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Comparing results if there have been no similar studies
I examined seven years of financial data for a given country. However, there have been no similar studies that have the same sample as mine and cover a seven-year period (most study just one year in ...
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When to use inline versus displayed equations in a publication?
On a publication (thesis, paper, other), when should I write an equation inline and when should it be separated and numbered from the text?
I've seen publications containing both styles, but I don't ...
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Paper is based completely on my thesis, but I'm mentioned in the acknowledgements only, not as a co-author, what should I do?
I developed a medical device for my master's project. The general idea was initiated by my supervisor but the rest of the work is mine (Design, build up, test, measurements, results and some ...
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When is a supervisor unable to request paper retraction if a paper gets published without her consent?
If a ex-PhD student publishes a paper from his thesis without his ex-supervisor's consent, the paper gets retracted upon his ex-adviser's request to the editor.
My question is: Could there be any ...
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Publishing PhD thesis at another university due to not being able to afford high publishing costs?
Would it ever occur, historically, that a PhD student could not obtain his degree from a university due to the high costs of publishing his thesis, such that he would have to publish it at another ...
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How relevant are (journal) papers for the valuation of one’s work and results?
I am a PhD student at an engineering department in Europe. At my department, and at most others in my university, research papers are the main benchmark of a scientist’s productivity. It seems like ...
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How to translate foreign-language theses into English?
i found many papers and thesis written in different languages than English, mainly Portuguese and Chinese. is there an efficient way to benefit from these papers and thesis instead of translating them ...
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Is it common for doctoral dissertations from for-profit schools to be unavailable?
I've been trying to find the dissertation of someone who advertises that they hold a "doctorate of management" from the "University of Phoenix". The degree requires a dissertation, but the school does ...
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How long should I wait for the response of the referee?
i wrote a message to the Editor to inquire about my
revision sent about 4 months ago. He informed me yesterday(March 20th, 2014)
that my manuscript has already completed 1 review.
However, we are ...
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My supervisor plagiarised my bachelor thesis: what can I do about it?
In July 2012 I submitted a bachelor's thesis on a machine learning topic. I designed an algorithm that I developed in Java.
Now I have found a publication (September 2012) by my supervisor with all ...
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Is being publication oriented bad?
I talked with a professor for possible thesis guidance and mentioned that I aim to publish papers at top venues as soon as possible. The Professor got somewhat offended and said publication is not an ...
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Is there such a thing as too much work for a Master's Thesis?
My thesis (Canadian Research Based, Computer Science), collects three separate research projects (with a tenuous connecting thread).
While collating these projects into a single document, I have ...
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What to use instead of academic 'we' when describing an experiment?
My research is in software engineering, but in a sub-field which is very close to social science. My papers normally contain sentences like "We conducted a study with 56 participants." and "Our ...
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Authorship for paper based on my thesis
I rewrote my thesis work with improved analytical explanation of major problem statement and included few subsections which were not the part of thesis. Also I rewrote the algorithms with more clarity ...
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What to do when a PhD supervisor is not collaborating on publications after the PhD from it?
If someone's (SO) PhD supervisor is not collaborating on publications from SO's PhD. The problem arose as SO raised his mistrust (for the supervisor) on other academic issues. The supervisor treats ...
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