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If the Supreme Court decides the individual health-care mandate is unconstitutional, Obama's plans for reform begin to unravel. But with a little political maneuvering, he can turn such a defeat into a victory.
Not surprisingly, today?s debut Supreme Court argument over the so-called ?individual mandate? requiring everyone to buy health insurance revolved around epistemological niceties such as the meaning of a ?tax,? and the question of whether the issue is ripe for review.
Skip to next paragraph Robert ReichRobert is chancellor's professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Clinton. He has written 13 books, including 'The Work of Nations,' 'Locked in the Cabinet,' and his most recent book, 'Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future.' His 'Marketplace' commentaries can be found on publicradio.com and iTunes.
Behind this judicial foreplay is the brute political fact that if the Court decides the?individual mandate is an unconstitutional extension of federal authority, the entire law starts unraveling.
But with a bit of political jujitsu, the President could turn any such defeat into a victory for a single-payer healthcare system ? Medicare for all.?
Here?s how.
The dilemma at the heart of the new law is that it continues to depend on private health insurers, who have to make a profit or at least pay all their costs including marketing and advertising.
Yet the only way private insurers can afford to cover everyone with pre-existing health problems, as the new law requires, is to have every American buy health insurance ? including young and healthier people who are unlikely to rack up large healthcare costs.
This dilemma is the product of political compromise. You?ll remember the Administration couldn?t get the votes for a single-payer system such as Medicare for all. It hardly tried. Not a single Republican would even agree to a bill giving Americans the option of buying into it.
But don?t expect the Supreme Court to address this dilemma. It lies buried under an avalanche of constitutional?argument.
Those who are defending the law in Court say the federal government has authority to compel Americans to buy health insurance under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, which gives Washington the power to regulate interstate commerce. They argue our sprawling health insurance system surely extends beyond an individual state.
Those who are opposing the law say a requirement that individuals contract with private insurance companies isn?t regulation of interstate commerce. It?s coercion of individuals.
Unhappily for Obama and the Democrats, most Americans don?t seem to like the individual mandate very much anyway. Many on the political right believe it a threat to individual liberty. Many on the left object to being required to buy something from a private company.
The President and the Democrats could have avoided this dilemma in the first place if they?d insisted on Medicare for all, or at least a public option.
After all, Social Security and Medicare require every working American to ?buy? them. The purchase happens automatically in the form of a deduction from everyone?s paychecks. But because Social Security and Medicare are government programs financed by payroll taxes they don?t feel like mandatory purchases.
Americans don?t mind mandates in the form of payroll taxes for Social Security or Medicare. In fact, both programs are so popular even conservative Republicans were heard to shout ?don?t take away my Medicare!? at rallies opposed to the new health care law.
There?s no question payroll taxes are constitutional, because there?s no doubt that the federal government can tax people in order to finance particular public benefits. But requiring citizens to buy something from a private company is different because private companies aren?t directly accountable to the public. They?re accountable to their owners and their purpose is to maximize profits. What if they monopolize the market and charge humongous premiums? (Some already seem to be doing this.)
Even if private health insurers are organized as not-for-profits, there?s still a problem of public accountability. What?s to prevent top executives from being paid small fortunes? (In more than a few cases this is already happening.)
Moreover, compared to private insurance, Medicare is a great deal. Its administrative costs are only around 3 percent, while the administrative costs of private insurers eat up 30 to 40 percent of premiums. Medicare?s costs are even below the 5 percent to 10 percent administrative costs borne by large companies that self-insure, and under the 11 percent costs of private plans under Medicare Advantage, the current private-insurance option under Medicare.
So why not Medicare for all?
Because Republicans have mastered the art of political jujitsu. Their strategy has been to demonize government and seek to privatize everything that might otherwise be a public program financed by tax dollars (see Paul Ryan?s plan for turning Medicare into vouchers). Then they go to court and argue that any mandatory purchase is unconstitutional because it exceeds the government?s authority.
Obama and the Democrats should do the reverse. If the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate in the new health law, private insurers will swarm Capitol Hill demanding that the law be amended to remove the requirement that they cover people with pre-existing conditions.
When this happens, Obama and the Democrats should say they?re willing to remove that requirement ? but only if Medicare is available to all, financed by payroll taxes.
If they did this the public will be behind them ? as will the Supreme Court.
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Boulder, Colo., USA - Lithosphere topics include Deccan volcanism; river profiles in Eastern Papua, New Guinea; significant seismic hazard in the Camarillo fold belt, Southern California; mechanics of the San Jacinto and southern San Andreas faults; new evidence from the SAFOD core; chalcedony of the White River Group, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Colorado; and using seismic data to study the crust and upper mantle beneath the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.
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Imprints of volcanism in the upper mantle beneath NW Deccan volcanic province
G. Mohan et al., Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Mumbai, 400076, India. Posted online 9 Jan. 2012; print issue: April 2012; doi: 10.1130/L178.1.
A major part of central and western India is covered by an over one-kilometer-thick pile of volcanic rocks (basalts), known popularly as the "Deccan Traps." The origin of this volcanism about 65 million years ago coincided with the global mass extinction of the plant and animal species, including the dinosaurs. Consequently, the theories for the genesis of the Deccan volcanism range from external meteorite impact to internal convection process in which hot material rises from the deep mantle to flood Earth's surface. G. Mohan and colleagues investigate the origin of the Deccan volcanism by exploring the interiors of Earth through seismic waves generated by earthquakes and recorded by seismographs on Earth's surface. They found the imprints of volcanism, due to a thermal source, preserved deep beneath the northwestern Deccan volcanic province (NWDVP), suggesting that the relatively thin lithosphere beneath NWDVP provided a favorable setting for the volcanic eruption. Mohan and colleagues hypothesize that the location and magnitude of volcanism are governed to a large extent by the variation in the thickness of the lithosphere beneath the DVP. This study provides seismological constraints on the models feasible for the genesis of flood basalts.
Transient fluvial incision and active surface uplift in the Woodlark Rift of Eastern Papua New Guinea
Scott R. Miller et al., Dept. of Earth Sciences, 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA. Posted online 25 Jan. 2012; print issue: April 2012; doi: 10.1130/L135.1.
The Woodlark Rift off-shore of eastern Papua New Guinea is the fastest extending continental crust on Earth. In the center of the rift, the D'Entrecasteaux Islands exceed elevations of 2,500 meters and include the youngest ultrahigh-pressure rocks on Earth, which were transported from more than 90 km deep since rifting began about eight million years ago. Even though the Woodlark Rift presents an unparalleled view into the processes that govern the rifting of continental crust, little is known about the history and spatial pattern of vertical bedrock motions over the past million years. Over this time, plate motions have changed significantly, with extension and rock uplift possibly migrating from the center of the rift to its southern margin on the Papuan Peninsula. In order to better understand the mechanisms that have brought deeply exhumed rocks to Earth's surface, a community of earth scientists has been working to understand the history and pattern of vertical rock motions within the Woodlark Rift. In this study, Scott Miller and colleagues present data about the lengthwise elevations of rivers draining the D'Entrecasteaux Islands and the Papuan Peninsula. These rivers are gauges that adjust their slopes in response to mountain-building processes, such that their profile shapes record patterns in the amount and history of rock uplift and, hence, fault motion. These river profiles indicate that the islands and the peninsula have increased in mean elevation, likely over the past few hundred thousand years. This study is part of a growing body of work that suggests that profound rock uplift continues to the present day in both the D'Entrecasteaux Islands and the Papuan Peninsula, driven by continental extension and upwelling, buoyant mantle.
Late Pleistocene structural evolution of the Camarillo fold belt: Implications for lateral fault growth and seismic hazard in Southern California
Duane E. DeVecchio et al., Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9630, USA. Posted online 28 Feb. 2012; print issue: April 2012; doi: 10.1130/L136.1.
The Camarillo fold belt (CFB) in the Western Transverse Ranges poses a significant seismic hazard to nearly one million people living in Southern California, yet few published geologic or geochronological data from this fold belt exist. The CFB is composed of several actively growing folds that are developed along the western extent of the highly segmented Simi fault zone, which extends for 40 km through urbanized Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. This research includes five balanced cross sections that are used to determine the magnitude of fault and fold related deformation. In addition, eight new absolute ages on deformed sedimentary strata exposed at the surface and in three paleoseismic trenches are presented and used to quantify the local timing and rates of fault slip across the fold belt, which is critical to assessing earthquake hazard. The results presented by Duane E. DeVecchio and colleagues show that local deformed sedimentary strata are an order of magnitude younger than previously thought, fault slip rates are comparable to other study fold belts in Southern California (0.8-1.4 mm/yr), and discrete faults within the fold belt are younger toward the west. A model of punctuated lateral fault propagation is proposed to explain westward growth of the Simi fault, which occurs in discrete pulses that are separated by intervals of fault displacement accumulation and fold amplification during constant fault length conditions. Lateral fault growth is limited in space and time by an orthogonal north-striking fault set, which juxtaposes a series of west-plunging anticlines that decrease in structural relief and age toward the west.
Climate-controlled landscape evolution in the Western Transverse Ranges, California: Insights from Quaternary geochronology of the Saugus Formation and strath terrace flights
Duane E. DeVecchio et al., Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-9630, USA. Posted online 28 Feb. 2012; print issue: April 2012; doi: 10.1130/L176.1.
The Las Posas and Ojai Valleys, located in the actively deforming Western Transverse Ranges of California, contain well-preserved flights of strath terraces and Quaternary aggradational strata (e.g., Saugus Formation) that when numerically dated provide insight into the tectonic, geomorphic, fluvial, and climatic histories of the region. This study by Duane E. DeVecchio and colleagues includes 14 new optically stimulated luminescence and 16 new terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide ages from the late Pleistocene to Holocene that record regional aggradation events and four intervals of strath terrace formation. Numerical data indicate that terrestrial Saugus strata (Camarillo Member) in the Las Posas Valley prograded over marine deposits at ca. 125-thousand years ago and ca. 80-thousand years ago and have an upper age limit of approx. 60-25 thousand years, which is locally an order of magnitude younger than the youngest Saugus strata elsewhere in Southern California. These results highlight the need for additional numerical dating of the Saugus Formation, which is commonly cited as the youngest strata deformed in numerous paleoseismic trenches, and its inferred upper age is used to quantify rates of regional tectonic deformation. Moreover, results discussed in this paper provide a chronostratigraphic framework from which these landforms may be correlated regionally and used for assessing rates of active tectonics where numerical data are unavailable.
Multi-timescale mechanical coupling between the San Jacinto fault and the San Andreas fault, southern California
G. Luo, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78713, USA, and M. Liu, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA. Posted online 25 Jan. 2012 and not yet assigned to a print issue; doi: 10.1130/L180.1.
In Earth's upper crust, deformation is mostly accommodated by stick-and-slip on faults, producing recurrent earthquakes. Previous models have focused on stress buildup and release associated with the stick-and-slip process on individual fault segments; mechanical interaction between faults, while well expected, remains poorly understood. This paper by G. Luo and M. Liu explores mechanical coupling between the San Jacinto and southern San Andreas faults, which accommodate most of the relative North America-Pacific plate motion in southern California. The results show that the cluster of moderate-sized earthquakes on the San Jacinto fault in the past century may have delayed the "Big One" -- the anticipated rupture of much of the southern San Andreas fault -- by reducing the static Coulomb stress on the San Andreas fault. Furthermore, the fluctuation of seismic activity on one fault can significantly influence the loading rates on the other. Over longer time scales, the seismic moment release and slip rates on these two faults are complementary: Increase on one fault is associated with decrease on the other. Such results follow the principle of energy conservation and strain partitioning and are consistent with geological observations.
Chlorite-smectite clay minerals and fault behavior: new evidence from San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) core
A.M. Schleicher et al., University of Michigan, Geological Sciences, 1100 North University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Posted online 25 Jan. 2012 and not yet assigned to a print issue; doi: 10.1130/L158.1.
The presence of smectitic clay minerals has been advanced as evidence for mineralogic fault weakening processes in the San Andreas fault. However, the stability of pure smectite minerals is typically restricted to the uppermost 3-4 km of the upper crust. In this paper, A.M. Schleicher of the University of Michigan and colleagues explore the role of mixed layered chlorite-smectite minerals, which have been reported to exist to temperatures as high as 260 degrees Celsius with decreasing smectite content. The occurrence of localized chlorite-smectite phases in SAFOD fault-related rocks extends the role of fault weakening from clay neomineralizations to a greater range of depths and host rock compositions, influencing fault behavior down to a depth of 8-10 km. Schleicher and colleagues propose, therefore, that smectite-bearing clays and, in particular, the chlorite-smectite minerals can govern brittle fault behavior down to the brittle plastic transition.
Chalcedony vein horizons and clastic dikes in the White River Group as products of diagenetically driven deformation
Harmon Maher Jr. and Robert Shuster, Dept. of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska 68182-0199, USA. Posted online 25 Jan. 2012 and not yet assigned to a print issue; doi: 10.1130/L187.1.
Chalcedony veins occur as local stratabound arrays at multiple levels within the finer-grained sediments of the White River Group, making up to 2%-3% of the outcrop volume. The veins are commonly deformed by small folds, faults with well-developed striae, and various fold-fault combinations, and they also exhibit striae and slickenslides on vein walls. These indicate significant vertical shortening of the veins. Evidence for vertical dike shortening suggests synchronous or later compaction, and clastic dikes are also postulated to result from syneresis. Harmon Maher Jr. and Robert Shuster suggest that chalcedony vein formation, silica mobilization, local uranium mineralization, and clastic dike formation are part of diagenetically driven fracture development that produced a fluid flow network, initiating feedback relationships among diagenesis, dewatering, fluid migration, and associated compaction. Given that the clastic dikes occur within the Sharps Formation, the event was Miocene or later.
Crustal scale shortening structures beneath the Blue Ridge Mountains, NC, USA
Lara S. Wagner et al., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Posted online 28 Feb. 2012 and not yet assigned to a print issue; doi: 10.1130/L184.1.
Lara S. Wagner and colleagues use a unique seismic data set to study the crust and upper mantle beneath the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. There has been some debate about how the Southern Appalachians have maintained their rugged topography for more than 180 million years since the last major tectonic event along the eastern seaboard. The Blue Ridge Escarpment is a particularly striking example of the steep topography that one might imagine would have become more gradual over these very long time periods. Wagner and colleagues note that their results suggest there may be good reason for the high elevations and steep topography in the Blue Ridge Mountains related to variations in crustal thickness and composition. Specifically, they find that the highest elevations are isostatically supported by a 45 km thick crust. However, to the east of the escarpment, Wagner and colleagues find similar crustal thicknesses of about 45 km but also evidence for a 15-km-thick layer of very dense material beneath the crust that might serve to hold these lower elevations down. While these results are very preliminary, they offer an intriguing first look at how deeper lithospheric scale structures affect the persistence of ancient mountain ranges like the Southern Appalachians.
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Boulder, Colo., USA - Lithosphere topics include Deccan volcanism; river profiles in Eastern Papua, New Guinea; significant seismic hazard in the Camarillo fold belt, Southern California; mechanics of the San Jacinto and southern San Andreas faults; new evidence from the SAFOD core; chalcedony of the White River Group, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Colorado; and using seismic data to study the crust and upper mantle beneath the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.
Lithosphere is the newest bimonthly publication of The Geological Society of America, printing February, April, June, August, and October, and December each year. Abstracts are available at http://lithosphere.gsapubs.org/. Representatives of the media may obtain complimentary copies of Lithosphere articles by contacting Christa Stratton at the address above.
Please discuss articles of interest with the authors before publishing stories on their work, and please make reference to Lithosphere in articles published. Contact Christa Stratton for additional information or assistance.
Non-media requests for articles may be directed to GSA Sales and Service, gsaservice@geosociety.org.
Imprints of volcanism in the upper mantle beneath NW Deccan volcanic province
G. Mohan et al., Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Mumbai, 400076, India. Posted online 9 Jan. 2012; print issue: April 2012; doi: 10.1130/L178.1.
A major part of central and western India is covered by an over one-kilometer-thick pile of volcanic rocks (basalts), known popularly as the "Deccan Traps." The origin of this volcanism about 65 million years ago coincided with the global mass extinction of the plant and animal species, including the dinosaurs. Consequently, the theories for the genesis of the Deccan volcanism range from external meteorite impact to internal convection process in which hot material rises from the deep mantle to flood Earth's surface. G. Mohan and colleagues investigate the origin of the Deccan volcanism by exploring the interiors of Earth through seismic waves generated by earthquakes and recorded by seismographs on Earth's surface. They found the imprints of volcanism, due to a thermal source, preserved deep beneath the northwestern Deccan volcanic province (NWDVP), suggesting that the relatively thin lithosphere beneath NWDVP provided a favorable setting for the volcanic eruption. Mohan and colleagues hypothesize that the location and magnitude of volcanism are governed to a large extent by the variation in the thickness of the lithosphere beneath the DVP. This study provides seismological constraints on the models feasible for the genesis of flood basalts.
Transient fluvial incision and active surface uplift in the Woodlark Rift of Eastern Papua New Guinea
Scott R. Miller et al., Dept. of Earth Sciences, 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA. Posted online 25 Jan. 2012; print issue: April 2012; doi: 10.1130/L135.1.
The Woodlark Rift off-shore of eastern Papua New Guinea is the fastest extending continental crust on Earth. In the center of the rift, the D'Entrecasteaux Islands exceed elevations of 2,500 meters and include the youngest ultrahigh-pressure rocks on Earth, which were transported from more than 90 km deep since rifting began about eight million years ago. Even though the Woodlark Rift presents an unparalleled view into the processes that govern the rifting of continental crust, little is known about the history and spatial pattern of vertical bedrock motions over the past million years. Over this time, plate motions have changed significantly, with extension and rock uplift possibly migrating from the center of the rift to its southern margin on the Papuan Peninsula. In order to better understand the mechanisms that have brought deeply exhumed rocks to Earth's surface, a community of earth scientists has been working to understand the history and pattern of vertical rock motions within the Woodlark Rift. In this study, Scott Miller and colleagues present data about the lengthwise elevations of rivers draining the D'Entrecasteaux Islands and the Papuan Peninsula. These rivers are gauges that adjust their slopes in response to mountain-building processes, such that their profile shapes record patterns in the amount and history of rock uplift and, hence, fault motion. These river profiles indicate that the islands and the peninsula have increased in mean elevation, likely over the past few hundred thousand years. This study is part of a growing body of work that suggests that profound rock uplift continues to the present day in both the D'Entrecasteaux Islands and the Papuan Peninsula, driven by continental extension and upwelling, buoyant mantle.
Late Pleistocene structural evolution of the Camarillo fold belt: Implications for lateral fault growth and seismic hazard in Southern California
Duane E. DeVecchio et al., Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9630, USA. Posted online 28 Feb. 2012; print issue: April 2012; doi: 10.1130/L136.1.
The Camarillo fold belt (CFB) in the Western Transverse Ranges poses a significant seismic hazard to nearly one million people living in Southern California, yet few published geologic or geochronological data from this fold belt exist. The CFB is composed of several actively growing folds that are developed along the western extent of the highly segmented Simi fault zone, which extends for 40 km through urbanized Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. This research includes five balanced cross sections that are used to determine the magnitude of fault and fold related deformation. In addition, eight new absolute ages on deformed sedimentary strata exposed at the surface and in three paleoseismic trenches are presented and used to quantify the local timing and rates of fault slip across the fold belt, which is critical to assessing earthquake hazard. The results presented by Duane E. DeVecchio and colleagues show that local deformed sedimentary strata are an order of magnitude younger than previously thought, fault slip rates are comparable to other study fold belts in Southern California (0.8-1.4 mm/yr), and discrete faults within the fold belt are younger toward the west. A model of punctuated lateral fault propagation is proposed to explain westward growth of the Simi fault, which occurs in discrete pulses that are separated by intervals of fault displacement accumulation and fold amplification during constant fault length conditions. Lateral fault growth is limited in space and time by an orthogonal north-striking fault set, which juxtaposes a series of west-plunging anticlines that decrease in structural relief and age toward the west.
Climate-controlled landscape evolution in the Western Transverse Ranges, California: Insights from Quaternary geochronology of the Saugus Formation and strath terrace flights
Duane E. DeVecchio et al., Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-9630, USA. Posted online 28 Feb. 2012; print issue: April 2012; doi: 10.1130/L176.1.
The Las Posas and Ojai Valleys, located in the actively deforming Western Transverse Ranges of California, contain well-preserved flights of strath terraces and Quaternary aggradational strata (e.g., Saugus Formation) that when numerically dated provide insight into the tectonic, geomorphic, fluvial, and climatic histories of the region. This study by Duane E. DeVecchio and colleagues includes 14 new optically stimulated luminescence and 16 new terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide ages from the late Pleistocene to Holocene that record regional aggradation events and four intervals of strath terrace formation. Numerical data indicate that terrestrial Saugus strata (Camarillo Member) in the Las Posas Valley prograded over marine deposits at ca. 125-thousand years ago and ca. 80-thousand years ago and have an upper age limit of approx. 60-25 thousand years, which is locally an order of magnitude younger than the youngest Saugus strata elsewhere in Southern California. These results highlight the need for additional numerical dating of the Saugus Formation, which is commonly cited as the youngest strata deformed in numerous paleoseismic trenches, and its inferred upper age is used to quantify rates of regional tectonic deformation. Moreover, results discussed in this paper provide a chronostratigraphic framework from which these landforms may be correlated regionally and used for assessing rates of active tectonics where numerical data are unavailable.
Multi-timescale mechanical coupling between the San Jacinto fault and the San Andreas fault, southern California
G. Luo, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78713, USA, and M. Liu, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA. Posted online 25 Jan. 2012 and not yet assigned to a print issue; doi: 10.1130/L180.1.
In Earth's upper crust, deformation is mostly accommodated by stick-and-slip on faults, producing recurrent earthquakes. Previous models have focused on stress buildup and release associated with the stick-and-slip process on individual fault segments; mechanical interaction between faults, while well expected, remains poorly understood. This paper by G. Luo and M. Liu explores mechanical coupling between the San Jacinto and southern San Andreas faults, which accommodate most of the relative North America-Pacific plate motion in southern California. The results show that the cluster of moderate-sized earthquakes on the San Jacinto fault in the past century may have delayed the "Big One" -- the anticipated rupture of much of the southern San Andreas fault -- by reducing the static Coulomb stress on the San Andreas fault. Furthermore, the fluctuation of seismic activity on one fault can significantly influence the loading rates on the other. Over longer time scales, the seismic moment release and slip rates on these two faults are complementary: Increase on one fault is associated with decrease on the other. Such results follow the principle of energy conservation and strain partitioning and are consistent with geological observations.
Chlorite-smectite clay minerals and fault behavior: new evidence from San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) core
A.M. Schleicher et al., University of Michigan, Geological Sciences, 1100 North University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Posted online 25 Jan. 2012 and not yet assigned to a print issue; doi: 10.1130/L158.1.
The presence of smectitic clay minerals has been advanced as evidence for mineralogic fault weakening processes in the San Andreas fault. However, the stability of pure smectite minerals is typically restricted to the uppermost 3-4 km of the upper crust. In this paper, A.M. Schleicher of the University of Michigan and colleagues explore the role of mixed layered chlorite-smectite minerals, which have been reported to exist to temperatures as high as 260 degrees Celsius with decreasing smectite content. The occurrence of localized chlorite-smectite phases in SAFOD fault-related rocks extends the role of fault weakening from clay neomineralizations to a greater range of depths and host rock compositions, influencing fault behavior down to a depth of 8-10 km. Schleicher and colleagues propose, therefore, that smectite-bearing clays and, in particular, the chlorite-smectite minerals can govern brittle fault behavior down to the brittle plastic transition.
Chalcedony vein horizons and clastic dikes in the White River Group as products of diagenetically driven deformation
Harmon Maher Jr. and Robert Shuster, Dept. of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska 68182-0199, USA. Posted online 25 Jan. 2012 and not yet assigned to a print issue; doi: 10.1130/L187.1.
Chalcedony veins occur as local stratabound arrays at multiple levels within the finer-grained sediments of the White River Group, making up to 2%-3% of the outcrop volume. The veins are commonly deformed by small folds, faults with well-developed striae, and various fold-fault combinations, and they also exhibit striae and slickenslides on vein walls. These indicate significant vertical shortening of the veins. Evidence for vertical dike shortening suggests synchronous or later compaction, and clastic dikes are also postulated to result from syneresis. Harmon Maher Jr. and Robert Shuster suggest that chalcedony vein formation, silica mobilization, local uranium mineralization, and clastic dike formation are part of diagenetically driven fracture development that produced a fluid flow network, initiating feedback relationships among diagenesis, dewatering, fluid migration, and associated compaction. Given that the clastic dikes occur within the Sharps Formation, the event was Miocene or later.
Crustal scale shortening structures beneath the Blue Ridge Mountains, NC, USA
Lara S. Wagner et al., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Posted online 28 Feb. 2012 and not yet assigned to a print issue; doi: 10.1130/L184.1.
Lara S. Wagner and colleagues use a unique seismic data set to study the crust and upper mantle beneath the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. There has been some debate about how the Southern Appalachians have maintained their rugged topography for more than 180 million years since the last major tectonic event along the eastern seaboard. The Blue Ridge Escarpment is a particularly striking example of the steep topography that one might imagine would have become more gradual over these very long time periods. Wagner and colleagues note that their results suggest there may be good reason for the high elevations and steep topography in the Blue Ridge Mountains related to variations in crustal thickness and composition. Specifically, they find that the highest elevations are isostatically supported by a 45 km thick crust. However, to the east of the escarpment, Wagner and colleagues find similar crustal thicknesses of about 45 km but also evidence for a 15-km-thick layer of very dense material beneath the crust that might serve to hold these lower elevations down. While these results are very preliminary, they offer an intriguing first look at how deeper lithospheric scale structures affect the persistence of ancient mountain ranges like the Southern Appalachians.
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For many American homeowners, warm weather is an invitation to take the party out to the backyard patio or deck. Before you haul out the grill and light the tiki torches, however, take some time to do a little preventive maintenance.
?This is the time to do a few simple things that will make your deck last for years,? says home repair expert, Jim Rocchetta. ?Plus, you?ll have your outdoor environment looking great before you and your friends head outside for those backyard get-togethers. ?
The first step is a thorough inspection of the entire structure to ensure that it is safe and secure. Check for loose nails and screws, and either replace them or retighten them. Tighten any railings that have become loose. Then, look beneath the deck to confirm that beams and support poles remain in good working order. ?If you find structural components that are loose, rotten or out of position, for your own safety, quit using the deck and call a pro in to fix the problem,? says Rocchetta.
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Did you know that the Social Security Administration?s trustee report stated that Social Security will begin to run a negative cash flow by the year 2017 and by the year 2036 will not be able to pay full benefits? With the impending Social Security crisis and dramatic reduction in pensions, it is imperative to begin planning for your financial future today.
Social security might not be enough to secure your financial future. That?s why the government created the different retirement savings plans, to help you save for your future. IRA and 401k investments grow tax free or tax deferred and compounds over time which maximizes your ability to grow wealth. There are many advantages to these plans and the advantages will depend in part on the plan itself.
IRA And 401k Plan Advantages include:
A. Compound Interest? Albert Einstein once said that ?compound interest is the most powerful force on earth?. This is because compound interest occurs when you not only earn interest on your original investment sum, but also on the interest earned on the original sum.
Let?s look at a simple example of the power of compound interest. Let?s say at age 25 you decide to cut out your daily coffee routine at the local coffee shop saving you $4.50 a day. That would equate to a little over $136 per month. If you received 8% in compounding interest each year, you would have $25,533 after 10 years. So after 20 years, you?d receive $80,658 and after 40 years when you are age 65, you?d have an amazing $456,602.
B. Tax Deferred and Tax Free Profits ? This great power of compound interest is increased dramatically in tax advantage accounts such as IRAs and 401ks since the tax free or tax deferred portion also grows each year. For example, if you were to contribute $5,000 a year to a tax advantaged account like an IRA or 401k and assume an 8% compound interest rate of return for 30 years, your bank account would be worth $561,416 at the end of year 30. If you made the same investment in a non-tax sheltered environment (a fully taxable account), assuming a 28% tax rate, it would be worth $373,985 instead of $561,416. This is a whopping difference of $187,431. As you can see, in the graph below, the effect of taxes on your savings can be dramatic.
C. Tax Deductions ? Certain IRAs and 401ks allow you to reduce your taxable income today while saving for your future. For example, if you contributed $5,000 to a Traditional IRA this year, and if you meet qualified income levels, you are eligible for a $5,000 tax deduction when filing your tax return. In a 401k, you can deduct up to $17,000.
D. Protected from Creditors ? IRAs and 401ks are afforded protection from bankruptcy through the Employee Retirement Income Securities Act (ERISA) under the US Department of Labor and thus generally are shielded from creditors in bankruptcy proceedings.
E. Wealth For Future Generations ? Some types of government sponsored savings plans allow the passing of assets to beneficiaries after death while avoiding taxes. This benefits your family?s financial future by leaving valuable assets to your loved ones without the burden of taxes. This has been under some scrutiny recently since the government is trying to generate revenues in the current economic downturn.
Each government sponsored savings plan possesses unique tax advantages to maximize your future wealth and each has unique eligibility requirements. It is important that you figure out the right plan for you and start saving in order that you may enjoy the benefits of your retirement years.
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Let?s face it-one area in life in which looks can be one of the most valuable elements is real estate. Australia is a perfect spot for individuals interested in looking for a property for sale or maybe an flat looking for fresh renters. Potential buyers and residents have a list of their own specific needs for the next place they?re going to rent or live in, but some do acknowledge that the external overall look of the property can give impact their decision to walk in and examine the site. If the house appears undesirable from the outer characteristics alone, possible consumers are more likely to walk by or perhaps drive past it to other available options.People today looking to sell the house, then, must take care to work on its curb appeal so as to attract more potential buyers. More people coming to look at the site will heighten the chances of finding the next owner of the house. Similar to a lady applying makeup and her favorite apparel for a party she is not going to forget, vendors should go all out to make the exterior features of their houses or rental accommodations as clean, charming, and cozy as the inside.Step outside the house and place yourself on an area from across the street. From this vantage point, you can examine if your house is in need of a fresh coat of paint, in case there are loose rain gutters packed with leaves as well as dirt, and in case your garden needs cleaning up and serious trimming and pruning.Trim the backyard and rake up all loose leaves. Include a a little color by planting different plants appropriate for growing in the season. Include layers of mulch along the floral beds as well as walkways. You can also hang containers of ornamental plants and flowers and blooming vines around the deck, or set pretty containers of blooming plants and flowers by the doorstep. Healthy and balanced flowers and plants are usually guaranteed ways to brighten up the lawn of your property to get the attention of passersby as well as prospective buyers.If there are actually patio furniture, swings, or playground equipment on the yard, make certain that they?re also in good shape. Give them a good scrubbing and check for virtually any rusting that may have shown up, and replace or repair them appropriately.Rent or perhaps use an electrical washer which you can use to clean the front veranda from the layers of dirt and grime that the house has brought from the weather and the various factors for a long time. Fix Glass windows could also make use of a good washing to get them back to a crystal clear and shining state.In addition, you have to make sure that the lamps around the house?s exteriors are typically in very good working condition. Buyers can inquire to check your property at night or even by nightfall, therefore it is also essential that the house is lit and also the lawn is well-lighted for safety.Supplying a home a superb overall cleaning and maintenance check is a vital task of any home seller or property owner accustomed to the business involving real estate. Brisbane housing selections must look-and be-in their best condition; it can spell the difference between a potential property sale and a missed opportunity. The exterior of a residence is the first thing that buyers will see, and it is always a good plan to make an excellent first impression. It can give buyers a good reason to step out of their cars to inspect the interior of the house as well. Who knows? The view of gorgeous blossoms including a well-kept lawn could be just what a consumer is looking for first.
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In an infamous 2002 interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer, pop icon Whitney Houston candidly spoke about her abuse of drugs such as cocaine, which, along with heart disease, factored into her accidental drowning last month, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office.
"It has been [alcohol, marijuana, pills, cocaine] at times," Houston told Sawyer in the frank 2002 interview that delved headlong into her addiction struggles. "Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision; the biggest devil is me. I'm my best friend and my worst enemy." <
In a statement to ABC News Thursday, the Los Angeles County Coroner's chief, Craig Harvey, outlined the findings in the office's preliminary toxicology report.
"We had approximately a 60 percent occlusion in the arteries, in the narrowing of the arteries," Harvey said. "So, that condition, complicated by the chronic cocaine use, all combined to result in her drowning. The final cause of death has been established as drowning due to atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use."
Atherosclerotic heart disease is a build-up of plaque that narrows the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart, according to the National Institutes of Health. It is not known how long the singer had the condition.
Despite the coroner's announcement, questions remain about the nature of the pop star's death after she was found "underwater and unconscious" in the bathtub in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Feb. 11. It is still unclear how much her chronic drug abuse contributed to her death at 48, and whether she was already incapacitated when she drowned.
In Photos: Whitney Houston's Final Days
Dr. Michael Fishbein of the UCLA Medical Center, who spoke with ABC News regarding the coroner's office report, explained the short- and long-term effects that cocaine has on the heart, and speculated about what might have happened in Houston's final moments.
"The immediate effect of cocaine is that it interferes with the electrical system of the heart," Fishbein said. "An analogy might be a swimming pool pump. You can have a perfectly good pump, but if you cut the electrical cord, the pump stops working. If the heart stops pumping blood, and all the organs are deprived of oxygen. The tissue dies and the person dies."
Cocaine also increases the demand for oxygen, as it increases heart rate and blood pressure.
"The long-term effect is that cocaine causes the heart to be enlarged, which increases the risk of sudden death," Fishbein said. "It also causes scarring in the heart, which increases the risk of a sudden cardiac death, and it causes accelerated atherosclerosis, or a hardening of the arteries, which we associate with high blood pressure and smoking."
When occlusion in the arteries reaches 75 percent narrowing, it is typically considered dangerous, but, Fishbein says, 60 percent occlusion for a woman of 48 is above average.
Repeated cocaine use has been proven to raise the risk of heart attack risk, according to a 2008 report from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Ten percent of heart attacks in people 18 to 45 years old were associated with more than 10 uses of cocaine over their lifetime.
The study led the American Heart Association to issue a statement urging doctors to consider the use of cocaine in young people with unusual cardiovascular or lung complaints.
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Although Houston had been a chronic cocaine user throughout her life, as noted Thursday by the chief coroner, Fishbein said even a person with a normal heart can die of cocaine use and that if someone takes too much cocaine, he or she can die from even one exposure.
Perhaps the biggest mystery still surrounding Houston's death is whether the singer died before or after she was submerged underwater in her hotel bathtub: was she incapacitated and alive when she went under water, or was she already dead?
Medical examiners tend to say that someone has died of drowning if they are found in the water, and it is likely that water was found in Houston's lungs. In the report released Thursday, the coroner lists drowning first.
Fishbein says there are two possibilities in Houston's case.
"People can have what is called agonal respirations. That is, you can have a gasping breath, even after the heart is stopped. There are two possibilities: that she was incapacitated and alive when she went under the water, or she was basically dead, and the water got in with these respirations."
"How does someone die in a bathtub?" he asked. "It's not like they're swimming the English Channel. So she had to have been incapacitated. And I think that was due to the cocaine causing an abnormal cardiac rhythm."
Dr. Drew Pinsky, an addiction specialist and host of "Dr. Drew" on HLN, says that while the official cause of death was drowning, he believes Houston died from addiction.
"The cocaine probably caused some sort of cardiac arrhythmia or damage to the heart muscle, which resulted in her losing blood pressure and consciousness, and slipping into the water and drowning," Pinsky said.
It is still possible that these questions will be answered, and much of the mystery surrounding the star's death might still become clear, when the final coroner's report is released. It is expected within the next two weeks.
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Pakistan is counted as a long ?haul destination by travelers in Western Europe and other developed nations in the Western Hemisphere. But we decided to overlook the negativity surrounding the place and book our cheap flights to Pakistan on a PIA Flight that took us from London to Karachi in around seven hours.
When we landed in Karachi, what struck us most about this seaside city was the fact that it was truly the heartbeat of Pakistan. Not only was it the nerve centre of business and commerce it was also the cultural hub of Pakistan and the city was fairly liberal in its attitude towards women. Men and women were inter-mingling freely and the traditional orthodox Islamic atmosphere that we had read about in newspaper and magazines was clearly absent, at least in Karachi, something that appeared quite pleasant to us. Our itinerary to Pakistan which our travel agent prepared included a trip to cities like Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Faisalabad, Muzaffarbad, Islamabad, Balochistan and Lahore.
Some important places that we saw on our Pakistan tour included the Lahore Fort & Badshahi Mosque, Shalimar Garden, Lahore Zoo, Lahore Museum, Mazar-e-Quaid, National Museum of Pakistan, Cathedral of Holy Trinity, Mausoleum of Hazrat Baha-ud-Din Zakaria- Multan, Mausoleum of Shah Rukn-i-Alam- Multan, Khyber Pass. On our tour of Pakistan, we realized that most of the beautiful cities had plenty of historical sites and these places were blessed with a lot of natural beauty with an abundance of flora and fauna.
Just like us, if you are also planning to book your flights to Pakistan, then you should keep in mind that the total cost of your trip will be inversely proportional to the effort you put into the travel planning process. The more the effort, the lesser will be the cost of the trip as most air carriers offer hefty discounts to those who book tickets many months in advance.
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?SHOUT! FACTORY and SABAN BRANDS ENTER STRATEGIC HOME ENTERTAINMENT ALLIANCE
Multi-Year Agreement Grants Shout! Factory Exclusive Distribution Rights to
Renowned Live-Action Pop Culture Television Property Power Rangers?
Los Angeles, California (March 12, 2012) ? Shout! Factory and Saban Brands announced a multi-year, multi-property alliance to bring Saban?s iconic live-action pop culture series, including Power Rangers, to the home entertainment marketplace in the U.S and Canada. The announcement was made today by Shout! Factory?s founding partners Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos; and Elie Dekel, President of Saban Brands.
The multi-year alliance provides Shout! Factory with exclusive home entertainment packaged media (DVD/Blu-ray) and select digital rights to Saban Brands? extensive catalog of properties including more than 700 episodes of Power Rangers (1993- 2009), 92 episodes of VR Troopers, 26 episodes of Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, and 88 episodes of Beetleborgs for home entertainment releases and digital distribution across select entertainment platforms in North America.
?We are incredibly excited about this new relationship with Saban Brands. Power Rangers continues to stand as a global pop culture phenomenon to this day. We look forward to bringing these highly entertaining series with great packaging and extras to fans and on family home entertainment shelves,? state Shout! Factory?s founding partners in a joint statement.
?Our partnership with Shout! Factory is important and exciting news for our fans. Shout! Factory will provide unequaled access to archived content from Saban Brands,? said Elie Dekel, President of Saban Brands. ?Fans can enjoy past episodes they haven?t seen, relive some of the exciting entertainment in these episodes, or even share them with a new generation of fans.?
Shout! Factory plans an aggressive rollout of Saban Brands television properties beginning this summer 2012, including from individual programs as well as complete series. As excitement builds for these upcoming home entertainment product-lines, Shout! Factory and Saban Brands will announce additional news and activities in forthcoming months.
Following its introduction in 1993, Saban?s Power Rangersquickly became the most watched children?s television program in the United States. Emphasizing the importance of teamwork, responsibility and helping others by following the adventures of a group of ordinary young people who ?morphed? into superheroes, the series was seen in more than 60 countries, translated into numerous languages, and was a mainstay in the most prominent international children?s programming blocks.
When VR Troopers premiered in 1994, it was the first children?s series to take viewers into a world of virtual reality. In this exciting action-packed live-action series, three seemingly ordinary teens face the challenge of saving the world from total domination by a powerful ruthless industrialist and his evil alter-ego. With the gift of ?inter-reality travel? the teens utilize the power to transform into crime-fighting superheroes and enter the high-tech sphere of Virtual Reality. They employ their strengths, explosive martial arts skills and newfound superpowers to prevent the evil Grimlord and his mutant armies from escaping the virtual plane and entering the real world.
Memorable live-action adventure series Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation debuted in 1997 on popular kids network. The series continued the fun-filled saga of Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo, four genetically mutated turtles who have transformed into human sized, ninja-powered crime fighters living in the sewers of New York City. Soon the Ninja Turtles? world that they have come to know and love will change. If you thought Shredder was bad, wait until you meet the newest NT foe?Dragon Skull! It will take all the power of our four reptile heroes to combat this new villain, including the help from a new ninja turtle named Venus De Milo!
Premiered in 1996, popular weekly kids series Beetleborgs follows the exciting adventures of three ordinary kids Drew, Jo and Roland as they enter the supposedly haunted mansion after accepting a dare. Their lives changed forever when a magical spirit grants them their biggest wish ? they get to find out what life is like as their favorite super heroes the Beetleborgs!
About Saban Brands
Formed in 2010 as a subsidiary of Saban Capital Group, Saban Brands (SB) was established to acquire and develop a world-class portfolio of properties and capitalize on the company?s experience, track record and capabilities in growing and monetizing consumer brands.? SB applies a strategic transmedia management approach to enhancing and extending its brands in markets worldwide and to consumers of all ages.? The company provides full-service management, marketing, promotion and strategic business development for its intellectual properties including comprehensive strategies unique to each brand, trademark and copyright management and enforcement, creative design, retail development, direct-to-consumer initiatives and specialized property extensions.? SB is led by a superior management team with decades of experience in licensing, marketing and finance. For more information, visit www.sabanbrands.com
About Shout! Factory
Shout! Factory is a diversified entertainment company devoted to producing, uncovering and revitalizing the very best of pop culture. Founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos have spent their careers sharing their music, television and film faves with discerning consumers the world over. Shout! Factory?s DVD offerings serve up classic, contemporary and cult TV series, riveting sports programs, live music, animation and documentaries in lavish packages crammed with extras. The company?s audio catalogue boasts GRAMMY?-nominated box sets, new releases from storied artists, lovingly assembled album reissues and indispensable ?best of? compilations. These riches are the result of a creative acquisitions mandate that has established the company as a hotbed of cultural preservation and commercial reinvention. Shout! Factory is based in Santa Monica, California. For more on Shout! Factory, visit shoutfactory.com
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ScienceDaily (Mar. 21, 2012) ? Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed a computer program that has tracked the manner in which different forms of dementia spread within a human brain. They say their mathematical model can be used to predict where and approximately when an individual patient's brain will suffer from the spread, neuron to neuron, of "prion-like" toxic proteins -- a process they say underlies all forms of dementia.
Their findings, published in the March 22 issue of Neuron, could help patients and their families confirm a diagnosis of dementia and prepare in advance for future cognitive declines over time. In the future -- in an era where targeted drugs against dementia exist -- the program might also help physicians identify suitable brain targets for therapeutic intervention, says the study's lead researcher, Ashish Raj, Ph.D., an assistant professor of computer science in radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College.
"Think of it as a weather radar system, which shows you a video of weather patterns in your area over the next 48 hours," says Dr. Raj. "Our model, when applied to the baseline magnetic resonance imaging scan of an individual brain, can similarly produce a future map of degeneration in that person over the next few years or decades.
"This could allow neurologists to predict what the patient's neuroanatomic and associated cognitive state will be at any given point in the future. They could tell whether and when the patient will develop speech impediments, memory loss, behavioral peculiarities, and so on," he says. "Knowledge of what the future holds will allow patients to make informed choices regarding their lifestyle and therapeutic interventions.
"At some point we will gain the ability to target and improve the health of specific brain regions and nerve fiber tracts," Dr. Raj says. "At that point, a good prediction of a subject's future anatomic state can help identify promising target regions for this intervention. Early detection will be key to preventing and managing dementia."
Tracking the Flow of Proteins
The computational model, which Dr. Raj developed, is the latest, and one of the most significant, validations of the idea that dementia is caused by proteins that spread through the brain along networks of neurons. It extends findings that were widely reported in February that Alzheimer's disease starts in a particular brain region, but spreads further via misfolded, toxic "tau" proteins. Those studies, by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital, were conducted in mouse models and focused only on Alzheimer's disease.
In this study, Dr. Raj details how he developed the mathematical model of the flow of toxic proteins, and then demonstrates that it correctly predicted the patterns of degeneration that results in a number of different forms of dementia.
He says his model is predicated on the recent understanding that all known forms of dementia are accompanied by, and likely caused by, abnormal or "misfolded" proteins. Proteins have a defined shape, depending on their specific function -- but proteins that become misshapen can produce unwanted toxic effects. One example is tau, which is found in a misfolded state in the brains of both Alzheimer's patients and patients with frontal temporal dementia (FTD). Other proteins, such as TDP43 and ubiquitin, are also found in FTD, and alpha synuclein is found in Parkinson's disease.
These proteins are called "prion-like" because misfolded, or diseased, proteins induce the misfolding of other proteins they touch down a specific neuronal pathway. Prion diseases (such as mad cow disease) that involve transmission of misfolded proteins are thought to be infectious between people. "There is no evidence that Alzheimer's or other dementias are contagious in that way, which is why their transmission is called prion-like."
Simple Explanation for Clinically Observed Patterns of Dementia
Dr. Raj calls his model of trans-neuronal spread of misfolded proteins "very simple." It models the same process by which any gas diffuses in air, except that in the case of dementias the diffusion process occurs along connected neural fiber tracts in the brain.
"This is a common process by which any disease-causing protein can result in a variety of dementias," he says.
The model identifies the neural sub-networks in the brain into which misfolded proteins will collect before moving on to other brain areas that are connected by networks of neurons. In the process the proteins alter normal functioning of all brain areas they visit.
"What is new and really quite remarkable is the network diffusion model itself, which acts on the normal brain connectivity network and manages to reproduce many known aspects of whole brain disease patterns in dementias," Dr. Raj says. "This provides a very simple explanation for why different dementias appear to target specific areas of the brain."
In the study, he was able to match patterns from the diffusion model, which traced protein disbursal in a healthy brain, to the patterns of brain atrophy observed in patients with either Alzheimer's disease or FTD. This degeneration was measured using MRI and other tools that could quantify the amount of brain volume loss experienced in each region of the patient's brain. Co-author Amy Kuceyeski, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow who works with Dr. Raj, helped analyze brain volume measurements in the diseased brains.
"Our study demonstrates that such a spreading mechanism leads directly to the observed patterns of atrophy one sees in various dementias," Dr. Raj says. "While the classic patterns of dementia are well known, this is the first model to relate brain network properties to the patterns and explain them in a deterministic and predictive manner."
The study's third contributing author is Michael Weiner, M.D., professor of radiology at the University of California at San Francisco, and the principal investigator of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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