This chapter identifies the longstanding correspondence between the Anglo-Irish novelist, Maria Edgeworth, and the Jewish-American schoolteacher, Rachel Mordecai, as a transnational conduit of ecological inquiry. By teasing out the vagaries and idiosyncrasies of this transatlantic relationship (which lasted almost a quarter of a century), this chapter renders visible a minor tributary of transnational exchange that operated at the peripheries of the nineteenth century’s global power nexus. Both Edgeworth and Mordecai inhabited anomalous social positions and geographical locales, yet their shared ecological interests enabled them to contribute to wider channels of knowledge and experience in the period. Rather than celebrate their relationship as a triumph of lateral transnational exchange, however, the chapter exposes the complex power dynamics that simultaneously undergird and undermine their ecological collaboration. The correspondents’ mutual commitment to Enlightenment ecology may have engendered an invigorating intellectual exchange, but its limits and exclusions are witnessed most acutely in their nervous reflections upon slavery in the wake of the Nat Turner Rebellion of 1831. Even in its attempts to process and interpret Black resistance to slavery, their correspondence colludes to suppress the revolutionary potential of Turner’s alternative ecology.

What happens when we read the Irish literary canon for energy? We find numerous mentions of wind power, solar power, petrol, coal, peat, gas, and dung, and we find these energy resources and infrastructures trellised into plot lines and character arcs in some unexpected ways in Irish literature, from Joyce and Beckett to Heaney and McCormack. What emerges is a partial but suggestive cognitive map – of Irish energy economies, ecologies, and phenomenologies – that reveals Ireland’s unique energy signature and at the same time links Ireland to other imperial and global regimes of petromodernity.

In this chapter we describe how M24 can be generated by seven involutions that are normalized as a set by a subgroup of M24 isomorphic to the linear group L3(2). These seven elements are described combinatorially as acting on a conjugacy class of 7-cycles in L3(2). They are also described as acting on the 24 heptagonal faces of the Klein map κ, whose 84 edges fall into seven blocks of imprimitivity of size 12 under the action of L3(2); thus there is one permutation for each block. So, remarkably, generators for M24 may be read directly off κ. Analogously we describe how M12 can be generated by five elements of order 3 that are normalized within M12 by a subgroup isomorphic to the alternating group A5. These five elements are described combinatorially as acting on a conjugacy class of 5-cycles in A5. They are also described as acting on the 12 faces of the regular dodecahedron whose 20 vertices fall into five blocks of imprimitivity of size 4 (each of which forms a regular tetrahedron); thus there is one generator for each block. So generators for M12 can be read directly off the faces of the dodecahedron. Galois showed that the only simple groups L2(p) that can act faithfully with degree p are for p = 5, 7 and 11. These constructions for M12 and M24 owe their existence to the cases p = 5 and p = 7.

Chapter 2 presents the isotropic scattering model, which is mathematically tractable. We introduce the basic concepts of the probability density function of scattering angles and the inverse transform sampling method for constructing the corresponding pseudo-random number generator of scattering angles. We then present the MC simulation of the space–time distribution of the energy density for isotropic radiation from a point source, which is compared with the analytical solution of the radiative transfer equation.

Chapter 5 explores how Harriet Martineau’s travel narrative Eastern Life, Present and Past and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poem “The Burden of Nineveh” organize time through ruins from the eastern Mediterranean. Eastern Life, which was criticized for its unorthodox historicization of Christianity, imagines how ruins themselves experience human empires across centuries. The temporal form of the ruin, Martineau shows, is a capacious present in which the revolutions of human religions and empires become insignificant. Rossetti’s poem, which focuses on ancient Assyrian relics arriving at the British Museum, similarly surrenders human duration to the ruin’s own temporality. For Rossetti, the museum’s attempts to redefine the ruin within its own linear historicism necessarily fail because the ruin has already proven its endurance through many changing imperial narratives. Both Rossetti’s and Martineau’s texts depict ruin as a temporal form that outlasts any empire’s claims to significance, challenging the centrality of human experience in time.

Sexually inappropriate behavior can be a manifistation of disinhibited behavior seen in older adults with major neurocognitive disorders. Sexual expression in older adults with major neurocognitive disorders is normal and should not be universally discouraged when in an appropriate setting and when the rights of others are not violated. The evaluation of sexually inappropriate behavior should include a detailed history that includes what the behavior is, who is involved, what is the context of the behavior, who is being impacted, and if the behavior is out of proportion with other disinhibited behaviors. Look for and potentially remove medications that could be contributing to sexually inappropriate behavior including dopamine agonists, anticholinergic agents, and benzodiazepines.

Some factors shown to increase anxiety include very high levels of social contact, dysfunctional patient-caregiver relationships, and high physical dependency. Other factors that can negatively impact anxiety in older adults include boredom, social isolation, and unmet physical needs for proper nutrition, warmth, and cleanliness, for example. Pharmacologic treatment options for those with panic disorder can include a short course of benzodiazepines and long-term SSRIs or SNRIs. Cognitive behavioral therapy has proven to be a particularly effective nonpharmacologic approach to treatment of anxiety and panic. As-needed medications for anxiety can be helpful in the initial weeks of treatment as the therapeutic effect of SSRIs and SNRIs is approached. Useful medications for as-needed treatment of anxiety include low-dose trazodone (25 or 50mg every 4-6 hours as needed). Other options might include gabapentin, mirtazapine, or low-dose propranolol.

Panic disorder is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by recurring and unexpected panic attacks. Panic attacks are periods of intense and overwhelming fear that can be accompanied by physical symptoms such as rapid heartbeat, chest pain, dizziness, shortness of breath, tremors, and sweating. Pharmacologic treatment options for those with panic disorder can include a short course of benzodiazepines and long-term SSRIs or SNRIs. Cognitive behavioral therapy has proven to be a particularly effective nonpharmacologic approach to treatment of anxiety and panic. Benzodiazepines are recommended for short-term acute treatment of panic disorder. The effects of benzodiazepines on decreasing the severity and frequency of panic symptoms can be seen in as little as days to weeks. They are especially helpful as long-term therapies may take weeks to months for full benefit to be realized. A scheduled dosing is preferred over as-needed dosing.

This chapter explains why countries obtain nuclear latency. It introduces the drivers and constraints of latency. It conducts a statistical analysis to determine which variables are correlated with nuclear latency onset, and then analyzes twenty-two cases to identify the main motives for getting latency.