Postpartum blues is a major risk factor for the incidence of postpartum depression and disruption of breastfeeding. This semi-experimental study investigated the effect of breastfeeding training based on the BASNEF model on severity of postpartum blues in 2012. Four educational sessions based on the BASNEF model were held separately for pregnant women and their mothers, mothers-in-law and spous...

the aim of this descriptive and analytical type of study was to investigate epidemiological characteristics of post partum blues in pregnant women referring to maternity clinics in hafiz and zeinabieh hospital. the sample consisted of 400 pregnant women in their third trimester who were visited these clinics over the sampling period. the data were collected through two questionnaires; the first...

A new scale for the detection and assessment of maternity blues was completed by 56 women daily for ten days after elective gynaecological surgery. When their responses were compared with those of 87 post-natal women, they differed significantly in frequencies of different symptoms at different times. The findings suggest that post-natal mood changes ('maternity blues') are characteristic of th...

The purpose of the article is to investigate characteristics 12-bar blues within jazz music. research methodology based on use methods analysis (for musicological standards), comparison comparative formation and features music formation) generalisation (to formulate conclusions). scientific novelty study in highlighting problem relationship between formative principles Conclusions. musical form...

“Always historicize!” Fredric Jameson calls this opening salvo from 1981’s The Political Unconscious the book’s “transhistorical imperative” and its “moral” (9). Is this, indeed, the most sacred of all critical commandments? The “thou shalt not kill” of literary studies (above all, perhaps, of American literary studies)? (Nietzsche might have called it, rather, the “thou shalt kill”: in his wor...

Why do the Blues make one blue? It is commonly known and accepted throughout the world that upon hearing a Blues song, one will feel a certain sadness and the melancholy experienced by the composer. We choose the blues musical scale to illustrate and propose a new methodology of understanding why certain parameterized waveforms upon entering a human’s ear’s cause that human to experience an emo...

A successful honey bee forager tells her nestmates the location of good nectar and pollen with the waggle dance, a symbolic language that communicates a distance and direction. Because bees are adept at scouting out profitable forage and are very sensitive to energetic reward, we can use the distance that bees communicate via waggle dances as a proxy for forage availability, where the further t...