Objetivo: Analizar la relación entre la violencia intrafamiliar y la depresión postparto en puérperas adolescentes atendidas en el Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal. Material y métodos: Se realizó un estudio retrospectivo, transversal, diseño descriptivo, con 150 pacientes. Las variables independientes fueron: Violencia física, violencia psicológica o emocional, violencia sexual y violencia económica, La variable dependiente fue la depresión post parto. Los datos se obtuvieron de las historias clínicas de las pacientes puérperas adolescentes atendidas en el Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal, en el período de enero a marzo del 2014. Mediante la aplicación de dos cuestionarios: El primero para evaluar la depresión: Escala de Depresión de Zung (EZ-D), los índices de depresión < 28 indicaron ausencia de depresión; entre 28 y 41 depresión leve; entre 42 y 53 depresión moderada; > 53 depresión severa o grave. Y un cuestionario validado para valorar la violencia intrafamiliar. Para el análisis estadístico no ajustado se empleó estadística bivariada con la prueba Chi cuadrado. Los cálculos se realizaron con un nivel de confianza del 95%. Resultados: En nuestro estudio el 17.3 % sufrió violencia física, 52.7% violencia psicológica, tocamientos indebidos el 6%, violación sexual el 4% y el 24.7% trabajo durante su gestación. El 25.3% sufrió de Depresión leve, 12.7% de Depresión moderada y el 2.7% de Depresión severa. Nuestra tasa de prevalencia total de depresión fue de 40.7%. Se encontró relación estadísticamente según la prueba de chi cuadrado entre la violencia física intrafamiliar y la depresión severa (p=0.003). Además se encontró relación estadísticamente según la prueba de chi cuadrado entre los tocamientos inapropiados durante el embarazo por parte de algún familiar o la pareja y la depresión moderada (p=0.003). Y por último se encontró relación estadísticamente según la prueba de chi cuadrado entre violación sexual intrafamiliar y la depresión severa (p=0.030). Conclusión: La Violencia física intrafamiliar, los tocamientos inapropiados y la violación sexual por parte de algún familiar o la pareja provocan depresión post parto en puérperas adolescentes. / Tesis

My thesis analyzes James Joyce’s engagement with Catholic-nationalist Ireland’s (mis)understanding of women in Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses. I argue that, while Joyce shows both men and women struggling against the constraints of Catholic-nationalist gender roles, he implies that neither can be free from those constraints until Irish artists seek to more thoroughly understand women. After explaining how Catholic-nationalist rhetoric influenced the Irish understanding of women, I argue that Joyce not only recognizes and engages with Irish gender oppression but also believes that Irish art both constructs and is constructed by this oppression. With analyses of some of Joyce’s female characters, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, I demonstrate how Joyce critiques Irish culture’s concept of women and Irish art’s representation of them, and then establishes a new paradigm of artistic representation.

Thesis advisor: Paul Cichello / Liberia had two devastating civil wars 1989-2003. I am examining who benefitted from the large amounts of international aid and development programs that poured into the country during the post-war rebuilding period, in terms of school enrollment rates. With USAID’s Demographic and Health Surveys and Uppsala Conflict Data Program’s Georeferenced Event Dataset, I use probit and linear probability models to examine the determinants of being enrolled in school in 2007 and 2019. I find that females and kids living in rural areas had disproportionate recovery in the post-war period controlling for other explanatory variables. Household wealth was an important factor in determining enrollment. I also examine the concept of bounce-back, or rapid recovery in post-conflict contexts. I find that on a national level, there was significant recovery in enrollment rates, with about 51% of kids being enrolled in school in 2007 and about 81% being enrolled in 2019. I was unable to determine definitively whether or not this recovery was proportional to the amount of loss experienced due to the wars due to large standard deviations. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: Economics.

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This thesis investigates testimonies of three female authors from Latin America and the Middle East through scriptotherapy narratives which "give voice to previously repressed memories," defined by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Through the genre of autobiography, women have an opportunity to showcase acts of resistance towards the inner turmoil of colonial trauma that has been brought upon their existence. Decoloniality re-integrates the roots of colonial power into re-invigorated narratives that will become lineage. The only way that they can create their own identity is through "legending," Gilles Deleuze's conceptualized theoretical framework, which does not offer an escape from colonialism but utilizes its power to offer narratives of healing. As "scriptotherapy" narratives, these female authors are displaying resistance by circulating their stories to the global public and bringing communities together to understand that it is possible to stop the cycle of trauma and abuse that exists to keep the women of their culture repressed. I argue that Julia Alvarez and Azar Nafisi's scriptotherapy narratives encode trauma as acts of resistance in relation to turbulent political situations in their home countries. Julia Alvarez's Something to Declare: Essays (1998) details her experiences as a Latin American woman who has been displaced, bodily, from the Dominican Republic during its revolutionary period from April to September of 1965. Azar Nafisi's Things I've Been Silent About: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter (2008) paints a historical portrait of her Iranian family life during the Islamic Revolution of 1978–1979 and the toll the colonial powers had on cultivating her journey into womanhood. Adriana Páramo's My Mother's Funeral (2013) showcases writing as trauma reintegrated into a narrative in which personal ideologies and native Spanish language construct an intersectional space. Through storytelling, women are advocated for globally and consciously brought into the major Western culture to instigate change.

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Pages 154 and 155 were not included in the thesis. / <p> The post-irradiation annealing of highly converted styrene-polystyrene systems was explored. Experimental conditions necessary for the entrapment of high concentrations of free radicals in such systems were investigated. They were found to bear a relation to the glass transition temperature of the system.</p> <p> The concentration of free radicals formed by subjecting the polymer-monomer systems to Gamma rays, at room temperature, was measured, and the subsequent GM and GP values were calculated. The structure of the formed radical was found to be in agreement with that suggested by previous investigators. The free radicals decay was examined at varied temperatures above and below Tgs, and was found to follow a second order mechanism. The activation energy of decay was found to increase by raising the temperature above Tgs.</p> <p> When irradiation was executed at temperatures below Tgs, post-irradiation annealing led to high rates of polymerization when carried out at temperatures above Tgs. </p> <p> The number average molecular weight was practically unchanged during the polymerization of the last few percent monomer.</p> / Thesis / Master of Engineering (MEngr)

This paper explores the volatile relationship between the political prisoners and the common criminals in the Soviet GULAG. Lenin's theories on crime and punishment shaped the early Soviet penal system; he implemented policies which favored the common criminals and repressed the political prisoners. He deemed that the criminals, as "social allies" of the working class, were more likely to become good Soviet citizens than the political prisoners, considered "counterrevolutionaries" and "enemies of the state." In the decade after the Bolshevik revolution, the prison administration empowered the criminals in the GULAG by giving them access to the life-saving jobs and goods in the labor camps, while gradually withdrawing the political prisoners' access to the same. From the 1930s to shortly after the end of World War II, the strong criminal fraternity in the GULAG robbed, beat, and killed the political prisoners, while the GULAG administration refused to intervene. Using the testimony of former political prisoners and GULAG personnel, as well as secondary sources, I identify the policies that led to the criminals' "reign of terror," I address theories regarding if and why the administration permitted such violence and disorder in the camps, and I demonstrate that the political prisoners responded to their situation in a range of ways, from holding their tormentors in contempt to forming a tentative friendships with individual criminals who could offer them their protection and a way to survive the camps.

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