SMV [McM93] is a language suitable for integrated circuit design and optimized for formal verification. VHDL [IEE93] is a design format suitable for simulation and synthesis, but poorly designed for formal verification purposes. The contribution of this paper is the integration of the two approaches through the definition of systematic rules to translate SMV programs into VHDL descriptions, pro...

PORTAL, as opposed to systemic, venous drainage from small intestinal allografts is thought to be preferable because it provides unquestionable physiologic (1-3) and hypothetic, but unverified (4,5) immunologic advantages. However, in clinical instances, it may be difficult to find a place on the recipient portal or superior mesenteric vein (SMV) where the donor portal vein can be anastomosed. ...

This paper looks at how to extend the type of analysis that can be done using interactor based models of interactive systems, the i2smv tool, and SMV. Originally, the type of analysis performed with i2smv/SMV was concerned with the exhaustive exploration of all possible behaviours of a device, with little direct consideration of the tasks it should support. The paper investigates how task relat...

Gurevich's Abstract State Machines (ASM) constitute a high-level speciication language for a wide range of applications. The existing tool support for ASM|currently including type-checking, simulation and debugging|should be extended to support computer-aided veriication, in particular by model checking. In this paper we introduce an interface from our existing tool environment to the model che...

The paper considers the problem of model checking real-life VHDLbased hardware designs via their automated transformation to a model verifiable using the SMV model checker. In particular, model checking of asynchronous designs, i.e., designs driven by multiple clocks, is discussed. Two original approaches to compiling asynchronous VHDL designs to the SMV language such that errors possibly arisi...

Presenter: Fabio Makdissi MD | Sírio Libanês Hospital Background: Pancreatoduodenectomy is the procedure of choice for resectable tumors located in head pancreas. Invasion major vessels, particularly portal and superior mesenteric vein a relative contraindication minimally invasive approach. We present video robotic resection reconstruction without use graft during pancreatoduodenectomy. Method...

AIMS Biventricular pacing (BiP) is an effective treatment in systolic heart failure (HF) patients with prolonged QRS. However, approximately 35% of the patients receiving BiP are classified as non-responders. The aim of this study is to evaluate the acute effects of VV-optimization on systolic heart function. METHODS Twenty-one HF patients aged 72 (46-88) years, QRS 154 (120-190) ms, were stu...

BACKGROUND High sustained virological response at 12 weeks after end of treatment (SVR12) with 12 weeks of simeprevir and sofosbuvir±ribavirin (SMV+SOF±RBV) has been demonstrated in hepatitis C virus genotype 1 (HCV-1) but is based on limited data. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis of available data evaluating the effectiveness of SMV+SOF±RBV in HCV-1. METHODS We performed a comprehensi...

This study investigates the effects of simvastatin (SMV) on human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) inflamed by tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-a). Cells were treated with (5 μM, 10 and 50 μM) with/without TNF (20 ng/mL). The proliferation examined, its cytotoxic effect was determined lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) assays. Metalloproteinase expression (MMP-2 MMP-9) levels SMV at different...