The Short: Limited Prospects

The Prospects of Epigenetics in Neuroscience

The concept of a limited-capacity short-term memory

(STM) buffer has played a central role in theories of memory. Indeed, such a buffer is an essential component of computational models that account for quantitative data in tasks of immediate and delayed free recall, including the search of associative memory model (SAM; Raaijmakers & Shiffrin, 1981; see also Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1968; Kahana, 1996; Waugh & Norman, 1965) and the adaptive control...

Observational Prospects for Afterglows of Short Duration Gamma-ray Bursts

If the efficiency for producing γ-rays is the same in short duration (<∼ 2 s) Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) as in long duration GRBs, then the average kinetic energy of short GRBs must be ∼ 20 times less than that of long GRBs. Assuming further that the relativistic shocks in short and long duration GRBs have similar parameters, we show that the afterglows of short GRBs will be on average 10–40 times...

Short-baseline Neutrinos: Recent Results and Future Prospects

The evidence is compelling that neutrinos undergo flavor change as they propagate. In recent years, experiments have observed the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations using disparate neutrino sources: the sun, fission reactors, accelerators, and secondary cosmic rays. The standard model of particle physics needs only simple extensions – neutrino masses and mixing – to accommodate all neutrino os...

The State of Islamic Finance: Post-crisis and Future Prospects

The main purpose of this paper is to trace epistemological roots of conventional and Islamic finance. Based on an extensive literature review, this paper aims to highlight, explain, and discuss an ideal conventional and Islamic financial system. The ideal conventional financial system is discussed in light of various writings by Smith and Arrow, based on Arrow-Debreu model. On the other ...