Conformal Methods in General Relativity

First and foremost, I would like to acknowledge the influence that Helmut Friedrich had in the development of my understanding of the theory of the conformal Einstein field equations. He has been an inexhaustible source of knowledge and insights. I also would like to acknowledge the role that Robert Beig, Sergio Dain and Malcolm MacCallum have played in shaping complementary perspectives on t…

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law: Essays in Comparative Legal History …

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F. W. Maitland’s famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own ‘hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history’

Co-Producing and Co-Designing

Many healthcare improvement approaches originated in manufacturing, where end users are framed as consumers. But in healthcare, greater recognition of the complexity of relationships between patients, staff, and services (beyond a provider-consumer exchange) is generating new insights and approaches to healthcare improvement informed directly by patient and staff experience.

Challenges to Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Economic and Policy Responses

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) kills, increases the costs of our health care, damages trade and economies, and threatens health security. The most recent studies show that in the European Union (EU) over 33 000 people die every year due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria; of which, 75% of these deaths are caused by health care-associated infections. This is a burden that is comparable to that of…

Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System?

Existing scholarship has not systematically examined BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) as a rising power de-dollarization coalition, despite the group developing multiple de-dollarization initiatives to reduce currency risk and bypass US sanctions.

Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa

Understanding the political and socio-economic factors which give rise to youth recruitment into militant organizations is central to grasping some of the most important issues that affect the contemporary Middle East and Africa.

Beyond Borders: The Human Rights of Non-Citizens at Home and Abroad

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Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law: Disruption, Regulatio…

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming economies, societies, and geopolitics. Enabled by the exponential increase of data that is collected, transmitted, and processed transnationally, these changes have important implications for international economic law (IEL).

Are Books Still 'Different'?: Literature as Culture and Commodity in a Digita…

The famous 1962 precedent at the Restrictive Practices Court of the United Kingdom, “Books are different,” is still the reasoning behind many cultural policies around the world, building on long-standing assumptions surrounding “the book.”

An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave: User Guide f…

This book provides a self-contained introduction to the simulation of flow and transport in porous media, written by a developer of numerical methods. The reader will learn how to implement reservoir simulation models and computational algorithms in a robust and efficient manner.