A new three-degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) compliant parallel manipulator (CPM) has been proposed for 3-D nanomanipulation in this paper. The system is constructed by a proper selection of components, and analyzed via the established pseudo-rigid-body model, based upon which the kinematic modelings are performed, and the CPM workspace is determined in view of the physical constraints. One of the adv...

Central pontine myelinolysis (CPM), which was originally considered to be the result of rapid correction of chronic hyponatremia, is not necessarily accompanied by hyponatremia or drastic changes in serum sodium level. Here, we report a case of an anorexic 55-year-old male with a history of pharyngo-laryngo-esophagogastrectomy, initially hospitalized with status epilepticus. Although his consci...

The Critical Path Method (CPM) is useful for planning and control of complex projects. The CPM identifies the critical activities in the critical path of an activity network. The successful implementation of CPM requires the availability of clear determined time duration for each activity. However, in practical situations this requirement is usually hard to fulfil since many of activities will ...

BACKGROUND Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) rates have substantially increased in recent years and may reflect an exaggerated perceived benefit from the procedure. The objective of this study was to evaluate the magnitude of the survival benefit of CPM for women with unilateral breast cancer. METHODS We developed a Markov model to simulate survival outcomes after CPM and no CPM amo...

The authors retrospectively examined the contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) rate among 100 women with ductal carcinoma in situ who are BRCA negative. Of 100 women with ductal carcinoma in situ, 31 elected contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM). Factors associated with increased likelihood of undergoing contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) among this cohort were: family hist...

PURPOSE To measure flow rate of balanced salt solution and IOP during simulated vitrectomy using two sets of high-speed dual-pneumatic probes. METHODS A closed-model eye system measured IOP and flow rate of a balanced salt solution through infusion cannula. The Constellation Vision System was tested with two sets of high-speed dual-pneumatic probes (UltraVit 23-gauge and enhanced 25+-gauge 50...

Several concatenated and iterative decoding approaches are used to improve the power efficiency of continuous phase modulation (CPM). First a symbol interleaver is used for serially concatenated CPM (SCCPM). Convergence of iterative decoding for this scheme can be earlier (lower SNR: Signal-to-Noise-Ratio) compared to bit interleaved SCCPM. Then a ring convolutional code (CC) is used as the out...

We present the extension of the successful Constant Perturbation Method (CPM) for Schrödinger problems to the more general class of Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problems. Whereas the orginal CPM can only be applied to Sturm-Liouville problems after a Liouville transformation, the more general CPM presented here solves the Sturm-Liouville problem directly. This enlarges the range of applicability ...

The Cellular Potts Model (CPM) is a cellular automaton (CA), developed by Glazier and Graner in 1992, to model the morphogenesis. In this model, the entities are the cells. It has already been improved in many ways; however, a key point in biological systems, not defined in CPM, is energetic exchange between entities. We integrate this energetic concept inside the CPM. We simulate a cell differ...

Limbah cangkang kepiting dan kulit udang memiliki kandungan kitin yang dinilai berpotensi menjadi Chitosan Polymer Medium (CPM) sebagai bahan pelapis masker untuk menyisihkan zat toksik pada asap rokok. Bahaya sudah diidentifikasi memerlukan beberapa langkah pengendalian ke titik aman. Cara dapat digunakan mengendalikan bahaya rokok adalah dengan menggunakan masker. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ...