Beyond theming: Making qualitative studies matter

Qualitative Business Decision Making

We are developing artiicial intelligence programs that model qualitative business decision making, using both goal-based and case-based reasoning. In this paper, we describe current work in three related areas: normative business goals and beliefs, qualitative business calculus, and belief representation. Overview We are developing artiicial intelligence programs that incorporate goal-based rea...

Making Memories Matter

This article reviews some of the neuroendocrine bases by which emotional events regulate brain mechanisms of learning and memory. In laboratory rodents, there is extensive evidence that epinephrine influences memory processing through an inverted-U relationship, at which moderate levels enhance and high levels impair memory. These effects are, in large part, mediated by increases in blood gluco...

Flavoured Dark Matter Beyond MFV

We review a model of quark flavoured dark matter with new flavour violating interactions. This simplified model describes Dirac fermionic dark matter that is charged under a new U(3) flavour symmetry and couples to right-handed down quarks via a scalar mediator. The corresponding coupling matrix is assumed to be the only new source of flavour violation, which we refer to as the Dark Minimal Fla...

Diffuse Baryonic Matter beyond 2020

The hot, diffuse gas that fills the largest overdense structures in the Universe — clusters of galaxies and a web of giant filaments connecting them — provides us with tools to address a wide array of fundamental astrophysical and cosmological questions via observations in the X-ray band. Clusters are sensitive cosmological probes. To utilize their full potential for precision cosmology in the ...

Matter versus Form, and Beyond