OBJECTIVE The purpose of this analysis is to report the incremental costs and benefits of different doses of spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) in patients with chronic low back pain (LBP). METHODS We randomized 400 patients with chronic LBP to receive a dose of 0, 6, 12, or 18 sessions of SMT. Participants were scheduled for 18 visits for 6 weeks and received SMT or light massage control from...

A semiconductor to metal transition (SMT) occurs either as a function of composition or external pressure in the TmSe-TmTe and TmSe-EuSe pseudobinary com ounds. The transition is caused by the delocalization of electrons from the 4flq shell of divalent Tm into the 5d conduction band. The divalent configuration (4f7) of the Eu ions is more stable and therefore is not involved in the SMT. A strik...

Submucosal tumors (SMT) are occasionally found in the esophagus and stomach during diagnostic endoscopy with reported incidence of 0.36% (1). There was no consensus on the management of incidental SMT as the histopathologic nature of such tumor is often uncertain. Attempt in obtaining adequate samples for tissue diagnosis is associated with risk of hemorrhage and perforation. The reported diagn...

We develop a relationship between the sulfate-methane transition (SMT) and average gas hydrate saturation (AGHS) for systems dominated by methane migration from deeper sources. The relationship is explained by a onedimensional numerical model that simulates gas hydrate accumulation in marine sediments. Higher methane fluxes result in shallow SMT depths and high AGHS, while lower methane fluxes ...

In this paper, we address the issue of applying example-based machine translation (EBMT) methods to overcome some of the difficulties encountered with statistical machine translation (SMT) techniques. We adopt two different EBMT approaches and present an approach to augment output quality by strategically combining both EBMT approaches with the SMT system to handle issues arising from the use o...

Statistical machine translation relies heavily on available parallel corpora, but SMT may not have the ability or intelligence to make full use of the training set. Instead of collecting more and more parallel training corpora, this paper aims to improve SMT performance by exploiting the full potential of existing parallel corpora. We first identify literally translated sentence pairs via lexic...

Abstract is an SMT-based multi-threaded program verification tool. It built on top of (front-end) and (back-end). The basic idea to integrate into the SMT solver ordering consistency theory that handles relations over shared variable accesses in program. front-end encodes input extended propositional formula contains constraints. back-end reinforced with a for theory. This paper presents idea, ...

Abstract We present a certified SMT QF_BV solver CoqQFBV built from verified bit blasting algorithm, Kissat , and the SAT certificate checker GratChk in this paper. Our algorithm supports full logic of SMT-LIB ; it is specified formally proof assistant Coq . compare with CVC4 Bitwuzla Boolector on benchmarks division single query track 2020 Competition, real-world cryptographic program verifica...

Of the two common morphotypes of Mycobacterium avium, designated smooth transparent (SmT) or smooth opaque (SmO), the SmO morphotype is avirulent, whereas the SmT morphotype is virulent. The role of the host macrophage in determining these different virulence phenotypes was analyzed using an in vitro model of macrophage infection. Initial studies confirmed previous reports of the increased abil...

We present the first known empirical test of an increasingly common speculative claim, by evaluating a representative Chinese-toEnglish SMT model directly on word sense disambiguation performance, using standard WSD evaluation methodology and datasets from the Senseval-3 Chinese lexical sample task. Much effort has been put in designing and evaluating dedicated word sense disambiguation (WSD) m...