I have been one of the co-authors of a published paper 8 years ago. In those years I was an undergrad student. So, I had no significant scientific contribution to this paper. I have just finished my Ph.D. and I do not want this paper listed in my publications.   Is it possible to remove my name from this paper via a correction?  Clarification: I have concerns about the quality of this work. It was carelessly written and the quality is low. So I do not want my name to come together.
I managed to successfully publish my old bachelor thesis in a good quality national journal in my country. However, I am thinking of retracting the article due to certain circumstances. First, I felt really embarrassed by the low quality research methodology used in my bachelor thesis. I only used simple correlation in my research. After it was published, I realized that the journal editor team forgot to include a reference in that article because they were rushing me throughout the editing process. I informed them about their mistake and it seems that they have done nothing to fix the problem. I became a bit annoyed because the editor team has never made this problem in the past.  I felt that it would be better for me to simply ask for retraction to solve this issue, but I am a bit afraid of negative consequences in the future. Is it okay to do this? I am really interested of entering the academic world in the future.
I've been reading through a lot of the rookie Java questions on finalize() and find it kind of bewildering that no one has really made it plain that finalize() is an unreliable way to clean up resources.  I saw someone comment that they use it to clean up Connections, which is really scary since the only way to come as close to a guarantee that a Connection is closed is to implement try (catch) finally.    I was not schooled in CS, but I have been programming in Java professionally for close to a decade now and I have never seen anyone implement finalize() in a production system ever.  This still doesn't mean that it doesn't have its uses, or that people I've worked with have been doing it right.  So my question is, what use cases are there for implementing finalize() that cannot be handled more reliably via another process or syntax within the language?    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On both the Windows and the Linux machines, I have the most recent GDAL version (gdal 1.11.1, np19py27_1), however on the Linux machine, GDAL doesn't seem to recognize HDF4 Drivers... it won't load or process any of the HDF4 datasets that are easily processed on the Windows machine (unfortunately this machine doesn't have enough space to run the full code).  Has anyone else encountered this problem?  Do I need to install an additional module on the Linux system? My problem is that I have only one reference. So I would like the head of this part to appear "Reference" instead of commonly "References". More generally, could we change the title "References" to an arbitrary name?  Thank you very much for your help! jQuery 1.9 checkbox not checked second time after once it unchecked Multivariable limit proof: $\lim\limits_{(x,y)\rightarrow (0,0)}\frac{\left|x\right|^a\left|y\right|^b}{\left|x\right|^c + \left|y\right|^d} = 0$ In MK (Morse-Kelley) set theory life is easy: $\forall X\forall y\left(y\in\bigcap X\leftrightarrow\forall x\left(x\in X\rightarrow y\in x\right)\right)$. If $X=\left\{\right\}$ then $\bigcap X=U$, where $U$ is the universal class. So the (unary) intersection of the empty set is the class that contains all sets as elements. In ZF (Zermelo-Fraenkel) set theory, instead, proper classes are not allowed. So, how can I define $\bigcap X$ in ZF? I tried with the following definitions:   $\forall X\left(X\not=\left\{\right\}\rightarrow\forall y\left(y\in\bigcap X\leftrightarrow\forall x\left(x\in X\rightarrow y\in x\right)\right)\right)$. This means that $\bigcap\left\{\right\}$ is undefined, which is not that good. $\forall X\forall y\left(y\in\bigcap X\leftrightarrow X\not=\left\{\right\}\land\forall x\left(x\in X\rightarrow y\in x\right)\right)$. This means that $\bigcap\left\{\right\}=\left\{\right\}$, which is the opposite of MK.   I couldn't find any other valuable definition. Any ideas? Thank you. Are "pushforward" and "pullback by zero section" of diffrentials isomorphic in elliptic curves? Let S be a scheme, $p:E\rightarrow S$ be an elliptic curve with zero section $e:S\rightarrow E$. My question is: Are $p_*(\Omega_{E/S}^1)$ and $e^*(\Omega_{E/S}^1)$ isomorphic? I think it's right because I saw both definitions in different notes and they seem to represent the same thing. Thank you! Show community wikis differently in the Android app How to switch window controls to the left (Gnome Shell)? Is there a way to the switch gnome-shell window buttons to the left? I've gotten so used to them being on the left that them being on the right has thrown me way off.  (gnome shell has them defaulted to the right corner) I have a Surface Pro 4 and an iMac (late 2019). I would like to connect my Surface Pro to the iMac to use the iMac screen as a second monitor.  Is that possible?  What are the requirements to use an iMac as a second screen? I have a table similar to this:  CREATE TABLE example (   id integer primary key,   name char(200),   parentid integer,   value integer);   I can use the parentid field to arrange data into a tree structure.  Now here's the bit I can't work out. Given a parentid, is it possible to write an SQL statement to add up all the value fields under that parentid and recurse down the branch of the tree ?  UPDATE: I'm using posgreSQL so the fancy MS-SQL features are not available to me. In any case, I'd like this to be treated as a generic SQL question.  BTW, I'm very impressed to have 6 answers within 15 minutes of asking the question! Go stack overflow! t-test for partially paired and partially unpaired data An investigator wishes to produce a combined analysis of several datasets.  In some datasets there are paired observations for treatment A and B.  In others there are unpaired A and/or B data.  I am looking for a reference for an adaptation of the t-test, or for a likelihood ratio test, for such partially paired data.  I am willing to (for now) to assume normality with equal variance and that the population means for A are the same for each study (and likewise for B). Generate a log of all the installs on a system (whether apt-get/yum/pip/npm/...) Sharing Test code in Maven Upgrade from MaaS 2.6.2 to MaaS 2.7 Getting a black screen when installing or Live booting Ubuntu (any version) in my laptop I have an ACER Aspire laptop. Model number is E5-573G-56RG. I bought it only 15 days back. There is no DVD drive in it. I have tried various versions of Ubuntu- 14.04.2, 14.04.3, 15.10, 12.04.5. Tried disabling secure boot, fast startup. I current have Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 PRO (not-activated) installed with GPT partition in UEFI bios. I actually want only the Home edition and Ubuntu 14.04.3 (preferably because of LTS) or 15.10. In case more information is required, kindly ask me..  I tried installing through Wubi, when booting if I choose Ubuntu it automatically restarts and goes into Windows 10 Home! (I didn't have Windows 10 PRO at that time)  NONE OF THE SOLUTIONS I REFERRED HELPED ME.  I have spent 5 days (literally at least 20 hours reading all of them and trying out all kinds of editing in the grub command line, like removing quiet splash, adding and replacing with nomodeset, no splash, acpi_osi=off, acpi_osi=Linux, acpi_backlight=vendor,  acpi_backlight=legacy, noveau.modeset=0, i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 and such things! But I was not able to succeed installing which is why I doubt if there is some more thing to be done or know exactly what has to be done.