H olt-Oram syndrome (HOS) (MIM 142900), first described by Holt and Oram in 1960, is characterised by malformations of the upper limbs involving mainly the pre-axial ray and variable cardiac defects, most of them septation defects. This autosomal dominant inherited condition occurs in approximately 1 in 100 000 live births and shows high penetrative and variable intrafamilial and interfamilial ...

Keeping user data private is a huge problem both in cloud computing and computation outsourcing. One paradigm to achieve data privacy is to use tamper-resistant processors, inside which users’ private data is decrypted and computed upon. These processors need to interact with untrusted external memory. Even if we encrypt all data that leaves the trusted processor, however, the address sequence ...

We present Burst ORAM, the first oblivious cloud storage system to achieve both practical response times and low total bandwidth consumption for bursty workloads. For real-world workloads, Burst ORAM can attain response times that are nearly optimal and orders of magnitude lower than the best existing ORAM systems by reducing online bandwidth costs and aggressively rescheduling shuffling work t...

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) has received increasing attention in the past few years. The goal of oblivious RAM is to enable a client, that can locally store only a small (preferably constant) amount of data, to store remotely N data items, and access them while hiding the identities of the items that are being accessed. Most of the earlier ORAM constructions were based on the hierarchical data structu...

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) is a tool proposed to hide access pattern leakage, and there has been a lot of progress in the efficiency of ORAM schemes; however, less attention has been paid to study the applicability of ORAM for cloud applications such as symmetric searchable encryption (SSE). Although, searchable encryption is one of the motivations for ORAM research, no in-depth study of the applicab...

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) entanglement is investigated in the Bessel-Gaussian (BG) basis. Having a readily adjustable radial scale, BG modes provide an alternative basis for OAM entanglement over Laguerre-Gaussian modes. We show that the OAM bandwidth in terms of BG modes can be increased by selection of particular radial wavevectors and leads to a flattening of the spectrum, which allows ...

Okihiro syndrome refers to the association of forearm malformations with Duane syndrome of eye retraction. Based on the reported literature experience, clinical diagnosis of the syndrome can be elusive, owing to the variable presentation in families reported. Specifically, there is overlap of clinical features with other conditions, most notably Holt-Oram syndrome, a condition resulting from mu...

This paper proposes KT-ORAM, a new hybrid ORAM-PIR construction, to protect a client’s access pattern to outsourced data. KT-ORAM organizes the server storage as a k-ary tree with each node acting as a fully-functional PIR storage, and adopts a novel delayed eviction technique to optimize the eviction process. KT-ORAM is proved to protect the data access pattern privacy at a failure probability...