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I am an international student applying to several Computer Science PhD programs in the United States, and I have a question about how to correctly describe the relationship with one of my recommenders....

Every 2-3 weeks, I get an email from a graduate of the Mekelle university in Ethiopia, asking me to do an M.Sc. under my supervision. None of them are related to my research field. It is not unusual ...

I recently received an admissions offer from my backup school for masters but they're asking the deposit to be by 9th of december. There are reasons why I can't accept the offer or pay the deposit ...

Can Steven C. Hayes' contextualist Relational Frame Theory (RFT) serve as the theoretical foundation or origin of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)? RFT is a language-focused theory that posits ...

I completed a thesis-based master’s degree about five years ago and have been working in industry since then. I am an international applicant applying to PhD programs in the US. My former advisor is ...

Can the Life Science PhD admissions committee in the US look at an applicant as less favorable, if they think his/her future career goal(i.e. what they do after their PhD) is 'not' to have a research ...

I am an independent researcher trying to submit a paper to the cs.CC (Computational Complexity) category on arXiv. Since I do not have an academic affiliation or prior arXiv submissions, I need an ...

I am a reviewer in a CS conference which has a double-blinded review system. One of the papers I am currently reviewing is closely related to a chapter in my PhD Thesis. For several reasons, this ...

I'm a second-year grad student in the US. I'm interested in stochastic PDEs, and more generally in stochastic analysis. I got into an Ivy League school for my PhD, but, unfortunately, I'm struggling ...

I am a PhD student in computer science. I recently submitted a paper and listed my supervisors as co-authors. They had some early discussions with me without knowing the paper's content, and they ...

I would like some advice on how to approach a co-advisor, basically on the level of "what do I say?". I have provided as much context as I am comfortable sharing "below the fold". ...

I’m an independent researcher working on a theoretical model that tries to explain why some civilizations persist, some fracture into new ones, some get absorbed, and some truly disappear. I’m looking ...

In the book The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard, the colophon states of the book's subjects: Subjects: LCSH: Mosquitoes—Ecology—History. | Human ecology. ...

I finished a code-project that's based on several papers. One of those papers has many errors in its mathematical formulas, but presents an idea I believe to be unique and I have implemented. This ...

I wrote a paper proposing a new pseudorandom number generator design. The paper was accepted to a conference, but the acceptance was later withdrawn because I don’t have a supervisor or academic co-...