The EU Referendum of 2016 was one the most significant events in recent British political history. It is widely recognised that citizens engaged with referendum through understandings Britain, EU, world, and their place it. This study complements existing research where such have been inferred from citizens’ demographic characteristics, characteristics localities/regions, or elite discourses. b...

In this paper, a discontinuity in beams whose intensity is adjusted by the spring stiffness factor is modeled using a torsional spring. Adapting two analyses in strong and weak forms for discontinuous beams, the improved governing differential equations and the modified stiffness matrix are derived respectively. In the strong form, two different solution methods have been presented to make an a...

We present a numerical algorithm that is well suited for the study of biomolecular transport processes. In the algorithm a continuous Markov process is discretized as a jump process and the jump rates are derived from local solutions of the continuous system. Consequently, the algorithm has two advantages over standard numerical methods: (1) it preserves detailed balance for equilibrium process...

Recent work in developmental psychology indicates that children naturally think that psychological states continue after death. One important candidate explanation for why this belief is natural appeals to the idea that we believe in immortality because we can’t imagine our own nonexistence. This paper explores this old idea. To begin, I present a qualified statement of the thesis that we can’t...

From 2004 to 2010 I served as a researcher and advisor in the Australian Government’s values education projects. During the task of helping schools implementing and conducting research on values education, I took the opportunity to observe the importance explorative and imaginative modes of teaching and learning might have in the formation of values. In this essay, I argue that imaginative teac...