Central pontine myelinolysis (CPM), a potentially fatal and debilitating neurological condition, was first described in 1959 in a study on alcoholic and malnourished patients. It is a condition most frequently related to rapid correction of hyponatremia. Chronic alcoholism associated CPM tends to be benign with a favorable prognosis compared to CPM secondary to rapid correction of hyponatremia....

Continuous phase modulation (CPM) is a widely used modulation scheme in communication systems. However, difficulties arise with the design of CPM receivers, due to the nonlinear nature of CPM. One popular solution is to linearize CPM with pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) representation. In this paper, a reduced-complexity non-dataaided (NDA) timing recovery method for PAM-based M-ary CPM receiv...

The paper presents a conceptual model for assessing the maturity of a Corporate Performance Management (CPM) in an organization. The CPM maturity development process was studied in five case companies where the author participated into CPM development projects in various consultation roles. Constructive and action-oriented research approaches were used with different methods for data collection...

Why has the Critical Path Method (CPM) been used so widely for so long given its inability to produce predictable outcomes? For shedding light on this paradox, the formative period of the CPM is analysed from two main angles. First, how was the CPM embedded into the construction management practice? Second, what was the methodological underpinning of the development of the CPM? These questions ...

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...