Why group membership matters: A critical typology

Membership Matters

This editorial seeks to answer a few simple questions and scotch some misconceptions about the Ulster Medical Society. It offers an invitation to those who have never joined the Society to consider membership. At the same time occasional attenders are reminded that the vitality of any society is best maintained by the regular interest of all its members. In turn it seeks your comments. What is ...

Why Learning How to Chase Butterflies Matters: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Why emotion matters

Although much is known about the representation and processing of concrete concepts, our knowledge of what abstract semantics might be is severely limited. In this paper we first address the adequacy of the two dominant accounts (dual coding theory and the context availability model) put forward in order to explain representation and processing differences between concrete and abstract words. W...

Why Ecology Matters

Why Functional Programming Matters

As software becomes more and more complex, it is more and more important to structure it well. Well-structured software is easy to write, easy to debug, and provides a collection of modules that can be re-used to reduce future programming costs. Conventional languages place conceptual limits on the way problems can be modularised. Functional languages push those limits back. In this paper we sh...