The mechanism of hyper-reactivity of the Dextrostix system when contaminated with alcoholic skin cleaning agents was investigated. When sodium fluoride was supplied to block glucose oxidase activity and hydrogen peroxide was exogenously provided benzidine peroxidation could be preferentially studied. Benzidine hydrochloride was the most likely site of the hyper-reaction.

This paper addresses multiple proportional readings in donkey sentences and deals with a question of why the disambiguation of proportional readings is affected by the topic structure of a sentence. The correlation between proportional readings and topic structure has been observed by Heim (1990) and Chierchia (1992) but has not been given a satisfactory explanation yet. Based on my previous st...

Noninvasive ambulatory blood pressure (BP) recording is now clinically available for the evaluation of hypertensive patients. It is well known that pressures measured in the office or clinic are unreliable and that repeated measurements are better at predicting outcome than are single measurements. Several studies have compared the correlation between target organ damage and different measures ...