In recent years there has been an ever increasing amount of research and development of technologies and methods to improve the quality and the performance of advanced surgery. In other fields several training methods and metrics have been proposed, both to improve the surgeon’s abilities and also to assess her/his skills. For neurosurgery, however, the extremely small movements and sizes invol...

This paper serves as solver description for our SMT solver Boolector as entered into the SMT Competition 2017. We only list important differences to the version of Boolector that entered the SMT Competition 2016 [5]. For further and more detailed information, we refer to [3, 4, 7] or source code.

Constraint Programming (CP) and Satis ability Modulo Theories (SMT) both generalize SAT w.r.t. expressiveness and propagation power. CP uses domain propagators based on mathematical structures, whereas SMT uses constraint propagators based on logical theories. In this paper, we incorporate SMT reasoning into CP and illustrate the bene ts of the resulting system for the problem of rule veri cation.

We determined the comparative activity of SMT19969 (SMT) against 162 strains representing 35 well-characterized Clostridium species in clusters I to XIX and 13 Clostridium species that had no 16S rRNA match. SMT MICs ranged from 0.06 to >512 μg/ml and were not species related. SMT might have less impact on normal gut microbiota than other Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) antimicrobials.

We conduct a pilot study for task-oriented evaluation of Multiword Expression (MWE) in Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). We propose two different integration strategies for MWE in SMT, which take advantage of different degrees of MWE semantic compositionality and yield complementary improvements in SMT quality on a large-scale translation task.1

Latar Belakang: Nyeri adalah keluhan yang sering dirasakan oleh pasien kanker. Benjolan tanpa rasa sakit gejala pertama pada kanker payudara. Pada stadium lanjut, payudara mengalami sangat menyiksa karena keterlibatan struktur didalamnya, selain itu nyeri juga dapat disebabkan pengobatan sendiri. Stimulasi Magnetik Transkranial (SMT) merupakan metode baru stimulasi otak secara non-invasif untuk...

In the context of deductive program verification, supporting floatingpoint computations is tricky. We propose an expressive language to formally specify behavioral properties of such programs. We give a first-order axiomatization of floating-point operations which allows to reduce verification to checking the validity of logic formulas, in a suitable form for a large class of provers including ...

Enhanced formation of nitric oxide (NO) by both the constitutive and the inducible isoforms of NO synthase (NOS) has been implicated in the pathophysiology of a variety of diseases, including circulatory shock. Non-isoform-selective inhibition of NO formation, however, may lead to side effects by inhibiting the constitutive isoform of NOS and, thus, the various physiological actions of NO. S-Me...

Background The acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a severe complication of cirrhosis characterised by immune dysfunction and high mortality. Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) mobilises immunomodulatory stem cells has been proposed as therapy for ACLF. We therefore conducted the first multicentre randomised trial. Methods In this prospective, controlled, open-...

BACKGROUND Spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) is a popular though controversial practice. The debates surrounding efficacy and risk of SMT are only partially evident in popular discourse. OBJECTIVE This study aims to investigate the presence of critiques and debates surrounding efficacy and risk of SMT on the social media platform Twitter. The study examines whether there is presence of debate...