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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.
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
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.
Sliding wardrobe door opens by itself [SOLVED]
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Back in January, my sliding wardrobe door had been refusing to close, opening by itself automatically. Tried climbing up to the top of the wardrobe and lying flat on the floor looking up to see if there were any broken parts, but still failed to see anything wrong with it. What I am certain of, is that there is no ghost doing this. It has to do with science.
Looking up, door is slightly tilted downwards on the right side
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Took me a while to figure out what the issue really was. Apparently, it has to do with the weight of the sliding door (and gravity, if you like).
Looking from the top, door is slightly tilted downwards on the right side. Using L-wrench to tighten the nut to relift the right side
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Because the sliding wardrobe doors are made of heavy wood, the weight it exerts on the nuts and bolts is immense! Repeated use of the doors from pulling the door handle from left to right adds extra force to the nuts and bolts, causing the door to dip to the right side over time.
A graphical look of the sliding wardrobe doors (Blue arrow is the weight, red arrows are component forces) Image from Locky's English Playground
This dip plus the weight of the door create a side-way force from left to right, making the door sliding open on its own. After tightening the nut from above the door, the problem was finally solved.
Now, at this point, I am thinking, why has no one ever linked the learning of free body diagram in Mathematics or Physics to realistic cases like this? This will give meanings to students as to why they have to learn resolving forces?
Note 4 Europe version
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My mum left me this Note 4 Europe version a year ago and it just kept refusing to be switched on. Sometimes it flashed the logo for a split second, sometimes it just froze on the boot screen, most of the time, nothing happened.
So I searched the internet, and found the craziest advice which I tried because there was nothing more to lose. It was the advice of freezing the phone in the freezer with a plastic bag over it. Hyperskeptical I was, I froze the phone in a Ziplock bag for 10 minutes and tried switching it on. It worked!!!! It booted up once smoothly into its usable state for like a minute before it crashes again. So I redid the process, this time, it booted up till it hit some EMMC error that I can't recall any more and stopped. I then tried to freeze the battery and phone separately, as well as freezing just one of them. The battery-only freeze didn't work, the phone-only freeze got me as far as the EMMC error and it could never boot to any usable state again.
EMMC chip on Motherboard in the centre of the photo
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Desperate for more fail-worthy attempts (Wow! Can't believe I just thought of this word. Really like it. I am not the creator of this word though.), I found the following YouTube video and followed it, and WOW! I fixed my phone!!! So it was all because that the EMMC was designed and placed so close to the metal frame that somehow the electrical signals got disrupted, placing thin pieces of cardboard paper did the magic trick and the phone is resurrected! I gave the phone to my elder daughter and she is having fun with it! So if you have similar problem with your Note 4, this is the ultimate video guide.
Huge thanks to the creator of this video!
As to why the freezer method works, I am not quite sure, but I guess maybe freezing the phone's EMMC long enough shrinks the chip just enough to separate itself from the metal frame temporarily. When the chip starts to expand again, the phone returns to its inoperable state.
All I know for sure is, I can put one more skill on my CV. What should I call this skill? Any suggestions?
