Photonic systems based on energy-time entanglement have been proposed to test local realism using the Bell inequality. A violation of this inequality normally also certifies security of device-independent quantum key distribution (QKD) so that an attacker cannot eavesdrop or control the system. We show how this security test can be circumvented in energy-time entangled systems when using standa...

Forecasting end-to-end throughput accurately can be vital for several applications. Peer-to-peer applications like BitTorrent or Skype will be able to select the peers more efficiently if the throughput in the short-term is known. On the other hand applications can adapt their behaviour accordingly, if they know how the end-to-end throughput is going to vary in the lifetime of a connection. Thi...

We generalize the correlation functions of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality to arbitrarily high-dimensional systems. Based on this generalization, we construct the general CHSH inequality for bipartite quantum systems of arbitrarily high dimensionality, which takes the same simple form as CHSH inequality for two dimensions. This inequality is optimal in the same sense as the CHS...

In west coast groundfish stock assessments, biological productivity is largely defined by a single parameter, i.e., steepness (h) of the Beverton-Holt spawner-recruit curve, which ranges from 0.20 (no compensation) to 1.00 (complete compensation). A steepness of 0.20 implies no latent surplus production and a total lack of resilience to the effects of exploitation, whereas a value of 1.0 implie...

1. INTRODUCTION This paper is my description of the state of statistical data editing and current research problems. It is not intended to be a complete description of all areas. Rather, it represents sub-areas of statistical data editing that I will describe in sufficient detail so that the discussion of a few research problems is more easily understood. I define statistical data editing (SDE)...

In this article, we propose a generalized Beverton-Holt competition model subject to Allee effects and study its population dynamics to obtain insights on how the interplay of Allee effects and contest competition affects the persistence and the extinction of two competing species. By using the theory of monotone dynamics and the properties of critical curves for non-invertible maps, our analys...

We report on a Saudi infant with Holt-Oram syndrome caused by a de novo missense mutation of the TBX5 gene. The mutation (Thr72Lys) is novel and has not been previously reported. The cardiac and limb defects in our patient were both severe, and the infant also had micrognathia and cleft palate. Previously reported cases of the Holt-Oram syndrome caused by missense mutations were reviewed and th...

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 ...

holt-oram syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder, characterised by skeletal abnormalities of the upper limb associated with congenital heart defect, mainly atrial and ventricular septal defects. skeletal defects exclusively affect the upper limbs in the preaxial radial ray distribution and are bilateral and asymmetrical. they range from clinodactyly, absent or digitalised thumb, hypoplastic...