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In a recent review of the nature of batholiths, Hamilton and Myers (1967) interpreted the Boulder batholith of western Montana to be "in effect a gigantic mantled lava flow .... only a few kilometers thick," that flowed, under a crust of its own ejecta, across a broad structural basin. Such an interpretation is inconsistent with abundant geologic and geophysical data. The main mass of the batholith, the Butte Quartz Monzonite, does not have the characteristics of a lava flow or a laterally emplaced sheet. Its volcanic cover was not a floating cap but a laterally stable roof that was part of a volcanic plateau which occupied at least twice the area of the batholith. It does not thin toward its edges but is generally steep sided. Its flow structures are predominantly steep rather than near horizontal. It is separated from two smaller flanking plutons by thin vertical septa kilometers long. Its emplacement required more than 4 m.y., a rate orders of magnitude too slow for a single sheet only a few kilometers thick, however extensive. The batholith is more than a few kilometers thick. Recent gravity studies (Burfeind, 1967; Bonini, 1969) suggest a maximum thickness of 9 to 15 km to their authors, but the calculations are based on (1) assumed lateral and vertical homogeneity of the batholith, whereas in reality the Butte Quartz Monzonite core is discontinuously rimmed by more mafic, denser plutons; and (2) inappropriate densities, leading to excessive apparent density contrasts. The gravity data suggest to us that the batholith is more than 15 km thick. Heat flow, cooling rate, and seismic data also are compatible with a thickness of at least 15 km, but are difficult to reconcile with a thickness of only a few kilometers. Convincing examples of extrusive or quasi-extrusive thin batholiths must be sought elsewhere. © 1971, The Geological Society of America, Inc.
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Current advancements in Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) made safety and security a key factor for manufacturers. Any malfunction or cyberattack could lead to severe consequences for the driver, passengers, or others outside of the vehicle. There are several types of cyber attacks that frequently target automotive vehicles, which can be classified according to their types and entry points. Thus, in this newsletter, we will talk about some of the attack types and specific attack entry points when it comes to CAVs.
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For the automotive industry, cybersecurity is related to the protection of its electronic systems, communication networks, algorithms, software, hardware, and data. Due to the connectivity of all the electronic components, this breach range encompasses an entire car. The main objective is to guard against malicious attacks, unauthorized access, and any unwanted manipulation. There are different entry points for attackers in CAVs which can be classified in levels 0 to 5.
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Hackers use vulnerabilities that exist in some versions of Android devices to launch undetectable attacks. Passwords, pins, and all permissions could be captured leaving sparse clues.
In our next edition, we will present research that the QAaR team has completed that highlights the exposures, knowledge sharing of Connected and Autonomous vehicle cybersecurity threats, and opportunities to use advanced QA techniques. Physical attacks usually include hardware modification, node replication, physical damage, and side channels attacks. Hardware and modification hacking involves attacking the physical infrastructure of a computer and occurs at the lowest level of the vehicle. Hardware hacking may be the result of replacing, removing, or replicating components of hardware systems within a car. Replication of the physical hardware itself is called node replication. It occurs when an attacker can harm the functionality of a network or communication device by injecting a clone or replica into the environment. This type of attack may be done via a network where a car is considered a node. Attackers could
damage vehicle components or even the vehicle itself in a physical attack scenario. Other vulnerable areas include headlights, locks, and other components that may be responsible for the power windows in a vehicle. There is one type of attack which is based on the information gained from the implementation of a computer system. A vehicle may be sold to a third party (such as registered dealer), so data may be wiped or left on components of the car, which could serve as potential information disclosure vulnerabilities, privacy, and sensitive user data.
CAVs have several communication network architectures with other entities which are FlexRay, Controller Area Network (CAN), Local Interconnect Network (LIN), and Ethernet. Generally, real-time safety-critical applications use FlexRay to establish communication. FlexRay can be subjected to standard attacks such as spoofing where an attacker can create and inject requests.
Spoofing is defined as an email sent from a false sender address that asks the recipient to provide sensitive data. One of the most common attacks is the replacement of an authorized ECU program
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LIN network is used to facilitate the intercommunication of the ECU, which is used to control lights, engines, air conditioning, steering wheel, seats, and doors. After CAN, it is the most subject to exploitation by malicious agents. Among the threats to LIN, the most frequent and common are Message Spoofing (criminals send messages with inaccurate information, so that vehicle communications are stopped), Response Collision (take advantage of the error-handling mechanism of the LIN), and Header Collision attacks (an attacker sends a fake header to collide with a legitimate header). Ethernet interfaces in CAVs interact similarly to the way Ethernet would react in a traditional computer network. It has a variety of attack vectors, from unused ports, MAC spoofing, and bandwidth abuse, to the more sophisticated, such as TCP hijacking, etc.
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OIG: Associate Professor Responsible
NSF OIG reserved the most severe sanction it recommended in the recent report for a former associate professor whose university originally considered him or her jointly responsible with another individual—a conclusion OIG rejected. It appears that two papers that contained falsified data were previously retracted, perhaps as a result of a university's investigation and request. According to OIG, the university "committee determined that the former associate professor and research faculty member engaged in acts of fabrication and falsification that were intentional, knowing, and not the product of carelessness or error." OIG agreed "that research misconduct occurred," but said "it was not clear who was responsible for each of the specific acts of research misconduct for each of the figures delineated in the retraction notices for the two publications." Based on its analysis, OIG found that the "evidence against the former research faculty member was insufficient." But the agency said the former associate professor "committed research misconduct by intentionally falsifying data in the two publications and that his actions were a significant departure from accepted practices in the research community."
OIG recommended a three-year debarment, a letter of reprimand, training in the responsible conduct of research (RCR), and for six years the submission of certifications, assurances, a detailed data management plan and a ban on serving as an NSF peer reviewer. The university, OIG noted, "did not impose disciplinary action because both individuals had already departed the university."
Research Team Suffered 'Major Setback'
A one-year debarment is being recommended for an NSF graduate research fellow who didn't initially come entirely clean when confronted with discrepancies in his experiments and who was expelled by his university. It was not clear how or why this came to their attention, but OIG said an adviser and a graduate student were told by the fellow that he "conducted an experiment on a specific day under well-defined experimental conditions. A review of the data indicated the data files were labeled with the wrong experimental conditions and were created 3 days before the fellow supposedly did the experiment," OIG said.
When confronted, "the fellow admitted he had not done an experiment on the day claimed but said it was the first time he had falsified data," but a subsequent review uncovered "multiple instances where he took data from experiments he had conducted and represented it as the results of experiments from different dates and different conditions," OIG said. In addition to reuse, "graphs were manipulated to make the data appear as if it had been taken under different experimental conditions."
OIG added that the fellow "confessed to all the instances of data falsification" when he was being investigated by the university. All experiments involving the fellow had to be redone, leading to a "major setback" for fellow researchers. "Ultimately, the university found the fellow committed research misconduct by falsifying data, withdrew him from the university without a degree, and banned him from seeking re-admittance," according to the report. In addition to the one-year debarment, OIG is recommending that NSF require certifications and assurances and that he be banned from peer review and advising for four years.


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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern plans to raise the issue of Facebook's live-streaming facility directly with the tech giant's leadership in the wake of the live-streamed killings of at least 50 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch.
The footage stayed on Facebook for over an hour, which was long enough for many others in extremist groups to clip and redistribute the footage far and wide, effectively turning the video into a viral phenomena that amplified the effect of the killings and has been impossible to scrub from the Internet.
New Zealand authorities called on mainstream media organisations and viewers not to redistribute or watch the footage, but the sheer fact of its unmoderated and live-streamed nature on the world's most watched social media platform made it impossible to control after the fact.
"The New Zealand massacre was live-streamed on Facebook, announced on 8chan, reposted on YouTube, commentated about on Reddit, and mirrored around the world before the tech companies could even react," Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell tweeted yesterday.
Politicians, academics and social media users have criticised the big technology platforms for not doing enough to clean up their news feeds, either after the fact of broadcasting or publishing the material or by moderating it before its distribution.
Ardern said the New Zealand authorities did as much as they could to remove some of the footage after the attack.
"Ultimately though it has been up to those platforms to facilitate their removal and support their removal. I think that there are further questions to be answered," she said when asked if the companies needed to be regulated to stop the spread of the material.
"This is an issue that goes well beyond New Zealand, but it doesn't mean we can't play an active role in getting it resolved."
Challenged directly on whether Facebook should allow unmoderated live-streaming, she said she would talk directly to Facebook about the issue.
"This is an issue I will look to be discussing directly with Facebook," she said, adding she had already received a message from Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
"I haven't spoken to her directly, but she has reached out with an acknowledgement of what has occurred here in New Zealand," Ardern said, adding later the message included condolences.
A spokesman for Ardern said the message came in email form.
No word from Zuckerberg
Facebook founder and controlling shareholder Mark Zuckerberg has yet to make any public statement about the killings.
Two days after a live-streamed murder in the United States in April 2017, Zuckerberg gave his condolences to the murdered man's family.
"We have a lot more to do here," he told software developers after the murder of Robert Godwin in Cleveland.
"We have a lot of work, and we will keep doing all we can to prevent tragedies like this from happening," he said then.
He also promised that Facebook would improve its filtering and handling of violent videos.
Ardern said she would not comment on Zuckerberg's lack of comment.
"It is not for me to sit and make determinations of the way that others should be responding. It's our job to make sure that in the long run we have a policy response that acknowledges exactly what has happened on our shores."
Clark and Moutter do comment
Meanwhile, Former Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark also criticised Facebook.
"His [the killer's] video live streaming his shootings remained on line for many hours, retweeted etc by many. Why can't the algorithms identify that and act immediately?" Clark tweeted after criticising Facebook in an interview for the BBC.
Spark CEO SImon Moutter then responded.
"Helen Clark is 100 percent correct in asserting that if the global social media platform companies put as much effort into algorithms for preventing of the spread of hate material as they put into targeted advertising, they could easily solve the problem," he wrote.
"But because they don't, thought must be given to how to regulate. We all support free speech, but when that spills over into hate speech and propagation of violence, it has gone far too far. Such content is not tolerated on traditional media; why should it be on social media?"
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What to Do Next When You Buy Shares in GM
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What does this have to do with Windows Phone? Well, Nokia uses Zeiss lenses in several of their Lumia Windows Phones, including the upcoming Lumia 1020/EOS. We've seen leaked images of the camera plate on the EOS that were branded with both "Zeiss" and "Carl Zeiss". Some have thought the images with the Zeiss label were fake.
It would appear that with the company name change these images are looking a lot more credible. Luckily it won't be long until things will come into better focus when we all expect Nokia to officially unveil the Lumia 1020/EOS/Elvis during the July 11th Zoom Reinvented press event.
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New results from a prospective clinical trial conducted in France show that children with low-risk retinoblastoma do not need postoperative (adjuvant) chemotherapy to prevent disease recurrence or metastasis; the results also suggest that certain patients with intermediate-risk disease can receive less aggressive adjuvant treatment, or perhaps forego it altogether. Avoiding chemotherapy spares patients from treatment side effects and long-term health risks, such as cardiovascular disease and development of a second cancer.
Retinoblastoma accounts for 3 percent of all cancers diagnosed in children under the age of 15. An estimated 300 cases of retinoblastoma will be diagnosed in the United States this year, most before the age of five years. About two-thirds of children with retinoblastoma have unilateral disease. In developed countries, this type of disease is typically detected around two years of age. More than 95 percent of such patients are cured by surgical removal of the affected eyeball, with eyesight preserved in the other eye. However, some patients remain at risk of disease spreading and recurrence.
To estimate the risk of disease recurrence and metastasis, doctors examine the surgically removed eye under a microscope and classify the tumor as either low-, intermediate- or high-risk. All patients whose tumors are considered high-risk receive intensive postoperative chemotherapy and radiation therapy. There is no consensus, however, on the need for adjuvant therapy and the optimal treatment approach for patients in the other two risk categories. Therefore, protocols for adjuvant chemotherapy use in these patient groups have varied widely.
"Our study confirms that it is not necessary to give adjuvant treatment to many children with unilateral retinoblastoma," said lead study author Isabelle Aerts, MD, a pediatric oncologist at Institut Curie in Paris, France. "I think that our results will help establish the standard of care for such patients, reducing variations in postoperative chemotherapy protocols."
In the study, 123 patients with unilateral, non-hereditary retinoblastoma were assigned to one of three risk groups according to previously established criteria. The median age at the time of eye removal surgery was 23 months. The 70 patients with low-risk disease received no postoperative chemotherapy; the 52 patients with intermediate-risk disease received four courses of adjuvant chemotherapy (etoposide, carboplatin, vincristine, cyclophosphamide), and the only patient with high-risk disease received six courses of high-dose adjuvant therapy (etoposide, carboplatin, thiotepa, vincristine and cyclophosphamide).
At a median follow-up period of 71 months, all patients were alive. None of the patients experienced disease worsening, relapse, distant metastasis or secondary cancers. The adjuvant chemotherapy was safe overall. These data confirm that the specific regimens administered in this study, which are already being used around the world, are very effective and safe.
The excellent outcomes observed in this study confirm it is safe for patients with low-risk disease to go without adjuvant therapy and suggest that it may be safe to reduce the intensity of or even eliminate adjuvant chemotherapy in some patients with intermediate-risk disease, specifically those with a risk feature known as isolated choroidal invasion—spreading of tumor cells to the layer of blood vessels and connective tissue at the back of the eye. However, more research is needed to establish clinical criteria for identifying such patients. As all patients were alive at the end of the follow-up period, it is not clear whether adjuvant treatment played a vital role, or if surgery would have been sufficient.
Dr. Aerts and her research team have recently launched a new study to confirm these results and also determine if treatment could be reduced in some patients in the intermediate-risk category. In this ongoing study, patients with intermediate-risk disease and isolated choroidal invasion are being treated with only two cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy.
Genetic Risk Factors for AMD Come into Focus
An international group of investigators has identified seven new genetic regions associated with age-related macular degeneration. The findings, reported online March 3 in Nature Genetics, could point to new biological pathways and therapeutic targets for AMD.
The AMD Gene Consortium, a network of 18 research groups supported by the National Eye Institute, also confirmed 12 genetic loci identified in previous studies. The study represents the most comprehensive genome-wide analysis of genetic variations associated with AMD.
The consortium's efforts have now explained up to 65 percent of the genetics of AMD, said Jonathan Haines, PhD, director of the Vanderbilt Center for Human Genetics Research.
In addition to genetic causes, which may account for about half of all cases of AMD, risk factors include age, smoking, high blood pressure, obesity and diet. "We're getting closer and closer to understanding the full list of risk factors for AMD," said Dr. Haines, one of the lead authors of the study and principal investigator of the coordinating center for the consortium.
Dr. Haines and others discovered the first genetic risk factor for AMD in 2005—Complement Factor H, which is involved in inflammatory signaling pathways. Since then, researchers have identified a number of other genetic loci associated with AMD, but the studies usually involved small numbers of individuals.
"It was very clear that if we wanted to make real progress in understanding the genetics of AMD, we needed to pull all of these various datasets together—which is what the AMD Gene Consortium has done," Dr. Haines said.
A strength of the AMD Gene Consortium, Dr. Haines noted, is the participation of groups from all over the world. The consortium combined existing genome-wide association scans and performed additional genotyping studies. The researchers examined genetic data from more than 17,000 patients with advanced AMD and more than 60,000 people without AMD.
The loci they identified include genes involved in immune system signaling, lipid metabolism, remodeling of the matrix that surrounds cells and blood vessel development. The researchers are continuing to study the genetic regions, Dr. Haines said.
"This paper is a global population look at genetic loci, and now we're drilling down to the details and discovering rare variants in genes that may suggest how they participate in causing AMD," Dr. Haines said.
The hope, he said, is that a full understanding of genetic and environmental risk factors will allow the computation of an AMD risk score. Several companies already offer tests that generate risk scores, but they are based on older information.
"If we can identify the people who are at greatly increased risk for AMD, perhaps we can begin to do clinical trials to test treatments that may prevent the disease," Dr. Haines said.
Study IDs New Myopia Genetic Associations
The largest ever genome-wide association study on myopia has identified 20 new genetic associations for the condition. The study, which was specific to individuals of European ancestry, also replicated two known associations. The study included an analysis of genetic data and survey responses from more than 50,000 customers of 23andMe, a personal genetics company, and demonstrates that the genetic basis of myopia is complex and affected by multiple genes.
In the United States, an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the adult population is myopic.
The study, "Genome-Wide Analysis Points to Roles for Extracellular Matrix Remodeling, the Visual Cycle, and Neuronal Development in Myopia" was published on February 28, 2013 in PLOS Genetics.
Although environmental factors (such as level of education, outdoor exposure, reading and near work) are implicated in the development of myopia, it is well-established that genetics plays a substantial role as well. The identification of these 20 novel genetic associations shows that several new genetic pathways play a role in the development of human myopia, including extracellular remodeling, the visual cycle, eye and body growth, retinal neuron development and general neuronal development or signaling.
"This study highlights the potential importance of early neuronal development in the progression of myopia and opens the door for additional research into the complex interactions that underlie vision development," said Nicholas Eriksson, PhD, author and 23andMe principal scientist. Based on the findings of this study, the company has launched a new research survey designed to provide insights that may expand understanding of the genetics of eyesight more broadly.
Retinal Cell Death Plays Key Role in Circadian Cycles
A Johns Hopkins University team has found that there is a kind of turf war going on in the retina, where intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are jockeying for the best position to receive information from rod and cone cells about light levels. By studying these specialized cells in mice, the researchers found that the cells actually kill each other to seize more space and find the best position to do their job.
The work could have implications for several conditions, including autism and some psychiatric disorders, where neural circuits influence our behavior. "In a nutshell, death in our retina plays a vital role in assembling the retinal circuits that influence crucial physiological functions such as circadian rhythms and sleep-wake cycles," said Samer Hattar, PhD, an associate professor of biology in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. "Once we have a greater understanding of the circuit formation underlying all of our neuronal abilities, this could be applied to any neurological function."
Dr. Hattar and his team determined that without this cell death, circadian blindness overcame the mice, who could no longer distinguish day from night. The mice were genetically modified to prevent cell death by removing the Bax protein, an essential factor for cell death to occur. The team discovered that if cell death is prevented, ipRGCs distribution is highly affected, leading the surplus cells to bunch up and form ineffectual clumps incapable of receiving light information from rods and cones for the alignment of circadian rhythms. To detect this, the researchers used wheel running activity measurements in mice that lacked the Bax protein as well as the melanopsin protein, which allows ipRGCs to respond only through rods and cones and compared this to animals where only the Bax gene was deleted.
The authors said that when death is prevented, the ability of rods and cones to signal light to our internal clocks is highly impaired. This shows that cell death plays an essential role in setting the circuitry that allows the retinal rods and cones to influence our circadian rhythms and sleep. REVIEW