Unexpected: Identity transformation of postpartum women

This purpose of this paper is to explore the physical, emotional and societal issues women face as they transition to motherhood and the accompanying redefinition of self. Themes of acceptance of new roles and responsibilities, resolution of losses, adjusting marriage/partnership, renegotiation of relationships and professional standing are discussed. Women experiencing postpartum depression and anxiety appear to have difficulty navigating or adapting to the new maternal identity. Therefore, this paper summarizes some of the physical responses of the postpartum period as well as possible puerperal mental disorders such as: postpartum dysphoria (Baby Blues), postpartum depression disorder (PPD), post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and postpartum psychosis (PPP). Implications and recommendations for counselors to consider when assisting this population are also discussed

Almost-homeomorphisms and aumosttopological properties

A function is said to be an almosthomeomorphism if it is a bijective almost continuous function (see [25]) with an almost continuous inverse. We characterize such functions in several ways and obtain the relationship between almost-homeomorphisms and semi-homeomorphisms (see [8]). We study those properties which are preserved under this class of functions -the almost  topological properties - and characterize them as the semi-regular properties (see [3]). We also introduce the concept of an almost topological class and study the relationship between this clases and the topological, semi-topological, and p-topological classes

Sun Spots

My work became the place were I could become bigger than myself and bigger then the experiences that loomed over my head. I could open the faucet and the work would rush out. But like any pressure, when first released it can be scary and confusing. Once I started to physically struggle with my work, the necessity for process became clear. The more strenuous labor involved the better I felt. But, the idea of attacking a piece of work to reach clarity only revealed more confusion. I had to find a way to infuse my work and the viewer with unanswerable questions. Hence, my work came to orient itself around ideas of process: it had to be continuous, moving, and strive to escape the limitations of definite form. My repetitive obsession with wondering eventually interpreted itself into the idea of performance. Pain and reference to the physical body have become redundant in the sensationalized world of performance art. Although I have always enjoyed dramatic narrative, the sensational in my work becomes how much I care to invest rather than how much of my body I slice up for the audience. My work is about pain, but it is even more about recovery and the love of self that eventually leads to simple survival. In my recent performance/installations, I portrayed a spiritual tenacity that could handle my mourning. I wanted to demonstrate something similar to eating a small piece of black tar every day knowing that I will never finish it, need never enjoy it, and have no choice but to eat it. My emotions were changing as fast as my mediums. Every time I set out to create a piece, I had the added task of learning several new techniques. Film due to its tendency towards a linear progression was a great way to throw in everything due to the narrative simplicity of time. Installation could communicate ideas of confinement and grandiosity. My work as an artist has always been a very invested passionate response to the shooting stars that blast through my armor from places and reasons unknown. The holes in the armor remain deep and vacant for what seems like an eternity until the unavoidable call to grow finds its way back in. This desire for growth becomes a call to extremes, a call to move from the subterranean up to the sky where all is uncertain except the burning of the bright sun. Obsession with the sun is understood when considering its power to support life. Plants grow towards the sun, babies crawl and become upright, water tries to jump off the earth and forms a tide. The desire to fly towards the sun, defying the limitations of gravity is a desire shared by many living things. But, like a moth to the flame, when pursuit is at any cost the creative aspiration becomes the destructive. The desire to be more than we are, have more than we have, drive faster, and live longer, is the same desire that created the atom bomb. The laws of gravity eventually humble the laws of passion and the landing is inevitable. As sure as the sun rises and sets, there is a return to the body, a pull to the earth, and a reconciliation with mortality. &nbsp;</p

Infinitely many solutions for a nonlinear Navier problem involving the p-biharmonic operator

In this paper we establish some results of existence of infinitely many solutions for an elliptic equation involving the p-biharmonic and the p-Laplacian operators coupled with Navier boundary conditions where the nonlinearities depend on two real parameters and do not satisfy any symmetric condition. The nature of the approach is variational and the main tool is an abstract result of Ricceri. The novelty in the application of this abstract tool is the use of a class of test functions which makes the assumptions on the data easier to verify

H-closed functions

summary:The notion of a Hausdorff function is generalized to the concept of H-closed function and the concept of an H-closed extension of a Hausdorff function is developed. Each Hausdorff function is shown to have an H-closed extension

Experimental investigation on a geocontainer Submerged reef

Geotextile sand containers (GSC) have been used as permanent construction elements in coastal works for more than 20 years,becoming more and more popular as an alternative to the most typical coastal structures. Aim of this work is to analyze the hydrodynamic, stability and morphodynamic response of a GSC submerged reef by means of an experimental campaign. The first investigated aspect concerned the hydrodynamics. The reflection and transmission coefficients for regular and random waves were determined: the reflection coefficient decreases with increasing of kh; the transmission coefficient decreases with the increase of the incident wave. As regards the stability of the structure, it was observed that the strongest waves were able to lift the row of GSC more exposed to the wave action. An instability curve for the GSC as a function of the hydrodynamic characteristics was then found. Flow visualization close to the reef was performed by means of ink, showing that the flow becomes asymmetric in the proximity of the structure. Concerning the morphodynamics, long-term tests were performed to calculate the scour. This reached its maximum value at the end of each test and it is present in all three cases. The scour causes serious problems of instability to the structure

Almost γ

In this paper, a new class of functions called almost γ-continuous is introduced and their several properties are investigated. This new class is also utilized to improve some published results concerning weak continuity [6] and γ-continuity [2]