High pressure water jets are increasingly being used for cleaning surfaces on an industrial basis. In many instances the use of high pressure water, in such applications as car cleaning, is carried out in combination with mechanical brushes. However, there are many instances, particularly in self service units and where large industrial vehicles, which do not fit into a standard carwash, are cl...

In June 2015, Douglas Preston—amateur archaeologist, National Geographic journalist, and author of best-selling thrillers—entered an infusion suite at the National Institutes of Health sporting an “oozing crater, fiery red and disgusting to look at” on his left upper arm. Ensconced in the room’sweirdly large chairs, the 61-year-old breathed deep, ready to receive his initial hit of amphotericin...

Determiner phrases have the ability to act as "concealed questions" (CQs), embedded questions in sentences like John knows the time (i.e., John knows what time it is). The fact that know and wonder differ in their ability to embed CQs partially motivated the hypothesis (Grimshaw 1979) that verbs select the possible syntactic categories of their complements independently of selection for the sem...