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Protective by Nature: Outdoor Contexts, Family Influences, and Children's Problematic Screen Behavior
1 Introduction The digital world has become embedded in children's daily lives. Recent data suggests that, globally, around 48% of young children exceed established screen time guidelines (Wang et al. 2023), which could suggest that families experience difficulties in implementing healthy screen management strategies. The well-established wellbeing benefits of time spent in nature present a potential family-friendly and health-positive screen management tool.
Disagreeability, neuroticism and stress: What drives panic buying during the COVID-19 pandemic
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Panic buying has returned to Australia in the wake of its second-biggest city experiencing a spike in COVID-19. The Victorian government has reimposed stay-at-home restrictions on 36 of Melbourne's 321 suburbs in response. Once again supermarket stores are being emptied of toilet paper and other consumables. But this panic buying isn't just in affected areas. It's not even limited to Victoria.
Disagreeability, neuroticism and stress: what drives panic buying during the COVID-19 pandemic
Panic buying has returned to Australia in the wake of its second-biggest city experiencing a spike in COVID-19. The Victorian government has reimposed stay-at-home restrictions on 36 of Melbourne’s 321 suburbs in response. Once again supermarket stores are being emptied of toilet paper and other consumables. Read more: Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison undeterred on COVID re-opening despite rise in toilet paper index But this panic buying isn’t just in affected areas.
Understanding the Links Between Personality and Happiness
by Luke Smillie and Jeromy Anglim Scholars have long asserted that well-being is the ultimate end-goal of virtually every human endeavour. If this is even partly true, then identifying the factors that influence well-being is an important mission for psychological science. And one factor that seems to be very important for well-being is personality.
Not all doom and gloom: even in a pandemic, mixed emotions are more common than negative ones
Much has been written on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on negative emotions, such as rising anxiety and the loneliness of self-isolation. But while things may seem all doom and gloom, new data reveals it’s surprisingly rare for a person to experience purely negative emotions. More commonly, people are instead experiencing mixed emotions. Read more: Social distancing can make you lonely. Here's how to stay connected when you're in lockdown What are mixed emotions?
humor - What is your favorite "data analysis" cartoon? - Cross Validated
This is one of my favorites: One entry per answer. This is in the vein of the Stack Overflow question What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon?. P.S. Do not hotlink the cartoon without the site's permission please.
Is it appropriate for a student to have an advisor who is also a family member?
Yes, I happen to know a researcher in country A supervising his own wife's PhD :) They are both from country B, and come from the same city. He was her lecturer during her undergraduate in that city. He then moved to country A, and they had been dating before she started her PhD in his institution. After they got married, she changed to another supervisor.
How does a petty marijuana possession charge affect graduate admissions in math?
While you needn't worry, you should reveal facts that you are required to reveal. Graduate school application forms are not easy to obtain (most institutions require online application via an application-handling company), but I could determine something about a few institutions. If you were applying to the universities of Arkansas, South Carolina State, Hawaii, Alaska, or Tennessee State, there is no applicable question on their graduate application form.
How to see peer review comments when rejection letter does not list them?
Well, there isn't really anything you can do except ask the editor, since he/she is the only one who has them (except of course the reviewers themselves, whose identities are not and will not be known to you). So if you want those comments, that's what you'll have to do.
What to do when you are suspicious about numerical results in a submitted manuscript that you are reviewing?
I am currently reviewing a paper and feel suspicious about their numerical results. I feel their results have been slightly modified to exhibit their superiority compare to other comparative methods. I cannot give an exact mathematical reason why I think their numerical results have been manipulated, but it is so odd that in all 15 scenarios they have been better. Actually, I am pretty sure that their method is better than his benchmarks but not always. Maybe they modified some scenarios.
What careers not requiring an academic degree might be open to a self-learner who wants to do research on pure mathematics?
Can you do research without formal education? Sure. Will it be of any relevance? Perhaps not so much. There are a few advantages that a formal education gives you. First, it sort of forces you to sit through a series of topics that you may find boring, uninteresting, or irrelevant at the moment; but at some point they may turn out to be useful. Conversely, it also gives you easy access to other branches that may be quite difficult to get on on your own, but may prove useful later.
Are reviewers impressed by a quick response to a request to revise and resubmit?
It actually depends on the precise semantics of "revise and re-submit". In some journals i was involved with, three different responses were possible: a minor revision is of a mostly editorial nature and people expect that this can be done quickly.
What are reasonable alternatives to changing your name for academic publishing when you have a common surname?
The previous answers point out two things: I can agree to the first one, but the second seems more trouble than it is worth, as you yourself state. Further, I find modifying your name a bit of an extreme measure, i.e. "legally" changing your name, solely for the purpose of academic recognition. I'd advise you to shift your view to other means of identification. All papers that I came across have some information regarding the institution of the authors and their emails.
Should PhD students mention small grants on their CV?
Just to be clear, it depends on what you are calling grants. If you apply to an (internal or external) program that has some sort of name (e.g., University Student Travel Grant), then yes, this counts as something you can put under the "Awards" section of your CV.
Is it common for prestigious universities to contact you after you drop out to see whether you wish to enrol again before a deadline?
The answer may depend on why you had to drop out, but many universities simply consider you to still be their student even if your studentship is disrupted by events beyond your control, and will assume you are likely to wish to continue your education there. You do not say why you had to drop out, but common reasons for somebody to withdraw or fail include: mental health issues, financial crisis, physical illness, death or serious illness of a close family member, visa problems, etc.
Do people say why they decline a paper review request?
Established scientists receive a large number of review requests. A few years back I decided to tally the review requests I received, and the number I accepted. In the end I received 112 and accepted 28 over the course of a year. Add to that the editorial work I did for three journals and you get an awful lot of uncompensated, unrewarded time invested for the good of the field.
How often are results faked in computer science papers?
Nobody knows. Unless someone tries to reproduce the results and cannot, there's not ever even going to be a challenge to the results. Direct reproduction in CS and similar fields is generally done in papers that extend older results or propose a new method. To my knowledge, we do not see a lot of retractions based on these kinds of studies, so I'd say the rate of faking is low.
Is completing two years of your PhD sufficient to satisfy journal reviewing requirement of having a PhD?
For reviewing papers, some journals ask you to have a PhD degree. I want to know, if the PhD degree is the obtained certificate at the end of your PhD, or it could be also be, for example, your third inscription in the PhD (you have previously two succefull years in preparing the degree).
Can you get a PhD based on work experience?
Ph.D.s and other academic titles and degrees awarded for "work experience", "life experience" and so on are products of diploma mills. You pay a lot of money (thousands of USD) for a piece of paper that is completely worthless. Employers know these worthless "titles". Such a "Ph.D." will not help you get a better job, and it will in particular not help you in an academic career. Instead, using such a "degree" in an application will brand you as naive at best or a fraud at worst.
What can an over 30 unemployed person with a physics degree and teaching experience do?
I have a degree on physics, although my qualifications were poor. I can speak english and a bit of german. My degree in physics is 'solid state'. I have been a teacher in an academy. In many jobs when you are over 30 years old they won't pick you (at least in spain)
peer review - What words to describe "revisions" and "resubmission" to distinguish revise and resubmit versus submission to new journal following rejection? - Academia Stack Exchange
This question was motivated by a desire to have a clean set of terms to describe the life cycle of a manuscript from draft to publication. Obviously, this could apply to (a) the situation where you have submitted a paper and been given the option to submit an updated manuscript (i.e., a revise and resubmit); or (b) you received a rejection letter and you are improving the manuscript with the intention of resubmitting the manuscript to a new journal.
What to do when reviewer of conference submission provides very negative ratings and provides almost no comments?
I submitted a paper to an international conference and some strange things happened along the way. First, the reviews did not meet the date in which they were supposed to be send to the authors. After like four days, I saw a message in the submission site that said that my paper was rejected. So I wait for the notification to be sent to me my email, because I wanted to know the reviews to improve my paper and maybe resend it to another conference.
If transitioning into academic position, should I buy my PhD graduation cap and gown?
As noted in the comment, the location might change our opinion of the problem, however I will make notes from my experience. When I graduated with my first degree I hired a gown as I could not see the value of owning one and knew I would study for higher degrees, and perhaps I could buy one later in my career. I received my second degree in-absentia because I knew that I would graduate again with a third degree in due course.
phd - Why is it an explanation, not argument - Academia Stack Exchange
Example 7: In my opinion, the reason that animals do not feel pain is that animals don't have souls . Rap: This example combines some features already discussed. Do not be mislead by the phrase "in my opinion" into calling this an argument. The opinion being asserted here is the entire explanation. Also, note that the rather outlandish claim that animals do not feel pain is being asserted by the speaker as a fact. He does not give any evidence for this, but simply explains why it is so.
What qualifications are required to teach undergrads at college level in the United States?
I have a Masters Degree in Computer Science from India. I have been working in IT sector from last 10 years From last 5 years I am working in US I am very much interested in Teaching Undergrads(Bachelors Degree) at College. I am not aware of Education /Degree/Credentials needed to teach at College Level in US. Can someone kindly let me know how to go about this.
What is done in a workshop? How does it differ from an academic conference?
I have researched some, but I still don't know what is carried out in workshops. What activities are arranged? What are they difference from conferences?
If you change your name while doing research, can you list both names on a publication?
This is indeed a weird question, though not an uninteresting one. Fundamentally a name is a pointer to a person, of a formalized and official sort, but of course for every person there are multiple phrases that point to them. Any article byline gives a mapping to the set of objects named, and the idea that perhaps this function need not or should not be one-to-one is a very curious one.
How to avoid plagiarism when you come up with an argument for a class paper and later discover that another author has the same argument?
I think your concern reflects well on you (as does agreeing to let someone else take your first choice), but the way I read your question is that (1) you formed an opinion what to write, then (2) discovered in other secondary literature that someone else agrees with you, and had already made supporting arguments similar to yours. That's not plagiarism. It just means that your work is less novel than you'd probably hoped.
How to force Thunderbolt-ethernet connection when switching networks without restarting computer?
I have a thunderbolt to ethernet cable on a MacBookPro Retina on Lion. Sometimes the thunderbolt to ethernet connection does not work. It seems to occur when I switch network locations (e.g., I move from my home network to my work network). Restarting the computer fixes the problem, however, I don't want to have to restart my computer. How can I force thunderbolt to ethernet to connect without restarting the computer? Under network settings, there is a red dot and not connected on "Thund...thernet".
Where do you place the link to open data in a manuscript?
I am sure there are many ways to do this, but I have recently started to end the paper with a specific (unnumbered) section Further Material (or something like this). For an example, you can check this preprint of mine. Before, I primarily gave a link to the online material as a footnote somewhere in the Experiments section, or wherever else it made sense from the text flow.
How to cite a multi-part blog post with separate URLs for each part?
You have two options that are IMHO equally good. Either cite them as one item with three links: Or cite them as three items: If they were three articles in an article series, they would be cited as three items for sure. But for blog posts, no canonical citation style is established (or maybe some style mention it, but it's not a universally accepted thing); this means that any style that contains the relevant information is OK.
Is it acceptable for professors to listen to music using headphones in the workplace when expecting student contact?
There seem to be two issues in the question and the answers, one is if it is ok with headphones on and the other to play music in the office during hours when student contact is expected. Headphones. Wearing headphones is not exactly inviting to conversation but signalling "I want to be undisturbed" so clearly not the best way to have students approach you during office hours without invoking some extra discomfort to at least some. Music. Music is a personal taste.
professors - What is "Honorary Lecturer" in the UK universities? - Academia Stack Exchange
I was browsing some UK universities, and I was surprised by the number of . I understand a position, normally given to an outstanding scientist outside the academia, but I wonder how a junior academic position (like lecturer) can be given with honorary title. First, I thought it can be a political figure or something like than rather that someone with scientific achievements, but suprisingly, I found it is VERY popular to fall in this category.
How much detail to include in first email to potential PhD supervisor?
My answer is going to extend up this earlier answer to a similar, although broader, question. Some background: I have worked with two pretty well-known professors in Austria and Switzerland, and can provide some insight into how they tend to hire. I assume other professors have similar MOs, but not every person is the same, so your milage may vary. Indeed, for both of them, the first step towards starting a PhD is to send them a short informal mail stating your interest in joining their group.
Whether to publish one big paper or many smaller papers for a given research project?
I think we all want fewer but high quality publications but many aspects of academia seems to favour quantity. We should also not forget that apart from numbers of publications, the impact of them through different index measures such as the "h" and number of citations play a vital role in evaluating your output. A paper with no citations is not "good" for your record.
How to keep track of deliverables for supervised students when you supervise many students?
Background: In my area, academics often supervise a large number of students (e.g., 10, 15, 20 students). Many of these students are doing a small thesis as part of either their fourth year or coursework masters. I am able to keep all these projects in my head, I do have documentation around each project, and I generally have a good understanding of what needs to be done next on each project.
Python as a statistics workbench
Lots of people use a main tool like Excel or another spreadsheet, SPSS, Stata, or R for their statistics needs. They might turn to some specific package for very special needs, but a lot of things can be done with a simple spreadsheet or a general stats package or stats programming environment. I've always liked Python as a programming language, and for simple needs, it's easy to write a short program that calculates what I need. Matplotlib allows me to plot it.
How to receive email notifications of newly accepted papers in a specified set of journals?
Some publishers have a page introducing the ways by which their readers can be informed whenever a new issue of the journal is published, or a new paper is published in a journal. You should seek each journal for such email subscriptions. Also, some websites of the journals provide RSS links for their users. You can copy the RSS link (news feed) of the journal you want to read in your RSS reader software or related online account.
What to do when you are a promised a research-based research associate role but are required to act in an IT support role?
The answers so far have many good points: you are being abused, you have been misled, you would do well to seek employment elsewhere, perhaps you were not assertive enough, and so on. But I believe none of that matters much compared to your decisions from this point on. You sound like a person who prefers to think ahead and plan important decisions rather than improvising—many researchers are thinkers who want to weigh their options and take their time to come to decisions.
publishability - Puzzled with "Paper not suitable for this journal" decision for applied mathematics paper - Academia Stack Exchange
First, I am not familiar with the "Elsevier Journal Finder," but any automated tools like this should be regarded as search tools and not wholehearted recommendations. Second, there are a few obvious reasons why your paper might not be considered on topic.
How to handle data imbalance in classification?
The question is which loss function you have. Most classifiers are created to minimize a 0-1 loss, that is, they assume that the loss of classifying A as B is the same as B and A. If this is really your loss function, you should be happy with classifying all sample as being from the majority group. That is, in your case this silly classifier gets the answer right 700/730 of the times. So, from a practical point of view and easy way to go is to change your loss function.
How to perform unsupervised Random Forest classification using R?
I am working with the and packages in R for land classification. For each 4-band CIR image, I have created training data in a GIS, run the training data through a model to produce a .csv, which is then input into R's algorithm. I am finding the Random Forest supervised classification is seriously overclassifying areas. In fact, I am producing better results using the unsupervised ISODATA algorithm. Is there a way to implement unsupervised classification with the randomForest package in R?
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How to check citations and references match in a manually prepared document with APA author (year) citations?
In the "old days" this was what had to be done manually. I simply printed the reference list (one-sided print) and went through the text and checked the references I passed in the text and checked the corresponding one in the reference list. This would take maybe 20-30 minutes(?). It is clear that this is easier to do on paper than on screen but it is a very safe way to do the checking. In the end you will (hopefully not) end up with references missing ticks in either the text or the list.
How to generate correlated random numbers (given means, variances and degree of correlation)?
+1 to @user11852, and @jem77bfp, these are good answers. Let me approach this from a different perspective, not because I think it's necessarily better in practice, but because I think it's instructive. Here are a few relevant facts that we know already: Now, we can combine these four facts to create two standard normal variables whose populations will have a given correlation, $r$ (more properly, $\rho$), although the samples you generate will have sample correlations that vary.
How can a new applied mathematics graduate student publish their first paper in predictive modelling?
I am a new graduate student in Applied Mathematics, I would like to publish a paper in the field of Predictive modelling for Insurance. But I have no idea where do I start with! How can I pick the topic? and what should a research paper look like? I really want to work hard to get the output of the research paper outstanding.
How to test hypothesis of no group differences?
I have recently thought about an alternative way of "equivalence testing" based on a distance between the two distributions rather than between their means.
How common is spousal hire (academic or non-academic) in the Australia/New Zealand system?
My experience on this is more anecdotal, but perhaps it will be helpful. In Australia, I've certainly known plenty of couples that work at the same university. I can also think of a few where I imagine a package arrangement was organised (although I don't know details). Equally, I can think of cases where academics have left a department because the department decided to no longer employ their spouse (i.e., they moved to a new university that would employ their spouse).
Is it okay to incorporate a block of citations from a review paper into my own paper?
I've noticed many papers deal with this problem by doing: time-travel has long been known to be possible [17, 18, 4]. Where 17 is an older research paper, 18 is a recent paper with more comprehensive results, and 4 is the review which may or may not have pointed the authors to 17 and 18 in the first place. I suppose this way, you both cite the original source (which you have to do) and credit the review (so as to not be plagiarizing their collection of sources).
What to do when university has not yet reimbursed travel costs for a job interview?
A few months ago, I visited a university for a tenure-track interview in computer science. Before my visit, I received an interview policy sheet from HR stating all the usual things (economy flight fare, etc). After the interview, I was told by HR that I need to mail them my original receipts, which I did instantly upon my return home. After a few weeks, I inquired regarding the reimbursement and was told that my receipts hadn't been received yet.
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