“Angry …and Hurt and … Just Messed Up” and Still Fighting: Analyzing the Mothering Activism of Vivian Tuccaro, Mother of Amber Tuccaro

This article contributes to the growing body of research on grieving mothers who have turned to activism to publicize the loss of a loved one, to raise awareness, and to advocate for justice (Baydar and İvegen; Bejarano; Burchianti; Karaman; Savarese). In publicizing their grief, the mothers stressed that their loved ones were persons whose loss was deeply felt. Mothering scholars and advocates have demonstrated how the women effectively used their collective suffering as a basis for social change (e.g., Karaman). This article analyzes Alberta-based mother, Vivian Tuccaro, who has advocated for justice on behalf of her daughter, Amber Tuccaro, since she disappeared over a decade ago. In this article, Vivian Tuccaro’s advocacy, supported by her son, Paul, and her community, is scrutinized for its lessons on the promotion of justice in the aftermath of a daughter’s disappearance. This article highlights the Tuccaro family’s grief as, tragically, one of many families affected by the loss of a murdered daughter. It also stresses their work to commemorate Amber’s life. As the article discusses, the Tuccaro family’s advocacy has taken many forms, including participating in news conferences and news stories, filing a complaint regarding law enforcement failings, establishing Facebook pages, testifying before national forums, and hosting memorial round dances, which is a particular focus of this paper. The memorial dances are a demonstration of decolonial grief that remaps mourning into spaces, thereby unsettling some of the dominant ordering and indifference that propels violence. As Karyn Recollet states “Indigenous round dances that produce spatial tags are symbologies of Indigenous motion. As such, they become tremendously meaningful as filling rupturous spaces with love” (“Glyphing” 136)

Leaving a Light on for Ash: Explorations into the Activist Mothering of Coralee Smith (Mother of Ashley Smith, 1988-2007)

Over the last decades, scholars have investigated mothers’ roles in ensuring their daughters and loved ones unexplained disappearances and deaths by violence are publicized and acknowledged. Here, I draw from previous scholarship to explore whether there are commonalities between a mother’s quest for justice after her daughter’s death in a Canadian prison and other mothers who similarly demand accountability after a loss. The mother’s name is Coralee Smith, the mother of the well-known teenager and deceased prisoner, Ashley Smith. In this text, I work to theorize Coralee Smith’s agency by drawing parallels with other mothering actions to demand redress for disappearances and losses. In this text, I offer fresh insights to the mothering literature by focusing on activism by parents of criminalized children, rather than adding to the studies on criminalized mothers. Incarcerated mothers are the subject of recent scholarship, but little research is available on the experience of mothers who provide support to incarcerated daughters and who demand accountability following deaths in custody

Re-Imaginings: A Mother’s Remembrance of her Murdered Daughter

We spent a day together when She was young. We loved lilacs—they are so beautiful. We found a lilac bush filled with blooms and gathered as many as we could. We had lilacs in every room. Her body was found after two months buried in an isolated wooded area. RCMP officers were led to the clandestine burial site by Him

What does anorexia nervosa mean? qualitative study of the representation of the eating disorder, the role of the family and treatment by maternal caregivers

Background: Anorexia nervosa is a serious health problem worldwide. The literature widely recognises the roles of the family and caregivers in modulating the onset, development, maintenance and treatment of this disorder. However, few studies have addressed the problem from the perspective of maternal caregivers. Aims This study aims to fill this gap by exploring how the meaning given to the term 'eating disorder' influences how mothers communicate with each other about a family member's health problems, how they present symptoms and how this problem is managed. Method A narrative research project was conducted to capture the mothers' experiences of living with a daughter diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. In particular, four semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore the ways in which they made sense of the disorder, their roles in treatment and their daughters' treatment experiences. Results The results show that the ways in which mothers characterise the disease guide their method of tackling it and the relationship they have with their daughter, as well as how they see their role in the care and treatment process. Conclusions Anorexia is experienced as something that is uncontainable, and a dimension of its accommodation characterises the relationship between mothers and daughters receiving treatment for the disorder. Treatment is accompanied by a delegating dimension, and the clinical implications are discussed in this study

Correlation between oesophageal acid exposure and dyspeptic symptoms in patients with nonerosive reflux disease.

Oesophageal acidification induces dyspeptic symptoms in healthy individuals. This study aimed to evaluate the correlation between oesophageal acid exposure and dyspeptic symptoms in patients with nonerosive reflux disease. METHODS: A total of 68 patients with dominant symptoms of heartburn, negative upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and concomitant dyspeptic symptoms participated in the study. The severity of dyspepsia and reflux-related symptoms was evaluated, and 24-h gastro-oesophageal pH-monitoring study was performed in all patients at baseline and after 4 weeks of therapy with esomeprazole 40 mg. RESULTS: Oesophageal basal acid exposure was pathological in 43 patients and normal in 25 patients, with a similar prevalence and severity of individual dyspeptic symptoms in the two groups. A significant correlation between reflux and dyspepsia scores was observed in the subgroup of patients with normal, but not in those with abnormal pHmetry (r=0.4, P=0.04 and r=0.2 P=0.07, respectively). After esomeprazole, a reduction in severity of dyspepsia (>or=50% with respect to baseline) was observed, independent of improvement of reflux-associated symptoms. Improvement in dyspepsia was, however, similar in patients with normal and abnormal basal acid exposure (14/25 vs. 33/43, respectively, P=NS). CONCLUSION: Dyspeptic symptoms coexist in a subset of nonerosive reflux disease patients, but prevalence and severity of the symptoms seems to be independent of oesophageal acid exposure

Second-order closures for compressible turbulence

This viewgraph presentation discusses project description, turbulence models, and computational engine and results for second-order closures for compressible turbulence

Role of Non-Caloric Carbonated Beverage Preload During a Standardized Solid and Liquid Meal on Colecistokinin and Ghrelin Levels in Healthy Subjects

Background and Aim: The effects of beverages with carbon dioxide on the gastrointestinal system mainly involve the upper digestive tract, with a possible modification of gastric physiology and change in food intake. No data are available on the relationship between non caloric carbonated beverages intake and gastrointestinal hormones levels. We aimed to verify the effect of a sugar-free carbonated beverage (CB) preload compared to a CB without CO2 (DCB) and water (W), during a standardized solid (SM) and liquid (LM) meal, on colecistokinin (CCK) and ghrelin (Gh) release. Subjects & Methods: After 300 ml of CB, DCB and W, a standardized SM or LM was administered at constant rate (100 kcal/5 min) to ten healthy subjects (4 females, aged 22-30 years; BMI 21-24) on six days in a random order (D1: CB+SM; D2: DCB+SM; D3: W+SM; D4: CB+LM; D5: DCB+LM; D6: W+LM). Eating perceptions (desire to eat, hunger, prospective of food consumption) and maximum satiety (MS) as total kcals intake were measured. CCK and Gh were evaluated on blood samples collected at 0, 10 (after beverage), 30, 60 and 120 min. Hormones values are expressed as ratio with body area surface (BSA) and as peak and nadir for CCK and Gh respectively. All data are expressed as mean±SD. Results: Desire to eat, hunger and prospective of food consumption were not different among beverages and meals. Total kcal intakes at MS were significant increased during SM respect to LM for CB (774±209, 585±299, p<0.01), DCB (837±208, 585±280, p<0.01) andW(783±244, 630±353, p<0.01) respectively, without differences among beverages. No differences were found for CCK and Gh among all beverages during SM or LM. Instead, CCK after CB was higher during SM than LM (1.004±0.514, 0.513±0.243, p<0.05) but not after DCB and W (0.790±0.604, 0.849±0.595, n.s.; 0.712±0.473, 0.873±0.431, n.s.) respectively. Moreover, after all beverages, Gh was higher during SM than LM (CB: 0.314±0.100, 0.206±0.099, p<0.05; DCB: 0.288±0.060, 0.145±0.051, p<0.01; W: 0.307±0.083, 0.170±0.085, p<0.01). Conclusions: Liquid meal determined an earlier satiety respect to a solid meal with a parallel decrease of Ghrelin independently of the kind of beverage preload. A CCK decrease was found only during liquid meal after carbonated beverage preload without influence on kcal intake compared with DCB and W. Studies on the influence of carbon dioxide on CCK release nutrients related need to explain this data

Psychology and hereditary angioedema: A systematic review

Background: Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is caused by mutations in the C1 inhibitor (C1-INH) gene Serpin Family G Member 1(SERPING1), which results in either the decreased synthesis of normal C1-INH (C1-INH–HAE type I) or expression of unfunctional C1-INH (C1-INH–HAE type II). In recent studies, emotional stress was reported by patients as the most common trigger factor for C1-INH–HAE attacks. Moreover, patients reported considerable distress over the significant variability and uncertainty with which the disease manifests, in addition to the impact of physical symptoms on their overall quality of life. Objective: We did a systematic review of the literature to shed light on the advancements made in the study of how stress and psychological processes impact C1-INH–HAE. Methods: All of the articles on C1-INH–HAE were analyzed up to December 2019. Both medical data bases and psychological data bases were examined. The keywords (KWs) used for searching the medical and psychological data bases were the following: “hereditary angioedema,” “psychology,” “stress,” “anxiety,” and “depression.” Results: Of a total of 2549 articles on C1-INH–HAE, 113 articles were retrieved from the literature search by using the related KWs. Twenty-one of these articles were retrieved, examined, and classified. Conclusion: Although the literature confirmed that stress may induce various physical diseases, it also warned against making simplistic statements about its incidence that did not take into account the complexity and multicausality of factors that contribute to C1-INH–HAE expression