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If it'd be unhealthy to sleep with windows closed, that'd mean that it'd be unhealthy to live with windows closed. And good luck with that in the Winter.

I sleep all the time with my window closed to prevent "premature wakefulness" due to trafic noise, yet do not have headache complaints.

I'm not fond of earplugs; they make me hear everything that's happening in my mouth and ears, and I just hate the feeling of plugged ears

Hello everyone

I've read that it's not uncommon to put the font of front matter (that is, before the main contents) of a document, thesis ... in a smaller size than the main corpus.

Now my front matter would be the following stuff, title and cover pages excluded, and in order:

1. Copyright information
2. Signature page
3. Quote
4. Acknowledgements
5. ToC
6. List of symbols and abbreviations
7. List of tables
8. List of figures
9. Preface
10. Abstract
11. Dutch abstract

After which Chapter 1 commences.

Now, without any doubt, I'll put 1-3, 5-8 in a smaller font (just 1 pt smaller, makes quite a difference). My question is, what would you do with 4 and 9-11? Should I also put these in a smaller font, since they can also be considered to be front matter, or should I put them in the regular font size, since they are mostly continuous text?

There are no university guidelines about this, and this is rather a personal preference question, but I'd like to hear some opinions.

Thanks!

Function

5 minutes ago, DrKrettin said:

I agree, but I sense a certain sophistry here. The context demands that a distinction be made between what is written in America and what is written in Britain. We can happily refer to American English, but in this context we can't sensibly compare "American English" with "English". The tautology is justified as a necessary clarification.

 

Edit: I've just notice the appallingly ungrammatical thread title. "Hyphen" is not a verb. "Hyphenate" is. I wish people would stop verbing nouns.

Yeah, I saw that a bit later when I posted it and was secretly hoping no one would mention it. Darn it.

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A similar situation exists between us Flemings and the Dutch.

We supposedly both speak "Dutch (Nederlands)", but there's no way comparing "Dutch Dutch (Nederlands Nederlands)" with "Flemish Dutch (Vlaams Nederlands)". However, "Flemish Dutch" is not officially recognised and thus we all just speak "Dutch".

(Though we Flemings sometimes refer to "Dutch Dutch" as "Hollands" [which has no appropriate English translation])

Likewise, I think it the statement that all Anglo-Saxon countries speak English is justifiable.

1 minute ago, Strange said:

Are American English or Irish English or Indian English also tautologies?

How would you suggest distinguishing the different dialects of English?

British vs. North-American Anglo-Saxon language? 

Hello everyone

Writing my thesis, I'm talking a lot (and I mean, a damn lot) about values: b-values for diffusion-weighted imaging in MRI, p-values in statistics, T1-values and T2-values in MRI, ...

The question here is simple: to hyphen or not to hyphen? (British English) This seems like one of questions for which there exists the least consensus. So I'd love to hear your opinions on this. Should I put a hyphen between the statistic and "value", or not?

Thanks!

Function

Hello

It's commonly known that quantities are put in italics, whereas their units aren't.

I'm in doubt whether to put "[¹H]", being the concentration of hydrogen protons, in italics or not. Would I then put the whole thing in italics? Just the square brackets? Or just the ⁽¹⁾H?

• [¹H]
• [¹H] vs. [¹H]
• [¹H]

To be honest, whichever one is correct, the last one looks the least frustrating.

Thanks;

Function

Thanks!

Thanks!

The two-volume edition?

I might want to reconsider my previous consideration 

Concerning the "re(-)magnetization": would you use a hyphen or not? studiot, is any of the two words written in your Bible?

1 minute ago, studiot said:

According to the bible (Oxford English Dictionary - OED) both are correct, but z would be the more common.

That is certainly the case in my straw poll of British scientific authors in that field, especially post 1970.

Marvellous. Might consider buying one. Thanks to both of you!

Hello everyone

A special request for the Brits here: how would you write the words in the title of this thread? I'm writing my thesis in British English:

• Magnetise vs. magnetize
• Magnetisation vs. magnetization
• Remagnetisation vs. remagnetization vs. re-magnetisation vs. re-magnetization
• Remagnetise vs. remagnetize vs. re-magnetise vs. re-magnetize (and conjugations, e.g. remagnetised etc.)

Thanks!

Michael

That's right.

As per exercise, could you give me all possible combinations that 2 parents could have, if you'd want a child with blood type O (ii)?

EDIT: OP felt the need to solve exercise in PM; answer is given:

• ii (O) + ii (O)
• Ai (A) + ii (O)
• Bi (B) + ii (O)
• Ai (A) + Bi (B)
• Ai (A) + Ai (A)
• Bi (B) + Bi (B)

No, A and B are AA or Ai, and BB or Bi, respectively, "i" representing an allele lacking of genes coding for antigenes A or B, thus resulting in O (people with blood type O have red blood cells that do not express antigenes A or B; it is important to know that O antigenes do not exist, it simply represents the lack of antigenes A or B).

So you must consider the possibility of the parent with blood type A being of genotype Ai, or AA.

Ai + AB = AA (= A), AB (= AB), Ai (= A), or Bi (= B)

AA + AB = AA (= A), or AB (= AB)

Do you get this?

Why do you think that the person with blood type A has genotype AA?

Hint: O (genotypically commonly denoted as "i") is inherited recessively, A and B are inherited dominantly.

See it as follows: the "O-gene" does not allow the person to produce any antigenes on the cell surface of the red blood cell. But, if that person has any other gene (A or B), they will create the respective antigenes and will thus be considered to be of that blood type. Do you get this? The person may have both O and A antigenes, but will be considered of blood type A since he makes A antigenes on the red blood cell surface.

Sidenote considering antibodies: in development of the immune system, all potential anti-A antibodies will be eliminated (so that his immune system won't attack his own blood cells), and only anti-B antibodies remain in the blood plasma. (Analogous: a person with blood type AB has both antigenes A and B and in the development of the immune system, antibodies anti-A and anti-B will be eliminated very early in the development of immune cells, leaving no antibodies in the blood plasma, making persons with blood type AB the ideal blood plasma donors, but the less appropriate blood pack (cells) donors)

If you consider that the rhesus factor is dominantly inherited, consider the possibility of one parent having genotype Rh +/-, thus he will produce the rhesus factor, and will thus be considered "Rh+", but it is very well possible that he has another allele that "is" Rh-. If he pairs with a person with Rh- (who can only have genotype Rh -/-, else this person would have Rh +/- or Rh +/+ and would undeniably produce the rhesus factor, thus "be" Rh+, which is not the case), the following combinations are possible:

Rh+ / Rh- = Rh +/- = Rh+

Rh- / Rh- = Rh -/- = Rh-

So you're not going to base your answer on rhesus factor.

Do you know something on the inheritance of blood cell antigenes (A, B) and plasma antibodies (anti-A, anti-B) and what role O plays in there? Neglecting the rhesus factor, someone with blood type A can have 2 different genotypes. Do you know which?

Consider improved diagnostication bias, decrease of taboo, ...

The pure depressions not always have environmental/causative reasons to happen

I'm seeing my GP tomorrow to get myself fixed. Some familiar connection: my great-grandmother, my grandmother, my grandfather, my mother, my aunt, my brother, and now I have to deal with it.

Only thing that prevents me to end it myself is that I don't have the guts to. And perhaps because I cannot think of an elegant way to do so. And since I won't end it, my GP better gives me some SSRIs, which tend to work in all affected family members.

I know this is not so relevant to you, so sorry for that. I'm terribly sorry for your loss, and for him I am terribly sorry to imagine what pain he must have gone through.

Hello

Does anyone know why pdf files look a thousand times better in Foxit Reader than in Adobe Acrobat Reader (or DC)? Nothing looks smooth in Adobe, whereas everything is a piece of art in Foxit Reader. Is there a possibility to make my pdfs in Adobe look like they would look in Foxit? Because I have Adobe Acrobat DC, and I use this a lot to modify pdfs, but it's just a shame they don't look as good as in Foxit Reader.

Thanks

Functionella

Won't the registry be incompatible?

Hello everyone

In 2 weeks, I'm going to buy a new laptop. I have my eyes on two of them. One (A) costs about € 1,300, the other one (B) about € 1,500. 

A: 7th generation Intel Core i5, 12 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, 15.6" touch UHD 3840x2160 px, Intel HD Graphics 620 (shared, 2 GB), supports Windows Ink

B: 7th generation Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, 15.6" touch FHD 1920x1080 px, NVIDIA GeForce 940MX (dedicated, 4 GB), supports Windows Ink, comes with active stylus

Since I'm quite in need of some storage, I was quickly convinced to go with the pricier one with 512 GB SSD. However, the UHD property of the cheaper one left me in doubt. In a 15.6" display, will I even slightly notice a difference between FHD and UHD? Some websites led me to the answer "no", but I'd like to hear some arguments from you.

Thanks.

Function

16 minutes ago, fresh said:

I think he is horny.

Which is his very right.

17 minutes ago, fresh said:

We know UKrainian girls are very beautiful.

No we don't.

17 minutes ago, fresh said:

i decide to keep distance from him.

Well, good on you.

May I ask about the conclusions you draw from the discussions hereabove?

It seems like we're the coin you're flipping, although you already hope for a certain outcome.

It namely seems like you want us to call it sexual harrassment, and keep coming with arguments to do so. And it's your very right to do so.

I have this male friend, and to this male friend, I send the craziest stuff which could get us in psychiatric wards if it leaked. Getting a boyfriend won't change the status from the stuff I send and receive to/from this friend from 'normal' (lol) to sexual harrassment. But if I were to send it to random other friends, things could get really awkward.

Hooray.