The unpredictability of maternal sensory signals in caregiving behavior has been recently found to be linked with infant neurodevelopment. The research area is new, and very little is yet known, how maternal anxiety and depressive symptoms and specific parental characteristics relate to the unpredictable maternal care. The aims of the current study were to explore how pre- and postnatal maternal anxiety and depressive symptoms and self-regulation capacity associate with the unpredictability of maternal sensory signals. The study population consisted of 177 (...) mother-infant dyads. The unpredictability of the maternal sensory signals was explored from the video-recorded mother-infant free play situation when the infant was 8 months of age. Pre- and postnatal anxiety and depressive symptoms were measured by questionnaires prenatally at gwks 14, 24, 34, and 3 and 6 months postpartum. Maternal self-regulation capacity, a trait considered to be stable in adulthood, was assessed using adult temperament questionnaire when the infant was 12 months of age. We found that elevated prenatal maternal anxiety symptoms associated with higher unpredictability in the maternal care while depressive symptoms were unrelated to the unpredictability of maternal care. Moreover, the association was moderated by maternal self-regulation capacity, as higher anxiety symptoms during pre-and postnatal period were associated more unpredictability among the mothers with low self-regulation capacity. The combination of higher amount of maternal anxiety symptoms and lower self-regulation capacity seems to constitute specific risk for the unpredictable maternal care. (shrink)

Since the publication of Black Skin,White Masks, questions of blackness have invoked the problem as being related to time and temporality. Afropessimism has placed this temporal problem at the core of its endeavor. This paper takes that intuition as a means to interrogate and deepen Frank B. Wilderson III’s claim that black time is without narrative capacity or coordinates. Black time is thus one in which the movement of time is uncontestable. Moving through Patterson’s concept of natal alienation and then (...) Heidegger and Derrida on Death and givenness, Wilderson’s argument can be substantiated. Specifically, if we understand black time as being nonauthentic rather than contained within Heidegger’s authenticity/inauthenticity constellation, and essentially bound up with an interminable and unsettled life debt that racial slavery entailed, there is a means to unfold Wilderson’s claim and approach the notion that what blackness gives is time. (shrink)

Recension av _@Stoltjude - om judiskt liv i Sverige_, Nina Tojzner och Malin Norrby (red.), Micael Bindefeld (förord), Samuel Adler (berättartext), Daniel Leviathan (uppslagsdel), Isabelle Falck (grafisk formgivning) (Stockholm: Hillelförlaget och Judiska Ungdomsförbundet i Sverige, 2022).

The lymphatic vasculature comprises an intricate network of vessels critical for fluid homeostasis, immune surveillance and fat absorption. Recent studies have provided insights into the developmental processes and molecular mechanisms controlling the formation and remodelling of the lymphatic vessels. These studies have further demonstrated the essential and active role of the lymphatic vessels in various pathological conditions and advanced our understanding of the progression of human diseases, such as inflammation and tumorigenesis. In the context of the latest exciting findings, we (...) review here the current understanding of the mechanisms of lymphatic development and contribution of lymphatic vessels to pathological conditions. BioEssays 29:1192–1202, 2007. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (shrink)

『주역』을 연구하는 근본적인 목적은 그 내용체계를 온전히 이해하기 위한 것이라 할 수 있다. 그리고 이를 온전히 이해한다는 것은 일관된 논리체계로 통섭할 수 있어야 한다는 것이다. 그러기 위해서는 그 내용체계를 기본공리(axiomxiom)에서부터 연역하여 모순 없는 논리구조로 재구성할 수 있어야 한다. 『주역』의 기본공리라 할 수 있는 것은 ‘도(道)’의 개념이다. 왜냐하면 『주역』은 변화를 말하는 저서인데, 이는 “한번 음하고 한번 양한다(一陰一陽).”로 표현되는 것으로 그러한 변화의 이치를 가장 함축성 있게 드러내 주고 있기 때문이다. 따라서 이 논문은 이러한 연구과정에 있어서의 첫 작업으로, ‘도’의 개념을 구체화시키고, 이로부터 연역하여 (...) 태극(太極)·양의(兩義)·사상(四象)·팔괘(八卦)의 개념을 명확히 하고자 하였다. 즉 이 논문에서는 먼저 ‘도’를 ‘도’ 자체와 존재로서의 ‘도’로 구별하여 설명한다. ‘도’ 자체는 ‘음양(陰陽)’이 상호 지속적으로 변화하는 것이며, 존재로서의 ‘도’는 자신과 대대하는 존재인 ‘기(器)’와 더불어 ‘음양’의 두 쌍이 된다. ‘기’는 ‘음양’의 개념에 함축된다. ‘음양’은 대대관계에 있으면서 실재하는 대상들이며, 이 두 쌍의 형태와 이 두 쌍이 상호 변화하는 형태는 각각 네 가지 유형으로 분류될 수 있다. 그리고 이 논문에서는 태극·양의·사상·팔괘의 개념을 ‘도’ 자체와의 관계적으로 풀이하고 있으며, 그 결과 이 개념들이 모두 존재를 말하고 있다는 관점에서 상호 동치관계로 규정될 수 있음을 밝힌다. 즉 태극은 ‘음양’의 합이며, 양의는 곧 ‘음양’이며, 사상은 ‘음양’을 네 가지 형상으로 구분한 것이며, 팔괘는 사상을 여덟 가지 괘의 형상으로 구분한 것이다. (shrink)