The oxygen isotopic composition of water extracted from carbonaceous chondrites

The oxygen isotopic composition of water from carbonaceous chondrites suggests that close to isotopic equilibrium was attained on CI and CM parent bodies. This is more consistent with a closed system than one with fluid flow. Tagish Lake does not display such equilibrium

The geology of Saint Helena Island, South Atlantic

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Insight into the evolution of the Tagish Lake carbonaceous chondrite by analysis of the oxygen isotopic composition of extracted water and Mössbauer spectroscopy

Analysis of oxygen isotopes in water from Tagish Lake together with Mössbauer Spectroscopy suggest some similarities to the CI group of meteorites but also suggest differences in the extent of parent body hydrothermal alteration

Investigating Ideation Flexibility through Incremental to Radical Design Heuristics

Idea generation tools facilitate engineers to think differently. A wide variety of such tools exist, although, they vary in focus, specificity, and usability. However, most are not empirically-validated or their impacts are rigorously assessed. An exception is the Design Heuristics which was derived from studying designers as they were ideating and then rigorously tested to determine its efficacy. These heuristics are cognitive prompts that help designers move freely from one concept to another. In our previous work, we investigated how individuals with different cognitive styles approached ideation using the Design Heuristics, as well as their perceptions of the tool’s impact. We found evidence indicating that students with different cognitive styles applied this tool differently in alignment with their cognitive preferences. Based on these analyses, we created a modified version of this tool, called the Incremental to Radical (I2R) Heuristics. This revised set illustrates heuristics’ application both incrementally and radically to the same design problem. We aim to report on an investigation for the ways in which engineers with different cognitive styles perceive and apply these revised heuristics and the impact of the heuristics on the students’ problem solving processes and ideation outcomes. For this study, a set of engineering students took a cognitive style inventory to benchmark their tendencies for problem solving. Then, they were asked to use a subset of existing design heuristic cards to solve a design problem. In a second study, another set of students were asked to use the newly adapted ideation tool for cognitive style variation: The I2R cards. Both groups were given reflection surveys at the end of their sessions. Our preliminary results demonstrate that more innovative students found the adaptive applications of the heuristics to trigger more novel solutions, whereas the more adaptive students found that the innovative applications to be more inspiring

"All In A Community Now?": South London During the Blitz, September-November 1940

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Perceptions of the paranormal.

Dr Ian Baker, Parapsychologist and Chartered psychologist explains how apparently paranormal phenomena can be scientifically investigated in an effort to expand the human understanding of the world

The Developmental Stages of Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: From Pacifism to a Justification of Force

Simone Weil had a short but distinguished career as a French intellectual. Writing mainly between the two European wars of the twentieth century, Weil is more widely accredited for her later spiritual work. This thesis seeks instead to discuss the political aspect of Weil’s writing so that her early themes of labour and science can be charted as they develop through the later themes of oppression, liberty, power and force. I will show how her understanding of labour, liberty and science provide the foundation for her understanding of oppression and force. In charting her formal education, her Leftist syndicalist-revolutionary period and her critique of Marxism, I argue that her prolonged adherence to a pacifist position delays her comprehensive understanding of force, particularly during WWII. Importantly, it discusses the key stages chronologically, spanning the period 1925 – 1940, and relates them to the historical context of the period. This timeframe encompasses her earliest Lycée Henri- IV essays, a large proportion of her trade union journal articles, Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l’oppression sociale and L’Iliade ou le poème de la force. I contend when she rejects these beliefs through a combination of maturing analysis and reflective experience that it became evident that oppression, power, and particualrly force are not only undeniable and ineradicable but at times necessary