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Interazioni diadiche materne e paterne nel contesto dell’alimentazione infantile: il ruolo dell’ansia paterna nel rifiuto del cibo del bambino.
No full textGli eventi traumatici oroalimentari nell’infanzia: interazioni alimentari madre-bambino e padre-bambino a confronto
No full textObjective: To date, few researches have investigated the impact that traumatic experiences to
the oropharynx or gastrointestinal tract could have during infancy. These events can give rise to a Post-Traumatic
Feeding Disorder, characterized by an acute onset of severe child food refusal. Moreover, research so far
has focused exclusively on mother-child dyads, with a neglect of fathers’ role. The current study investigated
mother-child and father-child feeding interactions during infancy, with children with a medical history of traumatic
experience to the oropharynx or gastrointestinal tract - like nasogastric tube or chocking. Method: The
sample consisted of three groups of children: a first Medical Group with a Post-Traumatic Feeding Disorder; a
second Medical Group with the same traumatic experience without the Post-Traumatic Feeding Disorder; and
a control group, with no feeding disorder diagnosis and no traumatic experience. During home visits,
mother–child and father–child feeding interactions were videotaped. Results: Both mothers and fathers from
the Post-Traumatic Feeding Disorder group showed feeding interactions characterized by higher interactive conflict
and negative affective states, and their children had higher resistance to swallow food. Interestingly, the second
medical group with traumatic experience but that was not specifically diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Feeding
Disorder, showed less positive parent–child interactions than the parents in the control group. Conclusions:
Clinical intervention is important when a clear diagnosis is recognized and when there is not a diagnosis but a
vulnerability in the parent-child interactions. Moreover, the findings about the specificity of the father-child interaction
highlight the importance of fathers’ involvement in the clinical intervention
Unusual Velocity Structures of Neutral Sodium Near Io's Wake
No full textNew high-resolution spectra of Io sodium have identified an unexpected velocity structure near Io's wake and Jupiter-facing hemisphere. We used the 3.6-m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in the Canary Islands with its SARG echelle spectrograph at a resolving power R=115,000. The observations targeted Io as it neared eclipse behind Jupiter. The slit was oriented parallel to the jovian equator, enabling spectra ahead of of Io and behind it along the orbit. The region ahead of Io along the orbit is also the downstream wake region in a magnetospheric sense; the Galileo spacecraft showed this to be a region of cold, dense, stagnated plasma. Our spectra of this region in the hour before eclipse show three distinct spectral features. The first two are well known: the slow sodium "banana cloud" and fast sodium ejected in the anti-Jupiter direction and hence highly red-shifted. The unexpected third feature is clearly blue-shifted, indicating an ejection from Io towards Jupiter, either from Io's trailing or inner hemisphere. At present there are no known ejection mechanisms that satisfy the observed properties. We will present preliminary analysis of the spatial and velocity distributions of this feature, along with a discussion of plausible source mechanisms.
This work has been supported by NSF's Planetary Astronomy Program, INAF/TNG, and the Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Padova
The Post-Traumatic Feeding Disorder in Infancy: A Comparison of Three Different Developmental Pathways
No full textTHE POST-TRAUMATIC FEEDING DISORDER IN INFANCY:
A COMPARISON OF THREE DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAYS
Background: the Post-Traumatic Feeding Disorder (PTFD) is characterized by a consistent food refusal after one or more traumatic insults to the oropharynx or gastrointestinal tract (e.g. chocking, severe vomiting, insertion of nasogastric tube). Food refusal and child’s distress during feeding persist even if the organic or medical adversity has been resolved. The history of traumatic experience and the anticipatory anxiety of feeding differentiate these infants from those with other feeding disorders.
Goal: our study is aimed at exploring the pathways leading to PTFD: we would explore the interactions between Risk and Protective Factors that could explain the onset of this disorder.
Method: we are recruiting three groups of children (age 12 to 60 months): PTFD Groups, children with a history of traumatic experience without food refusal, and normative children without PTFD and without traumatic experience. Up to now, we have selected 5 children for each group. The variables observed are: maternal and paternal characteristics (psychopathology, parenting stress, their IWM and the quality of the parent’s relationship), the infant’s characteristics (temperament and socio-emotional functioning) and parent-infant interactions during feeding and play sessions.
Results: preliminary data show that in the PTFD group the feeding interactions are more problematic, with higher resistance to swallow food. These parents have difficulty to recognize the infants’ signals and to be responsive to their negative emotions. Our hypothesis is that there is a vulnerability in these parents, so they can not help to regulate their infants’ distress
Interazioni diadiche materne e paterne in bambini con Atresia Esofagea: un contributo sullo studio del ruolo paterno.
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Isolated congenital heart block in undifferentiated connective tissue disease and in primary Sjogren's syndrome: a clinical study of 81 pregnancies in 41 patients
No full textReumatismo. 2005 Jul-Sep;57(3):180-6.
[Isolated congenital heart block in undifferentiated connective tissue disease and in primary Sjögren's syndrome: a clinical study of 81 pregnancies in 41 patients].
[Article in Italian]
Grava C, Ruffatti A, Milanesi O, Favaro M, Tonello M, Calligaro A, Del Ross T, Todesco S.
Source
Cattedra e Unità Operativa di Reumatologia, Università degli Studi di Padova. [email protected]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To study the incidence and the features of congenital heart block (CHB) in patients with undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD) and primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS).
METHODS:
We studied 81 pregnancies of 41 women attending the Outpatients' Clinic of the Rheumatology Unit of University Hospital of Padova from July 1989 to March 2004. Twenty five of these (61%) were affected with UCTD and 16 (39%) with pSS. Serologic inclusion criteria was anti-Ro/La positivity, assessed by counterimmunoelectrophoresis and ELISA.
RESULTS:
CHB was found in 2 out of the 46 (4.3%) pregnancies followed by our Staff and in 2 out of the 35 (5.7%) included in the retrospective part of the study. In 3 cases CHB was a 3rd degree block, causing pregnancy termination in 2. The only 2nd degree block was identified in one patient at the 22nd week of gestation and treated with dexamethasone and plasma-exchange. All of the women were positive to 52 kd and 60 kd Ro autoantibodies. CHB mothers had higher titer antibodies to 52 kd Ro protein than did the mothers with healthy infants (P = 0.026). Electrocardiographic abnormalities at birth were found in 3 out of 29 asymptomatic infants. One presented sinus bradycardia, the second abnormalities of ventricular repolarization, both regressed spontaneously, while the third ventricular extrasystoles which continue even now at 5 months.
CONCLUSIONS:
These results showed that in UCTD and pSS there is a higher incidence of CHB than that reported in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Electrocardiographic screening in all infants born to mothers with anti-Ro/La antibodies would seem an important measure to identify those with irreversible heart conduction abnormalities.
PMID:
16258602
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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