Princess and the Pea

Did 'The Princess on the Pea' suffer from fibromyalgia syndrome? The influence on sleep and the effects of acupuncture.

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic pain syndrome characterised by central sensitisation resulting in hypersentivity of the skin and deeper tissues as well as fatigue. Possibly the princess in Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Princess and the Pea' suffered from FMS since chronic sleep disturbances are typical in FMS. These sleep disturbances have been attributed to a dysfunction in the syste...

Winning the Hand of the Princess Saralinda

Suitors come to the castle in order to try to win the hand of the Princess Saralinda. The first suitor to perform n amazing feats will succeed. If the number n of feats is large and the times to perform the feats are all i.i.d., then how long is it before a suitor will win the hand of the Princess? We develop asymptotics describing the distribution of this random time as the number of feats get...

The Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon.

Design of the PRINCESS trial: pre-hospital resuscitation intra-nasal cooling effectiveness survival study (PRINCESS)

BACKGROUND Therapeutic hypothermia (TH, 32-34°C) has been shown to improve neurological outcome in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation. Earlier initiation of TH may increase the beneficial effects. Experimental studies have suggested that starting TH during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may further enhance its neuroprote...

The ''Princess and Monster'' Game on an Interval

A minimizing Searcher S and a maximizing Hider H move at unit speed on a closed interval until the first (capture, or payoff ) time T = min {t : S (t) = H(t)} that they meet. This zerosum Princess and Monster Game or less colorfully Search Game With Mobile Hider was proposed by Rufus Isaacs for general networks Q. While the existence and finiteness of the value V = V (Q) has been established fo...