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How do a cite an article which has been accepted pending revisions, but the revisions aren't accepted yet?
I have an article accepted in a journal, providing I make certain revisions. I have now made the revisions and sent them off, but am awaiting the journal's confirmation that the reviewers are ...
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Calculating the OP score
I am looking to calculate an OP Score (Overall Position). It is an outdated Queensland system of post-secondary-entrance rankings due to be phased out in 2018. None the less I am looking for specific ...
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Sample for systematic review of journal articles
1) When you conduct systematic literature review of a particular topic, what is the recommended sample size of the journal articles? what is the threshold? Will a sample size of 10 be too small?
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I sent an email asking for letter of recommendation almost a week ago and have not received a response. Does it mean NO?
I asked my ex professor for LOR almost a week ago and I got no response yet. It is making me pretty nervous and I am not sure what should I do now. I was thinking about visiting him at the department ...
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How to deal with a supervisor who engages in micro-management and does not give their PhD student any autonomy?
What should a PhD student do, when his supervisor actually give directions on each and every thing to do (forced spoon feeding) instead of letting the student do his research and come back with some ...
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Is it reasonable to go from a masters by coursework to PhD?
I am about to complete my BSc (Honours) in Statistics later this year. I would then like to attend University of Hong Kong to get a Master of Statistics degree. This is for two reasons:
I am ...
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Does better learning affect teaching evaluations? If so, how?
Arum and Roksa (p. 7) say:
Research on course evaluations by Valen Johnson has convincingly demonstrated that "higher grades do lead to better course evaluations" and "student course evaluations ...
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Postdoc at a research hospital for a physicist (non radiation)
I am a physicist with a background in computational physics and imaging, and I received an offer for a NIH postdoctoral fellowship at a very good (according to rankings) research hospital on the East ...
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Can I use my university email to contact professors in other university?
Shall I use my university address to contact professors in other universities who are specialized in the field of my dissertation?
Thanks
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Undergraduate Proposal Advice [on hold]
I have currently finished writing my proposal for an undergraduate research course in Computer Science. My chosen topic is looking at the effect of data augmentation on a CNNs performance in the ...
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University supervisor change [on hold]
I am currently studying a PhD at Keele and my supervisor is leaving to Birmingham.
I have the option to follow him to Birmingham, which has greater facilities and reputation. The problem is I live ...
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Effective Strategies for writing papers and be more productive?
Have you found any effective strategies for writing papers which you apply every time? Do you have a system as to how you work? What things have worked for you, what things did not?
If you have any ...
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Why today's books usually have a quality smaller than old ones? (and how is it possible reverse the trend?) [on hold]
I don't want lump things together without discrimination, but I think I'm not the only one that feel that today's authors and publishing house often are not so careful to the quality of the product as ...
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How to acknowledge a retired professor?
I want to acknowledge a retired professor. How do I specify his name? With just Prof. or something particular?
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1answer
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How do I know if I am a competitive applicant for a top/second-tier grad school? [on hold]
I am contemplating on applying grad school, both MS and PhD, in Computational Social Science, such as Computational Analytics and Public Policy at University of Chicago.
But I am not sure what kind ...
