Two canonical negatives in Mandarin, mei and bu, display an asymmetry with respect to the presence of negraising inferences. In particular, mei prefers non-neg-raising readings, while bu, unless attaching to a functional category, is forced to be interpreted as neg-raising. This paper aims to explore an approach to address this asymmetry based on interactions between negation and aspect in both...

The Interaction Region Vacuum System in the PEPII B-Factory at SLAC must produce average pressures in the 10 Torr range. Low beamline pressures will minimize the background radiation encountered by the BaBar Detector. A combination of copper and stainless steel vacuum chambers with continuous antechambers are used to make up the beam tubes. Linear Non-Evaporable Getter (NEG) pumps are used to p...

Negation is often found more frequent in dialogue than commonly written texts, such as literary texts. Furthermore, the scope and focus of negation depends on context in dialogues than other forms of texts. Existing negation datasets have focused on non-dialogue texts such as literary texts where the scope and focus of negation is normally present within the same sentence where the negation is ...

amemberofthe kexin familyof subtilases Hidetomo Kobayashi, Eizo Takahashi, Keiji Oguma, Yoshio Fujii, Hiroyasu Yamanaka, Tomoe Negishi, Sakae Arimoto-Kobayashi, Takao Tsuji & Keinosuke Okamoto Department of Pharmacogenetics and Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan; Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, T...

Judgement bias tests of animal affect and hence welfare assume that the animal's responses to ambiguous stimuli, which may herald positive or negative outcomes, are under instrumental control and reflect 'optimism' or 'pessimism' about what will happen. However, Pavlovian control favours responses (e.g. approach or withdrawal) according to the valence associated with a stimulus, rather than the...

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of adenovirus‑mediated urokinase‑type plasminogen activator (uPA) transduction on uPA expression and fibrinolytic activity in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Recombinant adenovirus vectors containing the human uPA gene were constructed and transduced into HUVECs. The expression and fibrinolytic activity of uPA was then assessed ...