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Environmental Impact Assessment for Sustainable Development in Malaria-Endemic Regions: Addressing the Threat of Drug-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Africa
Authors: Nwinyi O. C. , Balogun D. O. , Isibor P. O. , Oyesile O. O. , Oyegbade S. A. , Mameh E. O. , Aririguzoh V. O. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Malaria is a significant cause of death for children under the age of five years and pregnant mothers. In Africa, Plasmodium falciparum is the primary cause of malaria. According to the World Health Organization, sub-Saharan Africa accounts for over 84% of malaria cases worldwide. This impact leads to an economic burden and high mortality rates of maternal and infant mortality. The pathogenic virulence of Plasmodium falciparum is attributed to specific molecular markers that confer resistance to antimalarial medications. The observed genetic variability in markers, such as the chloroquine resistance transporter genes and dihydrofolate reductase pathway, result from events related to mutations or changes that transpire at one identifiable genetic loci. This resistance significantly reduced therapeutic efficacy in most African countries. This review examined the growth and spread of resistance mechanisms and evaluated potential antimalarial drugs using novel medication combinations. A key focus of this review is the potential to identify and validate new molecular markers in blood samples from infected patients using DNA methylation profiling, microarrays, and DNA and RNA sequencing. The significance of this is that it reveals the trends of the parasite spread and the consideration of combining molecular marker testing with clinical treatments. This knowledge would assist researchers in looking for accurate and real-time markers to evaluate artemisinin combination therapy resistance. The emergence and spread of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum pose a challenge to global health. Therefore, sustainable development strategies to address this issue will focus on informed decision-making, baseline assessment of previous information on drug resistance, and future forecasts on the impact of molecular markers in most African countries.
Environmental assessment of radionuclides within hydrocarbon producing communities in Ondo State, Nigeria
Authors: Bayode O. P. , Alabi O. O. , Isola G. A. , Morakinyo R. O. , Araka I. O. , Ogunwale E. I. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This study aimed to evaluate the presence of radionuclides in water and fish within oil and gas-producing areas of Ondo State, Nigeria. A carefully calibrated Nal (TI) detector was used to analyze 25 water and 25 fish samples from various sites within these communities. Radionuclide concentrations in the water ranged from 93.20 ± 0.41 to 1957.12 ± 5.86,Bq/l while in fish, it ranged from 37.30 ± 0.16 to 783.01 ± 2.34.Bq/kg The study also calculated the absorbed gamma radiation dose rate and excess lifetime cancer risk based on the detected radionuclides. While the radiological hazards exceeded recommended safety levels in water samples, fish samples remained within global permissible limits. The findings highlight potential health risks from radiological exposure in these regions, especially concerning water usage, which contradicts the goals of SDG 6 on ensuring safe access to water. The contamination due to oil spills continues to threaten both aquatic life and human health.
Stochastic Dynamical Modeling for Time-series Zero-Degree Isotherm Heights Prediction over Tropical Climate
Authors: Lawal Y. B. , Owolawi P. A. , Tu C. , Van Wyk E. , Ojo J. S. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
The accurate prediction of zero-degree isotherm height plays a significant role in weather forecasting and climate modelling, which have applications in agriculture, aviation, telecommunications, and disaster management. Climate action as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can only be achieved continuous study and understanding of our complex atmosphere. The dynamics of the atmosphere is a hot issue in research due to the random process or random probability distribution of the parameters associated with the environment, in which rain height is a key factor. Advanced Deep Learning (ADL) has achieved reasonable results in many fields and the associated applications, especially in the accurate prediction of time-series events. In this study, we adopted stochastic dynamical models to forecast Zero-Degree Isotherm Height (ZDIH) in Akure, a tropical region located in the Southwestern Nigeria. Existing methods, including traditional statistical approaches and ITU-R recommendations, have shown limited accuracy and generalizability due to their inability to capture intricate patterns in atmospheric data. One of the goals of this research is to identify gaps in the existing methods, such as their reliance on shallow learning techniques and their inadequacy in processing large volumes of data with high variability. This research proposes a new approach by applying the Seasonal AutoRegressive Moving Average (SARIMA) and two ADL models, namely; the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and the hybrid LSTM, referred to as Long Short-Term Memory - Convolutional Neural Network (LSTM-CNN) model. Six years (2005-2010) of archived data from the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) are used for the prediction. The result shows seasonality and a fairly stable trend over the yearly analysis. The ZDIH is generally low throughout the rainy season with a mean value of 4.75 km while mean of 4.94 km was observed during the dry season. Validation and comparison of the models revealed that SARIMA (2, 1, 1)(1, 1, 1, 12) model has a better performance over the other two models with RMSE and r2 of 46.3 and 0.89, respectively. The LSTM provides a fair performance, while the hybrid LSTM-CNN model performed poorly. The outcome of the research suspects the seasonality feature (i.e parameter “s”) of SARIMA could be responsible for its higher prediction accuracy over the ADL models. The results obtained demonstrate that the model significantly improves forecasting accuracy and it is hereby recommended for prediction of ZDIH the tropical region.
Emotional Alignment for Human-Robot Cooperation in Musical Tasks
Authors: Wang Huijiang , Iida Fumiya 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Current artificial intelligence (AI) studies have witnessed the widespread use of large language models (LLMs), significantly impacting human-machine interaction (HMI) by endowing machines with emotional subtleties. Despite the efficacy of LLMs, it remains a challenge for the learning-based agents to develop reliable computational emotion models, particularly for real-world human-robot teaming, due to the lack of embodiment. This paper investigates emotional alignment within physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) scenarios. We propose a theoretical framework that enables the robot to cooperate with a human pianist in accomplishing piano-playing tasks. By considering the human users’ emotional states, the robot regulates keystroke dynamics and fingering arrangements, crucial factors affecting the resultant musical quality. Utilizing multimodal sensors and sensor fusion, the robot can capture, interpret and infer the emotional states of the human user. Consequently, the robot’s decision-making process for action selection mirrors human-like artistic patterns.
Sustaining Evolution for Shallow Embodied Intelligence
Authors: Langdon W. B. , Hulme Daniel 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Lenski’s experiments with E. Coli show Biology can sustain continual evolutionary improvement. However long term evolutionary experiments (LTEE) with evolutionary computing find that information theory’s failed disruption propagation (FDP) in deeply nested genetic programming (GP) hierarchies can greatly slow adaptation. We propose that researchers aiming at embodied artificial intelligence should control software robustness by using porous high surface area geometrical architectures, perhaps composed of many shallow mangrove like tree structures intimately linked to their data rich fitness environment.
Inherent Behavioral Stochasticity in Soft Robots: Analysis and Control Strategies
Authors: Nazeer Muhammad Sunny , Zaidi Syeda Shadab Zehra , Cianchetti Matteo , Falotico Egidio 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
The unique composition of soft robots, predominantly constructed from elastomers and polymers, amplifies the likelihood of unpredictability in their performance, setting the stage for significant behavioral stochasticity as compared to their rigid counterparts. In this paper, we present a control-centric perspective on the intrinsic behavioral stochasticity observed in soft robots, exploring the underlying reasons and presenting control methodologies tailored to address the associated challenges. In addition to these challenges, we also provide insights on the potential benefits that the intrinsic behavior of the soft structure can have when they come in contact with unstructural environments. Finally, we discuss the generic control schemes traditionally used with these robots and highlighted potential strategies to alleviate the performance gaps introduced by the inherent unpredictability.
Experience-based Learning and Adaptive Behavior for Improved Situation-Awareness of a Social Robot
Authors: Sirithunge Chapa , Jayasekara A. G. Buddhika P. , Chandima D. P. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
When robots work in close contact with their human counterparts, they have to perceive their surroundings adequately. Hence have adequate situation-awareness. In such cases, an encounter will include the robot itself, the surrounding and the humans. Existing frameworks to interpret such situations, considered a limited number of observable human cues and inputs from the surrounding so far. Therefore only a few aspects of a situation were effectively perceived by these mechanisms. In our work, we trained a Deep Q-Network (DQN) which takes a number of attributes in a situation as input before a robot makes decisions regarding an interaction in a domestic environment. Large number of situations were simulated and trained, so that adaptive responses were generated through the model for different individuals a robot will encounter. Hence an experience-based, adaptive cognitive framework for robots has been developed for initiating an interaction with their humans. This creates situation-awareness in a robot and enables user-centered perception, demolishing the requirement of the human to adopt a restricted behavior to accommodate the robot’s limited perceptive skills. Human acceptance towards the system has been evaluated through a set of experiments conducted over a period of time. Critical observations during the experiments have been highlighted.
Market Sensemaking for Consumers’ Collective Political Agency
Authors: Dalmoro Marlon , Peñaloza Lisa 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Employing the theoretical lens of Weick's work on sensemaking, this paper explains how consumers collectively decipher and address their political interests. Based on historiographic data among Gaúchos in Southern Brazil, the findings detail how improvised enactments of consumer culture trigger interpretive capacities that decipher the effects of the enactments on the group, and how articulation of hot conflict and cool inference interpretations politicize such enactments. Ultimately, such socially engaged articulation informs committed interpretation, compromise, and consensus, that in turn motivate and justify subsequent enactments advancing group interests. Discussion elaborates the importance of sensemaking capacities and articulation, and the significance of committed interpretation in enabling and blocking collective compromise and consensus. This research contributes to knowledge of: 1) meso-level processes of collectively reasoned action among members of a consumer culture, 2) group structure enhancing consumers’ collective market sensemaking, and 3) particular market sensemaking challenges for consumption politics in a postcolonial context. The paper closes with suggestions for further research in other forms of consumer culture in postcolonial conditions.
Risks and Opportunities of Citizens’ Governance Spaces: Insights for Democratic Theory and Practice
Authors: Dzur Albert W. , Hendriks Carolyn M. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Chapter 6 draws out opportunities, risks, and lessons of citizens’ governance spaces. Opportunities include fostering practical political agency, as citizens instigate and lead policy work; enacting inclusion, voice, and outreach; allowing citizens to rethink and reframe issues, experiment, and work nimbly across sectors. Risks include reproducing inequalities, co-opting civil society, behaving unaccountably, and shifting the production of essential public goods to under-resourced or unrepresentative citizens. Critics of neoliberalism worry that citizen spaces merely meliorate gaps in the market or state rather than contest bigger structural causes; citizen governance solutions can mask the severity of some public problems and weaken calls for government action. The chapter reflects on theoretical insights from citizen spaces, arguing that their problem-solving governance work aligns with pragmatic, Dewey-inspired democratic theory and prompts the reconstruction of core concepts such as “democratic experimentalism.” The chapter draws out key lessons for citizens and for public, private and civil society actors who might partner with them.
Shakespeare and Science
Authors: Rutter Tom 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This book shows how Shakespeare’s plays and poems made detailed use of the knowledge and theories about the cosmos, the natural world, and human biology that were available to him. These range from astronomical and anatomical ideas derived from medieval scholars, Islamic philosophers, and ancient Greek and Roman authorities, through to the challenges issued to those models by more recent figures such as Copernicus and Vesalius. Shakespeare’s treatment of these materials was informed by the poetic and dramatic media in which he worked: in particular, the inherently dialogic nature of drama enabled an approach that could be provisional, exploratory, and tolerant of uncertainty and contradiction. Shakespeare made the early modern playhouse a venue for the production of scientific understanding through performance, illusion, and the creative use of space. As well as surveying current scholarship that contextualizes Shakespeare’s work in relation to histories of meteorology, matter theory, humoral physiology, racialization, mathematics, and more, Shakespeare and Science offers detailed and original readings of texts including the Histories, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, King Lear, The Tempest, the Sonnets, and Lucrece. It also makes extensive reference to primary works by figures such as Robert Recorde, William Fulke, Juan Huarte, and Thomas Elyot. Its four chapters focus on astronomy and meteorology, matter, the body, and mathematics, and its overall approach is informed by recent critical and historical work that interrogates ‘science’ as a concept and that questions both the boundary between literature and science and the idea of a seventeenth-century ‘scientific revolution’.
Professional Boundaries and Dual Relationships in Rural Social Work
Authors: Barsky Allan 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This chapter delves into the complex ethical issues that may arise in the context of rural social work practice. Specifically, it focuses on the challenges of maintaining appropriate professional boundaries and managing dual relationships when working in small, tight-knit communities, where dual relationships and multiple connections are commonplace, and authenticity and informality are highly valued. The chapter also explores the strengths and positive opportunities of practicing in this context. In other words, it considers not only how to minimize the potential harms of managing professional boundaries and dual relationships but also approaches that maximizes potential good. It reviews the relevant ethical principles and standards, focusing on those related to the core social work values of access to services, human relationships, integrity, and respect for the dignity and worth of all people. The chapter also considers whether and how rural social work practice is different from urban practice, including how factors such as culture, access to resources, social expectations, norms, and traditions may affect decisions about the most effective and most ethical ways to interact with individual clients, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
The Long Walk: Autumn 1568
Authors: Snow Dean 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
David Ingram, Richard Browne, and Richard Twide began their long walk in October 1568. They knew of the French outpost known as Fort Caroline in northeast Florida from Hawkins’s stop there in 1565. They made that their goal, hoping to find a ship returning to Europe there. The evidence allows reconstruction of their route, segmented into 12 highly likely waypoints of their 246-day journey by foot and canoe, 87 days fewer than they needed to travel 3,651 miles in 11 months at 15 miles per day. Their autumn 1568 hike took them from waypoint 1 to beyond waypoint 4. The trail system of eastern North America had been developed and used by the indigenous nations of the continent for millennia. In Texas they followed trails previously used by the Spanish explorer known by his title as Cabeza de Vaca, and like him they learned to use sign language to communicate with speakers of the many languages they encountered. Ingram made his usual observations of plants, birds, and other animals along the way.
The Long Walk: Winter 1568–1569
Authors: Snow Dean 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
The winter segment of the long walk took Ingram, Browne, and Twide through three highly probable waypoints along the northern Gulf Coast. At or very near the town de Soto had earlier named Iniahica they found out that Fort Caroline had been destroyed by the Spanish. This forced the three men to set a new goal. They only other spot they knew to be regularly visited by northern European ships was Cape Breton, northern Nova Scotia. This was a dauntingly distant goal but seemingly the only one possible. They headed northeastward, beginning along trails previously traversed by de Soto and his army in 1540. They followed these as far north as Cofitachequi, where de Soto had turned inland through the Appalachian Mountains in search of gold. Ingram continued northeast, past Occaneechi town and on to Chesapeake Bay. Here they entered the coastal domain of Eastern Algonquian speakers, whose people and towns would be documented by John White and Thomas Harriot in the 1580s. By this time the three men were adept itinerant traders, making their way from town to town like the many indigenous trading teams they encountered.
The Long Walk: Summer 1569
Authors: Snow Dean 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
After passing through the farming villages of southern New England, Ingram and his companions entered the coastal region along the Gulf of Maine. Here farming was not productive, and the Eastern Algonquian villagers were mostly hunter-gatherers. The indigenous man known as Tisquantum, “Squanto” to the English, later described in considerable detail the same countryside that Ingram saw a few decades earlier. Their residents are often referred to today as Eastern Abenaki. Here Ingram saw a more northerly adaptation, people who wore warm clothing and relocated seasonally. Ingram and his partners came to the end of the indigenous trail system when they reached the Penobscot River. Further progress toward their goal at Cape Breton would require travel by swift birchbark canoes on interior rivers and their tributaries.
Mount Moses
Authors: Ghyoot Mathias 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This chapter examines the internal conflict that brewed within the membership once they reached Camp Ṭūr: one that expressed itself along overwhelmingly generational lines and pitted the young, rebellious rank-and-file against the emollient senior Brothers. As we saw in the preceding chapter, this conflict had already flared up in Camp Huckstep as Brothers debated the place of violence in the Muslim Brotherhood’s (MB) policy toward authorities in Egypt. This chapter, however, now shows how this conflict manifested itself from 1949 onward as Brothers (1) established an educational program in Camp Ṭūr, (2) engaged in prison riots in both Camp Ṭūr and Camp Huckstep, (3) attempted to secure their release through press campaigns and judicial measures, and (4) searched not only for al-Bannā’s replacement, but a new war—this time, against the British.
We Are Judges
Authors: Ghyoot Mathias 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This chapter traces the increasing radicalization of the imprisoned Brothers in the 1960s. Whereas historians have largely treated the radical cadres as a homogenous group inspired by Sayyid Quṭb, I argue that different radical schools emerged among the imprisoned Brothers, the most radical of which did not seek inspiration from Quṭbism, but from the eighteenth-century puritanical reformer Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (d. 1792). Tracing the paths of the leading figures of the radical camp from Abū Zaʿbal Penitentiary to Ṭurra Farm, the chapter demonstrates that three schools of radical thought emerged in prison, personified in three Brothers: (1) Muḥammad Quṭb, who continued the thinking associated with Sayyid Quṭb; (2) ʿAlī Ismāʿīl, who further radicalized Quṭbism; and (3) Shukrī Muṣṭafā (d. 1978), whose hybrid ideology blended Quṭbism with Wahhābism.
Conclusion
Authors: Ghyoot Mathias 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This conclusion brings the story up to date by providing a brief history of the Muslim Brotherhood’s (MB) subsequent periods of imprisonment, most recently after Muḥammad Mursī’s downfall in 2013. Known among Brothers as the “Fourth Ordeal,” the current imprisonment of the Brothers would become the most extensive in the history of the MB. Many Brothers, including Mursī, have died in prison under dubious circumstances, and many more have been subjected to intolerable conditions in detention facilities, some of them familiar, like Ṭurra Penitentiary (although demolished in 2022), and some of them new, like the Scorpion Prison (Sijn al-ʿAqrab). But although scores of new and old Brothers have now entered prison in Egypt, the past ordeals serve as a potent reminder, not of what the institution of prison may restrict them from doing, but what they may accomplish in spite of it as they begin discussing which direction they wish to take a future MB.
“Evangelical Meccas”
Authors: Miller Brian J. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Chapter 6 investigates why evangelical nonprofit organizations—parachurch organizations—with a national or international stature cluster in four particular locations: Grand Rapids, Michigan; Wheaton and Carol Stream, Illinois; Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Orange County and suburbs east of Los Angeles in California. Grand Rapids was a center of Dutch Reformed denominations, Orange County emerged in the postwar era as home to religious and political conservatives, and Colorado Springs actively sought evangelical organizations in the early 1990s as part of a strategy of economic growth. Additionally, interviews with leaders and employees in 55 evangelical parachurch groups in these four locations demonstrate that these organizations find value in locations near like-minded organizations. Even as these clusters emerged at different times and in different parts of the country, they each presented opportunities for evangelical nonprofits to effectively compete for resources and contribute to a local sense of evangelical character.