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Exploring the Legal and Moral Bases for Conducting Targeted Strikes outside of the Defined Combat Zone
(Crip) Walking on Water: An Analysis of the Extraordinary Body in Postmodern Black Men\u27s Fiction
Exploring the Legal and Moral Bases for Conducting Targeted Strikes outside of the Defined Combat Zone
Understanding 19th century ‘baby-farming’ women who killed: aberration or ‘rational’ act?
Writing for Frontier, PhD student Joshua Stuart-Bennett explains his research into the child killing activity associated with Victorian ‘baby-farming’. In contrast to understandings that have been based upon cases of individual women and their nature, he hopes to place the phenomenon within the wider social, cultural and historical context to reframe our perception of these women and their crimes
Beware of the Prior Knowledge Provision: A Comment on Bryan Brothers, Inc. v. Continent Casualty Co.
The influence of retardation and dielectric environments on interatomic Coulombic decay
Interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) is a very efficient process by which high-energy radiation is redistributed between molecular systems, often producing a slow electron, which can be damaging to biological tissue. During ICD, an initially-ionised and highly-excited donor species undergoes a transition where an outer-valence electron moves to a lower-lying vacancy, transmitting a photon with sufficient energy to ionise an acceptor species placed close by. Traditionally the ICD process has been described via ab initio quantum chemistry based on electrostatics in free space, which cannot include the effects of retardation stemming from the finite speed of light, nor the influence of a dispersive, absorbing, discontinuous environment. Here we develop a theoretical description of ICD based on macroscopic quantum electrodynamics in dielectrics, which fully incorporates all these effects, enabling the established power and broad applicability of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics to be unleashed across the fast-developing field of ICD
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