Valve and con?ressor manufacturers have o=ten sought a means by which the time required to conduct compressor valve fatigue evaluations could be significantly reduced. Screening new concepts and improvements in design, processing and manufacture in a manner which proper+y simulates the compressor and produces realistic valve failure modes has often been a concern in initiating development activ...

UNLABELLED Reduced pain perception during painful stimulation to another body region (ie, conditioned pain modulation [CPM]) is considered important for pain modulation and development of pain disorders. The various methods used to study CPM limit comparison of findings. We investigated the influence of key methodologic variations on CPM and the properties of CPM when the back is used for the t...

Central Pontine Myelinosis (CPM) and Extra Pontine Myelinosis (EPM) are debilitating conditions, resulting from the rapid correction of hyponatremia. The outcome and prognosis of this medical condition are variable; mainly involving functional decline from neuro-musculoskeletal upset. An intensive, multidisciplinary rehabilitation has played an essential role in facilitating and hasten recovery...

BACKGROUND Descending inhibition of pain, part of the endogenous pain modulation system, is important for normal pain processing. Dysfunction is associated with various chronic pain states. Here, the effect of ketamine and morphine on descending inhibition is examined using the conditioned pain modulation (CPM) paradigm in chronic neuropathic pain patients. METHODS CPM responses were obtained...

This paper describes a low-complexity generic receiver for burst-mode continuous phase modulation. The burst consists of a continuous wave (CW) signal followed by a pseudorandom sequence and a data sequence modulated by continuous phase modulation (CPM). Joint coarse carrier frequency, phase and time synchronization is performed on the CW signal. Fine time synchronization is performed on the ps...

It is now fairly generally agreed that the type of treatment to be chosen for an infiltrating carcinoma of the bladder will depend at least to some e:-:tent upon the depth to which this tumor has invaded the wall of the .bladder. However, the preoperative estimate of this depth of infiltration cannot be expected to equal in precision the postoperative or postmortem findings based. , upon the st...

In this paper, we propose a chaotic interleaving scheme for continuous-phase modulation based orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (CPM-OFDM) systems. The idea of chaotic maps randomization (CMR) is exploited in this scheme. CMR generates permuted sequences from the sequences to be transmitted with lower correlation among their samples, and hence a better bit error rate (BER) performance ...

Eisai hyperbilirubinemic mutant rats (EHBRs) with conjugated hyperbilirubinemia were recently derived from Sprague-Dawley rats (SDRs). The pharmacokinetic characteristics of the beta-lactam antibiotic cefpiramide (CPM), which is mainly excreted into bile, were investigated in 10- and 20-week-old EHBRs and were compared with those in 20-week-old healthy SDRs. The pharmacokinetic parameters of CP...

Electrogastrograms (EGGs) were recorded in patients both before and after receiving proximal gastrectomy plus jejunal interposition (PGJI) or just after receiving total gastrectomy plus jejunal interposition (TGJI). Intraluminal pressure was also recorded in some postoperative patients. The EGG 3 cpm component (2.5-4.9 cpm) remained after PGJI, but subsequently decreased with a significant redu...

As the appliance of the integration process of the Yangtze River Delta and the Shanghai Combined Ports strategy, Nantong, which locates in the Jiangsu riverbank development zone and in the eastern oceanic Jiangsu construction areas, is paid great attention to because of its special location advantage. Thus how to make good use of the outstanding port and coast resources to develop the advantage...