We demonstrate attacks on the boot ROMs of the Nintendo 3DS in order to exfiltrate secret information from normally protected areas of memory and gain persistent early code execution on devices which have not previously been compromised. The attack utilizes flaws in the RSA signature verification implementation of one of the boot ROMs in order to overflow ASN.1 length fields and cause invalid f...

This paper empirically explores the concept of co-materialization to explain the digital innovation dynamics in offshore petroleum production. The central insight developed is that the very nature of subsurface processes and phenomena that may be monitored and controlled is transformed as offshore petroleum production is digitalized. The paper shows how digital technologies are intrinsic to thi...

Over the millennia various hominoids and hominids have subsisted on very different dietaries, depending on climate, hunting proficiency, food-processing technology, and available foods. The Australopithecines were not browsers and fruit-eaters with very high intakes of vitamin C; rather they were scavengers of kills made by other animals. The hominids who followed did include some cold-climate ...

Thomas Keneally has long been a writer who gives expression to nationalist sentiment. In 1978 J.J. Healy commented that writers such as Keneally represented ‘a collective, many-motived consciousness’ whose impulse was ‘political, public’. Indeed, many of Keneally’s earlier novels illustrate what we might call ‘national progenitors’. In From The Ruins of Colonialism Chris Healy describes a uniqu...

This paper gives a CREW PRAM algorithm for the problem of finding lowest common ancestors in a forest under the insertion of leaves and roots and the deletion of leaves. For a forest with a maximum of n vertices, the algorithm takes O(m/p + r log p + min(m, r log n)) time and O(n) space using p processors to process a sequence of m operations that are presented over r rounds. Furthermore, lowes...

related homeobox 1 gene, Prrx1, are up-regulated in the autopods of the bat wing compared to the bat hindlimb and mouse forelimb. Changes in the mRNA transcript abundance of several genes involved in retinoic acid (RA) synthesis, degradation and signaling were consistent with the down-regulation of the RA signaling pathway in the developing bat wing autopod. Signal from a microarray probe targe...

The level-ancestor problem is considered. Suppose a rooted tree T is given for preprocessing. Answer quickly queries of the following form. Given a vertex v and an integer i > 0, find the ith vertex on the path from v to the root. Given any m, 1 ~<m~<log* n, we achieve the following results: (1) O(log (m) n) a time using an optimal number of processors for preprocessing and constant time using ...