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Impact of Gas Hydrate Below the Mud Line on Wellbore Stability: A Temperature Simulator Approach
Authors: Hamid Osman , Abdalrahman Eslam M. , Al-Ramadan Mustafa 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
The presence of gas hydrates beneath the mud line introduces significant uncertainties in offshore drilling operations, particularly with regard to wellbore stability. This study aims to evaluate the impact of gas hydrates on wellbore stability using a developed temperature simulator.
The objectives of this research were twofold: first, to create an effective temperature simulator capable of predicting gas hydrate dissociation, and second, to analyze the effects of this dissociation on wellbore stability. The simulator was designed considering the fundamental equations for heat transfer (Fourier's law), pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) relations of gas hydrates, and the Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion to assess wellbore stability.
The methodology included simulating various scenarios of gas hydrate dissociation using the temperature simulator and analyzing the corresponding impacts on wellbore stability. The simulator incorporated various drilling fluid temperatures and pressure conditions to replicate realistic scenarios of offshore drilling.
Results indicated that gas hydrate dissociation below the mud line, instigated by drilling operations, significantly impacted wellbore stability. This effect was found to be particularly pronounced under high pressure and low-temperature conditions, where gas hydrate dissociation was seen to cause a notable reduction in shear strength of sediments, leading to potential wellbore instability.
The conclusion derived from this study is that a comprehensive understanding of gas hydrate behavior below the mud line, achieved through temperature simulation, is crucial for ensuring wellbore stability in offshore drilling operations. The study emphasizes the need for robust drilling strategies that factor in the dynamics of gas hydrates in their planning phase.
The innovation of this study lies in the integration of a temperature simulator with wellbore stability analysis to evaluate the impact of gas hydrates. This approach offers enhanced predictability of gas hydrate behavior and its subsequent effects on wellbore stability, enabling safer and more efficient drilling operations in gas hydrate-rich offshore regions.
Strangulated groin hernia prognosis in adults in sub-Saharan African context: Retrospective study at Zinder, Niger
Authors: Adamou Harissou , Amadou Ibrahim Magagi , Adakal Ousseini , Hamidou Abdel Nasser M. , Hassane Maman Laoul , Didier Lassey James , Sani Rachid 
Published: February 2024

BackgroundIn our context, hernial strangulation has a high incidence. The aim of this work was to investigate prognostic factors in adults diagnosed with strangulated groin hernia.Patients and MethodsThis was a retrospective cross-sectional study conducted at Zinder National Hospital between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2022 (7 years). Clinical and prognostic data were collected.ResultsOut of 568 patients who underwent surgery for groin hernia, 230 cases were strangulated (40.49%). Mean age was 47.8±16.6 years. The proportion of males was 86.65%, i.e. the sex ratio was 5.96. Inguinal hernia accounted for 85.2% (n=196). The median operative time was 7 h. The Bassini procedure was the most common with 83.5% (n=192). Small bowel was the content of the hernia sac in 80% (n=184). Intestinal necrosis occurred in 10.9% (n=25). This was associated with femoral location (OR=5.39,P=0.00003). Intestinal resection was performed in 13.9% (n=32) and stoma in 1.7% (n=4). Postoperative complications occurred in 25.2% (n=58). The overall mortality (grade V) was 6.5% (n=15). Mortality was statistically associated with age > 60 years (OR=5.16;P=0.0016), admission time (OR=3.20;P=0.028), time to surgery > 8 h (OR=4.20;P=0.005) and occurrence of necrosis (OR=9.39;P=0.000).ConclusionStrangulated groin hernia is a common surgical emergency. Its prognosis is associated with advanced age, femoral location, and diagnostic and therapeutic delay.
Effect of Fuel Quality, Vehicle Maintenance and Advanced Emission Control Technology on Pakistan In -Use Light Vehicle Emissions
Authors: Taimoor Aqeel 
Published: February 2024

Pakistan is suffering from some of the worst air quality in Asia. The transportation sector is a major contributor to air pollution along diesel powered vehicles and rickshaws being the primary pollutions source. However, the contribution from light duty vehicles cannot be ignored. In this paper, results from an in-use emission study of over 500 light duty vehicles are reported and discussed. A random geographically diversified survey is conducted to collect data regarding the emissions from in-use vehicles in Pakistan. A review of the government fuel quality policy is provided. Through this analysis, the effects of polices addressing vehicle maintenance and repair, advanced vehicle emission technology and fuel quality are evaluated. These results provide insight to guide further measures to ensure meaningful impact on urban air quality in Pakistan. The same study may also be conducted in other regional countries to support effective emission control policy from the light vehicles.
Needs of Extension Agents on Techniques for Climate-Smart Rice Production in North-Central, Nigeria
Authors: Ojo Ibukun Elizabeth , Akangbe Jones Adebola , Owolabi Ayotunde Olayinka 
Published: February 2024

The study assessed the competency need of extension agents on Climate-Smart Agricultural Techniques (CSATs) for rice production in north-central, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used in selecting 88 respondents. Data collected with the aid of a questionnaire were analyzed with descriptive statistics and Borich needs model analysis. The result showed that their competencies in specific practices like the ability to promote index-based weather insurance ( = 1.00), operating alternate wet and dry technique (= 1.06), prime seeds with micronutrients (= 1.66) were low. Areas of competency upgrade as indicated by the mean weighted discrepancy scores were in teaching farmers about operating alternate wet and dry techniques (MWDS = 4.21), multiple inlet irrigation (MWDS = 2.98), site-specific nutrients managements (MWDS = 2.95), cropping calendar (MWDS= 2.42), climate information services (MWDS = 2.29). Training is needed in areas afore mentioned. Extension organizations should incorporate those areas discovered from the research into extension agents’ curriculum activities for adequate training. Extension agents should also be given opportunities to upgrade their competencies by attending intensive seminars and workshops in research institutions while in service.
‘The Spirit of The Lord Came Upon Me’
Authors: Grabbe Lester L. , Ammann Sonja , Cooper Alan , Davidson Steed , Gillingham Susan , Gilmour Rachelle , Goldingay John , Graybill Rhiannon , Gudme Anne Katrine , Gottwald Norman K. , Harding James E. , Jarick John , Lemos Tracy , Meyers Carol , Mroczek Eva , Smith-Christopher Daniel L. , Stavrakopoulou Francesca , Watts James W. 
Published: February 2024

Lester Grabbe here distills his wide body of work on the subject of prophecy. The volume considers prophecy in different cultural contexts across ancient Israel and surrounding areas. Beginning with a consideration of prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, Grabbe then looks at it as phenomenon in the ancient near east, including Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Levant.
From this background in the immediate context of ancient Israel, Grabbe then widens the cultural lens to consider prophecy in more global environments, including Africa and the Americas, and recent examples of pseudo-biblical prophets such as Joseph Smith. In the final part of the book Grabbe then analyses these different prophetic types and forms, looking at the continuing traditions of prophecy alongside their ancient roots.
The Theatre and Its Double
Authors: Artaud Antonin 
Published: February 2024

This new translation of Artaud's canonical text from 1938 retains the idiosyncratic nature of some of the author's writing while communicating the fervour and ambition that it contained.
Translated into a contemporary English that accurately conveys the detail and impact of the original, this is the first English-language version of The Theatre and its Double to be at once faithful to the original and more easy for today's readers to understand.
It brings together all of the key texts that formed the 1938 Le théâtre et son double, including 2 texts not included in Victor Corti’s established translation - ‘Le théâtre et la culture’ and ‘Le théâtre alchimique’ - as well as a translation of ‘Le théâtre de Séraphin’, which was intended for, but omitted from, the original 1938 publication.
By including, too, a newly translated selection of Artaud’s letters about the book's original publication and the author's concept of a ‘theatre of cruelty’, we are able to form a fuller appreciation of Artaud’s objectives. The commentary further contextualizes this material within Artaud’s broader oeuvre, from his collaboration with the Surrealist group through to his plans to stage his own adaptation Les Cenci in 1935.
The contributions of key works of Artaud scholarship from the last two decades are summarised and contextualised, including work in the area by Adrian Morfee, Kimberly Jannarone and Stephen Barber.
Additionally, a selection of Artaud’s correspondence with his publisher and friends on the subject of ‘cruelty’ and on his ambitions for his book has been newly translated here to complement the correspondence that already exists as part of the volume. These include letters to Roger Blin, Jean-Louis Barrault, Anaïs Nin, André Rolland and Jean Paulhan.
Each chapter features endnotes clarifying Artaud's numerous, often obscure allusions and references to help today's student.
Ultimately, we come to understand how these writings manifest and mobilise a particular Artaudian concern for art and life to operate inseparably, and Artaud's articulation of his own ambition, placing these in the context of his practice and European mid-century practice more widely.
A welcome addition any theatre-lover's or student's bookshelf, this is a much-needed opportunity to gain clear and faithful insights into Artaud's theatre.
The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII
Authors: Harrison Stephen , Watanabe Akihiko , Nicholas Lucy R. 
Published: February 2024

A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poems of the three popes (all Italians): Urban VIII Barberini, Alexander VII Chigi and Leo XIII Pecci. Their highly accomplished Neo-Latin poems owe much to the major Latin poets and are significant instances of classical reception, but also cast an interesting light on their lives, times and papacies.
Urban (elected pope in 1623) published a mixture of secular and religious verse, drawing on the hexameter epistles of Horace and the lyrics of Catullus and writing Horatian material in praise of Alessandro Farnese, governor of the Netherlands for Philip II of Spain, and the Spanish martyr St Laurence. Alexander (elected pope in 1655) like Urban combines secular and religious themes and often uses Horatian frameworks, writing hexameter accounts of some of the journeys he made as a papal diplomat in Germany and an Horatian ode on the fall of the Protestant stronghold of La Rochelle (1628). Leo’s poetry was mostly religious and published during his papacy (1878-1903); his Horatian ode on the new millennium of 1900 was widely read, and other works include an elegy which links a shrine of the Virgin with the Battle of Lepanto; an Horatian satire on moderate diet; and hymns to saints which combine early Christian and Horatian forms.
Environmental Affectivity
Authors: Giraldo Omar Felipe , Toro Ingrid Fernanda 
Published: February 2024

Following Spinoza’s lead, this book imagines an embodied environmental ethics based on the relations between sentient beings and sustained by affections, sensibility, the senses, and contact. Engaging embodied, cognitive, phenomenological, and psychoanalytic aspects of affectivity, Omar Felipe Giraldo and Ingrid Fernanda Toro help us understand how places inhabit us, and therefore, how places transformed lovingly have the immense capacity to modify the body, to redirect desire, to clarify our sensibility – in order to create an affectivity in a direction opposite to the regime imposed by this ecocidal society.
Beginning with a discussion of environmental epistemology on ontological monisms and dualisms, Giraldo and Toro question theoretical approaches that correctly challenge Cartesian dichotomies but which they claim continue to examine the environmental problem from two angles: culture versus nature, the human versus the non-human.
The environmental crisis is more than a technological or economic problem. In this book, Giraldo and Toro argue that it is a threat to survival inscribed in the deepest foundations of our body, in the intimacy of our skin, in the intensity and tone of our affections, in our desires, in our perceptions, and in our sensory-motor capacities.
What Readers Do
Authors: Driscoll Beth 
Published: February 2024

Shining the spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglophone fiction interact with consumer publishing and the book industry.
The product of 16 years of qualitative research into readers and reading culture, this book examines reading through three dimensions - aesthetic conduct, moral conduct, and self-care – to probe at how readers intertwine private and social behaviors, and both reinforce and oppose the structures of capitalism. Analyzing reading as a post-digital practice that is a synthesis of both print and digital modes and on-and offline behaviors, Driscoll presents a methodology for studying readers that connects sociology, book history, literary studies and actor-network theory. Also working to advance earlier studies that focused on readers’ face-to-face practices, What Readers Do digs into book clubs, reader involvement with broadcast media, such as via Oprah’s Book Club, and posting pictures of books on social media.
The Bridleway
Authors: Francis-Baker Tiffany 
Published: February 2024

WINNER OF THE ELWYN HARTLEY-EDWARDS AWARD FOR EQUINE WRITING, 2023.
Tiffany Francis-Baker explores how the relationship between humans and horses has shaped the British landscape and how this connection has become part of our nation’s ecosystems.
Many of us enjoy walking or riding on bridleways. These ancient networks crisscross the British countryside, but we rarely pause to ponder how they came to be.
Tiffany Francis-Baker tells the intriguing history of Britain’s bridleways, revealing how our relationship with horses is deeply woven into the fabric of British culture, from street and pub names to trading routes and coaching inns. She meets the closest living descendants of wild horses and investigates our evolving relationship with horses, exploring equestrian sports, horse fairs, horseback travellers and adventurers, and how humans and horses have worked together for millennia.
Part-domesticated and part-fiercely independent, horses have long captured our imaginations, and in The Bridleway, Francis-Baker reveals how deeply rooted they have been in our culture for thousands of years and how they can help us understand the natural world and our place within it.
Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill
Authors: Churchill W. S. 
Published: February 2024

Here are some of the best of Churchill’s letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context. The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower.
They are taken from within the Churchill Archive in Cambridge, where there is a mass of Churchill’s correspondence. Several of the letters included have never appeared in book form before.
Winston Churchill has become an iconic figure greatly loved the world over, but maybe especially these days in the USA. Churchill understood the power of words and he used his writing to sustain and complement his political career, publishing over 40 books and receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.
This volume concentrates on his more intimate words. It seeks to show the private man behind the public figure and introduce fresh light on Churchill’s character and personality by capturing the drama, immediacy, storms, depressions, passions and challenges of Churchill’s extraordinary career. Churchill was neither a god nor a demon. Through these letters we see him as a human being with human emotions, frailties and a large ego. He was not always right. He held strong opinions and was often provocative. These letters take us into his world and allow us to follow the changes in his motivations and beliefs as he navigates his 90 years. There are intimate letters to his parents, his teacher at Harrow, Louis de Souza (Boer Secretary of State for War), his wife Clementine, Prime Minister Asquith, Lord Northcliffe, Anthony Eden, President Roosevelt, Eamon De Valera, the French Socialist Prime Minister Léon Blum and Charles De Gaulle.
These are letters of a personal nature and are most illuminating. They are enhanced by facsimiles of the letters and images which appear throughout the book, helping the reader to envisage a sense of Churchill in his most private moments.
Putin and the Return of History
Authors: Sixsmith Martin 
Published: February 2024

An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance - a hubris that shaped how the West would treat Russia for the next two decades. But history wasn’t over.
Putin is a paradox. In the early years of his presidency, he appeared to commit himself to friendship with the West, suggesting that Russia could join the European Union or even NATO. He said he supported free-market democracy and civil rights. But the Putin of those years is unrecognisable today. The Putin of the 2020s is an autocratic nationalist, dedicated to repression at home and anti-Western militarism abroad. So, what happened? Was he lying when he proclaimed his support for freedom, democracy and friendship with the West? Or, was he sincere? Did he change his views at some stage between then and now? And if that is the case, what happened to change him?
Putin and the Return of History examines these questions in the context of Russia’s thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin’s politics of aggression: the enduring terror of encirclement by outsiders, the subjugation of the individual to the cause of the state, the collectivist values that allow the sacrifice of human lives in battle, the willingness to lie and deceive, the co-opting of religion and the belief in Great Russia’s mission to change the world.
The Gardener of Lashkar Gah
Authors: Brown Larisa 
Published: February 2024

The 20-year war fought by the US and its allies in Afghanistan is the longest war of the 21st century. It brought opportunity and tragedy for those who were forced to live through it. The abrupt withdrawal of British and American troops in 2021, in what may come to be regarded as one of the worst foreign policy failures of the past hundred years, precipitated the swift recapture of the country by the Taliban. With the withdrawal came upheaval and torment for Afghans who had loyally served alongside NATO forces and were left to fend for themselves at the gates of Kabul airport. This is the story of one such family.
The Gardener of Lashkar Gah follows the extraordinary journey of Shaista Gul, a kind man who built a beautiful garden inside a British military base in Helmand Province that became famous as a calm oasis for soldiers with troubled minds. Other members of his family worked for the allies, including his son Jamal, who became an interpreter for the British Army when he was just a teenager. Following the chaotic withdrawal of allied troops, all members of the family suffered.
Larisa Brown - Defence Editor for The Times, award-winning journalist and a campaigner for the interpreters of Afghanistan - has spent hundreds of hours talking to members of the Gul family and others in order to tell their remarkable story. In heart-warming and beautifully human prose, she unspools a tale of courage, hope and sacrifice - with the beauty of the garden and the hopes and dreams of the family counterpointed against the violence, anger and chaos raging in Afghanistan at the time.
The scandalous betrayal of many of the interpreters and others who worked for the British and American armies is still being revealed. By telling one family’s bittersweet experience - The Gardener of Lashkar Gah provides a unique and powerful insight into the devastating effects on ordinary Afghans of the end of the disastrous ‘War on Terror’.
German Tanks in France 1940
Authors: Zaloga Steven J. 
Published: February 2024

A fully illustrated new assessment of the German tank force that won its greatest victory in France during 1940.
The German conquest of France in 1940 was arguably the Wehrmacht’s greatest military achievement, conquering France in several weeks after having failed to do so in World War I. New Panzer tactics, dubbed 'Blitzkrieg', were at the heart of the German victory.
In this book, renowned armor expert Steven J. Zaloga reassesses the armored force that made the triumph possible, and explains that although the German Panzers won their reputation in France, they were far from being a technological juggernaut. The vast majority were the small PzKpfw I and PzKpfw II light tanks. The more effective medium tanks such as the PzKpfw III and PzKpfw IV were available in relatively small numbers. Their effectiveness had far more to do with training and doctrine than technology.
With illustrations including unpublished photos and superb new artwork, this book examines the wide range of German tanks employed in France in 1940, as well as their organization and tactical doctrine.
Transparency in the Family Courts: Publicity and Privacy in Practice
Authors: Doughty Julie , KC Lucy Reed , Magrath Paul 
Published: February 2024

Transparency describes openness, accessibility and public understanding of the family justice system.
The principle of open justice has long been limited by the need for privacy to protect the interests of vulnerable parties, and the balance between privacy and publicity is subject to a complex web of legislation and case law, especially in family courts.
This book provides a detailed practical guide to the relevant legislation, case law, policy and procedure, and how the balance between privacy and publicity has changed over time.
Written in the context of the outcome of the President’s Transparency Review (2021), the Second Edition of this title covers recent case law and procedural changes. This includes:
- Press attendance and reporting from pilot courts
- Legal blogging developments
- Privacy of financial applications
- Updated judicial guidance on anonymisation and publication, including the transfer of primary publication from BAILII to TNA
The Appendix of case studies has been updated to include recent key cases.
This title provides practitioners in family courts with an explanation of the relevant law, so that they are well-equipped to advise their clients on their remedies, rights and obligations with regard to transparency. It will also assist media lawyers, journalists, legal bloggers and social workers.
This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Family Law online service.