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2013/07/26 | 1,127 | 4,649 | <issue_start>username_0: Here is my situation, I'm about to graduate with a Ph.D. within the next few months. My dissertation is done, so I can dedicate quite a bit of time to the issue I'm describing.
At the moment, I have never taught a college level course. For the entire length of my program I've been on the rese... |
2013/07/26 | 820 | 3,294 | <issue_start>username_0: My wife and I just found out that we're having our first child. While this is a wonderful thing, it also concerns us a bit. Particularly because we're on limited funds (TA & RA combined salary) and we're still 1.5-2 years away from graduating together. Also, since our academic careers are so de... |
2013/07/27 | 1,229 | 5,282 | <issue_start>username_0: If no author of an accepted paper registers for the conference, the paper is simply dumped from the conference.
If, however, the authors duly register but fail to present it at the conference, what is the fate of the paper? I have an accepted paper at a European conference (IEEE), but due to l... |
2013/07/27 | 1,783 | 7,605 | <issue_start>username_0: I just received the galley proofs for an article which has been accepted to a well-regarded math journal.
The copyediting is, quite frankly, terrible. The copyeditor has introduced dozens of mathematical, typographical, and bibliographic mistakes. The proofs were accompanied by a list of chang... |
2013/07/27 | 642 | 2,852 | <issue_start>username_0: This is one question that probably has an archaic answer. I recently reviewed a paper for a journal that stuck all the figures at the end (with placeholders in-text). Where I publish, we typically provide camera-ready manuscripts or at least give reviewers a version with the figures embedded so... |
2013/07/27 | 1,115 | 4,482 | <issue_start>username_0: I recognize my advisor is busier than I am. But, nonetheless, I feel the need to tell her sometimes that I am overloaded with too many tasks and I need to push a deadline back or pass on some request.
How do other people handle this tactfully?<issue_comment>username_1: I don't look up my advis... |
2013/07/28 | 1,951 | 8,136 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a question about my advisor (supervisor, professor) in a lab, where I am a graduate research assistant, and had done research together with a PhD student, as a part of his dissertation. The student happened to be one of my close friends. The professor wanted to write a journal paper bas... |
2013/07/28 | 1,577 | 6,566 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen some universities encouraging students to contact with the faculty before making applications. For example, [this one](http://www.cse.psu.edu/prospective/graduate/gradgrad). On the other hand I've heard some people saying that they are waste of times because professors receive several... |
2013/07/28 | 836 | 3,448 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about one year from receiving my master's degree. I have published a few papers, so I'm confident that I want to do research. I have been offered two different PhD positions at my current university, but I might not want to stay here. The reason for not taking the first position is that I d... |
2013/07/29 | 2,403 | 10,427 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my bachelor project and my supervisor suggested to work with me on publishing a paper about my work which is an encryption algorithm, Now my supervisor helped me with some remarks along my bachelor project and helped me with the paper (like grammar mistakes and such) but I am the one... |
2013/07/29 | 904 | 3,203 | <issue_start>username_0: For university-level researchers and professors, is the salary higher in the medical fields than in other fields? I suppose attracting physicians to teach may be harder, because they can usually get high payments working as physicians. Where can I find data about this in Europe, Australia, Cana... |
2013/07/29 | 519 | 2,250 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a literature review at the moment. I have many many papers to read and I don't have that much time (just one month).
What I do is reading the abstract and then the conclusion and from the conclusion I see what were the key findings and then look them up in the paper and see some d... |
2013/07/29 | 1,803 | 7,217 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently finishing a B.Sc. Honours in Canada, and I'm applying to Edinburgh (among other places) to do a Masters. They have two [research-based degrees](http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees), and I was wondering if people with experience in acad... |
2013/07/29 | 1,623 | 6,884 | <issue_start>username_0: How should one engage uninterested students in a fast-paced, densely fact-packed science course such as chemistry or microbiology? I find that the only students who truly understand and engage with the material are those who already have a strong background in the material being covered, while ... |
2013/07/30 | 1,207 | 5,171 | <issue_start>username_0: A little while back I had sent one of my works to an ACM conference -just a National level conference. I knew my work was not one of the best they were going to receive, but given the quality of the papers published in the conference in the previous years, I was almost sure of an "Accept", and ... |
2013/07/30 | 393 | 1,613 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a table of studies and formula per study in the appendix, so sth like
```
study A E = mc²
study B v = ma
```
etc. For each study I need to cite a source. Now normally the citation list for the main part of document appears before the appendix. How do I handle this? Do I create... |
2013/07/30 | 1,209 | 3,884 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to find journals that:
* are ranked with JCR (no matter how low) *and*
* have open access (anyone can access the papers for free) *and*
* are free to publish (authors are not required to pay)
Maybe I am asking for a unicorn, but I think this should be feasible.
If I'm not mistak... |
2013/07/30 | 1,530 | 6,369 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing 2 conference papers. One is highly quantitative in nature and the other is absolutely qualitative in nature. I am submitting both papers to conferences having deadlines in the next couple of months.
The papers present results on 3 **different** research questions on the ... |
2013/07/31 | 341 | 1,417 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a senior in college and working for my final year project. I am required to read more than 8 papers. However, 2 of them cannot be found online or in the library (Summon system). The library delivery service is inaccessible now, and I believe my advisor have that papers.
Can I ask professor... |
2013/07/31 | 772 | 3,250 | <issue_start>username_0: My field is cardiovascular epidemiology, and my current research question relates to some risk factor which is supposed to strongly elevate cardiovascular risk in a defined subgroup. However, my data do not indicate any such association, and power analysis shows that I have about 0.85 power to ... |
2013/07/31 | 392 | 1,734 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a "transition period" shortly after having finished my MSc, and shortly before beginning my PhD. In the summer period the academic life doesn't cease, though, and sometimes an affiliation is asked for at scientific events. I am going to a conference soon, and indeed the organisers need ... |
2013/07/31 | 620 | 2,625 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a beginner researcher in a relatively new area. I published two papers in a conference directly related to the general field of my research (the general field is Artificial Intelligence or AI). Still there is no major conference for the new area; only one workshop and several special editi... |
2013/08/01 | 1,427 | 6,093 | <issue_start>username_0: I am lucky (or potentially unlucky) enough that a grant applications that I am working on does not have any formatting specifications and instead just has a limit of 5000 words. There are some suggested sections, that will be be variable in terms of length (some will have 200 words and others o... |
2013/08/01 | 739 | 3,240 | <issue_start>username_0: I just found out that my undergraduate institution made a tiny error on my transcript of records. I moved to another country and am currently in my masters and I'm wondering if I should make the effort to get that little mistake corrected.
So how often will I need that transcript of records fr... |
2013/08/01 | 1,063 | 4,906 | <issue_start>username_0: Just like my other research-related activities, I keep a complete record of the reviews I perform: both the original papers and the reviews I have written, as well as the revised manuscript I receive one, and the final published manuscript if it is published (but sometimes in a different journa... |
2013/08/01 | 863 | 3,687 | <issue_start>username_0: A high citation rate is desirable in academia. Citing other work doesn't cost much, so citations are cheap to give but desirable to get. That brings me to the question:
If a previous article addresses a topic similar to the one I'm writing, is that a sufficient reason to cite it? Or should the... |
2013/08/02 | 499 | 2,104 | <issue_start>username_0: I work for a large company, I am also a student at a big school. My employer is supportive in terms of funding required for my studies. Although the research paper has more to do with my academic studies. What is a reasonable way to put both affiliations in the research paper? My primary affili... |
2013/08/02 | 1,102 | 4,754 | <issue_start>username_0: This has not happened to me, but to a friend in the final stages of her PhD, she and the rest of the research group are understandably devastated, as the advisor was not only (in my friend's words), brilliant, but very kind and approachable.
My friend and all the research students are also wo... |
2013/08/03 | 1,326 | 5,584 | <issue_start>username_0: I'll be starting a Masters of Science program soon and wanted to make plans for my professional/educational future. I've been looking at different doctorate level degree programs and I'm having a bit of trouble in understanding the difference between a Doctor of Computer Science program and a P... |
2013/08/03 | 1,807 | 7,980 | <issue_start>username_0: I spotted that some universities do not have a comprehensive exam for their PhD students while it is standard at most universities (specifically for computer science). For what reasons do some universities drop the requirement of comprehensive exam? What is the impression towards someone who ha... |
2013/08/03 | 971 | 4,221 | <issue_start>username_0: Are students with masters degree allowed to enter a masters program in the same area at a good university?
Is second masters a good option for a better research experience and improving your CV before applying to a PhD in top programs? I am specifically interested in US universities and comput... |
2013/08/03 | 2,335 | 8,579 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to my first conference in about a month, where I will be presenting a poster.
How do people usually dress for conferences? Do I need to dress more smartly than usual? Is formal dress (e.g. a suit) normal? Or does no-one really care?
I'm a PhD student, if that makes any difference, a... |
2013/08/03 | 1,357 | 4,697 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for different national repositories (US, Canada, Australia, UK, etc.) of funded research projects, similar to what **[Cordis](http://www.cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_en.html)** does in EU. Any suggestions?
I am after any repository that list funded research and some of the proje... |
2013/08/03 | 1,645 | 7,052 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working for a university as a **research programmer** (prof staff, exempt) on an external grant ("soft money"), and there is a clear understanding between me and my immediate supervisor/PI, and at least one other PI, that I can use a certain non-trivial amount of my time each week to work o... |
2013/08/03 | 429 | 1,801 | <issue_start>username_0: I am filling in an application form for a PhD program and I am supposed to answer the following question:
**"How do you intend to fund your studies for the entire duration of your stay in ...?"**
Actually, I cannot afford any part of the living costs and university fees but I don't know how t... |
2013/08/04 | 1,063 | 4,290 | <issue_start>username_0: It is my understanding that patents can be invalidated if there is prior art to the technique at hand; DJB has a piece that would suggest that this way authors can inadvertently invalidate their own patents, if not being careful with information disclosure.
<http://cr.yp.to/patents/us/4200770.... |
2013/08/04 | 1,312 | 5,452 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to know whether is it normal to publish an article in the journal in which one is associate editor. For example, one of the co-author article in [this](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927539813000261) article in [this](http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-empiri... |
2013/08/04 | 702 | 3,007 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question regarding how schools decide on who to give scholarship to.
Is it appropriate for me to ask my graduate school department on their guidelines in giving out scholarships?
I feel like I have been cheated from scholarship because I have found out people who have worse undergrad... |
2013/08/04 | 1,451 | 5,980 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc in Physics areas and trying to get myself ready for applying for tenure track positions. However, the US academic salary system seems still mysterious to me.
In several salary surveys, a reasonably close figure for starting salaries of starting assistant professor positions emerg... |
2013/08/05 | 1,138 | 4,855 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student, and have just finished the last part of my course requirement. My last assignment is to review several other student's term projects from a seminar course.
One of the projects I have been asked to review is rife with plagiarism. More than 75% of the paper is plagiarized, fr... |
2013/08/05 | 1,126 | 4,826 | <issue_start>username_0: I know it is slightly controversial, but I am supervising a student who started with the right attitude, but is now less and less engaged with the research. We are at a point where there's no end in sight, and the student still wants to finish within unmanageable time limits.
The *context* is ... |
2013/08/05 | 1,117 | 4,604 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing a manuscript for a scientific article, I often wonder what software I should cite or acknowledge, and how.
The first problem is to make a choice **which** software to cite. On the one hand, there is no way to cite all software, as this would mean to cite my whole software stack (L... |
2013/08/05 | 2,094 | 8,506 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there *written* or *unwritten* rules for avoiding the use of first-person while writing research papers? I was advised at the beginning of my grad school to avoid use of first person - but I still don't know why I should do this.
I have seen that, at many places, authors refer to themselve... |
2013/08/05 | 1,506 | 6,416 | <issue_start>username_0: Many students arrive at University and struggle with the transition from school.
Has anyone run/attended a lecture in which some or all of the following topics - or similar - were covered? Note - I am envisaging a mandatory single lecture for first-years which is independent of course/faculty... |
2013/08/05 | 1,032 | 4,687 | <issue_start>username_0: How can I motivate my undergrad students to do research?
Since these students are at an undergrad level, I don't expect any extraordinary results. However, I would like if they get something published (even in low impact publications).
Undergrads almost never do research in our country. It's ... |
2013/08/05 | 365 | 1,649 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that a systematic review on a topic X was published some (3-8) years ago by someone else, and it is currently still a useful source for what has been made before it was published. However, more recent works were also published later.
Generally, how can I decide whether it is a good ide... |
2013/08/05 | 3,721 | 15,100 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been reading in different forums now and searching for the advice that can give me an answer to my dilemma of quitting or continuing my PhD. In this search I did not find any entry to why I should stay in the PhD.
**Profile**: Female, 29 years old. Undergraduate in agricutural engineeri... |
2013/08/05 | 755 | 3,090 | <issue_start>username_0: There's no way to evade having a lot of acronyms in a scientific paper, often already in the title.
I use the [latex](/questions/tagged/latex "show questions tagged 'latex'") package `glossaries` to automatically expand the first use of every acronym (except usage in the title), but for a scie... |
2013/08/05 | 847 | 3,503 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently graduated and am temporarily employed as a lecturer at the school I graduated from (9 hours a week of teaching, not counting prep time). There's a weekly seminar on my field of interest, and I've been asked to take over hosting it. This would involve handling various logistics like p... |
2013/08/05 | 631 | 2,591 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the process of listing and comparing all the graduate schools I am interested in. What should I be comparing, gathering, etc. And what is the best way to keep all the information together?<issue_comment>username_1: Here are some ways in which different schools differ from each other:
* ... |
2013/08/06 | 573 | 2,520 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently finishing my undergraduate math studies, and I am really interested in computer science (especially theoretical). However, I realize that most CS departments expect their applicants to have a CS major or at least a significant amount of coursework in CS. I have taken a couple of ... |
2013/08/06 | 1,513 | 5,813 | <issue_start>username_0: As we enter a new school year, I'm wondering if the is any evidence to support or contradict the idea that putting a poor-performing students on academic probation improves their performance. Does anyone know of any such evidence?
I can imagine that schools are naturally concerned about elimin... |
2013/08/06 | 597 | 2,693 | <issue_start>username_0: If a paper has 3 weak accepts (in all evaluations, a weak accept in each evaluation), will it be published in the conference? If this is the case, what is the difference if it has 2 weak accepts and a strong accept or 3 strong accepts?<issue_comment>username_1: This largely depends on the confe... |
2013/08/06 | 573 | 2,477 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in the process of applying for PhDs. My question is whether it is frowned upon to have done a degree in a subject completely unrelated to my main studies. I just completed two masters at top universities concurrently, one in biology and the other in English literature. I did the ... |
2013/08/07 | 1,447 | 6,337 | <issue_start>username_0: We need to hire a computer scientist with a very particular specialty as a consultant for a long term industrial research project. We've read the relevant papers and so know who does good work in it. But we don't know the first thing about hiring a professor as a consultant.
* Do I just email ... |
2013/08/07 | 627 | 2,857 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a visiting faculty, professor in B-schools. How does one go about in designing or compiling an open book exam, ensuring that it's not tough and neither too easy. At the same time someone who has not read the book will not be able to answer the question. What at the pointers or measures tha... |
2013/08/07 | 1,179 | 5,000 | <issue_start>username_0: Inspired by the following question: [Co-authorship for not very involved supervisor](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/6130/co-authorship-for-not-very-involved-supervisor)
I have got to ask a slightly different question: I have a past supervisor while I did my masters and she wasn't... |
2013/08/07 | 918 | 3,947 | <issue_start>username_0: I know you can apply for fellowships for individual students, but I'm not talking about funding only for one's self. Let's say I noticed a grant that was solicited on grants.gov and I wanted to apply for it. Can I do that?
The nature of these grants is to supply the awardee with funding for exp... |
2013/08/08 | 2,426 | 10,534 | <issue_start>username_0: As described in [Hiring a faculty consultant](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/11715/hiring-a-faculty-consultant), we need to hire a faculty consultant. The initial stages are perhaps only 100 hours, but subsequent stages may blossom to ten times that.
Will good professors be able ... |
2013/08/08 | 813 | 3,406 | <issue_start>username_0: Long story short, my transcript is quite the spectacle: I started off getting really good grades, but due to a lot of personal issues ended up graduating with a respectable, but lackluster GPA. Unfortunately, I have a downward trend. While my final GPA is slightly below 3.5, I have failed quite... |
2013/08/08 | 4,595 | 18,939 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first-year PhD student in Biology and I am currently working in a lab for a very hard-to-please PI (a new PI who started a couple years ago and only just recruited her first few graduate students). I am very interested and excited about this line of research and I really want to do what ... |
2013/08/08 | 1,847 | 7,769 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergrad in Australia, and at this stage I want to go on to do further study in maths (or maybe physics/CS, still have a few years till then).
Should I do so, I imagine that I will want to complete a PhD overseas. Possibly at a university in the US or maybe Oxbridge in the UK.
In Aust... |
2013/08/08 | 1,361 | 5,655 | <issue_start>username_0: I am willing very much to make a transition to a scientific position, but I am not sure what's the best way to do it. I would like to ask for your advice.
Let me describe my situation (it is quite specific, but it can be generalized):
* I have completed PhD in Russia (at some provincial unive... |
2013/08/08 | 776 | 3,336 | <issue_start>username_0: I am fortunate to have a very nice, easy-going advisor (the last because I have seen some horrible PhD advisors). He respects me and my work (I did my master degree under his guidance). Then, I went to another university and returned to him again last year. I am a first year PhD student now. Ho... |
2013/08/08 | 961 | 3,936 | <issue_start>username_0: I just finished my master and am about to start a funded PhD in October. Thing is that the reason I am doing this PhD is because I missed the deadlines for the PhDs that I am truly interested in. I was thinking that it would be better to do something academic this year and get paid than to do n... |
2013/08/08 | 1,314 | 4,923 | <issue_start>username_0: In [this](http://jchyip.blogspot.be/2013/08/the-most-interesting-things-ive-learnt.html?view=classic) recent blog post the author lists several interesting concepts he has discovered pertaining to learning. One thing he mentions is the following:
>
> Mastery is more important than passing gra... |
2013/08/09 | 4,402 | 17,559 | <issue_start>username_0: [Imposter syndrome](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome) is a psychological phenomenon wherein an individual is convinced that they do not deserve the success that they have achieved despite (perhaps extensive) empirical evidence to the contrary. Some people with imposter syndrome do... |
2013/08/09 | 883 | 3,519 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc and will be up in the tenure-track job market in the near future. Just want to know what the average duration one has to work on tenure-track. Is this duration negotiable or there is a strict rule for this duration?
Thanks!
--Dave<issue_comment>username_1: AFAIK it's usually six ... |
2013/08/10 | 1,286 | 5,371 | <issue_start>username_0: Is the Australian academia following the same system as the US one? i.e., tenure track for a few years, and then tenured? Or it is more like the British one where there is 'probation' period?<issue_comment>username_1: [Australia does not have a US-like tenure system](http://www.eui.eu/Programme... |
2013/08/10 | 1,360 | 5,786 | <issue_start>username_0: Following some tips about graduate study, I have contacted the professors before the admission cycle, and managed to secure some appointments with them. I have read through their publications that match my research interests, and prepared some brief write up about my research experiences (thoug... |
2013/08/10 | 1,155 | 4,981 | <issue_start>username_0: I am advising an outstanding graduate student who is currently doing a summer internship with a government agency. He is also applying for a permanent job with the same agency, for which I was quite proud to recommend him strongly. That said, his prospective employer has been the subject of rec... |
2013/08/11 | 840 | 3,438 | <issue_start>username_0: Similar to my previous question ["Strategies to overcome “academic-apathy” in the final stages of the PhD?"](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/10969/strategies-to-overcome-academic-apathy-in-the-final-stages-of-the-phd), one thing I am noticing as I am drafting papers and the thesis,... |
2013/08/11 | 465 | 2,044 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a MSc Computer Networking student and I recently became acquainted with the internet of things. I've fallen completely in love with this new area and I would love to base my dissertation on this area.
The problem is, I'm unsure if "The internet of things" falls academically with... |
2013/08/11 | 359 | 1,490 | <issue_start>username_0: Obviously being a teaching assistant as an undergrad or a masters student looks good, but *how good does it look*? Is it merely a nice little bonus, or does extensive TA experience have a large impact on one's acceptance?<issue_comment>username_1: It may depend on:
**Where?**
* For instance, ... |
2013/08/11 | 5,503 | 22,697 | <issue_start>username_0: I did my undergraduate degree in the US and am heading to graduate school here in less than a month, so I myself have taken the Graduate Record Examinations (the general as well as two subjects tests) and I guess it always just seemed as a sort of un-avoidable formality that nothing could be do... |
2013/08/12 | 922 | 4,066 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a undergraduate student who is trying to publish something so as to facilitate my PhD applications in the future.
I have a few seniors who help out in the lab and have been included as non-1st authors in some publications. Basically, what they do is helping the PhD's do some implementatio... |
2013/08/12 | 997 | 4,418 | <issue_start>username_0: I've heard from people saying that while applying for PhD, you need to have past experience in researching something and should have international publications. I was like more concentrated towards practical experience and have't had any publications. If I am aspiring to do PhD and want to appl... |
2013/08/12 | 944 | 4,107 | <issue_start>username_0: I am encountering some problems for making my research in English, due that this is not my native language. Even though my ideas are crystal clear in my language I find it extremely hard to express them in English.
For checking issues related to grammar and syntax I have been using Proofread B... |
2013/08/12 | 622 | 2,479 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my B.Sc in CS about 6 month ago and now I am writing a paper for a conference. before when I was a student I put my university and department name below my name as an author. but now I am not a student. I saw somebody put their IEEE membership on the paper something like *"member of ... |
2013/08/13 | 691 | 2,921 | <issue_start>username_0: If I read a scholarly paper and find it interesting and beneficial, should I write a short thank you letter to the author? Should I send the thank you letter from a `.edu` email address?<issue_comment>username_1: It certainly wouldn't hurt, and as a published author myself, I would say it would... |
2013/08/13 | 1,724 | 7,355 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm nearing the completion of my undergraduate degree in mathematics. The handful of experiences I've had tutoring students are among the most satisfying ways I've applied math to real problems. My academic record is good but not honors material. I'm convinced that teaching mathematics at the s... |
2013/08/13 | 530 | 2,238 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently have on my CV a list of conferences I organized, or co-organized, a list of invited talks, a full list of talks, etc. Recently I have been asked to chair a session in a prestigious conference. I am very honored, and thus wondered: is this something I can feature on my CV? If so, wou... |
2013/08/13 | 1,706 | 6,998 | <issue_start>username_0: In academia, one is forced to read papers that come out. Some of the papers I read are directly related to my work and then it is reasonable to read them in my working hours. Others are completely irrelevant and I read them just for the pleasure and to broaden my knowledge in other areas. These... |
2013/08/13 | 1,451 | 6,082 | <issue_start>username_0: I just finished the 2nd year of a PhD program. I was planning to present a poster at the national conference but (probably) need to cancel. Now I'm deciding whether to attend the conference anyway. On the one hand: I'll meet people and probably enjoy myself. On the other hand: I could use the t... |
2013/08/14 | 291 | 1,227 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper at a conference and it is currently under review. Can I use this paper as a 'scientific report' (asked to assess candidate's writing skills) for a Ph.D application ?<issue_comment>username_1: So long as this is for an internal evaluation process that doesn't involve any... |
2013/08/14 | 2,142 | 8,481 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to submit a latex document to a SAGE journal using ScholarOne.
I'm having a hard time.
The (poor) documentation says that it accepts tex files, but the pdf it produces says that it cannot turn my tex into a pdf.
>
> Note: The following files were submitted by the author for peer
... |
2013/08/15 | 358 | 1,429 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the best way to conduct a training seminar inside a computer laboratory without a projector?
Is there an existing software program that could achieve the same results as conducting a training seminar with the aid of a projector?<issue_comment>username_1: CLI or GUI? If GUI, you can hav... |
2013/08/15 | 752 | 3,402 | <issue_start>username_0: My friend submitted a paper to a well-known computer science conference. One of the reviews was very short - only 2.5 lines of text, extremely general and vague, and rejected the paper. The review is so meaningless, that the author cannot even respond to it, or use it to improve the paper. Addi... |
2013/08/15 | 1,113 | 4,715 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a 2nd-year grad student in a US PhD program in one of the social sciences. Coursework has forced me throw out the initial ideas I had about research, which I proposed in my application nearly two years ago. Now I'm actively hunting for the "right" topic.
People ask me all the time, "what'... |
2013/08/15 | 2,035 | 8,531 | <issue_start>username_0: I was a little bit surprised to read [this comment thread](http://chronicle.com/article/Week-One-on-the-New-Job/141009/) on the Chronicle of Higher Education, which suggests (among other things) that faculty shouldn't fraternize with grad students. I think this site has a different slant than C... |
2013/08/16 | 649 | 2,715 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently won a scholarship related to my career focus. I was chosen as a winner in part because of a recommendation from a former professor. She is now asking me to draft a press release about winning the scholarship. I am hesitant because I do not want to appear press-hungry, but I would lik... |
2013/08/16 | 958 | 4,202 | <issue_start>username_0: 1. What is the difference between termination and suspension?
2. Are there "neutral" ways for a graduate student leaving his graduate
school without completing a degree? Is a student voluntarily leaving his graduate school called termination?
3. When applying to another graduate school, will th... |
2013/08/16 | 1,708 | 7,494 | <issue_start>username_0: My research supervisor is a quite strict person who constantly criticizes me for my faults (such as slow progress, or always asking others for help on programming issues).
I don't blame him being a bit too strict with me, because anyway supervisor is here to supervise and give constructive sug... |
2013/08/16 | 557 | 2,286 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper with my teacher and his teacher. I don't know the standard of writing authors name, affiliation and email in the paper. I am using **IEEEtran** template for an IEEE conference. If the authors are in different department or university there is no problem we can use column au... |
2013/08/16 | 631 | 2,770 | <issue_start>username_0: I had submitted a paper to a reputed Computer Science Journal. The reviewer has a lot of constructive changes, in addition to that he also suggested citing a few more papers, all by the same author. Since this is a double blind process, we don't know each other's identity. So, is it common for ... |
2013/08/16 | 1,706 | 6,737 | <issue_start>username_0: There's been a case of alleged data manipulation in a recent *Nano Letters* paper (initial report [here](http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2013/08/13/alleged-data-manipulation-in-nano-letters-and-acs-nano-from-the-pease-group/); now-retracted [paper](http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl400959z)):... |
2013/08/16 | 1,306 | 5,496 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it OK to have a letter of recommendation from a senior lecturer rather than from a full professor? The lecturer knows me well (I took two of his classes and I'm TA'ing for him) and he really likes me. Unfortunately he is not involved in research, but I should have two other letters from rese... |
2013/08/17 | 672 | 2,644 | <issue_start>username_0: I live and teach at a university in S. Korea. I may have an opportunity to complete my PhD in TESOL or English linguistics at this university. However, I am reluctant because I have heard that PhDs from non-Western universities (in particular, Korea) are not valued or equatable to US PhDs. Anec... |
2013/08/17 | 1,431 | 6,125 | <issue_start>username_0: My current situation is that I am stuck teaching in a couple of universities that do not support the research at all in my country of origin. I am 38 years old and I have finished a MSc degree in Europe (one year ago), but I find it pretty hard to get a funded PhD position until now.
Sometimes... |
2013/08/18 | 905 | 3,752 | <issue_start>username_0: So, without giving out the details about the school. I joined a graduate program at school X, because I was really interested in work of professor Y. I met him during the graduate school visit and I accepted the offer to join school X.
Though Prof. Y did not officially accept me as his graduat... |