  Certain results related to the cancellation of quadratic divergences, which
had been obtained using dimensional reduction, are reconsidered using a
nonlocal regulator. The results obtained are shown to depend strongly on the
regulator. Specifically, it is shown that a certain result of Al-sarhi, Jack,
and Jones no longer holds, even if a nontrivial measure factor is used; also
that there are no values of the top and Higgs mass for which the one-loop
quadratic divergence in the standard model cancels independently of the
renormalization scale, whether or not strong interaction effects are ignored.

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