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2015/03/16 | 640 | 2,824 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my thesis currently and I want to include papers that I am included on as an author. I will have a couple papers where I am 1st author, but there is one where I am third but did a lot of the work. How do I go about integrating it into my thesis? Can I copy/paste most of the text st... |
2015/03/17 | 570 | 2,557 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to apply for Master's degree at a University in US that specializes in game development. I have been playing and I am a huge fan of Blizzard games for almost 15 years and the reason I pursue a higher education is to broaden my knowledge and sharpen my skills so that I can land on my ... |
2015/03/17 | 1,324 | 5,010 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to understand an excerpt from a [New Yorker article](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty) about the mathematician [Yitang Zhang](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang). The excerpt is included at the bottom. If possible, please help clarify Yang's point ab... |
2015/03/17 | 1,178 | 4,937 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a sophomore undergraduate Mechanical Engineering major at a mid-sized public university. I know that I really do enjoy research, I love learning, and I love teaching. I am all-but-certain that graduate school is where I want to go after graduation, and so I have been working to g... |
2015/03/17 | 641 | 2,680 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that my team received funding for a project to "deliver X in time Y". It is implied that each researcher will contribute, more or less, equally.
When is it appropriate to make this explicit? In other words, in this scenario, what is a commonly accepted threshold to confront an author ... |
2015/03/17 | 423 | 1,930 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I submitted second revision of my manuscript in a highly reputed mathematics journal. My first revision was a major revision while the second one was a minor (with some terms like paper is ready to be published). After submitting my second revision I got an email from the editorial boa... |
2015/03/17 | 880 | 3,700 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year, when planning my academic future, I contacted a research group at my university, because I was interested in doing my Master's thesis in their field. One of the professors replied a couple of days later, and offered me a meeting. After said meeting, I accepted the proposed project, a... |
2015/03/17 | 1,372 | 6,132 | <issue_start>username_0: I defended my master thesis successfully yesterday. Everything in my master thesis was written by me and there is no problem. However I'm a bit skeptical about one thing. So in my thesis I have a part that explains a very well known model. To explain the model you basically need to calculate th... |
2015/03/17 | 2,775 | 11,598 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergrad trying to publish findings on the accuracy of consumer-grade motion sensors for IEEE. I've searched for existing literature on this topic, and I've found some interesting articles. However, I'm not sure how accurate these papers are.
**Once IEEE publishes a paper in a journal... |
2015/03/17 | 1,301 | 6,040 | <issue_start>username_0: This is my first post to the community. I am currently researching on the criteria that make grouping of students as efficient as possible. There are many methods that a professor in an international university program could use to sort the groups of students in class. Nationality, age, educati... |
2015/03/17 | 1,252 | 5,752 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be teaching a new course with a new grading rubric. All of my students will write a lab report at the end of each 3 hour lab session. Each lab report will have an abstract, introduction, data, results, and conclusion sections. How can I prepare my grading rubric to minimize grading time ... |
2015/03/17 | 388 | 1,447 | <issue_start>username_0: I saw that some theses acknowledgements thanks God, so are there any rules or suggestions about that? Is it ok to do it for believers or just don't mention your religious affiliation in a scientific work?<issue_comment>username_1: I see no problem with this. A rabid atheist or differently-relig... |
2015/03/17 | 538 | 2,305 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying to an assistant professor position at a private institution. I bought [fancy resume paper](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B000083E4G) on which to print my CV/resume. There are other components of the application package that I need to include:
* Official application (con... |
2015/03/18 | 948 | 3,558 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on documenting a new algorithm to solve a discrete mathematics problem, hopefully to publish academically. In this article, I will need to provide code samples and attach or link to a full code listing.
In academic articles I read from late last century, it was customary to docume... |
2015/03/18 | 820 | 3,105 | <issue_start>username_0: For me, it feels slightly clumsy to say I'm a *Research Fellow* without actually being a *fellow* (defined as [a male person](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fellow)). Nevertheless, it's unsurprising to have female research fellows at universities.
**Q**: Is *Research Fellow* a gende... |
2015/03/18 | 2,271 | 9,989 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to follow up on my previous [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/41812/how-accurate-are-published-papers). If scientists have to replicate and validate/refute their peers' research, **where do the "provers" find funding?**
In my 2 years as an undergrad at a public ... |
2015/03/18 | 533 | 2,321 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a PhD few admission offers from some universities. My first choice school didn't make its decision yet, or maybe didn't post it online yet.
Is it OK to send an email asking about application status and explaining that I have other standing offers which I have to make decisions about qui... |
2015/03/18 | 4,167 | 16,593 | <issue_start>username_0: Stuck in the lab again, for the third night in a row. I have never done three in a row I think I might just break a record. I cannot sleep, because the lab is super crammed and uncomfortable and I am afraid that someone will come in and take my belongings, I am afraid that I will fall sleep for... |
2015/03/18 | 795 | 3,456 | <issue_start>username_0: I took my first graduate course as an undergrad last semester and it seemed that graduate student exams are much more open ended. Not only do they require you actually know more stuff (i.e. remember the theorem, the general approach) but they also require a lot more creativity, time management ... |
2015/03/18 | 431 | 1,766 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a research paper to a special issue of a reputed computer science journal (SCI indexed) and the results were due on January 31st. However, the results have not been announced to date, and my email to the Guest Editor requesting for information on the delay has gone unanswered. I am ... |
2015/03/18 | 1,558 | 6,573 | <issue_start>username_0: In early March 2015, an eMail by a female German professor *apparently* rejecting a male Indian applicant due to the 'rape problem' in India made news. (The issue is a bit more complex. There is some discussion whether the eMails were selectively quoted and the professor has since apologized.)
... |
2015/03/18 | 798 | 3,483 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for faculty positions in the US. Almost all of them require teaching philosophy and research statements. I have read some examples, but still do not understand what should I write.
* Should they be about my past experiences or future plans?
* Should they be evidence-based or jus... |
2015/03/18 | 359 | 1,478 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm kinda new to academia and was wondering how citations are done. In particular, say I wanted to cite the "Inspiration, pure and applied mathematics, and aesthetics" of this article: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics>
Would I cite the whole article, or is there a way of citing just t... |
2015/03/19 | 693 | 2,589 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering how I can find and keep updated of the latest colloquia and talks videos. I imagine that schools may take videos of talks they hosted and upload them somewhere. Of course not every school/department does this, and this depends on the field that one is interested in. But if I know... |
2015/03/19 | 1,827 | 7,885 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there any advantages or disadvantages in having two supervisors instead of one? Why would a graduate student want to do this or avoid this?
The context is in an MA where students usually have one supervisor and two committee members (examiners).<issue_comment>username_1: Pros:
* If one su... |
2015/03/19 | 1,326 | 5,634 | <issue_start>username_0: I have finished writing a paper and am a high school student. Since I'm sure this has no chance of being accepted to arxiv, I want to simply post it on a public forum. (This also has meaning for me because the forum helped me develop in the field where I wrote this paper, and I have friends the... |
2015/03/19 | 927 | 3,620 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to write down this idea that I get from Wikipedia: both (<NAME> and <NAME>) thanked the Schroedinger's book for their inspiration.
(More specifically, that page is [What Is Life?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Life%3F), and that idea comes from the last sentence of the second par... |
2015/03/19 | 482 | 2,026 | <issue_start>username_0: Before I start explaining my situation, I would like to say that I have read the other questions on this topic but I cannot find what I need on 100%. I am a bachelor student and I am working on my bachelor thesis. The main activity of this thesis is to make a replicated experiment. The experime... |
2015/03/19 | 458 | 1,768 | <issue_start>username_0: My thesis was done in industry environment, therefore in the acknowledgements I would like to thank all the people that helped me, but I do not know how I should call them. Colleagues does not sound right to me since I am not actually employed in that company although I spend there every day of... |
2015/03/19 | 437 | 1,882 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied to a university for Research Masters. Following application, I contacted the Professor I had listed on my application and told him about my research and profile. He asked me to send him my Research paper and after going through it, he contacted me again to ask about if I have a v... |
2015/03/19 | 869 | 3,511 | <issue_start>username_0: I've got a midterm tomorrow and have been increasingly ill for the past few days. I need to decide whether or not I'm going to write the midterm, and if I don't I'd need some sort of proof that I was in fact sick. My question is, how sick should one be to not write a midterm? It is possible I c... |
2015/03/19 | 1,404 | 5,370 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's see, just in this week alone I got the news that I have failed four of my midterms (out of five courses in total, the last course doesn't have a midterm), achieving around 40% in each, quite consistent effort across the board. By the way I have around a 3.8 GPA over 4 years of engineering... |
2015/03/19 | 2,385 | 10,066 | <issue_start>username_0: My stance is that these websites are a great boon to the research community and they were certainly extremely helpful for my research. I think they should be applauded rather than persecuted, and while they may be illegal now, I think a way to make them legal should be found (in the same way I ... |
2015/03/19 | 1,170 | 4,860 | <issue_start>username_0: Assume I have the name: "<NAME>". I have been publishing as "First Last."
At my current job (postdoc) my adviser prefers that I list my name on my paper as F. Last (or F.M. Last), and I'm afraid that the change in style will make it less obvious that all the papers I've written are from the s... |
2015/03/19 | 1,344 | 5,905 | <issue_start>username_0: This is something that I thought about a while back when reading (I forget where) about someone who held a Ph.D. in chemistry, but focused on physical chemistry throughout his Ph.D. years and actually became a physics professor.
I was wondering how often this happens. For instance, do electri... |
2015/03/19 | 851 | 3,323 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a preferred/standard/popular citation style within the computer science field? By citation style, I'm referring to these three general methods:
1. Using #'s, like [1] or [6,7]
2. Using short strings like [SM15] or [Bob14]
3. Using author-date style, like (Smith, 2015).
Browsing throu... |
2015/03/19 | 2,389 | 10,340 | <issue_start>username_0: Faculty positions are very competitive, and each advertisement should roughly receive hundreds of applications.
I think search committees cannot spend more than 1 min reading each CV during the initial screening (correct me if I'm wrong).
CVs are usually 10-20 pages documented in different fo... |
2015/03/20 | 955 | 4,168 | <issue_start>username_0: **Short:**
My master thesis supervisor want to present my findings at a conference. He did not ask me for permission, just informed me he will do so, how should I react?
**Long:**
My supervisor early on said there might be an opening for continued work and maybe a phd if everything went smooth... |
2015/03/20 | 1,945 | 8,274 | <issue_start>username_0: The contract says financial support is for 5 years. I am not able to support my own living cost.<issue_comment>username_1: The only correct answer is "possibly."
If your contract says 5 years, that means they're only promising you 5 years. Beyond that, they are within their rights to refuse to... |
2015/03/20 | 1,227 | 4,598 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to submit a manuscript with a journal recommending the [APA style](http://www.apastyle.org/) guide for formatting.
When looking at my boxplots, a colleague of mine wondered why the whiskers do not represent the 95% confidence interval. So I learned that the [default setting for matplot... |
2015/03/20 | 1,210 | 5,227 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm starting a tenure track position (in the US, computer science) in fall and the position comes with a startup fund that is insufficient to employ any (postdoc) staff and PhD students are funded directly by the department. Also, my conference travel is taken care of by other funds.
How can I... |
2015/03/20 | 819 | 3,168 | <issue_start>username_0: There are a number of questions here about [changing-fields](/questions/tagged/changing-fields "show questions tagged 'changing-fields'"). Those are mostly about [how common it is](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/2632/1033), [how it affects future career](https://academia.stackexchange.com... |
2015/03/20 | 552 | 2,412 | <issue_start>username_0: I've noticed that a few of my professors have written their own textbooks, but they only did so after they had already published many research articles and presumably become tenured at my university. For this reason, I'm wondering (in general), does writing textbooks contribute to acquiring ten... |
2015/03/20 | 1,014 | 4,642 | <issue_start>username_0: I am graduate research assistant in Computer Science in the US. A while ago, a master student in the research group, who plans on a career in industry after graduate school, received an internship offer from a large, well-known technology company which is one of the most sought after and presti... |
2015/03/21 | 2,340 | 8,914 | <issue_start>username_0: I was a bit surprised to see the extent of cheating going on during state matriculation exams in Bihar (one of the states in eastern part of India). Looking at the images [posted at twitter](https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=bihar%20cheating&src=tyah), it looks like large amounts of peopl... |
2015/03/21 | 3,322 | 13,130 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a fifth year graduate student in the life sciences. To cut to the chase, I hate this PhD, I hate research and I hate academia. It didn't used to be this way.
I have been juggling three different projects and none of them are at the stage where something can be published. One of them was a ... |
2015/03/21 | 322 | 1,318 | <issue_start>username_0: I was admitted to a US PhD program (in computer science, if that matters) with fellowship + stipend.
I am getting a separate stipend from my government (which is higher than the university stipend), but they forbid me from getting an additional stipend from the university.
Is it OK to ask the... |
2015/03/21 | 2,245 | 9,076 | <issue_start>username_0: Does a part-time PhD workload differ significantly from part-time undergrad studies?
I'm intending to go on to postgraduate studies next year. I'd prefer to go straight to a PhD if possible, but will consider Masters if it looks like the more tenable option. I've worked full time for the past... |
2015/03/21 | 2,590 | 10,055 | <issue_start>username_0: I was surprised when starting my PhD as to how much I get asked this question and how much I fail at answering it. Whenever I attempt an answer, I fumble around and the subject immediately changes after. If I state exactly how it's going, the stress of publishing and intensity of the program co... |
2015/03/22 | 1,933 | 8,731 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student who had already worked in two undergrad "research" projects, but both of those projects were basically applications of methods that were already discovered. Furthermore, the results were actually estimations, and not something exact or close. By the end of each one... |
2015/03/22 | 960 | 3,580 | <issue_start>username_0: Some open access journals, like Integers for example, don't charge the author any fee for publishing their article. Other open access journals do charge the author a fee and the author has to pay the fee so that their work can be posted online. Are there any trustworthy fee-based open access jo... |
2015/03/22 | 3,276 | 14,215 | <issue_start>username_0: I did my master's thesis last month and have seen one excellent PhD position in my field. The title and the project description was very close to my master's thesis. My master's thesis relates to one of those standards which is very new, and I can guess the number of peoples which work on it ar... |
2015/03/22 | 1,749 | 7,606 | <issue_start>username_0: I'll start by sketching my situation. I first studied a couple of years at institution A where we were taught a couple of things concerning academic writing. (E.g. don't use passives, distance yourself from your work.) After that I did another bachelor's at another institution B (same field, sa... |
2015/03/22 | 2,652 | 10,592 | <issue_start>username_0: I am convinced that I possess sufficient "cognitive skills" to succeed doing my PhD. Reflection on myself, however, confronts me with the fact that my "meta-cognitive" (time management, mental discipline, focus) and "emotional" skills (motivation, patience, work-life balance, monitoring own hea... |
2015/03/22 | 480 | 1,989 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering if it is okay to work in different lab during summer.
I am first year master's student and currently I am working in the lab as volunteer at my college. During summer (May through August), because of housing/financial reasons, I have to go back home which is in different state.... |
2015/03/22 | 514 | 2,224 | <issue_start>username_0: An industrial chemist conceptualized, first synthesized, characterized and patented a novel drug. They then transferred the synthetic technology (at the 3kg scale) to a CRO for preparation under cGMP conditions, substantially helped in drafting the "clinical trial investigator brochure", and pr... |
2015/03/22 | 950 | 3,664 | <issue_start>username_0: Someday, as strange as it feels to me right now, I might be asked to review an article for publication. A while ago my advisor and I were talking about this, and it hit me that I don't really know how to be a good reviewer, beyond the basics:
* Respond timely to things,
* Make your report clea... |
2015/03/22 | 1,196 | 4,927 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a nice problem but it's making me miserable.
My background is in visual communication and I'm used to getting regular feedback as well as seeing what my classmates are up to. Also, the grades we would get back then didn't really matter but the quality of the work was what would land us... |
2015/03/22 | 944 | 3,922 | <issue_start>username_0: I would really appreciate any advice or suggestions anyone might have. I am currently a senior mathematics major, about to graduate in May. For two years, I have planned on going for my PhD in pure mathematics (my highest interests have been in algebra, number theory, and discrete math). I appl... |
2015/03/22 | 1,022 | 4,065 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it acceptable for a math paper to have no concluding section? The structure is currently as follows:
1. Introduction (known results + the paper's main results as 3 theorems)
2. Preliminaries (proper definitions of all the things and recalling of results used in the proofs)
3. Proofs (actual... |
2015/03/23 | 8,710 | 37,550 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student in social science who got into quantitative research at the start of my graduate school. Since then, I have had the valuable opportunity to take many Statistics classes and become aware of this world I had not known before. However, with it comes the curse of envy, as I cannot he... |
2015/03/23 | 2,068 | 8,974 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a lot of reading and experimenting to dig deeper into my research topic. In our institute we have weekly meetings, were we present our latest research. Often my professor asks me questions about specific details or numbers in ongoing discussions during the presentation, which I canno... |
2015/03/23 | 868 | 3,538 | <issue_start>username_0: The [ICMJE](http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html) has developed a set of guidelines to help determine who authors should be. They say
>
> The following recommendations are intended to ensure that contributors... |
2015/03/23 | 2,214 | 8,919 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Computer Science graduate and I have been realising that my true passion lies in Philosophy, as for the past 5 or 6 years (I am 26) I have been constantly asking questions about life, conciousness, the universe and the relationship between them. I am also in the process of writing a book... |
2015/03/23 | 1,277 | 5,107 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote my undergrad thesis using Word. Overall I managed to get the job done, but as with all WYSIWYG editors, by the end I feel like I had created a bit of a mess. It didn't show, but I know it's there.
Soon I'm going to start writing my postgrad thesis, and I'd like to use a tool that gives ... |
2015/03/23 | 380 | 1,760 | <issue_start>username_0: I was planning on applying to US colleges for masters and recently I got shortlisted for this job at an Indian startup (I don't think they have anything major out in the market). They are working on some Machine Learning (ML) product and I wish to pursue a masters in ML. Will this job experienc... |
2015/03/23 | 6,332 | 26,286 | <issue_start>username_0: A student of a German institute has translated my Russian thesis word by word to English and submitted it as her own work in 2014. I informed the university providing them with my work in Russian and presentations of the work I made in 2013.
Upon receiving my email, university examinations fir... |
2015/03/23 | 1,071 | 4,262 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to come up with a method to live broadcast my lectures to parties connected to the internet. Up to now, I have been using FaceTime to transmit my work on a whiteboard. This method works, but the quality is lacking.
The crux is I do not want to record "my person," but rather what I ... |
2015/03/23 | 1,675 | 6,584 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a PhD in mathematics last May. Last December, my advisor passed away quite unexpectedly.
My advisor was an extraordinary person; in addition to being a fantastic advisor mathematically, he was a wonderful mentor who I always thought of as a friend – this is very much a personal los... |
2015/03/23 | 887 | 3,830 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to master program in computer engineering, but I have some concerns and not sure how to present them in my statement of purpose.
First, my undergrad was in computer engineering but after moving to US I pursued biology in graduate school. I had bad experience with my adviser. He m... |
2015/03/23 | 710 | 3,019 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently finishing my master's degree in theoretical maths (mostly courses around algebra, geometric algebra, a bit of Riemann geometry, K-theory etc) and I don't know which area to go into for a Phd.
I was interested in cryptography but have never taken any advance classes in coding the... |
2015/03/23 | 2,081 | 8,163 | <issue_start>username_0: A couple of weeks ago, out of the ordinary, I was in the company of a few academics from respectable universities. A graduate student mentioned that he was invited to something called "ICIT 2015" to present his Master's thesis. One of those professors said something along the line of:
>
> If ... |
2015/03/23 | 976 | 4,202 | <issue_start>username_0: After achieving my masters degree, i applied for a phd program at the same university i was graduated from. In Germany, a person has to find 2 advisors to be registered as a phd student and thats it for the begining.
I approached a professor whose area is related to my research.I told my inte... |
2015/03/23 | 554 | 2,176 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a link to an [article on JSTOR](http://www.jstor.org/stable/3629752). I can't see the DOI mentioned. Is there a standard way to find the DOI? Do all articles on JSTOR have an assigned DOI?<issue_comment>username_1: You could try to query Crossref (of it are not to many articles); <http:/... |
2015/03/24 | 668 | 2,856 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a very unusual profile for a PhD program applicant. I worked a few years in business after college and have recently completed a J.D. I did not have much research experience in college except my honors thesis. My grades in math are solid but I did not take any grad level classes. After t... |
2015/03/24 | 781 | 3,355 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen the terms "referee" and "reviewer" both used to describe a person who gives feedback to a paper in a journal submission. Are there differences between the two terms? Is one used in some situations where the other isn't?<issue_comment>username_1: I think they are synonyms.
I guess th... |
2015/03/24 | 354 | 1,533 | <issue_start>username_0: How should I go about determining the quality of an undergraduate program that is just starting given that the field in general is relatively young?
To be more specific, I am considering a new cyber security program at the University of Tampa. It starts Fall 2015. There aren't many other progr... |
2015/03/24 | 2,740 | 10,748 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently been comparing publishers regarding their policies on double dipping (charging an open-access fee for publishing in a hybrid journal and then charging again a subscription fee). Many publishers (Springer, Wiley, Taylor and Francis) state they lower the subscription fees based on... |
2015/03/24 | 2,021 | 8,955 | <issue_start>username_0: The constructive question is, **What practices/strategies could help ensure the committee reads the dissertation?**
I am wondering if those who already hold a PhD, or advanced graduate students finishing their dissertations have experience where they suspected that their committee (besides the... |
2015/03/24 | 492 | 2,088 | <issue_start>username_0: For my thesis I am required to follow the APA citation and reference style. I personally quite like having colored citations (typically blue; some journals do this) because they allow the reader to identify citations more easily and highlight the fact that they are linked to the reference list ... |
2015/03/24 | 1,177 | 4,950 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a finishing PhD student in math. I want to stay in academia so I am applying for two things:
1. A year-long postdoc position
2. A 6 month postdoc position
I have been in contact with two professors regarding the two options and am going to send the application forms off today. But I feel ... |
2015/03/24 | 1,323 | 5,395 | <issue_start>username_0: Pardon the dumb question if ever. I notice similar questions all sound like "can I get a second master's?" but mine is "do I need?"
I am nearly finished with my master in mathematical finance. I have finished my thesis and have one course left to take.
Edit: I am about to graduate from a thir... |
2015/03/24 | 1,029 | 4,346 | <issue_start>username_0: There have been discussions regarding academia.edu's Terms of Use (<https://www.academia.edu/terms>) and some responses have stated that it is impossible to upload published papers to academia even with the most liberal copyright licenses is illegal ([Why does academia.edu reserve the right to ... |
2015/03/24 | 510 | 2,127 | <issue_start>username_0: Does someone here know how many years at the maximum one can take to finish MSc degree in Mathematics in Germany ? My friend enrolled for three semesters on regular basis but due to his mental instability he couldn't do anything. He almost has all the credits required and just needs thesis to b... |
2015/03/24 | 1,062 | 4,759 | <issue_start>username_0: In almost any paper there is an abundance of classical errors, such as omitting the "s" at the end of a third person singular verb. I am growing tired of painstakingly listing the page and line for each error. Is it acceptable to just write: "Please, have a native speaker fix your grammar?"
Us... |
2015/03/25 | 422 | 1,754 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a math grad student who has completed the qualifying exams within my first two years. Lately, I have been taking a few non-core courses, which allows me to put most of my time on my own research. In one of these non-core courses, I received a low grade: B-. I certainly have the a good Cumu... |
2015/03/25 | 354 | 1,556 | <issue_start>username_0: In a range of fields (I have in mind gender and sexuality) users make Internet comments revealing personal details about themselves. Some sites even automatically link to their personal Facebook page. While this data may be useful for research, there are ethical issues as to how to use this dat... |
2015/03/25 | 2,361 | 10,220 | <issue_start>username_0: My understanding of short conference papers being extended to journals was that I should have *at least* 30% fresh results and content (read that in answers to [this question here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/31199/5851)). I had a short 4-page paper published and presented as a poster ... |
2015/03/25 | 924 | 3,944 | <issue_start>username_0: Maybe my question is rather weird, but actually it turned out it is also a question of my colleagues.
Usually when you register for an academic conference, there's an option that you can register a companion. I'm wondering if it is appropriate to register my girlfriend as a companion? Does it ... |
2015/03/25 | 418 | 1,819 | <issue_start>username_0: My mathematics department is adopting a new calculus textbook. The publisher has refused to continue printing the same edition that we have been using, and their new edition is one of several options which we are considering.
Several of these books are extremely well-known and widely used, and... |
2015/03/25 | 510 | 2,094 | <issue_start>username_0: Where can I search for some authors of publications or researchers in a specific filed (e.g. Computer science) and in a specific country (USA, China, ...)
For example I would like to find all people who work on *Data Mining* located in *Iran*<issue_comment>username_1: I suggest that you use a ... |
2015/03/25 | 1,485 | 6,094 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a review request from an open access journal, which is brand new. It has published about 10 articles so far. The articles seem to be of mediocre quality but do not seem to plagiarize other articles. The journal has all important sections and features in place (review/editorial proces... |
2015/03/25 | 1,157 | 4,621 | <issue_start>username_0: I've split this question into a general question that I feel applies to many people and specific details for those who are interested.
**General question**:I have accepted a 2-year teaching/research position in my home state and would like to look for a job in the surrounding area at the end o... |
2015/03/25 | 1,568 | 6,701 | <issue_start>username_0: In one of my software engineering courses, the syllabus includes two exams (midterm + final), daily quizzes + participation mark, spot quizzes and a group project.
A lot of us asked the professor to drop the midterm and add more weight to the project because we all wanted to build a beautiful ... |
2015/03/25 | 691 | 2,781 | <issue_start>username_0: I am almost done with my master's degree in mathematical finance. I'm done with thesis and have one course left to take. I am taking it in a 3rd world country and am interested in applying for a [PhD in stochastic analysis](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/42304/do-i-need-a-second-m... |
2015/03/25 | 1,246 | 5,097 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing a bachelor thesis in which there is a section that deals with the pros and cons of different data serialization formats. Since this is not the main focus of the thesis, I would like to limit the comparisons to include 2-3 of the most widely used formats - for instance; JSO... |
2015/03/25 | 462 | 2,148 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently an undergraduate Economics student with minors in both business and mathematics. As I look towards my future, I'm trying to see what options I have and ultimately make the best decision.
Anyways, I am hoping to find out more about graduate school and the different masters degree... |
2015/03/26 | 414 | 1,822 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a research paper to a journal. After one day the status was EA assignment pending and after two more days it was under review. But only after two days under review the status changed to “Awaiting AE Recommendation”. Can anybody please tell me what does it indicate?<issue_comment>use... |
2015/03/26 | 1,367 | 5,491 | <issue_start>username_0: A few months ago, I visited a university for a tenure-track interview in computer science. Before my visit, I received an interview policy sheet from HR stating all the usual things (economy flight fare, etc). After the interview, I was told by HR that I need to mail them my original receipts, ... |
2015/03/26 | 591 | 2,495 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reviewing a paper that quite heavily builds upon work that has only been published in Russian and Romanian, which are languages I (unfortunately) do no speak. Therefore it is quite difficult for me to assess how this new work builds upon this previous work.
This work was submitted for an... |