What should be the ideal length of a medical or veterinary degree 5, 6, or 7 years?

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I am baffled with the variation of this period of training the world over

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Besides the authors, who should the burden of paying article processing charges fall on?

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Can a journal give 2 invoices for one manuscript?

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In what reasonable time period should institutions/individuals inform the interviewee of the outcome?

Are there any guidelines?

07 August 2018 4,846 4 View

I got an article after I read another article. Do I cite the first article or both articles?

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05 June 2018 5,957 4 View

Is it correct for a lecturer or Professor to mark your wife or son"sexamor Thesis?

What does your official University/Institution policy say about this

03 April 2018 7,125 5 View

What is a reasonable upper limit of the number of publications an author can produce per year?

5, 10, 20 , 50 100. Distinguish between a teaching lecturer and a non teachingresearcher

03 April 2018 2,162 5 View

Do you talk to a colleague that is reviewing your manuscript or you avoid him/her?

Some journals request you to nominate colleagues to review your manuscript. If you know that a colleague is reviewing your manuscript, should you avoid meeting him for fear of biasing his judgement

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What is your opinion on a reviewer who wants to change your writing style?

Each and everyone of us has a different style of writing that captures his or her readers. Isn't the function of reviewers to check facts?

02 March 2018 7,970 3 View

Is peer evaluation of teaching by collegues in the same department always fair?

We have peer evaluation but I think the system may be abused by colleagues also competing for promotion

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For how many journals should one be a reviewer?

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Can NFL theorem be valid in infinite search space in ML?

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Is there any research regarding how training and development is going to change in the era of Fourth Industrial Revolution?

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Which group formation theory do you recommend for projects that aim to bring together entrepreneurs for training for regional development?

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Satellite orbit estimation using Recurrent Neural Network - what should I use?

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Can the problems of overfitting be solved without cross validation?

For an overfit data set the cross validation error will be much bigger than the training error. Is it true or false?

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How to assure whether a regression tree overfit or not by seeing bias-variance value of the model?

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In Machine Learning, isn't the problem Out-of-Distribution (OOD) instances really a form of over training?

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Any methods to train a neural network with random (stochastic) and non-measurable variable?

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Can we Use a Dataset having no captions to train an image captioning model?

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How can I check similarity between two signatures?

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