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2015/09/04 | 1,826 | 7,852 | <issue_start>username_0: I am new to the world of academia and pursuing a Masters degree in HCI (Human Computer Interaction). One of the goals I have set for myself is getting my first publication(s) before I graduate.
Now, obviously, I'd like to work my way up to potentially being a first author but that seems a bit... |
2015/09/04 | 868 | 3,565 | <issue_start>username_0: I obtained my M. Sc. in mathematics from a decent European university about a year ago (when I was 27). Due to various reasons of personal nature, my marks were the equivalent of a 3.0 GPA, or something like that, and it took me quite a while to finish. I wanted to drop out at some point, also ... |
2015/09/04 | 1,632 | 6,969 | <issue_start>username_0: For a PhD candidate that has done a fine job in their PhD, what are the common mistakes to avoid in a defense session?<issue_comment>username_1: IMO, the most common is being defensive (perhaps encouraged by the name of the ritual). For instance if a member asks "Why did you use Smith's procedu... |
2015/09/05 | 809 | 3,520 | <issue_start>username_0: I had submitted a manuscript in last year (December, 2014) while working in Institute-A. After one month of submission I left Institute-A and joined in Institute-B from January, 2015. Now that paper got accepted, just yesterday.
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So what should be my affiliation and address of the paper?
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2015/09/05 | 3,522 | 14,648 | <issue_start>username_0: In my university, graduate students under scholarship have to perform certain tasks like tutoring and grading. I have no problem with that since it is part of the contract.
There are also some miscellaneous tasks like offering to help out for a departmental party (takes 10 hours over a few day... |
2015/09/05 | 452 | 1,984 | <issue_start>username_0: I published an article few months ago in a journal. I sent another article to the same journal, in which I improved the design idea and enhanced the computation.
I was told that my second article was sent to Prof. X (name was provided) as a topic editor.
After about 70 days, I got an editoria... |
2015/09/05 | 371 | 1,602 | <issue_start>username_0: When one applies for an academic position (especially for a permanent one) or for a significant funding, (s)he is often asked to show his/her professional maturity in research in the motivation letter/research proposal (or sometimes one is asked to indicate how (s)he would reach this maturity).... |
2015/09/05 | 224 | 1,036 | <issue_start>username_0: If editor of Journal A finds that the speciality of the editor of journal B is very close to the subject of a paper submitted to Journal A. Would the editor of journal A ask the editor of journal B to review the paper?<issue_comment>username_1: Probably not in their capacity as editor of journa... |
2015/09/05 | 426 | 1,698 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working on my bachelors thesis for 10-11 months now and am about to hand it in. Without bragging, my topic was by far harder and more work than most bachelor theses.
Now I am wondering whether I should add an inscription to my parents in it. I really want to show that I am grateful... |
2015/09/06 | 1,066 | 4,587 | <issue_start>username_0: I heard from several sources that European recommendation letters for postdoc positions tend to be minimalist and understated, while the American ones are way more enthusiastic. I have two questions about this phenomenon:
1. Is this cultural difference taken into account by members of postdoct... |
2015/09/06 | 5,337 | 22,775 | <issue_start>username_0: **A bit of background:** I am a graduate student working towards my Masters in physics. During this summer I signed up for some classes that are somewhat outside my main focus of study. For instance, biophysics; evolutionary physics and so on. The topics were very interestingly handled and I le... |
2015/09/06 | 961 | 4,379 | <issue_start>username_0: I've started a research, and after replicating methods of other researchers (running experiments on my data), I've realised that I cannot add anything new to the field. The work contains no improvement of the methodology, I just used the established methods to analyse my data and I ended up in ... |
2015/09/06 | 475 | 1,972 | <issue_start>username_0: **TL;DR**
Is it okay to list a university and an expected degree in my CV (under the education section), if the semester starts a month from now?
**Longer verion:**
I have finished bachelor studies and got accepted in a master program which starts in a month. I feel that if I leave out the m... |
2015/09/06 | 438 | 1,902 | <issue_start>username_0: For a math assignment that I am giving my students, I have included a problem from Spivak Calculus. I have the following two issues and I do not know what I should do:
1. If I do not acknowledge the source, it seems that I have committed plagiarism.
2. And if I acknowledge the source, then the... |
2015/09/06 | 1,168 | 4,996 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in my third year of funding of an F32 NRSA postdoc fellowship (one month into my final year). My project is nearly complete and ready for publication, however, my sponsor/PI wanted another postdoc in the lab to conduct a few biochem assays for the project.
Over time, I have been cut out o... |
2015/09/06 | 825 | 3,754 | <issue_start>username_0: A reviewer pointed out that I should do an additional experiment to further validate my analysis. I agree this would be a good idea and would further strengthen the manuscript. However, I think it belongs to the category "a paper can always be better" and I don't think the additional experiment... |
2015/09/06 | 1,215 | 5,305 | <issue_start>username_0: So, in addition to my PhD and bachelors degrees I have another advanced degree that is ultimately irrelevant (and entirely unrelated) to my research efforts and current academic discipline. Should I include this on my CV under education or not? Will it make me look less focused or simply more e... |
2015/09/06 | 1,561 | 6,924 | <issue_start>username_0: Since I haven't do much TA duty (only 1 semester so far, starting 2nd one), I have struggled to come up with a good way to grade homework. My last grading rubric ended up creating strange incentive pattern wherein people will do all the optional questions, while completely ignore the required q... |
2015/09/06 | 719 | 3,187 | <issue_start>username_0: As new researcher and having started my PhD studies less than one month, I would like someone experienced to give me some advice. As researcher, which are your habits concerning research papers you read.
How you choose the literature you read ? Do you 'follow' journals/ research groups/conferen... |
2015/09/06 | 583 | 2,399 | <issue_start>username_0: I have 4 years' work experience as a software developer (industrial); then I moved to academia and completed one year of PhD study, with one publication. I want to quit my PhD and go back again to Industries because of lack of interest in the present topic. It is quite different to my previous ... |
2015/09/07 | 2,041 | 8,542 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently making my CV for undergraduate research internships in Pure Mathematics. I have read many graduate level books on the field out of my own interest. Whenever I was stuck on a difficult concept, I have sought the help of my professors and they can vouch for my understanding of thes... |
2015/09/07 | 2,472 | 10,466 | <issue_start>username_0: I work at a small for profit company. We won a Fed grant based on some of our previous work, and included in it a university researcher as a subawardee.
The university researcher has done next to nothing. He has been very busy with other engagements and essentially handed off the entire work t... |
2015/09/07 | 1,344 | 5,942 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I got a **reject and resubmit** decision from a reputed mathematics journal. I received two referee reports: the first referee suggested improving the presentation, with no recommendation of accepting or rejecting my paper. The second referee also suggested improving the presentation,... |
2015/09/07 | 1,225 | 5,363 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my first paper to a reputed journal and it came back with major revisions. One review is positive while other suggests to reject the paper. Though the reviewer who rejected the paper was under a wrong impression that a smaller version of the paper had earlier been published somewher... |
2015/09/07 | 1,459 | 6,091 | <issue_start>username_0: I m a current master coursework student in engineering major and I’m planning to do a PhD after graduating from this course. I want to know how to become a qualified researcher. There are several shortcomings that I think may stop me making it:
1. I understand things very slowly. When I read o... |
2015/09/07 | 826 | 3,324 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for an archive where anyone can deposit both data and research papers, which does not require creators or users to pay, does not require registration for users to access materials (hence not academia.edu), and which is not restricted to specific fields such as math or computer scie... |
2015/09/07 | 828 | 3,339 | <issue_start>username_0: As it is very competitive to have tenure, I wonder if there is any case that someone holds a non-tenure position (e.g. associate professor) until the end of his/her career, i.e. until the retirement. If there is, is it a normal practice?<issue_comment>username_1: In the US system, it is general... |
2015/09/07 | 940 | 4,112 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been browsing through a few IEEE journal articles and couldn't find an example where there was a figure on the first page of the article. So I tried to find the rule that explicitly forbids the authors from including a figure on the first page, but I couldn't find such a rule either. Her... |
2015/09/07 | 2,601 | 10,765 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a research proposal and I can not choose the right very first sentence to start the introduction. My research is purely theoretical.
Let's assume I want to study a mathematical model of dynamics of wolfpacks distribution in last 100 years in country C.
There is a separate section ... |
2015/09/08 | 1,145 | 4,832 | <issue_start>username_0: California, for example, has two universities: University of California and California State University. Why would any state not simply have one university for all the higher-education programs it wishes to fund? It'd be easier for the students, as they now wouldn't have to go through a transfe... |
2015/09/08 | 1,123 | 4,964 | <issue_start>username_0: My interest includes pure math, string theory, quantum field theory and some applied mathematical topics, so I'd like to be so-called a pure mathematician and a string theorist. Considering my performance so far, I think I will have decent chance for any physics PhD programs except for top ones... |
2015/09/08 | 3,800 | 15,650 | <issue_start>username_0: I am close to finishing my PhD. Some of my peers use LaTeX. Obviously, it looks much better than Word and alike. As I wrote a few papers that go into my final thesis, I however have numerous formats depending on the journal in question. I would like to transform them all into one final document... |
2015/09/08 | 924 | 3,310 | <issue_start>username_0: Are you allowed to present data on those who declined to participate in your study?
The following is an excerpt from a study on whiplash-traumas where the authors clearly publish some basic statistics on people who declined to participate [1].
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> Emergency departments identified 6952 eligib... |
2015/09/08 | 988 | 3,936 | <issue_start>username_0: I am having a special subject named "*Methodologies of Scientific Research*" in which there is a reference on **Panel Studies** and **Cohort Studies** for conducting a **longitudinal survey**. I am confused to what is the difference between Panel Study and Cohort Study ? In Wikipedia they look ... |
2015/09/08 | 495 | 2,038 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to know, if anybody is familiar with any open crowd-based peer-review tools?
If I as a student, for example, use [www.academia.edu](https://www.academia.edu/), is it then possible to get my papers peer-reviewed? I understand that this normally happens if I write a conference paper... |
2015/09/08 | 541 | 2,410 | <issue_start>username_0: I was asked to review a paper for a rather important Journal in my field (engineering discipline). The editor (professor) who assigned the review to me is based at the same university as the first author (PhD student). The two do not come from the same chair, but the university is quite small a... |
2015/09/08 | 937 | 4,181 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to start a masters degree in the UK.
Our induction day is late next week and on this day we will have a talk on choosing our modules and preparing for the dissertation. Formal teaching begins in 2 weeks time.
On the website it says that we can select dissertation topics listed on ... |
2015/09/08 | 4,761 | 17,316 | <issue_start>username_0: (this is coming out of a comment thread regarding [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/52678/what-is-the-point-of-a-lecture-when-you-have-a-textbook/52690#52690).)
The USA has a Fair Use legal provision restricting its copyright law:
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> 17 U.S.C. § 107
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> Notwi... |
2015/09/08 | 1,228 | 4,870 | <issue_start>username_0: When looking at the **paper-is-cited-by-paper** binary relation in an **undirected** manner: Is all research connected to each other or will there be many connected components?
In other words: Is there a way from a, say, computer science paper to a chemistry paper by walking along the citation... |
2015/09/09 | 1,645 | 7,171 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 2nd year math PhD student. If one specializes in pure math (say dynamical systems with no particular real-world application in mind), **how difficult can it be to transition into industry after the PhD? What are measures one can take to make this a smooth transition?** I am not particula... |
2015/09/09 | 1,693 | 7,079 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm current an undergraduate student working on a research project for my thesis.
In my project, I obtained quite a large number of inconsistent or strange result for my lab analysis of my samples and I just couldn't get a reliable or sound result for my analysis. I have been struggling in rep... |
2015/09/09 | 1,069 | 4,719 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working in a group project of six people at university.
I think I made an substantial effort, and would consider me among the two best performers in the group (please accept this as a fact for answering the question). I do not bear grudges against my group, I think we worked well to... |
2015/09/09 | 999 | 4,398 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper that only contained a title and an abstract to an international meeting, which is one of the most important conferences in my major. I will give an oral presentation in one session of the meeting. Because it is not a full paper, I want to know whether I can put it in my CV a... |
2015/09/09 | 564 | 2,569 | <issue_start>username_0: Reviewing advertisements for junior faculty positions, I noticed that it is a relatively frequent occurrence, when there is a requirement (or strong preference) for candidates to provide three *working papers*, along with other materials. Thinking about that aspect and considering the often len... |
2015/09/09 | 2,417 | 9,656 | <issue_start>username_0: The PLOS ONE journal has an impact factor over 3. The specialist journals in my field top out with impact factors of about 3. As impact factor is in essence a measure of citations per article, it seems surprising that a journal like PLOS ONE that prides itself on not making subjective judgments... |
2015/09/09 | 625 | 2,464 | <issue_start>username_0: Some time ago, I enrolled in a PhD programme and at the same time I started a full-time job. The full-time job became so time-consuming that progress on PhD related duties became really slow. As a result, I decided to terminate my PhD studies, however I would like to finish a paper that I have ... |
2015/09/09 | 1,023 | 4,140 | <issue_start>username_0: I have the find a time slot that all faculties can attend. As everyone is very busy, I want to do it in a most efficient way, i.e. minimizing back and forth emails as much as possible.
One trick I can think of is to ask each of them "What time you CANNOT attend?" instead of the usual "What tim... |
2015/09/10 | 542 | 2,263 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting my second academic year as an assistant professor at a university in Europe. I'd like to move back to the US at some point in the near future. If I stay at my current university for 2 or 3 more years, it's likely that I will be offered tenure. Based on the openings I see in the US... |
2015/09/10 | 2,540 | 10,917 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that it is not a good idea to speak more after your time is out during a conference presentation. So we generally distribute our total times among each slide depending the contents and priority during the preparation. But sometimes what happens one/two particular slides take little... |
2015/09/10 | 378 | 1,580 | <issue_start>username_0: I am quite new to this game and I am not sure how to ask people to be co-authors on a paper I have mostly written myself but that I think would get better with someone else's input. When is a good strategy to offer a coauthorship and when should I simply ask for a feedback on the paper? This is... |
2015/09/10 | 800 | 3,398 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a fourth year undergraduate philosophy student.
Last academic-year, I took a seminar with a professor that I had known reasonably well before I took the course. During that seminar we had several lengthy after-class conversations about a topic related to the seminar. The professor seemed ... |
2015/09/10 | 2,209 | 9,795 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just started my second year in a Health Education and Promotion PhD program. It is a three year program and I will be done with classes after this year. Next year is my dissertation year. Currently I do research and teach. I started doing research as a senior in my undergrad program and ... |
2015/09/11 | 1,123 | 4,385 | <issue_start>username_0: The ratio of staff/students is an important factor for university rankings. How are postdocs and non-faculty researchers considered in calculating this ratio?
I am referring to researchers who have an official contract with the university such as postdoc fellowships (which are competition base... |
2015/09/11 | 640 | 2,705 | <issue_start>username_0: If I have a very good result, should I share it with an academic (Professor) from another part of the world who is an expert in the subject, but whom I have never met?
I’m interested in collaboration, but then again I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag and then have nothing come of it, e... |
2015/09/11 | 511 | 2,197 | <issue_start>username_0: More specifically how likely it is for me to get published as an independent researcher working as hard as an affiliated researcher? How much difference does it really make?<issue_comment>username_1: Collaboration is essential in an academic environment but I suggest you to research the ethical... |
2015/09/11 | 764 | 3,381 | <issue_start>username_0: I am supervising a last year high-school student (a very advanced one) who is doing some kind of a research project. He does some numerical simulations on problems that I suggest. If everything goes well the results of these simulations should be rather interesting and could be submitted to a r... |
2015/09/11 | 634 | 2,844 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a marketing journal and the reviewers recommended a major revision and a minor revision. I had to shorten the text and get professional help for proofreading. I addressed the every single comment of reviewers.
Now, it is in the “Awaiting Reviewers Selection” mode once ag... |
2015/09/12 | 1,369 | 5,177 | <issue_start>username_0: I live at a university town where I am freshman at a
senior high school.
Some years ago a car steered by an inebriated driver
smashed me off my bicycle and run over me.
Nowadays I am a paraplegic sitting in a wheelchair.
I can keep my head upright and move my left arm and
hand. Any other lim... |
2015/09/12 | 352 | 1,373 | <issue_start>username_0: In the US, instructors sometimes ask one or two students to take notes for a given lecture, in view of releasing the lecture notes later on for the rest of the class. Such students are sometimes called "scribes". Is "scribe" a pejorative or a neutral term? If pejorative, is there any neutral or... |
2015/09/12 | 348 | 1,568 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it common practise/frowned upon to have a figure in the introduction chapter of a thesis?
The figure is not a 'picture', but a relatively small tree diagram that in my opinion shows the structure I am talking about more effectively than describing it in words.
I ask this question because I... |
2015/09/12 | 477 | 2,165 | <issue_start>username_0: When applying for an academic position, usually you provide a list of names of people who can give you a reference or letter of recommendation e.g. postdoc advisor or someone you often collaborate with. In this case, obviously you first ask the person if they are willing to do this.
However, f... |
2015/09/12 | 136 | 604 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor sent me an email. At the end of the email he asked for receipt acknowledgement.
Please should I send the receipt acknowledgement separately and then answer the email or just answer the email, giving that I will do it instantly?<issue_comment>username_1: Probably best to acknowledg... |
2015/09/12 | 373 | 1,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm sure we need to pay credit to every R package developer. Just in line with [this post](http://www.r-bloggers.com/r-and-citations-by-david-firth/).
My question is, how better to integrate the citations of R packages into my paper. Should it be part of the methodological part? I saw papers ... |
2015/09/12 | 1,060 | 4,456 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Ph.D. student in Germany, I got my M.Sc. degree in Finland, I have friends in different countries doing their Ph.D.s, especially in the US, and there are also my fellow students in our group. So I have had the chance to learn about people's experience with their Ph.D. And there's one thin... |
2015/09/13 | 756 | 3,145 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to several graduate programs and was accepted to my back-up choice. The professor at one of my top choice schools contacted me personally to say that he was interested in my application but had no room for me this year; he suggested applying next year, as "re-applicants" have a good c... |
2015/09/13 | 1,643 | 6,604 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been offered the chance to prepare and deliver 4 undergraduate courses. There are to be forty 15 minute videos per course all to be written and presented by me. It seems they will in the first instance use the video for their current undergraduates but may then roll them out as part of s... |
2015/09/13 | 653 | 2,928 | <issue_start>username_0: Review papers are long papers gathering the results of various researches and have many conclusions. When I want to address an issue or a conclusion about something should I repeatedly cite a Review paper and use points in that paper or I'd better find important papers on that topic and cite th... |
2015/09/13 | 773 | 3,097 | <issue_start>username_0: Cultural heritage may have influenced views on life, consciousness, etc. Does it mean that bioethics is different in different countries? And does it mean that e.g. in Israel (Jewish culture) it is possible to carry out experiments forbidden in India (Hindu culture)?
More generally: How do bi... |
2015/09/14 | 438 | 2,040 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD supervisor, who was from an external organisation, got my PhD started with initial ideas and guidance, but wasn't an expert in the topic, thus my PhD research has been mainly self directed. About a year ago my supervisor retired, and has justifiably been off travelling and working on oth... |
2015/09/14 | 1,018 | 4,470 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student.
I received a request for a letter of recommendation to a professor for some award. *I know for a fact that my letter will be directly used in the application for the award*. [I have since graduated from this institution.] I haven't interacted with this particular person in abo... |
2015/09/14 | 353 | 1,503 | <issue_start>username_0: My situation is that I want to work with Prof. A, but in the advertisement another professor (B) is the contact person. Now, I need write an email to send my CV and research statement to the contact person. What shall I write in the email? I will write in the email I want to work in the institu... |
2015/09/14 | 2,082 | 8,765 | <issue_start>username_0: The chair person of my poster session has told each participant to make an one-slide presentation with one minute maximum speaking time (known as *poster blitz* or *poster madness*).
I am wondering what to keep on the slide and what to say in one minute? Is it Okay, if I speak my abstract only... |
2015/09/14 | 1,414 | 6,271 | <issue_start>username_0: It can be difficult to sort through feedback on a paper/chapter when you have feedback from multiple collaborators. Sometimes collaborators might have a conflicting point of view, or making all of the improvements suggested by each would make the paper far too large.
What are some strategies o... |
2015/09/14 | 795 | 3,647 | <issue_start>username_0: As a guest editor of an international journal, I was supposed to handle the review process of submitted articles. Two of the reviewers do not respond even after sending couple of reminders. I had clearly mentioned about their availability and timely review process at the beginning. I aware that... |
2015/09/14 | 753 | 3,125 | <issue_start>username_0: **Context:**
Very big math conferences are often structured in the following way: there are key note speakers, but also sections on more specific topics, as well as satellite workshops on quite narrow subjects. This question is about the second type of talk. Due to the size of such conferences... |
2015/09/14 | 1,300 | 5,054 | <issue_start>username_0: Starting around 2012, <NAME> had [much to say](https://gowers.wordpress.com/category/elsevier/) about the practices of Elsevier. Very roughly speaking, he argued that Elsevier made research articles expensive to access and profited heavily from the volunteer work of peer reviewers. Sympathetic ... |
2015/09/14 | 1,873 | 7,923 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor reuses old tests. I have no idea why she told us this, but she did. In class today I noticed someone reviewing last years test, with the answers circled, on their computer in google drive, along with several other tests for this course that have not occurred yet. The test is in two... |
2015/09/14 | 1,448 | 5,856 | <issue_start>username_0: **EDIT: Apparently, the longer version below is somewhat off-topic due to the number of personal, non-generalisable factors involved in the decision it describes. I do however believe that the main question of whether a good post-doc can outweigh a "bad" or "modest" PhD is highly general both i... |
2015/09/14 | 916 | 3,786 | <issue_start>username_0: It is still relatively uncommon for social scientists to share data or code as a part of the peer review process. I feel that this practice runs contrary to notions of replicability and reproducibility and have a desire to voice opposition to instances in which manuscripts are submitted without... |
2015/09/14 | 2,497 | 9,837 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach physics at a community college in California. A series of female students have told me about sexual harassment by the same tenured male math instructor. Two such incidents went like this.
one incident:
"Professor, I'm having trouble with my homework. Could you give me some help?"
"Su... |
2015/09/15 | 1,259 | 5,354 | <issue_start>username_0: When leaving with my PhD I left a sizable amount of unpublished work, most of which was 95% or better complete. After several attempts over the past 2 years to find out his plans for publishing I all but gave up. Then tonight a google notification told me they were adding a pub on google schola... |
2015/09/15 | 719 | 3,157 | <issue_start>username_0: I am organizing a weekly seminar (at specific day of every week) at our department. We will have 12 talks for the next coming semester. We have a list of n potential people for these talks (suggested by seminar committee). It is clear that not every people on this list can actually deliver a ta... |
2015/09/15 | 486 | 2,074 | <issue_start>username_0: In some seminar classes, one student presents a paper selected from top conferences or journals with the help of slides. Usually, there is a lot of discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of the papers. The plots or figures are usually not prepared from scratch for the slides, but are cop... |
2015/09/15 | 1,214 | 5,221 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper and I have a table outlining the percentage change of results in different conditions. For example:
Condition A: 5%
Condition B: -7%
Essentially, I want to show that Condition A saw an increase with my method and Condition B saw a decrease. However, my adviser recommen... |
2015/09/15 | 3,128 | 13,289 | <issue_start>username_0: In a multiple-choice test evaluation, normally (as far as I know) the wrong answers are penalized, but blank answers not.
This makes some students afraid to answer given questions, prefering to leave them blank, even if they can more or less guess the correct answer.
On the other hand, it can... |
2015/09/15 | 524 | 2,516 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated this past May with my master's in a physical science. Since then, my thesis has been uploaded online by my university, with my copyright on the thesis. I was interested in publishing the results from my thesis in a scientific journal, but with this copyright, is that even possible n... |
2015/09/15 | 589 | 2,202 | <issue_start>username_0: Say I have a quotation that is written at the top of my page something like this:
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> Abook
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> `<NAME> was always an odd fellow, but when the neighbors discovered his secret, everything changed. (p. 12)`
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Then, in my paragraph, I reference the quotation like this:
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> In Abook... |
2015/09/16 | 1,188 | 4,960 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a paper back with a verdict of minor revisions on August 30th. Both the letter from the editor and the scholarone submission system states 'minor-revision.'
I've read the reviewers' comments very carefully, and everything is, as the editor states, a minor revision. Nothing requires... |
2015/09/16 | 615 | 2,764 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently doing a (blind) review of a paper for a Journal in the engineering field. The manuscript seems okay so far but relies to a large extent on a unpublished paper, cited as *Miller et al. forthcoming*. That publication was not submitted along with the manuscript. The author seems to ... |
2015/09/16 | 2,031 | 8,152 | <issue_start>username_0: I have one question for my masters thesis. If I have *A,* which is also known as *B* or *C,* can I write:
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> A (also known as B or C)
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(or similar) or can I use a foonote like this:
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Or more in general: When do I ad... |
2015/09/16 | 623 | 2,558 | <issue_start>username_0: I am worried that errors in the style of my Statement of Purpose (SOP) will count negatively toward me. By "errors" I mean choosing the wrong font, font size etc. My question: are there general styling guides and possibly word templates for SOP?<issue_comment>username_1: You seem to overvalue "... |
2015/09/16 | 1,375 | 6,506 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished and submitted one paper (journal version) several months ago. My mentor suggested to me to submit a shortened version of the original paper to a conference. The conference version is almost the same as the journal version, except that some detailed mathematical proofs are omitted. Bu... |
2015/09/16 | 1,037 | 4,304 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Ph.D. student considering getting business cards printed to facilitate follow-ups after conferences, etc. I am barely in touch with industry but I'm in a field where business cards are common.
My university has a set layout, but we have quite some freedom on what to include. There are so... |
2015/09/16 | 2,077 | 9,273 | <issue_start>username_0: There seems to be a sort of craze about having as many references as possible. Among the students at my university, it has become common practice to write a passage of text and later figure out if someone else has done something similar and attribute it to them, changing the original text if ne... |
2015/09/16 | 379 | 1,719 | <issue_start>username_0: I try to have any manuscript proofread before submission to an academic journal, where proofreading typically involves checking/fixing the spelling, grammar and overall style in English.
This decision often involves somewhat difficult decisions to make on how best to proceed. Here I am interes... |
2015/09/16 | 687 | 2,813 | <issue_start>username_0: I am the author of a 12-page double-column manuscript submitted to *IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.* Here is the record of the updates within the journal online system, corresponding to the aforementioned manuscript:
1. Submission Finalization: 7th Aug. 2015
2. Under Review: 11th Aug. 2015
3... |
2015/09/16 | 581 | 2,653 | <issue_start>username_0: For humanities PhDs:
If you find that your research topic has changed such that you no longer are a good fit in your program, is it possible to re-apply and get accepted into the same program at other schools that would be a better fit? Can anyone speak to this experience?<issue_comment>userna... |
2015/09/17 | 8,626 | 34,819 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working in research in computer science for 3 months in the Czech Republic, and have recently changed fields to major in mathematics, also in the Czech Republic. I'm stuck with bunch of courses I didn't want to study at all.
In my complex number computing class, the lecturer knew I... |
2015/09/17 | 3,327 | 14,367 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I ran across an international postdoctoral opportunity, which seems quite interesting to me. While I would prefer to stay in academia in United States, there are various factors that enable me to consider that opportunity, including potential for work on an interesting and important to... |
2015/09/17 | 2,418 | 10,681 | <issue_start>username_0: In his answer of [Details an applicant should include/exclude in an introductory letter to a prospective grad school adviser?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/254/14341), aeismail says
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> If the program in question is in the US, for instance, you should probably *never* contact the prof... |