This paper investigates the relation linking the s-simultaneous consensus problem and the k-set agreement problem. To this end, it first defines the (s, k)-SSA problem which captures jointly both problems: each process proposes a value, executes s simultaneous instances of the k-set agreement problem, and has to decide a value so that no more than sk different values are decided. The paper intr...

Hypothesis There are conflicting data regarding survival in Val122Ile versus SSA cardiac amyloidosis, suggesting either better survival in SSA or similar survival between the groups. Since survival is often calculated from time of diagnosis, a delayed diagnosis in Val122Ile from symptom onset would bias survival toward SSA. We therefore sought to determine whether patients with symptomatic SSA ...

background: spondyloarthropathies are a group of closely related inflammatory arthritis which involve the axial skeleton and are negative for rheumatoid factor. objective: this case-control study was conducted to examine hla- b27 positivity in patients with seronegative spondyloarthritis (ssa) as per essg criteria and compare the frequency with healthy controls because a lower positivity is rep...

BACKGROUND Lymph node dissection in Rouviere's sulcus (RS) is essential during left-sided hepatectomy and caudate lobectomy for hilar cholangiocarcinoma. However, the small segmental or subsegmental arteries (SA/SSA) are often encountered in RS and must be preserved to prevent critical complications, such as liver infarction or liver failure. The aim of this study is to elucidate the anatomy of...

Somatostatin analogues (SSA) have demonstrated antiproliferative activity in addition to efficacy for carcinoid symptom control in functional neuroendocrine tumors (NET). A post hoc analysis of the placebo arm of the RAD001 In Advanced Neuroendocrine Tumors-2 (RADIANT-2) study was conducted to assess the efficacy of octreotide long-acting repeatable (LAR) on progression-free survival (PFS) and ...

The SSA-form uses a notational abstractions called φ-functions. These instructions have no analogous in actual machine instruction sets, and they must be replaced by ordinary instructions at some point of the compilation path. This process is called SSA elimination. Compilers usually performs SSA elimination before register allocation. But the order could as well be the opposite: our puzzle bas...

Stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA) is the reduction in response to a common stimulus that does not generalize, or only partially generalizes, to rare stimuli. SSA is strong and widespread in primary auditory cortex (A1) of rats, but is weak or absent in the main input station to A1, the ventral division of the medial geniculate body. To study SSA in A1, we recorded neural activity in A1 intrace...

Sessile serrated adenoma/polyps (SSA/P) are premalignant lesions of colorectal cancer that are difficult to distinguish histologically from hyperplastic polyps (HP) of minimal to no malignant potential. Specific markers for differentiating SSA/P from HP can aid clinicians for optimizing colon surveillance intervals. The present study investigates the potential of mucins and associated O-glycans...