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Resilience of refugees and asylum seekers in Canada
Authors: Barbo Geneveave 
Published: October 2023

Purpose
This review aims to examine the literature on refugees’ and asylum seekers’ resilience, its historical evolution, key principles, assumptions and recommendations, while focusing on the Canadian context.

Design/methodology/approach
A narrative literature review has been applied to this manuscript. This approach allows the integration of a wide scope of literature and perspectives, from academic literature to grey literature (e.g. governmental reports and dissertations). Nevertheless, the limitations of this type of review were also discussed.

Findings
In spite of the gaining popularity of the resilience lens, which emphasizes an individual’s ability to overcome adversities and stressful events, more work is required for its effective integration into health practice, programs and policies, particularly as it relates to refugees’ and asylum seekers’ mental health care.

Originality/value
Careful consideration of refugees’ and asylum seekers’ mental health needs and Canadian mental health service delivery and policies is a critical first step in reaching such a goal.
Critical components for successful BIM-based sustainable building design collaboration: structural equation model analysis
Authors: Ohueri Chukwuka Christian , Liew San Chuin , Bamgbade Jibril Adewale , Enegbuma Wallace Imoudu 
Published: October 2023

Purpose
The efficient application of building information modeling (BIM) methodology in the sustainable building design process, known as green BIM, provides ideal leverage to significantly enhance multidiscipline team collaboration. However, the practical execution of green BIM is characterized by issues such as duplication of work, information silos and poor cross-party coordination. Besides, there are limited studies on the specific components that are critical to driving green BIM collaborative design. This study aims to establish the critical components of green BIM collaborative design to enable the multidiscipline team to effectively use diverse software to collaboratively exchange accurate information, thus ensuring informed decision-making in the sustainable building design process.

Design/methodology/approach
Data were obtained by using a questionnaire to survey 360 respondents comprising mainly architects and engineers (civil, mechanical and electrical) in Malaysia. Subsequently, data were analyzed via confirmatory factor analysis. Afterward, a measurement model was established and used to test the 11 hypotheses of this study.

Findings
A covariance-based structural equation model of the critical components for successful BIM-based sustainable building design collaboration was established.

Practical implications
The research findings will guide the multidisciplinary team to collaboratively exchange accurate information in green BIM practices.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this research is the first attempt in the literature to provide a pragmatic approach for practitioners to combine the established critical components of green BIM to collaboratively exchange heterogeneous sustainability criteria and efficiently design buildings with high sustainability performance, particularly in emerging countries like Malaysia.
A regime complex for food assistance: international law regulating international food assistance
Authors: Delaville Clarisse 
Published: October 2023

Purpose
There is no single undertaking regulating food assistance at the international level. International food assistance is regulated by a patchwork of rules emanating from different institutions and normative arrangements. This study aims to explore how international law shapes international food assistance. How is international law regulating food assistance, considering this patchwork of institutions and norms? What dominant narratives enshrined in legal agreements shape the evolution of international food assistance?

Design/methodology/approach
The author uses the concept of “regime complex”, which allows analyzing partially overlapping and nonhierarchical regimes governing a particular issue, shedding light on the narratives and institutional arrangements that lead to the consolidation of international rules. The author identifies two main regimes that govern international food assistance: the food assistance regime and the food trade regime.

Findings
The author shows that using the “regime complex” concept clarifies the evolution of international food assistance, highlighting that international law is a crucial element in shaping international food assistance and showing that the two main institutional regimes governing it interact and shape rules along three main themes: the centrality of donor States’ self-interests, the relationship between international food assistance and trade liberalization and the goal of achieving food security for the beneficiaries.

Originality/value
Using the regime complex concept, the author brings new light on the broader institutional and legal framework influencing the governance of international food assistance, showing that different regimes take part in its shaping.
Promoting food security through public stockholding – Indian perspective and challenges at the WTO
Authors: Shajahan Ahamed Ashiq 
Published: October 2023

Purpose
This paper aims to examine the applicable legal framework, various concerns regarding the price support methodology and the merits and pitfalls of the Bali peace clause that currently shields India’s public stockholding (PSH) policy, to provide suggestions on moving forward in the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations.

Design/methodology/approach
At the WTO, PSH for food security is considered a trade-distorting price support measure when food stocks are purchased from farmers at administered prices instead of market prices. The price support is measured by a specific methodology stipulated under the Agreement on Agriculture. India is concerned that the price support methodology overestimates the actual support provided to the farmers and makes India susceptible to violating the WTO law.

Findings
The paper explains the domestic implications for India arising due to the applicable WTO law. Given the centrality of India’s PSH programmes in ensuring food security, India must seek more clarity on the interpretation of Article 18.4 of the AoA and the ambiguous provisions of the Bali peace clause.

Originality/value
The paper provides a timely and updated analysis of the contentious issue of PSH for food security, exclusively from the Indian perspective, highlighting the persisting challenges for India in WTO agriculture negotiations. This is timely as many WTO members have raised serious concerns about India’s market price support policies recently and this analysis informs the reader about the underlying issues.
Sex and individual differences in the effect of chronic low‐dose ethanol on behavioral strategy selection
Authors: Bryant Kathleen G. , Singh Binay , Barker Jacqueline M. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractBackgroundThe development of an alcohol use disorder (AUD) involves impaired behavioral control and flexibility. Behavioral inflexibility includes an inability to shift behavior in response to changes in behavioral outcomes. Low levels of ethanol drinking may promote the formation of inflexible, habitual reward seeking, but this may depend on the timing of ethanol exposure in relation to learning. The goal of this study was to determine whether a history of low‐dose ethanol exposure promoted contingency‐insensitive sucrose seeking and altered behavioral strategy selection.MethodsMale and female C57BL/6J mice were trained to perform a response (lever press) for sucrose on two different reinforcement schedules: one that is thought to promote inflexible responding (random interval) and one that maintains flexible responding (variable ratio [VR]). Following instrumental training each day, mice were exposed to saline or low‐dose ethanol (0.5 g/kg; i.p.) either proximal (1 h after) or distal (4 h after) to learning. Mice were then tested for sensitivity to changes in contingency in a contingency degradation test.ResultsA history of low‐dose ethanol exposure shifted behavioral strategy selection, as measured by reward tracking behavior, but this depended on sex and reinforcement schedule history. Both male and female mice used different strategies depending on the reinforcement schedule, but only males exhibited ethanol‐induced shifts in strategy selection. A history of low‐dose ethanol exposure did not impact contingency sensitivity in males but promoted insensitivity in females specifically on the VR lever.ConclusionsFemale mice show distinct behavioral effects of repeated, low‐dose ethanol exposure as compared to males, with sex differences in the use of reward tracking strategies to guide behavior. Future studies should investigate sex differences in the neural consequences of chronic low‐dose ethanol exposure that may underlie behavioral changes.
Procyclical Credit Rating Policy*
Authors: Auh Jun Kyung 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThis paper examines whether credit rating agencies applied consistent rating standards to US corporate bonds in the periods surrounding the 2008 financial crisis. Based on estimates of issuing firms' credit quality from a structural model, I find that rating standards are in fact procyclical: ratings are stricter during an economic downturn than during an economic expansion. As a result, firms receive overly pessimistic ratings in a recession, relative to during an expansion. I further show that a procyclical rating policy amplifies the variation in corporate credit spreads, accounting for, on average, 11% of the increase in spreads during a recession. In the cross‐section, firms with a higher rollover rate of debt, fewer alternative channels to convey their credit quality to the market, and firms with businesses that are more sensitive to economic cycles are more affected by the procyclical rating policy.
Imaginal research for unlearning mastery divination with Tarot as a decolonizing methodology, NOT. Authentic paths towards decolonization
Authors: Sosteric Mike , Ratkovic Gina , Sosteric Tristan 
Published: October 2023

AbstractA recent article in Anthropology of Consciousness entitled ‘Imaginal research for unlearning mastery: Divination with Tarot as a decolonizing methodology’ argues that the Western Tarot may be a useful tool to facilitate decolonization despite (or perhaps in spite) of the colonial and imperial imprints of the accumulating class. This response points out the Tarot is in fact a tool developed by the accumulating class, designed specifically to facilitate the imposition of elite master narratives. This letter calls into question the appropriateness and effectiveness of using the Tarot as a tool for decolonization.
Promoting childbirth in a rural health facility: A quasi‐experimental study in western Kenya
Authors: Mwanzia Lydia , Baliddawa Joyce , Biederman Erika , Perkins Susan M. , Champion Victoria L. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractBackgroundThe high maternal and neonatal mortality rate in sub‐Saharan Africa could be reduced by using navigation by means of mobile devices to increase the number of women who choose to give birth in a health center (HC) with a skilled healthcare practitioner.MethodsA quasi‐experimental design was used to test a midwife‐delivered navigation by means of mobile phone. A total of 208 women were randomized to two groups (intervention and control). Women in the intervention group received up to three navigation calls from midwives. Women in the control group received usual antenatal education during prenatal visits. Data were collected using semistructured questionnaires. Childbirth location was determined through medical records.ResultsOverall, 180 (87%) women gave birth in a HC with a 3% advantage for the intervention group. A total of 86% (88/102) of the control group gave birth in a HC versus 89% (92/103) for the intervention group (Χ2 = 0.44, p‐value = 0.51), with an unadjusted odds ratio of 1.33 (95% CI: 0.57, 3.09). Among those with personal phones, 91% (138/152) had a birth in a HC versus 79% (42/53) in those without a personal phone (Χ2 = 4.89, p‐value = 0.03).ConclusionsThe results of this study indicate that it is feasible to deliver phone‐based navigation to support birth in a HC; personal phone ownership may be a factor in the success of this strategy.
Formal theories clarify the complex: Generalizing a neural process account of the interaction of visual exploration and word learning in infancy
Authors: Bhat Ajaz A. , Samuelson Larissa K. , Spencer John P. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThe interaction of visual exploration and auditory processing is central to early cognitive development, supporting object discrimination, categorization, and word learning. Research has shown visual–auditory interactions to be complex, created from multiple processes and changing over multiple timescales. To better understand these interactions, we generalize a formal neural process model of early word learning to two studies examining how words impact 9‐ to 22‐month‐olds' attention to novelty. These simulations clarify the origin and nature of previously demonstrated effects of labels on visual exploration and the basis of mutual exclusivity effects in word learning. We use our findings to discuss key questions for this special section: what makes a good theory and how should formal theories interface with empirical paradigms and findings?
Mindful parenting and child behaviour problems: A chain mediating role of parental and child communicating performance
Authors: Fu Chengyu , Tang Jiayi , Chen Dan , Zhang Ruotong , Chong Yeng Zh. , Xu Wei 
Published: October 2023

AbstractObjectiveThis study investigates the impact of mindful parenting on child behaviour problems and examines the chain mediating role of parental and child communicating performance in this relationship.MethodsA 10‐month follow‐up survey was conducted, utilizing the Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting Scale (IM‐P), the Parent–Child Communication Inventory, and the abbreviated version of the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL).ResultsAt baseline (T1), higher levels of mindful parenting in parents were significantly and positively associated with both T1 parental communicating performance and child communicating performance. After 10 months, all three variables showed significant negative associations with child behaviour problems. T1 parental communication performance positively correlated with T1 child communication performance. After controlling for T1 child behaviour problems, children's gender and age, and parents' gender, the indirect association between T1 parents' levels of mindful parenting and T2 child behaviour problems was significant, mediated by T1 parental communicating performance and T1 child communicating performance.ConclusionMindful parenting enhances parental communication behaviour, leading to improved child communication behaviour and reduced child behaviour problems.
Adversarial Dynamics in Centralized Versus Decentralized Intelligent Systems
Authors: Brinkmann Levin , Cebrian Manuel , Pescetelli Niccolò 
Published: October 2023

AbstractArtificial intelligence
(AI) is often used to predict human behavior, thus potentially posing limitations to individuals’ and collectives’ freedom to act. AI's most controversial and contested applications range from targeted advertisements to crime prevention, including the suppression of civil disorder. Scholars and civil society watchdogs are discussing the oppressive dangers of AI being used by centralized institutions, like governments or private corporations. Some suggest that AI gives asymmetrical power to governments, compared to their citizens. On the other hand, civil protests often rely on distributed networks of activists without centralized leadership or planning. Civil protests create an adversarial tension between centralized and decentralized intelligence, opening the question of how distributed human networks can collectively adapt and outperform a hostile centralized AI trying to anticipate and control their activities. This paper leverages multi‐agent reinforcement learning to simulate dynamics within a human–machine hybrid society. We ask how decentralized intelligent agents can collectively adapt when competing with a centralized predictive algorithm, wherein prediction involves suppressing coordination. In particular, we investigate an adversarial game between a collective of individual learners and a central predictive algorithm, each trained through deep Q‐learning. We compare different predictive architectures and showcase conditions in which the adversarial nature of this dynamic pushes each intelligence to increase its behavioral complexity to outperform its counterpart. We further show that a shared predictive algorithm drives decentralized agents to align their behavior. This work sheds light on the totalitarian danger posed by AI and provides evidence that decentrally organized humans can overcome its risks by developing increasingly complex coordination strategies.
Flatness-Based Control in Successive Loops for Autonomous Quadrotors
Authors: Rigatos G. , Abbaszadeh M. , Busawon K. , Dala L. , Pomares J. , Zouari F. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
The control problem for the multivariable and nonlinear dynamics of unmanned rotorcrafts is treated with the use of a flatness-based control approach which is implemented in successive loops. The state-space model of 6DOF autonomous quadrotors is separated into two subsystems, which are connected between them in cascading loops. Each one of these subsystems can be viewed independently as a differentially flat system and control about it can be performed with inversion of its dynamics as in the case of input–output linearized flat systems. The state variables of the second subsystem become virtual control inputs for the first subsystem. In turn, exogenous control inputs are applied to the second subsystem. The whole control method is implemented in two successive loops and its global stability properties are also proven through Lyapunov stability analysis. The validity of the control method is further confirmed through simulation experiments showing precise tracking of 3D flight paths by the 6DOF quadrotor.
New findings of soil mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Korea
Authors: Bayartogtokh Badamdorj , Bae Yang-Seop 
Published: October 2023

This work deals with eight species of oribatid mites from different regions of Korea. Two new species, Cultroribula choiseongsiki sp. nov. and Cultroribula baeyeonjaei sp. nov. are proposed, and six species, Liochthonius hystricinus (Forsslund, 1942), Liochthonius simplex (Forsslund, 1942), Poecilochthonius italicus (Berlese, 1910), Nanhermannia dorsalis (Banks, 1896), Nanhermannia forsslundi Karppinen, 1958, and Damaeus gracilipes (Kulczynski, 1902) are newly reported to the fauna of Korea. Supplementary descriptions and illustrations of each species along with their distributional data are given.
Lophomonas
as a respiratory pathogen—jumping the gun
Authors: Mewara Abhishek , Gile Gillian H. , Mathison Blaine , Zhao Huan , Pritt Bobbi , Bradbury Richard S. 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACT

Human infections with the protozoan
Lophomonas
have been increasingly reported in the medical literature over the past three decades. Initial reports were based on microscopic identification of the purported pathogen in respiratory specimens. Later, a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was developed to detect
Lophomonas blattarum
, following which there has been a significant increase in reports. In this minireview, we thoroughly examine the published reports of
Lophomonas
infection to evaluate its potential role as a human pathogen. We examined the published images and videos of purported
Lophomonas,
compared its morphology and motility characteristics with host bronchial ciliated epithelial cells and true
L. blattarum
derived from cockroaches, analyzed the published PCR that is being used for its diagnosis, and reviewed the clinical data of patients reported in the English and Chinese literature. From our analysis, we conclude that the images and videos from human specimens do not represent true
Lophomonas
and are predominantly misidentified ciliated epithelial cells. Additionally, we note that there is insufficient clinical evidence to attribute the cases to
Lophomonas
infection, as the clinical manifestations are non-specific, possibly caused by other infections and comorbidities, and there is no associated tissue pathology attributable to
Lophomonas
. Finally, our analysis reveals that the published PCR is not specific to
Lophomonas
and can amplify DNA from commensal trichomonads. Based on this thorough review, we emphasize the need for rigorous scientific scrutiny before a microorganism is acknowledged as a novel human pathogen and discuss the potential harms of misdiagnoses for patient care and scientific literature.
Screening and Colonoscopy Quality Measures: Ethnic Disparities and Impact on Patients’ Outcome
Authors: Abu Baker Fadi , Nicola Dorin , Mari Amir , Zeina Abdel-Rauf , Beshara Amani , Natour Randa Taher , Kopelman Yael 
Published: October 2023

Background. Recent reports have confirmed the improving trends in colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and outcomes. Still, disparities in incidence and mortality in CRC continue to persist between major ethnic groups despite the provision of widespread screening and improved care. We aimed to outline, from an endoscopic point of view, ethnic disparities in major endoscopic measures concerned with CRC screening and detection and track their impact on patients’ outcomes. Methods. We reviewed electronic reports of patients referred for colonoscopy procedures over 20 years. We compared demographic, clinical, and endoscopic findings between major ethnic population groups in Israel. In addition, trends of screening utilization, bowel preparation, and polyp detection rates were tracked, and the incidence of CRC diagnosis was followed. Results. A total of 51307 patients had undergone colonoscopies, of whom 16% were Arabs, and 84% were Jewish. The procedures performed for CRC screening throughout the study period were significantly lower in Arabs (5% vs. 13.1%;

P

< 0.0001). In parallel, for most of the follow-up period, the Arab patients had higher rates of inadequate bowel preparation (overall: 19.9% vs. 12%;

P

< 0.001) and a lower polyp detection rate (16.7% vs. 22.5%;

P

< 0.0001). Expectedly, the incidence of CRC has steadily decreased in the Jewish group, while an adverse pattern of increasing incidence was documented in the Arab patient during the follow-up period. Conclusion. Characterized by lower screening utilization and poor bowel preparation, the incidence of CRC development in Arab patients is increasing, while improving trends of CRC were observed in their Jewish counterparts.