Monstrans de droit, petition of right, and liability for Crown debt by Getzler, J

“…A vested right to property was seen as a stronger claim than an action to enforce an executory or precatory obligation, and as such could be claimed by a summary version of the petition of right known as monstrans de droit, a demonstration or plea of right. Tort claims for long remained outside the system, as ‘the king could do no wrong’; hence trespassory remedies such as assumpsit were generally unavailable. …”

The radial spreading of volcanic umbrella clouds deduced from satellite measurements by Prata, F, Prata, A, Tanner, R, Grainger, RG, Borgas, M, Aubry, TJ

“…A hyperbolic tangent model, A ⇠ tanh (C) is presented that matches the entire radial spreading time history and has a conserved torus-shaped volume in which the intrusion depth is 20 proportional to sech (C). …”

The Nightingale / by Hannah, Kristin, author 369246, Macmillan Books (Online service) 655983

“…The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France–a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. …”
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Compensation for Historic Injustice: Does it Matter how the Victims Respond? by Miller, D

“…It seems that alongside the counterfactual world in which the wrongdoing never occurred, we should also consider the counterfactual world in which the wrongdoing has occurred, but the victims have responded to it in a prudent way. Under tort law, the damages a victim can claim are reduced if they are judged to have been contributorily negligent, thereby exacerbating the harm they have suffered. …”

Sentinels of Afghan democracy : the Afghan national army by Chan, Samuel

“…Since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, the international community has contributed much in terms of manpower, monetary aid, essential equipment and expertise in rehabilitaring this war-torn Central Asia country. The Afghan National Army (ANA) has arguably been one of the leading success stories. …”
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Models and solutions for emergency logistics by Yi, Wei

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TechX challenge by Yuan, Shenghai.

“…The concept of this competition is making future unman combat robot to replace human soldier in the future war-torn urban landscape. Robot has to function effectively in hazards situation. …”
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Efficient digital traffic accident mapping by Koo, T. K.

“…This paper describes the design and development of one system born out of an attempt to produce a low cost, simple to use, photogrammetric-based three dimensional computer graphics visualization system for traffic accident mapping.…”
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Localised and bifurcating structures in planar shear flows by Wang, Zhe

“…With broken rotational symmetry, periodic orbits can experience a Neimark-Sacker bifurcation leading to a torus, a phase locking, a period-doubling cascade, a heteroclinic bifurcation, a coexistence between the quasiperiodic and chaotic behaviours. …”
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DARE by Balete, Camille Louise Garcia

“…DARE celebrates grit and hardiness through a montage of imagery that illustrate struggles born from limitations. Characters are used as parallels as they go through a white-knuckled grind of preparation, pursuit, struggle, and overcoming.…”
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“It’s complicated” : cognitive dissonance and the evolving relationship between editorial and advertising in US newsrooms by Duffy, Andrew, Cheng, Lydia

“…It finds reluctance to embrace this evolving relationship, revealed in the fragmented and contradictory syntax editors use to talk about it as they are torn between the old (ethically driven) norm of how things should be, and the emerging (economically driven) norm of how things are. …”
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How Taoism addresses unbalanced lives of urban female : see things differently by Lam, Nu Lien Minh

“…Born, educated and grown in developing countries that are still faithful to tradition and cultural heritage, young Asian women encounter inevitable tensions between tradition and modern lifestyles that makes her loose harmony and balance in her daily life. …”
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The post-modern Japanese identity of Haruki Murakami's literature. by Ling, Shannon.

“…Japan, in particular, had undergone massive changes since the end of the Meiji era and the Second World War, giving birth to a new generation of Japanese torn between respecting the traditional and embracing the modern. …”
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Anatomy of gloom. by Lim, Gwen Yuan Wen.

“…The Puppet wakes up in a gloomy world. Like a new born baby, she is amused her existence. A spider crawls out of her heart and hynotises the puppet, shows her an perplexing illusion of a woman trapped inside a massive flower. …”
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Numerical model and experimental investigation on the optical trapping of microsphere sample by Muhammad Haer Jam Hari.

“…With the increasing emphasis put on research and development in the industry, more sophisticated technology were born. The biomedical engineering field is no stranger to tremendous research and development efforts in the recent years. …”
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Feel to hear by Ummi Kaltsum Mohamed Bakri

“…Feel to Hear is a project inspired by hearing loss and the curiousity of the ways children born with profound deafness learn about sounds without the use of hearing aids. …”
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Exhibiting Southeast Asia in the cultural Cold War: geopolitics of regional art exhibitions (1940s-1980s) by Ditzig Kathleen Elizabeth Li-Ying

“…Exhibiting Southeast Asia in the Cultural Cold War studies these exhibitions through focusing on what I term the bureaucracy of exhibition-making, wherein archival traces make visible the geopolitics and other agonisms that define the exhibitionary process. This in turn reveals how exhibition-makers were able to engage with and even influence the international order while still functioning within local and regional art worlds—in museums, art associations and art centers—and without official political station. …”
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Creative Schools / by Robinson, Ken, author 509031, Aronica, Lou, author 621386

Elite sports and national identity : a case study of Singapore's participation in the Olympics by Deepan Kaleselvan

“…Likewise, Singapore is also engaged in recruiting elite foreign-born athletes. This is done in the hope of rallying the masses behind the victories of the athletes and boosting their national pride. …”
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Inequality and the 1% by Dorling, D

“…Even before birth, being born outside the 1% will have dramatic impact on the rest of your life: it will reduce your life expectancy, educational and work prospects, as well as your mental health. …”