I came across this , where an industrial scientist wonders whether they'd have a chance to get into a PhD program in the US.   In my experience (Europe, biochemistry), they'd have a very large chance to get a position. You've already shown you can work, are productive, scientifically literate, and you might even bring some interesting industrial contacts. If you make a good impression someone might even create a job opening for you.   I understand that in the US you don't apply for a position with one professor, but you apply for a PhD program at an institute. You send a statement, recommendation letters, transcripts and GRE and hope for the best.  If I would be a professor in the US, what would be my options to hire such a person if they contact me? Would I have to convince a committee to let them in or do you usually have no influence? Could I just give them a position if I have funds available? I'm interested in the unofficial process in the US.  For a European perspective:   In my field, many positions are filled by hiring people that applied to a research group, even when there's no advertised or available PhD position. If there's funding available, professors check who applied in the previous months, and maybe put out a message to relevant research groups to get more candidates. People are almost always hired directly after completing their Master's, and they did one or two projects on a closely related topic.
I've had a promising Skype interview with a great professor from a top-level university in US. Our research interests are closely related and he encouraged me to apply BUT he says that all decisions are finally made by admission committee there.  The question is "Is a professor in such a high-level university able to affect admission committee if he really wants a student?" or "Does admission committee decision-making process become easier if a professor really wants an applicant?"  The main point is the difference between my transcript (which is a real catastrophe!) and my research background which is pretty good so the professor's decision might be different from admission committee.
How do you remove the ability for a user to make a comment or post on a page? I am building a new website on Wordpress, and all my pages have the add comment box at the bottom. I wish fo rthis to be removed from pages such as Home, Contact Us, About etc etc, but want it to remain on the blogs and galleries.  I have read  but do not really understand what this means to do. is there an easier way to do it. I do not have  under Settings -> Discussions. Floating point arithmetic not producing exact results I wanted to use my android phone as a proxy server, meaning that I wanted to be able to use the IP on the phone as a proxy, so all request and response are received on the phone and forwarded back to the original requestor. How do I do this? How to access Winter 13's Push Major functionality We are ISV Partners and all of our packaging orgs have been upgraded to Winter 13. One of the features of Winter 13 was supposed to allow us to push major release versions to subscriber orgs. I would have expected it to be in the previously existing "Push Upgrade" section of our packaging orgs, but that still only allows pushing patch versions.  If it didn't make the final Winter 13 release, I would have expected Salesforce to take it off the release page. Is this something we have to ask to be enabled? Centos mysql version is 5.5 however PHPmyadmin still says version 5.1 Topological Circuit Simulator Does something like  exist for topological (eg. braided) circuits?   Alternatively, any ideas on how @ is getting  (or something similar)? I found this heart while exploring the crimson biome - what is it? Can a Canadian Travel to the USA twice, less than 180 days each time? I plan to travel to the USA for less than 180 days in 2019. I will return to Canada for Christmas and New Years, then return to the USA for approx 4 months and for sure less than 180 days.  Can I do this? I've seen online 180 per calendar year (which would make this plan ok) and in other places per 12 month rolling period (which would make it not ok.) How to pronounce decimals? Something like:  0.1 0.23 0.999   How to pronounce them correctly in English? How to send form input values and invoke a method in JSF bean show that a distance function is continuous Is it possible to have a 100% secure virtual private server? I am curious if it is possible to have a VPS that has data on it that is not readable by the hosting provider, but is still usable on the VPS.  Obviously there are some things that you could do to prevent them from reading anything...   You could change all the passwords, including root. But then, they could still use some alternate boot to reset the password, or they could just mount the disk another way. So, you could encrypt the disk or at least some of the contents on the disk. But then it seems that if you decrypted the content, they could still "peer in" to see what you were doing at the console, because after all, the virtualization platform should allow this. And even if you could stop that, it seems they could just read the RAM of the VPS directly.   Of course, the VPS can store data on it and as long as the key is not on the VPS and the data is never decrypted there, then the host cannot get the data.  But it seems to me that if any point the data on the VPS is decrypted...for use on the VPS...then the hosting provider can get the data.  So, my two questions are:   Is this correct? Is it true that there is no way to 100% secure data on a VPS from a host from seeing it, while keeping it accessable by the VPS? If it is possible to make it 100% secure, then how? If it is not possible, then what is the closest you can get to hiding data from the web host? Does the force of kinetic friction increase with the relative speed of the objects involved? If not, why not? Does the force of kinetic friction increase with the relative speed of the objects involved?    I have heard and read that the answer is no.  This is counter intuitive, and is a big part of why the "Airplane on a Treadmill" question is so interesting.  What phenomena are at work with kinetic friction, and why does it not increase with relative speed? Evaluating $\int_{0}^{\frac{\pi}{2}}\frac{\sqrt{\sin x}}{\sqrt{\sin x}+\sqrt{\cos x}}\, \mathrm{d}x$ How to mount an internal HDD on start-up? I have a 500GB internal HDD where I store all my music and photos but it is annoying to manually mount it after a restart and I was wondering how to mount it automatically and make it available to Rhythimbox for playback.  Thanks! How do i renable connecting a network drive using SMB1 since Windows 1709 I find today that I can no longer mount my Netgear ReadyNas drive because apparently it is using SMB1 and Windows 10 have disabled since release 1709. This is very problemaic because I need to access these files and because I have lost the admin password for the ReadyNas itself so I cannot login in order to update/reconfigure it to use SMB2 instead.  Microsoft refers me  to  which in turn refers me to  if I really want re-enable SMB1  And I successfully did re-enable SMB1 by running  Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName smb1protocol   from Powershell as Adminstrator.  However even after reboot I still cannot re-establish connection to my Netgear from Windows Explorer, it gives the same error  What else do I need to do ?  PS C:\WINDOWS\system32&gt; Get-WindowsOptionalFeature –Online –FeatureName SMB1Protocol   FeatureName      : SMB1Protocol DisplayName      : SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support Description      : Support for the SMB 1.0/CIFS file sharing protocol and the Computer Browser protocol. RestartRequired  : Possible State            : Enabled CustomProperties :                    ServerComponent\Description : Support for the SMB 1.0/CIFS file sharing protocol and the Computer                    Browser protocol.                    ServerComponent\DisplayName : SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support                    ServerComponent\Id : 487                    ServerComponent\Type : Feature                    ServerComponent\UniqueName : FS-SMB1                    ServerComponent\Deploys\Update\Name : SMB1Protocol   Solution  Thanks Bob, SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support was enabled but within it SMB 1.0 Client was not enabled, checking that box and rebooting fixed the issue. Is conservation of momentum and energy valid for non-inertial frames? Are there any other words similar to these words:  Award, Bestow, Donate, Grant, Give, Provide, Tax  ...that give a meaning of:  I freely give to you a portion what I have acquired or earned, without hesitation or expectation of anything in return. You are owed this, without question. There is no emotion involved with this transaction. It just is what it is.  For example: as a member of the Thief's Guild, 20% of everything you acquire will be ______ to the Guild.  Bestowed and Granted are very close...  Any other ideas? Finding roots/zeros for collision detection? For the most simple of 2D games, I have implemented a posteriori collision detection (overlapping rectangles) on the x/y Cartesian plane, but am now interested in understanding the basics of a priori collision detection...  In the link , I noticed the reference to Newton’s Method.  So, I want to better understand the link b/w finding zeros of an equation and detecting a posteriori collision.    Let's start with the most obvious case of finding roots of an equation:  If you have a projectile's trajectory modeled as a quadratic function, you can find the roots to predict at what time the height will equal zero (or any other constant height, actually, by just solving f(x)=C to be f(x)-C=0 and then finding roots of that expression).    So, as I understand, finding the root can tell me the time at which the object will be at any chosen height.  More broadly, we basically know the (x,y) location of the object for any given time.  But how does root finding, in particular, translate to detecting collisions with another object?  (The other object may be stationary, or be moving.  If the latter, do you also determine roots/location of this moving object as well? Calculate the (x,y) trajectory of both objects and determine where they will intersect?)  Again, the basic question is where does root finding come into play?  Any links to a basic primer on this topic, with a simple example would also be greatly appreciated. I just created a plane and added a wave modifier to it, to simply make it look like something fluid. Now, I have an Object that I want to place on the surface of this fluid plane. But how do I do that?  I thought of adding a driver to my Objects location, but I have no clue how to get the location of a certain vertex in runtime.