I am doing some work in a collaboration with some foreign author. As I am still pursuing my degree, I have to add my supervisor's name in that paper. Although there is no contribution of my supervisor in preparing this manuscript.
How I should write to my collaborator (foreign author) to include my supervisor's name as a third author. I need some help in this.
I work as a probability&statistics TA. During actual grading of the quiz papers submitted by students, I suspect some students are involved in cheating. The question is what I should do. I should note that my relationship with students is not the best judged from past experience.
The evidence that support my claim students were cheating in the quiz was follows:
1) During the quiz, I noticed students A, B, C, D, E, F, etc sitting very close to each other. I pulled their chairs apart and minutes later their chairs were close again. While I did not suspect cheating, I felt this is quite strange. In the end I have to pull their chairs apart three times. I also noticed they talking to each other, but I am not sure if they were borrowing the calculator or something. I simply did not suspect cheating.
2) During the actual grading I found the students A, B, C, D, E, F, etc all submitted work of very low quality and they made identical elementary mistakes like 1+1=3 on their exam sheets. This elementary mistake was carried through to the second part of the exam, such that a few of them did not bother to give any derivation to the wrong results in the test paper.
I have reported this to the professor, who avoided my email on any discussion with this topic. My questions are as follows:
1) If I want to report cheating, how do I make sure students A, B, C, D, E, F, etc all cheated? Of course there is a small chance that they all made the "stupid mistake" due to some random misunderstanding. For example, maybe students E, F did not cheat; they simply misunderstood the problem or their Casio calculator malfunctioned. Who knows?
For example, when I was an undergraduate, I was wrongly accused for cheating, and I knew such accusations makes people psychologically very uncomfortable even if turned out false in the end. While I am quite confident with what I found, I do not want to be the mean professor who treated me that way. I checked the university honor code and it says "the instructor should communicate with the students regarding the nature of the charge and the evidence...". I simply do not know what to say in this case. Should I simply say "I am suspecting you of cheating behavior, please explain yourself", or something?
2) More importantly, what I should do for the future to the class to prevent cheating? I put "cheating behavior means -10 points and an invitation to visit the Dean" in every exam sheet. But I could not prevent this situation from happening again in future. I felt very uncomfortable that I am preparing lecture for students who paid negative amount of input to the class material. To me a student walking out of the classroom and believe my lecture was tedious is okay; one do not need to take the class if one already knew the material.
But cheating behavior is far worse; it makes the normal Q&A process break down, and I simply do not know what feedback should I give to the students who cheated. It also makes life very unfair for students who made an huge effort but did not do as well as cheaters. I find it very difficult to prepare the lecture in the same mood again and pretend that this have not happened.
3) In the extreme case, if the professor took no action at all, what should I do next? Should I waste many hours coming back and forth on this "trivial" issue and facing various committees, or should I simply turn a deaf ear on it because this is first time offense? To me, this seems a black and white situation. But I am still quite confused.
I just found an abstract of mine, copied from a Journal, in an online book titled "Issues in Ecological Research and Application." It looks like this is a free book to download that just has random abstracts from various ecology journals. However, it appears like it doesn't take every single abstract from these journals. This company appears to also do this for many fields.
Actually, it is a bit stranger than full abstracts, it's basically full abstracts broken up with phrases like "journalists obtained a quote from researchers at University '..."
So my questions are, how does one get their abstract in a book like this? And what is the purpose of such a book? Abstracts are freely available online everywhere. Back in the print days, I could, perhaps, see the purpose of a library owning such a thing, but I can't quite understand what this is used for. Also is this even legal?
I recreated an image from a paper I liked (didn't use the same image to get out of the asking permission which could take a while). Now the reviewer asked us to give credit to the original paper. How do I do that? Is it okay to write that my image was 'inspired' from this other paper, as I didn't copy the image but used the image as a reference to create my own?
I don't want to release too many details in this inquiry, but I do have a very legitimate question to ask. My senior class (aerospace engineering) has been hard at work for nearly nine months reverse engineering a particular X-Plane. We have done detailed analysis on almost all the aspects of the craft and we have just heard that our supervising professor intends to release this research as his own for future technologies in SSTO vehicle analysis. What options do we have to prevent this blatant plagiarism by an adviser and how soon should we act?
It has been discussed and explained many times that in (at least some subdisciplines of) Computer Science, conference publications have a special status compared to many other fields - where in other fields, journals are the only way of publication, in Computer Science, many conferences allow publications with a comparable peer-review process as a journal, and consequently, reputable conferences in some subfields have a similar standing as reputable journals.
Some exemplary resources that outline this peculiarity:
While the perception of a special treatment of conferences in Computer Science appears to be evident, there are sometimes hints this can actually be observed in a few other fields, as well:
Daniel Standage writes in his question:
(...) whereas some of the more quantitative and technical fields (comp sci and engineering especially) seem to be focused on getting accepted to high-profile conferences with low acceptance rate (...)
(...) CS and related fields very heavily weight conference presentations and proceedings papers (...)
badroit cites from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota: Criteria for Promotion and Tenure:
A 1994 NRC Committee on Academic Careers for Experimental Computer Science stated “The requirements for good research and engineering in experimental computer science and engineering (ECSE) are different from those of many other academic disciplines” and then added “Because conferences are the vehicle of choice in ECSE for the dissemination of research, well-refereed conference proceedings (as well as work published in refereed private journals) should be given as much weight as archival journal articles
On the other hand, there is also the contrary claim, that Computer Science is an absolute exception with this. For instance, aeismail remarks in one of his answers:
(...) I would argue that the weighting of conference papers seems to be restricted to computer science (...)
Likewise, Lance Fortnow starts his article Viewpoint: Time for computer science to grow up by stating:
Unlike every other academic field, computer science uses conferences rather than journals as the main publication venue.
As it is notable that a rather unspecific "engineering" is consistently mentioned in the examples that imply a few other fields use conferences the same way as CS, I have tried to track down those fields, but could not come to any useful conclusions. In particular, I am not even sure what to look for, because "engineering" might mean various things:
Thus, my question is: Are there any other fields beside Computer Science that use peer-reviewed conferences for publication, where such conference publications have a similar standing as journal publications? If so, what are some examples of such other fields?
Note: I consider this an answerable question, not an indefinite list question. One or a few verifiable examples for other fields that use conferences as described - or a sufficiently convincing statement or reference that shows there are no such other fields at all - are completely sufficient, I am not looking for an exhaustive list of fields.
In Economics, Brown is a smaller department (37 professors), with more focus on Microeconometrics and Development, while LSE is larger (76 professors). Both have similar retrospect in job market placements. As my area of interest is mostly Development and Political Economy, are there reasons to prefer one over the other?
I'm doing a ma in economics which isn't very technical. It's focused on macro and international economics. Once I finish this program I'm going to try to apply to another program for an ma in economics that is more technical with a focus in micro and econometrics. I'd be doing this to broaden my knowledge base in the subject and then teach undergrad for a few years. I could maybe pursue a phd if my employer decided to sponsor me for one. Is this something the second university would allow? How would that be viewed? Would it be suitable if my first degree was a ma in Econ but my second degree was something like an ma in quantitative economics? Perhaps a duel degree in Econ and finance/applied math?
The problem that I read too many topics on stackoverflow and other websites that makes me confused about opinion that compares different programming languages , and every time I feel people or company's are most interested by a programming language I switch to it because in our academic projects we are free to choose any language we want :
Question 1 : now most of the companies for example those who are in the web development field for they're back end dev choose one between many languages available and hire people experienced in writing code in this language , The question is there any chance for some one who don't have a good experience in this language but a shallow idea about it and about several other programming languages to get hired by these company or startups .
Question 2 : for my programming skills which is best, stick with one or at least two programming languages ( two because i'm interested by web dev field and the JavaScript will be there what ever the back end technologies ) and get deep understanding to it or stay switching from one to anther until i have my degree and let the company I'll work with take this choice for me .
Thanks in advance for your feedback
I have a question related to this post,
What should I do if I uploaded my manuscript on arxiv and plan to pass it on a peer reviewed journal? I am worried after reading the answers in the link.
I'm an international student and I'm studying computer science. As you now, it is really hard to get full financial support for masters in the U.S. but it would be really easier for PhD. Assuming my preference is definitely studying masters and considering my need for full financial support, is it a logical and practical decision with the hope of changing it to a masters in near future?
P.S: Please be realistic and avoid giving a "no answer" just because it is not a regular action.
Can hypothesis for doctoral dissertation be formulated as "to demonstrate that approach X can be used effeciently/successfully to model Y"?
I was asked to review a paper which was submitted to a conference. The author of the paper was one of my former professors* and of course I declined to review the submission due to conflict interest.
I was wondering however, would it be unethical to write an email to my professor give him a feedback on the paper and perhaps, provide him some kind of unofficial review?
Of course it would not change the fate of the paper but if the paper gets accepted, they can use my pseudo-review when doing their final editing. I was not sure if this is ethical and/or according to the etiquette of academia.
Edit: Perhaps I should clarify what do I mean by feedback. What I had in my mind wasn't a complete review but rather some suggestions. Something in the lines of:
Very interesting stuff bla bla... however, I think it would be better if you had written sec. IV in this fashion and you add data-field foo to figure bar.
*I have a good relationship with professor but we never had any projects or publications together.
This is a question I am asking to get help from the community here, it's not a technical question rather than seeking an advice from experts in the domain who are already studying for their higher education .
It's been few years for me now getting into the development world, I began with C#, but all my knowledge about it is just simple stuff, like define a class, handling button event to insert data into table, get data from table display it in grid. All my work is related to SharePoint so I don't have to deal so much with C#.
Now I started with my higher education, but I found out that I still need to learn other skills as well as they would be good for me for my professional career, now I feel I am not that good developer, and my work in SharePoint requires GREAT understanding of JavaScript, C#, MVC, SharePoint itself, and Windows Azure.
I am currently working in a company and studying @ the same time, I don't know if I can become a guru in all the technologies I have previously mentioned, should I study a book about each? Should I watch videos? Should I quit from the company and stay for few months learning all these technologies as I find working in my current company is just a waste of time as most of the stuff am doing are like "donkey work". How do you manage to learn new things and be super @ them? I haven't known any friend who's good with these ones, so I don't have someone to advice me on how to study, how to become too good in a short time, how should I plan for it? Each time I say: OK I'll study this JavaScript book for 2 months. Then this CSS book for 1 month, then go to bootstrap. then C# then MVC, at the end SharePoint, but my plans don't work. How do people manage their time to study new stuff while they are into their work and studies?
I have completed Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering (B.Tech, CSE),I have two years experience of working. One year as font programmer and the other year as E-Learning developer(Preferable). I want to pursuing master degree(M.Tech) related to the E-Learning development. I hope you could help me which the best field to pursing Master of technology in E-Learning, the last technology good to do research ? Thanks in advanced..
My question is about academic career of a professor who would want to write a recommendation letter for someone. Some professors in my university have better academic career than others, for example they would have graduated from better/more well-known/higher ranked universities around the world, better resume/CV, higher GPA in MSc. and PhD, etc.
Question: Does a stronger professor's letter of recommendation raise someone chance for his/her application to be accepted?
Some basic contexts:
when do I add anacknowledgement to a (philosophy of science) article?. even though the acknowledgement does not specify my name it does say something about where the work was done. do I add the acknowledgement only when the article is accepted?
I am a course TA and I instruct a class of about 20 undergrads. I'm planning to make a public blog about education. I think there could be some potential problems with this. For example, if the students in my class find it, and read "a student is struggling with Y topic", or "I think this student is having problems".
Potentially risky content:
Are there any potential problems I would encounter, given the material I am blogging about?
Possible solutions:
Do I require any of these solutions?
I am 18 years old (high school undergraduate) but I have had my first scientific paper published by the age of 16 to a regular (non-undergraduate) journal. However, I am preparing some papers for publication related to Computer Vision, Computational Geometry and Scientific Software and, through a scholastic search at the Internet I found that there are some undergraduate journals that are often more flexible to what is being published since they contain undergraduate articles, as well as in the reviewing process.
So, generically speaking, are undergraduate journals a good choice for publications even for someone that has already published some of his work to regular journals? I know that it heavily depends on the content and the significance of the contributions being discussed in the paper but do undergraduate journals trigger the interest from other researchers to cite work and get informed from them?
I have completed a Masters coursework no thesis, no research. After a few years I have the bug and I would like to do a thesis/research masters. I want to continue studying, it is feasible?
I know this question may be off-topic on academia SE, but really am not sure where to ask. I was admitted to a great PhD program recently, and was also invited to participate in their Open House in March. I was informed that I would be reimbursed for travel expenses. However the email says to book flights as early as possible to "qualify for a more competitive rate". Does this "rate" refer to the ticket price or the rate at which I am reimbursed? I'm afraid to ask the secretary since I don't want to make a bad impression.
I have completed my thesis work. I have to submit my thesis within two months for which I need at least one publication with more than one impact factor. I have already submitted to papers to two journals but they are taking too much of time. Please suggest me any journal of botany or plant molecular biology where I can get my paper published within two months. My work is based on biochemical and proteomic aspects of abiotic stress.
I had submitted research paper to a journal two and half months ago. It was under review for two months and now the status is showing that the paper is with editor from last ten days. If the paper has got reviewed why I am not getting any response from the editor.
I'm a PhD student, in medical physics at a very good collegiate university in the UK. I did a four-year undergraduate masters' (in physics), and I'm just finishing a four year PhD. I'm now at the awkward stage of applying for grants, junior research fellowships and postdoctoral fellowships -- and I'm experiencing an awful lot of rejection letters, often after being shortlisted and interviewed.
My question is this: how much does my undergraduate degree actually matter at this point in my career? I wrote two articles (on computational biology) as an undergraduate that were published in good (impact factor ~5) journals, and by now my publications list has eight items on it (excluding conference proceedings), including a PNAAS article (albeit not first author) and several articles in the main journal in my field. I've won prizes, lectured, and got a teaching qualification. Yet I still keep being rejected for positions that are 'appropriate' for me to apply for.
When I speak to older (successful) colleagues about their experiences, they often drop things like "Of course, coming first in the year at [Cambridge/Oxford] helped me get my Junior Research Fellowship, and even the Tutorial Fellowship later" into conversation, and the vast majority have a very good degree. I didn't do fantastically in my undergrad degree -- I narrowly missed out on a first class degree (69.96%), largely due to one bad exam. I really can't help but think that the reason I'm finding it so hard to get funding is because I didn't come first in my year -- but I'm up against people who presumably have successful publication histories and did.
If there are a large group of equivalent, good, candidates for one position, do funding bodies and interviewing committees look at what's different between everyone? Is the fact that I'm objectively a second-class physicist holding me back? If so, what can I do about it? Or is it the case that these funding bodies do some sort of crazy weighted sum, whereby one-tenth-of-a-nature-paper is equivalent to being first-in-year? How much of a hinderance is it being -- as I was -- in the top 20% of your year, as opposed to the top 10%? Does the importance of your first degree erode over time?
I realise that I should feel pleased to be shortlisted where -- to give an example -- 283 people apply for one position, and I was in the final six. Yet 'feeling pleased' won't pay the rent next year, and I'm really starting to despair. Should I accept that this limitation is always going to hold me back in my chosen career path, and therefore just go and change it?
Aside: I'm also concerned that, being an interdisciplinary person -- an MRI physicist -- I'm going to come across as being "too medical" for a physics position, and "too physical" for a post in a biochemistry department. In practice, my research ranges from Schrödinger equations to talking to cardiologists, and I believe that either location would be appropriate. This, however, is a whole other kettle of fish!
I am a junior physics major who transferred in from a community college. I am faced with a strange problem. No matter how hard I work I cannot get good grades on my exams. Even more strange is that I did extremely well at my community college but cannot find the same success in the UC system. I have had my professors tell me I am the hardest working student in the class, but I do not see how it helps because my test scores are bad. I study the material extensively and absolutely love physics. I feel like I know the material but always seem to draw blanks when it comes time to take an exam. I really want to do well and get into a good graduate school, but at this rate I won't. I am not sure what to do. Any advice would be appreciated.
My mental health is declining and as a result I haven't been a good TA. For example I let my students out of section early because I was too tired to present some of the material, and I did not understand some of my section notes because another TA prepared them, and I didn't read them in advance.
I also have trouble helping students during office hours, and often ask students to repeat themselves, and I don't do adequate preparation (by reading the solution sets in advance). I often don't know how to answer questions and I ask the students to collaborate with each other and solicit help from people who have already solved the problem. I wasn't the best TA to begin with, but now that I'm depressed, I am basically useless, and embarrassingly so.
I feel pretty bad about this and I am also terrified that my students will complain to the professor, who is friends with my advisor. What should I do? I haven't told the professor or anyone about my diagnosis (of bipolar disorder). And I am afraid to talk to the people at the school counseling center, because they might force me to take time off (this happened to me in college), and I can't really do that in grad school without irreparably burning bridges.
I am the editor of a student-edited journal at a graduate school. We extended a publication offer to an author that has published with the journal in the past, and with whom I do not wish to burn any bridges. The normal process of an offer goes like this: (1) extend the offer, (2) author either accepts or rejects, (3) send copyright agreement, (4) author signs and returns copyright agreement, (5) we edit and publish the article.
The author accepted the offer within the time frame (step 2), but we have not progressed beyond that. I have to withdraw/rescind the offer because we have maxed out our page numbers for this year. I tried telling the author that I would be happy to work with the incoming editor in chief to see if they want to make him an offer to publish next year, but he insists that because he accepted the offer we are now obligated to publish it next year. I reminded him that we have not sent him a copyright agreement or entered into a publication contract, and even if we did so the journal reserves the right to terminate the agreement at its sole discretion. He essentially said that his acceptance of the publication offer formed the publication contract and now we have to publish him or else (said he turned down other offers, etc.).
I feel terrible about the situation (we've tried our best to never put authors in this position, and have never had to rescind/withdraw an offer before). Since I've only experienced this from the editor's point of view, I'm wondering what published authors have to say about the situation? Is it your understanding that once you accept an offer you've formed a contract with the publication, and they are obliged to print it? Have you ever had an offer withdrawn, and did it burn all bridges with that institution/publication?
I'm currently an undergrad, and work as a researcher in an EECS lab. Recently, I discovered a novel application to work on, and so for the last few weeks I've been staying at the lab late almost every day, leaving at midnight or later. Since I live in a dorm on the opposite end of campus, I usually don't get to sleep until around 2-3 AM. In the morning I need to be up and in class by 8-9 AM (depending on the day), in a building that happens to be right next to the lab.
Would it be acceptable to set up a foldable cot at night (leave it under my desk during the day) and sleep at the lab occasionally? I'm usually the last person at the lab at night. If it cultural context matters, I work at a research university in California (US).
EDIT
The lab is mostly composed of graduate students and professors, so they usually maintain a regular 9-5/5:30 schedule at the lab (minus office hours and lectures). As one of a small handful of undergrads, I'm usually there between 4 (when class ends) and well after everyone else leaves. In some cases, graduate students will sleep in the graduate student lounge just outside the lab proper (still part of the lab IIRC).
I am a second year PhD student. I am still in the process of finding a research topic. I have a couple research ideas at early stages with two different professors.
I will be in another country for two weeks, for personal reasons. I want to meet with several professors when I am there. First, I believe it is a good opportunity to network. Second, there are a couple professors with very interesting research areas and I can see myself working on one of these areas.
Since I do not have a concrete research area, is it still a good idea to meet with them? How can I make sure that they will not feel like I wasted their time?
By chance, one of my supervisors in which I worked on a project under shares the same last name as I do. If I ask him to write me a recommendation letter, will the admission committee misconstrue that we are related and how do I provide proof that we are not? By the way, I am Chinese, so there is perhaps more overlap in last names.
I would like to work in administration at university and I was wondering if there is any specific course/qualification that will increase my possibilities of doing so.
I am currently living in the UK so I would also be interested in any specific information for this area.
I am a graduate student and one of my research projects requires me to crawl a website using their public API. This is going alright but the amount of data we can collect is limited, since it is a public API.
As it happens, I will be doing an internship at the company that owns that website, and will soon have access to an unlimited supply of their data. Is it okay if I use that data for my academic research project, or will they expect me to only use their data for projects relating to my internship?
I am a young researcher already having published several papers, and in the same time I have participated several times in bids for national and European (FP7) projects. So I could say I have some experience in proposal-writing.
I am now preparing my cv to apply for a lecturer position in UK. The question is: should I highlight this experience in my cv (i.e. provide more details about the bids in which I participated, my role, the outcome etc), or hiring committees are mostly focused on publications? How important is fund attraction at a lecturer level? I am asking because I see that this kind of experience is often mentioned in the desired (not the essential) qualifications of the applicant.
An other point of view over the same issue is this: If I have the chance to avoid being involved in proposal-writing efforts, should I? That is, of course, in order to continue with my research (i.e. focus on papers).
Moreover, how can one's claims be verified? How do you prove that you are not over-selling yourself (e.g. claiming that you participated in 10 proposal efforts, 8 of which being successful)? Isn't this part of your cv a part that is less verifiable?
I am a PhD candidate in literature, finishing my degree in August. Due to a combination of factors, I did not line anything (academic) up for the coming academic year. However, I will be spending that year on the job market. I had planned to simply teach a couple of courses if possible, and to work on getting some publications out, and attending conferences where possible. This would make me a bit of a drifter for one academic year, and I am wondering how that would reflect upon my qualifications while applying and (hopefully) interviewing for academic jobs. Essentially, I want to stay active in my research, but I won't have the banner of a university name under my own...
The reason I'm crowdsourcing this is because I'm getting conflicting information. One of my committee members tells me that it's better to have the PhD in hand while applying, so I should finish up ASAP. He also assures me that a PhD still looks "fresh" up to two years after completion, so I shouldn't have a problem. Another member, however (who is perhaps more familiar with the current job market climate) has informed me that a gap year will ruin all chances of employment, and that any period of wandering institutionless - no post-doc, no fellowship, no teaching - would be fatal. He suggests that I hold off graduation, so that I have no in-between time.
Do any of you out there have any thoughts? Or similar experiences?
Thanks for any responses you have.
(Please excuse my ignorance if this is an obvious question, but my Googling skills don't seem to be up to par today.)
I was just wondering if there is a branch of sociology that deals with health and wellness - like nutrition and exercise - when looking at a community or nation as a whole. If there is, would this be something that one could study in graduate school? (I'm interested in how lifestyles affect societies, not really the biology and chemistry part of health. I mean, I realize that I'd probably have to learn about those things, but they're not what I want my main focus to be.)
I have a student who was blatantly cheating in class. I saw that he had the answers pulled up on his phone. I asked to see it and he let me without too much hassle - i.e. he didn't attempt to close everything on his phone or turn it off.
I told him to never use his cell phone again in class and to never let me catch him cheating again. I could have reported him for academic dishonestly and he very well could have been in some serious trouble (i.e. a failing grade in the class).
However, I did not pursue further action against him. I don't know exactly what the best course of action would have been. I chose my course of action because of the following reasons.
What is your policy on students who cheat in similar circumstances?
I am preparing a paper and want to include some images from historical maps. There are several online examples and I want to snip a fragment (no more than 10% of the total image area), maybe clean it up a little, and use it in my paper. The fact that I'm only using a small part of the image and it's undergoing some transformative process seem like very reasonable grounds for claiming this is covered by 'fair use' but IANAL. However, suitable journals where I'd send my paper (of course) want all image rights/copyrights cleared in advance with my submission.
The online digital images almost invariably come from vendor sites who would like to sell me a print of the map for £££ and they are not going to give permission, even for non-commercial use. Although I could buy copies of the prints and scan them myself I'd prefer any more cost-effective suggestions.
This is different from How to use copyrighted images in an article? (they wanted to use the whole images) and Academic fair use and using publication images in your thesis (the images had already been published in books/papers and there was a publisher to approach)
Suppose a person spends their PhD at an institute with a high ratio of PhD students to other students, resulting in a very low teaching load for PhD students, resulting in no or almost no teaching/tutoring. Suppose he/she spends years in postdocs, where each postdoc is funded by supervisor grants, and involves no teaching. She/he does great science but does not acquire other skills or experience.
Consider that tenure-track positions always require stellar experience in research, teaching and getting proposals funded — all of the above.
Is it harmful to an academic career if research is great, but all done on other people's grants and with no teaching experience to speak of? If yes, how could one prevent or overcome this?
Just a curious question: Do professors get paid for supervising PhD students / honours student's projects?
If so, typically how much?
Hope this is not out of topic.
One of my Iranian friends wants to apply for a PhD program in computer science to a US university. He can't speak fluently even in our native language at all, but in the other side he has a relatively strong background:
Question: is there any chance for his application to be approved and for him to get funded?
Note that my question is a little general. I'm not considering a particular university. What I am looking for is how much is it possible for a PhD student to not participate in presentations, lectures, team works, typically all works in which he should speak.
In the other hand, I've listed below what he can do perfectly.
Suppose that someone wants to publish his idea and his first successful experiments in a venue and then perform some extra experiments (for a more powerful proof) and publish it in another venue.
Maybe someone prefers the first idea and submit the first paper to an A+ conference and the second one to a journal. Also, maybe someone prefers the 2nd idea because two (1st or 2nd quarter) journal papers are, normally, more creditable than one conference-paper and one journal. Also, maybe someone would choose the 3rd and wait until his future experiments finish and combine them to be published in one 1st quarter journal paper. (Please tell me if anyone prefers the 4th). About the funny 5th choice, you can read some points, below.
I write, here, some points about negative and positive points of the ideas
However,
Our teacher always send us text with a million words,so I find it boring to stay focused and suddenly I start to lose control you know study is never easy especially if it was hard.
I mean if we explain it in a perspective way the comprehension will be better
I need your help and opinions about my experience. This year is the final year of my bachelor studies, so I have to finish my bachelor's thesis.
I wanted to start with it as soon as possible, so I contacted my supervisor last year in May already. He appeared very enthusiastic about it and he offered me a little different topic than I've chosen from the list. His one was much more challenging, uncommon and interesting. I got basically my own little research about efficiency of computer parallel systems etc. It's mainly concerned with the software project which is being developed at our university.
I've worked really hard the whole last summer(during holidays), I got a job in industry and I've practically completed approximately 2/3 of my thesis practical part. All this time I was trying to contact him and consult my results. But he simply wasn't answering my e-mails, phone calls etc. After 3 months I went to his office personally (still during holidays) and I said him I want to consult my thesis. He briefly looked at my program running, refused to look at the code and told me, that it's ok, but not what he wants. Than he gave me a list of some technologies I was supposed to use. They were some scientific software libraries and benchmarks. I've spend several months trying to understand them (lack of thorough documentation and people who use it is a real problem). I contacted my supervisor several times, but then he said me, that he does not have any experience with these technologies, that he just wanted them to be used in my thesis.
After several months of struggling I've contacted leader of one of our research projects and he recommended me to contact one of the researchers, who is specialized in one of technologies recommended to me. He is very busy, but during 3 months we've consulted my thesis several times and so I finished the first half of it.
The second half is the actual problem now, but the problem is, it's related to the software project which is being developed in our university, more specifically, it's being developed by the team where my supervisor is involved. This part unfortunately contains developing some very sophisticated algorithms which I'm not capable of (it's not the point of my thesis to develop algorithms and I don't have any experience with parallel algorithms of this level) and my supervisor is not able to help me. I'm trying to contact him two times a week, but usually he is just talking around and around nothing is solved, or he changes his mind and wants me to rewrite something we've agreed on one week before.
During this last year I've tried almost everything. I'm contacting people around the world who seem to have any experience with this. One day, when I was really desperate, I've tried to complain about his attitude officially, but I was told not to do so, that it would probably just make the situation much worse.
So now, I'm stuck with one algorithm, I'm working literally day and night and I'm proceeding, but, due to my inexperience in this field, terribly slow.
Do you have similar experience or some advice I could use? I've put sports, friends and almost everything else down to complete this thesis, but now I don't know really what should I do next.
Refworks.com can output a bibliography, based on an output style list, which includes several hundred different output style choices. Refworks Output Style List
However, the list does specifically include "Springer". Springer Bibliography Requirements
Which is a similar Refworks output style choice/item, which is similar to the Springer requirements?
Is there a way for me to be notified automatically when a ACM or IEEE conference proceedings is published? I was unable to find such option in either of their websites. How else do researchers (professors, students, industry folks) who are interested in a particular conference, know that the Proceedings for a particular conference have been published?
TIA, Jake Clawson
PS - I am aware of Google Scholar Alerts but I wanted to know when the entire proceedings have been published as compared to following an author or a specific paper.
I would like to include a set of numbers, which are composed of by multiple sequences, for example:
{1,2,3,4,5, at steps of 1 ... till 100, 200, 500, then 1000, 2000, at steps of 1000 .... till 10000}
Is there a proper way to represent this? I tried looking up some scheduling papers in OR/IEEE journals but have yet to find papers that include such notation explicitly.
When I worked in industry, I had unchecked access to a huge stationary cupboard. As did hundreds of other employees.
Full of useful things like:
and the list goes on. We got some more exciting stuff as it was Agile company.
A friend of mine working for the tax office had similar access to stationary, though without the extra Agile arts and crafts supplies. She did get all the pocket calculators she ever want though. I'm sure some companies even treat USB drives as disposable.
Point being in industry, the disposable tools you need to do your job were provided to you.
What I have found recently working as a research assistant is that nothing disposable is provided. There is not stationary cupboard to raid. When I need paper to throw together some math, I often end up using the back of a journal article I printed to read.
I can understand not supplying undergraduates, there are so many it is impossible to keep track of them. But there are much few staff/postgrads
It is not so much a issue of cost, it is tax deductible (for staff at least), and the pay (for staff) is generally high enough to dwarf these expenses, but of practicality. The same cost vs payrate, and tax deductions are true in industry, but big (and small) companies judge the productivity gain of noone spending 20 minutes going down to the store to buy a pen worth the costs (I guess),.
It is common that PhD students have teaching duties as TA. In this case, the person ultimately for the course (the instructor on record) is a faculty member. I should note that I am talking only about enrolled PhD students at the same university as where the undergraduate course is taught.
In some places, it seems that PhD students can serve as the instructor on record, but at many other places they are not.
What are the reasons why PhD students are not permitted to be instructors of record at some universities in the USA and Europe?
I'm EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, the biggest UK funding source in the sciences and engineering) funded. Several months into my PhD an industrial sponsor came along. In exchange for additional funds they wanted me and the other PhD students in our group to spend some time during the PhD at their sites and work on industrial problems. This is know as a CASE award. I'm not sure what the university signed, but I have not signed anything. It was a verbal agreement with my supervisor.
I'm now in my 3rd year and writing up. The industrial sponsor has decided to renew their agreement with the university and just issued me with a contract (it states the university and industrial sponsor have agreed upon additional clauses as of early 2015). The clauses/contract that I've been asked to sign states that I will give the industrial sponsor all my intellectual property (to which I currently own) generated over the course of the last 3 years. It also states that the industrial sponsors will review all publications and stop me publishing anything they think will give them a competitive edge (Note I'm not and have never used any of their data, resources or industrial knowledge/work/ideas etc. this is my own work) - I'm just about to publish the remainder of my PhD and then submit my thesis in the coming months. I was in good position to finish early and focus fully on moving to the industrial site for the remainder of my PhD and work on the projects the industrial sponsors wanted me to look at. Clearly for any projects done while there, the IP would belong to the industrial sponsors - however they want everything, including the stuff I did before they even got involved!
Additionally signing the contract means that they can make my thesis closed - i.e. future employers are not allowed to see it. This could damaged my future prospects as I was also looking at work outside of academia and they will no doubt want to know what I've been up to. This was never part of any agreement and I would have never taken on a PhD with these terms. Academia is all about the publishing and the free flow of ideas - this all makes me a very cheap slave!
Legally, where do I stand? I understand that as an employee issued with new contract I would have to either sign or wall away, unless it goes against the heart of the contract. But I'm a student and I'm in the last few months of my PhD, if I walk I get no qualification.
I've been told that they can't make me sign it - but wont go into detail as to whether it will affect my PhD or not? Again I'm EPSRC funded the industrial sponsor's have paid me extra around 10% of the EPSRC stipend in exchange for me spending several unpaid months at their site working on projects of their choice. I've been told by my supervisor that its in my best interest to stop resisting and ultimately sign the contract. Can they do this three years in? Has anyone been through anything like this? Anyone have any advice?
I am a graduate student in US with F-1 visa. I have an internship offer from a company in France. Is it possible/feasible for me to accept this offer, or are there any rules preventing me from doing so?
Added:
I am an Indian National with F-1 visa. The internship will be for 6 months (2 terms). I am allowed to do 3 or 6 months internship in US with CPT, but I cannot find any such information regarding internship out of US.
or to other research organizations for example government labs?
I am currently a post doc at large and would like to co-write a proposal (probably NSF) with a Professor at a nearby University. With the funding, I'd be getting a salary and doing the majority of the work and the lead PI (the prof) would work partial time and time in the summer.
My school life revolves around math, science and technology. I'm a programmer in my free time and can't get enough of computers. At the high school I'll be going to next year, though, technology classes are limited. Taking the IB route would limit the amount of technology classes I would be able to take, but is it worth it? What are the advantages of taking IB classes vs AP classes? Is either looked at with a greater value in college applications?
I know that using an origin other than 0 for numeric data is considered misleading. But for plots in academic publications, is it ever a good idea to break an axis so that patterns and outliers can be more easily seen? Or would you always try to find an alternative (e.g., using a logarithmic scale, faceting, using multiple plots with different scales)? I'm looking for a general rule of thumb.
I work in business and mainly deal with quant finance and statistics + do a lot of programming to implement ideas from quant finance and statistics. I have a master of science in economics.
My problem is: whenever I am trying to dig deeper (by reading articles from scientific journals) to understand some theoretical foundations of a certain idea from statistics and quant finance (ranging from pricing of exotic options to kriging based methods) to modify and customize this idea for my situation, I discover that my knowledge of math is not enough to penetrate deeper in a subject.
Is it a sign that I need to get a PhD in quant finance/ statistics/ math or it would be an overkill and I better go for a less time consuming (bloody) option (if there is any)?
So I'm feeling a bit guilty. I've been working on a publication proof (my first) of an interesting theorem. The issue is I've been using StackExchange (Mathematics) to answer some similar questions when I get stuck on much smaller parts of the proof.
So the question here is, is it generally ethical to put just my name on a paper, even if I may not have come up with the lemma's using only my ideas, or is there a good way to I should reference StackExchange in a publication?
On one hand, most of the stuff I received answers for was for a learning purpose, similar to that of me asking a professor or teacher, not so much as a co-author. And although relevant to the publication, the answers I received could be very common in other proofs as well and were not directly related the lemmas themselves.
On the other hand, it was not necessarily my ideas that first assisted the lemma, but those of others through SE.
Take for example a question I asked earlier today. I wanted to see an alternate proof to an equation, so that I could use it as a new method of proving a lemma related, it as the original proof (Euler's Thereom) could not be generalized with such a method Proving $a^{(p-1)p^{k-1}} \equiv 1 \pmod {p^k}$ without Euler's Theorem. The proof I was looking for was simply done using the Binomial Theorem. Therefore the idea of using the Binomial Theorem in my proof will assist me in my own similar generalization. But even though I was just given the tool, the work will be done myself.
I have been accepted to a Ph.D. program in St. Louis, MO and will be visiting the school in late March. I will be reimbursed for flight tickets. The scheduled Open House runs from Thursday to Saturday, and I have been told to book my flights with arrival on Thursday and departure on Saturday. The flight ticket per those specifications is at least $510, while if I arrive on Thursday and depart on Sunday, it would be $50 less. Since I will be committing 5 years of my life to studying there, I would like to know that I like the place, in addition to liking the Department (which I do). So is it okay to ask the secretary if I can book my departure on Sunday and save them $50 (lodging that extra night will be on me)?
I have encountered a new promising concept that does emerge from a combination of previous studies and can be observed in the wild but is not yet recognized as a separate object of research by any prior studies. I'm starting to write a thesis about it but now I'm stuck because I can't find any research method that would suit my needs. Is there any?
Pure literature review is not an option because they compare and analyze pre-existing writings without creating new theories or findings, if I have understood correctly.
Exploratory research is out of the question because I already know, if roughly, what I'm going to study. Of course I could explore the combinations of the mentioned previous studies to "suprisingly" find the new concept among many others but it feels not the right way to go.
Empirical studies seem not to be an option because a conceptual framework of the new concept is needed to justify a research question, data and results. In another words, it feels cumbersome to collect qualitative or quantitative data about something that is not yet defined.
Empirical studies with a working hypothesis of a conceptual framework could be a way to go but building the hypothesized conceptual framework together with the empirical work feels much to be stuffed into one thesis.
It feels I'm left with building a working hypothesis of a conceptual framework by reviewing literature, defining the new concept within the hypothesized framework, and then listing promising hypotheses entailed by the new concept and to be explored by further research. This kind of approach feels not to provide any scientific validity until the additional research has been conducted. Any ideas?
I am working in a highly technical field (quantitative finance/ statistical analysis) for a private company with a Master of Science degree in economics.
Does it make sense to get a PhD (in quantitative finance, math, statistics) if I do not want to be in academia and prefer to stay in business.
What I expect from PhD:
Also important:
So should I go for a PhD or rather a specialized Master, or develop myself through separate university courses of my choice and professional programs + self-study?
Any pieces of advice from people used to be in my situation?
I have written a math paper on combinatorics and am looking to get it published. I believe I have discovered something new (although I don't claim it is "important" in the sense of being a breakthrough or anything) and want to get credit for it. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find anyone to endorse me to publish on arxiv, so I'm trying to get it published in another (less popular) repository that doesn't need endorsement.
Any suggestions? Things I have looked at so far:
academia.edu - apparently this isn't safe enough for protecting your work.
hal archives ouvertes - I tried searching about this one but there's no information regarding how trustworthy it is, etc.
github - this seems to be for computer science.
vixra - looked promising at first considering the "everything gets accepted" rule, but then the downside is that people have started viewing it as an arxiv for crackpots, so it doesn't seem like a good idea to publish there, but this being my first paper I'm not so sure.
I would love to hear your thoughts on this and any advice you can give.
Note: I'm not prepared to send my paper to any journals so that is out of the question at the moment.
Thanks!
I have been curious about why so many journals only accept EPS for vector graphs rather than PDF.
It is indeed weird because these journals have to convert EPS figures to PDF anyway. Adobe also suggests to use PDF instead of EPS.
For me, EPS is much hard to view and process than PDF. Does EPS makes a journal editor's life easier? Why?
Based on this question I've been racking my brain trying to find a color scheme for journal publications that is color blind friendly and that I actually like. I've tried color brewer and other sites, and they all seem to give color schemes that are just one pastel collection after another.
I tend to only make simple x-y plots with perhaps 3-5 data series (no major data crunching here). "Old" me would have loaded up a more traditional scheme with black/red/blue/green. "New" me wants something better, but all I can find are color schemes that look so pastel. In my field, traditional is the norm, so I don't want to be too outlandish.
The best I can come up with is using a more traditional color scheme, but with different line types (dashed, solid, etc) and data points (circles, squares, etc.) to distinguish data. Can't recall where I saw this but this is one strategy for making more color blind friendly plots.
Is there a non-pastel or non-wild color scheme I could use?
Based on this question I've been racking my brain trying to find a color scheme for journal publications that is color blind friendly and that I actually like. I've tried color brewer and other sites, and they all seem to give color schemes that are just one pastel collection after another.
I tend to only make simple x-y plots with perhaps 3-5 data series (no major data crunching here). "Old" me would have loaded up a more traditional scheme with black/red/blue/green. "New" me wants something better, but all I can find are color schemes that look so pastel. In my field, traditional is the norm, so I don't want to be too outlandish.
The best I can come up with is using a more traditional color scheme, but with different line types (dashed, solid, etc) and data points (circles, squares, etc.) to distinguish data. Can't recall where I saw this but this is one strategy for making more color blind friendly plots.
Is there a non-pastel or non-wild color scheme I could use?
I'm giving a talk summarizing someone else's paper and I'd like to show some figures from their paper during my presentation. It's an informal talk to fellow students and a few professors at my school. Would it okay to just have a PDF of their paper up on the screen showing the figures needed? Should I obtain permission before I do this?
I was asked to review a paper which was submitted to a conference. The author of the paper was one of my former professors* and of course I declined to review the submission due to conflict interest.
I was wondering however, would it be unethical to write an email to my professor give him a feedback on the paper and perhaps, provide him some kind of unofficial review?
Of course it would not change the faith of the paper but if the paper get accepted, they can use my pseudo-review when doing their final editing. I was not sure if this is ethical and/or according to the etiquette of academia.
*I have a good relationship with professor but we never had any projects or publications together.
I'm familiar with DOIs been allocated to historic time series, to give academics a unique, citable identifier for datasets. Similar to how a DOI is allocated to a specific journal article.
As the International DOI Foundation says:
A DOI name provides a means of persistently identifying a piece of intellectual property on a digital network and associating it with related current data in a structured extensible way.
What's the procedure for DOIs for datasets that continue to grow: for example, a time-series of external temperature data for an airport? Is one DOI allocated to the ever-growing time-series. Is there a DOI for each year's worth of archived data? Something else?
I'm invited to give a seminar talk on a topic of my own choosing during my tenure-track position interview. Am I supposed to make it a "true" seminar talk about one specific topic, or should I also (briefly) discuss other areas I'm working on?
(The other research areas are somewhat remote to the actual topic of the talk, so it's not easy to naturally integrate them.)
I have been reading that a publisher called WIT Press has the following copyright agreement:
It has one part that says:
We will not withhold permission for any reasonable request from you to publish parts of this paper in connection with any other work by you, provided the usual acknowledgements are given regarding copyright notice and reference to the original publication.
What does it really mean? It means that if a paper submitted to that publisher get accepted I cannot put it on my personal webpage, or in the repository of the university that I am?
Thanks
I am collaborating with another person on a paper and I was wondering if we are suppose to write our advisor's name in our papers merely because they funded us and looked over the paper?
I applied to a professional program that I had been striving for in my undergrad, at a top school, but I've since felt overwhelmed with how to pay for it and incurring so much debt. I think I should wait a year so get into a better place finically. I;ve become so anxious, thinking I've ruined my opportunity with this school if I don't go.
I am considering withdrawing my application, but I'm very worried about how it might hurt me in the future when I reapply. Or I may wait but need to decline if I am accepted, and reapply the following year. I feel like both will hurt my chances in the future. How will admissions consider me the second time?
I refereed a paper after a skim-through and a careful examination of about (1/3) of it after a couple of weeks, and then sent it back due to expository issues, a few gripes about certain things not being correct, about a dozen notes, and suggestions on what needs cleaning so that I could rigorously go through all the arguments to check everything and give a better assessment of the paper. I gave it a gut feeling of about what level of quality the paper seemed to be, relating it to another paper in the close literature. In the report, I said I would be happy to referee the paper more fully after these preliminary edits are made.
Almost a month has gone by and the editor has not acknowledged my emailing of the referee report to him. Do I wait to see if he acknowledges my report or does this get stuck in the ether without me knowing the result of the paper? Do I email him asking if he received my referee report? Was I wrong in sending it back to the authors so quickly to ask for more clarity? Or should I be taking a back seat to this and only responding when prompted and going along my merry way?
This question is related to What is the average salary of assistant professor in New Zealand? and Are salaries for academic jobs in New Zealand negotiable?
Is the relation between no. of years of postdoc experience and/or publications with the appointment/salary level at NZ universities is quantifiable? I am mainly interested in the starting level appointment.
I know this question may be off-topic on academic.stackexchange but really am not sure where to ask. I was admitted to a great Ph.D. program recently, and was also invited to participate in their Open House in March. I was informed that I would be reimbursed for travel expenses. However the email says to book flights as early as possible to "qualify for a more competitive rate". Does this "rate" refer to the ticket price of the rate at which I am reimbursed? I'm afraid to ask the secretary since I don't want to make a bad impression.
Thank you.
I'm having the following problem: There is some interesting paper (in machine learning) which is cited by 180 other papers (according to Google Scholar). From these 180, I want to find the papers that build up heavily on the original paper. I mean, not the ones that just mention the original paper briefly and are not REALLY related to it, but the ones in which the original paper is one of the, let's say three, main references.
Now, obviously I cannot read 180 abstracts/papers now. Any clever and experienced ideas? I'm a PhD student.
Thanks!
I am currently pursuing my MSc in Applied Engineering, concentrating in Mechatronics and conducting research in cloud-based heterogeneous robotics. My current university does not have a PhD program for engineering.
Are there universities that would allow me to remotely enroll in their PhD program and conduct my research using my current university's equipment?
I'm a PhD student, in medical physics at a very good collegiate university in the UK. I did a four-year undergraduate masters' (in physics), and I'm just finishing a four year PhD. I'm now at the awkward stage of applying for grants, junior research fellowships and postdoctoral fellowships -- and I'm experiencing an awful lot of rejection letters, often after being shortlisted and interviewed.
My question is this: how much does my undergraduate degree actually matter at this point in my career? I wrote two articles (on computational biology) as an undergraduate that were published in good (impact factor ~5) journals, and by now my publications list has eight items on it (excluding conference proceedings), including a PNAAS article (albeit not first author) and more than one in the main journal in my field. I've won prizes, and got a teaching qualification. Yet I still keep being rejected for positions that are 'appropriate' for me to apply for.
When I speak to older (successful) colleagues about their experiences, they often drop things like "Of course, coming first in the year at [Cambridge/Oxford] helped me get my Junior Research Fellowship, and even the Tutorial Fellowship later" into conversation, and the vast majority have a high first. I didn't do fantastically in my undergrad degree -- I narrowly missed out on a first class degree, and got a high upper second (69.96%), largely due to one bad exam. I really can't help but think that the reason I'm finding it so hard to get funding is because I didn't come first in my year -- but I'm up against people who presumably have successful publication histories and did.
If there are a large group of equivalent, good, candidates for one position, do funding bodies and interviewing committees look at what's different between everyone? Is the fact that I'm objectively a second-class physicist holding me back? If so, what can I do about it? Or is it the case that these funding bodies do some sort of crazy weighted sum, whereby one-tenth-of-a-nature-paper is equivalent to being first-in-year?
I realise that I should feel pleased to be shortlisted where -- to give an example -- 283 people apply for one position, and I was in the final six. Yet 'feeling pleased' won't pay the rent next year, and I'm really starting to despair. Should I accept that this limitation is always going to hold me back in my chosen career path, and therefore just go and change it?
Aside: I'm also concerned that, being an interdisciplinary person -- an MRI physicist -- I'm going to come across as being "too medical" for a physics position, and "too physical" for a post in a biochemistry department. In practice, my research ranges from Schrödinger equations to talking to cardiologists, and I believe that either location would be appropriate. This, however, is a whole other kettle of fish!
I'm doing a ma in economics which isn't very technical. It's focused on macro and international economics. Once I finish this program I'm going to try to apply to another program for an ma in economics that is more technical with a focus in micro and econometrics. I'd be doing this to broaden my knowledge base in the subject and then teach undergrad for a few years. I could maybe pursue a phd if my employer decided to sponsor me for one. Is this something the second university would allow? How would that be viewed? Would it be suitable if my first degree was a ma in Econ but my second degree was something like an ma in quantitative economics? Perhaps a duel degree in Econ and finance/applied math?
Disclaimer: I asked this question on academia since it is very much so a student/professor relationship despite both him and me being significantly more industry oriented.
About Me: I recently graduated from a degree (4-5 months ago) and am working in industry. I'm 20 years old.
Dilemma: I recently found out from a friend of mine that my lecturer at EIT and my supervisor/mentor throughout my degree was planning to develop a new paper. I sent him an email telling him how the paper sounds like it would be very useful because as a graduate I found X, Y, Z to be very critical in industry. I also mentioned my new job in the email and some other stuff about the paper.
Anyway he replied saying
Good to hear from you. Great that Unison has offered you a job that appreciates your skills; at least, that's what I understand.
blaablaaPaperRelatedStuff
I hope you like your current job, and that you keep challenging yourself. We should stay in touch. Cheers,
So my problem is, what does "staying in touch" mean? How do I properly stay in touch with him?
Other Questions:
The first answer to this question had the best answer I could find, however It did not help me.
The easiest way is to keep working on projects with them. If that ship has sailed, then the next best way is to be friends with them on social media, which is to say, be friends with them in real life. Barring that, you have to work to communicate with them on a regular basis about topics relevant to your shared interests: go to conferences and strike up conversations with them, share interesting papers with them via email (i.e., "Did you see this new paper from prof X? What'd you think?"), propose joint projects and write joint grant proposals, etc. It's not hard, but it does take active work
Another Related Question: How does one maintain academic contacts?
Can anyone offer advice on finding good history and archaeology PhD programs in Europe? If so, can you compare it to the experience in the U.S., and is there anything you feel is extremely important in terms of acceptance and securing funding?
I'm currently an undergrad, and work as a researcher in an EECS lab. Recently, I discovered a novel application to work on, and so for the last few weeks I've been staying at the lab late almost every day, leaving at midnight or later. Since I live in a dorm on the opposite end of campus, I usually don't get to sleep until around 2-3 AM. In the morning I need to be up and in class by 8-9 AM (depending on the day), in a building that happens to be right next to the lab.
Would it be acceptable to set up a foldable cot at night (leave it under my desk during the day) and sleep at the lab occasionally? I'm usually the last person at the lab at night. If it cultural context matters, I work at a research university in California (US).
I'm completing a master's in history (one year in), and am beginning to look at possible PhD programs. I have noted in a lot of forums that it looks really good if you have one (or several) publications to your name.
How does one even begin this process? Also, with coursework and the thesis writing process having just begun, how do graduate students find time to write and attempt to publish original work in addition to the aforementioned obligations?
By chance, one of my supervisors in which I worked on a project under shares the same last name as I do. If I ask him to write me a recommendation letter, will the admission committee misconstrue that we are related and how do I provide proof that we are not? By the way, I am Chinese, so there is perhaps more overlap in last names.
A few months back I contacted a potential advisor I an interested in doing my PhD with and he replied that he is considering my application and will be back in contact with me.
Today, I received another email from him basically saying:
Dear [My Correct Name],
Are you still interested in doing PhD with me? If so, I will interview you.
I wrote back that I am still interested and gave him my contact information.
He replied:
Dear [Completely wrong name/ probably another applicant],
Thanks. I will come back to you later.
Should I send an email correcting him or just forget it ??
I am a graduate student and one of my research projects requires me to crawl a website using their public API. This is going alright but the amount of data we can collect is limited, since it is a public API.
As it happens, I will be doing an internship at the company that owns that website, and will soon have access to an unlimited supply of their data. Is it okay if I use that data for my academic research project, or will they expect me to only use their data for projects relating to my internship?
Where can I find statistics for jobs to applicant ratios for engineering professorships or assistant professorships?
The reason I'm asking this is I'm thinking this might be the best metric to determine whether become a professor in an engineering field is "easier" (greater probability of being hired) than a humanities related field.
Can anyone advise on how to tailor a CV for travel grant applications?
I've seen a number of computer science conferences and workshops where the application for travel grants consists of simply sending your CV.
Is there anything that one can do specifically for this type of application?
When applying for a masters degree and something does not add up or does not seem logical in the reference letter or application, would the admission tutor contact you or your tutor for an explanation or for more information?
I have been feeling miserable about my PhD situation for a bit of time, and just started therapy. So far I've tried not to take drastic decisions such as quitting, because I know I am strongly influenced by my condition, but lately I can't think anything else.
I wonder if it is possible to convert my contract in a research assistance, or what is a graceful way out so to continue deserving recommendation, or what is an adequate resign notice period etc., but I know it would much better to finish the PhD, and so continue trying.
Is talking about quitting possibilities with your supervisor a point of no return?
This a famous case 28 years ago where the defense committee approved the dissertation and recommended granting the degree. The department council and the college council both approved granting the Doctoral degree to the candidate. However, the university council did not approve awarding the degree and did not give reasons to the lower councils.
What are the norms in north American universities? Under what circumstances can the university council withhold (or deny granting the Doctoral degree) Ph.D. degree to a candidate?
I 'm at the start of my second semester of college and I don't have any real practical experience with programming, but I have to take a class on OOP that is usually taught to juniors.
My OOP class teacher recommended "C++: How to program" 4th ed. by Deitel & Deitel as a textbook, which is a book with many horrible things written about it on the internet.
He also cited a couple generic manuals: "C++ primer plus" by S. Prata and "Absolute C++" that have cold reviews if any; plus a book on general theory: "Concepts of programming languages".
As an ultimate reference he suggested "The C++ programming language" which should be a very solid title, but seems to be more aimed towards experienced programmers.
I read the list at The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List and I'm really tempted to just pick up a title from it, maybe "C++ Primer" or "Accelerated C++".
Does anyone have any sensible advice about this kind of situation? Should I try to study from books that are recognized as faulted by all other sources but my teacher?
In my reference my tutor has put down that he recommends me with reservation. Is that a good thing? What does "recommend with reservation" mean?
I would like to know what are the main differences between the introductory part of a paper and of a thesis.
Some of the differences are:
-Longer in thesis.
-Deeper in thesis. Extended definition of key terms, concepts and methodology in thesis.
-Clear definition of the whole goal in thesis
To narrow the possible answers, I do research on the molecular aspects of the infection steps of a pathogenic swine bacteria. Also develop strategies to block infection by using vaccines.
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I have had more then one undergraduate student who I have very strongly suspected of routine plagiarism that I cannot prove. There is a certain style of writing that is just inexplicable except as an effort to avoid plagiarism detection.
I will give an example from a case I was actually able to prove. The student wrote:
Free enterprise prejudice is changing in the current period as another U.S. racial conviction framework at a moment that African Americans are a vigorously urbanized, broadly scattered, and occupationally heterogeneous group; when state arrangement is formally race nonpartisan and focused on anti discrimination endeavors; and when most white Americans lean toward a more volitional and social, rather than innate and organic, translation of blacks' burdened status.
This was clearly an attempt to plagiarize from one of the readings in the course:
Laissez Faire Racism is crystallizing in the current period as a new American racial belief system at a point when African Americans are a heavily urbanized, nationally dispersed and occupationally heterogeneous population; when state policy is formally race-neutral and committed to anti-discrimination; and when most white Americans prefer a more volitional and cultural, as opposed to inherent and biological, interpretation of blacks' disadvantaged status.
This kind of plagiarism is totally missed by SafeAssign, the detection tool that I have access to. When I am able to prove cases like this, it's only with much effort. Of course, I can just give students F for writing incoherently, but I would like to have these students removed from the course. I can only do it if I can prove the plagiarism.
Can anyone recommend any strategies for dealing with this?
In the last assignment I've given my students, one of the questions has two subquestions that go as follows.
A number of students have submitted something along these lines.
What is the proper grade for this students? The three possibilities that I have in mind are:
I'm inclined towards the second option (full credit only for Answer 2). Would this be appropriate?
I'm looking for a phrase that describes a condition where one and only one person is doing the researh, from proposal to paper report. The phrase "solo investigator" comes to my mind, but I don't think it is a formal term yet.
To attack this quantum physics problem, John is appointed as the team leader in a research group in Cambridge. Bob is one of the team members.
Their friend Adam is a solo investigator (?) attacking similar problem in Boston.
The conference paper is limited to 3 pages. On the website it says Transaction IEEE offers a special feature edition (whatever it means?). So I think it would be good to submit the full manuscript to this special issue. But that means I'm submitting two papers with the same title to a journal and a conference proceedings. Is that ethical? How should I deal with this
I'm currently creating a poster (size A0) in PowerPoint 2013 and want it to be in the best quality possible. I used vector images where possible, but for some images I had to use raster graphics.
Now my problem is, that power point samples them down quite a lot and I see no way of preventing this. I just drag and drop the image on my poster, rescale it appropriately and then export the file as PDF. Ideally I would like the picture to be embedded in the original (full) resolution in the pdf, but if there is no way of doing it, I would also be ok with having it resampled with a sufficient high (say 300) dpi rate. How can I achieve that?
For my Computer Science Master Thesis Research I need some large pre-processed datasets.
I know the names of researchers who have those sets (or at least can point me to the source).
My question is: do you have tips on how to approach those researchers to increase the chance of success to share data? What to do absolutely not?
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I am planning to do PhD while continuing my full time job. I saw your response for on how you did the same. I would like to speak with you when you have 5 to 10 mins free time. Could you pls suggest how can i reach you?
Is it legal to include other persons result in a research paper?
For instance, is it legal to write:
Theorem (Name of the author): Statement Proof. The proof of this appeared in [1].
Thanks a lot. I am new to this site and hope you can help me.
Suppose I have a paper rejected from a top tier journal. The anonymous reviews highlight a number of strengths of my paper, but ultimately judge that the paper does not merit publication in that lofty journal. When I resubmit to a lower-tier journal from a different publisher--presumably after addressing some or all of the reviewer's substantive concerns--can I include the entire original reviews as part of my submission? How about including excerpts from these reviews in a cover letter?
On one hand these reviews might be seen as the property of the journal that rejected my manuscript and as part of a closed correspondence. On the other, in my role as an editor I do think everyone would be better off if we were more open about where we'd submitted and what feedback we'd received. That is useful information for an editor trying to assess the merits of a paper and decide whether to desk reject or to proceed with a full review.
I'm interested both in formal policies (I don't see any for the journals I frequent) and in general thoughts about the ethics of doing so.
