This paper follows up on a model described elsewhere by the authors. The model incorporates a privacy cost component to expected payoff in auctions. This is the cost, to the bidder, of the information revealed, by the bid, about the bidder’s valuation. It applies even if the sale is lost, and hence, negative pay-offs, not possible in regular auctions, are possible in auctions with privacy costs...

Strausbaugh, C. A., Wenninger, E. J., and Eujayl, I. A. 2014. Control of curly top in sugar beet with seed and foliar insecticides. Plant Dis. 98:10751080. Curly top in sugar beet is a serious problem that is caused by Beet curly top virus and other closely related species and transmitted by the beet leafhopper. In order to find a means of reducing curly top in sugar beet, 15 combinations of in...

The ’64 Mustang is a classic: a car that people still talk and reminisce about 44 years on. Do you mess with success and change a winning formula? No, but you do update a design to fix weaknesses in the original (better audio, air-conditioning, reliability, etc.) and to address new consumer desires as the market changes (efficient engines to address fuel economy, catalytic converters to address...

Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] germplasm line N98– 4445A (Reg. no. GP-313, PI 636691) was developed and released in 2002 byUSDA-ARS, in cooperation with the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service. This line has a concentration of oleic acid in the seed oil that is approximately 550 g kg. This is between 340 and 380 g kg greater than commercial soybean varieties and 47 g kg more than the...

Many networks are completely encapsulated using a single node type and a single edge type. Often a more complicated model composed of multiple distinct node and edge types can be constructed to create a more informative network [2]. We call the former homogeneous networks and the latter heterogeneous. The ability to homogenize networks varies wildly, dependent on the network under analysis and ...

Introduction: Zanubrutinib (zanu) is a potent and highly selective next-generation Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor designed to maximize BTK occupancy minimize off-target effects. In the ALPINE study (NCT03734016), zanu demonstrated superiority ibrutinib (ibr) in both progression-free survival (PFS) overall response rate more favorable safety profile R/R CLL/SLL. The purpose of this analy...

Introduction:Patients (pts) with classic Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) who have failed or are intolerant of BV and CPI few available treatment options. Genetic alterations in JAK/STAT pathway frequently detected cHL tumors making them an ideal therapeutic target. Since pre-clinical studies showed synergistic activity JAK mTOR inhibition JAK-mutated cell lines, we designed a combination trial using ora...

Introduction: Brentuximab vedotin (BV) and nivolumab are well tolerated, active treatments for patients (pts) with classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) (Advani 2021; Yasenchak 2020). Herein, we present updated efficacy safety results from an ongoing phase 2 study of a novel combination BV + doxorubicin dacarbazine among pts early-stage cHL (SGN35-027 Part C). Methods: SGN35-027 (NCT03646123) C enro...

Introduction: Mosunetuzumab (mosun) is a CD3:CD20 bispecific antibody that has been FDA-approved for relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma after two prior lines of therapy. We hypothesized mosun would be even more active in patients (pts) without lymphotoxic Therefore, we designed response adapted study pts with untreated (FL) and marginal zone (MZL). Methods: This single center, open label, ...

In his October 2020 column titled “Career choices” (page 8), Charles Day introduces three individuals whose obituaries appeared in different issues of Physics Today 1998. One the themes was why selected careers that they did, all which grew out their having doctoral degrees physics.One people mentioned Rutherford Adkins, who after being drafted 1941 became a member Tuskegee Airmen, first Africa...