Questions tagged [thesis]
Questions related to initiation, preparation, editing and presentation of a research thesis. A Thesis is a long research report including personal research conclusions and outputs. A Thesis must include personal research and the proper citations from other publications in the research topic.
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An article containing a copyrighted figure should be embedded in a stapler thesis: How to fill in RightsLink form?
I wrote an Elsevier article (open-access, CC-BY 4.0) that contains a third party figure from a Springer subscription book. At the time, I obtained a license for re-using the Springer figure in a ...
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Authorship disagreement between PhD student and supervisor
I completed my PhD thesis two years ago. My thesis subject was supported as a project by my university scientific research committee. In this project my supervisor was principal investigator and I was ...
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Masters student used part of PhD student's work
I am a PhD student doing research in a university. I was working on a research project which would be part of my thesis and upon completion of some parts of it I submitted the draft manuscript to my ...
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Getting paid for work and research overlap in masters thesis collaboration
I'm a master student in Computer Science and currently writing my master's thesis in collaboration with a company. In our original agreement regarding compensation, the organisation and I agreed that ...
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Is 10 pages too long for a research methodology chapter?
First, some background: I'm currently doing a PhD/Doctorate in social sciences/education field. Usually, theses in my country (Algeria) do not justify the research paradigm nor mention the ...
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How to organize the thesis chapter on literature review when there are only a few past works on the topic?
I have to include an individual chapter on literature review in PhD thesis. While going through the theses of seniors in the library, I found that typically the chapter is 30-40 pages long and covers ...
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What do graders expect in a master thesis in pure mathematics?
I am writing a master thesis in pure mathematics the upcoming year and want to know what graders look for in a master thesis. I am in the US.
How do they grade the thesis? What are the things that can ...
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What should I write under the heading "Significance of Findings" in my dissertation?
I've been writing my dissertation regarding a Rubik's Cube Solver I have developed. I have performed various tests regarding each solving methods' performance and I have created several graphs and ...
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Is there a multi-supervisor multi-author PhD thesis culture anywhere in the world?
Current PhD training culture involves supervisor student relationship, atleast at my institute. There is a risk associated with single point failures that might arise as a result of testing a ...
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How to cite JavaDoc?
Writing a technical Master's degree thesis in the IT field, I need to cite sentences that are in the JavaDoc, where are no author and no year. Ex.
From: java.util.Queue
The Queue interface does not ...
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Dr. rer. med Title
The doctorate title "Dr. rer. med" is awarded to non-medical postgraduate researchers from University Hospitals.
Is it equivalent to a PhD, or Dr. Eng. etc.?
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Master's student without internship or publications in final semester; how to accomplish something worth putting on my resume?
I am a 3rd-year Masters CSE student. Since I am a 3rd-year student, my advisor has asked me to work on my thesis since 1st year. I picked a problem and worked very hard for around 1.5 years only to ...
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Long-distance collaboration as Master student
I am about to start a Master's degree in Computational Biology. My future goal is to do a Ph.D. in Europe in the field of Computational Biomedicine. I have already completed the first year of another ...
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How many levels of sub-citations are appropriate?
I'm writing my Thesis and I found a brilliant book that helps me write it in a coherent manner. Consider this:
The author, Smith, talks about Approach XYZ and writes:
XYZ is about ..., first used ...
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How much of a master's program would a Ph.D. admissions committee consider?
I will be starting a master's degree in applied mathematics in the U.S. this fall and am considering entering a Ph.D. program after this. The master's program lasts two years; I'd want to begin the Ph....
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