The Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) at Cornell University will require the use of thin film coatings for purposes of achieving Ultra High Vacuum (UHV). At this point, various pipe coatings have been widely used in the field of particle accelerator physics. The vacuum properties of pipe coatings are well documented and have given rise to its popularity in the field. A Non-Evaporable Getter (NEG) coa...

I give a new account of neg-raising with belief predicates as scaleless implicatures, inferences that are predicted by grammatical theories scalar when quantifier projects subdomain alternatives but no alternative. argue the inference should be treated an implicature because parallels observed in its distribution and other known cases implicatures (namely typical free choice effects, reported i...

One of the diagnostic criteria of essential thrombocythemia (ET) is the absence of the Philadelphia chromosome (Ph-neg). On the molecular level, Ph-neg ET patients may carry BCR-ABL transcript. The natural history of BCR-ABL positive Ph-neg ET patients is undetermined. We examined the BCR-ABL status by reverse transcriptase two-step nested polymerase chain reaction in bone marrow aspirates of 2...

Pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) knockout (KO) mice, generated through homologous recombination in embryonic stem cells, have a significantly increased lifespan compared to wild-type littermates. However, it is unknown whether this longevity advantage would pertain to PAPP-A gene deletion in adult animals. In the present study, we used tamoxifen (Tam)-inducible Cre recombinase-med...

Recently, we have demonstrated that antibodies that block the function of the beta2-integrin leukocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1) completely abrogate the rapid mobilization of hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) with colony-forming and radioprotective capacity induced by interleukin-8 (IL-8) in mice. These findings suggested a direct inhibitory effect of these antibodies on LFA-1-me...