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Is it appropriate to send research problems to professors I don’t know well for feedback?
I'm an early-career mathematician, just finished my PhD and about to start a postdoc. Toward the end of my PhD, I began generating my own research questions. Previously, I thought I needed a professor’...
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Quickly testing cognitive performance as evidence of NEED for sleep [closed]
First, to explain the word "NEED" in the title:
We assume for simplicity that the individual hasn't recently consumed coffee or any other caffeine-containing beverages or foods, and has at ...
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What are the disadvantages/advantages of submitting a paper on openreview?
I am a graduate student soon to submit a paper in the field of math/cs/ml.
I am interested in two journals that require authors to upload their papers on openreview. I looked at some uploaded ...
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Can I use the Teacher Confirmation Scale if the original author doesn’t respond?
I’m doing research for my bachelor's thesis and really want to use the Teacher Confirmation Scale (TCS) by Ellis (2000). I found it referenced (and even fully listed) in another article by Wang & ...
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Does the literature survey always have to come near the start of the chapter?
I have a thesis chapter which centers around using a technique that will be largely unfamiliar to most people in my field. I've so far wrote the chapter very pedagogically to 'teach' the reader the ...
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How to cite a ministry of a foreign country?
For exemple, if I want to cite the ministry of foreign affairs of Japan, should I just cite it as "Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Year). Name of publication". Or should I name it as "...
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Weak results for my undergrad thesis [closed]
I’m doing my undergrad dissertation on the impact of FDI on economic growth in developing countries. I’ve used a range of models: pooled OLS, one-way fixed effects, two-way fixed effects, and 2SLS. ...
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Looking for OT programs abroad with full scholarship (Thai student, low GPA, published research) [closed]
I’m a Grade 12 student in Thailand with a cumulative GPA of around 2.00. Despite this, I have a research project that was accepted and published in an academic journal. I’m very passionate about ...
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How do I prove my point to my supervisors? [closed]
Currently doing my masters program and also doing my research paper with two supervisors but often times we come into a clash with certain concepts. Recently, the results I generated matched the ...
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Poor handling of a paper by mathematics journal
As a PhD student, I prepared a short manuscript containing a counterexample to a mistaken claim in an earlier paper from 2001. I sent this manuscript to someone I knew (my advisor's collaborator; my ...
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Being removed from acknowledgements despite contributing to the paper
(I'm an academic in the applied mathematics (PDEs) community in Europe).
Last year I had many discussions with a colleague of mine (call him X) which helped him in creating the results that went into ...
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Is it acceptable to accept a university job offer while waiting on a potential industry offer?
I am a senior researcher based in Country A. I recently received an offer for an associate professorship at a university in Country B. The offer followed a lengthy and difficult negotiation process, ...
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Rounding decimal places during the calculation [closed]
I have a question in regards to decimal places.
If I am asked to provide an answer to the nearest unit, but I then have to show my work, I presume that during the process I would write a particular ...
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Is it acceptable to list only one of my two official PhD advisors when the other played a symbolic role?
I officially have two PhD advisors listed by my university. One of them is a retired professor who no longer actively advises students and was only minimally involved in my research or mathematical ...
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Citation count of ArXiv and journal version of the same paper
I know there is a rule which says if a paper was published in a journal later, you must cite it in its journal form.
Consider a paper that was sent to ArXiv and then published in the journal. In the ...
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