for the referee report of an artic... |
2015/01/21 | 641 | 2,633 | <issue_start>username_0: In my master’s thesis in inorganic characterization, I have a theory chapter about X-ray (powder) diffraction. This technique is almost 100 years old, and have been described in a vast number of books, articles, and web-pages.
I could easily take any book about X-ray diffraction and just cite ... |
2015/01/21 | 761 | 3,053 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a book, and in its bibliography I would like to include a paper whose title has the German word "Über" printed as "Ueber". As far as I know, this is an equivalent way of writing the word, but the former way is the normal way. It is definitely spelled as "Ueber" in the (nineteenth-c... |
2015/01/21 | 406 | 1,906 | <issue_start>username_0: In a recent review of a paper, the reviewer suggests several solutions to a flaw, one of which was collecting more data. The other solution was to shorten the paper substantially. The editor said that the revisions needed before acceptance were between minor and major revisions. In my mind, col... |
2015/01/21 | 886 | 3,573 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a situation where I have several adult students for an all-day career training program that runs for about a year. So, they and I sit in the classroom most of a normal work-week. I decide when to get up and lecture. Although I tell them to raise questions any time, they rarely do unless... |
2015/01/21 | 737 | 3,121 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to several Grad schools and recently got a letter of acceptance from one of them.
Should I inform the other schools about being accepted? Will it improve my chances with them or just create antagonism?<issue_comment>username_1: You don't need to inform them when you are accepted at a... |
2015/01/22 | 486 | 2,031 | <issue_start>username_0: I was in an accident during college, and I graduated with a low GPA (just under 3.0 or so). I switched majors to Math and while I did well in some classes, in general I was a B/C student or so. I think if I went at a normal pace, I could have done much better. Since graduating I've worked as a ... |
2015/01/22 | 1,847 | 7,870 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a PhD student got clinically depressed and stopped producing research for a year or two.
What would most PhD supervisors do in this situation? Would it be considered usual or acceptable to stop working with him?<issue_comment>username_1: *Good PhD Advisors*(tm) would first of all *tal... |
2015/01/22 | 789 | 3,642 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to an Elsevier journal. After two weeks of required reviews completed status I have sent and E-mail to the editor. He replied:
Your paper is still under review. We need 1 or 2 more review comments and make the decision within a month.
So, I have to ask... What does he ... |
2015/01/22 | 5,609 | 22,915 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not a genius but I am a good test taker and a very practical person. I went through undergraduate school without studying much (skipping classes, doing homework, reading the books and doing some exercises the day before the test) with a 3.6 GPA in Computer Engineering from a decent school ... |
2015/01/22 | 765 | 3,463 | <issue_start>username_0: I ask because I am finishing a paper and need to decide on which journals I'm going to submit it to, and I have never done a paper before.
I know very little about this, but my general sense is that I want to match the interest level of my paper to the renown of the journal (*Nature* probably ... |
2015/01/22 | 1,069 | 4,480 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from india. I have a strong desire to pursue Masters in Computer Science in USA. I enjoy academia. However, I am sure that I do not want to pursue a Phd and also not attracted towards an IT Career.
I understand that teaching positions are mostly reserved for full-time Phd holders and is g... |
2015/01/22 | 3,668 | 15,090 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to finish my master's thesis on a TCS topic (algorithms). I'm quite happy with my results; the most engaging part of the thesis was grappling with getting up to speed on the state of the art, then taking that and developing new and/or more efficient algorithms for the specific model I... |
2015/01/22 | 5,462 | 23,817 | <issue_start>username_0: After I had published my paper, some people asked me to share the software that I developed. At first, I was very happy that my paper attracted some attention, and I was happy to share not only the binary but also the source code, case studies etc. But looking at my software, I feel very embarr... |
2015/01/22 | 321 | 1,328 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen the work of previous and current students and I have done a lot more than them, and my dissertations is about 60% written already, however, my adviser seems to not be comfortable with the idea of me graduating in May (Is January now). I have asked him several times up front and he k... |
2015/01/23 | 299 | 1,194 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently have applications into several top tier education programs. I am a bit worried about my chances. I have about 7 years working in education, a unrelated masters and a masters in education. My GPA in undergraduate was a 3.8 and in graduate school a 3.9 from a top 25 university. I did ... |
2015/01/23 | 605 | 2,527 | <issue_start>username_0: I have some idea of how well I'm doing with my research in PhD, but maybe it differs from what my advisor thinks. Is it okay to ask (e.g. at the end of a meeting) how well I'm doing with my research? Can I say "Oh, by the way, how am I doing with my research?"<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, thi... |
2015/01/23 | 811 | 3,364 | <issue_start>username_0: Now I'm in a community college and I am trying to gathering recommendation letter to apply to graduate school.(I have already got my bachelor degree). I performed well in calculus and got an A in that course. After i got my grade, I wrote a thankful email to my professor and he replied me that ... |
2015/01/23 | 2,921 | 10,750 | <issue_start>username_0: By "gender preferential treatment" I mean: Person A is selected ahead of Person B partly because of gender. In other words, Person B would have been selected ahead of Person A had gender not been taken into account.
By "deliberate" I mean: as a matter of policy at the department or university ... |
2015/01/23 | 1,268 | 5,419 | <issue_start>username_0: Do most professors value their PhD students, or do they see them as easily replaceable by fresh, new blood? If a PhD student stops working, will the professor try to fix things, or replace him like a cog in his machine?<issue_comment>username_1: Most PhD advisors invest a great deal of time, mo... |
2015/01/23 | 1,370 | 5,708 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a contribution for a double-blind submission system.
Since I would like to supply more data than I could show on a small number of pages, I'm looking for a way to reference supplemental data in my manuscript, such as software scripts, figures or databases.
I could upload on GitHu... |
2015/01/23 | 1,574 | 6,426 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there guidelines or best practices for adding references to a research PowerPoint presentation?
For example, should I put the full citation at the bottom of the slide?
>
> <NAME>., <NAME>., <NAME>., <NAME>., <NAME>., <NAME>., <NAME>. (1998). Fullerene Pipes. Science, 280(5367), 1253–1256... |
2015/01/23 | 339 | 1,263 | <issue_start>username_0: I am corresponding via email with an industry researcher regarding an internship. He always signs off his emails with his first name, Bill. Still, I have addressed him as "Dr. X" for several emails now. I realize that if I am offered this internship I wouldn't want to keep calling him this and ... |
2015/01/23 | 4,156 | 17,697 | <issue_start>username_0: I started my PhD in one of the very well renowned institutes in Germany.
Unfortunately, in the middle I was forced very much to manipulate the data. I was extremely upset and did not know what to do. My supervisor has enormous amount of grants and he was very ambitious to prove all his hypothes... |
2015/01/23 | 522 | 2,185 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm interested in knowing if/how to properly cite a personal communication within a reference and if credit should be given to the primary source (the personal communication), the secondary source (the reference that cites the personal communication), or both.
**Hypothetical example:** There i... |
2015/01/24 | 1,659 | 6,619 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that, in North America, the opportunity is given (and often mandated) to take on teaching assistantships while in a PhD program.
I knew that, often, European PhD programs pay you to do RA from day one. But, in European PhD contracts/programs, are there countries, or universities even, ... |
2015/01/24 | 531 | 2,261 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to get a job in industrial mathematics with a Masters in math but no work experience and no PhD. Or would one be limited to only nonresearch industrial math jobs?
How about the type of jobs listed here: <http://www.siam.org/careers/thinking/solve.php>
?<issue_comment>username_1:... |
2015/01/24 | 969 | 4,021 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose you are introducing a new concept, and you start with (what you think is) a toy example. Is it okay to refer to your example as a "trivial problem?"
Does this depend on the field and/or level of the class you are teaching?<issue_comment>username_1: Context matters. If you say, "Let's s... |
2015/01/24 | 794 | 3,518 | <issue_start>username_0: Say I work as an AE for an international journal. I managed to find only two reviewers for a manuscript submitted to the journal lately. Personally, I don't find enough contribution of the manuscript, but it is not fair to not base my final decision on the reviewers' comments.
For the first r... |
2015/01/24 | 1,391 | 5,873 | <issue_start>username_0: I've applied to several graduate schools in the US for a physics PhD. As I currently have some free time, I'm willing to travel around and visit graduate schools that I've applied to. My current research advisor (who is also one of my letter writers) can possibly establish contact between me an... |
2015/01/24 | 515 | 2,351 | <issue_start>username_0: How protectionistic are PhD admissions?
Here, protectionism means to favor residents of the country (or state) the university is in, as far as PhD admissions are concerned. Usually, protectionism arises due to funding restrictions or other burdens of a financial nature (e.g. tuition waivers). ... |
2015/01/24 | 1,074 | 4,431 | <issue_start>username_0: I finally got the revision of my paper, but one of the reviewers complained that `the paper is not anonymized`. Since I'm not the native english speaker, it's quite strange to me.
Does it mean that I should remove authors names from the paper? If so - what for, and why should I do this?<issue... |
2015/01/24 | 1,533 | 6,636 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just received a decision letter for my submitted manuscript to an Elsevier journal. It was a revise and resubmit (R&R). Two reviewers comments were included in the decision letter. One of the reviewers suggested minor revisions. The other reviewer on the other hand recommended rejection ... |
2015/01/24 | 468 | 1,939 | <issue_start>username_0: I got three recommendation letters from three of my former school teachers (professors A, B, C).
On 20th Jan, I got an email from the graduate school that I had applied to. In the email, they told me that they had received the confirmations from professors A and B, but are still waiting for ... |
2015/01/25 | 1,524 | 6,171 | <issue_start>username_0: As I was thinking about the question
[Can I slack off and get a PhD?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/37341/can-i-slack-off-and-get-a-phd),
I realized that I wanted to say in my answer
>
> If you want to slack off,
> the best time to do so is **after** you have received tenure
>... |
2015/01/25 | 1,110 | 4,637 | <issue_start>username_0: I was trying to access [this article](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02602938.2013.769198#.VMRlNC7B6ar) and was told this journal is "**embargoed**" for more than a year. This is the first time I have seen the term embargo used in an academic setting.
[This answer](https://academia... |
2015/01/25 | 368 | 1,548 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm finishing my M.Sc. thesis and I sent it to my supervisors so that they can read it.
In the final version, I would like to insert an acknowledgements page where I thank them. Should I include it in the last draft that I will send them, so they can read it? Or should it be included in only t... |
2015/01/25 | 707 | 2,824 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m currently a computer science (and mathematics) B.Sc and M.Sc student in my third year (since I started my B.Sc).
At the second year of my B.Sc studies, I have started to work on research (in computer science) and I have two (amazing) advisors, I have written (i.e, submitted) a couple of pa... |
2015/01/25 | 2,484 | 9,776 | <issue_start>username_0: I've had my IQ measured on multiple tests over the past several decades. The first time was in middle school and it was measured at 120. I guarantee you that I didn't care about the result when I took that test as a kid. I probably wanted to get it over with. Much later in life, and consistent ... |
2015/01/25 | 1,749 | 7,456 | <issue_start>username_0: After a series of unethical incidents that affected me directly in my previous academic institution, I managed to move to a higher ranked department in my field about seven years ago. I am now in the hiring committee in my current institution and one of the candidates who is being considered is... |
2015/01/26 | 345 | 1,485 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to apply for a Master degree.
I'm looking for a major that study both Computer and Maths.
Can anyone tell me what such major are?<issue_comment>username_1: As an example, the University of Oxford (UK) as an [MSc program in Mathematics and the Foundations of Computer Science](http:/... |
2015/01/26 | 1,687 | 6,423 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to download the following PhD Thesis:
"<NAME> - Large deviations of the asymmetric simple exclusion process in one dimension"
However [this](http://search.proquest.com/docview/304606557) website forces me to pay for it. I think it is possible to download the thesis from the Columbia Li... |
2015/01/26 | 875 | 3,509 | <issue_start>username_0: With the academic job situation so tight and uncertain, I am thinking of jobs outside academia (after a PhD in Computer Science). There are plenty of programming jobs that require an undergrad or even no degree. I tried some of them and they are so routine and so narrow that one gets frustrated... |
2015/01/26 | 528 | 2,294 | <issue_start>username_0: After sending a faculty application online, should the applicant send an email to check if all documents were received and whether the application is complete or not? Some suggest to send an email, while others suggest not to, since sending unnecessary email to the committee could raise a flag.... |
2015/01/27 | 871 | 3,776 | <issue_start>username_0: Assume there are 3-5 teaching universities near each other. What would be a good answer for an interview question : why you want to teach at this teaching university?
To me I see no difference and it does not matter which teaching university to work at.<issue_comment>username_1: I can see man... |
2015/01/27 | 2,352 | 9,857 | <issue_start>username_0: The first slide which follows the title page of my presentation is the overview slide. It has the title for each section to follow in the talk (thank you Latex!).
My question is how much time is to be spent on the Overview slide, given the talk lasts twenty minutes? Should I talk about each se... |
2015/01/27 | 828 | 3,378 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not a fan of heavy/text-infested slides and hope my audience also second my opinion. I did resort to the healthy image-text ratio in most of the slides and am relying on my speaking skills during my **first** presentation! In this context, how should he/she adapt himself to suit the intere... |
2015/01/27 | 2,128 | 9,158 | <issue_start>username_0: I started working on my PhD few months ago and I am trying to solve a problem in a particular topic. The topic is quite specific and many people have already worked on it before. I am stuck at the following two scenarios:
* I would like to extend the topic in some particular direction which I... |
2015/01/27 | 277 | 1,204 | <issue_start>username_0: I received help with some aspects of my PhD thesis from a tutor (proofreading and graphics). Of the help I received, some mathematical notation they provided made it into my thesis.
However, I did not acknowledge the tutor in the PhD thesis for this help (since received).
Is there anything ... |
2015/01/27 | 4,313 | 17,046 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper is successfully accepted in a very prestigious and reputable conference, to be presented orally in one of the presentation sessions. This is my first time that I am going to give such a talk in a large academic conference. My previous experiences are my presentations for my class proje... |
2015/01/27 | 953 | 3,858 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied to 4 PhD applications in Computer Science and I have sent an introduction email to a professor in each of the schools I have applied to. In this email I first introduced myself and then mentioned one of their papers I'm interested in, and at the end asked them for any time they c... |
2015/01/27 | 997 | 4,123 | <issue_start>username_0: I got an email from professor M asking me if I will have time for a tea with her on Friday, and then I came up with this question:
Even if it is an important email from your professor (e.g. select your thesis or advisor), when you need some time to think before you make the final decision, how... |
2015/01/27 | 1,304 | 5,860 | <issue_start>username_0: Many university in North America or in Europe offer fundings for masters program . But it only for those students who have a good CGPA in undergraduate examination .I have completed my bachelor degree in computer science and engineering . I have a very poor cgpa . Is there any possibility that ... |
2015/01/27 | 773 | 3,395 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in my second year of teaching English at the secondary level, and I'm wondering if it's better to pursue a Master's in English (I have a Bachelor's in English Lit.) or Education. Is there a strong advantage to one or the other in terms of professional development for teachers? I a... |
2015/01/27 | 1,698 | 7,603 | <issue_start>username_0: I've created an improved textual parsing algorithm, as a part of my hobby project. In comparison to existing ones, it provides better performance and memory efficiency. I haven't published my project yet. The question is, is there any way I can convert this research to a PhD? Or anything else I... |
2015/01/28 | 306 | 1,291 | <issue_start>username_0: I have reviewed the theoretical trajectory of my research topic and I see gaps that I would like to fill with my own proposed theory. Is it too early in my career to put forward a theory? I am just a PhD student. If I can put forth a theory at this stage, what is the best way to go about it? Wi... |
2015/01/28 | 1,405 | 5,892 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in my second semester of college at university in the United States, and am currently majoring in Computer Engineering. I passed a lot of AP tests in high school, all of which gave me college credit. Because of this, if I take only the bare-minimum of required classes for my major... |
2015/01/28 | 2,268 | 9,578 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a math grad student in my first year, which means that I have not yet taught a class (in my program first years grade or provide one-on-one tutoring for students who struggle in calculus). I have facial aphasia, which means that I am completely unable to recognize people's faces. After a wh... |
2015/01/28 | 1,361 | 5,687 | <issue_start>username_0: I've interviewed for a few positions, one of which has made me an offer. I'm very pleased with the offer, but I prefer some of the other positions. I have the luxury of being able to take a lot of time to decide whether or not I accept this offer, so I'm certain I will hear back (either positiv... |
2015/01/28 | 1,545 | 6,601 | <issue_start>username_0: Given that it's a very broad question I'll try to create some context:
I'm in my first year (just started) and at the moment my task as PhD student is closer to learn the techniques and technologies used in the department than to real work. Almost in a weekly basis I receive small tasks which,... |
2015/01/28 | 1,380 | 5,988 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my master of science thesis and I am not sure whether I should add some of the code I have written: they are not proper programs, but more like input files to be fed to a commercial program (Nastran) very popular in my field.
My concerns are related to the fact that I am not makin... |
2015/01/28 | 385 | 1,812 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to a few US universities last year and they rejected my application because of my low GRE scores. Now I want to reapply again to the same universities. Can you explain the process to reapply? My concern is about application fees. Is it required to pay application fees for the second t... |
2015/01/28 | 390 | 1,616 | <issue_start>username_0: I am organising a conference. This will take place in 6 months time. One of the invited speakers works on a topic that is highly related to my research interests. I would like to propose a specific collaboration to this professor, but I feel that the fact that I invited him to the conference (I... |
2015/01/28 | 959 | 3,932 | <issue_start>username_0: I work at a University Library in Canada, we've recently produced a promotional video for a book scanner. In the video, we demonstrate the use of the book scanner using a random book off the shelf, but the focus is always on the scanner, never on the pages of the book (though there are some sho... |
2015/01/28 | 623 | 2,843 | <issue_start>username_0: I am curious to hear some words of advice on how to select a publishing community for multi-disciplinary topics.
Your contribution is that methods in area A, which is your main area, can solve problems in B more efficiently than traditionally used methods from area C.
Where do you publish, ... |
2015/01/29 | 1,264 | 5,632 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering if my institute can use a figure which I made for a paper that has been published and crop it slightly and use it for press releases, etc., and instead of putting my name underneath the figure, they just put the institute's name.
Is it generally OK for them to do so, or should ... |
2015/01/29 | 987 | 4,216 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote my Ph.D. thesis without copy/pasting any of my prior published articles. Now that the university library got hold of my Ph.D. thesis; I'm wondering who owns the entire publishing rights of my Ph.D. thesis?<issue_comment>username_1: Did you sign an agreement to transfer copyright to some... |
2015/01/29 | 938 | 4,070 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working at a university of applied sciences, in the field of Computer Science. Recently there has been formed a section that is in charge of giving stipends related to research. This group has put as a rule that they will only fund research that is indexed in Scimago and in Scopu... |
2015/01/29 | 542 | 2,367 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not sure about some side-topics related to my thesis. During the development of the results I have to rely on some other mehods which are not the main topic of the thesis but since I used them to derive some approximation I then implement in the analysis I think it is useful to explain how... |
2015/01/29 | 583 | 2,416 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been reading a few Q/A about plagiarism, but I still have a doubt about the use of books and papers to explain the method I am applying in my thesis.
I mixed up the infos I found in a book and in a paper to explain the method (because some parts where better explained in the book and s... |
2015/01/29 | 1,067 | 4,519 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed that I have more and more serious problems keeping focused, and despite my efforts to fix it the problem is just getting worse over time.
When I'm in a research-related discussion with someone, my mind easily wanders, and I won't be able to recall the last thing other person was sayi... |
2015/01/29 | 2,456 | 10,555 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an amateur mathematician. I am writing a research monograph in the field of abstract mathematics (general topology, specifically).
Should I publish it traditionally or self-publish?
There are many benefits of self-publishing (e.g with [Lulu](http://luli.com)) an academic work:
1. No nee... |
2015/01/29 | 703 | 2,570 | <issue_start>username_0: I need Matlab code of a method to compare it with the results of my proposed method.
The method which I want to use happened to be available online by a research group in a university in US in 1997 [[see here]](http://www.crpc.rice.edu/newsletters/win97/news_NBI.html). Unfortunately, when I c... |
2015/01/30 | 687 | 2,659 | <issue_start>username_0: I left University early (during the final year) and was only awarded an associates degree (one level below a full bachelors) in Computer Science.
I've been an IT professional for a few years now (development and consulting) and I'm looking to fix my broken educational record.
At this point, I... |
2015/01/30 | 2,225 | 8,978 | <issue_start>username_0: I am having difficulties in math, and every time I try to go to my math professor's office hours she always seems annoyed. When I ask her a question she always says something to the effect "I don't understand what you are asking," I understand being precise with math but it's as if she purposel... |
2015/01/30 | 3,559 | 15,810 | <issue_start>username_0: A student emailed me after a recent exam, complaining about not having enough time to finish the exam. Out of all the students, most managed to finish within 2/3 of the provided time. I wonder what might be some possible ways to respond to this kind of complaint? (This is my first time teaching... |
2015/01/30 | 487 | 1,770 | <issue_start>username_0: I have graduated from Russian university after 5 years of education and got a Specialist degree (Engineer in Computer Science). [According to Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialist_degree), Specialist is a four-tier degree and stands right above Master degree in some specialities. B... |
2015/01/30 | 1,689 | 7,087 | <issue_start>username_0: When contacting universities, in many cases, I find the replies to my emails extremely well detailed and helpful, therefore in such cases I find a simple "Thank you" to be just insufficient.
For example, when you have already applied to a program, and then you email the department to ask a sim... |
2015/01/30 | 931 | 3,776 | <issue_start>username_0: Being an editor of a journal can be [time-consuming](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/15893/what-is-the-work-load-of-a-journal-reviewing-editor), but has obvious [benefits](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9506/why-become-a-journal-editor) (especially if one enjoys readi... |
2015/01/30 | 447 | 1,680 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that you can distinguish two ways of referencing scientific work in the Harvard (or author-year) citation style:
1. You cite the idea or work in general:
"Recently, a new approach for SOME STUFF was demonstrated for the first time (Author, year)."
2. You cite the author:
"Recently, Au... |
2015/01/30 | 467 | 2,018 | <issue_start>username_0: I've noticed that several faculty members (both in my institution and beyond) are affiliate professors in some other institutions (beside being a professor in their own institution, of course). What caught my attention is that the vast majority of them wasn't in any way affiliated with the inst... |
2015/01/30 | 463 | 2,139 | <issue_start>username_0: My math paper recently got accepted and I was told that I will be sent a proof soon. It's just four lines I want to add.. is it OK to add it to my paper? It's additional explanation of something, and I would tell the editor about it.
But is it commonly done or done at all?<issue_comment>usern... |
2015/01/30 | 652 | 2,346 | <issue_start>username_0: I've noticed recently that colleagues, friends, and others seeking employment, have shown, among other things, their Erdős number on their resume/CV. I've also seen some put down their h-index, or their publication with the most citations (the running tally of citations for that publication), o... |
2015/01/30 | 922 | 3,986 | <issue_start>username_0: I picked a very unique topic for my Masters Thesis, only to find out that there is a Dissertation on the same topic, from 2008, in French. No other books have been published on this topic.
Ugh... I really really wanted to do this. What should I do? Can I do the same topic in English? I can't e... |
2015/01/31 | 939 | 4,115 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not familiar with the graduate interview process. Are there signs during and after the interview that student will be able to tell whether he or she will be accepted or rejected in into the research group?
More importantly, how would an applicant know if the graduate interview was a flop.... |
2015/01/31 | 849 | 3,640 | <issue_start>username_0: Should a scientific paper have copyright?
I guess not.
It seems to me that science and copyright are not compatible.
Let's say I wrote a very important paper in, say, cell biology.
Suppose I have the copyright for the paper(I think so under the copyright law of the US).
Then I also have the [... |
2015/01/31 | 861 | 3,542 | <issue_start>username_0: Some time ago, a course I visited had final exams, and the time announced to the students in advance (several weeks earlier via email by the instructor) was 3 hours. Rather shortly after the students began to write (about 20 minutes), it was announced as a clarification that the room was booked... |
2015/01/31 | 2,437 | 10,207 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing my thesis in computer science. My work contains a large amount of equations to do with linear algebra, data transformations and calculus. On receiving feedback on my first draft from my supervisor, he has told me that I am reusing symbols all over the place. So I am going ... |
2015/01/31 | 2,340 | 9,811 | <issue_start>username_0: When applying for a faculty position, usually there will be an request to fill a self-identification form about things like race and disabilities. The request will mention that it is a “voluntary” form and will not affect the application. My question is whether applicants should spend some time... |
2015/01/31 | 706 | 2,916 | <issue_start>username_0: I've failed to finish my master thesis, I thought this was attributed to the minimal supervision of my adviser - he/she wasn't an expert in the domain of thesis and didn't give me any kind of insights or help - only general advice - and I was let to do all the work alone and I failed to finish ... |
2015/01/31 | 481 | 2,032 | <issue_start>username_0: A person I know applied for a time-limited position (i.e. a post-doc) somewhere in western Europe. [Xe](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xe#Pronoun) gets invited for an interview. The next day, xe receives an informal e-mail, *We will recommend HR to send you a formal offer.*
*However, we are st... |
2015/01/31 | 934 | 4,000 | <issue_start>username_0: In any academic paper dealing at least in part with math, the authors have to make a choice how much explanation to actually give the math.
It can range from pretty much no explanation:
>
> Given a foobar of 12, a ackbar of 57, and general frobnosticating
> parameter of 9, the resulting nya... |
2015/01/31 | 561 | 2,121 | <issue_start>username_0: Which math departments in the U.S. have people known for their contributions to [Lie-admissible algebras](http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Lie-admissible_algebra)?
(I asked [this question](https://math.stackexchange.com/q/1127343/128568) on Math SE, but it was voted off-topic there.... |
2015/01/31 | 2,101 | 8,724 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent my students a feedback form (I'm a TA) and I got three responses. While they were helpful and informative responses, I am not sure how to interpret them, because there are only three of them and they all disagree with each other.
What is the best way to get feedback from students? Shoul... |
2015/02/01 | 423 | 1,902 | <issue_start>username_0: I study in a field that is not related to languages. Should I put languages that I can speak into my CV? Other than English, I can speak my native language, and two other languages that I've learned through classes (at an intermediate level).
Might it be seen as irrelevant and hurt my CV?<iss... |
2015/02/01 | 1,176 | 4,404 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there other widely used academic pre-print repositories other than ArXiv? My interest is especially towards **mathematics and physics**.
If possible, one characteristic that I'd like to find in other pre-print repositories is the possibility to update the paper without leaving the older ve... |
2015/02/01 | 1,421 | 6,044 | <issue_start>username_0: How harmful is it for a PhD student to work with a supervisor whose ambition is greater or lesser than that of the student?
I can imagine that if the supervisor aims much higher than the PhD student the experience could be nightmarish for the student (and frustrating for the supervisor). Simi... |
2015/02/01 | 745 | 3,205 | <issue_start>username_0: Scribd is surely a huge website, but I was wondering if there are some data on its usage in the academic world as a means for sharing lecture notes or research notes.<issue_comment>username_1: This is a very hard question to answer, as everyone can only give their viewpoint.
I can therefore gi... |