Emotion transformation: a grounded theory for uncovering painful triggers and repairing relational connection for parents of autistic children

Purpose It is often voiced that parents of autistic children are the expert of their child, whereas parenting programmes target them as effective mediators for change. This paper aims to explore this unchallenged heuristic to develop an understanding of both emotional and relational needs of parents through trainers’ experiences of delivering emotion-focused and autism parent training. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative study used a constructivist approach of grounded theory to gain an in-depth understanding of trainers’ experiences from their encounters when delivering parent training. Six expert trainers were interviewed, and a two-phased coding of ground theory and an adapted thematic analysis was used. Findings An overarching theme emerged: emotion transformation from painful triggers, to enhanced attunement and relational repair. Four main themes containing 13 subthemes were identified. The interaction of these themes and subthemes are presented in a three-phase process model. Phase 1: uncovering painful emotions from a shared journey contained one theme: parent painful triggers. Phase 2: uncovering interpersonal rupture cycle contained one theme: relational rupture cycle within non-synchrony of attunement. Phase 3: parent–child relational repair contained two themes: repairing attachment bonds and therapist’s prizing stance. Social implications The authors challenge the parent as expert heuristic and propose that not all parents feel expert in neurotypical-neurodivergent intersubjectivity. The authors are curious to see whether trainers/therapists can guide parents through unprocessed emotions and non-synchrony of attunement to promote healing and relational repair, which requires further investigation. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first emotion-transformation process model grounded in humanistic principles of relational acceptance and emotion theory. The authors propose that a focus on process rather than outcome is more likely to result in higher parenting self-efficacy.

Dynamical Component Exchange in a Model Phase Separating System: an NMR-based Approach

Biomolecular phase separation plays a key role in spatial organization of cellular activities. Dynamic formation and rapid component exchange between phase separated cellular bodies and their environment are crucial for their function. Here, we employ a well-established phase separating model system, namely, triethylamine (TEA)-water mixture, and develop an NMR approach to detect the exchange of scaffolding TEA molecules between separate phases and determine the underlying exchange rate. We further demonstrate how the advantageous NMR properties of fluorine nuclei provide access to otherwise inaccessible exchange processes of a client molecule. The developed NMR-based approach allows quantitative monitoring of the effect of regulatory factors on component exchange and facilitates “exchange”-based screening and optimization of small molecules against druggable biomolecular targets located inside condensed phases.

Positioning Strategies of Indian Nonprofit Organizations for Grant Acquisition

This study examines (1) how grant-seeking nonprofit organizations (NPOs) position themselves and (2) whether the positioning of NPOs has any connection with their grant acquisition. A content analysis of 100 websites of Indian NPOs (phase 1) helped in generating 9 hypotheses. Furthermore, 380 websites of Indian NPOs were studied using a statistical model (phase 2). NPOs were found with two different positioning strategies: (1) reliability positioning and (2) customer orientation positioning. The reliability positioning elements were recognition, transparency, collaboration, and resources. The customer orientation positioning elements were length of service, geographic spread, service variety, depth of service, and service impact. Recognition, transparency, collaboration, resources, and service variety positively and significantly influenced NPOs’ grant acquisition, and length of service and geographic spread negatively and significantly influenced NPOs’ grant acquisition.

Evolution of Wangtu Gneissic Complex and its paleogeographic implications in Columbia assembly: insights from geochemistry, geochronology, and computational phase-equilibria study

<p>A part of Palaeoproterozoic granite-gneiss complex, commonly known as Wangtu Gneissic Complex (WGC), exposed in Wangtu-Karcham-Akpa region along the Sutlej valley, northwest lesser Himalaya, India. The core part of this gneissic complex is exposed as the undeformed granitoid body. The basement of WGC is still more or less in its primeval condition. The Paleoproterozoic thermal evolution of the North Indian Continental Margin is uncertain as the Lesser Himalayan granites are viewed either as a subduction-zone volcanic arc or rift-related magmatism during the Columbia assembly or disintegration process. Integrated mineralogical, geochemical analyses, temperature calculations of Ti solubility in biotite and zircon, and computational phase equilibria modelling of the Wangtu Gneissic Complex (WGC), Himachal Himalaya show a peraluminous existence for most WGC rocks that crystallize at a temperature of ~650°C at a pressure of ~1.0-1.1 GPa. The WGC magmatic zircons' U-Pb ages indicate two significant age groups at 1867 Ma and 2487 Ma.</p><p>The U-Pb zircon data and model phase equilibria for metasedimentary rock show the generation of S-type peraluminous magma parental to the WGC, by melting pre-existing supracrustal rocks at ~ 1800 Ma, at temperature ~ 850-900 ° C and pressure 1.1-1.2 GPa, identical to P-T conditions found in modern-day subduction zone settings. Also, T<sub>DM</sub> model ages vary between 3.07 Ga and 2.28 Ga, and f <sup>Sm/Nd</sup> values (-0.4930 to -0.3510) of the studied samples suggest a contribution of Achaean crust. This study shows that the North Indian Continental Margin was an active subduction zone during the Paleoproterozoic Columbia supercontinent assembly.</p>

Equivalences between Calabi–Yau manifolds and roofs of projective bundles

It is conjectured that many birational transformations, called K-inequalities, have a categorical counterpart in terms of an embedding of derived categories. In the special case of simple K-equivalence (or more generally K-equivalence), a derived equivalence is expected: we propose a method to prove derived equivalence for a wide class of such cases. This method is related to the construction of roofs of projective bundles introduced by Kanemitsu. Such roofs can be related to candidate pairs of derived equivalent, L-equivalent and non isomorphic Calabi–Yau varieties, we prove such claims in some examples of this construction. In the same framework, we show that a similar approach applies to prove derived equivalence of pairs of Calabi–Yau fibrations, we provide some working examples and we relate them to gauged linear sigma model phase transitions.