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Tagged with dissertations or thesis
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 should I do with my 60 page undergraduate thesis?
I recently finished my undergraduate thesis in philosophy. It came out to about 60 pages/16,000 words. Now that I'm done, I'm wondering what I should do with it - if I should send it somewhere for ...
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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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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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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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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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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 can I help a PhD student who's dead-set on keeping methodologically wrong results?
I am helping a STEM PhD student with a statistical approach they developed for a key thesis chapter. Unfortunately, the approach is fundamentally flawed and makes no statistical sense. (I'm a ...
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How should a faculty deal with the problem of Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated texts?
For many years one of the main problems for academic essays and BA/MA/PhD theses was plagiarism. However with the recent advent of artificial intelligence (AI) that can write high quality texts (e.g. ...
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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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Someone I don't know contributed to my program on GitHub. Can I still present that program as my Bachelor thesis?
I am a third-year computer engineering student at a university in Croatia.
In 2020, my Computer Architecture professor asked me to make an assembler and an emulator for PicoBlaze that would run in any ...
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What to do if you disagree with a juror during master's thesis defense?
I attended a master's dissertation defense and I was wondering what one might do in a situation like this.
Juror: What do you mean by the phrase “previous work” in your thesis text? Is it your ...
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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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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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I realized I made a huge mistake grading a student's thesis. Panicking and unsure what to do
I am a PhD student, and last year, as a TA I helped grade/supervise a Bachelor's student's thesis. I now notice that I provided her with some wrong suggestions due to which her analysis is also wrong.
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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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Can someone be awarded the title of doctor without having been a doctoral student?
I'm just still a student, and the question doesn't concern me, but I'm really curious about the answer.
In class, during a break, our assistant was discussing with us (the students) the research that ...
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My PhD supervisor gave up on me
I'm a 4th year PhD student in Germany. I started my PhD in a fully funded project and the funding will run out by next month. I'm still not close to finishing my PhD but I believe that I can finish it....
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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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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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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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Will writing a thesis in MS Word or LaTeX impact my future career?
I wonder what is the trend or reaction of academia towards writing a thesis in MS Word. I am in the process of finalizing my PhD thesis, which is in MS Word for now. I am equally proficient in both ...
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Is it appropriate to use a QR code at the end of Thesis acknowledgements for a subtle banter?
I have seen this "thank me" motivational remark made by Snoop Dogg during his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony, several times and found it hilarious. I wondered if using it at the end of the ...
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Dissertation acknowledgements: thanking a professional for medical treatment?
I'm currently working on the acknowledgements section of my doctoral thesis. I suffered from severe depression during my time as a PhD student and received tremendous support from a particular nurse ...
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Is it ethically justifiable to conceal a fatal conceptual flaw in a thesis to avoid an unaffordable 2-year setback if the flaw is the advisor's fault?
A couple of decades ago I graduated from a Russian university with an MS in physics, and my MS thesis contained a critical flaw. In short, the thesis was about static perturbations in a certain ...
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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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What should I do if I messed up my pre-thesis project and I just want to end it as soon as possible and switch a group for master thesis?
I am currently part of a research group where members work on a wide range of topics, from nuclear model calculations to quantum entanglement SPDC. Our professor has a laid-back approach and likes to ...
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Is it acceptable to not give someone credit in a math thesis for minor guidance?
This question is related to this question. If I write a thesis and encounter a small problem that I can't resolve on my own, maybe because I didn't sleep well this day, and someone, like my mother or ...
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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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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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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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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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Found critical errors in my master‘s thesis after officially submitting
I submitted my master‘s thesis a few days ago. The official deadline is next Friday.
Today I spotted some serious issues in my thesis. In particular, in my main theorem and the main proposition that ...
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Does it matter who your thesis examiner is?
I am a MS (research) student and recently finished writing my thesis. I have put a lot of time into it and tried to make it explanatory. At my institute, the advisor names five external tutors to ...
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How do I lower the similarity index percentage in iThenticate?
I have run into a situation where a "plagiarism detection software" (I believe the one being used is called iThenticate) is showing 31 % similarity index for my document. In the list at the ...
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