We introduce three practicality-critical components for Oblivious RAM (ORAM): (i) parallelism, (ii) deamortization, and (iii) fork-consistency defense against malicious adversaries. In (i), instead of waiting for the completion of ongoing client-server transactions, client threads can now engage a server in parallel without loss of privacy. This critical piece is missing from existing ORAMs, wh...

We report a theoretical investigation of the X (2)A" and à (2)A' electronic states of HSO/HOS. Three-dimensional potential energy surfaces for the X (2)A" and à (2)A' electronic states of HSO/HOS have been calculated ab initio by the core-valence MR-SDCI+Q/[aug-cc-pCVQZ(S,O),aug-cc-pVQZ(H)] method, and near-global potential energy surfaces have been constructed. These surfaces have been used, i...

In classical physics, properties of objects exist independently of the context, i.e., whether and how measurements are performed. Quantum physics showed this assumption to be wrong, and that Nature is indeed "contextual". Contextuality has been observed in the simplest physical systems, such as single particles, and plays fundamental roles in quantum computation advantage. Here, we demonstrate ...

We describe clinical presentation in a male newborn baby who presented with thumb aplasia, forearm hypoplasia and secundum atrial septal defect (ASD II). The child has no other bone anomalies or facial dysmorphism. The ultrasound morphology of the brain is normal. He has patent ductus arteriosus, without abnormalities in the ECG record. Complete blood count (CBC) is normal. In the spectrum of h...

BACKGROUND Holt-Oram syndrome (HOS) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterised by upper limb anomalies and congenital heart defects. We present epidemiological and clinical aspects of HOS patients using data from EUROCAT (European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies) registries. METHODS The study was based on data collected during 1990-2011 by 34 registries. The registries are populatio...

BACKGROUND The Holt-Oram Syndrome (HOS) or the Heart-Hand syndrome is considered as an overt autosomal hereditary disease with a complete influential effect and variable expression that emerges due to a genetic mutation. It can be vividly characterized by heart disorders and deficiencies in hand structure. Despite the existing genetic heterogeneity, the variable integration between HOS and the ...

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) is a protocol that allows a user to access the data she stored on a server while concealing the access pattern. This work attempts to make improvements to the efficiency of Path ORAM, a specific implementation of ORAM when answering range queries. The efficiency is measured as the time to retrieve a set of records. We began our exploration with an off-the-shelf implementati...