IN THIS ISSUE of the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Zhou et al. (32) describe impaired diastolic ventricular function measured by high-resolution (30 MHz) ultrasound and evidence for atrial septal defect (ASD) based on in vivo ultrasound and postmortem magnetic resonance imaging and anatomic examination in a Tbx5 mouse model for Holt-Oram syndrome. Tbx5 mice an...

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) is a cryptographic primitive that allows a client to securely execute RAM programs over data that is stored in an untrusted server. Distributed Oblivious RAM is a variant of ORAM, where the data is stored in m non-colluding servers. Extensive research over the last few decades have succeeded to reduce the bandwidth overhead of ORAM schemes, both in the single-server and the...

Oblivious Random Access Machine (ORAM) enables a client to access her data without leaking her access patterns. Existing client-efficient ORAMs either achieve O(logN) client-server communication blowup without heavy computation, or O(1) blowup but with expensive homomorphic encryptions. It has been shown that O(logN) bandwidth blowup might not be practical for certain applications, while scheme...

IN THIS ISSUE of the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Zhou et al. (32) describe impaired diastolic ventricular function measured by high-resolution (30 MHz) ultrasound and evidence for atrial septal defect (ASD) based on in vivo ultrasound and postmortem magnetic resonance imaging and anatomic examination in a Tbx5 mouse model for Holt-Oram syndrome. Tbx5 mice an...

Congenital cardiovascular malformations (CVMs) are the most common birth defect, affecting approximately 8 per 1000 live births. Roughly 25% of CVMs occur in the context of multiple congenital anomalies or as part of a genetic syndrome, while the other 75% of individuals present as an isolated, nonsyndromic CVM.1 Genomic disorders comprise the majority of syndomic CVMs, exemplified by aneuploid...

A multipartite quantum state violates a Bell inequality asymptotically if, after jointly processing by general local operations an arbitrarily large number of copies of it, the result violates the inequality. In the bipartite case we show that asymptotic violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality is equivalent to distillability. Hence, bound entangled states do not violate it. In th...

We show that an experimental demonstration of quantum contextuality using 2 degrees of freedom of single neutrons based on a violation of an inequality derived from the Peres-Mermin proof of the Kochen-Specker theorem would be more conclusive than those obtained from previous experiments involving pairs of ions [M. A. Rowe, Nature (London) 409, 791 (2001)10.1038/35057215] and single neutrons [Y...

A locally causal hidden-variable theory of quantum physics need not be constrained by the Bell inequalities if this theory also partially violates the measurement independence condition. However, such violation can appear unphysical, implying implausible conspiratorial correlations between the hidden variables of particles being measured and earlier determinants of instrumental settings. A nove...