Patients as friends.

Theory and Patients as Friends to my Post-Election Shock

Animals as Friends

Whether animals, especially companion animals, count as friends depends on the conception of friendship as well as on the conception of animals. Some accounts of friendship can include (other than human) animals more easily than others. I present an argument in favour of characterising some animal-human connections as friendships, and address some of the standard objections to this characterisa...

Friends looking out for friends as an intervention strategy for young adults’ risky driving

INTRODUCTION The young adult age group is at the highest risk of road trauma [1]. Further, the motor vehicle crash (MVC) risk for young adult drivers typically increases with the presence of a passenger [2]. While traditionally road safety strategies have focused on changing the driver there may be considerable opportunity to improve safety by developing passenger safety interventions. In parti...

Why Models and Code Should be Treated as Friends

Various approaches have been proposed to face the difficulties related to constructing and maintaining modern software systems. Often, they incorporate models in some part of the development or evolution process. Even the use of models at runtime seems to receive more and more attention as a way to enable the quick, systematic and automated application of change operations on software as it exe...

Using Friends as Sensors to Detect Global-Scale Contagious Outbreaks

Recent research has focused on the monitoring of global-scale online data for improved detection of epidemics, mood patterns, movements in the stock market political revolutions, box-office revenues, consumer behaviour and many other important phenomena. However, privacy considerations and the sheer scale of data available online are quickly making global monitoring infeasible, and existing met...