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Including an image/sprite/screenshot of Sonic in a dissertation? [migrated]
I want to include an image of Sonic the Hedgehog in my dissertation; it is not part of the academic content in any way and is just a bit of fun.
I have a few questions:
Can I include a literal sprite ...
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Will producing an article rather than a thesis during my MS be an issue for PhD admissions in Europe?
I’m in my second year of a Master’s program in international trade. At my university, there aren’t many supervisors available. Anyway, there’s this professor I approached, but I haven’t officially ...
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How can I withdraw a paper from any conference?
Recently my paper got accepted in a conference. But the registration fee was too high for me. Plus they didn’t give any review of my paper. My supervisor told me not not register it. I decided to do ...
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Strongly considering dropping my PhD for jobs I want that don't require a PhD anyway. Looking for insight [duplicate]
I'm bringing this question here and this time it should be hopefully phrased in a more general way and others find it applicable. I've seriously considered dropping my PhD lately for practical reasons....
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Master thesis report submitted for official record is different to the report graded by my supervisor
I am doing a master's study in a German university. I had some setbacks during my master thesis project's lab work. This delayed the time I had available to write my report later on. The setbacks ...
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How in depth should a background section on cams in an undergraduate thesis be? [closed]
I am writing my thesis on the design and construction of a robot that has a lot of mechanical parts in it. A big part of the project is the 2 cams that I am using and I'm not sure how much I should ...
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Is there a way of obtaining a copy of a thesis remotely?
Apologies if my question is a little vague. To hopefully clarify, I mean a thesis that has been digitized, can be downloaded by members of the holding institution, and is available on ProQuest. But, ...
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Why do some institutions have a Pre-Defense for PhD degrees?
The process of acquiring a PhD degree at my institution (after successfully completing comprehensive exams) is as follows:
Submitting a research proposal and defending it.
Approving the proposal by ...
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Is paraphrasing my own texts using online tools is okay?
I am currently writing my master's thesis. I came across paraphrasing tools quite recently too. I saw that sometimes my texts are not very clear and repetitive (although I can explain an idea in an ...
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Should I cite 200 webpages?
For my paper I am getting quarterly data on company earnings from their 10-Q reports. I am scraping together about 200 of these reports.
Am I supposed to cite all 200 of these, or I can just say the ...
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When should a reference be given for a theorem when writing a PhD dissertation in pure mathematics?
The Question:
When should a reference be given for a theorem when writing a PhD dissertation in pure mathematics?
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There's a grey area here, sure. Let's focus on broad, guiding principles. ...
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How can I publish my thesis?
I have a written thesis, as my Final year project. I have submitted in university.
but now i want to make it professionally mine.
I want to publish it some where but i don't have such kind of ...
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Need help about seeking a master’s degree thesis in Japan
I am a Computer Engineering Student in AI and Cybersecurity. I would like to do my thesis in Japan, with the goal of staying there to pursue a PhD or work afterward. I am having serious trouble ...
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PhD supervisors taking too long to correct my thesis
I’m a 4th year PhD student and my scholarship is ending one month from now. I had a meeting with my three supervisors 6 months ago and we agreed together that I would send them each chapter draft as ...
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What is the limit for needs for citations when it comes to well known facts?
I am aware that this question is quite broad, but I am curious about what the limits are here. Probably the answer is a "It depends", but I am still eager to hear what other people thing ...
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Bulletized lists in APA paper
I am looking at the APA7 guidebook, and having issues understanding bullets. The guidance refers to the needs of the document to determine this. However, I need to format this for APA requirements ...
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Can a thesis professor take my masters thesis and develop a new course?
Can my thesis professor develop a new course completely based on my thesis including the exact name of my thesis without my permission? It seems wrong that they were going to retire but now will start ...
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What to do when you spend several months working on an idea that fails in a masters thesis?
How shall a masters student deal with the complete failure to meet the expected results when working on a master's thesis?
For example, in the field of machine learning a masters student might spend ...
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Can a pure mathematics PhD dissertation consist largely of incomplete and/or failed attempts at theorems (with an overarching theme)? [duplicate]
The Question:
Can a pure mathematics PhD dissertation consist largely of incomplete and/or failed attempts at theorems (with an overarching theme)?
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I have just started my third year of a ...
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better to cite pre-print or thesis
When I submitted my PhD thesis, the journal article version of one of the chapters was under review. A preprint of it is up on ArXiv. It was eventually rejected, not with particular faults so much as ...
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Thesis part was flagged as AI generated even though it is all original
So this happened to a friend of mine who is attending a business school and just handed in his thesis to his supervisor. The supervisor checked it with "Turnitin" and it gave a result of 20% ...
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How do I make sure I can actually finish my thesis? [closed]
I am in my second year of my master's degree and am one month into the new term. Currently, I have drafted my entire thesis proposal at length, set up most of my experiment, obtained ethics approval ...
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I forgot to tell a journal that the submitted article is actually a condensed version of my MA thesis!
I had asked a journal (let's call it X) if they accept master's thesis for publication, they replied by saying that they don't and I'd have to reformat it as an article to be considered for ...
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Hypothesis for an Engineering Oriented Research Thesis
Question: What to write in a hypothesis that can't claim statistical results of any kind -- only those of engineering nature.
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In thesis writing, hypothesis is claimed to be one of the ...
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Is it necessary to cite all publications with erroneous interpretations in a PhD thesis?
In my PhD thesis, the main topic is to justify that a philosopher P claims that x = a, but a (very) large number of publications assert that x = b, even though their research doesn’t directly deal ...
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What is a "recent" investigation?
I am writing a doctoral thesis in philosophy (Europe) on an author who passed away in 1980. Over the past 20 years, there has been a significant volume of research on his thought. In my thesis, I ...
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How to inform PhD advisor about your decision to write papers independently?
I'm a physics PhD candidate focusing on quantum information theory. My advisor seems to expect me to be extremely independent. He never suggested what problem to work on, and rarely comments about how ...
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Can I redeem myself with a better research paper if my thesis sucks?
When I was doing my undergraduate thesis, I tried my best to create a good and at least a decent thesis. In the end, I got a B out of pity. I didn't feel like I deserve a score like that, especially ...
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Appropriateness of dedicating my thesis to a Jewish mathematician who died in a concentration camp
I am a Muslim student in a non-Arab country. Would it be unwanted/inappropriate for me to dedicate my thesis on Tauber theory to Alfred Tauber, and more generally to all those Jewish mathematicians ...
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How to handle potentially gaslighting and very confusing PhD advisor?
I’m a new PhD student (3 months in) of a niche area, and I now feel like my supervisor (f, 56) has been constantly gaslighting me. English is not my first language and this is a really confusing ...
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I took a summer research intership and didn't do well after, what should I do? [closed]
I applied for a summer internship(no salary) in theoretical physics a few months ago, and I got one intership position. After I got the work to be done from the professor, I found that some parts of ...
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Is it okay to begin a chapter without an "introduction section"?
I'm writing my phd thesis. In some chapters I simply begin the chapter with one or maybe two (at most) paragraphs that mostly gives the outline, and then I begin the sectioning. That is, this ...
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returning a research laptop
About a year ago, my PhD advisor asked me to find a laptop for my research project and send him the link so he could purchase it. I provided the link, and now, almost a year later, he contacted me to ...
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How should I paraphrase a paragraph with several primary references?
I have a question about in-text citations. I have read different answers and want to be sure about it: when I paraphrase a text from paper A, I should cite the author; if there is a reference in the ...
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Fifth year PhD student with no progress on my thesis because of advisor, what to do?
I am currently in the fifth year of my PhD in theoretical physics at a reputable school in the USA. For the past three years, I have been working with my advisor on a highly mathematical topic that ...
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How can I communicate with my advisor over repeated revision of my undergraduate thesis?
I am an undergraduate student writing a thesis. I am stuck in a cycle of revisions and would like to be able to complete my thesis and move on to other things.
I have both an advisor and co-advisor. ...
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Appendix: Secondary data
Using secondary data for my research. I will be using the responses of an external survey to run an analysis. Should I be adding the survey as an Appendix?
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Writing a Master's thesis "pre-proposal" in pure math
I've recently learned that I have to write a Master's thesis pre-proposal for my application to the ETH Zürich scholarship program ESOP. This is basically a thesis proposal, but written before one ...
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When Is It Okay to Leave Mediocre Work Off Of Your CV?
I'm currently a first-year PhD student in a quantitative science. As an undergraduate I performed research with a postdoc which resulted in a co-authored paper on arXiv. To fulfill a requirement to ...
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Is there a way to do a PhD such that you get a broad view of a field or subfield as a whole?
I will aim to keep this as general as possible, given the already narrow scope of the question.
I am looking for a way to design a PhD around the broader study of mathematics. I want to learn more ...
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Professor gets funding and does not give to student [closed]
I am a recent university graduate with a master's degree, and I secured a position in a sizable company. Interestingly, my master's supervisor is also supervising my sibling's Ph.D.
In a few meetings, ...
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Ask permission to publish article based on work from a different school?
I want to publish an article based on my master's from a previous school. I am now in a phd program at a new school. Do I need to ask my new supervisor for permission to publish the article? The ...
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Should I switch my math master’s programme for better grades, thesis opportunities, and a stronger shot at a PhD?
I am currently pursuing a master's degree in mathematics at one of the top two institutes in India. The coursework here is very fast-paced. Many of us who joined this programme are encountering these ...
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Why does it take so long for journals/committees to detect fabricated data or theses after submission?
I'm curious about the retraction process of papers or theses due to fabrication or dishonesty. Specifically, why is it that some papers or theses are retracted years after publication? Why can't ...
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What are the strengths and weaknesses of wanting to study everything and how can I use it to my advantage? [closed]
I'm a master's student in STEM. I changed my undergraduate major 3 times before settling on physics because it was the most general degree I could find. I'm now in a master's program and need to ...
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Using illustrations and comics in dissertations
It's common to use quotes related to the context in the first page of each parts in PhD dissertations and books. Is it also acceptable to use some illustration instead, similar to dummies book series?
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AI Tools for Restructuring an Doctoral Dissertation
I recently changed PhD programs and need to restructure my 325+ page dissertation according to the guidelines of the new program. The subject and approach are the same but the chapter outline/...
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Can your friends/family go to your Dissertation Proposal? (not one's final defense, but the proposal) [closed]
I am presenting my dissertation proposal (first three chapters) to my committee in a week, and my friends/family asked if they could come. I know they can come for the final defense, but what about ...
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Advice for finding support to pass PhD milestone
I'm a 3rd year PhD student at a UK research university, but find myself scarily close to being forced to leave.
Who should I look for to help me resubmit my 3rd year milestone report?
Context: I have ...
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Is excluding some parts of proposal in Phd. dissertation acceptable?
Is this situation considered acceptable, wherein a PhD. student has submitted a research proposal for evaluation and the proposal is approved by committee members, but due to some reasons (which are ...
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