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"Is there a way to save my career from absolute disaster?",
"I am in my fifth year and I am about to submit my Applied Mechanics PhD thesis in. However, I always felt absolutely incompetent in the field. I tried improving my weak areas by self study, taking up challenging projects, but always ended up with either abandoning the idea or settling with a less rigorous work. \n\nWhen I used to talk to my advisor, he used to say that I am doing fine and I shouldn't worry about impact factors and rigour of a work at PhD level as I will eventually learn more and get more opportunities as I advance in my career.\n\nHowever, I feel that I wasted my PhD. I am searching for postdoc positions, but I feel incompetent for the openings. I feel that even if I do get response back, I will get rejected due to my poor knowledge.\n\nI also feel that I should have worked harder and not have wasted time in my past. I also tried making connections during my conferences, but that did not anywhere.\n\nI screwed up big time. I am 30 years old. No work experience. And a mediocre PhD. I messed up really badly.\n\nIs there a way to redeem my career?"
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"Does Mathematics research in proven problems have any importance?",
"This is my first post in this community, please excuse me if this kind of post is inappropriate.\n\nI completed my second year of my Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics (where I study, all Bachelor's Degrees are a 3 year course, unlike in USA).\nI have asked one of my Professors to organize a Mathematics Research Internship for which I wouldn't get paid, as I just wanted to get into the world of research and improve my level of math, and hopefully get some experience in research.\n\nAs I am working towards the end of it, I am starting to wonder if this Internship will have any credibility or a positive effect on my CV once I apply to a Master's Degree program (I don't think anyone will look at what I am doing now when I apply to a PhD program). What provokes such doubts in me is the fact that I am doing \"pseudo-research\", basically I am trying to prove some properties that have been proved long ago. Most of the stuff that I proved can be most likely found in graduate Mathematics text books. I think that whoever will be studying my CV will have doubts about my credibility.\n\nSo my question, how will my internship's \"scientific report\" look (basically a presentation of what I have done, all the proofs and all the application I have done)?"
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"What matters most : published papers or GPA? (for scholarship and future career)",
"I studied BSc chemistry and because I didn't like it, my BSc GPA is 2.46. Alongside with BSc duration, I studied mathematics at home as a self-learner. Since my BSc-GPA was too low, so I got admission to a very low ranking university in MSc-Maths. However, in my first year of MSc I got GPA 3.78 p. I am discouraged to apply for a PhD for a nice university because:\n\n1- My current university's world ranking is >>4000 and I doubt that it would be a 'university' from the viewpoint of universities that I am trying to get my PhD admission. \n\n2- I don't have BSc in math and very low BSc-GPA in completely different field. \n\nMy questions are:\n\n1- Is it possible to get admission for PhD (with full scholarship) to a high-ranking universities in mathematics with such a conditions that I have?\n\n2- If I have to study my PhD in the same university or a little better one, do my university reputation and and low GPA-in-BSc threat my future career after PhD (even if I show strong research ability and good recommendation letters)?\n\nMy target for PhD admission is countries: Canada (first priority), Europe and Australia. And I am not targeting USA. \n\nThank you for your helps. And, sorry for my terrible English. \n\nPlease feel free to edit the question to improve it."
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"How much later can GRE scores come in after a Jan. 15 masters application deadline?",
"I am taking the GRE next week, but the universities I am applying to have their deadlines coming up Jan 15th (I graduated early so that's why I wasn't prepared with having already taken the GRE). I am wondering how long it will take before they start examining the applications fully and will no longer wait? My score will into the university 20 days after jan 15 so around feb. 5. Is this too late? I called one of these universities and they said it is o.k."
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"Using images with CC-BY-SA license in slides or a thesis",
"If I am using images with a copyleft license (e.g. CC-BY-SA), each of them as a separate, properly attributed piece, does it mean that the whole work (be it slides, a thesis or a book) need to be licensed in the same way?\n\nReasoning 1\n\nThis work uses images, so it's a derivative work and it needs to bear the same license.\n\nReasoning 2\n\nThis work is a collection. So, as long as I keep the images separate, and properly attributed/licensed, they do not affect the collection license.\n\nPractical implications\n\n\nUsing Wikipedia images in a presentation - does it mean that it need to be released as CC-BY-SA?\nIs it possible to use images from two non-compatible copyleft licenses (e.g. CC-BY-SA and GPL) in a single book?\n\n\nComment: My question is on what is legal according to these licenses, not what \"won't put me in jail\" or what can be waived by the law of a particular country."
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"How to cancel an article submission",
"I submitted an article to a journal that is now under consideration after revisions.\nSome potential authors I didn't mention in this article censure the submission. To stay on good terms with them I would like to cancel the submission. The article is not already accepted but I think it will be in few days.\nWhat can I do?"
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"Sending official transcript with mistakes",
"I have been admitted to a Ph.D. program in the US recently. I have to send my official academic transcript. The university issued me a transcript that has a number of courses with no grades written next to them. These were added by mistake. They were not included in the unofficial scanned copy that I used in my graduate application. Would it harm my application if I sent this transcript? \n\nAlso, I have received a transcript from my university (signed and sealed envelope) in February. Can I send it as an official transcript if I have it since February? My school does not have a mechanism in place for sending transcripts directly."
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"Publishing as sole author on politically charged topic",
"I have been working on a manuscript on a politically charged topic, I will be able to complete this work mostly on my own so I should be able to submit as the sole author.\n\nHowever I am concerned to submit as the only author because of the nature of the topic and because I do not have any previous publishing record so my submission might be overlooked. Should I try to get someone else more known on board, or try to publish this on my own since I have done all the work?"
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"Is writing recommendation letter job for a faculty required?",
"Do professors who are in a position to write a recommendation letter for me \"have to\" write a recommendation letter? For example, my PhD advisor, can he suddenly (without any reason) say that he won't write a letter? I mean does it depend on their will?\nMore specifically, if some professor has promised me a recommendation letter earlier, can he suddenly change his opinion without any reason?"
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"Republishing an article on a second journal (with permission)",
"I have recently published an article (written in English) in a Finnish scientific magazine (for outreach mostly). This magazine reaches only a few thousand people in Finland. Most of the articles are not made available online and, those that are, are so behind a subscription paywall. It is thus extremely unlikely that the wider potential audience in my field will be able to access it.\n\nBecause of this, I have asked the publisher for permission to post the article on a repository (likely to be the arXiv), to which they have agreed after a 6 month embargo.\n\nI am now wondering if it would make sense to publish this in an international scientific journal as an outreach piece.\n\nAssume that the original publisher in Finland grants me permission to do this (with attribution, linking back to the original source, etc). What about the international publisher? Are there journals, specifically in physics and chemistry, that would consider republishing an article whose copyright belongs to a different publisher and that does not represent an original contribution?"
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"Choosing universities or programs",
"I am currently applying for two universities for graduate studies at the US, assuming both universities accept me (Hopefully) should I choose the university that fits me better or the university which is more selective (like ivy league universities).\n\nMy concern is that smarter students will overrun me in the top university, is this a valid concern or there is no academic competition between students since the admissions office and the designated department would not have accepted me in the first place if I had a non competitive enough profile?"
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"Is it a good idea to stay an extra year at my masters institution while re-applying to PhD programs elsewhere?",
"Im getting rejections from my PhD applications and it is rather difficult - emotionally. So, I am doing a 2+3 programme in a non-US country at the moment and I will finish my masters in 4 months or so. \n\nI have consulted my situation with my current advisor and other professors and they said since I have secured 5 year funding here I can just stay for another year or two if I want to. I am tempted but I don't know how it is going to look to admission committees when I apply again to the States for Fall 2015 entry. Should I just leave after my master's? Or should I stay another year? (I think I will learn a lot by just staying another year, I love my supervisor, and I really like the university but it has always been my dream to study in the States and I am definitely re-applying)"
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"How to indicate shifting research interests on a CV or a website?",
"My research interests are shifting, due to papers I read and talks or conferences I attend (and also due to change of tastes).\n\nHowever, I don't know how to communicate it on my CV or my website.\n\nOne the one hand, I am eager to move into new fields, and I am eager to learn more (and they are my first preference, when it comes to the further research). \n\nOn the other, neither I offer \"expertise\" in them nor I have a collection of relevant publications (at best 1-2 somehow related papers).\n\nSo, should the new interests be listed in \"Research interests\" as:\n\n\nthe first ones,\nthe last ones,\nother (don't list them, or do sth else)?\n\n\nOf course in longer research statements it is easier to explicitly state what one is doing and where the interest are going.\n\nIf it is relevant, I am a PhD student."
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"Should I send an email back after getting rejected for a Master Project?",
"Planning to do a Master degree in Canada but my professor is not planning to take in any students for the upcoming year. Should I send an email back or just leave it as it is? If I should send one back, what is the proper way of writing one?"
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"Plagiarism of my work",
"My classmate (now a lecturer at Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria) published my entire masters thesis’ work in an internal journal (IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE)) without my knowledge and didn’t reference me in any way. How do I go about reporting this for the work to be retracted?"
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"Reviewing papers after leaving research for teaching?",
"I had been an active researcher until two years ago and published several papers and reviewed several papers as expected. Two years ago I took a teaching position. I teach 3 classes/semester but most classes meet 4 or 5 times a week, so it actually feels like 4 classes. I also do extensive work with undergraduates. I do some research, but it is very minimal (corresponding to the high teaching load).\n\nDue to my previous research past I am constantly getting requests to review papers (3/month). Due to my change in work duties, I have to decline many of them (but I do review some papers).\n\nMy question is:\nShould I explain that I am declining due to my change in work duties? What about if it is the same editor or journal that keeps sending me papers to review? How do I best/ethically proceed without hurting my chances to publish the few papers I plan to submit?\n\nAdditional information to clarify: I am not too worried about my chances to publish (my current position requires very minimal research). I am mostly worried that I will get known as a bad professional. By the way, my current institution is officially a top tier research university (and they advertise themselves as such), but my department is not (we barely have a masters program). It is very easy for colleagues to think that I am active in research unless I explicitly tell them about my current duties. It gets even more confusing since some papers take a long time to get published (after acceptance)."
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"On Copyright permissions for references in an article",
"I have written a paper in mathematics and the journal which I sent my paper has accepted to publish it. I have two references in my article, and they are like:\n\n1- \"The proof of Akranov can be found with some additional information in the book of Mikhail Kirkhov [1].\"\n\n2- \"We can prove this using the Prime Number Theorem (see [2] pp.138 for the conclusion from the PNT)...\"\n\nMy question: Do I have to obtain written permissions from the authors of the books [1] and [2]? Is this a copyright issue?"
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"How to publish new results for a paper under review?",
"I recently sent a paper for review to a conference whose results will be out in 4-5 months. In last few days to the deadline, I've been tuning one subsystem, which didn't work out by the deadline. I simplified that part and sent the papers explaining the older method for that subsystem which I had done few months ago, though I had lot of expectations from the new method.\n\nFew days after the deadline, I got good preliminary results from the removed subsystem and I see good amount of possible improvement in next few weeks. There's a conference coming up in a month where I'm planning to send the results. \n\nNow, this subsystem isn't great by itself but significantly improves the system. If I write a paper explaining it, I'll have to put in details that I've already sent for review last week. Now I'm confused about what all to write about.\n\n\nThe results for the paper I've sent will come in 4-5 months. I can't self-cite\nIf both of them are accepted, it might be called as self plagiarism (acc to rules of one of the conferences).\nJust new subsystem isn't enough to be explained in a paper.\n\n\nNow I'm confused about how and when to send my current results. Should I explain the whole system in the new paper again, though newer contribution is 1/4th of the whole system?"
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"What is the advantage of the two-column journal format?",
"I am a mathematician whose work often connects with physics, so I often have to read papers in physics journals. I find that the two-column format popular with physics journals annoying, and based on the following questions on this stackexchange I am not the only one that feels that way:\n\nDifficulty reading scientific papers in two columns\n\nHow best to present long equations in two-column papers?\n\nDo two-column format journals publish one column for special cases?\n\nI contend that the two-column format is impractical for long mathematical equations and is harder to read, since your eyes have to move in a pattern different from most other printed texts. But I suppose that there must be some advantage to the two-column format, given it is so standard in some branches of academia. But I can't think of a single reason why it would be better than a single column printed page! Enlighten me, please."
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"Is gift authorship for PhD advisors rampant in academia?",
"I have had an issue with my PhD advisor where they were essentially attempting to coerce me into inappropriately adding them as a co-author on a paper that they had no part in. They agreed that they should not be an author according to ethical standards, but essentially threatened me that there would be \"problems with my graduation\" if I did not add their name to the paper. They have refused to collaborate with me on this paper as well as any future paper because they \"are too busy\" and \"no professors really do research\".\n\nThis appeared to be a very serious ethical breach to me, so I immediately went to the department chair to describe the situation, and started looking for a new PhD advisor. However, some of the reactions I got to the situation disturbed me. The chair of my department openly stated that all of my research is \"owned\" by my advisor (whatever that means) and implied that I was a bad student for not adding my advisor to the paper. He even went so far to suggest that I add my new advisor's name to the (finished) paper in order to start off on good terms! Another professor trivialized the problem, stating that compared to what many PhD students have to deal with gift authorship is \"not that bad\". A third professor stated that it was clearly unethical, but that it was unfortunately the norm.\n\nIt seems to me based on this small sample size (as well as hearing other PhD student's experiences) that gifting authorship to uninvolved PhD advisors is rampant. This is obviously a terrible practice. Is this behavior really rampant in academia? And if so, what happens to PhD students who refuse to participate in this practice?\n\nA further point about my situation: I am in a theoretical scientific field where there is no lab, etc., so there is no complications arising from that sort of thing. Although even if I were working on a grant and using lab equipment gift authorship would be unethical."
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"Professor being mistaken for a grad student",
"This question is the flip side of Mistook new faculty member to be a student, how big a faux pas is it?\n\nI'm an associate professor, and apparently I look young for my age. When I meet new people at conferences, they often start the conversation with something like \"So, are you a grad student or a postdoc?\" It doesn't particularly bother me in itself, but when I politely say something like \"Actually, I'm faculty\", they get embarrassed and it kind of puts a damper on the conversation. I think this sort of thing has probably spoiled a few potential networking opportunities for me.\n\n\nAre there more tactful ways I can respond to this kind of mistake?\nAre there things I could do to \"look\" more like a professor? I already dress reasonably neatly (e.g. no T-shirts) and faculty in my field don't normally dress up much more than that. Should I carry a briefcase instead of a backpack, or something like that?\n\n\n(I happen to be cis male, work in mathematics, and live in the US, but it would be good to have more generally applicable answers if possible.)"
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"Write 'According to Wikipedia' in a PhD thesis",
"I am writing a PhD thesis in robotics and I was wondering if it sounds good to start a phrase with: 'According to Wikipedia ...'\n\nDo you think I can do that or not?"
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"Author affiliation for co-authors not currently affiliated with an academic institute",
"Similar questions have been asked here a number of times. I am raising it again to stress some specific issues that the previous threads have not resolved in my opinion.\nThe question is simply, what should the stated affiliation of a co-author who is employed in the industry be, considering that research was undertaken as an unpaid side-project in a field unrelated to that of their place of employment at the time (i.e. no conflict of interests).\nPossible solutions are:\n\nNo affiliation.\n\nI am concerned that this will stand out, given that all other authors have affiliations.\n\nPrevious academic affiliation.\n\nSome users (in previous answers) seem to think that adding a previous academic institute as the affiliation for such an author is ethically wrong.\nMoreover, I am concerned about crediting an institute that did not support the work, when this co-author's contribution was not supported by any institute.\n\nAffiliation of otherwise unknown non-profit research organisation, specifically created for the purpose of providing an affiliation.\n\nThis would be ideal, as there is no misattribution or blank affiliation field; however, I am concerned that this will also look anomalous in the list of affiliations."
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"How to symbolize that figure is cropped?",
"I need to add a photo with some additional data drawn over it to my thesis in computer science. But the photo is large and I want to crop bottom half of it. But then it could be misleading, that there is a part of the image missing.\n\nI will write it to the image description, but I want it to be obvious at first sight without reading the description. Is there some standard way to display that part of the figure is cropped?"
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"How should I approach job materials for a lateral move entirely for two-body reasons?",
"I am a tenure track assistant professor at a liberal arts college. I Iike my job quite a bit, but it is located in an impoverished, rural area. My partner works in the nearest large city, 2.5 hours away. I live there as well; the commute and the 2 nights a week I spend away from home are wearing on me. \n\nThis year there is a job at a very similar (on paper) instituion less than an hour from my house and accessible by public transportation. It is the same size, in the same region, serves a similar student population, and the departments are of similar size and composition. Adding a small amount of complication is the fact that my current institution is (slightly) higher ranked. I don't put much stock in such lists, but I could see it rasing eyebrows. If it matters, both institutions are top 30. At the very least, my current administration cares a lot about such things.\n\nTo be clear, I am unconcerned about my tenure case; I am an outlier in terms of grant funding and publications, I have solid teaching reviews, and my school has an 80% tenure rate. I also work in a field where transitioning to industry would nearly certainly lead to higher salaries; my field has abundant job opportunities in my city. I don't think getting denied tenure is likely, and if it happened, I would be ok with that.\n\nMy question is simply how do I pitch my application, particularly the cover letter? It is hard to come up with a compelling narrative for why I would leave my current job for this one aside from the simple fact that I would love to be closer to home and continue my work in a similar institution. I am not certain if addressing 2 body issues directly is a good idea. My partner is happily employed; they are not looking for work from this school.\n\nEdited to add: I worry that by mentioning my personal issues, the committee will be disfavorably inclined, as @strongbad has indicated below. That is, they get hundreds of applications from qualified people, they do not care about my personal life. However, excluding that detail might make them think there is some difficulty that doesn't appear in my materials."
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"Google finds thesis, but not indexed google scholar",
"I have recently finished my thesis, and it has been uploaded to my university's e-thesis server roughly 4 weeks ago.\n\nThe thesis can be found via google, after I manually submitted the link to google.\nUnfortunatly, the thesis is not found via google scholar. Many of my colleage's thesis (with very similar, standard format), which are at the same e-thesis server, are found via google scholar (and the google scholar link then points to that e-thesis server).\n\nIs there any way I can make google scholar index my thesis?"
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"How to analyse the following reviewer comments?",
"How can I improve a paper which has the following comments from the reviewer:\n\nThere are missing references to recent literature, which are closely related to this submitted work. A proper comparison of results and the methodologies among these efforts, as well as clear motivation for the incremental progress is typically required.\nIn addition, the submitted paper has several typographical and organizational errors.\n\nIs the reviewer asking me to cite more references?\nWhat does it mean for a paper to have "typographical and organizational errors"?\nCan someone tell me what is the reviewer asking me to improve?\nThe decision is "reject".\nShould I resubmit to the same journal after making corrections or to a different one?"
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"Help - drowning in non-thesis related work from supervisors during PhD",
"I’m not quite sure how to handle this situation and hoping you may be able to help!\n\nI am over a year into my PhD and have supervisors who, although we don’t have a bad relationship from their point of view (they would likely say it is good), in my opinion I have a very formal, structured and slightly cold relationship (comparing to previous managers in other jobs). \n\nAt the beginning of my PhD they were keen to get me involved in projects they have going on in their department that would help them analyse data and produce papers, I was told this was my way of saying thank you to the team (I assumed saying thank you for supervising me) and this would not gain me a name on their paper. Admit-ably at the start I was very keen to impress them and additionally thought getting stuck into some work for them could also help me get in the flow of what I might do for my own thesis. Over a year later and these projects continue and are only getting bigger each meeting we have. The tasks (and timeframe expected) mean I would need to spend on average 10-15 hours a week on these projects to get them anywhere near completion. I have noted to them in my last meeting this is a lot of work and I think I am unable to meet their desired deadline but this is not really taken on board. As our relationship is extremely formal I feel like I can’t really explain how overwhelmed I feel or how unfair I feel like this is. Its never been an option as to whether I want to or can take these projects on, they are expected to be done ASAP and I feel like I am being treated how you may a member of staff whose sole role it is to complete this additional work.\n\nHaving talked to friends and other PhD students they would call this unfair, toxic and flat out refuse to do it. However I am really mindful I want to keep in good faith with my supervisors, they are experts in the field I want to work in and there is no option of another supervisor to switch to without completely hindering my thesis and remainder of my PhD. I’d be better off quitting.\n\nMy idea would be to give it my best shot with finishing the majority of the project (even if it will be tough to do) , ensuring I am keeping minutes from our meetings which highlight that this is their project. Hoping that in future, if I've done a good chunk for them, they will let me away with not finishing acknowledging I have bigger priorities (my thesis). If this doesn’t work I would consider getting my university involved however I’d really rather not resort to this.\n\nI know I’m being a wuss with this approach but I want to be diplomatic.\nAny advice? Do you think it is normal for (some, I am aware not all) supervisors to do this?\n\np.s I don't care too much about not being mentioned in authorship for their papers, I'd much rather get on with my own project and have my thesis run smoothly. I just want to try and finish and be unscathed!"
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"Why would the conference organizers ban the inclusion of new links (e.g. to datasets or repositories) in the text of the rebuttal?",
"Some conference organizers recently emailed authors who submitted a paper to the conference the following rebuttal policy change:\n\n\nYou are not allowed to include new links (e.g. to datasets or repositories) in the text of the rebuttal\n\n\nWhy would the conference organizers ban the inclusion of new links (e.g. to datasets or repositories) in the text of the rebuttal?"
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"When was the Bachelor degree of Occupational Therapy introduced in Australia?",
"Sounds like a simple question, but despite a few hours of searching, I couldn't find the answer.\n\nI would also like to know what qualification was required beforehand in order to work in that profession?"
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"Academic occupation options for foreign visitors to the USA?",
"My wife is a student in the US. I am visiting her after I got a PhD degree several months ago in mechanical engineering in China. \n\nMy visit is about one or two years long. I plan to go back China to work after that. My question is: What can I do during my visit in the USA? \n\nMaybe a post-doc is the best choice for me, but my research background seems not competitive enough. Moreover, I am a F2 visa holder, which means I cannot get a paid job."
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"What type of lawyer (criminal, civil, family, etc.) would I need to help me deal with issues of academic misconduct?",
"What can stop a university from doing whatever they want and screwing students over in terms of accusing them unfairly of cheating, plagiarism, or a misunderstanding of professor authorization of essay re-submission in a second class? Also trying to take a student's degree or credit away after the course is completed/graduated with little evidence and no proof of circumstantial evidence that truly happened at the time of the incident? I ask this since they are private and go by their own rules and apparently there is no standard policy for how all universities are supposed to deal with issues. There are a lot of cases where businesses \"screw people over\".\n\nThis is in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.\n\nThanks."
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"Which countries have funding opportunities like ERC Advanced Grant?",
"The eligibility of ERC Advanced Grant is very interesting, everyone from anywhere can submit a proposal, and upon approval he should work in a host institution within European Union. This gives an excellent opportunities for independent researchers, as they do not need to be employed in Europe when applying.\n\nAre other countries (mostly I mean, US, Canada and Australia) have such call for proposals, as anyone (regardless of location) can apply? Then, upon success, he should conduct the research in the funding country.\n\nIf yes, please name (or link) the specific call for proposal."
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"Choosing a reference letter recommender",
"When choosing a recommender for a graduate fellowship application, do people generally request a reference letter from the professor in whose class they received A's? I am considering asking one of two professors for a reference letter for a fellowship application. I took a 1-credit professional skills course in which I received an A in, and in the other more academic 3-credit course, I received a B. However, I have had a few conversations with the professor who teaches this 3-credit course. Generally, in any circumstance regarding a fellowship application, which recommender would people generally choose, the professor in whose course they received an A in or the professor whose office hours they have visited?"
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"Can I recover after a really bad first year?",
"Going into college I had a great record, 3.65 GPA and a 30 on the ACT and about 18 AP and concurrent credits in statistics, calculus, literature, and Spanish. However, trying to balance religious callings and duties during my first year of college left me very unbalanced academically, and as such I failed two major classes, one of which being college, a class that I had already passed in high school and was simply taking to help acclimate myself to the college environment.\n\nThe following semester was about the same. I ended up deferring for two years to serve full time under a religious calling, I was able to do this because the university is owned and operated by my church. Going back I am resolved to do better this time, but I am wondering if there is any possible way to wipe away my record of my first year and start fresh again, maybe by applying to a new college instead of transferring, is that possible? Or could I petition on part of my ADHD and Aspergers syndrome for the first year to be overlooked?"
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"How to motivate a student to attempt solving tough questions?",
"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 ?"
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"Contributions of indirect research toward getting a post-doc",
"I am an engineering student, however, my graduate research is more inter-disciplinary (computational science). Which is good for me in some ways, because one of my better skills is programming, since I've been doing it avidly as a hobby for a very long time. Because of this, it would be much easier for me to create a widely used computational science software tool rather than a highly-cited journal article.\n\nWith the specific aim of getting a post-doc at a top-ranked university, how does creating a useful piece of software (like an original, optimized quantum monte carlo implementation for example) compare to a widely-cited journal article? In other words, if done well, both would be highly-cited, but do frequent citations of software carry the same weight as top-tier research articles?"
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"How does Google Scholar rank search results?",
"I am attempting to identify how Google Scholar chooses which publications to rank highly in search results.\n\nI'm aware that Google Scholar uses metadata from academic websites, but therein my understanding of the process ends.\n\nMy query: What parts of Google Scholar's process for indexing and ranking search results is public, and where can that information be found?"
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"How do hiring committees for research positions view getting \"scooped\"?",
"Suppose that an applicant got scooped on a research paper and is applying for jobs. This is reflected in a lack of publications. Is that taken into consideration? Or will it be a huge blow to an applicant's chances to highly competitive jobs?"
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"Sending a follow up email for a research assistant position",
"I have submitted an application for a research assistant position in field of psychology and neuroscience in the USA. The person to whom I submitted my application seems to be the lab manager (not quite sure though). Let's call this person A. But I also find the job posted under another lab member (let's call this person B). It has been 20 days since I submitted my application.\n\nShould I send a follow up to person A?\n\nWhat if I still do not hear back from person A after sending a follow up?\n\n\nOr\n\nShould I send an email to person B referencing that I have submitted my application on … to person A?\n\nWhat is an appropriate amount of time to wait before send email to the PI of the lab inquiring about any opening her/his lab?\n\n\nNote, my qualification does fit the job requirements. Also the job posting dated at the beginning of this year so there is a possibility that the job has been filled. In this case, can still express my interest in this job and ask to be considered for future opening?\nEdit: please assume that the job has not been filled. Also there is no deadline for this job. They have something along these lines "Job will be closed when the right candidate is selected.""
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"How to make my CV attractive for a faculty position application?",
"When reviewing hundreds of applications, search committees quickly look for publications and groups the applicant has worked in to make the short-list.\n\nI had a successful but unusual career, working in industry, successful startup, and even extraordinary educational programs.\n\nHow can I make my CV attract to persuade the committee to stop by and find the significant of my uncommon works?"
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"How does one find an academic career coach?",
"Inquiring for a client with a PhD (public policy/labor studies) who has been hunting for a tenure-track position for 4 years (I'm an editor). Like many emerging scholars, she works at several adjunct positions each year. She has been very active in research and publishing, has won several grants since getting her PhD, and has applied for 50 jobs, resulting in 3 (unsuccessful) interviews. At this point she would like to find a career coach who specializes in working with academics in the North American market (Canada would be good, but perhaps not strictly necessary). Our google search for a coach hasn't turned up anyone so far. We investigated the website and book of a well-known coach and found that the information was readily available elsewhere, leading us to conclude that the person's high fee would not be a good investment. Any tips for finding and working with an academic job coach?"
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"How can I fix a relationship with a professor that has recently cooled?",
"What would be a good way to overcome bad experiences with a professor in my department, who is not my main advisor, but from whom I would like to get advice regularly?\n\nDuring the first year of my PhD, I worked with the Professor in a class on a project that I didn't perform well on (because I was not very interested in that particular project + I didn't feel very confident on the topic by that time). Our relationship has cooled down since, and he was even debating whether or not to put me as a co-author on the paper that came out of the project with multiple students. (the authoring-issue is not part of this question; I mention it to describe the status of our relationship)\n\nNow in my second year of my PhD, I realize that it would be quite valuable to have his advice on other projects that I work on, potentially even as a co-advisor, but I fear I messed up the relationship too badly. \n\nWhat would be a good approach to overcome the bad/non-existing relationship? Or would that be a waste of time and I'd rather look for someone else, which could potentially even mean I need to change the focus of my PhD?"
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"Impact of W's on grad school admissions in CS theory (TCS)",
"I'm an undergrad at the University of Maryland College Park who just finished a computer science bachelors a few days ago. Unfortunately, I didn't realize how much I liked theory (algorithms, combinatorics, graph theory) and math until this past semester. As a result, I plan to work for a few years while self-studying upper-division math and getting the necessary TCS research experience (I plan to reach out to professors at the local university once I'm ready).\n\nMy question is whether or not my undergrad academic performance is salvageable from the perspective of grad school admissions. Although I ended up with a 3.895 cumulative GPA with relatively good grades in TCS-related classes (e.g. A- in discrete math, A in algorithms, A in number theory, A in cryptography, B+ in advanced data structures), I have 4 W's (withdrawn designations) on my transcript across different semesters. Moreover, these W's are all in math classes (euclidean & non-euclidean geometry, numerical analysis, combinatorics & graph theory, machine learning). However, with the exception of the geometry class, I dropped all of them since I didn't meet the official prerequisites. I had originally requested prerequisite overrides to register for the courses, but left due to not being able to catch up.\n\nAlso, due to COVID-19 I opted for the pass/fail grading system this past semester. Therefore, even though I took theory of computation and combinatorics & graph theory and scored an A, A- respectively, these classes show up as P's on my transcript. Thus, I'm wondering (a) if a master's will help my case and (b) if one is necessary. If at all possible, I'd prefer to apply directly to PhD programs after getting some research experience.\n\nAdditionally, would having a publication by the time of application change any of those answers? I know theory programs in machine learning and computer vision basically require publications these days in order to be considered, but I'm not sure if the same holds for subfields like combinatorial optimization and graph algorithms."
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"After revision: the paper is not anonymized - what does it mean?",
"I finally got the revision of my paper, but one of the reviewers complained that the paper is not anonymized. Since I'm not the native english speaker, it's quite strange to me. \n\nDoes it mean that I should remove authors names from the paper? If so - what for, and why should I do this?"
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"What kind of design freedom can you permit yourself in academic writing?",
"In scholarly journals, or publicising in certain magazines you are expected to hold true to a certain design pattern and citation style. However, when publishing your own work independently you are free from those constraints, or are you?\n\nI am a designer by heart and every couple of years I create a new template that I use for future academic papers, following contemporary design patterns. In my opinion, my templates look nice. Not too strict, though flirting with kittenish. I am convinced that a nice design leads to a fruitful first impression. However, I am aware that this might be very subjective.\n\nMy question is, then, do academics generally look down on \"design hippies\" and should all retain a strict - possibly even chippy - style? Or does all of this matter not as long as everything is legible and well-formatted?\n\nI use hand-written, cursive fonts in informal paperwork all the time. That's why I posted this question: even though certain fonts are well-suited for distinguished forms of design and publicity (such as magazines or webdesign), how does a formal academic world react to such patterns. On a (possibly less formal) website, for instance, Pacifico would be used without question. Of course, an academic audience is an 'ole other bunch all together. That's where my inner designer and outer academic struggle with one another. Should we stick to the trusted, formal (and, let's be fair, boring) style, or can we go a little (just a tad!) crazy? Note that I'm not strictly talking about fonts. It can be anything, going from structure (column layout), to colours and highlights, to bold face and font families. Heck, maybe even illustrations!\n\nUpdate: people in the comments seem to focus a lot on the fact that I mentioned Pacifico, a cursive font. First of all I should clarify that I only brought it up as an example. Secondly, I only considered that font as a candidate for large headings with a font size of 24pt or larger - which increases readability. I did not imply to use this particular font as the main typography for my text, but merely as a means for catching titles. I'd also like the emphasise - again - that I am aware that certain fonts are not formally applicable and would annoy rather than refresh an academic reader's mindset. But as said, I am a big fan of design trends (focusing on, but not restricted to, fonts) and innovation, and I am simply curious to know how academics think about this: how far can one go. How different is an academic design style from for instance web, advertising, magazines and newspapers."
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"Does name of university matter for internships?",
"I have been recently applying for summer internship positions in the engineering discipline. I am a senior undergraduate at UCLA university. My GPA is above 3.7 and I have both desired and minimum qualification for the internships, but I keep receiving rejection email from different companies. I was told by my friends that since students from Stanford, Berkeley, MIT and other more prestigious schools than UCLA are applying, therefore they get the internship first and if there is any opening hiring managers will consider people like me.\n\nI would like to know: is this really true and does the name of such universities compared to UCLA make a huge difference?"
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"What does it mean to be offered waived-fee OA publishing?",
"I submitted a manuscript to a journal for non-open-access publication and the editor came back and said that they want to publish the article as open-access (same journal) and waive the fee for this.\n\nAs not to be too broad, what implications does this have for my paper? Is it generally viewed positively to have OA publications? Really, in the end, I am trying to look at the pros/cons of saying yes/no to this."
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"Is attempting to get published in undergraduate history journals worth it?",
"I'm very interested in trying to get published as a history major in order to ease my path towards becoming a history professor, so I've been thinking about trying to do research on my own. As a result, I want to get published before I graduate but I hear it's not easy to get published in regular journals so I was thinking I should get published in try an undergraduate journal instead. Would that be a better alternative or no? If not, what are some tips to getting published in a regular journal?"
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"Admission to Master's degree in Data Science without a STEM Background?",
"I became really interested in data during my 2nd year of college (I’m currently in my third year) and I recently began to think that undergoing a masters degree in data science can greatly help me study the field more professionally. \n\nHowever I am not majoring in any STEM degree in my university right now (I’m an Economics major) And I’m very likely to graduate without any changes. \n\nI’ve heard that people from very different backgrounds who have nothing to do with STEM are often successfully admitted to data science graduate programs, but how do people from a non-STEM background get admitted when all the requirements I’ve been reading in various university websites state that if you are from a non-STEM undergraduate background you need to prove in a different way somehow that you are ready (in terms of mathematics, statistics, etc) to undertake the program?\n\nIn other words, my question is this: How do people who have non-STEM bachelor’s degrees get accepted into these programs? Is there a really a certain way to prove your analysis capabilities besides your degree for non-STEM undergraduate students that can convince the admissions committees? If you know anything about this I would sincerely appreciate it if you could share your knowledge/experience and offer helpful advice.\n\nI’m not thinking of phD (not planning to stay in academia for that long, I simply wish to study this field a bit deeper to the point where I can apply it professionally) so hope you can consider this as well when replying :)"
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"Does \"Apply for scholarships, get accepted and then refuse\" help in your CV?",
"I have a situation. I want to apply for Ph.D programs in the United States at the end of this year. And right now, there are many programs in Europe open for application. Hence, I wonder if I should try to apply to them, get accepted and then refuse the scholarships.\n\nIs it ethical? I am worried that it could affect my reputation and my LoR would no longer be appreciated in the future, leading to mistrust in my lecturers who wrote my LoR. On the other hand, getting accepted may prove my competence and prowess.\n\nIf the answer is yes, should I put it in my CV for future application?\n\nThank you for your help"
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"Can I upload multimedia from subscription access journals to third party websites",
"I am the author of an accepted and published manuscript in a peer-reviewed subscription access article. Accompanying this manuscript are some videos I created. I would like to upload these videos to a third party website and want to know if this is allowed. I have read the author rights, but my use doesn't exactly fit into the wording so I'm not so sure what the answer is.\n\nMore specifically my article is in 2D Materials of IOP and I want to upload some videos that form part of the additional multimedia to YouTube so that I can create an interactive poster where people can view videos related to content on the poster.\n\nI have emailed the IOP concerning this matter so I can provide an answer to at least my specific case, but I thought others might have something interesting to say on this matter, e.g. perhaps the intended use means it automatically is \"fair use\" and is acceptable for all journals."
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"Grades in a PhD program",
"I am a math grad student who has completed the qualifying exams within my first two years. Lately, I have been taking a few non-core courses, which allows me to put most of my time on my own research. In one of these non-core courses, I received a low grade: B-. I certainly have the a good Cumulative Grade Point Average: 3.9 -- well above what is required for \"normal progress\".\n\nQuestion: How important/serious is getting a grade below 3.0 in this one course at this point in a PhD program? Any feedback is much appreciated."
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"What is the proper method to give credits in lecture material",
"To prepare the lecture material. I use the book, my own slides, but I also take a few slides from MIT or other top universities open courses. \nWhat is the best way to give credit? \nI must provide source information on each slide? \nOr Is it better to enlist all the resources/citations in the first/final slide?"
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"Eligibility for a PhD in Business Administration program",
"I am looking into PhD in Business program at various universities in North America, and I realized that many of those programs require their candidates to have \"a Master's degree\". If I have a non-thesis, course-based Master's degree, am I still meeting this minimum admission requirement? or by \"Master's degree\", did they mean a \"thesis-based research Master's degree\"?\n\nThank you"
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"What does happen to accepted posters if no author attend to present?",
"One of our posters has been accepted with \"Strong merit\" at ACM DEV 2016. We have finalized the draft and sent the camera ready version to the authority. But this year's venue is Nairobi and a 5 days trip to there will cost about a lot of money. And as a student if I cannot afford to attend the conference, what will they do with my poster? Will they include in their library? If not will it be considered unpublished?\n\nPS: All the co-authors of the paper are undergraduate students and none can afford to attend."
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"How do I determine if a paper has undergone anonymous peer review of its statistical analysis?",
"I heard on Twitter today about a paper stating that after the Snowden leaks, people looked up terrorism-related topics less on Wikipedia.\n\nI'm not worried about deliberate fabrication of data, but I'm worried that poor quality statistical analysis may have happened. I'm not expert enough to look at the paper's statistical analyses myself and determine whether they're appropriate, so instead I want to know whether rigorous peer review has taken place.\n\nThe journal involved, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, doesn't seem to mention peer review either on its about page or the page about the journal. The page about submissions says \"Evaluation involves scoring by multiple different editors, and rarely lasts fewer than 3-4 weeks.\", which suggests that it's evaluated only by editors, not by academic peers. Also, evaluation and scoring sounds different to what I'd expect to happen in peer review - it sounds like they're only evaluating whether it's a good fit for the journal and of enough interest.\n\nHow do I determine if a paper has undergone anonymous peer review of its statistical analysis, short of contacting the editor of the journal?\n\nRelated question: How do I recognise a peer-reviewed journal article? but the answers seem to focus on science related subjects, as opposed to the humanities."
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"Could I reject an accepted PhD admit after April 15?",
"I have already clicked on the acceptance of an admit(without funding). The deadline for response is Apr.15th, and I did not have any other options at that time. However, I just received a funding offer from a top University. I am wondering if I could reject the accepted admit. If yes, how to reject it very very politely? Will this affect credibility?"
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"phd admission- both professor from same university agreed to be mentor",
"2 professors from the same university same department have agreed to be my mentor. But none have funds, prof.1 may give me TA, while prof.2 can give me RA. Which one should I choose? Can I put 2 applications with 2 different SOPs and then decide later which prof. to go for?"
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"Correct identification of scientific journal?",
"I'm new to academic writing. From what I read on other posts, would the \"133\" be the volume number? And the 46-54 be the page in the journal?\n\nJ Surg Res. 2006 Jun 1;133(1):46-54. Epub 2006 Apr 21.\n\nFrom: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16631200"
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"Can I take the biochemistry GRE test if I am a biology graduate?",
"I currently hold a bachelor of science in botany but plan to do a master's in genetics. I was wondering if I can take the GRE subject test for biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics, or am I eligible for biology graduate record test only?"
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"How fast is the admission procedure for single-slot PhD applications in top universities in the UK?",
"I have applied to five different universities. Four of them are in the UK and the last one elsewhere in Europe. Based on initial discussions, two of the UK universities consider me a competitive applicant (they encouraged me to apply after informal inquiries). Given my impressive publication record, I think I am the best applicant for the position which is not located in the UK.\n\nMost probably, I will get an offer from the non-UK university quite soon. However, I would not like to accept the offer before hearing anything from the UK universities. Suppose I am also the best candidate for the UK institutions. How fast will they decide? The places are single-slot, so would it be rude to ask one week after the application period closes?\n\nI would only email the UK institutions if the non-UK institution says yes, and write something along the lines\n\n\n Sorry for contacting you so soon after application period has ended, but I have been offered a position in [some place] already at this time. I understand that you probably have received many good applications, and may not decide yet who to offer the position first. However, I thought you might be able to tell if others' applications were much stronger than mine. I would prefer to study with you, which is the reason I am sending this email.\n\n\nI would then decline the non-UK offer only if the response was very positive sounding one."
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"How can I increase my chances of being accepted to a top 20 MS CS program?",
"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 and have good test scores(GRE / TOEFL) but I'm worried that my grades could affect my chances. I have some experience in competitive programming, my team finished among the top 10 among 300+ teams in the ACM ICPC regionals and I have a decent Topcoder rating. Not sure if this matters though. I have also made contributions to open source projects and have open sourced some of my projects, some of which have been downloaded thousands of times.\n\nI've seen people from unknown colleges with higher GPAs getting in to places like Stanford, UIUC, Cornell, CMU etc. Realistically, do I have any chance of getting admitted in a top 10 or 20 program. If not, what can I do to improve my chances within a year?\n\nUPDATE: Well, I guess grades do matter, I didn't get into any of the good schools I applied to. I'll have to give up my hopes of grad school now."
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"Qualifications for textbook authorship",
"Are there any requirements for writing a textbook that is accepted by (reputable) colleges?\n\nToday, I got the odd idea in my head that it would be fun to write a compilation of the techniques and theorems I had learned relating to discrete mathematics. As I find it fun to let my imagination run wild with these sorts of ideas, this compilation transformed into a tutorial, and from there transformed into a textbook. I quickly decided I wasn't anywhere near qualified to write a textbook.\n\nFun daydreams aside, that made me wonder: What are the qualifications typically found in textbook authors? Is a Ph.D. in the field a \"must,\" or do some people write textbooks who hold Masters degrees (yet not a Ph.D.)?"
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"Which elsarticle documentclass parameters in LaTeX should I use for different Elsevier journals?",
"So here is the thing, I recently submitted a paper to an Elsevier Journal (EJOR) and prepared it using LaTeX. I used the elsarticle documentclass that Elsevier provides.\n\nWhen doing this I tried to figure out how the layout of the resulting PDF should be. Specifically, I could not find any information on the parameters of the LaTeX documentclass.\n\nIn the template from Elsevier there are these example snippets (commented out):\n\n%% Use the options 1p,twocolumn; 3p; 3p,twocolumn; 5p; or 5p,twocolumn\n%% for a journal layout:\n%% \\documentclass[final,1p,times]{elsarticle}\n%% \\documentclass[final,1p,times,twocolumn]{elsarticle}\n%% \\documentclass[final,3p,times]{elsarticle}\n%% \\documentclass[final,3p,times,twocolumn]{elsarticle}\n%% \\documentclass[final,5p,times]{elsarticle}\n\n\nSo depending on the journal, I have to choose different parameters. For EJOR I used this\n\n\\documentclass[authoryear,final,5p,times,twocolumn]{elsarticle}\n\n\nalthough I am not entirely sure this is correct. I was not able to find any information on this: which journal requires which parameters? EJOR looked like 5p, but isn't there an official source for this? Next, I want to publish to Computers & Security and, again, I can't find a hint on this. Am I looking in the wrong place?Does anyone know more about this? A site where they publish this?\n\nThanks a lot!"
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"Can I accept offers from universities in other countries before I apply to a German university?",
"I am currently studying in Singapore and am going to take the A-levels this year. All the university applications for the UK and US take place this year and the results will be out early next year. And they usually have deadlines for you to consider their offer.\n\nHowever, I am extremely fond of studying in Germany and the results of my applications to German universities will only come in July/August next year. By then all offer deadlines for other universities will have passed and if finally I got rejected by all German universities I will have no place to go...\n\nIn this case, is it advisory to take up an offer and then apply to a German university? Would the German universities know that you are already enrolled in other universities?\n\nMany thanks!!!\nSarah"
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"How to cite a chapter from a report with different authors?",
"I have to cite a multi-chapter report. Every chapter has different authors. Should I cite with the name of the main author and then the specific chapter? Or should I use the first author of the chapter I am citing?\n\nIf the main author is Smith but Jeff is the author of a chapter where Smith is not in the authors’ list, should I cite with “(Smith et. al 2000, Ch 6)” or “(Jeff et. al 2000)” and then add a citation for each chapter in the cited literature section?"
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"Is getting back to normal life difficult after PhD?",
"As a PhD student, during the four years of research, you are your own boss. PhD students are not restricted to specific working hours (or place) – as long as they do the work it doesn’t matter when, how, or where they do it. \nI spend most of my time working at home or in coffee shops instead of my desk in uni, and I take a day off after long meetings...\nI find that this freedom is what enabled me to be creative, come up with new ideas, start collaborations with others in my group, and publish papers. \n\nNow that I am almost done with my PhD, I am worried about life after PhD.\nI am wondering if it would be difficult to get back to a normal job working a set amount of hours every day, in the same place. \nIs that why most people stay in academia after getting a PhD?"
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"Effect of PhD advisor name/department on my future",
"I am in the first year of my PhD research (in Europe) in Biostatistics and I have a day-to-day supervisor, however he is not a full professor so he cannot be my promotor. Our department head is, but I would technically obtain the PhD at a department of Medicine/Epidemiology instead of (bio)statistics. Would this have a big effect on my future prospects if I wanted to continue in (bio)statistics, or are the topic and connections you build more important? We are considering looking for someone more statistical/mathematical as a promotor or copromotor, would this change much (on top of the influence they would have on the content of the thesis)?\n\nSo in short, if the content of the thesis/project is the same, does the name or work area of the promotor have a lot of influence on future prospects?"
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"Could getting fired from a second job significant affect the likelihood of admission to a master's program?",
"I am applying to graduate school to work on a Master's of Science in Nursing (Family Nurse Practitioner) in the fall. I've been working for the past few years, and it's time to go back. When I first started applying, I worked two jobs, and my second job is for a company that I'd largely stopped working for (I set my schedule with this company), but I had previously worked with as my primary employer for many years (too big to leave off a resume). Long story short, I was fired from that job about two weeks ago. My primary employment, where I work a regular schedule, is unaffected, and all of references for my application are from my current employer. \n\nThe question is: how much is that likely to affect a school's decision on my admission? I understand that there are different departments, different factors, etc., but is it likely that being fired from a second job around the time that applications are due will significantly hurt my chances of getting in?"
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"Is it better to choose recommenders by discipline or by familiarity?",
"I'm going to be applying for postdocs in the immediate future in either physics or pure mathematics (preferably the latter, though my focus won't change). Assume for the sake of argument the following two letters are strong: (1) my PhD advisor (a physicist by training) and (2) a lesser-known mathematician whom I've been collaborating with recently but haven't produced anything yet. Now, suppose I need a third letter. \n\nMy interests have often brought me into collaboration with people in a different disciplines. Do I choose the third letter based upon how well the third person knows me or based upon the discipline of the job I'm applying for?"
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"How to provide codes to reviewer without making it public",
"I wish to provide codes and data to reviewer along with manuscript at the time of submission. I can upload the codes on a public repository, but it will bring it in public domain, I want to provided the codes only when the paper is accepted. \n\nWhat is the standard practice? \n\nMy search directs me towards repositories: Dryad, Figshare and Zenodo. Which one of them provides secure code upload OR limited access?"
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"Computer Science PhD with Geology BS",
"I am planning to do my PhD in CS (Robotics to be specific). I will be completing my masters with a thesis and a publication in a field that is very closely related to CS. However, my BS is in Geology. So I am mostly concerned whether I will be considered for a PhD at a school since my undergraduate major is not CS. I feel this way because I contacted professors at some schools and they didn't respond back to me."
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"What is the best philosophy and practice to use smartphones for academic life?",
"I am doing research in theoretical physics, and have learned that smartphones can bring in a lot of distractions to your life if you want to focus on your research and study. Like facebook, twitter messages, random news feeds and so on. If I disable all apps, on the other hand, I will loose the benefit of owning a smartphone. In the limited time of using smartphones in my life, I have collected the following list of apps and things to have on a smartphone. I also have some questions marks for better alternatives. Please let us know if you have any other suggestions and recommendations to make the smartphone great for academic life.\n\n\nThere is an arXiv mobile app so that I can read paper anywhere whenever I find a chance (like sitting on a bus for commuting). I am sure you can use smartphones for StackExchange Q&A as well. Any apps that can allow me to read recommended papers based on my interests from all sourced journals as well as arXiv if possible?\nUse a PDF scanner--in my case, clearScanner--to transfer a paper/blackboard note to the e-version and synchronize on a cloud (like dropbox or OneDrive) by taking a photo to a black/white-board or paper note. I also use EndNote to put all my notes together in order to edit them on my Thinkpad Yoga or X200 tablet when I get a chance.\nUse twitter to only tweet academic content and build a network with researchers in the field. Then connect twitter with facebook to synchronize my content. This way, maybe less spam for me. Any other social network sources I shouldn't block and should cultivate using a smartphone?\nI do use open-source version-control ideas for academic writing and coding. But I haven't found a way to get benefit from a smartphone for this purpose as I have a tablet and laptops to handle most of the mobile jobs. For example, I use github to version my bibtex file for bibliography records, but I haven't found a proper app to mobile bibtex on the go. Maybe there are some apps useful on a smartphone.\nUse voice record to record my own talks and discussions with people if things are hard to understand and solve in a short time or I want to put the talk online along side with my slides. I haven't found an efficient way to combine the voice and slides seamlessly, though. \nKeep the calendar running in the background for scheduling things with notifications. Same to emails. \nSmartphones can easily track my physical fitness, but is there any way to track my academic fitness? \nI have heard people using smartphones to track experimental equipment remotely and use all kinds of smartphone sensors to demonstrate physical lab experiments, but I really didn't go that far. Let's also keep this thought of train open if you have any recommendations.\nInstall a bar/QR code scanner, and it could be useful to scan and download a poster on your phone in conferences/workshops nowadays."
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"Which section to start with when writing a research paper",
"Which section of a research paper should be written first? When I finally finish my analysis I begin to write the Methods section and the Results section. That is the first \"block\" of my writing. After that, I discuss it with co-authors (they are of course involved in the analysis, but at this stage they have the real results, graphs, and tables) and co-workers. Only after that do I begin to write the Discussion section and the Introduction. Is that right or is it better to write it in a different order?"
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"Recommending a paper for rejection, then publishing my own",
"My question is similar to this one\n\nI am an editor for a lousy paper and I found a better algorithm than theirs. Must I share it with them?\n\nalthough there are some small distinctions that (I think) make for a different question, which I write below:\n\nI was a referee for a paper submitted to a high-caliber journal. For two cycles, I had recommended \"major revision\" because I felt like the problem was a useful one, but the writing was a mess and the methodology was needlessly complicated. After the third revision, I recommended \"reject\" because I worked through some analysis on my own, over the course of a couple of months, that the methodology was actually fatally flawed in a way that made the manuscript unpublishable for this particular journal. I shared this finding with the authors and they were understandably upset (and quite contentious about it), but they did not identify any flaws in my reasoning. The editor wrote me a note to thank me for an \"extremely thorough and helpful\" review.\n\nIn the time that has passed since then (just under a year), I have continued refining the analysis that I did, to the point where I now have a result of my own that is probably publishable in a lower-tier journal. The authors of the original paper have not made their manuscript available online, with the exception that the contents of the original paper are one of the chapters of the student co-author's dissertation, which is publicly available on the university's website.\n\nIs it ethical for me to submit my paper to a journal, citing the dissertation and giving it credit for introducing the problem? On the one hand, the material that inspired me to study this problem has been made public, but on the other hand, I feel guilty for the amount of time that the authors spent on revisions that were ultimately fruitless, and this could lead to the original paper having a much more difficult path to eventual publication (somewhere)."
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"I want to be a researcher but I don't think I'd be any good at teaching. What do I do?",
"I would like to study for a PhD and hopefully become a researcher. There is nothing I can think of that I would like to do with my life more. However, my social and communication abilities are bad. They are bad beyond the point where it could be dismissed as me being a 'quirky professor'. People assume that if you want to go into academia, you want to teach. However, I don't think I could do it. I have Asperger syndrome, so there's a limit to how much I can improve my social skills. No matter how much I try to be 'normal', it doesn't work and it's massively draining, to the extent that I find myself struggling to do basic tasks because I get burnt out. There are staff at my university who seem to like me, so it's not as though it's impossible for me to form positive relationships with people in academia, but that's very different to being able to teach classes. Is there any point in me trying to pursue an academic career? Can I focus on research and do minimal or no teaching? I know that there are autistic people in academia, and that I'm pretty 'high-functioning' for an autistic person (i.e. I have it easier than a lot of autistic people, even though I do struggle a lot), but I don't want to set myself up to fail."
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"Are there any guidelines for labeling axes in plots/graphs?",
"What are best practices (if any exist) for labeling axes in plots/graphs for academic documents, such as theses, publications, or presentations? \n\nPossible options are to use the variable, spell out the variable, or a combination of both. For example, to label a time axis, we could write: t (s) or Time (s) or Time, t (s).\n\nAre there any objective reasons to prefer one style over another, assuming the publisher does not specify which to use? Or sources suggesting a particular format?\n\nI have browsed many journal requirements, but haven't found any that specifically address this."
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"Can a masters student apply for a second masters in the same field at another university?",
"Are students with masters degree allowed to enter a masters program in the same area at a good university?\n\nIs second masters a good option for a better research experience and improving your CV before applying to a PhD in top programs? I am specifically interested in US universities and computer science."
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"Where to publish (recreational) mathematics without a PhD?",
"I have been out of undergrad for some time now but was interested in publishing a few things I have been working on. Are there any good \"beginner\" journals where someone without a mathematics PhD might have a chance at publishing something? \n\nIt might be important to note that most of the material would likely just be more on the recreational side of things.\n\nThanks in advance."
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"I believe I have solved a famous open problem. How do I convince people in the field that I am not a crank?",
"I am interested in the situation where you have a very interesting result. For instance, you have solved a very important open problem. However, you are not known in the field and do not have any remarkable publications. Your supervisor thinks the work is good and you submit the work to a high profile journal, but you get rejected.\n\nThe thing is that the contribution is very strong. It breaks what most people believe or what they have already proven: e.g., you solve the P vs. NP problem or any other well known open problem. \n\nThe reviewers strongly reject your work with no justification and they do not state why the result is wrong. Examples of reviewer comments include:\n\n\n\"The proof must be wrong.\" \n\"You cannot achieve such a result.\" \n\"You do not understand well the notion of ...\"\n\n\nMy question is what to do in this situation? Where to go? If your advisor accepts the work, but the reviewers from the top journal reject the work without even explaining the mistakes, what should you do?"
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"Choosing between an older, prominent supervisor and a younger, junior supervisor for PhD",
"I'm searching for a PhD position in theoretical physics. My question is:\n\nShould I do my PhD with a prominent professor who is 60 years old and does not care too much about their students or with a junior professor who is not famous and does not have published too much papers, but cares too much about his students and is very supporting and nice professor?"
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"If you really don't have much project experience, how to list your project descriptions when applying for a Ph.D. position?",
"I am applying for one Ph.D. program of computer science(CS). I was required to handle the list of my project description which is up to three pages. However, I am only a fresh graduate student who has moved to the field for only less than two years. I was in the field of electronic engineering(EE). I can only recall three relatively large projects and several small course projects relevant to CS. \nShould list those course projects? I just made some toy examples in those projects.\nShould I explain my large projects as detailed as possible so I can stretch out my description to three pages? I saw, on the resume, people usually only use one or two sentences to describe what they did in a project.\nShould I list my projects of EE? They are basically non-relevant to my current field but can prove my coding ability."
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"Who to include as a reference?",
"I am finishing my Ph.D. and looking for a postdoc position.\nRight now I have included my current supervisor in Ph.D. and my previous supervisor from my masters as references.\nThe postdoc position advertisement does not state the number of references required, only a reference list.\nHowever, I have mostly read online and by checking other CV's that including three references is the norm when you are a fresh Ph.D. graduate.\n\nI was considering asking a professor who I had for a class during my Ph.D. to be my third reference. We have had some discussions about my research, and we have good friendly relations. \nI was also considering asking a postdoc researcher that I have worked with in the past but who is not a tenure track faculty yet.\n\nIs it a good idea to include people that you have not worked with directly on your research as references? Or people that are still postdocs?\nWho can be my potential reference aside from my supervisors? \n\nYour help would be much appreciated."
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"Given reviewer comments, shall I resubmit after the rejection?",
"I had submitted a manuscript to a SCI indexed journal and I received a rejection after 4 months\nThe reviewers comments stated:\nThe reviewer stated only 1 correction in the whole paper and wrote the following :\nThe proofs of main theorems of this paper are straight forward, and the proofs of many results are written in a too elaborate way, not compact enough. As a result this paper is not recommended for publication in XXX.\nI am currently in a very difficult situation. I don't understand if I should just fix the error which the reviewer pointed out and then submit it to the same journal.\nI am able to fix that error. So will it be wise to fix it to the same journal or it will be a complete waste of time.\nIf anyone can help me out, I will be very grateful."
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"Listing presentations at a conference side-meeting on a CV?",
"At a recent conference, members of a working group were invited to give quick summaries of their research in a side meeting. Obviously these don't qualify as peer reviewed conference activity, but would it still be appropriate to include such a talk in the \"other talks\" portion of the CV?"
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"How can I help to participate in data collection or research work as a field researcher?",
"To clarify my question, due to length limitations in question part.\n\nFor PHD, Researcher allowed to take part as research subject for data collection/analysis? How to include personal accounts of/experiences of a research phenomenon? Thoughts/decision making processes when playing a specific game on world class level?\n\nThis then mean a specific game where there are limited /very few really have mastered the game and subjects are not easily contactable. Also potential research participants are a handful 5 to 12.\n\nTo explain. If a researcher want to ask how tennis players think his accessibility to the top 20 of the world tennis players are really only 20 and not just anyone around the corner that wannabee play tennis."
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"Background: I am a fourth year math graduate student working as a TA for an introduction to proofs course with a focus on analysis.\n\nI really enjoy the teaching component of my position as a graduate student, but this semester I feel as though students are taking advantage of my generosity.\n\nAs is typical for a TA in the math department at my university, I hold a couple (in my case, two) office hours per week, plus additional availability via appointment. My office hours are nearly always occupied, which generally pleases me. However, my students nearly always stay well past the point when my office hours are supposed to end, even a couple hours worth in most cases.\n\nIn addition, I tend to spend nearly all my waking hours at my office, so I have no problem meeting with students at a wide variety of times. They are well aware of this, and several of them have requested frequent appointments that do not coincide with my office hours. Again, the main issue here is that these appointments often last much, much longer than an hour.\n\nI understand that the material of this course is challenging, and I am glad that my students desire to improve their abilities. However, their behavior is seriously impinging upon my ability to progress in my research.\n\nWhat are acceptable avenues for reaching a compromise between my need to progress in my work and my desire to assist my students? So far I've considered the following:\n\n\nI've attempted to subtly imply that I would appreciate less consumption of my time, but I don't want to discourage their eager approach to their work and they don't seem to be getting the hint.\nAlternatively, I could lie about having meetings, other appointments, obligations, etc, but I would feel wrong doing so.\nI could obviously just tell them that they can't stay late because I have other work that I need to perform, but again, I don't want to directly shut them down.\n\n\nUltimately, I would love to find some systematic way to decrease the strain that they place on my schedule. One trick I have utilized is the deliberate scheduling of an office hour immediately before the taught class, since both me and any students have to leave at that time to go to class. Are there other things like this I could do? \n\nI'm not merely looking for a solution for this semester, because I'd like to prevent this problem in the future as well."
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"Using first person in literature recommendations in a masters thesis?",
"I am currently writing my masters thesis in computer science. I've heard that one should avoid writing \"I\".\n\nIn cases where one describes what was done and it doesn't matter who did it, I understand why writing \"I\" should be avoided. I, however, wonder if it is ok in the following case:\n\nIn the following, it is assumed that the reader knows XYZ. In case\nthe reader needs a refresher on any of those topics, I recommend ...\n\n\nIt is a subjective statement which is not necessary, but might help students who might in future read it. I should probably point out that a CS master thesis is expected to have about 80 pages, hence length-wise it doesn't really matter. It should be clear that it is subjective; if I changed it to the passive (it is recommended...) then it sounds as if there is a consensus in the community.\n\nSome people recommend writing \"the author\". It, however, sounds strange and it is absolutely clear that \"I\" is \"the author\". Hence I don't see an advantage in doing so except for beating automatic tools / grading sheets."
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"Company logo in my lecture slides",
"I'm currently working on the slides for my database lecture. During the lecture I want to talk about different tools and available programs for database management. Am I allowed to use logos on my slides? What copyright should I put? Here is an example:\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MariaDB_Logo.png\nIs "All company logos subject to copyrights. All rights reserved." sufficient?"
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"How to submit an article (for example, on arXiv) without being affiliated to any institution?",
"The core of the problem is already in the title but I feel as i should add some more details.\n\nI was doing some mathematics and, if there are no logical flaws or mistakes of any other nature (it seems that there are none) I managed to prove some result that, again, if it is proved with no errors, would, I believe, enrich the field in which it belongs.\n\nOf course, I immediately started to think about arXiv.org and I decided that I want to submit an article there, but, when I was reading help section, there stands this, written:\n\n\n Note: It is a violation of our policies to misrepresent your identity or institutional affiliation. Claimed affiliation should be current in the conventional sense: e.g., physical presence, funding, e-mail address, mention on institutional web pages, etc. Misrepresentation of identity or affiliation, for any reason, is possible grounds for immediate and permanent suspension.\n\n\nBut, as you are aware by now, I do not belong to any institution and as such, am not affiliated with any, I am just an amateur that among all fields thinks about mathematics the most. So, I have stumbled upon this cautious note quoted above and do not know what to do.\n\nSo, I decided to write to all of you here to see what can be done in this case of mine. I am not 100% sure that among all sites this is the one most suited for this problem of mine (for example, I could have written this on MO Meta or MSE Meta) but surely I will try to welcome opinions and help, even if they do not resolve this issue that I am faced with.\n\nWhat should be done?\n\nEDIT: This is not a complete duplicate of the question mentioned in such a way as this one is a duplicate of that one because the body of the question mentioned goes like this:\n\n\"Assume you have already completed your undergrad and have been working for a number of years. Does one need to be part of a university or a learning institution to publish papers?\"\n\nBut, I did not complete my undergrad and I am working for a number of years (independently). so, there are some similiarites but the question is not exactly the same, although answers seem to fit well."
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"How to teach \"puzzling skills\" (for coming up with examples) to PhD students?",
"Background: Some sub-areas of computer science are concerned with developing new methods to solve practically motivated problems of certain shapes (determined by the sub-area). While obviously using real practical problem instances would be best, few papers in these areas actually use them, because (1) it is hard to obtain these problem instances (from industry) without first giving them a method to solve them (chicken-egg problem) and (2) many of these problem instances have too many intricacies that need to be handled at the same time, so that to make progress in the area, most papers pick one particular challenge, show the challenge by means of a convincing but synthetic example and propose a novel method that gives some insight into how to solve the challenge.\n\nDoing research in this area requires to identify the shortcomings of current techniques and to derive convincing examples that actually demonstrate the shortcomings of previous approaches. Coming up with such examples requires to marry (1) the understanding of previous techniques, (2) the basic idea of what the practical problems are about, and (3) conciseness of the example, so that it can be used as running examples for thinking session at the whiteboard and as running examples in papers.\n\nQuestion: Coming up with such examples requires creativity and can be seen as a puzzling problem, as the requirements are somewhat contradictory. Now there are some PhD students who will excel at such tasks and solve them without any guidance, and others will not know how to start, despite having a working knowledge of all the involved concepts. So what are suitable strategies to teach such puzzling skills to PhD students? I find it highly difficult to give help in such situations, as vague hints such as \"think about what happens in this situation in that application\" are often insufficient for a PhD student who is not good at puzzling, but hints such as \"start by doing this and that\" yield no learning effect since \"this and that\" will typically contain all ideas for one particular solution. The strategies should help students who are already familiar with all formal definitions and basic concepts, but never looked at them in combination yet.\n\nExample: To clarify the question, let me give a (made up) example that is at least understandable to computer scientists. Assume that there is some reason to believe that when translating a deterministic automaton over finite words (DFA) to a digital circuit, we can make the circuit smaller whenever there are two states s1 and s2 in the automaton such that the language accepted when starting the automaton from s1 is the complement of the language accepted from s2. We also have a reason to believe that this is relevant for some application that involves all possible kinds of computations with binary-encoded strings. The tasks is to find a DFA that has two such states s1 and s2, whose implemented language can be easily explained in a sentence or two, for which the DFA is non-trivial (i.e., no state accepts no words or all words), and that makes at least a little bit of sense from the application point of view (here: arbitrary operations over binary strings)\n\nExample solution to the example: One solution is to take a binary alphabet and to encode the language containing all strings that have an even number of 1s. The minimal automaton will have two states that naturally have this property. Many other solutions are possible, though.\n\nNotes: I'm posting this here as the problem may not be exclusive to computer science. The example description above can very likely be improved. But let's assume that the task is already crystal clear to the PhD student, including the motivation."
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"What do I do if my supervisor insists that the classical CLT is false and wants me to write that in my paper?",
"We are in a physics department. My supervisor, upon reading a Physical Review Letters (PRL) paper, concludes (and claims that the paper also concludes) that the classical central limit theorem (CLT) is false under the (usual) assumptions stated. He insists on this result and wants me to say/imply that in my manuscript because he finds fault with me making use of the classical CLT in a few statistical tests that I have utilized in the paper. \n\nQuestion:\n(1) Would you say that my supervisor is scientifically incompetent?\n(2) How should I handle such a situation?\n\nThe paper is single-authored by me but he says that the university requires him to vet journal submissions (for quality) even though he is not a co-author which I accept. \n\n(EDIT) More info regarding the context: \n\nJust to clarify further, copied from my comment below: In my paper, I was simply stating the assumptions of classical CLT so that I could make use of the resulting normal distributions for some statistical tests. It was not a particular usage/application of classical CLT but simply a statement of the assumptions that would need to be held to recover normal distributions for the application of statistical tests I was using."
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"At what point do you decide to jump into research?",
"Before diving into \"real research\", there are some students who prefer to learn bare minimum prerequisite courses/material and then start off reading survey papers and develop their skills.\n\nThere are others who prefer to go through courses from Introduction to Advanced to Independent Study before finally diving in. \n\nThe former would probably face problems of fundamentals while the latter spends too much time learning things which might not be completely useful.\n\nAt what point should one (Assume, if necessary, that I am talking about STEM) decide to dive into research while making sure that one is neither being too hasty nor slow?\n\nTake for e.g. that a person wishes to code a software in Python which does engineering calculations. He would either read something like Intro to Python and then directly start coding or he could also read documentations of other Math libraries, similar libraries in C/Fortran, study coding efficiency and thumb rules and then start. \n\nHow do you prevent yourself from taking up too little or too much time to begin?"
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"Is it acceptable to e-mail a professor at another university to ask for a meeting to discuss common research interests?",
"I'm a PhD student, from Europe, nearing the end of my thesis. \nI'm going to the USA for a conference in a few months. A couple of professors (assistant professor level, both fairly young, recruited in the past 2 or 3 years) whose work I'm very interested in teach in the vicinity of the conference venue.\n\nWould it be acceptable for me to e-mail them out of the blue and ask them if they'd like to meet/have coffee to discuss common research interests? \n\nThey both do literature like me and care about similar methodological issues. However we work on (and in) very different geographical areas, so the chance of us ever meeting at a regular conference are low. \n\nIs this ever acceptable? Does rank/school factor into it?"
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"How to avoid generalization?",
"One of the tips I learn when writing academic papers is to avoid generalizing, and by that, it means we, as writers, need to understand the difference between fact and opinion and try to express things with different levels of certainty. However, I still find the way to differentiate between fact and opinion quite confusing. It would be great if someone can explain the difference between these two things."
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"How to cite ACM Computing Classification System?",
"In the research I'm doing for my master thesis I use the ACM Computing Classification System (2012 edition). \n\nI mean I literally use the data they provide as an RDF graph. How should I cite this classification system? Ideally I'm looking for a bibtex snippet."
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"Do journals have legal copyrights to the online supplemental information?",
"I have a paper in an biology journal (Wiley is the publisher) for which I would like to put a much more mathematical version on ArXiv, mainly the theorems and proofs located in the online supplement (that biologists will not read but that perhaps a mathematician who does not read this journal might be interested in), with no figures or sentences copied from the biology paper. I could perhaps call it a pre-submission version of the paper (which would be somewhat untrue, but Wiley does allow pre-peer-review preprint publishing on ArXiV; none of the peer-review process affected the supplement; so in spirit this would be sort of true).\n\nDoes Wiley’s copyright agreement prevent me from doing this? Wiley’s information on supplemental information doesn’t seem to address the issue."
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"Are student records accessible by university officials?",
"Application forms for graduate school usually contain some vague statements regarding the extents of usage of one's social security number. \nSome people believe that educational records at other institutes are private information and the universities should have access to the educational records that the applicant would disclose to them ONLY. (Regardless of potential consequences and/or ethical justification for actions of either party.)\n\nMy question is, having the applicant's social security number, can schools see which schools/programs the applicant has attended, for how long, and the courses that were taken in the past? If so, is this a common practice? That is, do graduate offices commonly check with social security information to make sure that the records from each previously attended institute is included in the application?"
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"Citation of an article is not reflected in Google Scholar database",
"Some of my published articles have been cited by an article published in March 2017. But surprisingly citation to my articles is are not being shown in Google Scholar. What could be the reason? Where should I place my query for citation update?"
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