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November 11

Irene Fanning credentials

Hello! I'm trying to find the credentials of Irene Fanning, who is listed as an author in the following article:

Fanning, Irene; Glusberg, Jorge; Frei, Cheryl Jiménez; Perazzo, Nelly; Hartop, Christopher; Pérez, Jorge F. Rivas; Corcuera, Ruth; Reyes, Marta Arciprete de; Vaquero, Julieta Zunilda (March 9, 2020), "Argentina, Republic of", Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press (published 2003), doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t003988

Can anyone help me to find this information? Thank you! Tyrone Madera (talk) 18:02, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Might be this teacher. She does seem to "love all things Spanish" and has a strong Argentinian connection. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:44, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Clarityfiend, Thank you for showing me this! Unfortunately, this webpage doesn't let me know what her degree was in or if she has a Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D., etc. Tyrone Madera (talk) 21:30, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Which ports are container yard (CY) and which are CFS (container freight station)

Is there a website that shows the list of ports are listed or categorized as container yard or container freight station? Donmust90 (talk) 19:32, 11 November 2021 (UTC)Donmust90Donmust90 (talk) 19:32, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Very unlikely as CYs and CFSs are contained within ports and other logistic hubs and owned by different organisations. So some services may or may not be offered by any of the main 5 companies and may be offered by multiple companies in the same port. As well as this, some companies have a CY in the port but a CFS outside the port and vice versa. It's easier to check the individual companies and see which service they offer at the ports they cover and cross reference. Of course major shipping companies and conglomerate transoceanic haulers do have access to this information due to their day to day operation intelligence. Nanonic (talk) 22:48, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

November 13

Merging review paper subtopics

My professor gave us the task of writing a review paper. Its first time for us. We are 5 in group so we decided to split the work into subtopics. So we searched for various scientific papers and prepared document individually, As given below
Student 1
content(1)
refs
1) citation
Student 2
content(1)
ref
1) citation
Now I have to merge all 5 parts. The citation number begins from (1) for each student but I will have to correctly order it. So there are at least 100 citations and as we did work separately many would be rereferenced so I would have to check each one. Is there any easy way to do this. Or am I supposed to look each citation manually and change each number. All citation are in harvard style -- Parnaval (talk) 17:23, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What program are you using to edit the paper?--Phil Holmes (talk) 18:18, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

We individually just made a MS word document.😶 -- Parnaval (talk) 04:26, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Have the citations in the separate contributions been added using the Insert Citation feature of MS Word? --Lambiam 11:15, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

NO :( We just copied the Harvard citation from google scholar and pasted it. And then numbered it as shown above. Now, I feel that I would have to do it manually as there is no standardization (Some used in built custom numbering, some manually numbered) so I will have to do it manually. But still someone tell me, what is standard way we could follow from next time so that merging is easier. Also, I didn't use Insert citation feature as that would require me to manually fill all fields, but here copy paste was easier. -- Parnaval (talk) 12:00, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Endnotes should automatically renumber themselves if you copy and paste the sections from the separate documents.--Phil Holmes (talk) 08:35, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes! they renumbered, It saved me a lot of work. Still I had to change the citation numbers near content. -- Parnaval (talk) 03:17, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

November 15

Skin care

Why is hair removal a skin care procedure what are its benefits? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_care#Procedures 2001:8003:740C:D100:DD13:7F41:D8:F60B (talk) 09:46, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has another article titled Hair removal. There are few, if any, health benefits to hair removal for a healthy person; the only one mentioned in the Wikipedia article is a reduction in lice. Otherwise, hair removal is mainly due to cultural and personal preferences, and comfort of the individual. --Jayron 32 12:54, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

One minor exception is that racing bicyclists (and some other sports players) sometimes shave their legs so that when they fall (or are otherwise injured) and graze their skin, hairs bearing bacteria, etc., are not incorporated into the resulting scabs, which can delay healing. This and other similar practices are mentioned in Hair removal#In sport, but apply only to relatively unusual circumstances. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.205.225.31 (talk) 17:49, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No I mean I dont know who or what put that there but I'd like to know why and what they were thinking when they applied that if there's a way to find out2001:8003:740C:D100:913C:8793:3CC:DBD6 (talk) 22:27, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to know who added some bit of text to an article, you can check the "View history" tab at the top of the article. When you find who made the edit, you can contact them on their user talk page and ask them. --Jayron 32 12:18, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

November 16

Engine rotation direction

Is there an agreed convention about the direction of rotation of automotive engines? I've been watching various tv shows about custom vehicle builders where they seem to almost arbitrarily mix engines and transmissions and nobody ever says anything about whether they have a clockwise engine and anti-clockwise transmission or vice-versa. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 20:53, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you take an engine block and rotate it by a half turn (180°) without changing your own point of view, clockwise rotation becomes anti-clockwise. If the design of the engine block is symmetric, you can mount it either way. --Lambiam 09:54, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure this is relevant today, but I can recall when it was often necessary to use a starting handle, and (because most people are right-handed) they always went clockwise (as you face the front of the vehicle). I assumed this convention was continued.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 10:13, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a reason why clockwise would generally be better for right-handed people? I'm mostly right-handed (but also left-eye dominant - don't know if that is relevant), and tend to find it easier to crank or stir things anti-clockwise when using my right hand (and clockwise if using my left). Iapetus (talk) 13:11, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that when writing a figure 'eight' 80% of people start by moving the pen anticlockwise. I could be wrong as I'm not sure how they write it, being one of the 20% who write it the other way. 86.6.4.102 (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Starting a figure eight anti-clockwise means the pen moves away from the hand at the beginning, which is easier for right-handed people. Cranking clockwise means that right-handed people can get their weight onto the crank-handle on the down-stroke, which helps. No citations for either, but obvious to anyone who's ever done either. DuncanHill (talk) 14:14, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Clockwise is better because it reinforces that you start by pulling the crank up, not pushing it down. When doing it, you walk up and grab the crank with your right hand (because you are right handed). Then, you step to the left and rotate the crank is in front of you and the car is to your left. If you imagine trying to rotate the other way, it is difficult. You have to grab the crank in an unnatural way. Now, with the car on your left and the crank in front of you, you start it by pulling up, not pushing down. You rotate the crank until it is at the bottom. Then, you pull up quickly. Hopefully the engine starts. Pulling up from this side of the crank is easier than from the other side because on the other side you have to reach over the center of the crank. Finally, "why" do you have to pull up? It is for safety. Sometimes, the engine will fire and jerk the crank in the opposite direction. If you pull up and it jerks back down, it is an annoyance. You might fall forward. But, if you push down and it jerks back, the crank can spin right into your chin and cause severe injury (even death). Therefore, in the end, the engines rotated clockwise. 97.82.165.112 (talk) 18:35, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

November 17

Making semiconductor commercially

There are many questions, and I don't exactly know what to search for to get the answer. So, How are semiconductors made? The raw materials and process? Why is there a shortage of these? I am asking this because someone told my father that Semiconductors are not readily available, that's why there were less TV commercials for electronic items during this festive season. There is shortage as Semiconductors are made in China (Taiwan). It is because there is shortage of pure water due to lack of rain there. So that's why China is trying to capture gangotri glacier from India, as there is pure water which will be used for making semiconductors. I don't understand how much of it is correct. Can someone clarify everything. -- Parnaval (talk) 06:47, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Here are three articles from reliable news sources discussing the causes of the shortage: BBC, Popular Science, Slate. None mentions water. The idea that Taiwan is trying to capture glacier water from Gangotri is nonsensical – the distance is more than 4,000 km, Taiwan is an island, and there is no way mainland China would allow the transport over their territory. Also, the glacier water flows off in India; the cost of pumping it up several kilometres so as to move it over the Himalayan Range would be staggering. --Lambiam 09:41, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2020–2021 global chip shortage.
Sleigh (talk) 09:49, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To answer the question "how are semiconductors made", see Semiconductor device fabrication. --Jayron 32 17:14, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Using a video game controller as a MIDI controller

I want to use my Switch Pro controller (it's like an Xbox controller basically) to make music. Not to configure it as a keyboard, exactly, but as a MIDI controller with software designed for the purpose. I'm sure it's been done. So the face buttons and shoulder buttons are the notes in a scale, and the d-pad and sticks modify what's going on with the other buttons. Where might I find such a thing? Temerarius (talk) 18:22, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Allow suggestions?

Hi! I understand that Corona is a hot topic and there would be vandalism if editing was free to everyone.

I don't care enough to really make a wikipedia account right now. But I am really shocked how a wikipedia article does not have a link to the full genomic RNA sequence of the virus variants.

Here are the genome sequences https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/MRA.00727-21 NCBI GenBank under the accession numbers MZ208926 (delta variant) and MZ571142 (kappa variant) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MZ208926 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.119.194.61 (talk) 23:31, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Corona" usually refers either to the sun's atmosphere or a brand of beer. As to the a Coronavirus article, what's stopping you from making improvements? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:36, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the original poster's point is that that article is protected. I suggest he/she should raise this topic on its talk page. --184.144.99.241 (talk) 06:10, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

November 18

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 :"Corona" usually refers either to the sun's atmosphere or a brand of beer. As to the a ''Coronavirus'' article, what's stopping you from making improvements? ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] <sup>''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]''</sup> [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 01:36, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
+::I believe the original poster's point is that [[coronavirus|that article is protected]].  I suggest he/she should raise this topic on its talk page. --[[Special:Contributions/184.144.99.241|184.144.99.241]] ([[User talk:184.144.99.241|talk]]) 06:10, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
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