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Capitalization of biological abbreviations at the beginning of a sentence
In the beginning of a sentence, should I capitalize abbreviations such as the following:
hPSC (human pluripotent stem cell)
mESC (mouse embryonic stem cell)
rDNA (recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid)
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Should the abbreviation for “identifier” be capitalized?
I'm a programmer and I often see the abbreviation ID (capitalized) in technical documents and code. Is this correct, or should it be id?
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When to use or omit periods in acronyms, abbreviations, and initials [duplicate]
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Is it OK to drop the periods in abbreviations?
I don't understand when or where to use or discard a period when writing short forms.
For example, my college is the ...
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Capitalization of explanation of abbreviations
I'm writing a rather tehnical report with a lot of abbreviations such as QoS (quality of service), AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and HMAC (Hash-based Message Authentication Code).
When should ...
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When a sentence starts with “e.g.”, should the e be capitalized?
When a sentence starts with e.g., should the e be capitalized?
Neverminding that it might be better to start with "For example," ... Thinking of SE posts and comments, should the starting e be ...
