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Tagged with thesis research-undergraduate
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How will not doing a bachelor thesis affect my chances of masters and PhD?
My university (math major) offers the option to write and present a bachelor thesis instead of taking 3 courses. Due to my changing tracks (from applied maths to pure maths) I have lost my ability to ...
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When is a math diploma thesis seriously publishable?
When is a diploma thesis in mathematics (bachelor or master thesis) actually considered good enough for a supervisor to propose publishing it in a journal? In some universities (e.g., ETH), this ...
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Should i leave the lab i am in even though i like the science but my pi disrespect me?
I am a freshman. I have been in a lab but I felt that I am not interested in science, so left it. in my spring semester, I joined another lab, and I was pretty interested in the science I am working ...
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How to manage thesis professor who is wrong
I am a med school student who is writing her master's thesis. I finished compiling my thesis with all the statistical analyses and wrote them as well. My problem is that today, when talking to the ...
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How do you decide whether to let a student asking for a (professor-level) advisor to be apart of their senior/junior undergraduate thesis? [closed]
What are your expectations for a student asking for an advisor for a senior/junior undergraduate thesis and what do students need to have to write a approvable junior/senior thesis?
Is there some ...
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Made a huge mistake in my bachelor's thesis
I recently submitted my thesis and also defended it successfully. But then I found mistakes in the statistical analyses of my research.
When I was doing my bachelor's there was no biostatistics in my ...
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Is it a good decision to include failed/unsatisfactory result in bachelor's thesis?
I am conducting a research project under supervision of a professor for the bachelor's thesis.
Among all the tasks agreed between the professor and I, there is one task which was suggested by me. It ...
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What to do if my undergraduate thesis advisor is not an expert in the area?
Recently, I decided to do an undergraduate thesis (in computer science). Since I just took a course related to the topic I'm interested in, I contacted the course lecturer and asked if he would advise ...
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How is a dissertation plan written and how to learn writing it
I am a Law student with an Economics Background (School of Economics, Department of Economics, Economic Theory and Policy)
I have a dissertation to write on Spatial and Urban planning. I have an ...
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What to do if my university doesn't have a research group in my area?
I am studying electrical engineering and I am really interested in electromagnetics and photonics. Unfortunately, my university doesn't have research groups in these fields so I am unable to pursue my ...
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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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Online checker for Plagiarism: How accurate are they?
I've finished writing my thesis and have done an online plagiarism check. I used https://www.check-plagiarism.com/ to check and got a lot of plagiarism. I don't understand why. You can find an example ...
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Advice on choosing a CS undergraduate thesis advisor (picking between 2 profs)?
I'm currently a college junior and looking to apply to grad school for CS in the fall. I'm currently choosing a thesis advisor for next year but would love some advice.
One of my options is a HCI ...
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Is it okay to have an additional authors for majority of my work in my undergrad thesis?
Background: My undergrad thesis primarily consists of 4 Methods converted into individual chapters (excluding intro, results, conclusion etc.). One chapter dedicates one specific idea. Each chapter is ...
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For an undergraduate, what does it mean to publish an article in a peer-reviewed journal?
I'm an undergraduate and have been able to have my thesis on curing psoriasis published in a peer-reviewed journal. Does it qualify me for anything?
