Boling flow instability semiannual status report

Boiling flow instabilities - inlet pressure drop versus overall density ratio relationship

Flow oscillations in forced convection boiling Final report, volume II

Stability of Freon-11 and water flow oscillations in forced convection boilin

Oscillations in two-component two-phase flow Final report, volume I

Stability of oscillations in air and water two component two-phase flo

Understanding empathy through a study of autistic life writing: on the importance of neurodiverse morality

This chapter provides a critique of medical and literary writing about autism that maintains it is characterised by empathy deficits and, as a result, leads to morally challenged lives, both for the autistic person and those around them. It draws on a sample of writings by autistic authors, which shows both that autistic individuals recognise themselves to be capable of empathy, and, that their moral lives are represented as equally rich and complex as those of any other group of humans. This contrasts with dominant science writing on autism and empathy, which relies on a foreshortened sense of the latter and implies that there is a benchmark psychological makeup that is both morally valuable and commonplace – and of which autistic people are commonly assumed to fall short. This epistemic assumption is questioned. While I focus on moral considerations, what I say has implications for the ethics of conventional autism theory. Psychologists who reinforce an essentialist idea of autism in relation to supposed empathy deficits obscure the broader social and environmental contexts in which different configurations of empathy occur in all humans. This recentring of autistic – and neurodivergent – morality, is an essential next step for the neurodiversity paradigm

The search for a common ground between science and our "visionary images" in 'Nature Cure' by Richard Mabey and 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek' by Annie Dillard

'Nature Cure' presents Richard Mabey's attempts to reconcile his passionate personal reflections with a scientific perspective on human and non-human nature. This paper argues that Mabey finds an exemplar in Annie Dillard's classic of American nature literature, 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'. It questions how Mabey can draw on Dillard's text without ignoring the complexities of local nature, and in doing so explores the implications of the British author's reconciliation with science. Arguing from the perspective of narrative scholarship, this paper proposes that 'Nature Cure' can be understood as an appeal to our own imaginations rather than an objective presentation of the author's interdependencies with non-human nature. The paper addresses how, by examining the interpenetration of nature and culture in the artist's imagination, 'Nature Cure' reminds us of our own cultural and imaginative relations with non-human nature. By focusing on particular renderings of sense perception in Mabey's text – principally vision – it is argued that Mabey's imaginative constructions are informed by local and global understandings. Through the aesthetic device of rendering, Mabey and Dillard show that sight is prone to error. This paper concludes that through his aesthetic presentations of contact with non-human nature, Richard Mabey reminds us of the imagination's central contribution to ethical and scientific reasoning