He held that "It has long been the position of policy-makers that the low rate of Allowance functions as an incentive to finding work.
Although the large, phase-3 Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) of finasteride versus placebo has established the feasibility and role of ADT for primary prevention, nevertheless, limitations of the anticipated treatment-effect size (eg, 25% reduction) and the potential for selection of androgen resistance provide incentive for finding other effective chemopreventive agents.
The expense, length of time and number of animals required for routine toxicity testing have provided the incentive for finding alternative techniques which are faster, less expensive and equally valid.
The two approaches are essentially linked: Just as incentives for finding new sources of oil reduce incentives to conserve oil, large public subsidies for new drug development discourage efforts to improve how existing antibiotics are used.
The delay in awarding the prize illustrates how even the most generous incentives for finding ways of capturing gases linked to global warming may prove ineffective.
The fact is that oil prices are very high – 2011 and 2012 had the highest average real crude prices since the 1800s — and high oil prices create very strong financial incentives for finding oil and bringing it to market.
That practice has been criticized as giving brokers an incentive other than finding the best prices for executing trades on a particular exchange.
So perhaps it is inevitable that, with London 2012 in mind, Hoy still feels drawn to his incentive to succeed, finding in it a source of meaning.
