Meromorphic Functions with Three Radially Distributed Values

We consider transcendental meromorphic functions for which the zeros, 1-points and poles are distributed on three distinct rays. We show that such functions exist if and only if the rays are equally spaced. We also obtain a normal family analogue of this result.

Difficulties experienced by parents of children with cancer: A literature review

Children with cancer experience certain difficulties and needs associated with pain, nutrition, weakness, infection, and hyperthermia. All these needs require satisfaction and support both from medical staff and the children’s families. One of the most difficult aspects of being parents of a child diagnosed with cancer is to balance normal family life with the sick child’s needs and treatment requirements. Cancer is a serious disease that creates many stress factors for family members. Families mostly feel that everything has changed in their lives with the cancer diagnosis and have to make many adjustments, including financial spendings. Treatments, hospital visits, and hospitalizations suddenly invade their normal family life. A shock after diagnosis, painful therapy, an associated disruption of family and social development, and a constant uncertainty of relapse affect not only the sick child but also his/her family members. The article aimed to describe the needs and difficulties of parents of a child with cancer. Results: Data analysis revealed four main areas where the parents of children with cancer experience difficulties: 1. changes in the daily life of families caring for children with cancer, 2. financial challenges, 3. lack of knowledge, 4. pain management, and 5. psychological health. Conclusion: Serious disease in a child possesses challenges for his/her parents due to the changes in families’ daily lives. These parents need additional knowledge of care, psychosocial support, especially when making decisions they have to make, such as terminating cancer treatment, giving consent to refuse resuscitation or life support

Difficulties experienced by parents of children with cancer: A literature review

Relevance: Children with cancer experience certain difficulties and needs associated with pain, nutrition, weakness, infection, and hyperthermia. All these needs require satisfaction and support both from medical staff and the children’s families. One of the most difficult aspects of being parents of a child diagnosed with cancer is to balance normal family life with the sick child’s needs and treatment requirements. Cancer is a serious disease that creates many stress factors for family members. Families mostly feel that everything has changed in their lives with the cancer diagnosis and have to make many adjustments, including financial spendings. Treatments, hospital visits, and hospitalizations suddenly invade their normal family life. A shock after diagnosis, painful therapy, an associated disruption of family and social development, and a constant uncertainty of relapse affect not only the sick child but also his/her family members. The article aimed to describe the needs and difficulties of parents of a child with cancer. Results: Data analysis revealed four main areas where the parents of children with cancer experience difficulties: 1. changes in the daily life of families caring for children with cancer, 2. financial challenges, 3. lack of knowledge, 4. pain management, and 5. psychological health. Conclusion: Serious disease in a child possesses challenges for his/her parents due to the changes in families’ daily lives. These parents need additional knowledge of care, psychosocial support, especially when making decisions they have to make, such as terminating cancer treatment, giving consent to refuse resuscitation or life support.

The Nation as Family

This chapter examines mother-child love linked to love for the nation within two Japanese plays. In Rio Kishida’s Thread Hell (1984), a pre–World War II silk factory represents the Japanese Empire, where a mother and her daughter are manipulated by the nation. However, they eventually challenge this symbolic realm that forces women to sustain the national lineage through their reproductive function. In Hideki Noda’s MIWA (2015), a homosexual transvestite’s relationship with his mother in the postwar period is depicted. As resistance to heteronormative ideas about family, and the nation as its extension, he commits matricide, but this leads to his melancholia as he cannot fully give up his desire to belong to a “normal” family and nation. These plays explore the ways individuals develop a critical relation to the nation by reconfiguring their love for their mother.

On certain non-linear differential monomial sharing non-zero polynomial

UDC 517.5 With the idea of normal family we study the uniqueness of meromorphic functions and when and share two values, where and is a polynomial. The obtained result significantly improves and generalizes the result in [A. Banerjee, S. Majumder, <em>On certain non-linear differential polynomial sharing a non-zero polynomial</em>, Bol. Soc. Mat. Mex. (2016),https://doi.org/10.1007/s40590-016-0156-0].