In English, the adverb only/merely contributes to both the assertion and the presupposition of the sentence in which it occurs (Horn 1969, Klinedinst 2005, van Rooij & Schulz 2007, Beaver & Clark 2008, Roberts 2006, 2011, a.o.). The sentence in (1) presupposes that the janitor is ranked low on some contextually relevant scale (scalarity) and asserts that Maria did not talk to a person of a high...

There exists in atomic dysprosium a pair of nearly-degenerate levels of opposite parity. These levels are of potential interest for the study of parity non-conservation because the small energy separation enhances level mixing due to weak-interaction processes. In this paper, we review the unique properties of these levels which make them attractive for measurements of parity non-conservation, ...

Six hundred young adolescents (11 to 16 years old) from 4 countries (Guatemala, Iceland, Mexico, and the United States) ranked the importance of 10 qualities of the opposite-sex ideal person. Those from the United States responded in an individualistic fashion; they ranked being fun, being sexy, and having considerable money as important for the ideal. Those from Guatemala responded in a collec...

In eukaryotic cells, many organelles are transported bidirectionally along microtubules by kinesin and dynein. These opposite-polarity motors appear to be coordinated to avoid interfering with each other's function. New work has provided the first molecular insight into how such coordination might occur.

Given a set S of n points in the plane, the opposite-quadrant depth of a point p ∈ S is defined as the largest number k such that there are two opposite axis-aligned closed quadrants (NW and SE, or SW and NE) with apex p, each quadrant containing at least k elements of S. We prove that S has a point with opposite-quadrant depth at least n/8. If the elements of S are in convex position, then we ...

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An 18-year-old African-American female presented with an episode of syncope. Initial investigations revealed large lung mass with invasion into right atrium along with lesions in kidneys and liver. Patient also developed superior vena cava syndrome due to lung mass. Biopsy of lung mass revealed diagnosis of composite lymphoma with involvement by primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL) and c...