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2013/04/04 | 786 | 3,476 | <issue_start>username_0: I see sad students who meet may be once in a month and they complaint of not having enough progress. I have seen systems where the prof meets almost every few hours on weekdays and the prof is basically continuously working with the students. I see students who meet every 2-3 days or every week... |
2013/04/04 | 3,083 | 12,305 | <issue_start>username_0: In the somehow recent past, teaching evaluations have become obligatory in many universities/departments in Germany. I've also heard that sometimes these evaluations are used in formal ways to decide about salary raises or even hiring. For me it is pretty clear that a purely formal use of teach... |
2013/04/05 | 1,066 | 4,532 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a post-doc and I get regular requests to referee papers, largely because of a review paper I published as a grad student.
I am yet to turn down a review request--It is rewarding, an opportunity to immerse oneself in another topic, and it feels good to give back to the community.
Unfortun... |
2013/04/05 | 1,220 | 5,256 | <issue_start>username_0: Unfortunately, there are circumstances when not everything goes right in a student's PhD career, or there can be personal circumstances that require doctoral candidates to withdraw from a PhD program before they have completed the requirements.
However, what is not clear to me is how to handle... |
2013/04/05 | 375 | 1,556 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen some graduate (PhD and Masters) students in Turkey, Nigeria, Malaysia etc that can not work in the university they study. In fact I am one of them as I am about to finish Msc mathematics and computer science in Turkey and planning to start PhD in USA. My question is, is it a policy ... |
2013/04/06 | 848 | 3,721 | <issue_start>username_0: I independently wrote a number of math articles, and published some of them in refereed journals. I wrote the draft of the thesis, and contacted a Prof., and started a PhD program under his supervision. After being accepted, the supervisor
1. Asked me to change all notations and terminology. I... |
2013/04/06 | 1,684 | 6,910 | <issue_start>username_0: In this site, I quite often see answers containing this *"Publish or perish"* sentence.
What does it really mean? Is it limited to a particular academic system (i.e. U.S.) or it is the general case all over the world?
Lastly, is it possible to be a researcher without concerning about "Publi... |
2013/04/06 | 709 | 3,158 | <issue_start>username_0: As an undergraduate student, I have worked on some projects for my own interest, and recently a professor said that one of these works can be published (in a Elsevier journal with impact factor of about 2). I personally think that this work is not *strong* enough to be published and included in... |
2013/04/07 | 641 | 2,786 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in an MS program at a big university in the US, where I pay my own tuition.
I am not happy with the quality of education I am getting at this university.
I am thinking that after this quarter is complete, that I want to officially withdraw from the program and go somewhere else. I think... |
2013/04/07 | 2,376 | 9,566 | <issue_start>username_0: Marriage is a recurrent topic in the lives of most PhDs. The meagre pay and the burden of responsibility could make marriage in the middle of PhD look like a terrible idea. But on the positive side, marriage gives one an intimate companion in a long and bleak journey. The pay hurdle could also ... |
2013/04/07 | 1,247 | 4,970 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to quote the following passage (actually, the original passage as somewhat longer but let's consider this a minimal working example)
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> Awareness of others, can address affective needs.
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but the misplaced comma bothers me.
The common *sic* is not only often perceived to be i... |
2013/04/07 | 2,080 | 8,662 | <issue_start>username_0: I work on research, trying to get grants and publish papers and the like, I really like my job, could not think about doing anything else. When the weekend comes, or just free time I have the problem that I can not stop thinking on research, it does not matter what. Sometimes it is that I feel ... |
2013/04/08 | 2,792 | 11,729 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a student who attended a seminar where they were supposed to study an assigned research paper and deliver a presentation to the class. Their presentation was very low quality. Four (!) seminar tutors, from post-doc to associate professor level, all agreed to assign a low grade. I am co... |
2013/04/08 | 1,551 | 5,562 | <issue_start>username_0: MIT's OpenCourseWare has many [video courses](http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/). They are very helpful, but compared to the majority of MIT curriculum they're only a small part. So, how much effort does it take to record video courses?<issue_comment>username_1: I'm in the middle ... |
2013/04/08 | 854 | 3,673 | <issue_start>username_0: I have previously been involved in a course, where we (the students) were supposed to use a specific style, when presenting our graphical data. By `style` I mean the size/color of legends, thickness of datapoints, layout of the figure, etc....
Does similar guidelines exist when publishing data... |
2013/04/08 | 1,617 | 6,553 | <issue_start>username_0: Take <NAME>
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> <NAME> had intended a career in humanities, and received his first degree in history. Afterwards, though, he turned his attention toward mathematics and physics and received a degree in physics
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>
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And <NAME>,a very famous theoretical physicist
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> Witten attended the... |
2013/04/08 | 628 | 2,805 | <issue_start>username_0: For a PhD in computer science or informatics, are there good reasons **not** to choose an area of research in which very few (3 or 4) known (small- to middle-sized) research groups work in the world?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> are there good reasons not to choose an area of research in whic... |
2013/04/09 | 333 | 1,214 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a way to search all openly published theses online?
Maybe there is a way for Google Scholar to ignore other types of articles?
I am aware of SCOPUS and Web of Knowledge, but unfortunately I do not have access to these services.
**Edit:** I talked to my librarian and we found a servi... |
2013/04/09 | 1,078 | 4,779 | <issue_start>username_0: In STEM (In USA), the coursework duration of the PhD typically lasts about 1-2 years beyond that, students take 0 (or in certain cases, very few) courses in their subsequent PhD years. I work in applied math with a lot of applications in every field imaginable : Finance, Economics, Energy, Heal... |
2013/04/09 | 1,098 | 4,303 | <issue_start>username_0: This might be off-topic but I thought I would try here since I know we have people who will know the answer.
I have received two documents from a prospective teacher. They seem to be German diplomas but I do not understand clearly what they really mean. The names of the diplomas are:
1. Diplo... |
2013/04/09 | 1,222 | 5,235 | <issue_start>username_0: In order to encourage and motivate students to work harder and study more, it seems the teacher can use various competitions in class or after class. But on the other hand, competitions could cause jealousy and other destructive emotions among students and therefore affect the performance of so... |
2013/04/09 | 776 | 2,756 | <issue_start>username_0: (Not sure if this is the right SX site, but math.sx seemed to have no questions concerning DOIs.)
Everything I cite in my thesis has a DOI or URL (I think that's important), but I'm citing an article that was the first to mention a kind of problem,
>
> <NAME>. Nonparametric estimation of smo... |
2013/04/09 | 2,258 | 9,385 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in my junior year of undergraduate work at Creighton University and have found out that my employer may possibly pay for me to work towards a Master's degree. I don't know all the specifics yet, but I have been browsing schools that offer Graduate programs in software engineering... |
2013/04/10 | 611 | 2,585 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that there are often summer courses through TAing, but those are much rarer. Many departments don't even offer summer courses.
In that case, are graduate students over summer always supported by RAships? And does an adviser *have* to have funding in order to support these students (in U... |
2013/04/10 | 1,013 | 4,280 | <issue_start>username_0: Or is it usually not possible?
Does this also depend from department to department? I'm in a geoscience department, and I was recently advised that due to a limited number of positions, students can only expect to be TAs for 1/4 of their time here. Geoscience does tend to have significantly fe... |
2013/04/10 | 762 | 3,166 | <issue_start>username_0: Given a (rather large) list of authors, what is the best way to find the number of publications by each author? The big problem here is author ambiguity (which <NAME>, etc.) - the author list we have doesn't even include middle initials! What we do have is the full name of a FDA Committee on wh... |
2013/04/10 | 593 | 2,407 | <issue_start>username_0: This is related to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7316/is-it-advisable-to-mention-the-dollar-amount-for-grants-on-a-cv), but I don't believe a duplicate since the dollar amount there was impressive, whereas mine are not.
I have been awarded several intra-Universit... |
2013/04/10 | 416 | 1,686 | <issue_start>username_0: Why do we use F for failing on an otherwise arbitrary alphabetic grading scale? Isn't E just as meaningful for failing as A is for excellent?
I'm more interested in a response on the history of how the current scale came to be.
(Edit: prompted from the comments below, I am asking about this s... |
2013/04/10 | 864 | 3,649 | <issue_start>username_0: I found a major flaw in reasoning in a psychological experiment, but I am not even related to psychology, I just attended to that course at my university in my spare time. The flaw I found is strictly logical, and also quite tricky, so I think it is feasible that no one noticed it yet.
This m... |
2013/04/11 | 1,397 | 6,062 | <issue_start>username_0: In any tutorial class some students seem to get frustrated with little tougher questions. While tackling them is important to learn the subject. How to motivate the students to attempt tougher questions without getting discouraged ?<issue_comment>username_1: **Hints** and **extra credits**.
Yo... |
2013/04/11 | 673 | 3,128 | <issue_start>username_0: A couple of simple questions:
1. Books are not peer reviewed in general. Are book reviews that appear in academic journals peer-reviewed? Since they represent personal opinions, I would think they cannot be peer reviewed.
2. What about news articles? For example, journal Nature has various sho... |
2013/04/11 | 635 | 2,740 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in the process of applying to business schools and I notice that nearly all of them have general MBA degrees and MBA degrees with different areas of concentration or specialization. I currently work in the IT industry doing some project management and customer support, though I'm ... |
2013/04/11 | 1,534 | 6,521 | <issue_start>username_0: The above question is self explanatory, still I would like to break it into two parts.
**Q1.** What is the difference between abstract and summary/conclusion?
**Q2.** What is the difference between summary and conclusion ?
Thanks<issue_comment>username_1: **A1**: In the context of a journal ... |
2013/04/11 | 1,400 | 6,066 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a senior who wants to get a PhD in physics. However, I may only have the chance to go to a school which has a strong professor in a certain area, but the school itself is not highly ranked.
My other option is, one of the professors I'm working with at my current institution is f... |
2013/04/12 | 881 | 3,893 | <issue_start>username_0: I am told that one of the best ways in which to disseminate information/knowledge/findings from doctoral research is to put your dissertation on-line. By default, many universities make the dissertations of their students available on their websites.
I am wondering what are the merits of putti... |
2013/04/12 | 872 | 3,599 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm doing a PhD related to my supervisor's research area. Sometimes, I think about problems that I do not immediately know the answer to. Naturally, I come to Stack Exchange and other forums and ask :) But on some occasions, the question is rather specific so I email my supervisor instead.
How... |
2013/04/12 | 951 | 4,028 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the usual expectation of a student by an alma mater? Usually students quit after becoming a part of the alumni association. The contacts are by and large severed a few months after leaving a school.
What are some ways in which one can give something back to alma mater? Is monetary sup... |
2013/04/12 | 1,138 | 5,057 | <issue_start>username_0: While technical papers are generally considered to be "non-archival" and journal papers "archival", I couldn't find a clear statement about papers that appear in conference proceedings. Does it matter in which for the proceedings are published, e.g. only online, on CD/USB drive, or printed with... |
2013/04/13 | 1,870 | 7,525 | <issue_start>username_0: I finally realized that there is a term for the situation I am in,"**burned out**". [What can I do to recover from a short term burnout?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7668/what-can-i-do-to-recover-from-a-short-term-burnout/7692#7692)
I am at the the last four months of my MSc ... |
2013/04/13 | 1,558 | 5,835 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a software engineer with 2 years of experience. I am very passionate about software and technology. I code the whole day, creating applications that my friends and I can use.
Now I have left my job because I was not finding it challenging enough (intellectually) and wanted to do somethin... |
2013/04/13 | 366 | 1,691 | <issue_start>username_0: I think about starting studies towards Master Degree in Computer Science abroad, I finished my bachelor studies few years ago, but I didn't stop studying, during these years I finished few courses of master degree in the domestic university, as result I have transcripts for all of them in Engli... |
2013/04/13 | 1,366 | 5,665 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to ask Prof. X, a distinguished scholar at a top school, for a recommendation for a tenure-track academic position. However, I only want him to write me a recommendation if he is going to write a *good* one. If he will write me a mediocre or just insufficiently positive recommendat... |
2013/04/14 | 870 | 3,858 | <issue_start>username_0: I have graduated nearly 5 years ago and I want to get a Computer Science Master's degree from an above average school in U.S. or Canada, preferably a thesis based degree.
However, I am having difficulty in getting recommendation letters since I graduated long time ago. And, even if I get any l... |
2013/04/15 | 1,191 | 5,226 | <issue_start>username_0: Important scholars (e.g. Nobel laureates) regularly receive honorary doctorate from different universities. I know that the Board of Trustees (or a similar board) reviews available nominations and awards an honorary degree to a person, but I wonder how the nomination process is conducted.
It s... |
2013/04/15 | 2,371 | 9,912 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received an invitation to a conference and I'm trying to determine how reputable it is. Is there a good way to go about this?<issue_comment>username_1: I'm assuming you are really asking how to check whether a conference is *reputable* (meaning not a scam), not how to check whether a... |
2013/04/15 | 1,047 | 4,538 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing an abstract for talks at conferences, workshops, etc., I often wonder if it would be considered a self-plagiarism if I copied a few sentences from a paper that is already published. Sometimes those abstracts are "published" in one form or another (proceedings, workshop schedule in ... |
2013/04/16 | 1,522 | 6,825 | <issue_start>username_0: Textbooks take a lot of time and effort to write, so why would a university support their faculty to do so? The author can make a good profit from a textbook and I am guessing the institution doesn't get any of these profits.
What about the grad students that edit and also work on the textboo... |
2013/04/16 | 883 | 3,743 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my colleagues told me authors after acceptance can negotiate about the intellectual property (IP) rights. It is frustrating to wait for peer review long times, and after acceptance publisher asks you to agree with his copyright without any modification.
I am keen to know **when is the ... |
2013/04/16 | 1,114 | 4,682 | <issue_start>username_0: For instance, if someone is working as a Phd in computer-science, but on a neuroscience related topic, she might need to take some neuroscience related courses. And some CS courses might not be any help at all for the area she is interested in. Do universities put a lower/upper limit on the num... |
2013/04/16 | 1,307 | 5,376 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to get some advice on what may or may not be a problem, namely the lack of unique identifiers for scientific authors.
So there is a researcher with the same first and last name as myself, who works in a different field (physics vs computer science), but is in a similar stage of ac... |
2013/04/16 | 606 | 2,634 | <issue_start>username_0: Especially if you are someone who is entering a PhD with very broad interests and little depth of knowledge in your field.<issue_comment>username_1: If you are talking about the writing of a formal proposal document, the rules vary from department to department. If you are talking about the ide... |
2013/04/16 | 910 | 4,012 | <issue_start>username_0: If someone has bad grades and limited programming experience, can they afford to rely on their first year of coursework to come up to speed with the field? Or is it a better idea to take some time off before starting your PhD and improve your skills?<issue_comment>username_1: This is phrased as... |
2013/04/16 | 2,391 | 9,955 | <issue_start>username_0: Some days ago I was talking with a friend of mine, who is currently a post-doc at the illustrious [Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)](http://www.iit.it) working on humanoid robotics.
He was quite disgruntled because he recently spent a lot of time testing his latest discoveries and writing... |
2013/04/16 | 2,110 | 8,744 | <issue_start>username_0: In the past, when forming student groups in class I've always allowed the students to form their own groups, which has certainly made them happy as they tend to form around social circles. As a side note, students at my school go together as classes so they have years where they know all the ot... |
2013/04/16 | 2,580 | 9,950 | <issue_start>username_0: I was reading [this paper](http://mor.journal.informs.org/content/37/1/111) titled "Optimal Symmetric Rendezvous Search on Three Locations." While talking about the history of search problems, the author mentions the following anecdote in passing.
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> In 2007 a letter writer to the Guardian n... |
2013/04/16 | 512 | 2,181 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently finishing up my J.D., and I plan on practicing law for at least a few years. However, I'm also considering returning to school to study CS. In the meantime, I plan on researching and attempting to publish at least a few articles - perhaps some related to cyber law.
Given the les... |
2013/04/17 | 679 | 2,667 | <issue_start>username_0: Today, I read the name “Howard University” on a list, and since I had no idea where it was, I looked it up. I was amazed from their website because, well, most people on the photos there are black!
Since I assume it does not reflect the ethnicity of the local environment (Washington DC), I wen... |
2013/04/17 | 1,353 | 5,660 | <issue_start>username_0: I decided fairly late in life (21) that I feel like studying mathematics. I've always been interested in higher maths, I've just been daunted by some of the esoteric notations and theorems. But, no longer a philistine, I'm infatuated with pure mathematics. Right now I'm pursuing a Bachelor's de... |
2013/04/17 | 1,408 | 5,632 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't want to stay in academia after finishing my PhD. My current research field is not exciting to me anymore, but also I am too old to change fields. Although my research and my interest were so far quite theoretically focussed, I would like to find a more applied job in R&D in a big presti... |
2013/04/18 | 1,035 | 4,554 | <issue_start>username_0: There are some journals, such as [Behavioral and Brain Sciences](http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=BBS), that publish a single target article per issue, followed by 20 to 30 commentaries on that article, and then a rebuttal/synthesis from the target article authors. Their ... |
2013/04/18 | 917 | 3,003 | <issue_start>username_0: I have noticed that the copy editors of at least two publishers (the American Institute for Physics and American Physical Society) do something weird when they copy-edit my submitted papers. For all references to papers in *Nature*, which I include in my references as such:
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> <NAME>, Nature... |
2013/04/17 | 560 | 1,963 | <issue_start>username_0: I am submitting a Ph.D. thesis fairly soon and my supervisor has flagged my use of capitalisation in "Section" and "Chapter" as possibly incorrect. I have googled about a bit and I see mixed opinions.
So my question is, when writing a computer science Ph.D. thesis, what is the correct way to c... |
2013/04/18 | 1,502 | 6,616 | <issue_start>username_0: I did not get accepted into any good graduate programs. For various reasons, I feel I could do much better if I reapplied next year. This question isn't about the *feasibility* of doing so, but of the affect on my professional reputation and network.
It is an investment for the university to g... |
2013/04/19 | 655 | 2,692 | <issue_start>username_0: For something I'm applying to, I need to know if I'm considered a student, a part-time employee, or a full-time employee.
I am a graduate research assistant with a yearly stipend. No other employment is allowed. 20 hours a week of research is expected according to the contract.<issue_comment>u... |
2013/04/19 | 629 | 2,763 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a conference paper of the first time, and the conference I am targeting requires anonymized submissions for the peer review. But at the same time, we (as in, my research group) are required to acknowledge the grants and support of our funding agency in all our publications. Plus, I... |
2013/04/19 | 762 | 3,339 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got into a PhD program and was asked to give a presentation to my juniors regarding grad school applications.
In my country (Asia region), people are fanatical about non-academic extra curricular activities that are totally not related to their topic (sports, debate team, run charities ... |
2013/04/19 | 935 | 3,977 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished reading a textbook of about 250 pages. For my personal reference, I created a summary in note form of about 30 pages. Formulations are close to the original text with some variation on my part, and there are literal quotes. I don't consider it a replacement of the book (obviously?).
... |
2013/04/19 | 1,621 | 6,935 | <issue_start>username_0: I realize that this sort of question has been asked before and I have read through some of the other threads but I figured I'd see if there are any more perspectives out there. I am currently a research embryologist for a small fertility clinic with a Bsc in molecular biology. I have about 2 1/... |
2013/04/19 | 795 | 3,224 | <issue_start>username_0: Marking exams can be long, boring, and un-engaging.
It is important one remain focused though to ensure that the evaluation is fair to each student.
What are some methods one can employ to maintain focus and not zone-out while reading answers?<issue_comment>username_1: True story: a bottle o... |
2013/04/20 | 393 | 1,516 | <issue_start>username_0: I have looked at this [travel grant question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/897/travel-grants-for-international-students-in-the-us) but it talks about when the OP already was pursuing his PhD.
I am from India and have a different scenario as I have just received my PhD offer in ... |
2013/04/20 | 785 | 3,463 | <issue_start>username_0: 1. I'm wondering are there any PhD programs (specifically in machine learning) in the US that are structured more like the European ones, i.e. where you immediately start doing research and don't spend your first two years or so on something very similar to Masters' program (lots of coursework,... |
2013/04/20 | 1,296 | 5,733 | <issue_start>username_0: I know peer-reviewing research papers is a lot of work, but it is something that as a scientist in academia you must do. However, you are not required to become an editor of a journal. It seems to be tons of work, and I am trying to understand what people gain from it and whether it is worth th... |
2013/04/20 | 796 | 3,439 | <issue_start>username_0: When establishing yourself as a researcher, the importance of independence from your PhD supervisor and focusing on a niche area (to establish popularity in a particular sub-field) are fairly well-established. For longevity of research career the polar opposite criteria of collaboration and bre... |
2013/04/20 | 828 | 3,343 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a BSc degree from a private university in Egypt. The university offered me a scholarship at the beginning of the program but that scholarship applied only partially to a subsequent MSc degree.
There's an overlap in the degree requirements for the BSc and the MSc, which means that the 5t... |
2013/04/21 | 1,005 | 4,467 | <issue_start>username_0: This may be a question repeated many times, but I want to know your opinion.
I submitted a journal paper for an algorithm (Computer Science). Fearing that the review process take too long, I decided to submit a short-version conference paper, while the long version is under-review. I received... |
2013/04/21 | 1,768 | 7,753 | <issue_start>username_0: Some friends and I were discussing a certain conference that has a "rebuttal" phase, in which the authors can see the reviews and reply to them. We realized that this rebuttal phase probably couldn't happen before e-mail was common, which lead us to think on the question
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> How did conferenc... |
2013/04/21 | 1,082 | 4,438 | <issue_start>username_0: The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has quite a few journals titled "(something) of the AMS".
The research journals include:
* Journal of the AMS
* Proceedings of the AMS
* Transactions of the AMS
* Memoirs of the AMS
How do these journals differ in terms of scope?
Some information abou... |
2013/04/21 | 1,759 | 7,767 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reviewing the second revision of a paper and am getting tired of this incredibly slow process of me pointing something out that requires clarification just to hear back from those authors two or three months from now (at the earliest).
Do you think I would insult gravely the academic spir... |
2013/04/21 | 945 | 3,186 | <issue_start>username_0: When reading about people who have studied at Oxford the word "read" is used instead of study. Example:
"He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford"
Why when discussing study at Oxford (and maybe other universities) is the word "read" used?<issue_comment>username_1: This is just a p... |
2013/04/21 | 578 | 2,412 | <issue_start>username_0: How does one call postgraduate studies in countries where the appropriate degree is not PHD? It can't be PHD scholarship. Can I use "postgraduate studentship" in this sense in official papers? Maybe "postgraduate scholarship" is better or there are some other variants?<issue_comment>username_1:... |
2013/04/22 | 1,205 | 5,216 | <issue_start>username_0: From a technical stand point, what do I need to show up to a conference with (in general) to ensure that my presentation will go smoothly?
Two things I can think of:
* Presentation remote
* Equipment to connect my laptop to the projector
The remote is simple enough, it just needs to work wit... |
2013/04/22 | 2,607 | 11,004 | <issue_start>username_0: As a grad student, I just find it tremendously frustrating when emails are ignored by faculty (both at my institution and at other places). Is this acceptable? I'd be content with a simple response with one line along the lines of "I have read this email and am busy right now, will respond in X... |
2013/04/22 | 942 | 4,030 | <issue_start>username_0: Every time I apply for a job I write a new cover letter, research statement, and teaching statement. While each statement is personalized for the specific job, I tend to do a lot of cutting and pasting and little new writing (yes I have a whole collection of past statements). This seems like so... |
2013/04/22 | 878 | 3,341 | <issue_start>username_0: Academia values [academic freedom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_freedom). However, there may be some practical limitations on academic freedom. What repercussions might an academic face for voicing unpopular or offensive views in the name of academic freedom?
For example, how might a ... |
2013/04/22 | 1,570 | 6,783 | <issue_start>username_0: I receive about 10k emails per year and send about 2-3k. In my department (the sphere I can influence) there are those who almost never respond and those who respond as soon as I have hit the send button. There are also those who send mails on weekends, in the middle of the night, seemingly exp... |
2013/04/23 | 456 | 1,979 | <issue_start>username_0: As many universities provide funding covering only part of the tuition fee or living expenses, especially in the UK where tuition fees are different for UK/EU and international students while most scholarships only cover the first one, i.e. international students have to pay the difference. My ... |
2013/04/23 | 1,073 | 4,641 | <issue_start>username_0: Several times in the past, after publishing a paper, I have sent email to several people which I thought might be interested in the results obtained in the paper. Usually I have emailed some of the people whose result I was citing in my paper and to people who were working on related problems.
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2013/04/23 | 860 | 3,622 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an Australian maths undergraduate student, and our academic year ends at the beginning of December. I understand that PhDs in the USA (and elsewhere?) generally start before this time, about September. So, if I want to pursue a PhD overseas, I have a long time to kill in between my undergra... |
2013/04/23 | 950 | 3,749 | <issue_start>username_0: I could have written this question in some other stack places, but prefer to do here because the affinity with the audience. I am the head of a research group, 38 years old, engaged in a lot of things and working on average 12 hours per day on research and all related stuff. My son (first one) ... |
2013/04/23 | 2,080 | 8,273 | <issue_start>username_0: In Philips and Pugh's [*How to get a PhD*](http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k-K8SzpEaRgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA54#v=onepage&q&f=false), the authors describe the general philosophical concept of *research* 'in all disciplines'. I have two questions in this context.
**A.** They said that an activity th... |
2013/04/23 | 758 | 2,883 | <issue_start>username_0: At the moment I'm using Zotero to organize my paper collection and for my current work I'm very happy with it's possobilities to organize content (folders and tags).
However, working on bigger projects a hierarchical tag structure would come in handy where subtags can be assigned to lead-tags ... |
2013/04/24 | 1,827 | 7,298 | <issue_start>username_0: There's a well-known paper in academic circles that features a rediscovery of the [trapezoidal rule](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezoidal_rule) for numerical integration by a medical researcher:
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> “A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Othe... |
2013/04/24 | 2,993 | 10,660 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's start with background: I'm European, don't know much about undergrad educational systems, and especially grading, outside my own area. So, I receive a CV from an Indian undergrad with the following section:
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2013/04/24 | 1,642 | 7,199 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Masters degree holder in Computer Science. Where I live, the most popular way of receiving research grants is from the government. There are two problems with that.
First, You have to be enrolled in a Masters or doctorate degree program at the time of applying for funding.
Secondly, th... |
2013/04/24 | 1,323 | 4,682 | <issue_start>username_0: As my bachelor's thesis, I'm developing some software (a mocking framework for MATLAB). As such, I often need to reference software documentation - both from MATLAB and the software which serves as my inspiration. It would also be nice to be able to reference the documentation of the specific f... |
2013/04/25 | 572 | 2,349 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was starting out in my Masters degree, I had an idea of a publication that could be completed in a small amount of time. I was starting out and I felt it would get me at ease with research after publishing this idea.
My idea was like a comparison between two different techniques of solv... |
2013/04/25 | 1,807 | 8,128 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say I invented a system to solve a problem. To run this system, I made my own algorithm.I also created some other things for that system. The main contribution was supposed to be the system.So is it a good idea to have as many research papers out of the project as I can? Or to publish a s... |
2013/04/25 | 799 | 3,543 | <issue_start>username_0: I have once, some time ago, received a rejection notice in which the journal editor made what I thought was a peculiar comment. The reviewers all found that the work was good, but one emitted a doubt that I had chosen the right journal for it, saying the paper might not appeal to the broad read... |
2013/04/25 | 509 | 2,211 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is in spirit a very general one. When a person (say in CS) is choosing among multiple options for gradschool, which one would experience and prudence point towards? Along with research interests and all that, things to factor in would be the extra strain involved, to be honest.
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2013/04/25 | 1,723 | 7,277 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to attract more discussion, comments or reviews of my papers and so would like to add the ability for comments or reviews to be made by the public in relation to my papers. Ideally I would like a comments section similar to those found in blogging software which allows comments to ... |