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patricktoks:
Hi Prof

Please I need your assistance in getting journals on an Animal Science research work( basially growth in rabbit). I intend starting my PhD program in January 2020, but I need to get a research topic to work on. Thanks

Please check my responses regarding finding journals...you can read a few pages back.

Tending:
Good evening wip7. Guess you are doing great?

My discipline so far.

B.Eng ( Computer Engineering) University of Benin
MSc (Information Technology) National Open University
MSc ( Electrical / Electronics Engineering - Communication option) University of Lagos

Could you please or direct me on best area of interest? Going into academics

This is nice and you have an awesome academic background. Actually, this will largely depend on your personal interest. If I were in your position, I would go for either of these areas:

1. Computer Fraud & Security (This will be useful in various real-life applications due to increasing threats by cybercriminals and allied criminals)

2. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (This is very important practically and gaining worldwide usage)

3. Energy Storage Materials

4. Circuits design for biomedical and optical communication systems

5. Intelligent fault detection, fault analysis, diagnostics and monitoring


Best wishes!

asunmoGGMU:
I want clarification on something. I understand SCI is maintained by Clarivate Analytics and there is the SCI Expanded, which is accessible through Web of Science. Seeing that you did not put SCOPUS in the indexes above, does this means that publication indexed under SCOPUS are not considered?

I am trying to ascertain if universities in Turkey give credence to Web of Science than SCOPUS.

Yes, only articles published in journals indexed under SCI/SCI-e/SSCI/AHCI and found in WOS (web of science) are paid by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.

However, some of the universities give some credence to SCOPUS-based journals. Majority of universities in developed nations rank it this way for now SCI=SCI-e=SSCI=AHCI=WOS....then SCOPUS.

Reason being that Scopus is a large interdisciplinary database from Elsevier, however, WOS is a collection of databases and covers more than SCOPUS, stricter in its citation sources (excludes non-reputable/unknown publishers sources for its citation).

Best wishes!

sentaljohn:
Hi Prof,

Unfortunately, i have several publications in these fake Indian journals. Is there a way to recall them? I am thinking of upgrading them to a standard one.
Thanks

Since you already published these research studies, you may have to let go and do more newer research to publish in reputable journals. You may wish to retract them if such journals allow that. Those Fake Indian journals usually bring down the profile of reputable academics.

However, when you have more from reputable journals it will swallow the fakes.

From my years of experience, I have been able to secure funding and various research collaboration due to my research output since every other organization will be interested to evaluate the applicant based on their profile.

Best wishes!

storm4help:
Please I need a PhD Mathematics Admission....?@wip can you help? What is the tuition fee per year and for all the programme? Can i get a scholarship? Even teaching assistant?

I have responded to a PhD applicant just there. at EMU, total phd cost is around 9500$. Here the cost is based per course your are registered to per semester so no fixed cost per year. Averagely if you register for 2 courses per semester meaning 4 courses a year, you will be paying around 3500$.

Yes I can help with the admission!

Usually there is entrance scholarship of 50% which is already included in the fees making it 9500$ entire program (provided you graduate within 4-5 years). If your PhD extends more than 5 years, you will pay more.

If your undergraduate CGPA exceed 3.5/4 you may qualify to apply for full scholarship but this is competitive, however, many with very high undergraduate was selected if they apply at the right time.

For teaching assistant position, you can apply when you reach the university, it’s competitive but possible.

alexie49:
Hello Everyone, I'm happy to be here. Recently, I'm being offered admission to study Masters at EMU.

The challenge is how to raise fund to make the next procedures happen. Please, does anyone have links or ideas of how perspective students get finance to study abroad, especially Turkey NORTHERN CYPRUS...?

Please ensure you have adequate finance that caters for your tuition, accommodation and living expenses before you embark in this journey.

Without a sponsor and adequate financial muscle, I will advise you study in your country. Life can be hell without finance abroad and jobs are not easy to come by!

Abroad is not bed of roses or road littered with gold...whatever scholarship, ensure it covers tuition and living cost.

Best wishes in your search for scholarship!

mustyy:
Good day prof Wip
.....Still on my interest on agro-based adsorption method of water treatment
Sir, what are the criterias to look at when choosing an adsorbent material for research, that is, How do we know that a particular material can be good adsorbent for water treatment (then to proposed it for a research), or might have the potential of adsorbing something.

Is there analysis or practical to carry out on the material to know.
Thank you.

Also I still can't access those materials, is saying error after download. Thanks
Mohammedmusty88@gmail.com

Adsorption is based on surface property, the affinity of the adsorbent towards the adsorbate, then both physical and chemical characters of the potential adsorbent are necessary.

For agro-waste, the catch is that it can be subjected to valorization (value-added) and also serves as an emerging research area called bio-economy (becoming popular in Western Europe now) and cost implication.

Apart from the low-cost of the agro-based adsorbent, the potential adsorbent must have a high surface area, well-developed porosity (for trapping pollutant), environmentally friendly, easy to process, have useful functional groups that may be attractive for selective adsorption of pollutant. Can be regenerated and can stand high reuse cycles. You have to characterize such potential adsorbent before you can know its physicochemical characters.

Meanwhile, you can visit ScienceDirect for various agro-based used for adsorption. Attached is one sample review you can always find many.

Spring (February 2020) admission is open now

If you are interested in studying in North or South Cyprus, you can contact me.

NORTH CYPRUS

Undergraduate fees at CSU: 2600$ per year
Undergraduate at EMU: 4500-5500$ per year
Undergraduate at CIU: 3100-4500 euro/yearly

Master program entire fees at CSU: 2175-3000$
Master fee at CIU: 3900 euro
Master fee at EMU: 6500-6800$ entire fees.

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South Cyprus : undergraduate 4500 euro/yearly and master 6800 euro/entire program

jimzy4u:
Actually Prof, I would love to have some private discussions with you regarding this if possible. Can I send you a mail with some questions?

Regards!

Yes you can email me!

Phynad:
Hi,I applied to EMU in north Cyprus and I received an email from them that my application had been accepted and I would receive my acceptance letter within 2 to 3 working days and its almost a week now. I want to know if it’s normal to have a delay in the acceptance letter and why.. Thanks

Go to your portal, you offer letter is already issued.

Mostly, the message you received is automated and when the acceptance letter is issued you may likely not get a message so check your application portal.

Also, note there is short enhancement ongoing with the EMU application portal.

jimzy4u:
Prof, thank you so much for the generous reply. I will try to see how feasible it is for me to raise the tuition and other expenses and get back ASAP.

Regards!

That’s nice to hear... which area of research in physics you are thinking to work on?

mustyy:
Good day prof wip 7, I have seen the mail Thank you, but it seems like I cannot access it/ is not opening. Sorry for disturbing sir, should you please resend it. Thank you so much.

Check the email the password to open it was included in the email. It’s a large encrypted files.

ejiykzazi2007:
Please house, I need help...
Part of the application requirements for PhD in the school I intend to run the program state that I submit an abstract of the proposed topic I am interested in. My idea of the abstract is that it is brief summary of the entire work. So how do I summarise a work that I have not started?

Yeah, an abstract is the summarized version of the literature review, methodology applied, results, trend and quantitative conclusions.

In your case, kindly supply them with 200-400 words if there is no word count:

The abstract can be structured in three parts:

1. The first part is the introduction section, give the background, the global and specific issues, and the hypothesis (about 3-4 sentences). This should take 40%.

2. The second part abstracts: the proposed/frequently used methodology for data gathering, give a brief overview of the proposed sampling/methods and techniques to use in gathering your data (about 2-4 sentences). This part should take 50% of the abstract.

3. The third part abstracts: the Proposed solution you intend to provide to the challenges/issues in the first part. This should take 10% of the abstract.

Best wishes!

mustyy:
Good day prof wip7, sir I haven't received the published works (adsorption method of water treatment using agro waste) yet. My interested research area for PhD.
Thank you

mohammedmusty88@gmail.com

Please check your email. I have sent you about 35 of my SCI publications related to wastewater treatment.

goodmanEU:
Hi All and wip7 ,

How do i know a reputable journal?

Is this journal a trusted one with real impact factor : Merit Research Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences (MRJMMS)

Read one-two pages back, I have provided means to know a reputable journals.

Best wishes

mustyy:
Good day Prof Wip7, the guidance and educative information you are offering on this platform is highly commendable. May God help you also. I am a prospective PhD student in Environmental Engineering, with research interest on Water supply and waste waste treatment. Hoping to study in Turkish universities. Please I will be happy if I can get some of your publushed articles on adsorption of water treatment using agro based materials to my mail: mohammedmusty88@gmail.com.

Thank you Professor

Thank you...you will have them shortly!

BiggyB242:
Good Day Prof. WIP,


I recently concluded my master's program(production engineering, industrial option) while my bachelor's from the dept of mechanical engineering. I will be applying for my PhD (Industrial engineering). How 'll I sort out for topics; I need something related to the production industries and where can I get guidelines on publishing journals. Thank You

Read more on my write up in this particular thread, you will find where have mentioned how to find topics yourself.

PhD is about research and intending Phd student or Phd candidate must be capable of doing searches.....for some hints, visit sciencedirect to find latest and upcoming challenges in your field and the solutions s being provided and the missing links!

BiggyB242:
I have a friend who has over 70 publications who doesn't know about this. Wow

The publication must be reputable (must be SCI, SSCl, WOS).

Since in this particular case, we are talking about Turkey, only researchers with Turkish affiliation or where there articles carry Turkey as address are paid and funded.

TadeDetule:
You are such a good guide here. No one is telling us all these here. I am in Nigde Omer Halisdemir University. All they keep telling us is just to write reviews and submit to them. I don't have one yet. The one I have has been published before I left Nigeria. I plan to put up something reasonable from my Master's thesis before the year runs out though.

Alright, try to publish in a quality SCI/SSCI journal....then register with Tubitak ULAKBİM....you will get your publication paid.


Best wishes!

TadeDetule:
This is jaw-dropping ooo. Yeah, I am studying in Turkey but then I heard you can only apply through your supervisor before one could get funded by Tubitak. Someone even said its mainly for nationals. There is really a mixed description of everything jare.

There is no nationality clause. Anybody can get this funding and also get paid by TUBITAK irrespective of the nationality. To get paid for the publication by TUBITAK you don’t need anybody to apply through, you only need your published paper and bank account detail as simple as ABC....do you have any published paper now if yes, I can guide you how to get the money too simple....

Last 2 months I got 33,000 TL directly paid to my account while i was even teaching in Canada.

Do you have any published paper, tell me
The name of the journal I will tell you how much you will be paid ...

To be funded by TUBITAK, there are lots of funding that TUBITAK gives, you just need to see the one that suits your skills and qualifications. Although, TUBITAK 1001 you have to be Phd holder to be considered, so your supervisor can apply and then take any student to work on the project and you get paid monthly.

TadeDetule:
Hello bros. You talked about Turkish govt paying publishers. Does this apply for Cyprus schools alone or with Turkish Universities too abeg?

TadeDetule:
Abeg bros, does money for publications apply for schools in Turkey too?

Yes, the universities in Turkey even enjoy more funding because Turkey is the mainland why Cyprus Island. All reputable papers published from universities in Turkey can get paid.

Reputable means: Your research article must be indexed in either SCI, SSCI, SCi-expanded and must be on WOS (web of science). What they paper per journal depends on the quality and how they qualify journal. The highest pay this year is 15,000TL (950 k Naira) per paper and the lowest is 500 TL.

Also, Turkey gives project funding to Universities in Turkey and Cyprus. In 2015, I got this project funding which I designed magnetic resins to recover valuable from Mediterranean sea....Now they give around 720,000TL (roughly 45 million naira) yearly for up to 3 years.

Are you studying in Turkey? if yes apply via Tubitak!

Best wishes!

Shams08:
I have a masters thesis already, is possible to get that published?

Yes you can publish your research work. Follow the details provided in that phd thread.

Take note;
Only publications in reputable journals indexed in SCI,SSCI and WOS are recognized by Turkey and NEU.

Shams08:
NEU, just started PhD (political science & International relations) yet to commence article or thesis

That’s nice, I wish you the very best in your PhD.. anytime you publish an article in a reputable journal in Cyprus kindly hint me to guide you in getting paid by Turkish government.

You can find useful and valuable contributions I have provided here for PhD students/candidates on how to publish in reputable journals and how to know fake journals and ways to search for journals

https://www.nairaland.com/2044554/thread-phd-students/59

Best wishes

Shams08:
Please tell me more about how to get research assistant position in NEU and the process of getting your article published.

You will need to contact NEU for application procedure for research or teaching assistant position....as I know it’s usually for those that are already admitted and studying at NEU.

Are you in NEU or Cyprus already? Have you done any research and written the manuscript?

Anazp:
I have the confirmation signed and stamped by WAEC. the issue started from the school. they did not release my acceptance letter until after almost 4 weeks of me paying my acceptance deposit. I sent in countless emails and called severally yet they never gave a response. by the time the acceptance letter came the embassy had stopped collecting applications for the transit Visa and I had no choice than the ok to board.

Get the high school result sign and stamped, support it with your WEAC confirmation. Get a new acceptance letter and apply early for visa.

Shams08:
Please, does it work like this in other universities in Cyprus like NEU & GAU?

No GAU does not pay you when you publish an article although they have a research assistant position.

NEU pay if you publish but am uncertain if they pay students but they pay academic staff and also have research assistant position.

However, Turkish government pay anybody irrespective of the university in Cyprus per publication and they even pay up to 15,000 TL (~950k naira) per paper....If you are in Cyprus studying and have research paper I can show you how to get this money.

Anazp:
Good day

They sent me back to naija saying I don't have an original waec cert. Actually what I took along was a confirmation of results from waec not  a certificate. The original cert got lost in transit. Waec is saying they can only provide a new one in six months which will be March since I applied in Sept. The school says I'm to resume in Jan. Please what can I do? Help me

Your problem started with your Ok-to-board it’s not real (your result and details were not on the airline system, then they suspected you are not genuine that’s why they queried your documents and you)




Get a new acceptance letter for January early, apply for visa early. Go to your high school get your high school endorsed result on your high school letter head, signed and stamp. Get a confirmation of result stamped and signed from WEAC.

This way you will be fine .....

Best wishes!

jimzy4u:
Hello Prof,

I am actually interested in applying for PhD in Physics at EMU. Do I need to contact a potential supervisor before application? What is the tuition fee like for a PhD programme?.

Thanks in advance.

Wow that’s so nice. There lots of great guys at physics, if you are mathematically sound I will prefer you work with the chair of the Department is my good friend and also chair of my Department.

You don’t need to consult any of them to be admitted, in case you will be needing teaching assistantship, you may consult with your cv and signify interest.

If you are ready to study at emu, you may send me your complete documents for admission purpose.

Total fee for the PhD is around 9500$, you will only need to pay about 2500$ initially. If you are lucky each semester there are slots for research assistant position, if you get the full time you won’t pay fees again and you get salary now it’s around 4500TL (~286k Naira) salary monthly. If you get a part-time teaching assistant you get half salary and pay half fees.

Also, at EMU, we get paid by EMU AND Turkish governments for each publication we made. So the more research publication the more you get paid. If you are research-oriented you will recoup all the money you pay, for me when I was doing my PhD I got back all my money.

Take note, research assistant position is not automatic, usually slots are opened each semester and it’s competitive, applicants will need to write an exam to be selected and the candidate with the highest score in that exam get selected.

But any EMU student or staff will get paid for publication irrespective.

Ensure you have the financial muscle at least to pay for 5-7 courses before coming, the cost up there excludes accommodation or living expenses.

Also, we can apply for conference funding that are given by EMU to attend conference any part of the world. For academic staffs we don’t have limit for students you can take twice till you graduate and you can Bebe funded upto 1800$ per trip.

Another very important is Turkish government funding for project, there is a Project fund call TUBITAK, all universities in Cyprus can benefit and anybody can apply for this. It’s opened twice a year. Your project must be sound and ready to solve challenges Nationally and international-wise.

In 2015 (my research designed a magnetic resins that can recover valuable material from the Mediterranean Sea which is useful for agriculture and allied industries) I got this funding under EMU, and you can now be funded up to 720,000 TL (~45 million naira) per year and can apply to be funded for 3 years maximum. I am applying again this year. All details of these are on Turkish government website.

Best wishes!

Theo025:
Greetings Prof @Wip7 and everyone in this thread. Sir I must confessed that your contributions to this thread has been highly motivational and charging. I am a prospective MSc student (Forestry and Wood Science) as I have been admitted but resuming next year. Currently I am volunteering as an intern with my undergraduate supervisor because I am really interested in research. I will like to ask questions based on this but I will like to say it is not a PhD research work but BSc for one of my supervisor's student. He is working on a topic which looks similar to this. He is working on removal of heavy metal in contaminated water using 3 different species of sawdust. He is working on batch adsorption system and he is collecting real water waste. He is using AAS to detect the heavy metals and removing the predominant one. I am interested in the work and I will like to get your advise on the experimental procedures as I wish to contribute to the work and learn from it.

Thank you in advance sir

Adsorptive Treatment of Heavy metal-contaminated water using Sawdust (biomass)

This sounds interesting. You can follow these steps and may modify them to suit your need. You will need to divide the entire work into 6 stages:

Stage 1
1. Sampling: a collection of the water samples at different sources/spots within the research zone/site.
2. Analyzing the heavy metal content of the water samples before treatment (record the concentrations and focus on the most prevalent heavy metal)
3. Storage of the water samples for further use.

Stage 2
1. Collection of adsorbent (sawdust) samples
2. Pretreatment of the sawdusts (washing with distilled water, drying and pulverized to uniform particle size) and label each (example S1, S2, S3)
3. EDTA functionalization of the S1, S2, S3 to produce heavy-metal selective adsorbent which can be named S1-EDTA, S2-EDTA and S3-EDTA.
Note: You will have 6 samples (Functionalized sawdust and raw pre-treated sawdust)
4. Pulverized all the samples (adsorbents) to a uniform size (note down the size)

Stage 3
Characterization: each adsorbent sample must be characterized. These are common characterization you can do:
a. Proximate/ultimate analysis
b. Boehm analysis
c. pH Point zero charge determination/zeta potential determination
d. Surface area (BET), pore volume and pore distribution
e. FTIR, SEM, TGA

Stage 4
Batch Adsorption process: here consider varying the following parameters for each adsorbent
a. adsorbate pH
b. adsorbent dosage
c. Treatment temperature

Stage 5
1.Kinetics (varying the treatment time): Consider fitting your data into pseudo-first order, second order, Elovich, intra-particle diffusion etc.
2. Isotherm (Varying adsorbate concentration): Consider fitting your data into Langmuir, Freundlich, Redlich-Peterson, Temkin etc
3. Thermodynamic study (obtained from the temperature change)

Stage 6
Desorption, regeneration and recycling of the spent adsorbents
Economic and cost-benefit analysis regarding the treatment tech.
Comparative performance of your adsorbents and reported adsorbents for heavy metal removal

NOTE:
Functionalizing with EDTA will be useful to compare the performance of the adsorbent. by comparing the concentration of the heavy metals before treatment to after the treatment. Why EDTA? See below:

EDTA is a chemical that binds and chelates metals such as chromium, iron, lead, mercury, copper, aluminium, nickel, zinc, calcium, cobalt, manganese, and magnesium from water......and when they are bound, they can't have any effects and they are removed from the water.

If that's my master student above steps are what I will give.....please visit Science directly to find suitable articles to support you. Also, you can email me, I will send you some of my recent top-quality journals of adsorption treatment of heavy metals.

Best wishes

neoeverest:
What is your situation now? Are you still at the airport?

Actually I followed up with the school and my contacts with the Turkish airline this morning. The school sent his details to immigration, however, his OK-to-board is fake or Never confirmed by the airline. Who knows who did OKTB for him (sad).
So the airline does not have his documents on their systems either give approval for his onward flight.

Also, I was made to understand he has an agent, which I expected such person to follow up on his behalf. GAU tried to help anyway and sent all his details to immigration as I was informed.

Anazp:
ISTANBUL AIRPORT. PLEASE HELP. I ASKED THEM FOR THEIR NUMBER HERE AT THE AIRPORT SO THAT THE SCHOOL CAN CALL THEM
THEY REFUSED. I APPLIED DIRECTLY. THEY SAY THEY WANT TO SEND ME BACK TO NIGERIA. I AM FLYING WITH TURKISH AIRLINES TO ERCAN

Call your university to speak with Turkish airline, give your university your ticket number they can speak with the local airline office in Cyprus to intervene.

Nothing I can do because I work at EMU...unless your university intervene. I had sent screenshots of your case to GAU registrar office and was able to speak with one person at theor international office briefly today but insisted you should call them to give full details. You can follow with that No up there.

I have a 4 class to teach now... I will check here for updates later!

Best wishes

Anazp:
PLEASE SIR STILL AT ISTANBUL THEY WONT ALLOW

I have called your university (GAU) since 1 hr no response. Do you apply yourself or through an agent pls contact your agent. If directly yourself pls call them non-stop and send emails. Early today I was able to speak to them and she asked for your name and details which I don’t know. Please follow up with them with emails and call try this +90392650-2000 (9 for English).

First which airport are you ? Istanbul airport or Sabiha airport and which airline you are flying to Ercan ?