Laurie Bauer, Compounds and Compounding

Reply to Bauer and Goff.

TO THE EDITOR—We read with interest the letter by Bauer and colleagues commenting on the need for cost-justification of new diagnostic tests in the field of infectious diseases [1], such as the recently US Food and Drug Administration–approved T2Candida panel for diagnosis of candidemia [2]. Indeed, the new alternatives for disease diagnosis [3] contribute to the exponential rise of healthcare ...

Georg Bauer

Task Force ( IETF ) B . Laurie

This document describes an experimental protocol for publicly logging the existence of Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates as they are issued or observed, in a manner that allows anyone to audit certificate authority (CA) activity and notice the issuance of suspect certificates as well as to audit the certificate logs themselves. The intent is that eventually clients would refuse to hon...

Christian Bauer ; Ronald B .

We study the optimal combination of corporate tax rate and tax base in a model of a small open economy with heterogeneous firms. We show that it is optimal for the small country’s government to effectively subsidize capital inputs by granting a tax allowance in excess of the true costs of capital. Economic integration reduces the optimal capital subsidy and drives low-productivity firms from th...

Lessons from Laurie Jean Mathiason

I used to feel that the safety of chiropractic treatment was unquestionable. I still believe that relatively and statistically speaking, cervical spinal manipulative therapy is a low risk procedure. However, the benefit of objectivity that time for reflection provides has refined my thoughts on this matter. Now that the issue of safety has been raised, it appears that the chiropractic professio...