One of these innovations came to life in 2006 with the first introduction of flatpanel detectors (FD) to a mobile C-arm. Ziehm Imaging started the paradigm shift of innovative detector technologies for mobile X-ray imaging from image intensifiers (I. I.) to flat-panel detectors. Other C-arm competitors followed and reconfirmed the trend of implementing amorphous silicon (aSi) flat-panel detecto...

The two English constructions exemplified in Let’s get the hell out of here (type G) and They beat the hell out of him (type B) differ both syntactically and semantically, but in both the taboo expression has the force of an intensifier. History (through a corpus investigation) reveals that the B-construction started as a literal exorcism (beat the devil out of someone), where the hell substitu...

Ideophones are typically described as “marked words that depict sensory imagery” (Dingemanse 2011, 25). This paper addresses ideophone data from three Luhya languages: Llogoori, Lunyore, and Lutiriki (Bantu, Kenya). Our primary claim is descriptive: we show that there is a closed class of (previously undescribed) Luhya ideophones. We illustrate how the Luhya data is consistent with what is know...

The present study uses variationist sociolinguistic methods to examine the intensifier system in Oslo Norwegian. Results indicate that both linguistic and social factors influence use. Predicative adjectives were intensified more frequently than attributive adjectives, women used intensifiers men, younger speakers had higher intensification rates older speakers. Apparent time analyses also reve...