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2013/08/18 | 577 | 2,456 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently passed the M.Sc.
While I was reviewing a paper I found it interesting and potentially useful. I am planning to adopt the analyses that are utilized at that paper in my area of interest. The applications are quite different.
Is it feasible, usual and professional to propose that pap... |
2013/08/19 | 914 | 3,814 | <issue_start>username_0: At undergrad level I was short-listed for the most prestigious award at my university (best graduate of that year). I however did not receive it. I did not get any paper or other evidence stating that I was short-listed. I only know this because my personal tutor told me. She also mentions it i... |
2013/08/19 | 1,115 | 4,213 | <issue_start>username_0: While reading a series of blog posts on a sub-field in TCS (theoretical CS), I came across a paper recently published by a group of students/faculty that has literally copy-pasted large sections of [a blog post](http://geomblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/voronoi-trick.html), and made it into a [journ... |
2013/08/19 | 545 | 2,302 | <issue_start>username_0: With the desire to obtain a master's degree in Management Information Systems, IT Management, or Computer Science, how do you proceed writing a personal statement when your bachelors degree is unrelated?
With minimal previous technical experience (basic knowledge on programming, some collegia... |
2013/08/20 | 1,261 | 5,017 | <issue_start>username_0: I just graduated from one of the older IITs (Indian Institute of Technology), majoring in EE and have a GPA of about 7.8 / 10. I want to pursue a masters degree in computer science from a top 20 university in the US. I have a paper published in an international conference on machine learning an... |
2013/08/20 | 2,120 | 8,627 | <issue_start>username_0: This fall I will be an senior mathematics major at a small public liberal arts university. I'm trying to finalize the list of schools to which I will apply (to PhD programs in pure math), but I am finding it somewhat difficult. I know that I am not a candidate for admission at top-tier universi... |
2013/08/20 | 1,939 | 6,642 | <issue_start>username_0: While writing [an answer to that question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/11988/2700), I realized I don't really have a good list of resources that could be useful to first-time authors, like MSc or PhD students who write their first paper. I often direct my own students to these two pape... |
2013/08/20 | 647 | 2,936 | <issue_start>username_0: How understanding are American Top-10 universities of different expectations abroad? In the UK, nearly nobody publishes anything before they start their PhD. The master courses are much shorter and usually include mostly courses instead of research. We are not expected to do any teaching. I am ... |
2013/08/20 | 1,973 | 8,371 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a beginning doctoral student in the field of Machine Learning and I've been given several contradicting opinions on whether a PhD is worth it or not. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in front of a desk doing research, but I would like to deepen my understanding on my field. I am in... |
2013/08/20 | 1,109 | 4,801 | <issue_start>username_0: About a year ago I noticed that my PhD supervisor has listed on his faculty page that he co-authored a conference presentation together with me. The problem is, he didn't-- the research itself was entirely mine, and I wrote and gave the presentation alone. (This is in the social sciences, not t... |
2013/08/20 | 1,173 | 5,152 | <issue_start>username_0: What steps are taken to evaluate an applicant's coursework?
* Are graduate-level courses weighted higher?
* Is this a significant part of the decision process (outside the major
components of research experience, personal statement, and LORs)?
I'm interested in what adcoms look for as good s... |
2013/08/20 | 647 | 2,847 | <issue_start>username_0: I am invited to an online interview for a PhD position.
Actually, it is my first time.
What are the contents of the interview?
What issues are usually discussed in these interviews?
Am I supposed to represent a proposal in the context of research, at that time?
Which parameters can increase the... |
2013/08/20 | 1,034 | 4,684 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is motivated by the fact that my last research internship was unsatisfactory in my relation with my supervisor. Partly because of me, I may have tried to be too much autonomous, rarely coming to him or sharing what I was doing or reading and never asking feedback. We didn't produc... |
2013/08/21 | 502 | 2,008 | <issue_start>username_0: When would someone marking papers (lecturer, etc.) bump a student from just below pass up to the pass line? Do teachers consider things like attendance?
Regardless of the consideration (attendance, participation, etc.) for giving a student a better grade than they deserve, what is the justific... |
2013/08/21 | 1,868 | 8,397 | <issue_start>username_0: In this [answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/12007/929) it is claimed that authorship is given away for "free" in some fields (e.g., obtaining the funding). The comments to the answer suggest that this is field dependent. I am looking for documentation from a field that suggests that ... |
2013/08/21 | 998 | 4,390 | <issue_start>username_0: **tl;dr** I think my supervisor has a severe lack of knowledge, does too many things instead of focusing heavily on just a few things and hence I can't really focus on my research project.
**Long Story** I started my PhD a few months back and was hired specifically to work on a certain project... |
2013/08/21 | 2,008 | 8,585 | <issue_start>username_0: I assign my undergraduate students assignments from a workbook as homework. The homework amounts to about 30-minutes per day.
It is impractical for me to collect these workbooks at each lesson, or even weekly, as any days when I am checking the work are days when the students don't have their ... |
2013/08/21 | 1,451 | 5,942 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a MS thesis in an engineering lab and I am fully funded by my advisor (tuition waiver plus stipend). We are a small lab and my professor is aiming for tenure. I am ahead of schedule and almost done with my thesis.I am good at programming and completed the project in 3 weeks (my profe... |
2013/08/22 | 1,389 | 5,704 | <issue_start>username_0: I work as an instructor at a university. I am not a graduate student there and my responsibilities end at teaching. Recently, a supervisor from another department asked me to prepare an article for their department to use, for some extra pay. The subject aligned well with my background and rece... |
2013/08/22 | 1,955 | 8,124 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a masters degree in electronics engineering. When I was pursuing my B.Tech (Electronics and Communication) I had a nervous breakdown (to be specific BPAD) which was treated. After successful treatment I was able to succeed satisfactorily in my career. I have had to follow strict medicati... |
2013/08/22 | 513 | 2,109 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new immigrant and my question is about norms in American universities. I have MSc degree from abroad and in order to improve my chances for admission to a decent PhD program I would like to get published. I would appreciate your answers about the following questions:
1. Is it acceptable... |
2013/08/22 | 826 | 3,606 | <issue_start>username_0: If one is extending work previously published in conference proceedings, what must be changed?
Specifically, does one need to change the Introduction, Background Work, or similar sections that are not actually the new material being presented?
I understand that some journals use a plagiarism ... |
2013/08/23 | 948 | 4,038 | <issue_start>username_0: I see a lot of questions about grad school prospects with poor grades and/or gre but what about the prospects of getting into a funded PhD program with no research experience or professor connections but good grades and gre quant (3.9 and 165 respectively)?
I graduate in December (BS CompEng ... |
2013/08/23 | 680 | 2,883 | <issue_start>username_0: I have come across the [International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA)](http://thesai.org/Publications/IJACSA). The [copyright section](http://thesai.org/Publications/Guidelines) says that "*Authors retain the right to publish their material elsewhere, providing the... |
2013/08/23 | 1,080 | 4,168 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently come across this journal [International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA)](http://thesai.org/Publications/CallForPaper?code=IJACSA)
The journal provides acceptance notification within 15 days. This raised red flags, but then I performed a [Scholar Se... |
2013/08/23 | 1,357 | 5,776 | <issue_start>username_0: I plan to submit part of my current work to conference A. I then wish to submit my whole work to a more prestigious conference B. As for the part submitted to A, there is no point of repeating it again. So I will just cite my submission to A in my submission to B.
But the problem is that the ... |
2013/08/23 | 903 | 3,656 | <issue_start>username_0: My faculty is starting a mentorship initiative where they match undergrad students with alumni from the same program. I was contacted by one of my old professors, and asked whether or not I could be a mentor.
Now I have been in mentorship programs before; and I currently have a mentor myself,... |
2013/08/23 | 1,322 | 5,735 | <issue_start>username_0: Please see [this question of mine](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/11031/importance-of-research-in-other-areas-of-study-within-mathematics) first.
My question is: Does the admissions committee in grad school consider publications in places like [arxiv.org](http://arxiv.org/) as a... |
2013/08/24 | 577 | 2,526 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I noticed that some of the papers actually had their author names listed in the alphabetical order.
Say Mr. Smith contributed more than Mr. Black. Then without noticing the tiny footnote, one will simply take <NAME> as the first author.
I am wondering whether there exists some cert... |
2013/08/24 | 454 | 2,018 | <issue_start>username_0: Imagine a case where I wish to apply for MIT. I happened to work with a young assistant professor who finished her PhD in MIT. How much will her good words weigh in recommending me to MIT PhD program?
I am asking this because I am facing a choice in asking for recommendations:
* A recommendat... |
2013/08/24 | 1,737 | 7,593 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted to a journal a couple of months ago. The editorial flow is somehow quick and very transparent. I receive notifications for all events happening to the manuscript.
Unfortunately, the managing editor contacted me three weeks ago. They informed me that the assigned editor could not co... |
2013/08/24 | 443 | 1,899 | <issue_start>username_0: For instance, my field is Information Technology and I would like to know if it is okay to submit to management and environmental science publication. Of course, it's not purely I.T. but this is a paper on how I.T. can help preserve the environment, specifically on reducing consumption of resou... |
2013/08/24 | 2,312 | 9,823 | <issue_start>username_0: So my student and I are writing a paper, my question is: Among `<EMAIL>` vs `<EMAIL>`
which sounds more professional?
I personally submitted a paper back when I was a bachelor student using my gmail address, although I had a similar student account like the one above. But my supervisor back ... |
2013/08/25 | 659 | 3,037 | <issue_start>username_0: **Question: What to write in a hypothesis that can't claim statistical results of any kind -- only those of engineering nature.**
**Explanation:**
In thesis writing, hypothesis is claimed to be one of the most important aspects. I'm not arguing with that but in some cases, it seems a little ... |
2013/08/25 | 792 | 3,411 | <issue_start>username_0: In my dissertation, I have felt the need to illustrate some ideas with the help of figures and illustrations which I have found available in existing literature. I have borrowed a number of them and I give proper citations and everything. My question is:
Will it be considered a negative point ... |
2013/08/25 | 717 | 3,064 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently asked two professors by email if I could do an independent study with them. Both of them responded, saying that they can sponsor me for the study. As soon as I received the first professor's response, I replied, saying that I wanted to work with him and scheduling a face-to-face meet... |
2013/08/26 | 1,232 | 4,991 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisor recently received a pretty major award in our field for a set of four papers that he wrote, and I was a co-author on one of these. He and I both agree that I should receive some sort of credit for this award because my contribution was significant (the nomination for this award was d... |
2013/08/26 | 1,437 | 6,398 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of writing my Ph.D. thesis and struggling with the introduction chapter, what to cover, and what not. This is a technical thesis. The broad area is molecular simulation in statistical mechanics.
There are lots of tips available on the Internet, but those are very general of... |
2013/08/26 | 644 | 2,931 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm looking at a job application that asks for the following:
* C.V. (required)
* Statement of Interests (required)
* Cover letter (optional)
* Statement of Research (optional)
* Statement of Teaching (optional)
I find this confusing because I don't understand what a "Statement of Interests" ... |
2013/08/26 | 986 | 4,085 | <issue_start>username_0: This has recently happened to an acquaintance of mine. A bit of background, in Australia, we do not 'defend' the thesis, we submit it to be examined by, usually, 3 academics (in the country or overseas).
The situation is, the thesis was approved by the advisor, after several drafts and some fe... |
2013/08/26 | 1,212 | 3,933 | <issue_start>username_0: In a discussion on why subsubsections are evil, egreg [comments](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/118478/why-are-beamer-subsubsections-evil#comment263534_118478):
>
> If you have subsubsections, you must have at least two of them in a subsection; you must have at least two subsections ... |
2013/08/26 | 1,217 | 5,521 | <issue_start>username_0: I've found a mistake in a published paper, and am unsure what to do now.
I was looking at all cited articles from a paper over 10 years old, and found one that is citing the paper in error.
A variant of a certain protein and a fusion protein made of 2 proteins have been confused, that is the ... |
2013/08/26 | 538 | 2,268 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to do a Ph.D. in CS and I will start doing research as an undergraduate student soon, and I will be applying next year (December 2014) at good (say top 15) US universities. My problem is that I have interest in many areas and I don't know which one to choose. At first, I thought th... |
2013/08/27 | 897 | 3,808 | <issue_start>username_0: I just start writing a paper. This is also my first time doing so.
I have a problem describing the pros and cons of the related literature. **I am not sure where I should place them.**
1. Some of the papers address the pros and cons of related work in `INTRODUCTION` section so that they can c... |
2013/08/27 | 683 | 2,811 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to apply to PhD programs in English Literature this December. I have pretty good stats from a good liberal arts college + summa thesis, but I majored in Russian Lit. I took a couple of English classes in college but I probably won't do very well on the GRE subject test in British/America... |
2013/08/27 | 953 | 3,572 | <issue_start>username_0: I searched on the internet about this but found no convincing answer. I have to submit a paper to a conference where they are also asking for an Industrial Case Study. I contacted the conference chair about this, they replied:
>
> If there is a pragmatic solution to a problem or there is an i... |
2013/08/27 | 2,563 | 10,505 | <issue_start>username_0: I start my graduate program next week, which includes spending some of my time as a Teaching Assistant. It is my least favorite part of job, and I do not want to teach in my career after that. I don't want to become professor but get a job in a company.
Nobody told me how to teach and I don't ... |
2013/08/27 | 637 | 2,533 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently I use Mendeley. I have heard some stuff about ReadCube, but they don't have a Mendeley quick import tool, so… before I go through the hassle of resetting up my library with them, I wondered how it compared to Mendeley. What are its extra features? What is missing? How smooth is it to ... |
2013/08/27 | 633 | 2,702 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the market for a (hopefully free!) grade book software and would like to see some suggestions. This would be used for a math class and I am planning for many grades (15+) per semester.
In particular, if a gradebook has any features that make it stand out from other gradebooks or spread... |
2013/08/28 | 745 | 3,257 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently read a paper whose co-authors are found in the conference committee.
Although they are not in the executive committee, they are in organizing committee and all the committee people know each other well.
So I am wondering how this can happen? I mean, is there any regulation, either ... |
2013/08/28 | 840 | 3,334 | <issue_start>username_0: My name is <NAME> and I'm writing a paper. In the discussion of the existing literature, I cite quite a few papers from another team, including many whose first author was a <NAME>. I usually write this using heavily the “et al” style:
>
> Einstein et al. first established in 1976 a possible ... |
2013/08/28 | 488 | 2,190 | <issue_start>username_0: These days I'm going to take the subject of my master. I'm wondering how to search about the subject and how to decide which master thesis I can take and work. The one option is to go to a professor and take anything that he gives me and work with if I like it. Is any other way to search about ... |
2013/08/28 | 1,338 | 5,719 | <issue_start>username_0: During college, I decided to use my free electives to pursue a second major I had an interest in (Sociology) besides my main focus on computer science.
I am contemplating applying to some phD programs that intersect both of these fields. However, I know these are new programs.
I have e-maile... |
2013/08/28 | 915 | 3,827 | <issue_start>username_0: Inspired [this good question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/10059/mentor-trying-to-be-first-author), I think posting this question will surely benefit the next generations of students, albeit this does not happen to myself.
The research students will publish several papers along... |
2013/08/28 | 747 | 3,119 | <issue_start>username_0: 1. Can one be titled "Vising Student/Scholar" at a university if one is already graduated from another institute (with BSc/MSc) and is currently not affiliated with any university?
2. Does one have to pay registration fees, etc.?
3. In this case, can one be paid for as a TA/RA by the university... |
2013/08/29 | 2,501 | 10,414 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm asking what to expect after violence in my classroom, will I be fired, expelled? What is the procedure?
Hopefully this is the correct stack exchange for this, if not feel free to tell me where to move it where it would be more appropriate.
So I am a teaching assistant and masters student ... |
2013/08/29 | 2,488 | 9,914 | <issue_start>username_0: I have found that while many have some appreciation of the level of research in a PhD (usually by saying "that's way over my head" or something similar) and I have not really had a problem with [getting impatient describing my research](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/257/how-do-i-... |
2013/08/29 | 935 | 4,049 | <issue_start>username_0: In order to write a lit review from papers which I already have, should I read all those papers deeply and summarize them, or can I just skim and scan and just pick the information that I need to connect it with other information available in another paper?
**The main point that I want to unde... |
2013/08/29 | 918 | 3,913 | <issue_start>username_0: I am noticing that many graduate applications require a "primary spoken language" and "other spoken language".
For the "other spoken language", do they mean you must be proficient in writing, speaking, and reading? What if you can only do one (and you may not even be great at it...)? Does that... |
2013/08/30 | 554 | 2,478 | <issue_start>username_0: When a junior student is doing research independently (for example theoretical), does s/he need official permission to publish a research article? In the article, s/he needs to introduce his/her affiliation. Normally, this affiliation is connected with the research funding.
Does studentship qu... |
2013/08/30 | 338 | 1,535 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose we design a prototype for a new product that is indeed novel.
Would writing a paper on such a thing be useful as mostly the papers talk about new algorithms or their upgrades or some new theory ?
I am talking about just a new product that does something better than the existing ones b... |
2013/08/30 | 542 | 2,357 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first time faculty member straight out of grad school and I have been installed as a director for a "learning center". We hire undergraduate and graduate student "coaches" in the learning center to help students who have trouble understanding concepts in physics or math.
Now, I have int... |
2013/08/31 | 258 | 1,092 | <issue_start>username_0: Here is my case, before I studied my master´s degree I managed to write a research paper jointly with a Professor (not from my university) on databases. After that I pursue my master´s degree in CS, but on neural networks rather than databases. The thing is that I would like to do my PhD in dat... |
2013/08/31 | 1,907 | 7,895 | <issue_start>username_0: For all that is said about the *wealth* of information that is freely available on the internet, the fact is that most of it is incomplete, dumbed down, lacking in context or downright wrong.
Individuals spend the best part of 20 years completely oblivious to the existence of journals and the... |
2013/08/31 | 812 | 3,346 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not native speaker and I'm doing a lit review at the moment. My Question is it normal to spend a whole day reading and writing about one paper? So I read the paper deeply and then write about it. The process takes more than 6 hours. Is that normal or should I try to double that?<issue_comme... |
2013/09/01 | 2,062 | 8,794 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a final year PhD in UK in a scientific discipline and I am writing my thesis. I have already published 2 journal papers and I have submitted 2 more papers for publications. My department does not allow a "publications-based" thesis so I need to write a thesis in the context of a book etc. ... |
2013/09/01 | 1,547 | 5,973 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing letter to an academic professor (not necessarily from student to professor), what is the appropriate way to address his/her title?
I have seen in letters using
`Dear Prof. X` even when the addressee is not a full professor
`Dear Dr. X` though, knowing that the addressee is a ful... |
2013/09/01 | 347 | 1,378 | <issue_start>username_0: As a PhD student who starts his last year, I will soon start to look for post-docs. In this process, I will update my Curriculum Vitae. But as a title of this CV should I put "PhD in XXXXXX" or "PhD Student in XXXXXX" ?<issue_comment>username_1: Until you have your PhD officially, your CV shoul... |
2013/09/01 | 1,496 | 6,195 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a TA for a freshman calculus class, and I've just finished grading the first homework set.
It's fairly clear that there has been some collaboration going on, which is disallowed in my institution. For instance, a pair of students both put exactly the same (very) incorrect solution to a tri... |
2013/09/02 | 758 | 3,140 | <issue_start>username_0: When recruiting a student or post-doc to join my group, I trim down the list of applicants to a few names (3–5) by looking at CV's, research/teaching statements, existing publications, etc. Then, I will write to the mentors/professors/teachers/PhD advisors they listed in their list of reference... |
2013/09/02 | 853 | 4,002 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working at an internship this past summer, and have applied a relatively standard technique (formal analysis of a security protocol) to a new (company internal) protocol. The company are pushing me to try and get the analysis published in an academic journal. The results do not high... |
2013/09/02 | 2,384 | 9,891 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm in the start of the process of applying to graduate school in Canada for a Masters in experimental physics, and am kind of overwhelmed and wondering about some things:
* I'm not from Canada and didn't study there, but have Canadian
citizenship. How much help, if any, will this be?
* I h... |
2013/09/02 | 1,861 | 7,900 | <issue_start>username_0: Is the following common? An editor for a journal sends a paper out to, say, three or four referees. After getting the first two referee reports, the editor makes a decision and tells the third and fourth referees not to bother (so that they have potentially been wasting their time).
I can see ... |
2013/09/02 | 678 | 2,849 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a question that has plagued me for a couple of years now. Is it worth it to print a copy of the syllabus for each student? Or, is posting it on my course website good enough? My syllabus contains a good deal of information. I have the homework schedule, online video schedule, office hou... |
2013/09/02 | 610 | 2,623 | <issue_start>username_0: On my CV, I have a few talks listed where I was not the presenting author (though I am a co-author on the work).
I have left them on my CV because as a graduate student, my CV is pretty slim. However the work in question was recently published in a journal, which now appears on my CV.
Should ... |
2013/09/02 | 1,275 | 5,046 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm review the literature at the moment. Now I'm reading a paper that mention other studies. How can I reference them without reading the original papers?<issue_comment>username_1: Let us assume, for example, you read Doe (2011) and find Smith (1966) referenced therein. Technically, you can say... |
2013/09/03 | 2,010 | 7,476 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been composing the International journal for microbiology research. I learn that research journal should consist of active voice not passive, but I find that the previous researchers for related subject mainly used passive voice.
How should I consider?
* Examples:
1. This genus is ch... |
2013/09/03 | 886 | 3,771 | <issue_start>username_0: A question that has been bothering me for so long about research work is, *what level of work can be called research and is worthy of publishing in a research paper*?
Let's say I am working with JPEG compression, if I make some may be *a little* enhancement in the algorithm for the compression... |
2013/09/03 | 438 | 1,660 | <issue_start>username_0: I notice that in Germany, basically all the professors are addressed as Prof. Dr. XXX, say Prof. Dr. Mueller.
However, in other parts of the world, only Prof. would be sufficient, ~~since a non-doctor can never be a University professor.~~
So why are the German professors addressed this wa... |
2013/09/03 | 537 | 2,320 | <issue_start>username_0: I and two other student, did a course project and it has been accepted for publication in an international conference. I am confused now that whether I should add his name as a co-author or acknowledge him in acknowledgements ?
I would like to share that though, the entire implementation and wr... |
2013/09/03 | 477 | 1,785 | <issue_start>username_0: In the literature review when I have many definitions from the literature can I paraphrase them or do I have to put them in quotes as they are?<issue_comment>username_1: If you use another source's definitions verbatim, then they must be placed in quotes; otherwise that's plagiarism. However, i... |
2013/09/03 | 1,843 | 7,808 | <issue_start>username_0: Say this year the university A advertises one postdoc and one tenure-track position. If I prefer the tenure track position, but am not sure that I can get it, what should I choose between the following two options?
Option A: Apply for both postdoc and tenure-track positions.
Option B: Apply f... |
2013/09/03 | 1,814 | 8,268 | <issue_start>username_0: Papers published from an academic project (MSc or PhD) usually have two authors; the first author is the student who mainly conducted the research, and the second author is the professor who supervised the projects.
The corresponding author is the one who take the responsibility of a paper, an... |
2013/09/04 | 1,874 | 8,458 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a doing a dissertation funded by a company and my dissertation is basically a report of my progress on the problem they have given me. I have an **academic supervisor**, an **industry contact** who has given me occasional guidance and basically the company itself who sponsored it, to ackno... |
2013/09/04 | 670 | 3,018 | <issue_start>username_0: I am part of a team working on the second phase of a project. The project hasn't been published in any journals or conferences yet, mainly because not a lot of work has been done completely. Practical work of a certain significant part has been done by a previous team. My team started two month... |
2013/09/04 | 1,399 | 5,943 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking to start a PhD project soon and I have almost decided on the group in which I will apply. But I know that I am a very sensitive person when it comes to any work atmosphere. I have to feel comfortable where I don't work alone in the corner of a room for 4 years.
What are telltale s... |
2013/09/04 | 585 | 2,400 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach a writing course that has many students who plan to study economics or finance in graduate school. I am not so familiar with these disciplines, but want to make sure these students finish the semester with the skills they need to succeed in graduate school. What kind of writing assignme... |
2013/09/04 | 588 | 2,320 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to cite someting from [this workbook](http://www.bristol.ac.uk/it-services/learning/documentation/webaccess-1/webaccess-1t.pdf). How can I cite it? The year is 2009 but what should I put between brackets if there is no specific author?<issue_comment>username_1: I ma sure someone can writ... |
2013/09/04 | 1,745 | 7,257 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a master student of some engineering (other than EE/CS) in a decent US institution who will apply for a PhD in mathematics in Fall 2014 (possibly in PDE / applied analysis, but not sure). I finished with three A's and five A+'s in eight upper-undergrad / grad math courses, along with four ... |
2013/09/04 | 613 | 2,357 | <issue_start>username_0: I am organizing a one day workshop as a part of a major conference in my field.
I would like to have a website to
* introductory text (static html)
* announce things (some content management)
* keep everybody up to date (mailing list)
* maintain a pre-workshop and post-workshop online discussi... |
2013/09/04 | 945 | 3,477 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a website or software for one to search for all the past co-authors/collaborators of a given researcher?
I can of course go through the researcher's publication and get the names one by one, but just wonder if there is a shortcut way of doing this.<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, you c... |
2013/09/04 | 435 | 1,785 | <issue_start>username_0: [Nature](http://www.nature.com/)’s [“News and Views”](http://www.nature.com/nature/archive/category.html?code=archive_news_views) articles summarize high-impact research published recently in other journals. The News & Views articles are typically *not* written by the authors of the research pa... |
2013/09/05 | 736 | 2,748 | <issue_start>username_0: In my industry-sponsored dissertation, I want to thank my industry contact and some non-academic persons in the acknowledgement section of my dissertation. How should I refer to them:
* <NAME>
* <NAME>
* Mr. <NAME>
Considering the slightly informal nature of the acknowledgement section, yet k... |
2013/09/05 | 928 | 3,862 | <issue_start>username_0: If a group of students (say, 3 students), produces a work which has been accepted to a reputable conference. All of them contributed equally to the project,from implementation to writing and proof reading of the paper.
How should one decide who should be the first author. Even if the names are... |
2013/09/05 | 731 | 2,541 | <issue_start>username_0: There are many different corpora[1] for the English language:
* [Google Books ngram database](http://books.google.com/ngrams) is freely accessible and covers publications indexed in Google Books from the 16th century; words are tagged by part-of-speech ([more info here](http://books.google.com... |
2013/09/06 | 1,873 | 7,226 | <issue_start>username_0: We have submitted a paper to an [Elsevier Journal](http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/) and now I want to know how much time each stage in article lifecycle take?
There is an [article](http://help.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/160/p/7923/related/1/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xM... |
2013/09/06 | 4,398 | 18,406 | <issue_start>username_0: An alternate title could be "Do we award a PhD for what the student became or for what he produced?". More precisely, if a research thesis report does not advance human knowledge, yet still shows that the student acquired the right skills of investigation, should the title of Philosophy Doctor ... |
2013/09/07 | 493 | 1,885 | <issue_start>username_0: If I apply to a job, and it asks for 4 recommendation letters, is it good if I submit 5 or more letters? Why and why not?<issue_comment>username_1: The search committee, or whoever it is who is reviewing applications, asks for 4 letters because that's the number of letters they want. For a post... |
2013/09/07 | 1,466 | 6,506 | <issue_start>username_0: I am well aware of the ethic guidelines in the academic publishing world regarding submission for publication of the same article to multiple journals: I know this is broadly considered unethical and creates a bad reputation for the author in question among the academic community (this eventual... |
2013/09/08 | 996 | 4,380 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been approached to submit an extended version of a research paper in a journal.
The original paper is already published in a conference proceedings by publisher A.
What "degree of extension" do I have to provide so that publisher B will (legally?) be able to publish my work?
Also, doe... |