BACKGROUND Several tests for making the diagnosis of rotator cuff disease have been described, but their utility for diagnosing bursitis alone, partial-thickness rotator cuff tears, and full-thickness rotator cuff tears has not been studied. The hypothesis of this study was that the degree of severity of rotator cuff disease affects the diagnostic values of the commonly used clinical tests. M...

The Supreme Court's recent Eighth Amendment death penalty case law is in disarray, and the confusion is symptomatic of a larger problem in constitutional doctrine. In Baze v. Rees and Kennedy v. Louisiana, the Court approached the challenged state policies with vastly different levels of deference. Though the Court purported to apply longstanding Eighth Amendment tests in both cases, Baze was h...

It has been shown previously (Kennedy and Barbaro, 1953) that the amount of crystal violet adsorbed by bacteria can be measured quantitatively by either one of two procedures. One procedure involved micro-Kjeldahl analyses of bacterial cells before and after staining. The increase in total nitrogen in the stained cells represented the dye nitrogen adsorbed. The second procedure was based on mic...

There has recently been much discussion about the proper analysis of Japanese comparatives (cf., e.g., Beck et al. 2004; Oda 2008; Hayashishita 2009; Kawahara 2009; Kennedy 2009). Most of the discussion in the previous literature centers around the question of whether the semantics of Japanese comparatives should be modelled on the analysis of English comparatives. Beck et al. (2004) have argue...