Strangers in the Night

Strangers in the night: research and managed mental health care.

Strangers in the Night — Smart Process Sensors in Our Current Automation Landscape

The departure from the current automation landscape to next generation automation concepts for the process industry has already begun. Smart functions of sensors simplify their use and enable plug-and-play integration, even though they may appear to be more complex at first sight. Smart sensors enable concepts like self-diagnostics, self-calibration, and self-configuration/parameterization when...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and sleep disorders: no longer strangers in the night.

The prevalence of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is continuously increasing in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and, for the first time, the recent IPF guidelines recognise OSA as an important associated comorbidity that can affect patient's survival. Thus, it becomes conceivable that clinicians should refer patients with newly diagnosed IPF to sleep centres for the diagnosis a...

Strangers in My Body

There is a bizarre piece of medical hypocrisy : in the preface, the names and qualifications of the doctors concerned are splendidly rolled out. In the text, however, they are given pseudonyms, " in the best and most scrupulous tradition of the medical profession Both men must be a shade too gentle since they left their patient at large after she had attempted to strangle her daughter. Surprisi...

Strangers in the Night or Love Forever: Characteristics and Preferences of Short vs. Long-Term Relationship Seekers

Sex differences in mate preferences as well as the tendency to pursue longvs. short-term relationships have often been explored and confirmed. On the other hand, within-sex analyses of who is more likely to engage in a short-term relationship have been somewhat neglected. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare proportions of individuals interested in short-term relationships (if single...