Mapping the Child’s Grey Interior:Authenticity of Plague Narrative in The Great Plague

The Great Plague:The Diary of Alice Paynton,London 1665-1666 adopts the realistic painting style and direct writing to the painful experience,describes the situation of the Great Plague in London truly from the perspective of children,and breaks people’s cognitive expectation of children’s literature,the construction of children’s Gray inner world is completed behind the true description of the Great Plague in London with the true brushwork,which presents a different world of childlike innocence.Despite the importance of epidemics writing in literature,the child’s diary perspective of them is one of the least developed of Plague Narrative.Only when authenticity and the child’s grey interior are integrated will we reveal a true picture of society as it was.

Child’s Point of View vs.Adult’s in Melville’s Early Two Stories

This paper aims to study the functions of two different points of view from the perspective of narratology,namely,the point of view of the adult and the one of the child,in two of Herman Melville’s early stories.By contrasting these two functions of the different perspectives,the author of this paper draws the conclusion that the child has a unique and significant perspective in Melville’s works.

Relationship between Authoritative Parenting Style and Preschool Children’s Emotion Regulation:A Moderated Mediation Model

An authoritative parenting style has been shown to promote children’s emotion regulation in European-American family studies.However,little is known about how sleep problems and the child’s sibling status in Chinese families affect this relationship.Based on family system theory,this study attempts to better understand the relationship between authoritative parenting style and emotion regulation.Mothers of preschool children in Chinese kindergartens completed questionnaires about their children’s sleep habits,their authoritative parenting styles,and children’s emotion regulation.A total of 531 children participated in this study.Results showed that authoritative parenting was positively associated with emotional regulation.Sleep problems mediated the effects of authoritative parenting style on emotion regulation.The child’s sibling status moderated the mediating effects of sleep problems in authoritative parenting and emotion regulation relationships.Specifically,the relationship between the authoritative parenting style and sleep problems was significant for only children,while birth order had no significant influence on the authoritative parenting style and sleep problems in two-child families.These findings suggest that a lowauthoritative parenting style predicts low emotion regulation through sleep problems,and this depends on the child’s sibling status,indicating that children without siblings may impair emotion regulation due to increased sleep problems.

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Infertile Women on Child Adoption in Douala (Cameroon)

Background: The aim of the study was to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practices on child adoption among infertile women in Douala (Cameroon). Methods: It was a prospective descriptive study of six months duration at the General Hospital and the Dawn Medical Foundation Clinic. Patients of the gynecologic unit presenting with infertility were included. A questioner was administer to each patient with the following variables: Age, marital status, profession, level of education, past gynecologic history, number of children, type and the duration of infertility. Their knowledge, attitude and practice toward child adoption were investigated. Data collected was analyzed using the statistical software EPI-INFO 6.04 and R. p value < 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. Results: Among the 300 women included, 269 (89.7%) had already heard about adoption, 62.1% through the media. Seventeen percent knew who to meet in order to adopt a child in Cameroon. Two hundred and thirty patients (76.7%) were in favor of adoption but 48.7% of them didn’t want to adopt a child. One percent of patient had adopted a child. The attitude towards adoption was significantly influenced by the duration of infertility of more than 10 years (p = 0.0014). Among women who have at least one child 9.4% wanted adoption against 21.4% who did not want adoption (p = 0.0305). Among women aged between 25 and 30 years, 28.2% wanted to adopt a child against 79.1% who did not want it (p = 0.000). Eighty five percent of women who had secondary infertility did not want to adopt against 44.7% who wanted it (p = 0.0003). Conclusion: The level of knowledge is high in educated patient. However, many women don’t know the right procedure and the structures in charge of adoption. Their attitude is favorable but the practice of adoption remains low.

You Can Raise Your Child’s I.Q.

如今的中国家庭大多只有一个孩子,父母的心血及家业的兴旺似全都维系于一根独苗.难怪望子成龙.望女成凤之心日趋殷切。这边“不要摔倒在人生起跑线哦”刚刚深入人心.那边“脑黄金”系列又闪亮登场。住房虽不宽敞.但一架硕大的钢琴总能堂皇进驻;收入也不丰裕,可家教市场依然火爆。真是可怜天下父母心！这里刊选的一篇文章对于他们来说堪称是一点点“育儿秘决”。长期以来,“皮大王”,“老留级”.“多动儿”以及那些智力平平的老实孩子总是父母的一块心病和责骂的对象,可是本文却从神经科学的角度揭示了儿童后天的发展与父母的早期培育有着密切的关系。智商虽然在很大程度上由遗传决定、但在婴儿时期,大脑仍处于不断发展和完善状态,因此这时候孩子最需要的.不是冷冰冰的玩具和甜腻腻的零食,而是“人”——父母与他们的情感交流和积极的启蒙活动。当然这些努力并不一定会造就一个爱因斯坦,但至少会养成孩子美好的性情和敏锐的心灵.而这些.正是明日成功的基石。

Marked Improvement in China's Maternal and Child Health

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Anemia in Cameroon: A Social Approach

Viewed as hidden hunger, anemia is an indicator of poor nutrition and health status, especially for African pre-school children. Several actions are being carried out to combat anemia in Africa, without success. The fundamental step to improve this situation is to determine 1) mothers’ knowledge regarding anemia (symptoms/signs and etiologies), and 2) their attitudes towards anemia. The present effort was to determine 1) and 2) on mothers (n = 152) with children (1 - 5 years) through questionnaire. Data showed that the less educated the mother was, the more she gave the wrong definition of anemia. When these mothers have anemic children, 129 go to the hospital, 34 give grenadine (sweet soda), 14 go to the traditional healer, and 6 give the various decoctions. Our results showed that less-educated mothers had wrong anemia management, such as attachment to a visual logic that assimilates blood to food with red coloring. The actions must directly involve these mothers and the traditional healers to improve this situation.

Mass Limit of Neutron Star

The mass limit of neutron star has still remained a mystery. The existing Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equation for calculating the limit always gives different values, by introducing different assumptions and having been predicted like 0.7 Mo, 3.2 Mo, 3.6 Mo, where Mo = 1.98 × 1030 Kg. There is a need of some better technique to adopt other than TOV relation to seek out the value. In this paper, a new relation between the mass of the collapsing star and its average density ρ′ has been derived and used to calculate the limit of neutron star. The conditions in radii between Schwarz Child’s radius and the actual radius of the collapsing star have been introduced to calculate the mass of star above which it will transform into a black hole and below it to a neutron star. A new constant, JN = 8.53707554 × 1039 N-3/2s-3Kg3 has been proposed with which if we introduce the average density of the collapsing neutron star, its mass limit can be calculated very easily. By putting the most possible mass density, which is the minimum required density for a collapsing star to transform into the black hole, it has been found that the mass limit of neutron star is quite higher than it has been assumed. The definition for black hole has also been re-defined on the basis of said radii conditions.

Child's Illness a Challenge But Strengthens Family

文章的标题弥漫辨证观:儿童疾病:家庭的挑战与纽带!只需留心,我们便能从身边的事实中发现,一些“美满”的本该幸福的家庭,却“人祸”不断,一些横遭“天灾”的家庭却能团结一致,共度难关!读者朋友,你读完本文后,别忘了读卞霁写的文章:“儿童疾病:家庭的挑战与纽带”一文的“幕后戏”

Monkey's Best Friend——A mother's social skills may affect her child's health

美国三位科学家通过对几头狒狒的“追踪”调查发现,母狒狒的社交技能居然可能会影响到其后代的健康状况。“社会关系”良好的母狒狒后代的生存发展似乎要远远好于“猴际”关系较差的母狒狒的后代。尽管原因尚无定论,但人类,尤其是对子女的成长关注程度极高的国人似乎可以从中得到一点启迪。

Dolly,Cloning's Poster Child,Dies at Age 6

选注者言:虽然全世界的吸引力在2月14日似乎都集中到了联合国武器核查小组负责人布利克斯向安理会提交关于伊拉克大规模杀伤性武器的第二份报告上,但是另一个消息或许更让人为之震动,或心有戚戚焉,或心存惋惜。世界上第一只用成年动物体细胞克隆成功的哺乳动物——多利羊,在这一天被执行安乐死。多利的生,辉煌大于震惊,而多利的死,则震惊大于辉煌。