Genital self-mutilation is a rare severe form of self-injurious behaviour usually described in psychotic disorders with delusions & hallucinations. It has been ascribed to sexual conflicts, body image distortion, internalized aggression and suicidal intent. This phenomenon has been described in schizophrenia, affective psychosis, alcohol intoxication and personality disorders. In the present ca...

The School of Physics at the University of Sydney has a research group called SUPER, the Sydney University Physics Education Research group. In December 2000, an enthusiastic postdoctoral fellow, Dr Chris Stewart, joined SUPER. We considered possible research projects and decided to explore the differences between students trained under the old HSC syllabus with those trained under the new HSC ...

These are informal notes of all the lectures released throughout the 2014-2015 Number Theory Learning Seminar at Stanford. For more details on the aim of the course, please refer to the syllabus, available at http://math.stanford.edu/∼conrad/Perfseminar/refs/Syllabus1415.pdf. Throughout the text, the references are cited as in the syllabus. Part I Adic Spaces 1 Lecture 1: Motivation for adic sp...

Subincision of the penis is a traditional ritual mutilation unique to the Aborigines, the indigenous people of Australia. The mutilation is a urethrotomy in which the undersurface of the penis is incised and the urethra slit open lengthwise. Subincision is one element in the initiation of Aboriginal youths. In later ceremonies, repeated throughout adult life, the subincised penis is used as a s...

There are few words in our language that adequately express pain. To express emotional or physical pain to another human being we often rely upon metaphor. Self-mutilation is generally an unspoken expression of an internal and intangible experience. This behavior makes the unseen experience concrete. In some cases the process and outcome of self-mutilation is an explicit metaphor for the mind o...

BACKGROUND To investigate the association of bullying behavior with suicide attempts and self-mutilation among adolescents. SAMPLING AND METHODS The study sample consisted of 508 Finnish adolescents (age 12-17 years) admitted to psychiatric inpatient care between April 2001 and March 2006. DSM-IV psychiatric diagnoses and variables measuring suicidal behavior (i.e. suicide attempts and self-m...

This is the Summer 2005 version of the Instructor’s Solution Manual for Introduction to Graph Theory, by Douglas B. West. A few solutions have been added or clarified since last year’s version. Also present is a (slightly edited) annotated syllabus for the onesemester course taught from this book at the University of Illinois. This version of the Solution Manual contains solutions for 99.4% of ...

“Transactional memory” means that, instead of using explicit locks to protect from data races (like the Java synchronized construct), a programmer could declare a block of code atomic and rely on the underlying software and hardware system to ensure that code within the block executes as if atomic. The transactional memory system might use any of several concurrency control protocols, with some...