This paper explores the intersection of Nigerian criminology and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), highlighting the opportunities and future directions for aligning criminological research, education and practice with global development priorities. While Nigeria faces complex challenges such as poverty, inequality, insecurity, gender-based violence, environmental degradation and ineffective justice institutions, criminologists have a vital role in finding sustainable solutions. This paper explores how specific SDGs, notably Goals 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 16, provide significant opportunities for criminological involvement, including crime prevention, youth empowerment, community safety and tackling cybercrime. It suggests that incorporating SDGs into criminology curricula, enhancing data collection, encouraging field research, shaping policy reforms and accessing global funding can greatly improve the impact and relevance of the discipline. By taking an interdisciplinary, culturally aware and community-focused approach, Nigerian criminologists can advocate for evidence-based reforms that confront both the immediate and underlying factors of crime and insecurity. The paper concludes that aligning Nigerian criminology with the SDGs offers a timely chance to bolster academic and policy relevance while also serving as a strategic avenue for promoting peace, justice and inclusive development in Nigeria.

We construct an fpqc gerbe $\mathcal {E}_{\dot {V}}$ over a global function field F such that for a connected reductive group G over F with finite central subgroup Z, the set of $G_{\mathcal {E}_{\dot {V}}}$-torsors contains a subset $H^{1}(\mathcal {E}_{\dot {V}}, Z \to G)$ which allows one to define a global notion of (Z-)rigid inner forms. There is a localization map $H^{1}(\mathcal {E}_{\dot {V}}, Z \to G) \to H^{1}(\mathcal {E}_{v}, Z \to G)$, where the latter parametrizes local rigid inner forms (cf. [8, 6]) which allows us to organize local rigid inner forms across all places v into coherent families. Doing so enables a construction of (conjectural) global L-packets and a conjectural formula for the multiplicity of an automorphic representation $\pi $ in the discrete spectrum of G in terms of these L-packets. We also show that, for a connected reductive group G over a global function field F, the adelic transfer factor $\Delta _{\mathbb {A}}$ for the ring of adeles $\mathbb {A}$ of F serving an endoscopic datum for G decomposes as the product of the normalized local transfer factors from [6].

The modal auxiliary form must plus perfect aspect (must have +V-en) has recently acquired the meaning of direct evidentiality in Multicultural London English, the new London dialect. Because the new meaning is a recent innovation we have a rare opportunity to witness its development at first hand, unlike earlier changes in the history of must. Our analysis supports the view that the classic definition of evidentiality in terms of information source is too narrow to explain the expression of evidentiality in spoken interaction, and that a broader definition in terms of epistemic authority is more appropriate. We argue that the direct evidential meaning is a coherent further step in the semantic changes undergone by must during its history. It represents a previously undocumented pathway in the grammaticalisation of evidentiality. It also supports the view that evidentiality is not a purely lexical phenomenon in English.

This paper presents the design, control strategy, and preliminary testing of Epi.Q, a modular unmanned vehicle (UGV) tailored for challenging environments, including exploration and surveillance tasks. To manage the complexities of the articulated structure, including lateral slip and the risk of jackknifing, a fuzzy logic-based traction control system was implemented. To improve traction stability by modulating power distribution between modules, the system optimally controls steering and traction. Subsequently, the paper introduces the fuzzy control system and presents preliminary validation experiments, including hill-climbing, obstacle navigation, steering, and realignment tests. Preliminary results indicate that the proposed fuzzy control strategy significantly improves traction and maneuverability even on steep inclines and uneven surfaces. These findings highlight the potential for fuzzy logic control to improve UGV performance.

The evolution of the crystal structure and mechanical behavior of Ca-montmorillonite (Ca-Mnt) under varying degrees of hydration is crucial for understanding its swelling properties. The objective of the present study was to investigate systematically the microstructural changes and stress–strain response of Ca-Mnt through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, supplemented by experimental validation. By employing stress–strain hysteresis curves, the equivalent damping ratio was characterized by quantifying the impact of hydration on energy dissipation. The results indicated that, within the investigated hydration range, the absolute value of the mean H2O–Mnt interfacial interaction energy decreased with increasing hydration; as the water content increased from 300 mgwater per gclay to 420 mgwater per gclay, the average interfacial energy was reduced by ~2.65 eV Å–2. Hydration had a significant influence on the mechanical properties of Ca-Mnt, particularly in the Z-direction, in which the tensile strength decreased, whereas the compressive strength increased with greater degrees of hydration. The stress–strain hysteresis curves shifted progressively to the right as hydration intensified, demonstrating pronounced non-linearity and energy dissipation characteristics. The equivalent damping ratio initially decreased and then increased with increasing degrees of hydration, highlighting the dual effect of hydration on energy dissipation. This study validates the reliability of the simulation results and provides theoretical insights for understanding the hydration-induced expansion mechanisms of montmorillonite and its engineering applications.

As more governments commit to feminist foreign policies (FFPs), this commitment trickles down to a central foreign policy area: peacebuilding. As a field, peacebuilding has historically been dominated by western states and western-dominated institutions performing interventions along the hegemonic liberal peacebuilding paradigm (Lederach 1997; Mac Ginty 2008). This has, in turn, provoked significant feminist criticisms and interventions (Duncanson 2016; Hewitt and True 2021; McLeod 2018). When Germany, the largest peacebuilding funder globally (Rotmann, Li, and Stoffel 2021; UN Peacebuilding 2024), announced their FFP in 2023, this development opened up the prospect for substantial feminist change, but also raised questions about what such change might look like in practice.

Are shifting party-union relationships impacting the vote intentions of union members in Canada? By analyzing voting intentions within the Canadian labour movement, the findings illuminate the complexity of union members’ electoral behaviour and the strategic opportunities for parties vying for their votes. The authors find that while union members continue to be more likely than the average voter to support the NDP, this support is nuanced by factors such as union type, gender, education, age, and income. Notably, the study finds that the Conservatives have made significant inroads among construction union members and those with college education, challenging traditional assumptions about Canadian labour politics.

This article is concerned with the history of eugenic sterilisation in Britain through the 1920s and 1930s. In this period, the Eugenics Society mounted an active but ultimately unsuccessful campaign to legalise the voluntary surgical sterilisation of various categories of people, including those deemed ‘mentally deficient’ or ‘defective’. We take as our explicit focus the propaganda produced and disseminated by the Eugenics Society as part of this campaign, and especially the various kinds of data mobilised therein. The parliamentary defeat of the Society’s Sterilisation Bill in July 1931 marks, we argue, a significant shift in the tactics of the campaign. Before this, the Eugenics Society framed sterilisation as a promising method for eradicating, or at least significantly reducing the incidence of, inherited ‘mental defect’. Subsequently, they came to emphasise the inequality of access to sterilisation between rich and poor, (re)positioning theirs as an egalitarian campaign aimed at extending a form of reproductive agency to the disadvantaged. These distinct phases of the campaign were each supported by different kinds of propaganda material, which in turn centred on very different types of data. As the campaign evolved, the numbers and quantitative rhetoric which typified earlier propaganda materials gave way to a more qualitative approach, which notably included the selective incorporation of the voices of people living with hereditary ‘defects’. In addition to exposing a rupture in the Eugenics Society’s propagandistic data practices, this episode underscores the need to further incorporate disabled dialogues and perspectives into our histories of eugenics.