Abstract The DD-CPM software library provides a set of tools for the discretization and solution problems arising from closest point method (CPM) partial differential equations on surfaces. solvers are built top well-known PETSc framework, supplemented by custom domain decomposition (DD) preconditioners specific to CPM. These fully compatible with distributed memory parallelism through MPI. Thi...

Effective pain management is crucial for patient recovery after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Biofeedback therapy, which encourages relaxation and helps alleviate various conditions associated with stress, may help to decrease postoperative pain in patients undergoing TKA. A quasi- experimental design was used to investigate the efficacy of a biofeedback relaxation intervention in reducing pai...

We report a case in whom slow correction of hyponatremia (5 mmol/day for 3 days) induced central pontine myelinolysis (CPM). After the diagnosis was confirmed by imaging, we started to relower serum Na that completely recovered the sign and symptoms of CPM. Rapid correction of serum sodium is known to be associated with CPM. However, it may occur even after slow correction of hyponatremia. Curr...

BACKGROUND Parental behaviors, emotions, and cognitions are known to influence children's response to pain. However, prior work has not tested the association between maternal psychological factors and children's responses to a conditioned pain modulation (CPM) task. CPM refers to the reduction in perceived pain intensity for a test stimulus following application of a conditioning stimulus to a...

There are several ways to use iterative decoding techniques with coded continuous phase modulation (CPM). This paper presents a method using parallel concatenation of convolutionally-coded CPM. All CPM schemes can be decomposed into a ring convolutional code and a memoryless signal mapper. This allows a properly designed convolutional code trellis to be combined with the CPM trellis, producing ...

Cancer therapies are associated with increased infertility risk due to accelerated reproductive aging. Oxidative stress (OS) is a potential mechanism behind ovarian toxicity by cyclophosphamide (CPM), the most ovotoxic anticancer drug. An important sensor of OS is SIRT1, a NAD+-dependent deacetylase which regulates cellular defence and cell fate. This study investigated whether the natural caro...

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BACKGROUND Conditioned Pain Modulation (CPM) is often used to assess human descending pain inhibition. Nine different studies on the test-retest-reliability of different CPM paradigms have been published, but none of them has investigated the commonly used heat-cold-pain method. The results vary widely and therefore, reliability measures cannot be extrapolated from one CPM paradigm to another. ...