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Quantum Private Information Retrieval from Coded Storage Systems
In the era of extensive data growth, robust and efficient mechanisms are
needed to store and manage vast amounts of digital information, such as Data
Storage Systems (DSSs). Concurrently, privacy concerns have arisen, leading to
the development of techniques like Private Information Retrieval (PIR) to
enable data access while preserving privacy. A PIR protocol allows users to
retrieve information from a database without revealing the specifics of their
query or the data they are accessing.
With the advent of quantum computing, researchers have explored the potential
of using quantum systems to enhance privacy in information retrieval. In a
Quantum Private Information Retrieval (QPIR) protocol, a user can retrieve
information from a database by downloading quantum systems from multiple
servers, while ensuring that the servers remain oblivious to the specific
information being accessed. This scenario offers a unique advantage by
leveraging the inherent properties of quantum systems to provide enhanced
privacy guarantees and improved communication rates compared to classical PIR
protocols.
In this thesis we consider the QPIR setting where the queries and the coded
storage systems are classical, while the responses from the servers are
quantum. This problem was treated by Song et al. for replicated storage and
different collusion patterns. This thesis aims to develop QPIR protocols for
coded storage by combining known classical PIR protocols with quantum
communication algorithms, achieving enhanced privacy and communication costs.
We consider different storage codes and robustness assumptions, and we prove
that the achieved communication cost is always lower than the classical
counterparts.Comment: This is the summary part of an article collection-based PhD thesi
Transanal endoscopic microsurgery: what indications in 2013?
Thanks to major advances in the field of surgical techniques and neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy, along with more accurate pre-operative staging tools and the widespread introduction of population-based screening programs, treatment of rectal cancer has been evolving over the past few decades, moving towards a more tailored approach. This has brought a shift in the treatment algorithm of benign rectal lesions and selected early rectal cancers, for which today transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) is accepted as an effective alternative to abdominal surgery. In 2013, topics of controversy are the role of TEM in the treatment of more advanced rectal cancers, in cases of complete pathological response after chemoradiation therapy and the role of TEM as a platform for single-port surgery and NOTES. This article reviews the current indications for TEM and the future perspectives of this approach in the treatment of rectal tumors
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