texts: LNAI conference accepting papers as accompanying proceedings

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I have submitted an article in a conference which publishes its proceedings in LNAI/LNCS series. However, in the conference website we can see the following text :

  Proceedings with accepted papers are expected to be published in the LNAI/LNCS series (Springer-Verlag), and distributed at the conference.
  Besides, papers, that according to the evaluation of the referees, are not suitable for the LNAI but that have some merits will be published in accompanying proceedings and scheduled in the conference program.

This statement is confusing to me, especially the second part, which specifies that papers that have some merits will be published in accompanying proceedings and scheduled in the conference program.

Today, as i'm writing this, my paper was accepted for publication at the downloadable (with ISBN) proceedings, and due to corona virus, the conference is cancelled.

My question here, is my publication have the same value as regularly accepted paper.

Thank you


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Suppose I have a paper #1 which was accepted by a Very Respectable Journal, and has been assigned a DOI, but has yet to be actually published (i.e. it's in the queue, and the DOI is not "activated", so it doesn't work for now).

Suppose, at this point, that I write another paper #2 in which I cite paper #1, saying that it is accepted by Ver. Resp. J. In this case, should I or should I not provide the DOI?

The possible downside of this is that someone may try to use the DOI before it goes live and be confused. On the other hand, if someone reads the version of paper #2 later on, the DOI may be more helpful than mere mention of the paper being accepted at Ver. Resp. J.


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What if this happens:

Say I contacted a researcher R in my field about particular question I had.  They answered the question in a private email to me.  Their sketch of the argument was about 5 sentences long, and it can be turned into a rigorous proof.  I really like the result.  However, R has been unresponsive for 2 months and has not replied to any of my subsequent emails where I make various offers and seek their advice.

Would it be unethical to include their argument as a small part of a publication I'm preparing, assuming I give credit to R?  What constitutes proper credit in this case?  A sentence in the introduction when I first mention the result?  A sentence preceding the proof?  In Acknowledgements?


texts: what would be the level of novelty of an undergraduate thesis?

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I would like to know what would be the level of novelty that one advisor should ask for an undergraduate student in Computer Science whom is aimed to make an Honours or Bachelor thesis?

For what I have discussed with some colleagues, it would be enough that from the chosen topic the student would feel comfortable for knowing the technique and the experimental methods that he would use. Instead to present something really original that would be in the field of a Master or PhD thesis.

What would be a set of guidelines regarding this issue?

Thanks


texts: Would going to Teacher's College be useful, if my ultimate goal is to become a university math professor?

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I am close to entering the fifth year of a five-year Concurrent Education program. What the program involves is four years spent working on a bachelor’s degree, while “on the side” taking education courses and doing placements contributing to a bachelor of education and teaching certificate. The final year of the program is regular Teacher’s College, which is a combination of education/curriculum courses and, in total, about 14 weeks of placement.

I’ve thought about dropping the education part of the program a few times since it started, but stuck with it because it left teaching open as an option, while only requiring one education course and a 3-week placement each year (which is good experience anyway). About 2 years ago, I started considering going to grad school for math, but by the end of last summer, still wasn’t 100% sure, so I didn’t write the GREs. This year I took a graduate-level algebra course, and about halfway through, realized that grad school for math is definitely something I want to pursue.

As the deadlines for applying to grad schools had passed / were soon approaching, my plan then became to finish the program and get my teaching degree, and apply for math graduate programs this December/January for entrance in Fall 2017. Spending the next year in Teacher’s College, I’ve been thinking, might actually be a good thing, as a way to set me apart on applications for grad school and for jobs in the future, as well as a way to develop good teaching and other related skills. On top of that, it would leave teaching as a back-up just in case.

I would sincerely appreciate hearing the opinions of those who are in or who have been through graduate school in math. Do you think it will it be worth it, in terms of a future as a mathematician (ideally as a math professor), to finish the teaching program? I fear that the final year of this program will be painful for me, as it will require a lot of placements, which I already mostly dread. Alternatively, if I didn’t do Teacher’s College, I could spend the next year taking more graduate courses at my university, learn more math independently, focus on the GREs and honing my applications, and try to see if any professors at my university are willing to supervise me in some research experience before entering grad school for math.

In case it’s relevant, I come from a smallish university in Canada, which is probably not very well-known in the US, and I am graduating top of my class in math.

I’m sorry if this question is not general enough.


texts: I'm experiencing a practice at my university where the overall number of students who would pass the exam is adjusted based on how many students passed the first exam, so the retake exam contains questions which are beyond the lectures if previously the percentage of students who passed the exam is very high. Another question is that in first exam questions are repated from the previous years. The student might be absent in the first exam due to the illness, etc, so I consider it as discriminative practice and I need some ethics based formulations, codes, laws etc. that will help me to prove this discrimination. Thanks.


texts: Publishing Unpublished undergraduate research after a decade

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I want to see whether I can publish my undergraduate work after a decade.
Context:
This is to support my academic career as I am planning to apply for a PhD program (Biophysics/Chemistry/Structural biology) in the US soon. I do have an MA from a highly ranked Public Ivy (mastered out from PhD due to health issues). I am targetting a few very competitive programs.
The last two years of my career are a bit productive. I got two coauthor papers this year (Angewandte Chemie, Analytical Chemistry). Most probably get two others (Science, Angewandte Chemie). Around 15 conference abstracts published (citable). But on papers, my name is in the middle as I am just a research tech (except conference abstracts where I am the first and presenting author for most).
Thus, I am not satisfied as I don't have any first-author papers. Then I realized that I can publish my undergraduate work.
In my undergraduate research, I synthesized a novel hydroxamic acid hexadentate ligand and then carried out a speciation study of its iron (ІІІ) complexes using UV-Vis spectroscopy. Only one type of ligand-iron (ІІІ) complexes was revealed in spectroscopic studies. Then I was supposed to verify my results by using MD simulation. I have not completed this part. However, I can complete this now.
I did this work a decade ago and only submitted my thesis to fulfill a degree requirement. However, I believed no one synthesized the compound after that.
I am interested to know how to go and determine

work is publishable in quality

If it is good enough, how should I proceed to finish up the work and publish it?

Also, whether I can file a patent for this compound (I can find some useful application for the compound)

Another objective for doing this is to learn the process of publishing a first author paper and process of filing a patent rather than going after any commercial interest.
I got my undergraduate degree in Sri Lanka, and my PI never bothered to publish the work or file for a patent as he does not have an active research group. Moreover, most professors in Sri Lanka are only interested in teaching.
I appreciate any advice on this matter.

Update #01
Thank you @buffy
My priority is to get a first author paper out before the 2021 application session starts ( At least submit it). The patent is secondary, but I would like to get it to strengthen my green card application.
The department I work for now helps with patent filing, and they have dedicated staff for that matter.
My biggest issue right now is to find someone that can assess the quality of the work. My current PI is busy and often delay answering to my questions related to current work. So I do not have high hope there.
Also, I am mostly doing biophysics/physical chemistry/analytical chemistry/Biochemistry related work now. Thus regarding this particular work, I am not sure how to judge the quality or which journal to target.
Would it be appropriate to email a few professors that do similar work for guidance?
Update 02
Thank you @kosmos
I have contacted my supervisor and previous collaborators. I am waiting for their response. I will see where people published similar work and go from there. I am not interested in paying someone to proofread; instead, I would like to get an idea about the quality of the work. My current research is on the modulation of G-Protein–Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) by soft membrane matter. Thus, I have minimal exposure to physical organic chemistry to answer that question myself.


texts: best practices for organizing digital and physical articles

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As a thirsty graduate student, I've amassed a burgeoning collection of research articles in both paper and digital formats. Right now I manage pdfs and references with Zotero, but I'm still searching for an organization logic for paper documents that allows rapid access and prevents redundant printing and storage. Some have suggested organizing by topic, while another approach is to sort by author name. Topical organization has not worked well for me in the past because my research is highly interdisciplinary, confounding my categorization efforts. For a coupled digital-physical organization system I'm considering the following:

Digital documents and references stored and tagged in Zotero
Indicator in Zotero whether or not I've printed in the file
Physical documents stored in manila file folders labelled alphabetically

What is the most effective way that you've found to maintain both paper and digital document repositories?


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I recently submitted a paper to the international journal of adaptive control and signal processing Wiley. The statute of the paper is:

STATUTE:

ADM: Not Assigned

Under Review

Can someone tell me what exactly this means?


texts: Would it be possible to publish a journal paper about data-visualization website?

texts: I am graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. I want to know whether is that possible to publish a paper about my final-year project? The final-year project was about a website which contains data visualization of one company’s data. This works had done by help of my supervisor during my bachelor time. Does anyone know about it?


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I was discussing the possibility of entering a PhD program from a professor who I had during my masters degree.

We discussed the level of commitment he expected and he stated he expects PhD students to be committed to PhD completion above all else, regardless of subject interest or circumstances on the part of the student. Basically he wanted someone who would 100% be his yes-man.

While I made clear I had a strong interest in the subject(and my prior performance in these areas is reasonably good) I couldn't say without actually entering the program what the result would be. Communicating anything else felt dishonest, basically I had a strong belief but I couldn't make a promise.

Is this position standard for PhD advisors? Basically, is it reasonable to assume someone will be 100% committed to something without experience working on the problem?


texts: Does anyone fund research in mathematical finance?

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The question is pretty much the title.  If you are an academic, is it possible to get anyone to pay you to do research in mathematical finance?

You can interpret the question broadly, to include mathematics or computational science that is used in finance, as long as this research has some real connection to finance as practiced today.


texts: What is the correct way to write a follow-up email in case the first one ended up in spam folder?

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It's been several weeks that I sent an email regarding to an open call for a position.
The position is advertised in a personal webpage with the message "[...] suitable candidates feel free to contact me," as opposed to the "job vacancies" page which the faculty has. There is no mentioned deadline.
I have mistakenly used my commercial email address instead of my academic email address.
I know that some people filter the incoming emails with respect to the domain name to reduce the number of spams in the primary inbox folder. I am afraid that this is the case.
So, I am considering to send a follow-up (duplicate) email to make sure that the email reached to the person. However, I am not sure how to word the email as I blindly assume that the person uses such filter.
Please note that I am perfectly fine with the idea of my assumption being wrong and the person choosing to ignore my email since I am not a good enough candidate. My concern is that I am a considerable candidate but I might have lost my chance because of some technical issue.
The best outline I have come up with is to write "(please ignore if duplicate)" in the subject, and blame my email provider in the first sentence, and then copy/paste the rest of the mail.
What is the least annoying way to recieve a potential duplicate email?


texts: Share prize money from conference presentation award with co-authors?

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I am a PhD student and I recently won a young scientist award and prize money (~500 USD) at a conference for the "best presentation". I did the majority of the work for the presentation, and I was the only one present at the conference.
However, my co-authors (8 people) all wrote their share for the conference proceedings (that's what makes them co-authors). The co-authors are in various stages of their career, from professors to fellow PhD students.

Should I share my prize money with the co-authors? If yes, with all of them in equal amounts? Or only with those who would be eligible for a young scientist award themselves?
Would it change the situation if I won the award for something else, say "best paper"?


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Basically, I am trying to find out the technical term for the participant in qualitative research, when the person giving the information is not the person experiencing the phenomena talked about first hand. So for example, I might ask a lawyer to talk about psychological impacts of the asylum seeking process, instead of asking people that have gone through the asylum seeking process themselves. This is done for reasons due to ethical concerns and also because the secondary source might be useful due to their vast amount of accumulated knowledge.

I know that the term exists, but I cannot find it anywhere.


texts: Timezone of "AoE" for a conference submission deadline?

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I noticed this submission deadline for a conference listed as

  January 12th 2017, 23:59, AoE

(that's not the real date, just an example). An explanation says "Anywhere on Earth". Does that mean the deadline is at the first point in time there's someplace on Earth which hits 23:59, or the last point? In other words, does Hawaii get discriminated against or for? :-)


texts: Different behaviour with wildcards on PubMed using quotation marks or not

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In my understanding of wildcards I would assume that this search string (in title & abstract fields) would give a result of 0.

telerobot*[tiab] NOT *robot*[tiab]

But it doesn't. The result is 49. For me this means that there are 49 publications which won't be found when just searching for *robot*[tiab].

Does this make sense for someone?


texts: What do we know about working times of great living scientists?

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I am looking for two kinds of data about the great scientists of today,

Their average daily routine of work. Like how many hours and when?
Their average length of time of being able to think continuously.

I vaguely remember seeing a post by Terence Tao about this - like he mentioned that it takes him some x-minutes to focus on a question when he begins working. Though I don't remember if he mentioned any specific length of time for which he can concentrate at a stretch. [..sadly I can't find that post...]

I am more looking for examples among mathematicians and theoretical physicists though other theory fields might also look more or less the same.


texts: What are your criteria for evaluating potential PhD students?

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A more complete description of the question
As the question suggests, I'm wondering if anyone could share the criteria as well as maybe heuristics or questions they use for deciding whether to take on a doctoral candidate. What really matters? What markers do you look for to tell you whether a person could be successful and a good investment of your time?
Background
I'm a full-time Prof in a University-based Business School in the UK. Our PhD programme attracts a) lots of people in general; and b) lots of "post-experience" candidates (i.e., mid- to senior managers in their 30s and 40s). Although there is a structured way to inquire about PhD opportunities, the faculty are also flooded with random applications e-mailed to them directly from various candidates around the world. As usual with the PhD as a degree, very few people understand what this is all about and what they would be letting themselves in for. We have had a number of stellar graduates, but a lot of people struggle and suffer unnecessarily. The problem is, it's very difficult to estimate in advance which category a particular applicant belongs to (except the obvious cases, of course). So I'm wondering if anyone can share what they do to try and estimate a person's chances for success in a PhD programme - criteria, process, or anything else.


texts: Is it common to cite information from a think tank into one's literature review?

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As I was researching information on topic X, I found a paper published by a Think Tank. Interesting enough, said paper supports the policy pushed by the Think Tank. So far, all sources used in my paper are from researchers at a University, and I was wondering if I should include the paper in my lit review.

My question is whether I should include the paper or just ignore it, seeing as how the publisher holds a strong bias (possible conflict of interest). With that said, I'm also curious whether it's normal to cite research put out from a Think Tank.


texts: How to ethically approach publishing research with conflict of interest?

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I have an opportunity to participate in a contest with a nontrivial monetary prize, which can be summarized as "Describe in details a secure way to do X using technology Y and provide an explanation of why you think it is secure." The contest does not require a grant of any exclusive rights for the work, hence I am free to use my work elsewhere too, e.g. to publish it. Clearly earning money from the contest and getting a publication sounds nice, but can it be done in an ethically sound way?
The tricky thing is that it is debated in the literature whether doing X using technology Y is a good or a terrible idea from the security point of view. While I intend to do my best to present a balanced point of view including the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed solution, I recognize the obvious conflict of interest, and, hence, that despite my attempts to be unbiased when I rewrite the paper for a journal, it is unlikely that it will become completely unbiased. In general I want to avoid doing anything that might be considered unethical with respect to reviewers or readers of the paper.
What is the best ethical way to handle the situation?

FYI: this is not duplicate to:

Can I Publish Research if I work for the company?, which addresses issues specific to the interaction with the employer on the right to publish (not an issue here), and issues specific to ethical control required for studies on human subjects (not an issue here since this is IT).
Clear explanation of Conflict of Interest with examples in journal articles asks for the explanation of what CoI means and examples of it in papers, and receives "Potential conflicts of interest" paragraphs in the acknowledgments section of the papers in response. While I recognize the need to include such paragraph in case of the publication, it seems to me that such paragraph may not be the only thing I would need to consider.


texts: Do publishers care if a book manuscript was freely posted online before submission to the publisher?

texts: Do publishers care if a book manuscript was freely posted online (e.g., made open-access with a CC license) before submission to the publisher?


texts: Back door route to top research schools?

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Is there a way to gain admission to these institutions by getting paid experience prior to applying?

I have a friend who graduated from a top 150ish school in the US and did moderately well (biochemistry, 3.8 GPA). He had some research experience on hand during his undergraduate career, but didn't have publications. He had about 2 year's worth of research, and maybe ~5 poster presentations at conferences. He did a summer internship at a medical research institution where he now works as a research assistant (after he graduated). After catching up with him and talking, he admitted to me he could not get PhD admissions to top tier universities with rudimentary statistics straight out of underad. He spent about 2 years working at said medical research institution, got I believe 4 papers under his belt, took his GRE, did moderately well but not amazing, and applied.

Now he's been receiving admission into institutions such as MIT, Stanford, etc. Institutions by his own admission that he could not get into with a snowball's chance in hell before he started working/publishing. I was curious, what was the catalyst? Did paid experience prove he was worthy of the skills and not cheap undergraduate level (aka solidify he was "the real deal")? Was it the papers? Was it him now riding the prestige of his employer and not his undergrad? Was it him being 24/25 and a little more mature/realistic in interviews as opposed to the bulk of his 21 year old competition? Was it showing graduate schools that his 2 years of succeeding at his institution meant he's more likely to succeed into graduate school life? This whole idea got me curious if it's possible to massively increase one's chances at admissions to higher tier or even above average graduate schools in the sciences if one is patient and willing to wait enough to gain experience once they're done with their undergraduate career. Academics of SE, could I have your input?


texts: Would it be OK to in-text cite a paper without mentioning the name and year explicitly in APA?

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For example, would this be allowed in APA:

Ohme, Reykowska, Wiener, and Choromanska (2009) showed...; in the next year, the same group of researchers conducted an experiment which also focused on ... to show...

Or do I have to add (Ohme, Reykowska, Wiener, & Choromanska, 2010) at the end of this sentence?


texts: How to response to the editor for a minor suggestion given by the reviewer via a formal letter?

texts: I submitted a paper and after about five months the editor sent an email: "I have decided that your manuscript can be accepted for publication after you have carried out the corrections as suggested by the reviewer(s)." The reviewer strongly recommends publishing the paper and besides of the nedded corrections of the paper given by him/her, he/she gave a minor suggestion:  "The authors may wish to consider posting some related questions to increase the interest to the readers." How to response to this suggestion and how to write a formal letter to the editor if we have no further ideas to add?  Does this lead to rejecting the manuscript? Thank you very much.


texts: Should I finish all work that I started before PhD graduation?

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I have enough work done for my PhD dissertation, but I also have one on-going project which I don't plan to include it in my dissertation. My advisor suggests that I have to finish all the work before I graduate. Is it so?

My advisor doesn't currently have funding and I am not being paid now. He also wants me to share my codes with him and other students, should I do so?    I don't quite want to share my work because 1) I was not be paid; 2) I wrote the codes totally on own and didn't receive any technical helps from my advisor (my advisor is a good story-teller, but he barely knows anything concerning technologies). Am I thinking correctly?


texts: What strategy to follow for getting a funded PhD position?

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I am having problems after ending my master´s in Computer Science. The main problem is that I had to return to my country because I had to take care of my parents. In any case, I managed to get a number of publications in the field, only 4.

I have been trying to get a funded PhD position in some European and United States universities, but with no luck at all. By the way, my master´s degree was completed in Europe (in Sweden to be specific).

I have the feeling that I will not get any paid position, and I cannot afford to pay the whole 4 years of career by myself; also I think that because I am not near any of those research groups from those universities my situation gets further complicated.

What should I do? Should I sent my CV to the persons in charge of some more research groups, even though they do not have open positions? should I ask that they give me a task so I can prove that I am worthy for their research?


texts: Video editing software for pre-recorded lectures

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I am planning to record lectures. My lectures will be slides or notepad with voice-over.

I am interested in a simple to use video editing software. The major things I need to do is

Cutting out a few seconds
Freezing the video for a few seconds
Speeding up or slowing down certain parts
perhaps do a completely different voice-over

The software should be as portable as possible though I am using Linux for the most part.


texts: How to cite ebooks that have no pagination in intext cittion in MLA7?

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I'm writing my dissertation and the novel I'm working on is an ebook.

I tried looking for the paperback, but the English version is not available in my country. I tried checking on the web but all versions I found are epub or pdfs without page number.

My problem is about the intext citation. I checked citation guides and all I could find is that I can use only the paragraph or the chapter number. I think it will be weird to analyse several emphasized text quotes from the novel without mentioning their exact location.

So I was wondering whether I can use the page number mentioned in the adobe reader?


texts: Is there any reason not to crowdsource a subset of exam questions?

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We're considering incentivising students to submit questions for the final exam in a large grad class (> 200 students) as we feel like the process of designing a problem and a grading rubric encourages students to study the material to more depth.

Is this commonly done? What are the pros/cons in the literature, or that you can think of with implementing an exam where a few questions are generated by the class? What precautions should we be taking? What should we incentivise?


texts: I submitted the revised version of my paper to a journal. after two weeks the paper status changed from under review to reviews completed. and still remains in this state about 10 days. What do you think is the decision on my paper? Reject or accept?


texts: Grading: students give correct answers, but in the wrong places

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In the last assignment I've given my students, one of the questions has two subquestions that go as follows.

Explain how Theory X, as developed in Smith (2010) accounts for dataset A.
Briefly summarize the additional data that, according to Smith (2010), fall under the scope of Theory X.

A number of students have submitted something along these lines.

Something that is technically correct, but doesn't actually answer Question 1.
Something that is technically correct and answers both Question 2 and Question 1.

What is the proper grade for this students? The three possibilities that I have in mind are:

Full credit: they have provided correct answers to both questions, even though the answer to Question 1 is embedded within the answer to Question 2.
Full credit only for Answer 2, no credit for Answer 1: they not only have to provide the correct answers, they also have to provide them in the right place.
Half credit for Answer 2, no credit for Answer 1: half credit because the Answer 2 contains more information than I asked for.

I'm inclined towards the second option (full credit only for Answer 2). Would this be appropriate?

Update: in response to some of the answers below, the problem is not that my questions are unclear, as a majority of the students have managed to answer them properly.


texts: Is there academic research that supports individual over group work for better learning?

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I'm in an undegraduate program in the US where group work is a major focus in most classes. Faculty often cite the important benefits of knowing how to collaborate in teams, claiming how educational research findings strongly support collaborative learning.

I'm also a TA in a course in the department, and in our learning course, we had sections in which we strongly focused on the pitfalls of group work and how to improve the learning process (e.g. strategies to divide work, how to moderate conflict, with people who don't pull their weight, etc.). We were assigned a few papers on research about collaborative work (some even written by faculty in the department).

In all these papers, there always seem to be a behavioral assumption that makes the situation utopic. For instance, among the good strategies in papers were things such as: "Divide work early into task groups" or "Create a time estimate for the semester for every task." This is good advice, but not all students follow or care about these strategies. Otherwise, everybody would be getting As, no? Thus, despite my qualms about how the research was conducted, it seems that theoretically group work would be ideal, but in practice it is more often than not negative.

Is there any research that has found that group work has more often been negative in academic settings? Or, perhaps, given the constraints (i.e. group is assigned, members don't know each other) or types of behavior (i.e. member who doesn't care about grade as long it's above C, member who just drops class) that exist in university classrooms, is positive group work unrealistic?

Additional related questions:

If there exists research that supports individual learning. Why is group work still insisted on? From the point of view of the professor, wouldn't it be preferable to assign a project (and if individual/group work is not a concern), let students organically generate their groups if they desire to do so, or work individually if they are willing to undertake the task alone?
If there isn't research that supports individual learning. What are some of the most important papers which have established group work as the desired learning strategy? Are there any popular experiments in the field of education related to this topic (e.g. famous/popular such as Zimbardo's experiments in Psychology)?


texts: How to deal with unwanted physical contact, presents and attention by a postdoc supervisor?

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Posting this to academia stackexchange, but if this may fit better in other place please let me know.
My girlfriend is a new PhD student in a male dominated field, and is supervised by a postdoc in a research group led by a professor. For the last few months, her postdoc supervisor was constantly giving her small presents, and trying to meet with her outside of work hours such as in a restaurant on weekends, for a reason of discussing the current work. This makes my girlfriend uncomfortable, but she is too shy to say no to those things, and the behavior of the postdoc supervisor up to this point was borderline, I even accompanied her for one such meeting on a weekend. Yesterday however her postdoc supervisor surprised her where he took off her glasses from her head without her asking or warning her (because her glasses were a bit dirty); My girlfriend was startled, and pulled the glasses from his hands, and put them back on. At this point he further unannounced tried to touch and fix her hair, as she put her glasses in a rush which messed her hair. The overall situation stressed my girlfriend considerably, and she ended up in tears in the evening when she was telling me this. There have been some other similar situations (albeit with no / less physical contact) which makes my girlfriend distracted and nervous when she communicates with her supervisor, which impacts her ability to do her work.
My view on this is that we should let her supervisor know clearly that this behavior is not acceptable asap and escalate to the professor, in order to prevent such situations from happening again. The issue right now however is that her scientific work is depending on her supervisor, so she does not want to escalate or bring up this situation for discussion until the paper deadline that she works on. I am inclined to go and talk with the professor and postdoc myself, but I also do not want to do anything that my girlfriend did not ask for. Do you have any advice for me of what I can do to help? Do you have any suggestions or comment in general what to do in this situation?
Edit 1: As pointed in the answers / comments, I will not attempt any talking with prof or with postdoc on my own or other similar actions.
Edit 2: Unfortunately some 1:1 situations cannot be avoided, as my gf needs to take measurements together with her postdoc who knows how to operate the machinery.


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I've been wondering this for quite some time and decided to ask finally. What really is the role of math in computer science on higher levels like master's and PhD? Currently I am working on my BSc and hopefully get it done next summer. I have done like 5 math courses(linear algebra etc) + 5 statistics courses. I also did calculus in high school(integrals, derivatives etc) as I took the longer version of math which typically increases your chances to attend STEM programs here(EU country). Some of my professors have spoken how important they think math is in computer science, but is it really unless you go to some very specific fields like theoretic computer science? Because I haven't found it that useful outside of a few specific courses.

I am not sure whether I would like to pursue a PhD in the future but I've been leaning more towards it lately. Security research has gotten my interest and I've done some reverse engineering + vulnerability analysis and working on a small JIT assembler. Sadly not many undergrad courses teach these things so I've worked on them largely by myself. I haven't had any use for university level math on that, maybe I've just scratched the surface?

In some ways I feel bad for not taking more math courses and it's something that keeps annoying me but it's very hard to try to convince myself that some proofs about integrals are going to be useful in my future work/research. It would be nice if someone could elaborate what kind of role math plays in higher level of computer science studies. I have never honestly liked math that much but instead seen it as a something that you just need to know. What are some really useful math courses one should take?


texts: What is the correct abbreviation for National Certificate in Financial Planning? NatCertFP or maybe NatCertFinPlan?


texts: What is the proposed penalty for students that paid an essaywriting service to complete their papers for them?

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I had noticed a sudden change in the quality of the essays submitted two of my students. When I confronted them, they were quite frank and admitted that due to lack of time, they had assigned their papers to be written by an outside source, an essaywriting service (a booming business that must be).

What is the proposed penalty?

If I take this on an administrative level, they face a pause of educational activities for 6 months to 1 year. But since this is the first incident, I do want them to learn their lesson, but at the same time taking into account that they were honest with me, not being punished too hard.

What do you propose? Is there something I can do to keep this from an administrative level and at the same time punish them?


texts: Is it "inappropriate" to write in a manuscript "this problem is unsolved, though arguably progress has been made" and then reference your own work?

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Is it considered inappropriate to write in a manuscript "this problem remains unsolved, though arguably progress has been made" and then reference your own work?

Because you would be saying that your own work is the only progress being made on a subject... Is not it too arrogant?

The phrase is already written with another bibliographical reference. My question is just about whether I should replace and older reference with my own new work, which I of course think advances towards a solution.


texts: Evaluating red flags in potential advisors' scientific production and impact, past students, research interests and personality

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In the next few weeks I'll need to pick an advisor for my master's thesis (in a certain subfield of mathematics). I've narrowed down the choice to two (full) professors.

Prof. H I've known Prof H  for two years, took two courses with him, and got the top grade in both of them. He is a very good, peaceful, and punctual person; and he is clear and precise in explanations. He has much academic experience (being over 60 years old) and has supervised many students (at undergraduate, masters, and doctoral level). However, I've noticed that his former PhD students (10, currently still assistant professors) are not  much productive (and mostly publish with him, working on his research program). I've a marked interest in a certain sub-subfield, but he works in a different (smaller and, in my opinion, less interesting) sub-subfield; he is quite productive and in the last 30 years he has covered an impressive (and well-organized) research program (in which I could easily find a thesis topic) and he has grown to be a household name in his area of specialization; but his research, although very solid and original, has not been exactly groundbreaking and his latest works (which are all of high quality and quite innovative) have not been very impactful (in terms of  citations yet).
Prof. K  Regardless of the choice of the advisor, I will take one course taught by Prof K. However, I don't known him personally yet and therefore I'm not familiar with his “style” (although I've been told that he is generally a good person). He also has many years of experience (being slightly under 60 years old) but has supervised fewer undergraduate and master's students (some of whom changed areas of research for their higher studies), no PhD students, and several Post-docs. He works exactly in the sub-subfield I'm most interested in and has produced many solid papers over the last 30 years; comparatively, I'd say that his work is less innovative and much less systematic than Prof H's but maybe broader; in fact, while Prof. H has expanded, organized, and generalized in an original way a couple of (small) research areas (also highlighting connections with other areas), Prof. K has mostly applied a vast sophisticate toolbox to solve several interesting problems and created only few novel "tools" slightly adapting the existing ones (although I must note that Prof. K's area is essentially much more “scattered”). Prof. K does not seem to be quite an household name, but has given substantial contributions, is quite active in the community (and his former advisor was the expert of the area).

Working with either of them has some pro's; however, there are some alarming red flags about both of them. I have a hunch that working with Prof. H may be smoother and simpler; however, Prof K research interests are much more appealing to me (and aligned to what I'd like to do during my PhD – for which I'll apply to another institution anyway).

  Assuming that both of them would accept me as a student, to which red
  flags should I pay most attention? What  factors (also other than the ones I've talked about) should I take into
  account the most when making the decision?


texts: My PhD research interest is very aligned with my advisor. However, my concern is that if I want to stay in the academia, will my advisor become my competitor in the future?


texts: How to keep track of attendance and student-submitted excuses for absences?

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I will be teaching an introductory class, in which attendance is important, with approximately 60 students in 3 sections.  I'd like to have a system that:

Enables me to quickly mark whether a student is present.
Allows students to see their own attendance record but not other students'.
Lets students provide information about their absences.

For small classes, students email me (or I email them) for information about absences, but it would be overwhelming with this many students.

A single Google spreadsheet would be great for data entry, and students could use comments to annotate their absences, but it wouldn't protect students' privacy.

Any suggestions (besides not tracking attendance)?  My school provides Google Apps and Blackboard, although I'm willing to use other solutions.

UPDATE: I know a hack that would work in Blackboard would be to create a fake assignment for each day (attending class) and enter attendance information (0 or 1) there.  This is not ideal because (1) entering data into Blackboard is slower than putting it into a spreadsheet, (2) it would bloat the grade listings seen by the students, and (3) I don't think students could add a comment to the "grade" (the excuse).

There is a similar question, but it does not address how to incorporate excuses/explanations, which, to me, is the tricky part.


texts: Do academic journals ever recommend software writing tools for scientific writing that suggest better paragraph construction?

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I'm helping a professor with some edits to a paper under review. Comments include advice that a better writing style be used and awkward wording be fixed. The professor is comfortable and expressive in English as a second language but indeed the sentence construction and phrasing is awkward and unsmooth and it sometimes takes a while to see how sequential points connect. I'm not a particularly good writer myself and it reminds me of my first attempts at scientific writing as an undergraduate before I had any experience writing. In this case though, this is likely going to be their fully-developed style.
They are readily amenable to grammar and word order fixes much but less so to paragraph rewrites; "no, that's now how I want to say it" or "...what I want to say."
I sense that further suggested rewrites on my part might not be the way to go, but "objective" advice on writing might still be welcome.
Short of a professional technical writing service, are there dispassionate tools (e.g. websites or programs) that tackle paragraph-scale technical writing construction, and do academic journals every recommend any of these or similar? What other solutions might exist for this situation?


texts: As a double major if you do reasonably well in only the second major will it affect your chances of getting into a good grad school?

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I started out as an economics major after being pushed into it by my family. However, I never had much of an interest in this subject. I was going through a very rough time in the first two years and I never excelled much in economics and I did not care about what was happening to me. However, a math professor who is my current thesis supervisor encouraged me to look into the math department and that's when I thought about finally majoring in a subject I actually cared about and doing something for myself. Thus, I ended up double majoring in mathematics and I started finally feeling somewhat invested into my own future. I have done quite well in my second major (mathematics) and I hope to do a master's in either mathematics or statistics in France or Germany.
However, I am worried if I can even get into a good grad school as my grades in economics are not very good.

I have no idea how grad school admissions look into double majors. How will my case be considered if I want to do a master's in mathematics? Will my performance in economics adversely affect my chances of getting into a good grad school?
Is it recommended that I retake some economics courses I haven't done well in? I really don't want to. I would prefer to use that time to study more mathematics and preparing for grad school which is a cumbersome process in itself and retaking would also mean more finances behind a subject I don't care about. But if it comes down to that then I will have to give it a try.


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For convenience, I often want to give a link to a research article in addition to the citation. I am mostly look for the following two properties:

the link should be valid as long as possible
the link should provide as many sources as possible to download the article, ideally free of charge whenever available.

I use Google scholar, e.g.: Godbole, Shantanu, and Sunita Sarawagi. "Discriminative methods for multi-labeled classification." Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. 22-30.

I link to the "all versions" page:

Are there other any good/better alternatives?


texts: I have a muslim sounding name. But I was born to a christian family and I consider myself an atheist. I have been trying to get fellowship in Canada. Will mentioning my religion in the CV help?


texts: How to prevent Google Scholar from merging two different papers?

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I have two papers published at the same IEEE conference (at the same year).

Since they have been indexed in GS, they are being merged every few days. That is, I manually need to "unmerge" them, just for GS to automatically merge them again a few days later.

I'm not sure why this happens. They have completely different names. Perhaps the reason is that IEEE has page numbers of 1-9 for all papers that year (i.e., they didn't actually allocate page numbers but just had 1-9 for all).

How can I make GS stop merging these papers?


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So, when I did my undergrad degrees in computer science (BA) and creative writing (BFA), I spent the whole time thinking "I'm going to be going into industry. I should take business classes." But since I was doing 188+ credits in nine semesters I didn't have a ton of spare time, and I didn't.

Now, after 5+ years of being in the industry (I'm a software engineer), I've had the conclusion that in fact yes, I should have taken business classes.

So that's what I'm doing. Through the local community college, I've got about ten courses to go until I qualify for an associates in business administration. Now, in a few semesters I'll be the somewhat contemptuous owner of an ASBA.

My question is this: with two baccalaureate degrees in unrelated fields and an associates' in business, would I be able to jump right to an MBA program and expect to do well?


texts: What is the difference between bachelor of science in engineering and bachelor of engineering in the US?

texts: There are many different kinds of bachelor degrees. In my country, there seems to be no difference between bachelor of science in engineering and bachelor of engineering. There is only one kind of degree for undergraduate majoring in engineering. I am now applying to graduate program in the US, and I want to know which one I should choose to correctly get my background known by people in the US.


texts: Should I explain a solution to a problem that only existed due to a mistake in the fundamentals in a bachelors thesis?

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The title is pretty broad, so let me narrow it down a bit:

As part of my bachelors thesis I had a practical part that was about developing a software. Due to a mistake in planning of my architecture, I was stuck with a problem that required a specific algorithm to solve. If I planned that architecture better, or spent the time actually revising the code (would have taken too much time at that point), I wouldn't have that issue. Is this still something I should put in as one of the few "interesting" algorithms I encountered on the paper? Should I admit that the algorithm only existed due to the limitation of my architecture?


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This summer I have arranged to do research under the advisement of one of the professors at my university in the field of Computer Science. I am still and undergraduate, looking to go into graduate school (eventually to PhD) and would like to test out if research is for me.

My overall question is "What are the expectations of undergraduate research?" What constitutes a success? I realize that I'm most probably not going to make some insane breakthrough and become famous. The problem that he has said that we are going to be working on is a very important problem, with many applications. Finding an efficient algorithm for this problem would be very huge for the field. Since many people have been working on it over the years, it's obviously not an easy problem, otherwise someone would have solved it already.

What should I expect? If (when) I don't find this "magical" algorithm what kind of things could I pull out of this to make it a "successful" research endeavor?


texts: Extending a result submitted to a conference before acceptance/rejection notification

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I recently submitted a paper to a conference whose notification of acceptance/rejection is due to 3 months from now. However I realize that I can extend my results in such a way that it gets much more general and such that the results of the previous paper follows as a special case. The generalization however is non-trivial, in the sense that I will need much more advanced and esoteric techniques, and somewhat more 20 pages to write it properly. It also fits in the scope of a conference whose deadline is in 2 months.  Here are my options.

1) Put the first paper at arxiv. Write the second paper citing it and showing where things get different. Submit the second paper. But then the second paper doesn't get self contained enough.

2) Put the first paper at arxiv. Make the second paper self contained by rewriting all results that I need from the first one, but specifying that it is a generalization of the first one. Submit the second paper.

3) Write the second paper and wait for the result of the first conference. If accepted, write the second paper as an independent extension of the first one. If rejected, merge everything into a new piece of work and resubmit to a new conference whose deadline is in 5 months.

Problems:

a) There are two groups working in a very related subject, and I'm afraid putting the first paper in arxiv would lead them to a similar generalization before me. So I wonder If I should wait to put the first paper on arxiv until having finished the second one.

b) If I write the second paper and put it at arxiv before the notification from the conference, could this make the first paper be rejected because the program committee would argue that there is a possible generalization of it? Even though highly non-trivial?

c) If I submit the second paper to a new conference but don't put it on arxiv, would I fall in the case of double submission?

What is the best way to proceed in this case? I believe several researchers might have faced similar situations.


texts: Is it unwise to pick an old field of research in maths to write a PhD thesis about?

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Some areas that come to mind:

theory of partial differential equations (analysis and pdes, not numerical PDE)
number theory
algebra

Should I pick a trendy topic so that it is "easier" to write a thesis?

I've heard from senior PhD students not to try and write a thesis on analysis of PDEs because so much has already been done in this field and so it's very hard to do something new.


texts: Is there an academic counterpart to Grahams hierarchy of disagreement?

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Paul Graham's hierarchy of disagreement (http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html; https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement-en.svg) is a quite well known model for classification of disagreeing responses, from name-calling to explicit refutation of the central argument of the adversary.

Is there any similar model described in an academic publication?


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Good side of my background

I'm 27 years old with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and now I'm about to finish my postdoctoral research.

During my Ph.D. program, I've developed an innovative device that successfully passed a trial operation period and entered into commerce operation. I'm one of the authors of the patent on this device.

Also, I have a number of papers published in scientific journals that are widely known in this field in my country. I have experience in lecturing and supervising students.

Bad side of my background

All of my accomplishments are made in my country's language, not in English. Almost all of the engineering journals in my field are not indexed in Scopus or Web of Science (some of these have translated versions that are indexed).

In short, I'm known in my field in my country only, not world-wide.

Does it make any sense to try to get an academic job (tenure track) with such a background or it's better to build my career "from scratch"  by publishing new research papers in English so that I would get a chance ?
I'm interested in getting a job in Europe or Canada.


texts: I just received a shameful F on 1st Year Writing. How negatively will grad school look at this grade

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So this is the first time I am posting on this website, so I am sorry for any possible breach of etiquette.

I have just finished my first year with a cumulative GPA of 3.55. However, with that I have also received an F on 1st year Writing due to late submission. The excusable reasons were lack of motivation and the pressure from 3 cumulative finals, but the main reason was my procrastination habits. I wonder if grad schools will single out this F as me being a potentially irresponsible person, or will they overlook it if I get good results on most of the other courses. Also, will redoing this course with an A helps the overall outlook of my portfolio much?

I appreciate if anyone can share any anecdotes about accepted grad students with an F or two in their portfolio so that my conscience would stop gnawing on me.


texts: Can I claim authorship on work I wasn't personally involved in, that uses a framework I developed for my research?

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As a postdoc I joined an existing project of a PhD student. I made significant contributions to his code and developed an entire framework X in the code necessary for my research. Developing framework X took at least four months. After I finished the project and was put on a new project, he initiated collaborations with people from other labs using framework X (not including me). Without framework X this research would not have been possible (unless he would have implemented it himself).

Now I noticed that they are writing up an article about their collaboration. So far I have not been contacted as a co-author. My question is: should I claim co-authorship based on the fact that I developed framework X, which formed an important and necessary part of the code to obtain their results.


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What does this question mean in an application for MS:
"Do you have partial funding for your graduate education? "
or
"Do you have full funding for your graduate education? "


texts: Contacting journal editor asking for final decision after all reviews were submitted weeks ago?

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Should I email the editor of a journal to ask for a final decision on an article when I know that all reviewers' comments were submitted weeks ago? The online article submission interface shows me that all reviewers' comments are submitted.

I'm applying for jobs in a few weeks, and I'd like to be able to add an R&R to my CV if possible.

If writing to the editor is appropriate, what can I say?


texts: Should I mention a mistake made by a third person?

texts: A professor asked from me to send one of his books I've had. Because I've had to leave for some days from the country I've arranged with a relative to send the book. However, he ignore it and now the professor sent me an email asking for what happened. In my reply should I mention that the fault is not mine?


texts: Email from editorial assistant from different journal?

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I sent in a Manuscript to a journal apart of the Taylor and Francis group. The manuscript was rejected, but today I received an email from an editorial assistant from another journal associated with the Taylor and Francis group.

The email includes the manuscript number and includes a bit in the email stating that this email is regarding the transfer of your manuscript, with the journal name of the journal that rejected the manuscript initially as well as the title of my manuscript.

I went to the journal from where the editorial assistant emailed me, and the editorial board listing does not include editorial assistants, but the email extension for the editorial office matched hers.

Basically, I have no idea what to think. I have never heard of this happening personally. I don't know what to do, if I should email back, or even if I have anything to worry about. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, Thank you.


texts: How to stay active in research when my faculty job involves mostly teaching and administrative duties?

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I recently completed a PhD in a research university in U.S. and came back to my home country in South America. I have a position as a faculty member in a state college. However, the position focuses on teaching and academic administration duties. Without a lab and funding, it has been very difficult to continue the research or even to continue a reciprocal correspondence with my research collaborators.

I was wondering if I can ask for suggestions about how to continue pursuing my career path as scientist.


texts: What is wrong with the requirement of writing pathways to impact in an EPSRC grant proposal?

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By definition, an academic scientist is supposed to do research and teaching. His main job should be to create knowledge and explore the unknowns, and to teach our kids so that the knowledge and capacity of creating knowledge will be inherited.

In my opinion, it is not his job to do outreach or to think about how to realize the societal impact of his research. That is supposed to be the job of entrepreneurs and politicians!

Asking a researcher to spread his already tight time on such things does no good but harm. Therefore any grant agencies (e.g. the UK EPSRC) should be prevented from asking a researcher to write something like 'pathways to impact' in his grant proposals. This is completely outside his expertise. It only wastes the time and distracts his mind.

How would you think? If you agree, what do you think can be possibly done to change this situation?

P.S. I'm not saying a researcher should not do outreach. I'm saying he should not be forced to do that. It is not his main job. Whether doing outreach or not should not result in any pressure on them concentrating on their main job. I suppose this is expected for any healthy profession.


texts: How should I choose the name of my past degree in application when the options do not not exactly match my degree?

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I am applying for PhD for a certain university (Canadian), and in the form there is a question about the academic background. In the options I see things like Bachelor of engineering, bachelor of engineering with honours, bachelor's degree general, bachelor's degree 4 year, and bachelor of science. There are similar options for the Master's degree: Master of engineering, Master's degree, and master's of science.

I completed my undergraduate study in 4 years and my degree is "Bachelor of science in engineering".There was a project in the final year. I am doing a "Master's of science in engineering". This is thesis based degree.

Which of the above options should I choose? In my country we only have Bachelor of science and Master's of science so I don't know what these things mean.


texts: Choosing between a masters at a top tier university, and a PhD at a lower tier university

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I'm in a difficult situation, although I understand that I'm very lucky to be in this position.

I'm a final year UK chemical engineering student expecting a mid-high first class B.Eng degree from a fairly decent Russel Group university.

I'm looking for graduate studies and I have managed to secure 2 places:

The first is a fully funded 4 year PhD as part of a CDT in synthetic biology. My first year would be spent at Oxford and my final 3 years would be spent at Bristol University, which I will graduate from after that.

My second offer is for an MPhil in a similar subject at Cambridge University which they have offered to fully fund also.

I'm very unsure as to what to take. I cannot defer my PhD offer. On the one hand, Cambridge is a very good university but my fear is that if I do the masters there, I may have thrown away my only chance at a PhD, and that I won't be able to get one after that - And ideally I'd like to do a PhD at a top tier institution such as Oxford or Cambridge. On the other hand, the PhD at Bristol as a CDT, so I won't be choosing my supervisor until my second year after I finish my first year at Oxford, and I'm locking myself into a particular discipline, and to a specific list of potential supervisors for 4 years directly after my bachelors.

Again I'm well aware that I'm extremely lucky to be in this position, but any advice on what path might be the best one would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: The specific PhD that I applied is entirely taught for its first year, which is why I am not worried about the jump from the bachelors straight to PhD.


texts: Should students who copy homework answers from somewhere else state how they obtained the answer?

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I'm an 3rd year undergraduate student, and this semester, I'm taking graduate course in one of my departments.

We have homeworks each week, and while doing the problems on those, I sometimes get stuck. In that case, sometimes I go to the instructor for some hints and discussions, and sometimes, if I really haven't made any progress in that question for long time, I search the answer onthe web (for example math.SE), and write that answer if it satisfies me.

In those latter cases, I put some notes/a disclaimer on the top of the question stating that "I've done these and these, but couldn't solve it, so I looked at the answer from the xxx website".

However, is this something that we indeed expected to do, or am I just making myself sometimes look like "incapable of solving even an elementary question" in the eyes of my instructor ?

Edit:
My question is about the general norm in academia, not whether it is considered cheating or not.


texts: Is it accepted to refer to your own published result by your own name?

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Assume that Jane Doe has published a paper in 2010 where she has developed a model or a theorem or a similar result, let’s say, that it relates to growth.

Now assume that Jane Doe is writing another paper in 2015, where she refers to the model/theorem from her paper in 2010.

Is it acceptable for Jane to write something like the following?

  Doe’s growth model (2010), implies that ...
  Doe’s growth theorem (2010) implies that ...
  The Doe growth model (2010) implies ...


texts: Why do highly successful people in computer fields say a degree in Computer Science is not worth to get "JOB"?

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I'm studying Engineering in India. In Information Technology, Many CS-friends of mine told me that that degree is not worth it and that none of the subjects will be useful in my computer science career.

I subsequently lost interest in studying until a friend filled me in on the uses of each subject included in our course. I started studying hard since I understood the importance/application of these subjects in the computer world. I scored well.

Also, I made projects which were included in course with Interest.

I wonder why people are giving less importance to the Computer Science degree and why they say that it is not important in the real world. I think if it is studied enough, it can definitely yield a job.


texts: Choosing a short title for citing a journal article (humanities)

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When citing a journal article using footnotes in the humanities (where of course particular journal styles will vary but in general Chicago Manual of Style is used), the proper format is to give the full citation the first time it is cited. However, after the article is cited for the first time, a shorter version is used for all subsequent times (involving only the author's last name, the omission of the journal, etc.). One of the ways these subsequent citations are shortened is by not including the full title of the article. I have seen many variations on how this should be done (where some seem intuitive, others less so).

Is there an actual acceptable standard for choosing the short title? If not, how should one go about choosing an appropriate short title?

An example: This article by Ole Benedictow, "What Disease was Plague? On the Controversy over the Microbiological Identity of Plague Epidemics of the Past" would be reasonably shortened to simply "What Disease was Plague?"

Another note: This convention of shortening citations is also used for books and other materials, but I ask about articles because choosing a short title is more often less intuitive.


texts: Is it necessary to add experiment to my designed framework for a journal

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I'm working a framework X and trying to publish it in IEEE Communication Magazine. But, due to its limitation on the number of text and figures, I wonder it is necessary to add any experiment or proof-of-concept system there?

Thanks.


texts: Curious case of self-citations and how to monitor self-citers?

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If one looks superficially at the publications of author X, he seems to be one of the top scientists in his field. But looking more closely his citations are 60% from himself 35% from his co-author, and 5% from others. (Some people might say: “It doesn’t matter, probably he is the only one working in such a field and he has to cite himself.” However, let’s say that it is not the case.)

This author is only one example of many people who do self-citations. Many of us have grown up to see citation as a measure and started to mishandle it. As it is easy to do so. My questions are:

Isn’t there a system which monitors unethical self-citations apart from the peer-review process, where such authors pass such tests and still extensively cite themselves?
Isn’t there a system that blacklists authors who involve in similar unethical activities as “fake scientists” and never allows them to publish anywhere else?
Do institutions not realize that such professors are a potential threat to science and ask them to resign?
Don’t such people demean real science people who spend years of hard work to publish their work?


texts: Do people still have to write thesis after finishing their master/phd?

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I know that the thesis is needed when doing their master.
But do people still need to write a thesis when doing research as a past-time?

What if they just want to publish an article but not thesis?


texts: Send a question or thanks letter after receiving a notification of receipt of application?

texts: After applying to some faculty positions, some professors send emails (not the automatic ones) that they have received the application and ask if the applicants have any questions. Should the applicant raise any question or maybe send a thank you reply for the notification to show their interest? Or just ignore and wait.


texts: 6-months internship has nothing to do with what was promised

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Since sept 2013, I have been doing a Masters in mathematical finance. Our course requires us to do an off-cycle internship of 5 months minimum (typically, from April to September).
During this internship, I'm supposed to do something that is at least remotely related to mathematics/finance, and at the end of the internship, I have to give a report of what I have done. The content of that report is supposed to contain actual mathematical researchs / developments / ideas, and is necessary for the obtention of my diploma.

Unfortunately, since my internship started I have been given absolutely no work fitting the requirements.
What I've actually been tasked to do is repetitive work consisting in using a software to process tons of record from a database, generating new records as output, and making sure the generated data is consistent.  Whenever of these jobs fail I have to debug the software and propose a fix to make the job work. There is roughly ~50 millions records to be processed and the end goal is that all of them were processed correctly. As far as I can tell there is no way this will be done by the end of my internship, which is in 2 months.
What's worse is that the team I'm in is facing increasing pressure to have all these records processed soon, while the higher-ups are heavily implying that it is taking so long because we are slacking off. This is pretty annoying because I want to make a good impression and I'm working as good as possible, but at the same time I don't feel like it is worth the effort to work extra-hard on this, given how little recognition I get and given that I will leave before the positive consequences of my work can affect me.

What can I do in my situation ? I haven't started my internship report yet (I don't even know what subject I could do it on), and I know I will to do it on my own time. At the same time the repetitive nature of my work makes me pretty burned out and whenever I never feel like working on maths for several hours.

TLDR: my 6 months internship that is supposed to be about mathematical finance is actually about doing extremely tedious work, and I have to complete a report by the end about all the mathematical research I'm supposed to have done.

What would you do in that situation ?


texts: Is it a good idea to submit to a single-blind journal when I have no affiliation?

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I am looking to publish a paper in computational biology. However, I have no affiliation (I have been affiliated with some institutions in the past, but am not currently affiliated with anyone now). I am also looking for a journal that will publish with no charge as I am low on funds.

I understand I should be able to publish a paper when my work is evaluated solely for its quality. However I have been unable to find any non-predatory and at least semi-legitimate computational biology journals that use double-blind review and are free to publish in.

I will submit my manuscript to bioRxiv, but would really like to publish in a journal. I am unsure how to proceed - should I try and submit to a single-blind journal and mark my affiliation as "independent scholar" or try some other way to publish to a double-blind computational biology journal?


texts: How important is the "major" of the PhD?

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For sake of argument, let's say I obtain a bachelor's degree in physics, a master's degree in physics, and then a PhD in physical chemistry but from a department of chemistry. Can I then go on to be a physics professor? Or would I be confined to teaching chemistry?

One can imagine equivalent situations for other fields. Say, for example, a bachelor's in computer science, master's in computer science, and then a PhD in computational physics from a department of physics. Could that individual then become a computer science professor?


texts: Is it possible to do a text search just within the references of a paper?

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Do any of the academic search engines provide a way to limit a free text search to just those papers which are cited by a particular paper?  In normal google, as an analogy, you can append site:bbc.co.uk to your search string to only get results from the bbc.co.uk web site.  I have checked the Google Scholar advanced search settings and there is no such facility.
My motivation for this question is that I am trying to track down a definition to where it has either a) been first used, and/or b) defined in the fullest terms.


texts: Try exercises or look at the solutions for self-study

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I am currently self-studying The Art of Computer Programming as an undergrad in my free time. To do all of the exercises (or even a portion of them) would be incredibly difficult and time-consuming; however, there are solutions at the back of the text. I am wondering if I would miss out on something from a pedagogical perspective if I simply look at the problem, understand what it's asking, and then read the solution and understand it?
I would hope that mastery of the content is gained through experience in the field and further study in mathematics. How strongly recommended is giving “the old college try”?


texts: What are universities asking for when they demand a "financial resource statement"?

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I am applying for a Master program and one of the documents that I have to attach to my application is a "financial resource sworn statement". What is exactly meant by this?

Is it usually enough if I upload a document stating that I have the necessary funds to support myself during the duration of the program (explaining where those funds come from) or should I attach some kind of official document from my bank?


texts: How can I write a paper that will convince the reviewers that the results are non-trivial?

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I submitted a paper in math/cs/economics to a top-level journal. The paper involves a new variant of a well-known problem. All reviewers agreed that the results are interesting and non-trivial, but they rejected the paper as not being general enough for their journal.

Encouraged by the positive feedback, I submitted an improved version of the paper to a medium-level conference. The improvements include simplifications of some of the proofs and additions of stronger results about the same problem. Now the reviewers rejected the paper claiming that the results are too weak and unsurprising!

What should I do in the next time I submit (to a different journal), in order to make the reviewers believe that the results are indeed surprising and non-trivial? I don't want to write the proofs in their more complicated version, as in the first revision, because this is unscientific. But writing it in a simple way seems that doing so creates a false impression that the results are too simple. What do you suggest?


texts: How to react to a student who provides very critical comments about your teaching in a student evaluation survey?

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I am a teacher in an institute and I teach English as a foreign language to students in an 8_week session. At the end of each session, the students are required to give their opinion about the class and the teacher.

One of my students who attended all the classes and I corrected at least 20 writings for her has written something horrible and of course has ruined my rating by saying: "What we learn depends on the teacher. I recommend teacher X, but I absolutely and strongly reject this teacher who does not know anything about teaching (meaning me)." She has also written her name on top of the paper.

She never, ever, complained about my teaching method during the time we had class together and this sudden unfair comparison has gone on my nerve. I have taken a photo of what she has written about me and it is in my mind to email it to her and ask for her explanation.

I have signed no contract with that institute and I have received no teacher training courses. I have teaching experiences somewhere else and that was why they invited me to teach. But their unfair system of evaluation at the end of each session will definitely have effects on my payment and if it continues like this, I will no longer be able to continue teaching there.

I am REALLy thinking so deeply about what I could have done wrong. My last session assessment was 20% higher than an old teacher who is teaching there for 3 years. Another serious problem I have with this issue is the "comparison". I teach Reading and Writing and my colleague teaches Listening and Speaking. Of course, I have never met the other teacher. But, he has read this bad comment about me. Why should I lose my face in front of a colleague, because of an "unfair" judgement?

Is it good to react like this, or I should keep silent about her unfair judgement?


texts: How one legally can justify distance learning for on campus programs?

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A few years ago we wanted to open a new program that will be based on distance learning,  however, getting accredited for having a master degree program that is based on distance learning and not on campus is literally a bureaucratic nightmare.
First, no one allowed us to use Zoom, Microsoft Teams or other currently popular distance learning tools, second it should be some sort of  "Moodle" program with clear guidelines for each week. Third everything needs to be under guidelines of the Distance Education Accrediting Commission, in current COVID19 teaching organizational crisis we don't follow those guidelines at all.
I wonder what are legal repercussions for doing distance learning when you are not accredited to do one. Can our students with disability complain since when they needed this option we couldn't provide to them since our excuse was that we weren't ready or accredited to do so? And last but not least, can we legally organize accredited on-campus program but perform it online or using distance learning completely?


texts: What are "Rare research subjects" ("Kleine Fächer")?

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I've noticed a funding agency offer a program for funding "rare subjects" ("Kleine Fächer" in German).

I'm pretty sure my own research doesn't count, but:

Is this concept / category of research subjects used more generally or is it just that funding body's invention?
What are the criteria typically used in judging a subject to be "rare"? After all, almost everyone studies subjects which, at some level of specificity, nobody else is studying (so it's "rare" to study it).


texts: Asking a faculty member at my university that I have not met(!) about his research, and about courses that deal with his specialty/my career goal?

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I am an undergraduate student pursuing a double major in Computer Science B.S. and Mathematics B.S.
My dream career is to work in quant. finance. However, my school does not have a dedicated department to this field, resulting in lack of dedicated classes and opportunities for it. The page for "Mathematical Finance" is simply a white page with nothing but a list of three faculty members, linking to their page, two of which are Ph.D students.
I have found an associate professor who I believe can help answer a few of my questions and confusion about going down this path, but I have read a little here and generally, emails like this are frowned upon, and the last thing I want is for him to be offended by my request.
However, I don't really know any other professors or faculty members who would be able to give me insight on this.
My email would start off something like this
"I would just like to start off this email by saying please excuse me and forgive any informalities or unprofessionalism. I hope to not offend you with this sudden email from a student you do not know.
I have found your email and page from MyCollege's "Mathematical Finance" page: mycollege.com/mathematical-finance"
Then I would say something along the lines of "given your expertise, what courses/concepts are important...what steps should I take now..."
And then finally I'd say something like "I know you are incredibly busy with research, school, among other things, so I hope you do not mind this email."
I will also make sure not to completely bombard him with questions, but ask general, non-pressuring questions.
Is this a bad idea? I am not quite sure where else to get in contact with someone in this field with such close proximity, and aside from LinkedIn with people I will probably never meet, this seems like my best bet.
EDIT: this might be a duplicate of OK to ask a professor at my institution with whom I have no previous relationship some questions relating to hobby-project?
but this is about a community college professor who is not doing research, which may be different from my circumstances, also his is about a hobby, while mine is about career and industry.


texts: How to thank someone who proofread my scientific paper?

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A colleague working in my department helped me out in proofreading my English before submitting a paper. I would like to acknowledge his help.

Is it common to acknowledge such help? Is there any standard sentence to do it?


texts: How can we change things so more researchers are willing to share their source code?

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This is a followup to  Why are CS researchers reluctant to share code and what techniques can I use to encourage sharing?. That question specifically asked how one can succeed in obtaining researcher's source code.

As discussed in the answers to that question, the reasons largely boil down to competitive advantage and people thinking their code is not good enough. The former issue is difficult to address. However, one could try to address the latter issue, making the reasonable assumption that this behavior stems from the surrounding academic culture. There may be additional aspects of the academic culture that discourage code sharing, and which do not relate to competitive advantage.

So, one could instead ask the general questions what concrete actions one can take to change this culture? Or, to put it a little differently, how can I help change the academic world so that more researchers are willing to share their source code?


texts: Is there any research on the prevalence of academic theft?

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Some — perhaps many — academics seem to be very careful in keeping unpublished work secret.  It is not difficult to find anecdotes where academic ideas are stolen, such as in this post by @Markus.  Others, such as @NateEldredge in this post write that It seems to be pretty common for people starting out in academia to overestimate the risks of people stealing their work.  Personally, I'm rather at the other end of the spectrum, and I don't feel afraid that my ideas would be stolen.  Perhaps I'm naïve.

Is there any research on the question: how common is academic theft, really?  Such as surveys of people having experienced (or committed!) such theft according to an appropriate definition, possibly compared to peoples' perception as to the risks.  It would be interesting to see if there are some facts to refer to.  Perhaps it is field dependent?

(By academic theft, I am not talking about plagiarism, but rather about stealing research ideas before anything is published)


texts: When is the appropriate time to email professors as a prospective PhD student?

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I think my research interests and experience are perfectly aligned with a professor. And I plan on applying to the department when the admissions open.

But when is the right time to email the professor as a prospective PhD student? I don't want to shoot off an email and get ignored by being either too early or too late.

In this university (in the US) the admissions are granted by committees and not individual professors. Also I speak as an international student.


texts: Should I write something to the reviewer who rejected my manuscript?

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I have just received a decision letter for my submitted manuscript to an Elsevier journal. It was a revise and resubmit. One of the reviewers recommended rejection and his comment was just "the contribution isn't strong enough". I don't really know how to respond to his comment. Should I write something to convince him that my contribution is relevant or only respond the other reviewers comments?
What do you recommend me to do?


texts: Saying thanks in the personal statement?

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Should I include a small thank at the beginning of my personal statement? The thank can long for one line to three lines depends on the specifics it included. In the short version, it can be like this:

  I want to thank my mom, my friend XYZ and the SE community for supporting me all the time.

In the long version, it can be:

  I want to thank my mom for understanding my passion, my friend XYZ for his alacrity to make my works flows better in English, and the SE community as well as other person who I have never met has spent time advising and criticizing every time I come up a new idea.

I should make clear that the school I intend to apply requires me to write a personal statement, separate to the SOP.

  The personal statement should give concrete evidence of your promise as a member of the academic community, giving the committee an image of you as a person.

As a person, not a researcher.


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I'm applying for several astronomy REUs, for which you can have 2 letters of recommendation.  I have three faculty members in mind:

1) Engineering physics professor I've known for many years personally, and is the PI for the lab I've worked in for a year.  I haven't taken his class yet, but he seems to have a good opinion of me.

2) Astronomy professor whose class I took last semester.  He knew me by name early in the semester since I asked good questions during and after class and participated a lot, although I always had to work during his office hours.  I got an AB in his class.

3) Engineering technical presentations instructor who was impressed by my projects.  He told me at the end of the semester that he would be happy to provide a strong recommendation should I ever need one.  However, the programs are for astronomy and he teaches courses on writing/speaking.  And he's a faculty associate rather than the other two professors.

My instinct is to ask the two professors, but I'm not sure how much professor #2 would be able to say about me.  I'm especially uncertain because #3 would write a very strong letter, albeit more lightly weighted.  Any advice?


texts: Paper acceptance probability in case of Minor revision after a major revision

texts: I submitted a paper in Physics background journal. At the 1st review, the referees' have written positive statement. One of the referee suggested minor revision, while the other suggested major revision. I have revised the paper according to the referees' comments. Recently. I have received minor comments (only a few text corrections) from the referee who suggested major revision at the 1st review. I have revised again the paper according to the referee comments and submitted to the journal about 2 weeks ago. However, I have received any decision letter yet. Does a minor revision after a major revision lead to acceptance ?


texts: Creating a schematic figure based on an existing one

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In the context material chapter of my masters dissertation, between other things, I must write about the state of the art on the thematic presented. There are some very expressive and simple schemes in other authors works that I would like to use. I was wondering: is it legitimate if I create schemes by myself that convey the same structure and information and reference the sources in the following manner: "Image based on [Reference]" ?. The result would be different looking (colors, shapes, and several other visual elements) schemes that would express the same content.

I've looked at How much do figures need to differ to avoid copyright claims? but I wasn't sure if the context of that question is enough for the answers to apply for me.

Thanks.


texts: Google Scholar: Citations appear on co-authors' accounts but not on mine

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Problem: I have several papers published all of which are picked up by Google Scholar. There's one particular paper that shows no citations, however, this is wrong. How do I know? The same paper appears to have citations when viewed from my co-authors' Google Scholar pages.

Question: Why is this happening? How can I fix it?

Note: I have other papers published with the same co-authors and the citations appear correctly on all Google Scholar accounts.

Disclaimer: There are several questions posted about Google Scholar not picking up citations, including this on academia.stackexchange.com. These questions deal with missing citations in general, i.e., citations are not linked to an article. However, in my case, the citations are linked to an article, however, they do not appear on my account. In case this is important, the paper was published in 2018, so I don't think this is a case of not indexing my name yet.


texts: How hard is it to get a research oriented job in the US with an Austrailian PhD (Computer Engineering)?

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How hard is it to get a job at a leading research lab in the US (like Amazon, Microsoft) with an Australian PhD (from University of New South Wales, Sydney)?
Will taking up a postdoc position in a US university help?
If not, what is the best route I can take?


texts: Did I anger my PI by not sending my data/notes after leaving their lab?

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Last year I was informed by my PI that the lab was too busy to take on undergrad students. I said that I understood and found another lab that I was interested in to join.

However, I had been working on a project for a year before I left, and didn't get around to sending them any data/notes related to my project after I left. The lab members also didn't ask for any data. So, I'm not sure if maybe my project as a undergrad wasn't that important, or if I was unprofessional. Would it be late now, more than a year after I left, to send in data? Did I leave a bad impression?

I was hoping to ask the PI for letters of rec for grad school, but (1) He has new undergrad students now and I haven't spoken with him for a while and (2) I'm not sure if I left a bad impression when leaving the lab.


texts: What is the difference between a "I" or "II" after a job title?

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There are several job titles such as "Research Associate II" or "Research Scientist I" or "Research Scientist II" in the research institute located near my school.

Is there a difference between the job titles and is "I" higher than "II" or vice versa?


texts: What is the meant by "A high standard of illustration (both line and photo) is an editorial"?

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A high standard of illustration (both line and photo) is an editorial
  priority.

What is meant by "line" here? I am not getting this into my mind. The sentence above is taken from the "Instructions to author" part of a journal.


texts: Appropriate "title" to list on application for professors writing LOR?

texts: In filling out my very first grad school application I've come across the Letters of Recommendation page. It says to list the "Title" of the recommender. Do I use Professor here? Or Dr.? I am stumped. Both of my recommenders are professors and that is how I refer to them, but I am just not sure which one I should be putting here since they have Doctorate degrees. I don’t want to make a mistake... I found this question which was sort of related, but also confused me even more. If the professor has a title like X-Y Professor of Z or Professor of X and Y, do I use that full title? Or should I just write "Professor" or "Professor of [subject]"?


texts: I want to leave my tenure track position before fall. I have great prospects but no new position "locked up": when should I break the news?

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I am a relatively new tenure track faculty member at my school. For many reasons, I am certain I want to leave my current position. All of my reasons are professional reasons; there are no relocation issues or anything like that.

I do not have a new position lined up but I am being actively recruited and feel that having a new position by the fall is a near-lock. Regardless, my finances are strong and, outside of good personal relationships with a couple colleagues, I have absolutely no hesitation about leaving this position.

One issue for my department is that some of my future classes are "important" (required classes that, right now, only I am qualified to teach). I do not want to put them in an unnecessarily difficult position. Therefore, my main question is:

when should I break this news? Given my certainty about this decision, should I tell them ASAP?
Or, should I follow the general logic that one should never leave a position without a new job lined up? What if this means waiting two more months, REALLY leaving them in a tough spot for covering my "important" fall classes?

As a secondary question:

any advice about how to break this news? Some of my reasons are related to the way the program is run and the behavior of some of my colleagues. Should I go into this, or should I simply say that the position turned out the be a poor fit and that I must move on?


texts: PhD Applications and GRE Subject Tests during Covid

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I just recently finished a masters program in Mathematics, unfortunately it seems most PhD Programs require a math GRE Subject test. At the moment I'm living with my parents and don't feel comfortable going in to take an exam with others - especially with the cases in the US right now, but I don't want to lose a shot at getting into some programs.
Does anyone know if universities have lifted the requirement for GRE Subject tests as a result of Covid?
Thanks


texts: Qualifications needed to teach math/statistics at US university

texts: A friend with a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Statistics would like to teach math/statistics at a US university which is not research oriented as a full-time faculty member. To do so, it seems like it might be necessary to have a PhD. However, my friend is not interested in statistics research, so she's thinking instead about trying for a PhD in Math Education. Is this viable? Are there alternative routes?


texts: Should I talk about a unpublished paper in my SOP?

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I have a draft of a unpublished paper that I hosted in Arxiv that I will be attaching with my application. Should I talk about the inspiration behind it in my SOP. Like how is the method behind the paper different from the existing methods for the same problem?

There seems to be this general consensus that anything flimsy or story-like needs to be avoided. Does talking about inspiration for a paper qualify as flimsy or story-like?

The paper is a single author paper that I never talked about with my recommendors so I am afraid that if I don't talk about it, people reading my SOP will not read it at all.


texts: Paper rejection probability after two round of major revision.

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I would like to know the paper rejection probability (very rough) after two round of major revision. At the 1st and 2nd revision, I have revised the paper properly according to the reviewer's comments. The reviewer has raised a new issue in the 2nd revision and the reviewer has recommended me to revise the paper again. I have revised the paper properly again and submitted to the journal. The number of assign reviewer for the paper is only 1 (Reviewer 1). The paper has been reviewing for 7 months.

In the 2nd revision, I could not understand the editorial manager paper status meaning. The paper status has changed from "major revision" to "with editor" after submitting the revised paper. After 1 week later the paper status has changed to "under review" and then after two weeks later the paper status has changed to "with editor". I have not received any email from the editor so far. This morning I have checked the paper status and I found that the paper status again has changed to "under review". I would be grateful if someone could help me to understand the meaning of the status.


texts: Responding to an unambiguously wrong referee comment

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I'm now replying to a referee. One of his points is unambiguously wrong. Moreover, without going into specifics, he spends a lot of time on that point and asks us to do something with our framework that it cannot address. This is not stubbornness on our part since otherwise we'd be happy to accommodate requests.

But I’m terrified of writing "This comment is wrong". Even if I thereafter go into some detail as to why it's wrong, somehow I fear a backlash which we know shouldn’t be a reaction of referees but often can be.

Does anyone have any advice?


texts: Advantages of professional (student level) memberships (in computer science)

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I'm a sophomore undergraduate studying CS and I look forward to getting into research in future. Is there any advantage of being a student member of societies like ACM, IEEE, etc? I think it might help me expose myself more in the area of Computer Science and research in general but I'm still not sure. I realised that I already have access to digital library through my uni. How can I maximise the benefits I derive from my membership if I choose to become one?
For example, the yearly student membership cost of ACM where I study (India) is ~$25. It says:

Access to the full ACM Digital Library
Access to online courses, ebooks and training videos,
Electronic subscription to Communications of the ACM magazine
Access to ACM's highly targeted Career and Job Center
-Subscription to XRDS, ACM's all new student magazine
Electronic subscription to ACM CareerNews (twice monthly)
ACM e-news digest TechNews (tri-weekly)
ACM's monthly online newsletter MemberNet
Free "acm.org" email forwarding address plus filtering

I don't know how much these subscriptions really benefit me.