Hepatic stimulator substance (HSS) has been shown to protect liver cells from various toxins. However, the mechanism by which HSS protects hepatocytes remains unclear. In this study, we established BEL-7402 cells that stably express HSS and analyzed the protective ability of HSS on cells through mitochondrial permeability (MP). After administration of carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (C...

Recently, hierarchically semiseparable (HSS) matrices have been used in the development of fast direct sparse solvers. Key applications of HSS algorithms, coupled with multifrontal solvers, appear in solving certain large-scale computational inverse problems. Here, we develop massively parallel HSS algorithms appearing in these solution methods, namely, parallel HSS construction using the rank ...

Semiseparable matrices and many other rank-structured matrices have been widely used in developing new fast matrix algorithms. In this paper, we generalize the hierarchically semiseparable (HSS) matrix representations and propose some fast algorithms for HSS matrices. We represent HSS matrices in terms of general binary HSS trees and use simplified postordering notation for HSS forms. Fast HSS ...

It is known that the Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting (HSS) iteration method is an efficient solver for non-Hermitian positive definite linear system of equations. In [M. Benzi, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 31 (2009) 360–374] Benzi proposed a generalization of the HSS (GHSS) iteration method. In this paper, we present a two-parameter version of the GHSS (TGHSS) method and investigate its co...

We would like to thank Lapão1 and Schwarcz et al2 for their thoughtful additions related to our article “Implementation of a health management mentoring program: Year-1 evaluation of its impact on health system strengthening in Zambézia Province, Mozambique,”3 and for sharing their practical lessons and insights into the state of health system strengthening activities. In our article, we descri...