BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We evaluated whether stent-assisted thrombectomy (SAT) is safer or more clinically beneficial than aggressive mechanical clot disruption (AMCD) for patients with acute intracranial artery occlusion. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 72 patients (33 with SAT and 39 with AMCD) who underwent intra-arterial thrombolysis for acute intracranial artery o...

Complete Max-SAT solvers are able to return the optimal value of an input instance but they do not provide any certificate its validity. In this paper, we introduce for first time a proof builder, called MS-Builder, which generates proofs under particular form sequence equivalence-preserving transformations. To generate proof, MS-Builder iteratively calls SAT oracle get refutation is handled an...

The aim of this study was to evaluate and investigate the pathogenetic mechanism and countermeasures of subacute thrombosis (SAT) after coronary stenting in elderly diabetic patients. The clinical characteristics and pathogenetic mechanisms in 3 cases of SAT after stent implantations in elderly diabetic patients were retrospectively examined to determine the treatment strategies for SAT. Among ...

It was previously shown that total saponins extracted from Aralia taibaiensis (sAT) have potent antioxidant activities for treating diabetes mellitus and attenuate d-galactose-induced aging. Since diabetes mellitus and aging are closely associated with cardiac dysfunction, particularly ischemic heart disease, sAT may have potential protective activity against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion inj...

OBJECTIVE The prevalence of abdominal obesity exceeds that of general obesity. We sought to determine the prevalence of abdominal subcutaneous and visceral obesity and to characterize the different patterns of fat distribution in a community-based sample. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Participants from the Framingham Heart Study (n = 3,348, 48% women, mean age 52 years) underwent multidetector ...

The subcutaneous (S) and visceral (V) adipose tissue (AT) depots are increasingly recognized as distinct. To test the hypothesis that depot differences exist for adiponectin, fresh and cultured human VAT and SAT from obese type 2 diabetic (T2D) and obese nondiabetic (ND) subjects was examined to determine whether differences in adiponectin content and secretion occurred as a function of depot s...

The propositional satisfiability problem (SAT) is one of the most naturalNP-complete problems, and therefore its complexity is crucial for the computational complexity theory. Since SAT is NP-complete, it is unlikely that SAT can be solved in polynomial time. However, it is still important to understand how much time is required to solve SAT, even if this amount is exponential; an algorithm sol...

The innate immune cell sensor leucine-rich-containing family, pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome controls the activation of caspase-1, and the release of proinflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1β and IL-18. The NLRP3 inflammasome is implicated in adipose tissue inflammation and the pathogenesis of insulin resistance. Herein, we tested the hypothesis that adipose tissue inflammat...

In this short paper, we describe QBF solvers from the latest QBFEval that were based on the SAT-to-SAT solver. We present the main ideas behind the solvers and discuss their strengths and weaknesses.

This tutorial will present an overview of parallelism in SAT. It will start with a presentation of classical divide and conquer techniques, discuss their ancient origin and compare them to more recent portfolio-based algorithms. It will then present the impact of clause-sharing on their performances and discuss various strategies used to control the communication overhead. A particular techniqu...