Trial Executive Committee. N.J.W. has received grant support from Boston Scientific Corporation. L.S. has received travel reimbursements from Edwards Lifesciences related to his work as an unpaid member of the PARTNER Trial Executive Committee, holds equity in Cardiosolutions and ValvXchange, and has Intellectual Property Rights/Royalties from Posthorax. M.M.and M.B.L. have received travel reim...

Isabella Nogues, BA, Bethesda, MD (Presenter) Nothing to Disclose Le Lu, PhD, Bethesda, MD (Abstract Co-Author) Nothing to Disclose Xiaosong Wang, PhD, Bethesda, MD (Abstract Co-Author) Nothing to Disclose Holger R. Roth, PhD, Bethesda, MD (Abstract Co-Author) Nothing to Disclose Gedas Bertasius, Philadelphia, PA (Abstract Co-Author) Nothing to Disclose Nathan S. Lay, PhD, Bethesda, MD (Abstrac...

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Biotechnology has enriched the strategy set available to crop managers. Suppose a manager faces a decision between applying a pre-emergence pesticide or applying nothing at all. The advent of pesticide tolerance traits in plants admits the possibility of a state-contingent post-emergence application of pesticide. The innovation adds value in large part because it provides the manager with the o...

Given the recent changes in the policy governing Internet content distribution, such as the institution of per listener royalties for Internet radio broadcasters, content distributors now have an incentive to under-report the size of their audience. Previous audience measurement schemes only protect against inflation of audience size. We present the first protocols for audience measurement that...

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LIMITED DISTRIBUTION NOTICE: This report has been submitted for publication outside of IBM and will probably be copyrighted if accepted for publication. It has been issued as a Research Report for early dissemination of its contents. In view of the transfer of copyright to the outside publisher, its distribution outside of IBM prior to publication should be limited to peer communications and sp...

The Fraunhofer Institut f ur Integrierte Schaltungen in Erlangen has devised a new technique for distributing digital multimedia data under attention to copyright problems: The Multimedia Protection Protocol (MMP). By using MMP it is possible to distribute digital music tracks and videos freely while keeping control of the usage of the tracks. Using MMP, fees and royalties can be deducted and ...

As a result of recent changes in the policy governing Internet content distribution, such as the institution of per listener royalties for Internet radio broadcasters, content distributors now have an incentive to under-report the size of their audience. Existing metering protocols only protect against inflation of audience size. We introduce the first protocols for audience metering that prote...