Conflicts of interest are unavoidable in dentistry. A set of five questions is offered to help sort through such conflicts. The potential harm and the likelihood of such harm caused by secondary interests (the potentially conflicting ones) must be considered against the potential harm and the likelihood of damage caused by withholding services in which secondary interests are present. The use o...

Desired Saving Equals Desired Investment The theory says that the real interest rate r adjusts so desired saving S equals desired investment I (figure 1). As the real interest rate is the cost of capital to the firm, a lower real interest causes higher investment demand. And as the real interest rate is the return to saving, a higher real interest rate creates a greater incentive to save; and s...

Restrictive patenting and licensing for cell-free fetal DNA testing has serious consequences for technology advances and benefits to public health.

We present an algorithm for low rank approximation of matrices where only some of the entries in the matrix are taken into consideration. This algorithm appears in recent literature under different names, where it is described as an EM based algorithm that maximizes the likelihood for the missing entries without any relation for the mean square error minimization. When the algorithm is minimize...

The negotiation in general sense, as one of the most fundamental and powerful interaction of human beings, represents the dynamic process of exchanging information and perspectives towards mutual understanding and agreements. Interest based negotiation allows negotiators to discuss the concerns behind the negotiation issues so that a mutually acceptable win-win solution is more likely to be rea...

We price moneyness-based portfolio returns on the LIBOR futures options in an Intertemporal CAPM framework as an extension of the pricing kernel approach. In contrast to existing studies for pricing index options, our results show that only the real interest rate is significant in the pricing kernel for LIBOR options. The polynomial pricing kernel with linear interpretation outperforms the iso-...

This paper selectively reviews research on the relationship between topic interest and prior knowledge, and discusses the optimal association between these variables. The paper points out that interest has a facilitating impact on learning, and at least part of this effect must be ascribed to prior knowledge. While the interest-knowledge association may account for about 20 percent of the varia...

An explanation of Conflicts of Interest, why they must be avoided, and guidance for doing so. • Lincoln Laboratory is contractually required to be free of actual or apparent conflicts of interest. Conflicts of interest undermine the objectivity, independence, and integrity of the Laboratory's work. • Therefore, Laboratory staff shall avoid situations that cause actual or apparent conflicts of i...

My research interests lie broadly in the field of software engineering and specifically in the areas of software testing, software evolution, and search−based software engineering. My current research work at NC State University in software evolution and testing aims at providing software developers automated solutions to adapt their software because of changes to an external library [1]. My ea...