∗ Thomas A. Mitchell received his Juris Doctor from Notre Dame Law School in 2005 and holds a B.B.A. in Management from Texas A&M University. This Note is dedicated to Matt Arend, Elizabeth Gray, Bobby Jee, and Meredith Peterson; thank you all for helping me throughout my law school experience. 1 Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186, 201 n.5 (2003). 2 N.Y. Times Co. v. Tasini, 533 U.S. 483, 496 n.3...

A search for superconductivity has been carried out on the hexagonal polymorph of Laves-phase CaLi(2), a compound for which Feng, Ashcroft, and Hoffmann predict highly anomalous behavior under pressure. No superconductivity is observed above 1.10 K at ambient pressure. However, high-pressure ac susceptibility and electrical resistivity studies to 81 GPa reveal bulk superconductivity in CaLi(2) ...

An investigation into the crack initiation and propagation behaviour of bonded single lap joints using backface strain. V. Shenoy , I. A. Ashcroft , G. W. Critchlow , A. D. Crocombe , M. M. Abdel Wahab. a Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, LE11, 3TU, UK b Institute of Polymer Technology and Materials Engineering (IPTME), Loughborough University,...

B. Ashcroft, B. Takulapalli, J. Yang, G. M. Laws , H. Q. Zhang , N. J. Tao , S. Lindsay, D. Gust, and T. J. Thornton 3 1 Department of Physics & Astronomy, P.O. Box 871504, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA 2 Center for Solid State Electronics Research, P.O. Box 876206, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA 3 Department of Electrical Engineering, P.O. Box 875706, Arizona S...

BACKGROUND Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) have been proposed to be involved in pulmonary fibrosis, but its role in this process has not been fully understood. To investigate the role of AGE formation in pulmonary fibrosis, we used a bleomycin (BLM)-stimulated rat model treated with aminoguanidine (AG), a crosslink inhibitor of AGE formation. METHODS Rats were intratracheally instilled...

The stability of the hard-sphere icosahedral quasilattice is analyzed using the differential formulation of the generalized effective liquid approximation. We find that the icosahedral quasilattice is metastable with respect to the hardsphere crystal structures. Our results agree with recent findings by McCarley and Ashcroft [Phys. Rev. B 49, 15600 (1994)] carried out using the modified weighte...