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Fairytales for lost children
Firytales for Lost Children is narrated by people constantly on the verge of self-revelation. These characters - young, gay and lesbian Somalis - must navigate the complexities of family, identity and the immigrant experience as they tumble towards freedom. Set in Kenya, Somalia and South London, these stories are imbued with pathos, passion and linguistic playfulness, marking the arrival of a singular new voice in contemporary fiction.
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Blockchain-Driven Enhancement of SDN Security in IoT-Related Scenarios
The major way of contact in today's landscape of interconnected global commercial activities occurs via cloud-based networks that transcend national, geographic, and jurisdictional barriers. Software Defined Networking (SDN), a developing networking architecture meant to ease policy enforcement and dynamic network reconfiguration, enables this seamless integration. Even with all the obvious advantages brought in by SDN, the problem of larger attack surface size compared to traditional networking infrastructures cannot be considered minor, particularly within the context of safety-critical applications. This problem gets even more exacerbated if SDN has to handle networking features relevant to the IoT. In particular, such deployments are more vulnerable to certain types of attacks. Added to that is the increasing need for inter-cloud communications in IoT applications, creating a nightmare from the security point of view. Furthermore, the number of connected nodes significantly complicates the situation and creates an overwhelming barrier toward monitoring all entities to prevent system degradation and service disruption. The paper aims to provide a general overview of frequent security challenges concerning SDN and IoT cloud integration, going deeper into the basic design concepts of the newly established paradigm called Blockchain, which could be considered a critical security aspect in each SDN or IoT application. Given the peculiar features of the paper, it proposes a Blockchain implementation solution to help nullify and minimize the various security issues which come about due to the convergence of SDN and IoT.
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Drapetomania by John R Gordon — north star rising
The title of John R Gordon’s seventh novel, Drapetomania, a stunning historical novel set in an antebellum South over which the threat of civil war looms apocalyptically, is explained in the epigraph as a “pathological psychological condition wherein a slave feels compelled to escape his master, however well that master treats him. “Cyrus had never seen his world from such a vantage point, and looking down on it, more distant from him than he had ever envisioned or conceived, he thought of Abednego, gazing up at the desert oceans of the moon in oil’ Mas Tyler’s attic room, and of toy farms made for children, carved and still. Gordon has said that Drapetomania, an ultimately hopeful novel of black defiance, endurance, empowerment and resistance that culminates in an explosive slave uprising and a dash to freedom, is a love letter to the African-American writers and thinkers he grew up idolising, including James Baldwin, Chester Himes, Richard Wright, Audre Lorde and bell hooks.
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Epidemiological investigation of dengue fever outbreak and its socioeconomic determinants in Banadir region, Somalia
Background
Dengue has become an alarming global problem and is endemic in many countries, particularly in tropical and subtropical countries. The aim of this study was to investigate dengue fever outbreak in Banadir Region, Somalia, to understand the risk factors (time, place, personal characteristics).
Methods
A descriptive cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the levels of circulating anti-dengue virus antibodies and DENV NS1 antigen among Banadir Region residents, while a questionnaire survey was conducted to understand the clinical and demographic characteristics of the patients.
Results
A total of 735 febrile patients were studied, with 55.6% men and 44.3% women. The majority of the participants were children aged 14 years and younger. Among them, 10.8% tested positive for IgM antibodies against dengue virus (DENV), while the prevalence of DENV NS1 antigen was 11.8%. Fever and myalgia were the most common symptoms observed in the DENV-positive patients.
Conclusions
A dengue fever outbreak has been confirmed in Banadir region, Somalia. This study provides information on the most affected districts and identifies risk factors contributing to DF outbreaks. The study recommends improving outbreak readiness and response, particularly in surveillance and laboratory diagnostics, by fostering intersectoral collaboration and establishing regulatory frameworks for financial and operational participation.
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Understanding young people’s perception toward forestation as a strategy to mitigate climate change in a post-conflict developing country
Understanding the perceptions of young people is a critical issue in the formulation and implementation of climate change mitigation strategies. Based on cognitive hierarchy theory, the present study aims to investigate the factors that motivate or hinder young people’s perception of forestation as a strategy to mitigate climate change in post-conflict Somalia. This study hypothesized a model in which climate change knowledge, risk perception and forest value orientations (anthropocentric/biocentric) influence attitude toward forestation and attitude, in turn, predicts behavioral intentions. We randomly surveyed students from three universities in three different regions of Somalia and collected 434 structured survey questionnaires. Using structural equation modeling, the results showed that climate change knowledge is a significant predictor of behavioral intention but not attitude toward forestation. The results also revealed that young people’s perception toward forestation as a strategy to mitigate climate change is significantly influenced by biocentric value orientation both directly and indirectly through attitude toward forestation. Contrary to previous studies, our results indicate that attitude partially mediates the relationship between biocentric value orientation and behavioral intentions and fully mediates the relationship between anthropocentric value orientation, risk perception and behavioral intentions, while it did not show any mediation results between climate change knowledge and behavioral intention. We found that the young people’s climate action or inaction is mainly shaped by climate change knowledge, biocentric value orientation, and attitude toward forestation. Finally, climate change mitigation efforts should avoid relying solely on attitude for behavioral decision-making formation and instead incorporate other factors into a more comprehensive framework.
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Participation of civil society in decisions to mitigate environmental degradation in post-conflict societies: evidence from Somalia
The question of the degree to which participation by civil society contributes to environmental decisions in post-conflict societies has received little attention. This study sheds light on the extent to which degrees of participation contribute to environmental decision-making in the Puntland State of Somalia using questionnaire surveys. We found that active participation has the highest contribution to environmental decisions. Our findings also indicated that the most pressing forms of environmental degradation in Puntland, as perceived by the respondents, are land degradation, drought related to the scarcity of rainfall, and deforestation. This study recommends “environmental cooperation” built into the peace-building process as a clear-cut concept to tackle both environmental degradation and conflicts. At the core of this concept is active participation and collaboration between civil society and the government as a means of mitigating environmental degradation in post-conflict Somalia. This will result in favorable environmental conditions and sustainable peace.
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