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Enhancing Drilling Efficiency in Challenging Formation: A Case Study on Multiphase-Foam Drilling in the Kirthar Belt, Pakistan
Authors: Ashraf Qasim , Chisti Uzma , Hussain Azhar 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Challenging formations offer most of the evident drilling problems including lost circulation and stuck pipe events that result in financial and timeline setbacks globally. By providing optimized drilling tactics to address issues with loss/gain and mechanical/chemical instability, unconventional technologies are available to address these difficulties. Owing to inherent lost circulation, influx and stuck pipe risks in Kirthar Belt in Sindh Pakistan, the operator had to spot various LCM pills along with facing various stuck-pipe incidents in most of the offset wells, resulting in the revision of the casing program.
This study assesses the use of multiphase-foam drilling to penetrate the fractured Kirthar and Laki limestone, offering lost circulation and the chemically and mechanically unstable Ghazij shale, offering wellbore stability and stuck-pipe risks. The study also shows the management of water influx from the Kirthar formation, reducing its impact on Ghazij shale which swells in the presence of an aquatic medium. To overcome these challenges, an efficient design of compressible, multiphase-foam system was designed along with the different base fluids utilized for the drilling. The presence of water influx always limits the effectiveness of the chemical inhibition properties of drilling fluid. This paper evaluates the optimal design of a foam system while utilizing spud mud as well as silicate mud while drilling across loss prone Kirthar and unstable Ghazij respectively. Multiphase-foam drilling offered ECD less than 2 ppg by utilizing the base fluid of mud weight equivalent to 8.7 ppg.
Foam drilling enabled the operator to drill throughout without spotting LCMs or cement plugs, resulting in saving 42% of the section allocated time. An analysis is provided with respect to management of 16 BPH of influx with foam system. A statistical comparison between ROPs while utilizing a conventional mud and foam system shows an increment of ROPs by 35% while utilizing the multiphase system. This paper focuses on engineered study of design of multiphase foam system along with the onsite execution for future prospect applications as well.
Long Term Corrosion Risk Evaluation of Load Bearing High Power Electrical Submersible Pump Cable
Authors: Alkhorayef Serko Sarian , Banjar Hattan , Ejim Chidirim , Munif Eiman 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Fit-for-purpose Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP) load bearing power cable is deployed inside the production tubing of a sour oil well for an extended period of service. As the highest cost component of a novel ESP deployment system, project economics requires the power cable metallurgy to survive long term exposure reliably for up to 15% H2S and high salinity production fluids. Furthermore, due to the metallurgy discrepancy, galvanic corrosion between the cable metal armor and the production tubing pauses a significant risk of premature failure of either the cable armor or the tubing. Lab tests simulating varying sour well and extended galvanic corrosion conditions have been devised and carried out to determine the adequacy of the selected armor metallurgy in the downhole corrosive environments.
The power cable consists of a load bearing armor (mechanical) and an electrical core. All cable metallurgy needs to maintain the required tensile strength and corrosion resistance for up to 15% H2S. A fit-for-purpose, computer-modeled finite element analysis (FEA) was carried out to identify potential showstoppers, followed by two independent empirical tests. Various cable armor strands simulating downhole tensile and bending conditions were enclosed inside two sets of Autoclaves (5% and 15% H2S) and tested for 90 days. Visual, microscopic, weight loss and tensile strength inspections were then carried out and yearly corrosion rates computed. Cable long term integrity was then determined with various metallurgy. Furthermore, a complete section of cable was enclosed inside a typical production tubing joint with 150,000 ppm water for 11 months. The pipe and cable were inspected before and after the tests to determine any damage to either the cable or the tubing.
Both higher and lower NACE rated cable armor metallurgies were tested. The NACE rated cable armor metallurgy yearly corrosion rates proved to be adequate to meet the required cable life inside the production tubing. The galvanic corrosion testing confirmed negligible damage to both cable and tubing inner wall. The lower NACE rated armor metallurgy had a hardness closer to the tubing metal, and thus limiting the galvanic corrosion. The decision was made to manufacture the lower NACE rated, lower cost armor metallurgy cable.
The novel and rigorous corrosion testing in varying sour well and galvanic conditions achieves multiple objectives simultaneously. These include fit-for-purpose metallurgy selection, cable mechanical and electrical reliability as well as project financial risk reduction.
Investigating the Antibody Imprinting Hypothesis among Canadian Paramedics after SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Circulation
Authors: Asamoah-Boaheng Michael , Grunau Brian , Karim Mohammad Ehsanul , Kayda Iryna , Yap Justin , Bessai Katherine , Goldfarb David M 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Recent research has highlighted the Omicron variant’s capacity to evade immune protection conferred by wild-type (WT) mRNA vaccines. Despite this observation, the potential involvement of antigenic sin phenomena remains unclear. Our hypothesis posited that a greater number of prior WT vaccine doses might lead to reduced anti-Omicron neutralization Abs following Omicron infection. To investigate this, we analyzed blood samples from human participants in the COVID-19 Occupational Risk, Seroprevalence, and Immunity among Paramedics (CORSIP) study who had received at least one WT mRNA vaccine before contracting Omicron. The exposure variable was the number of WT mRNA vaccines administered, and the outcome was the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE-2) percent inhibition specific to the BA.4/BA.5 Omicron Ag. Contrary to expectations, our findings revealed that more WT-based vaccines were associated with an enhanced Omicron-specific immune response.
Personal experiences of a fourth-year social work student: insights into South Africa social work education and professional development
Authors: Rademan Danzel 
Published: February 2024

This presentation offers insights into the personal experiences of a fourth-year social work student at the University of the Free State (UFS), Bloemfontein, South Africa. The student reflects on how the Bachelor of Social Work Curriculum at the UFS prepared him for practice, drawing upon the three primary methods of social work - casework, group work, and community work. Furthermore, the presenter discusses core social work skills and competencies required to render services to diverse clients within the South African context. Finally, this presentation highlights the student's personal and professional development throughout his studies and how he integrates social work ethics in practice to be a champion for social justice.

How to cite using ASWNet style
Rademan, D. (2023). Personal experiences of a fourth-year social work student: insights into South Africa social work education andprofessional development. People centred – The Journal of Development Administration (JDA), 8(4), 00. Social Work andDevelopment Student Conference (SWDSC), 16 June 2023. https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jda.v8i4.8
Visit journal website: https://jda.africasocialwork.net
Relationality
Authors: Escobar Arturo , Osterweil Michal , Sharma Kriti 
Published: February 2024

This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or the fundamental separateness of things.
The authors contend that the key to constructing livable worlds lies in the cultivation of ways of knowing and acting based on a profound awareness of the fundamental interdependence of everything that exists – what they refer to as relationality. This shift in paradigm is necessary for healing our bodies, ecosystems, cities, and the planet at large.
The book follows two interwoven threads of argumentation: on the one hand, it explains and exemplifies the modes of operation and the dire consequences of non-relational living; on the other, it elucidates the nature of relationality and explores how it is embodied in transformative practices in multiple spheres of life.
The authors provide an instructive account of the philosophical, scientific, social, and political sources of relational theory and action, with the aim of illuminating the transition from living within seemingly ineluctable ‘toxic loops’ of unrelational living (based on ontological dualism), to living within ‘relational weaves’ which we might co-create with multiple human and nonhuman others.
The Philosophy of No-Mind
Authors: Tadashi Nishihira 
Published: February 2024

Nishihira Tadashi, one of Japan’s leading philosophers, introduces the deeply experiential philosophy of losing yourself in the reality of the present, guiding us through a concept found at the centre of Eastern spiritual thought.
Translated into English for the first time, Tadashi defines no-mind, Mushin, as something arising after something is extinguished. He addresses each of the tension points that give the term its vitality: is it attained by waiting or by practice? Can it ever be reconciled with social ethics? Is it self-affirmation or self-negation, stillness or activity?
His thorough account of the Japanese philosophy of no-mind pulls together the historical and philosophical threads and covers the history of Zen Buddhism, the philosophy of D.T. Suzuki and Takuan’s treatise on swordsmanship. He discusses its everyday usage in Japanese and its old usage as an insult, following its transformation into a positive meaning via Zen.
Alive to the complexities of translating no-mind into English, Tadashi’s introduction makes the essential connection of no-mind to the paradoxical task of becoming human.
Myths and Ancient Stories
Authors: Mills Kevin 
Published: February 2024

An introduction to ancient myths and the critical discussions that surround them, this book dives into the stories of pre-modern culture, taking a comparative look at how they have shaped the West and modern storytelling as we have come to understand it today.
It makes texts and scholarship from near Eastern, Classical and Celtic disciplines engaging and accessible, and traces narrative meaning through stories from ancient Mesopotamia to the BritishMedieval Period, offering compelling pathways into such writings as The Epic of Gilgamesh, Genesis and Job, The Odyssey, The Mabinogi, The Life of St Cadoc and Sir Orfeo. Looking at each in detail, Myths and Ancient Stories also explores myth through a modern lens, probing at how, in this scientific age, it continues to inspire contemporary film, games and literary works such as those by, Margaret Atwood, Colm Tóibín, Madeleine Miller and Pat Barker.
Impressive in breadth and bringing together a wide range of foundational texts from diverse traditions for the first time, this work is the ideal orientation to the ancient works central to English literary culture, shedding light on the mythological roots of storytelling and narrative.
Cypria
Authors: Christofi Alex 
Published: February 2024

An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean.
Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman and Egyptian empires; a place marked by the struggle between fascism and communism and where the capital city is divided in half as a result of bloody conflict; where the ancient olive trees of Homer's time exist alongside the undersea cables which link up the world's internet.
In Cypria, named after a lost Cypriot epic which was the prequel to The Odyssey, British Cypriot writer Alex Christofi writes a deeply personal, lyrical history of the island of Cyprus, from the era of goddesses and mythical beasts to the present day.
This sprawling, evocative and poetic book begins with the legend of the cyclops and the storytelling at the heart of the Mediterranean culture. Christofi travels to salt lakes, crusader castles, mosques and the eerie town deserted at the start of the 1974 war. He retells the particularly bloody history of Cyprus during the twentieth century and considers his own identity as traveler and returner, as Odysseus was.
Written in sensitive, witty and beautifully rendered prose, with a novelist's flair and eye for detail, Cypria combines the political, cultural and geographical history of Cyprus with reflections on time, place and belonging.
Age of the City
Authors: Goldin Ian , Lee-Devlin Tom 
Published: February 2024

One of the Financial Times' Best Economics Books of 2023
Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.
From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or Shanghai, cities throughout history have been the engines of human progress and the epicentres of our greatest achievements. Now, for the first time, more than half of humanity lives in cities, a share that continues to rise. In the developing world, cities are growing at a rate never seen before.
In this book, Professor Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin show why making our societies fairer, more cohesive and sustainable must start with our cities. Globalization and technological change have concentrated wealth into a small number of booming metropolises, leaving many smaller cities and towns behind and feeding populist resentment. Yet even within seemingly thriving cities like London or San Francisco, the gap between the haves and have-nots continues to widen and our retreat into online worlds tears away at our social fabric. Meanwhile, pandemics and climate change pose existential threats to our increasingly urban world.
Professor Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin combine the lessons of history with a deep understanding of the challenges confronting our world today to show why cities are at a crossroads – and hold our destinies in the balance.
The World of Work to 2030
Authors: Beck Russell 
Published: February 2024

A book that helps make sense of the megatrends playing out in the world today and, as a result, how individuals can future-proof their businesses and careers.
In the context of work, consider two headlines that we face on a regular basis. Firstly, that the financial reality is few of us can afford to retire and, secondly, that robots and AI are destroying the very jobs we need to make a living. How are these two realities compatible?
At the same time, the business landscape is full of hazards, with globalization, technology, talent shortages, changing consumer choices and politics all making it harder to create and maintain success. Competitors seemingly arrive from nowhere overnight, challenging and upending our markets.
It is all up in the air, it is all happening at once and it is happening to all of us. From any perspective – personal or corporate – shouldn’t we seek to understand what is happening and prepare ourselves for what is coming next?
The World of Work to 2030 is a practical book that addresses these challenges. With a timeline to enable immediate action to be taken, and backed by extensive research, it is aimed at anyone who wants to know how to navigate the commercial and personal uncertainty of the future. The book considers the megatrends playing out in the world today and then through a series of lenses it explains how businesses and individuals can future-proof themselves. Illustrated through a broad range of case studies applied to markets around the world, this is a smart examination of the future of work and how to overcome its challenges.
Employee Share Schemes
Authors: Ife Mark 
Published: February 2024

Employee Share Schemes provides a comprehensive examination of the taxation, legal and compliance issues concerning the acquisition of shares by employees in their employer company, whether public or private.
Employees’ share schemes remain one of the most popular forms of rewarding and incentivising a company’s employees. The Government continues to believe that productivity will be increased by encouraging employee participation, which is evidenced by its commitment to public sector ‘mutualisations’ and, in the private sector, through such increased participation in employee share plans.
With a detailed review of the key issues and techniques involved in establishing and operating share schemes, this practical guide includes worked examples to illustrate complex calculations and a useful series of precedents to assist with implementing and understanding the operation of each scheme.
The clear advice given on the most common share schemes will help to ensure that plan rules are fully compliant with legislation.
The ninth edition has been updated in line with the following developments:
- Revisions to reflect UK legislation following BREXIT (Market Abuse Regulation, Prospectus Regulation and more)
- Updates to the Company Share Option Plan to increase participation limits and to remove requirements in relation to types of share which can be used (and update precedent rules) - Finance (No 2) Bill 2023
- Updates to EMI legislation to remove requirements in relation to summary of restrictions in grant documentation and need for employee working time declaration - Finance (No 2) Bill 2023
- Changes to annual reporting obligations
- New guidance from the Investment Association and other institutional investor 2023 guidance
- HMRC updated guidance on discretions within EMI options
- SAYE bonus rate changes (expected)
- CGT allowance, income tax rates, dividend tax rates and NIC rates changes
Teen Life in the Middle East
Authors: Mahdi Ali Akbar 
Published: February 2024

This unique volume offers unprecedented insight into the typical day, interests, and familial, social, and cultural lives of Middle Eastern teens. Each chapter includes a resource guide to teach teens more about the 11 profiled countries: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestinian territories, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Numerous photos accompany the text. This book provides teen readers in the West with a window into the everyday lives of their counterparts in the East, fostering a better understanding of both their similarities and differences.
The current population of the Middle East is young, and their future is critical in our worldview. Teen life in the Middle East is marked by extremes. In some countries, especially those that are Westernized, teens share the benefits of globalization with material and social comforts such as private schooling and vacations abroad. In other countries, political instability, religious and cultural repression, war and occupation, earthquakes, and poverty are ongoing crises. Many teenagers must endure a difficult, and sometimes nearly impossible, path to adulthood.
Term Paper Resource Guide to Colonial American History
Authors: Carpenter Roger M. 
Published: February 2024

With this guide, major help for term papers relating to Colonial American history has arrived in a volume sure to enrich and stimulate students in challenging and enjoyable ways.
Chock full of stimulating and creative term paper suggestions and vetted research resources focusing on the Colonial Era, this volume is indispensable for students, librarians, and instructors. Students from high school age to undergraduate will use it to get a jumpstart on assignments in Colonial American history with the hundreds of term paper suggestions and research information offered here in an easy-to-use format. Users can quickly choose from the 100 important events, ranging from the first attempt at colonization at the Lost Colony of Roanoke, Virginia, in 1585 to the ratification of the Constitution in 1791.
With this book, the research experience is transformed and elevated. Term Paper Resource Guide to Colonial American History is a superb source to motivate and educate students who have a wide range of interests and talents. Coverage includes key wars and conflicts, establishment of colonies and colleges, legislation and treaties, religious events, exploration, publications, and more.
Too Busy to Shop
Authors: Skoloda Kelley M. 
Published: February 2024

Research indicates that most women do it at least ten times every five minutes. What is it? Multi-minding—mentally juggling a complex mix of family, career, and self-care decisions at any given moment, with little time for commercial messages to seep into the mix. How do marketers reach women, who still make 85% of all consumer purchasing decisions? This book, based on research, interviews, and Kelley Skoloda’s twenty years of leading-edge work in brand marketing with major clients, explains how to connect with multi-minding women, gain their trust, and tap into their purchasing power.
Multi-minding is a cultural phenomenon that is here to stay. A multi-minding woman, even if she appears to be relaxing in front of a late-night television show, reading a magazine in the pediatrician’s office, or tackling a complicated analytic study at work, is at the same time thinking about and preparing for the other dimensions of her life. She’s weighing the benefits of changing her 401k plan, plotting out her organic vegetable garden, ticking off birthday-party logistics, and longing for a neck massage. That’s why one study shows women feel they are packing 38 hours of activity into a 24-hour period. But studies also show that most women feel marketers are ignoring their needs. That’s a big mistake considering women spend $3.3 trillion annually on consumer products. Too Busy to Shop explains what marketers need to know about multi-minding—a word coined by Skoloda and Ketchum—and its implications for companies seeking to speak to women buyers. Besides theory and insight, readers get how-tos and action items designed to ensure women view their brands favorably and hear the marketing message. The book also contains insiders’ views of some of the most successful marketing-to-women campaigns of recent times. In short, Too Busy to Shop helps marketers understand multi-minding in depth—an essential task if they want to reach today’s overloaded female consumer.
Travel the Globe
Authors: Webber Desiree , Corn Dee Ann , Harrod Elaine R. , Shropshire Sandy , Rasor Shereen , Norvell Donna 
Published: February 2024

This book assists the busy professional with ready-to-use materials to present entertaining, educational, and age-appropriate programs that introduce young learners to countries and cultures around the world.
The result of a collaboration of children's librarians and educators with over 70 years' combined experience, Travel the Globe: Story Times, Activities, and Crafts for Children, Second Edition offers the busy librarian, teacher, or media specialist with ready-to-use resources that introduce children to countries and cultures around the world. It provides recommended books, stories, action rhymes, fingerplays, games, and activities that can be used to plan a series of programs or a single activity that are both entertaining and educational.
The book is organized alphabetically by country, with simple, low-cost craft ideas included in each chapter. All crafts use low-cost supplies and are simple to prepare and execute. At least two craft projects are included in each chapter: one for preschoolers, with suggestions for additional simplification; and another designed for children in kindergarten through third grade. The wide variety of resources within makes this book a valuable investment, as it will be useful year after year with new presentations and activities.