This is a set of notes relating to an invited talk at the cross-disciplinary workshop on Architectures for Modeling Emotion at the AAAI Spring Symposium at Stanford University in March 2004. The organisers of the workshop note that work on emotions “is often carried out in an ad hoc manner”, and hope to remedy this by focusing on two themes (a) validation of emotion models and architectures, an...

'Would you tell me please, which way I should go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where,' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Lewis Carroll) In this issue, Wass et al. report a study of the reliability of the oral component of the Royal College of General Pract...

The role of sampling and measurement uncertainty in assessing production process capability is examined, using content uniformity testing as an example. An expanded components of variance model is proposed for consideration during risk assessment and mitigation studies, with emphasis that either empirical (“top-down”) or model-based (“bottom-up”) approaches to estimation of uncertainty can be e...

Introduction Reliable and valid instruments are needed to measure the impact of mental health services programs on journeys recovery service users. The aim this study was explore psychometric properties cross-culturally adapted 15-item Questionnaire about Process Recovery in Spain (QPR-15-SP). Methods One hundred ten participants from three locations (Málaga, Barcelona Madrid), who were users p...

In his recent book, The Elm and The Expert (1994), Jerry Fodor opens with a rather puzzling remark: “It may be that I have gotten myself into a philosophical situation about which all that can helpfully be said is that I ought not to have gotten myself into it” (p.1). Fodor is referring to what is a paradoxical and deep problem in his theory concerning the relations between representational con...

The deductive paradigm has produced notable successes in epidemiology and public health. But while deductive logic has made a substantial contribution to the public health field, it must be recognized that there are also limits to that contribution. This report examines one such limit: the need for non-deductive models in public health reasoning. The findings of a study of public health reasoni...