An exploration of experiences of self-compassion in autistic women

Section A: This systematic literature review synthesizes and critically evaluates quantitative research into how autistic children and young people are impacted by their experiences of bullying. The quality of thirteen papers is assessed and findings are considered, highlighting generalisability and limitations. The findings are discussed in relation to existing psychological theory, and the implications for clinical practice and the autistic community are stated. Suggestions for future research are made. Section B: There is little literature exploring the experiences of self-compassion in autistic women. Such research is essential to understanding how autistic women relate to the world, providing insights into how they may develop mental health difficulties, and the importance of self-compassion in self-esteem building and perception of identity. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of autistic women with self-compassion using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Three Group Experiential Themes emerged: ‘Connection with identity’, ‘I deserve it, right?’, and ‘Sense of growth’. Research and clinical implications are discussed

Environmental problems and opportunities of the peri-urban interface and their impact upon the poor

The objective of this document is to provide an overview of the problems and opportunities of the peri-urban interface (PUI) with regard to the broad concerns of environmentalsustainability and poverty

Meson decay in a corrected 30P3^P_0 model

Extensively applied to both light and heavy meson decay and standing as one of the most successful strong decay models is the $3^P_0$ model, in which $q\bar{q}$ pair production is the dominant mechanism. The pair production can be obtained from the non-relativistic limit of a microscopic interaction Hamiltonian involving Dirac quark fields. The evaluation of the decay amplitude can be performed by a diagrammatic technique for drawing quark lines. In this paper we use an alternative approach which consists in a mapping technique, the Fock-Tani formalism, in order to obtain an effective Hamiltonian starting from same microscopic interaction. An additional effect is manifest in this formalism associated to the extended nature of mesons: bound-state corrections. A corrected $3^P_0$ is obtained and applied, as an example, to $b_{1}\to\omega\pi$ and $a_{1}\to\rho\pi$ decays.Comment: 3 figures. To appear in Physical Review

Irreversible processes and the accelerated-decelerated phases of the Universe

A model for the Universe is proposed where it is considered as a mixture of scalar and matter fields. The particle production is due to an irreversible transfer of energy from the gravitational field to the matter field and represented by a non-equilibrium pressure. This model can simulate three distinct periods of the Universe: (a) an accelerated epoch where the energy density of the scalar field prevails over the matter field, (b) a past decelerated period where the energy density of the matter field becomes more predominant than the scalar energy density, and (c) a present acceleration phase where the scalar energy density overcomes the energy density of the matter field.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Brazilian Journal of Physic

Fractional statistical dynamics and fractional kinetics

We apply the subordination principle to construct kinetic fractional statistical dynamics in the continuum in terms of solutions to Vlasov-type hierarchies. As a by-product we obtain the evolution of the density of particles in the fractional kinetics in terms of a non-linear Vlasov-type kinetic equation. As an application we study the intermittency of the fractional mesoscopic dynamics.Comment: Published in Methods of Functional Analysis and Topology (MFAT), available at http://mfat.imath.kiev.ua/article/?id=890. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1604.0380