Grandparent Affection and Emotional Well-being of Adolescents with Different Family Types

Despite the increasing importance of grandparents in raising their grandchildren, few studies analyze the impact that these intergenerational relationships have on the grandchildren, especially during adolescence. With a sample of 3432 adolescents between 11 years and 16 years old, we analyze to what degree grandparent affection explains adolescent emotional well-being. The results reveal interesting findings according to family type: traditional two-parent families, families with joint custody, or families with only one biological parent (specifying between father or mother). Lastly, we analyze and discuss the implications of the relevant results related to the grandparents’ sex, lineage, and state of health, the adolescent’s age, as well as finding a higher impact of grandparent affection has on adolescents from families with only the father as a reference figure. This study advocates for reinforcing the role of the grandparents during adolescence, becoming especially relevant for boys and girls living in father-only families.

Penerimaan Dakwah Keagamaan Mubaligh Tradisional dalam Masyarakat Korban Gempa Bumi

This study aims to describe the influence of traditional religious elites (Mubaligh) in Nagari Tandikek, Patamuan sub-district, Padang Pariaman district, which experienced an earthquake outside of September 30, 2009. Qualitative research type is used to collect the data. Observation and interview techniques are used to collect the data. The result shows that the traditional religious leaders are very influential in the Tandikek community. They have transformative and communicative approaches which are very easily understood by the communities. In addition, religious elites are also able to become a reference figure in acting and behaving. It is concluded that religious elites has important role in stimulating communities.

The last lieder of Theodor Grigoriu. Stylistic and interpretive aspects

Theodor Grigoriu, a reference figure for the XXth century Romanian music, as a senior of the post-enescian generation of composers, with a moderately modern attitude towards composing, had explored the expresive resources of the human voice in the vocal-symphonic and vocal-chamber genres. Although, from a quantitative point of view, his voice and piano works are not too numerous and the vocal-chamber genre had not been a constant focus of the composer, lied remains one of the most representative areas of his entire creation, marked by an accomplished literary taste and harmoniously neighboured by the halo of poetry. The lied had marked Theodor Grigoriu’s professional existence, beginning with the first childhood experiments which proved decisive for his future career, up to the inconstant achievements of his creative maturity. Although approached in a non-consistent manner, the diversity, mastery of composition and the abutment to works from a more ample genre to which he resonates and configures genuine “creation laboratories”, the voice and piano cycles of works represent what can truthfully be called lied creation. Letter to birds on words by St. Francisc of Assisi (2004) and The iconographer – The poem of a church painter (2011) on words of a patriarchal, novel text with no poetic aspirations, are the last lieder of Theodor Grigoriu, published posthumously. As a binding of music and poetry into a one poethico-musical universe, they are an exponent of accumulations and transformations of musical language, spectacular compositions, of paramount originality, which harmoniously complete the spiraled path of the genre in the context of the composer’s entire creation.

The Family and Professional Circle of Two Samarkand Calligraphers of Persian Belles-Lettres Around the Year 1600 (ca. 1010 AH)

The analysis of several extant manuscripts of the Šāhnāma epics and other Persian literary texts produced by two calligraphers, Ādīna Kātib Buḫārī (fl. 1595-1605) and Mīr Māh b. Mīr ʿArab (fl. 1592-1613), seemingly in the same atelier in Samarkand, opens up an interesting field of investigation. The latter copyist was a close relation of a renowned court calligrapher and Chief Librarian of the Shaybanid rulers of Bukhara, Mīr Ḥusayn “Kulangī” (fl. ca. 1535-85) who himself also specialized in the copy of Persian classical literature; more then 30 manuscripts by his hand are extant today. This article presents the available information on professional biographies of these calligraphers (introducing some hithertho unknown manuscripts), but also it touches upon the issues of the actual organization and practices of skill transmission and book production, some aspects of professional specialization, and the importance of transmission reference figure in professional and family contexts of the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Central Asia.

2. Red Subluminous Stars

(UBVRI) observations of known subluminous stars were published in a previous discussion (Eggen, 1970a) where the bulk of the objects, both red (RSL) and blue (BSL) populated a sequence extending for M(I) near + 11.m5 at (R – I) near 0.m0 to M(I) of + 15m near R – I = +0.m3. However, four RSL stars appeared to form a separate sequence near M(I)= +11m and R–I between +0.m3 and +0.m7. These four stars, plus an additional object (LTT 2236) are listed in Table I together with the source of luminosity; the weights of the trigonometric parallaxes are given in parentheses following the parallax. These five stars are represented in Figure 1 by crosses; the top of the steep sequence of subluminous stars is shown as the hatched region in the figure. For reference, Figure 1 also contains (1) the Hyades main sequence (Eggen, 1969b), indicated by a broken curve, (2) the evolved main sequence of the old disk population (Eggen, 1970b), shown by open circles, and (3) the subdwarfs, which are listed in Table II. In addition to the photometric results, Table II contains the Yale Parallax Catalogue number, the mean trigonometric parallax and its weight, in parentheses, as well as the resulting values of M (I).