Wednesday 12 February 2020

Academic Writing: The Microsoft Word referencing style extender for linguistics journals

APA 7th Edition (Alpha)
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Frustrated by the fact that Microsoft Word doesn't have the referencing styles for linguistics journals, I created my own stylesheets by extending Yves Dhondt's BibWord project. 

Download link: https://github.com/lx3h/LinguisticsJournals

Please feel free to make requests for new styles, report bugs and leave comments.

Latest addition:
  1. APA 7th Edition (Alpha version)
  2. Language, Context and Text : The Social Semiotics Forum
  3. Corpora
  4. De Gruyter Mouton journals
  5. SAGE Harvard for SAGE journals

Citation: Law, L. (2020). The Microsoft Word referencing style extender for linguistics journals. GitHub. https://github.com/lx3h/LinguisticsJournals

Thursday 6 February 2020

Medical: How environmental temperature affected #SARS outbreak?



How environmental temperature affected #SARS outbreak and how might this affect #WARS? Let's have a read.

#StandWithMedics

References:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1733040/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870397/

Wednesday 5 February 2020

Medical: Size of #SARS vs #WARS virions

Is WARS virions really bigger than SARS'? If so, by how much? The following references will give us some clues.

#StandWithMedics

References:
https://www.jbc.org/content/281/25/17134.full

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/sars-related-coronavirus

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30211-7/fulltext

Academic Research: [回應訴求 during #WARS?]

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Image from BYU COCA


[回應訴求 during #WARS?]

Maybe it is just me and my poor Cantonese / Chinese + translation, but the expression 回應訴求 doesn't sound right to me (and always irritates me every time I hear it).

Given that
回應 (vb) = to respond to;
訴求 (n ) = (public / popular / - ) demand(s);

Asking HKGov to 回應訴求 (in Cantonese) does not seem to imply that a positive outcome is expected, which may explain why HKGov officials almost always claim that "we have responded, and the answer is 'no'".

Statistically, in UK / US English at least, "to meet demands" and "to satisfy demands" (滿足訴求 in Cantonese) are much more frequent (FYI: by the multiples) than "to respond to demands".

So maybe it is time to start using 滿足訴求 instead of 回應訴求 from now on.

Just saying.

#StandWithMedics