We report a prospective randomly controlled trial to examine the effectiveness of continuous passive motion (CPM) in improving postoperative function and range of movement after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We allocated 53 patients (57 knees) to one of three postoperative regimes: no CPM (n = 19); CPM at 0 to 40 degrees (0 to 40 CPM; n = 18); and CPM at 0 to 70 degrees (0 to 70 CPM; n = 20). ...

Maritime transportation is a major source of climate change and air pollution. Shipping emissions cause severe impacts on health and environment. These effects of emissions are emerged especially in territorial waters, inland seas, canals, straits, bays, and port regions. In this paper, exhaust gas emissions from ships in Izmir Port, which is one of the main ports in Turkey, are calculated by t...

Multiple antennas with low correlations are highly in demand the mobile handsets for higher data rate. At same time, total pattern provided by should be as round possible reliable links. In this paper, analysing characteristic modes of chassis loaded ultra-thin metal frames, a four-antenna system is designed at 2.4 GHz. The gain variations only 3.4 dB and 3.6 on two dominant planes. isolations ...

There are several reports of central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) in a setting of malnutrition, alcoholism, and chronic debilitating illness associated with electrolyte abnormalities, especially hyponatremia. The cause of myelinolysis is still under debate, and, although osmotic effects are thought to be responsible in most cases, alternative pathological factors should be considered [King et al....

Central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) is a well-known entity first described by Adams et al. in 1959 [1). This demyelinating disorder is associated with electrolyte disturbances (particularly of sodium) and typically occurs in the setting of alcoholism and malnutrition . Extrapontine myelinolysis (EPM) is identified pathologically in about 53% of cases [2] and, of these, thalamic lesions are detec...

Central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) was first described by Adams et al. [1] in 1959; since then, well over 100 cases have been reported. The disease has been noted predominantly in alcoholics with electrolyte imbalances, usually hyponatremia, most especially after electrolyte derangement has been rapidly reversed by vigorous intravenous fluid administration . The characteristic clinical course i...

Sufficient conditions are derived under which -ary partialand full-response continuous phase modulation (CPM) space–time (ST) codes will attain both full spatial diversity and optimal coding gain. General code construction rules are desirable due to the nonlinearity and inherent memory of the CPM signals which makes manual design or computer search difficult. Using a linear decomposition of CPM...

Conventional CPM signals employ information sequence with time-unlimited phase shaping pulse (PSP) to achieve power and bandwidth efficient transmission. On the contrary, information sequence using time-limited PSP was believed to produce power-wasting data-independent discrete spectral lines in CPM spectra, and was suggested to be avoided. In this paper, we revisit this problem and adopt the t...

We propose a theoretical design for a compact photonic crystal (PC) polarization beam splitter (PBS) based on the multimode interference (MMI) effect. The size of a conventional MMI device designed by the self-imaging principle is not compact enough; therefore, we design a compact PC PBS based on the difference of the interference effect between TE and TM modes. Within the MMI coupler, the depe...