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The Persistence of Reciprocity in International Humanitarian Law

Back in early May of this year, several news outlets in the United States reported that the Trump administration was in the process of pardoning several US service personnel accused and convicted of war crimes. Bryan Peeler investigates from a Humanitarian Law angle.

Bryan Peeler | 9 Oct 2019

New Model of Helix Slow-Wave Structures

An essential component in the helix travelling-wave tubes (TWTs) used, among other things, for satellite communications and electronic counter-measures, is the helix slow-wave structure. This structure...

Richard G. Carter | 9 Oct 2019

Energy Transfers in Fluid Flows

Understanding turbulence is an important and challenging problem with a million dollar prize money on it.  We illustrate the complexity of a turbulent flow using an example.  Consider coffee being mixed...

9 Oct 2019

Why we wrote Climate Mathematics

In recent decades, a typical undergraduate university student enrolled in an atmospheric, oceanographic, or climate science major might take about six mathematics and computing courses. This mathematics...

Richard CJ Somerville, Samuel S P Shen | 7 Oct 2019

Money, Marriage, and Murder in Early Modern England

I decided to write Women of Fortune when I discovered that Grace Bennet, widow of a rich mortgage and loan banker and mother of the Countess of Salisbury, had been murdered by the local butcher in 1694. ...

Linda Levy Peck | 4 Oct 2019

ASEAN consumer law harmonisation: trends and prospects

The ten states now comprising the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have collectively become a major part of the world economy, bringing together over 600 million people including a growing middle...

Luke Nottage, Jeannie Paterson, Justin Malbon, Caron Beaton-Wells | 4 Oct 2019

The Afterlife of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Lovers swoon at Shakespeare’s Sonnets – or so we’re told. That’s why lists proliferate of ‘Shakespeare’s Most Romantic Sonnets’, and why Valentine’s Day produces so many novelty pink-and-red...

Jane Kingsley-Smith | 3 Oct 2019

Searching for a Biblical Scribe

The author looks over the ruins of Ramat Rahel near Jerusalem. He argues it was the site of an ancient Assyrian imperial citadel whose destruction was celebrated in Isaiah 24-27

Christopher B. Hays | 30 Sep 2019

Professor Emma Smith, series editor of Shakespeare Survey, talks about Volume 72: Shakespeare and War

Shakespeare and War – the topic for Shakespeare Survey 72 – is nothing if not wide-ranging. From the significance of Tom Hiddleston’s unfeasibly tight armour in Thea Sharrock’s 2012 film of Henry...

Professor Emma Smith | 26 Sep 2019

How do people still continue to achieve in the face of severe adversity?

This is a question I have become increasingly pre-occupied with throughout my academic career. As a working-class woman with an “unconventional” background, I have often been told that my potential...

Yasmin Reid-Linfoot | 26 Sep 2019

The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative

Scholars of the Victorian period have often written of it as a golden age of autobiography, notable for the remarkable proliferation of life writing at and after mid-century. In 1850 Leigh Hunt published...

Sean Grass | 23 Sep 2019

Wireless AI

In the era of Internet of Things (IoT), billions of smart devices, household appliances, smart phones, sensors, vehicles are connected by radio frequency signals. With the ubiquitous deployment of wireless...

K. J. Ray Liu, Beibei Wang | 20 Sep 2019