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2012/04/04 | 442 | 1,819 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been maintaining a great GPA in a specialization undergraduate program, am planning on taking the MCAT this summer, and have been looking into some volunteering/internship opportunities. Are there any other special precautions that I should be taking to increase the likelihood of my accept... |
2012/04/05 | 920 | 3,931 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to present some classic computer science papers in a class I am teaching. I know teachers usually assign papers before the lecture, but I can't figure out how to present material they've already read and likely understood. In the case of a highly technical paper, I'd go over the mo... |
2012/04/05 | 1,202 | 5,270 | <issue_start>username_0: Assume one or more undergraduate students are given a topic by an academic supervsior to use for their undergraduate honors thesis. The task is designed, programmed and set-up by the supervisor, who shows the students how to use the equipment and to conduct rudimentary data analysis/summaries. ... |
2012/04/05 | 1,512 | 6,692 | <issue_start>username_0: Many people complain about Elsevier and over eight thousand are [boycotting it](http://thecostofknowledge.com), but actual solutions seem hard to find for certain fields- I'm thinking of research areas for which an Elsevier journal is very important and funds are not available to subsidize an o... |
2012/04/05 | 1,451 | 5,925 | <issue_start>username_0: To quote Thomsons "a journal's [Impact factor](http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/academic/impact_factor/)
is calculated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years."
I assume that disciplines var... |
2012/04/05 | 872 | 3,840 | <issue_start>username_0: Assume that the student (during his PhD) is faced with a problem which he and his advisor are both completely new to. The advisor is **trying to** help the student but owing to his lack of experience/knowledge/intuition in the field, is unable to help much. What is the etiquette for the student... |
2012/04/06 | 796 | 3,556 | <issue_start>username_0: Although the presence of a senate suggests that universities nominally are governed somewhat by their faculty, it is frequently stated that there has been a trend towards greater managerialism, which has perhaps undermined the powers of faculty regarding university governance.
What current pow... |
2012/04/06 | 564 | 2,450 | <issue_start>username_0: I did a modest undergraduate in Information Systems (3/4) and good master's in CS (3.4/4). I've PhD acceptance from a good school in Canada. However, I still need to go to top school , or at least a well-known school, in US.
I am planning to apply to top schools in CS next year (since deadlin... |
2012/04/06 | 1,002 | 4,654 | <issue_start>username_0: A student asked me to write a letter of recommendation for graduate school admission in London and the student insisted that I include a short biography describing my job title and qualifications. I find this information is a little out of place. First, my degree is in progress, so I do not hav... |
2012/04/07 | 3,012 | 12,338 | <issue_start>username_0: How do you cope when a department chair is all out to cause you problems? Especially when he is doing it for personal reasons that I have no control over (e.g. gender, skin color, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, accent, etc). My chair hates me, so he harasses me with bad teaching loa... |
2012/04/08 | 1,233 | 5,252 | <issue_start>username_0: I've always wondered if PIs look for a perfect fit for their projects. For instance, a post doc vacancy is advertised as follows:
* Must have completed PhD with 3 peer reviewed journal articles.
* Must have x,y and z skills.
* Must have had some exposure to a,b and c skills.
Now what if the a... |
2012/04/09 | 273 | 1,047 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder if there are universities having real-world MSc related courses. My focus is to understand cloud technologies and services(especially if it is Amazon). Preferably in UK, but can be actually anywhere around the world. Maybe general or specific like PAAS , SAAS etc. Could you suggest any... |
2012/04/09 | 534 | 2,143 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose you do bad in undergraduate school in say computer science. But you do very well in a masters program in computer science. If you want to apply to a PhD program in computer science, will the masters degree grades offset the undergraduate degree grades?<issue_comment>username_1: In gener... |
2012/04/09 | 1,399 | 5,590 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently looking for a PhD position and have started to realize that a lot of my time goes into sporadeously surfing the web in hope of finding an open position. Are there good job directories for academic work that lists available positions?<issue_comment>username_1: <http://www.higheredj... |
2012/04/09 | 610 | 2,649 | <issue_start>username_0: Invited talks are important for moving up the academic ladder, so I'd like to know how one maximizes the odds of being offered to be an invited speaker at conferences.
I am aware of the most obvious things like having important results to report. However, apparently this is not always necessar... |
2012/04/10 | 412 | 1,916 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I've changed jobs, and consequently the field of research has also changed. But I'm still getting proposals for publications in the previous field, and it is interesting for me to accept some of them. My concern is about which affiliation to use: on one hand I gain all the knowledge in... |
2012/04/10 | 1,396 | 6,237 | <issue_start>username_0: My background: I'm currently 1 year out of my undergrad in psychology and I currently have a job working on a educational grant project at a university. I've lost some interest in the field of psychology as a whole and I'm considering going back to school for computer science. When I expressed ... |
2012/04/10 | 1,959 | 7,336 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to keep a research notebook for my computational "experiments". Basically, I should at least be able to write text and attach images like plots. Other nice features to have would be
1. linking to past experiments/pages
2. latex equations
3. uploading papers, or other urls
4. being able ... |
2012/04/12 | 3,167 | 12,519 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to have suggestions of good software for drawing illustrations in research papers. I already know about [Xfig](http://www.xfig.org/), but this works only on Linux and is at times, clunky when it comes to text. Moreover the resolution is not always perfect making it difficult to man... |
2012/04/12 | 1,851 | 7,703 | <issue_start>username_0: I know PhD is unsparing in terms of available time, but at times there may be situations that demand some extra income, for example, family situations or some medical emergency.
In such cases, are there any specific jobs PhD students could take up? This could be at some place within a univers... |
2012/04/10 | 1,795 | 7,561 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read other threads along similar lines but I am looking for slightly different advice. And I am posting this anonymously because I would rather my current employer did not find out my intentions!
So, I have a bachelors and a masters degree in computer engineering and currently work in o... |
2012/04/13 | 492 | 2,117 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that I've helped other researchers with the statistical analyses for an epidemiological study and therefore I am acknowledged for that in the "Acknowledgments" section of the paper (something like "We thank *andrea* for his statistical support").
Obviously, this doesn't count as a publ... |
2012/04/14 | 2,797 | 11,834 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a master's degree in Computer Science. I have applied to PhD programs, and decisions are trickling in. I may soon have to choose between two or more PhD programs. I am outside of the US.
Unfortunately, I have diverse interests. I was advised that a successful PhD application is usually ... |
2012/04/15 | 1,221 | 5,122 | <issue_start>username_0: While multitasking is not a desired trait unique to academia, it's something that seems particularly important for graduate students and new faculty. I've had many students ask me how to multitask effectively, and I'm curious to know what the collective wisdom of this forum would be.
>
> wha... |
2012/04/15 | 1,482 | 5,832 | <issue_start>username_0: In programming there are many [hackathons](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon) - intense voluntary one day-week events, where participants collaboratively attack problems. They may be proposed by a company, NGO, participants or a group; for qualification/profit, for fun or for a good cause ... |
2012/04/15 | 1,508 | 6,446 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a economics major student who will be applying for PhD programmes pretty soon. I am quite interested in economics, but I find myself even more interested things related to probability theory, such as stochastic processes. And if I ever get into a econ PhD programme, I'm pretty sure that I ... |
2012/04/16 | 643 | 2,826 | <issue_start>username_0: It's well-known that many grad schools (especially top-ranked) require some research experience from prospective students and consider this as main criterion for accept/reject decision.
During undergraduate study I was working on my research (hadn't finished it - had solved just one particular... |
2012/04/16 | 660 | 2,812 | <issue_start>username_0: Plenty of advice is available for standard interviews, should phone/Skype interviews be approached any differently?
(This was asked on twitter by @emilyandthelime, I have my own, partial answer that I'll post)<issue_comment>username_1: A major difference from an in-person interview is that int... |
2012/04/17 | 805 | 3,349 | <issue_start>username_0: This is slightly different from [What does author order indicate?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/535/319). Our group has debated when would it be appropriate for a student or a post-doc to be considered the senior ie. the corresponding author.
As an aside, for CV building purposes, woul... |
2012/04/17 | 1,041 | 4,724 | <issue_start>username_0: Most graduate applications provide a choice for applicants to view their recommendation letters at a later date. There is a mention of some US mandate alongside.
* Is it a better option to forgo this choice in the application? Will the recommending professor feel more secure then?
* What is th... |
2012/04/17 | 725 | 3,022 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of interviewing for faculty positions and trying to keep my CV up to date as I go. Should I include research (or teaching) presentations given during on-campus interviews as invited talks? Or are they considered just a part of the interview process and better left off the CV... |
2012/04/17 | 642 | 2,952 | <issue_start>username_0: How well accepted has been (systematic) literature reviews in your research field, these days?!
I come from computer science field, more specifically Software Engineering. Some professors I keep in touch usually ask their students to perform a systematic literature review (SLR) as a research k... |
2012/04/18 | 1,322 | 5,666 | <issue_start>username_0: How can a PhD student proceed when his/her advisor quits midway?
* What should be the student's considerations when the professor offers him a choice to move along with him? Should it be the comparative rankings of the universities? Or the relationship enjoyed with the professor thus far? Or t... |
2012/04/18 | 1,272 | 5,422 | <issue_start>username_0: During undergrad, students can face several opportunities, ranging from participation in (1) research groups, (2) study/training for competitions, (3) internships, (4) opening start-ups with colleagues (the latter is becoming very common these days), but I wonder, what is really important, for ... |
2012/04/18 | 1,690 | 6,806 | <issue_start>username_0: The Internet is littered with information about university rankings and comparisons that it is very easy for an applicant to lose track of what exactly he wants to know. Apparently rankings which compare all departments of a university and have a single rank are not very useful from an applican... |
2012/04/18 | 1,381 | 5,924 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm considering a PhD and asked a professor at my university. I suggested a topic to him that he accepted. I applied and he offered me a position but I didn't accept yet.
Later he changed my project's topic to one that suits his interest. I said I would like to do the original topic that I got... |
2012/04/18 | 933 | 3,860 | <issue_start>username_0: As an international student in the united states, I am legally allowed to work for 12 months, extendable to 29months for STEM fields, after graduating with my PhD (or masters degree for that matter) without having to change my visa/student status.
Now, I am looking for post doc opportunities i... |
2012/04/19 | 2,257 | 8,959 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisers are starting to use [Basecamp](http://basecamp.com/) for my project, and I like most of it so far. I am wondering, though, about the arguments for and against Basecamp.<issue_comment>username_1: Nice question. Curiously, I've been used the [dotproject](http://www.dotproject.net), it... |
2012/04/19 | 586 | 2,529 | <issue_start>username_0: Selecting members of one's PhD committee is an important part of a PhD student's academic development. Committee members can have considerable influence on a student's PhD program, such as determining what topics are on the student's prelims exams. However, sound advice on this process can be h... |
2012/04/19 | 555 | 2,375 | <issue_start>username_0: I am finishing a paper which was created thanks to my inspiration of <NAME>'s work on [psychological developement](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erikson%27s_stages_of_psychosocial_development). The paper is, however, in the field of thermodynamics and complexity-science. I, therefore, feel grate... |
2012/04/19 | 915 | 3,399 | <issue_start>username_0: I know it's rather difficult to establish a ranking of publications, especially because the ones in charge of establishing values for venues might be biased by their field, and several other aspects. However, I know some well-accepted (at least locally) ranking, that consider all fields under r... |
2012/04/19 | 1,753 | 6,749 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to have a professional academic webpage, and for different reasons, I don't want to use the website of my current workplace (mostly because due to some external factors, it's not currently possible where I work, but also because I consider changing affiliation in the future, and I'... |
2012/04/20 | 2,086 | 8,325 | <issue_start>username_0: ### General background
Some time ago, I was reading [a blog post, where there was some discussion about how many people read journal articles](http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/06/23/write-only-articles/).
I think that such an estimate is important when trying to assess the impact of research... |
2012/04/20 | 1,571 | 6,768 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently applied to two PhD programs (in Europe) under professors working in the area of Sound and Music Computing (SMC). Both programs are very well regarded in this area.
SMC covers topics such as:
* Music information retrieval
* Computational musicology
* Algorithmic composition / p... |
2012/04/21 | 757 | 3,311 | <issue_start>username_0: OpenCourseWare has become more and more popular over the years, and quite a good number of universities make their lessons available in the form of online videos. However, compared to the total number of universities found in the US or rest of the world, the offerings are quite small. It seems ... |
2012/04/21 | 1,113 | 4,884 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been accepted to a top 20 Computer Science department with a RA, TA and fellowship. I decided to defer my admissions a year due to unforeseen circumstances. I was informed the school does not allow deferment, and my adviser told me to simply reapply next year. If I was accepted to the univ... |
2012/04/22 | 759 | 3,190 | <issue_start>username_0: Many times in universities, people don't dedicate much time to build friendly relationships with colleagues.
Unfortunately, this happens both in the tenured positions and in non-tenured positions, with many bad consequences (such as for examples, many researchers actually don't know what other... |
2012/04/22 | 539 | 2,039 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [How to make a presentation that includes math symbols?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/301/how-to-make-a-presentation-that-includes-math-symbols)
>
>
>
I have been using TeX4PPT for PowerPoint under Windows for a few years to include matem... |
2012/04/22 | 1,945 | 8,715 | <issue_start>username_0: We all know that usually when applying for a post phd academic position students need at least three recommendation letters. But what can we do if we have only worked with our advisor and we have no other close professors in the department to ask. This refers to the case when the student took c... |
2012/04/22 | 1,640 | 6,171 | <issue_start>username_0: from [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering):
>
> **Software engineering** (SE) is the application of a systematic, disciplined,
> quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance
> of software, and the study of these approaches.
>
>
>
I was w... |
2012/04/23 | 488 | 2,012 | <issue_start>username_0: Related to but different from [Should I include a publication where I'm only acknowledged (and not one of the authors) in my CV?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1112/should-i-include-a-publication-where-im-only-acknowledged-and-not-one-of-the-a)
I'm a part of some publications wh... |
2012/04/23 | 660 | 2,933 | <issue_start>username_0: I have successfully got my papers accepted in different journals. However, due to some money issues, I couldn't get them published. Now I have my final project presentations.
Will it hold value for me? I have slogged day in and out to accomplish this, but money constraints have shattered every... |
2012/04/23 | 1,003 | 4,348 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider an undergrad student (who wishes to dive into STEM research) in an obscure university in an obscure town who has a few ideas which he converts into a well documented article. All of this by learning completely on his own. He has no faculty within his institute (or locality) to turn to ... |
2012/04/24 | 860 | 3,703 | <issue_start>username_0: I wish to pursue my MBA in a premier business school. Is it better to go straight from my graduation (B.Tech in CS) or get some work experience and then go on with MBA?<issue_comment>username_1: Usually, MBA is something that you do when you have significant work experience. There is a good rea... |
2012/04/24 | 2,230 | 8,892 | <issue_start>username_0: As with many papers in the sciences, there are multiple authors who aren't physically close to each other. I was curious about the most efficient and simplest way to technically share the writing. On the more complicated side would be LaTeX and subsequently using subversion to merge all of the ... |
2012/04/25 | 1,444 | 6,236 | <issue_start>username_0: In EE/EC/CS departments, there are certain fields that are theory-based (like the algo or complexity groups), ones that lean towards systems implementation (OS, programming languages, etc) and others have a component of both (like networking).
In such a field like networking, there are profes... |
2012/04/25 | 3,376 | 13,257 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a social scientist working primarily on Linux, but also at times required to work on Windows systems at the University. I have been looking to improve my productivity in the academic workflow which primarily consist of:
1. Collecting literature, reference-management, review notes etc. (cu... |
2012/04/25 | 1,219 | 5,393 | <issue_start>username_0: While making some paper search in my scientific field, sometimes I find articles that are not published in journals or conference proceedings, but as **technical reports**.
In my experience, I've never written a technical report, and I've never even been asked to do it.
So I was wondering: wh... |
2012/04/25 | 1,149 | 4,837 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was applying for grad school, I felt that my CV was pretty empty and so I included all my research related presentations (posters/talks) from conferences/competitions/etc (11 of them at the time). However, I am not sure how much of a role they played in my acceptance at that time (I feel... |
2012/04/26 | 860 | 3,452 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been to a few conferences that worked based on precirculated papers. That is, everyone submits their papers in advance and the assumption is that conference goers who come to a given talk have read the paper in advance. In principle this seems ideal, we can use that face-to-face time to ... |
2012/04/26 | 490 | 2,148 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it better to contact a publisher early in the writing process so that the editor can be involved in shaping the project, or is it better to submit a full academic book manuscript? In my case, this would be for a first academic book. If this is something that is dependent on particular academ... |
2012/04/26 | 929 | 3,995 | <issue_start>username_0: How to write a cover letter to journal when submitting a manuscript?
1. In the letter, it is expected that I propose 5 referees. Is this the only reason to write a cover letter?
2. Will the cover letter be sent to the referees or only to Journal's staff?
3. I feel reluctant to praise my contri... |
2012/04/27 | 401 | 1,447 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is similar to [Rules for affiliation for student doing unpaid research in his/her free time?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/890/546) and [Is it acceptable to publish a paper using an affiliation with a former employer?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/1078/546) except ... |
2012/04/28 | 917 | 3,964 | <issue_start>username_0: I occasionally receive "cold-call" applications from graduate or postdoctoral candidates interested in working in my research group. Most of the time, they are of no interest—it's just a "form letter"-type application. However, once in a while, I get an application from someone who I would cons... |
2012/04/28 | 443 | 1,970 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering if it would be worth emailing departments that I haven't applied to this year, asking if they'd be willing to take a look at my application material. Any advice, or should I just wait till next year?
I applied to too few places this year, because I couldn't afford all the applic... |
2012/04/28 | 1,059 | 4,410 | <issue_start>username_0: As a scientist, the idea of a "research notebook," or its functional equivalent, has been well ingrained into me. However, it's not clear to me if this is a universal phenomenon, or if it's limited to the sciences.
For students working in the humanities and other fields—such as literature, eco... |
2012/04/29 | 906 | 3,743 | <issue_start>username_0: What's a tactful, respectful way to notify job applicants that you won't be hiring them? I see a lot of angry online discussion of this issue. Nobody seems to like the common "if you don't hear back, you're not hired" approach, but it's easy to go wrong in other ways (too short, too long, too c... |
2012/04/29 | 983 | 4,388 | <issue_start>username_0: Many of you probably have already lived these career turning point: your PhD program is going to end, and you have to choose an university research group to apply for a postdoc position.
**Which factors do you consider as more important in this choice?**
Take research group X at university Y... |
2012/04/29 | 373 | 1,321 | <issue_start>username_0: I think I have seen it spelled both ways.
Is one spelling more common or formal than the other ? (e.g. in the U.S.)<issue_comment>username_1: According to the New Oxford American Dictionary (that I have by default on my Mac :)):
>
> The spellings adviser and advisor are both correct. Advis... |
2012/04/29 | 1,000 | 4,338 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question.
>
> Can all the professors in a department see a particular student's grades?
>
>
>
Can the chair of a department see a student's grades?<issue_comment>username_1: Officially and in general, no.
The teacher of a class should in general not share grades with his colleag... |
2012/04/30 | 3,335 | 13,571 | <issue_start>username_0: I will soon finish my PhD and start searching for a post-doc position and I was wondering which web-based solution is the best suited to present myself and my work (I work in plant biology).
I see two main options: social network type, such as [**Academia.edu**](http://www.academia.edu/) or [*... |
2012/04/30 | 581 | 2,419 | <issue_start>username_0: Lately lots of courses like udacity, coursera, and MITx are provided online. I attended most of them; also I have attended courses in OCW provided by MIT. Now I desire to earn some credits for whatever I have learnt so far, so that I can apply for a degree (in electronics and computer engineeri... |
2012/04/30 | 4,449 | 18,439 | <issue_start>username_0: Obviously this is a question in the light of the recent Elsevier boycott. Currently we do have an arXiv, maintained by academia and where researchers regularly upload parts of their work. In such a case,
* Why do universities spend lots of money to publish in third-party journals?
The questio... |
2012/04/30 | 233 | 927 | <issue_start>username_0: Do I expand abbreviations at their first use **per section or per paper**?
This is an IEEE publication, but I haven't come across any specific instructions.<issue_comment>username_1: I would do it per paper, unless the paper is extremely long and some abbreviations are defined (and used) in th... |
2011/10/12 | 1,206 | 4,783 | <issue_start>username_0: According to wikipedia, [grade inflation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_inflation) is the tendency of academic grades for work of comparable quality to increase over time. That article also includes plenty of evidence for the phenomenon and lists some potential causes. Has this issue been ... |
2012/04/30 | 877 | 3,694 | <issue_start>username_0: I have offers for tenure-track computational biology positions at a couple of U.S. research universities. What sort of things do I need to budget for in my startup package?<issue_comment>username_1: I'll hopefully be in your position in another year or two, so I'm not speaking from experience. ... |
2012/05/01 | 933 | 3,955 | <issue_start>username_0: How can I find out what theories are 'widely accepted' in the scientific world at the moment? When I read about a theory, or read a paper, how can I tell what 'the scientific world' thinks of these?
---
### Background:
When hearing about development or history of science, the phrase 'widely ... |
2012/05/01 | 383 | 1,532 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm Muslim, I use Md. as for Muhammad. So when submiting to journals, should I stick to the 2nd & 3rd names? I'm currently facing problems in submitting to arxiv.org which asks for only first and last names.<issue_comment>username_1: My advice is to use at least 3 names (including your surname)... |
2012/05/01 | 245 | 944 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in teaching at the university-level in Arabic. Would teaching arabic in a high-school first(as I have no university-level teaching experience) help me? I currently teach science to 6th graders, and am considering quitting after 4 years there.
I have an MS in Arabic from UCLA, a... |
2012/05/01 | 764 | 3,224 | <issue_start>username_0: Some conferences ask for an extended abstract. What are the differences among "abstracts," "extended abstracts," and "full papers?"<issue_comment>username_1: An *abstract* is a preliminary submission that summarizes the contribution of a paper. There are usually strict limits on the length of a... |
2012/05/01 | 829 | 3,642 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a doctoral student and I've published several academic papers. My institution maintains a digital institutional repository, but it doesn't look like I can put copies of my work in it. When I finish my dissertation, a copy of that would go in the IR. It seems strange that the institution doe... |
2012/05/02 | 970 | 4,193 | <issue_start>username_0: [OpenWetWare](http://openwetware.org) and [Google Sites](https://sites.google.com/) have been effective strategies in curating lab knowledge. I was curious about what are effective ways to create an effective wiki. Factors include:
* Ease of use and low learning curve
* Speed of sharing and di... |
2012/05/02 | 553 | 2,386 | <issue_start>username_0: Can a very extroverted person, for example, be more favored than a very quiet person? Or is this not ethical? Can someone who is psychopathic be barred from admission?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, decisions based at least partially on personality do occur. It's not clear to me what the legal ... |
2012/05/02 | 1,429 | 5,284 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I was giving a small informal talk in a local college. The audience comprised of engineers and my talk was based on current research in engineering. One of the girls asked about the position of women in academia. I answered that stating that academia was like just another field for wo... |
2011/10/15 | 944 | 4,091 | <issue_start>username_0: Like most fields that rely on statistical analyses, economics has suffered from a few well-publicized coding errors (most notably the Foote and Goetz finding that when correcting Donohue and Levitt's programming error in the abortion/crime paper the conclusion is reversed), and likely suffers f... |
2012/05/02 | 701 | 2,759 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got my Ph.D and I'm trying to work out how to do the *full* series of abbreviations after my name.
My scholastic qualifications are:
* Ph.D University of New South Wales, Philosophy
* Masters of Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Information Technology
* Bachelors of Science, ... |
2012/05/03 | 1,000 | 4,236 | <issue_start>username_0: [Past advice](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/925/767) suggests that potential PhD students should be wary of attending schools with only one professor in their subfield. If you have problems with your advisor and want to switch, having that option would be invaluable.
But what if your su... |
2012/05/03 | 716 | 2,838 | <issue_start>username_0: Or in <NAME>'s words, is it true that "you are better off if your hobbies are nothing like your work"?
>
> Carroll, Sean. ["How To Get Tenure at a Major Research University:
> Cosmic Variance."](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/03/30/how-to-get-tenure-at-a-major-research... |
2012/05/03 | 1,968 | 8,515 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the major issues in universities with respect to PhD is the high dropout factor. Demotivated students cause a big loss to the university - a lot is spent on assistantships, but in the end, the students quit without making any meaningful contribution.
What steps do/should universities an... |
2011/11/07 | 745 | 2,945 | <issue_start>username_0: After factoring in government subsidies (or lack thereof), is the **total price** for one year of undergraduate education in Europe increasing at a rate similar to America?<issue_comment>username_1: This answer is based on the situation in Sweden, I think similar principles would apply in the N... |
2011/10/24 | 754 | 2,972 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm studying published journal articles on my topic, and I'd like to reproduce their analysis. How can I get a copy of their dataset and enough specifications to reproduce their numerical results?
In my specific case, I'm studying [this work: Stecklov et al. (2005)](https://doi.org/10.1353/dem... |
2012/05/04 | 1,244 | 5,523 | <issue_start>username_0: After graduating high-school, I did not attend a university and instead decided to enter the work force. Eight years hence, I would like to pursue a university degree but I am not entirely sure which credentials are important for an adult freshman. Are my high-school transcripts still relevant ... |
2012/05/05 | 1,509 | 6,546 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing your PhD research (in science, math, or engineering) at a non-academic lab (like a government or industrial lab) vs. the traditional academic setting? (Of course, the degree is granted by a university.)
When is one option better than the other... |
2012/05/05 | 706 | 2,888 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently enrolled as a first year student doing a computing related degree (my first) at the University of London (distance learning). Since I started, there has been a massive shifts in online education with a particular focus on the direction I want to take (computer science). With the e... |
2012/05/05 | 1,691 | 6,910 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing a thesis, is it acceptable practice to cite only the URL of referenced research papers where they are published electronically? Or is it compulsory to give proper authors, title, year of publication, etc... information?
Example:
>
> Data mining is the process of analyzing large ... |
2012/05/05 | 921 | 3,737 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it OK to present a URL using a link shortening service such as bit.ly? The reason I'm asking is that I think it's a lot easier to enter this URL (e.g., if you read it in a paper) as opposed to full URL. Or is this a bad idea?<issue_comment>username_1: You should never offer a link shortener ... |
2012/05/06 | 813 | 3,270 | <issue_start>username_0: I got my Ph.D. from the Faculty of Computers and Information Technology, Cairo University in 2007. I want to know if it is possible to compensate or to accredit my Ph.D. from USA. If it is possible, I want to know the steps for that. Advise and tell me if there is any program in USA for a Ph.D.... |
2012/05/06 | 1,535 | 6,483 | <issue_start>username_0: 1. Is it possible if I could get 4 letters of recommendation?
2. How far in advance should I notify those who are writing my letters?
3. Does activity on sites like Quora, Stack Exchange, and Reddit's AskScience
(as well as a personal webpage/blog of one's research) count as
public outreach?<is... |
2012/05/07 | 1,265 | 5,399 | <issue_start>username_0: Usually, a person starts out with a single primary research interest as a PhD student (closely related to that of their adviser). But then as they move on through the assistant professor stage, they discover new research interests. Do they usually discover new research interests through collabo... |
2012/05/07 | 1,207 | 4,914 | <issue_start>username_0: Say there is a student who writes a mail to a professor asking for a PhD vacancy or a RA-ship position. Should he attach his résumé in a mail to a professor?
I have had contradictory viewpoints on this. Some people ask not to attach résumés in such mails to professors, saying such mails go str... |