Hi All,

Would anyone be so kind as to locate and send the article below? It would be very much appreciated. Thanks in hope, Milo

Women's public toilets - A serious issue for the body politic
Author(s): Edwards J, McKie L
Conference: International Symposium on Public Toilets Location: HONG KONG, HONG KONG Date: MAY 25-27, 1995
Sponsor(s): Hong Kong Urban Council
Source: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES Volume: 3 Issue: 3 Pages: 215-& DOI: 10.1177/135050689600300303 Published: AUG 1996

I am a four year full time funded EngD'er.

I am in awe of you guys, how you do this with a full time job, kids, partners etc. is beyond my comprehension. I think that each of you deserves a double doctorate and triple pay (at least).

Keep going if you can.
:-x

Hi Folks,

Just curious to hear if people are using Pinterest for research purposes? It is basically a program that takes a snap shot of a website and 'pins' the image to a notice board which has a given theme.

I like the concept, but question how useful it will be. Will it turn me into a online hoarder of all things that 'might' be useful or will it help turn me into the slick, innovative, state of the art research student that I aspire to be?

Any thoughts on this the use of Pinterest?

I use twitter to stay up to date with my sector and this seems to work ok, although it can also be a great time sink. Could this be another diversion tactic sent my supervisors to test us?

milo(turkey)

I have worked in consultancy for a number of years, and exactly the same situation can be seen in this sector as well. I would argue that the private sector is a little more stressful that the academic. For me the key difference is the opportunity to dig much deeper and ensure that the answer is the best one, rather than in consultancy where the level of depth is often dictated by the project cost and time.

Having a higher degree allows the chance to work in both sectors. To my mind, it is all about options for future work.

Milo

Hi there, a few months ago I felt really at a loss and not entirely sure if I wanted to continue.  However, I had a meeting with my supervisors and we, as a team, decided on a number of objectives and a time plan. I now feel much more motivated and nearly almost excited! So, for those that feel low and dispirited please realise that there is hope, that you can change the ways things are and quitting is a last resort.  I have just read the book Bounce by Syed and it really helped remind me that champions are not born that way, it is not talent, simply lot's of focussed practise.

To my mind, that it all that is needed to achieve the PhD. Nobody said that this path was an easy one, that's why we all took it. We need to remind ourselves that it is meant to be challenging and to push the boundaries of our capabilities.

For me, tomorrow is a new day and negative thoughts have no place in it.
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Just realised your vague hope has come true, Wiki books have made a Latex pdf document. It's nearly 300 pages long, but hey, knock yourself out!

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

Milo

Hi Cornflower,

I know you said you wanted a PDF, but I thought you may find this helpfull?

There is heaps of info about Latex out there. A good starting point is here http://www.tug.org/ (if you join TUG you get access to the forum, although it does get a little techy!) and also this site ..http://ctan.org/.

This book by Lesley Lamport is really helpfull: LATEX: a Document Preparation System : User's Guide and Reference Manual (Addison-Wesley Series on Tools and Techniques for Computer T) [Paperback]

The on-line books are really good to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX and free! (good section

Finally, have a search on this forum, there have been posts about this before.

I think you will struggle to get all the stuff in one place, but knowing the main sites will makes things easier!

Happy New year.

Great post Cornflower.

It's very true that the thought of being on track is a little unsettling as the normal mode is to assume it is not.  I think we should all take solace in the fact that we all arrived at this academic level by a certain level of ability, determination and aptitude. I try to look back and remind myself that in the past things have generally worked out with studying and the assumed pending disaster often turned out to be a minor setback and in reality nothing really happened. The world kept turning after all.

Stress and anxiety are real barriers, but they are created by the mind.  Thus, if the mind creates stress and anxiety surely it can also de-construct them. Personally I find mediation a great way to rest the mind the and give it a little break.  I aim to meditate 30 minutes evening and morning-at first it was hard, but now it is easier and I actually look forward to it.

I try to constantly remind myself that the study is not my entire life (Although it often feels like it). Even if it all goes wrong and I don't get the special little letters in front of my name,I will still have a vast amount of knowledge and experience in my area, most of which has been built up by things not working. This cannot be taken away from me and the award of a PhD seems a little subjective. 

I think that assume all is well and keep on going, at some point you'll find out either way, but the stress barriers are creations of our own mind.

Now I just need to take my own advice more....less worry, more work and more enjoyment.  We did ,after all, chose this path ourselves.

milo

High-fives to Ady. What a legend!

Hi, does anyone have access to this article? If so, would you mind sending it to me?

http://ascelibrary.org/eyo/resource/1/jleed9/v124/i1/p1_s1?isAuthorized=no

Many thanks,

Milo:p

Ok, so i'm an INFJ type (Idealist). Which ,like Miss Piggy makes me very rare. Apparently Mother Theresa and Martin Luther King also had some research to do but managed to get distracted by this test. They also tested as INFJ types! (but so did Nicole Kidman).

It does sum me up quite well, but I might try it again in a few weeks, on a different time and see how that turns out?

Have a good evening y'all, I'm off to stand at the side in a party, I hope that others want to try and understand my interwoven personality whilst I enjoy some vivid Imaginations! Hopefully others will want to share their problems with me, but sure as hell i'm not telling them nothing about me! (from the Keirsey Temperament page)

@emma

There is some really good advice at on this forum. http://www.latex-community.org/ with lots of problems and solutions, it also has a search function so I am sure you will be able to get to where you need. As for images, I think you need to save them as png to replace jpg etc.

You can read about it here. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Importing_Graphics

Good luck,

I am using Refworks and exporting to Bibtex. I think moving to Mendeley will pay-off, but for me it means that all my references from previous work are expressed as Refwork ID#. Which means for me that I will need to go through the entire document and cross-reference them with the ID used by Mendeley (Author date).

I think maybe when I have time I will start this process as it does seem better than Refworks. However, the storage capacity (in Mendeley) is relatively small unless you 'super-size' and the account (at a cost). This means that I will not be able to export all 450 documents without paying for more storage.

Milo

Hi, you might also want to review the short thread (on this site) called 'LaTeX Versus MS Word And Referencing With Refworks' as this topic is in a similar vein.

I have used word for an MSc project and it was horrid! I have nearly committed to Latex which seems to be really suited to expansive documents. It would also work well for you splicing approach? Have a look at this link: http://www.slideshare.net/LianTzeLim/latex-more-than-just-academic-papers-and-theses

Good luck,

milo

Thanks Mak_2011.

I'll have a look at this and see how it goes, how have you found using Latex? are you new to this approach or are you relatively familiar with it? I am still in 2 minds as to whether to keep going or return to Word. Anyone else have thoughts/experience of MS Word versus Latex?

milo