The articles and accompanying commentaries in ONCOLOGY provide important clinical information but also an opportunity to call attention to language projecting attitudes and judgments that are unintended, probably unconscious, and generally unchallenged. We note that recent articles and reviews refer to the “patient having failed” treatment; patients are identified with their cancer as if they a...

We consider an implementation of a recursive model-based active-set trust-region method for solving bound-constrained nonlinear non-convex optimization problems without derivatives using the technique of self-correcting geometry proposed in [24]. Considering an active-set method in modelbased optimization creates the opportunity of saving a substantial amount of function evaluations when mainta...

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In 1996, Duke Children's Hospital was in serious trouble. Its $11 million annual operating loss had forced administrators to make cutbacks. As a result, some caregivers felt that the quality of care had deteriorated. Parents' complaints were on the rise. Frustrated staff members were quitting. In this article, Jon Meliones, DCH's chief medical director, candidly describes how his debt-ridden ho...

Many households face the tradeoff between paying an extra dollar off the remaining mortgage on their house and saving that extra dollar in tax-deferred accounts (TDAs) used for retirement. We show that, under certain conditions, it becomes a tax arbitrage to reduce mortgage prepayments and to increase TDA contributions because of the tax deductibility of mortgage interest and tax-exemption of q...

Abstract Tax refunds are an opportunity for lower‐income households to accumulate emergency savings so they have cash on hand cover expenses when income is insufficient. Our field experiments testing different behavioral interventions encourage refund saving via online tax filing show small effect sizes (0.12–0.14) and a low aggregate rate (12%) that might be increased were filers receive finan...

Dynamic translation and optimization systems employ code caches to improve performance and to support reuse of dynamically generated code sequences within a single run of an application. However, these intra-application caching techniques are ineffective at amortizing runtime costs on shortrunning applications or scripts that repeatedly invoke the same application. For these situations, dynamic...