Damage mechanics approaches are developed for the numerical modeling of fracture evolution along sharp (i.e., zero-thickness) and diffuse (i.e., finite-thickness) interfaces and applied to investigate ice sheet fracture ...

Many fatal shootings by police are not warranted. These shootings impose losses on the victims and their families and reflect the failure of existing administrative and legal restraints to deter these unwarranted shootings. ...

Damaging Intimacy reimagines the history of selfhood in early modernity. Whereas scholars traditionally regard the bounded self and the individuated body as the basic unit of interpersonal relations, I trace the risks and ...

My project addresses the representation of dance, dance-like, and pedestrian movement within the urban space in German literature around 1900. The dynamic cosmopolitan centers of Berlin and Paris not only attracted authors ...

This study explores the depiction of female bodies in three works of francophone literature in the late 20th and 21st centuries: Standard (2014) by Nina Bouraoui, Sitt Marie Rose (1977) by Etel Adnan, and La répudiée (2000) ...

Civil commitment, confinement under sexual predator laws, and many capital and noncapital sentences depend upon proof of a propensity toward violence. This Article discusses the current state of prediction science, in ...

During the final months of the Clinton administration, the State Department entered into a trio of unprecedented international agreements with France (the "French Agreement"), Germany (the "German Agreement"), and Austria ...

This study investigates the form and function of early, mass-produced visual representations of British society in Calcutta during the last two decades of the eighteenth-century, a time when the English East India Company's ...