Casais Sísifo : um estudo qualitativo sobre pais com crianças com deficiência mental

O nascimento dum filho com deficiência é um evento familiar sobre a qual a visão dominante foi durante muito tempo a de uma catástrofe, da qual o casal poderia nunca mais vir a recuperar. Apesar do choque, surpresa, reestruturações familiares e das dificuldades que normalmente acompanham o nascimento dum filho com deficiência mental, as famílias podem sair mais reforçadas e enriquecidas nas suas relações. Entrevistamos seis casais com um filho com deficiência mental, tendo analisado posteriormente o seu conteúdo e concluímos tal como as perspetivas mais salutogénicas que o nascimento do filho com deficiência mental pode trazer incrementos positivos à vida marital, sendo os pais capazes de usufruir significativamente da relação com o filho, apesar de estes ganhos também irem de mãos dadas com algumas perdas. Concluimos também que cada um dos membros do casal traz os seus recursos próprios para dentro da relação conjugal que podem facilitar ou dificultar a aceitação da deficiência mental do filho.The birth of a child with mental disabilities is a family event that suffered from dominant catastrophic look for a long time, from which the couple might never come to recover again. Despite the schock, surprise, family restructuring and difficulties that usually accompanies the birth of a child with mental disabilities, families may emerge strenghtened and enriched in their relationships. We interviewed six couples with a mentally disabled child, then analised their contents, and concluded that like the more salutogenic perspectives, the birth of a child with mental disabilities can bring positive gains to the marital relationship, being parents able to significatively enjoy from the relationship with their child, although these gains go hand in hand with some losses. We concluded as well that each couple member brings their own resources to the conjugal relationship, which can facilitate or impede the mental disability acceptance of their child

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements