Exam Committee Exam Logistics Committee Chairperson: Date: Prof. Monica Vazirani Thursday September 3, 2015 Committee Members: Time: Prof. Dan Romik 11AM-2PM Assoc. Fu Liu Location: Prof. Greg Kuperberg MSB 3106 Prof. Francisco J. Samaniego 1 Proposed Research Talk 1.1 The Catalan numbers and q-analogues. A lattice path is a sequence of North N(0, 1) and East E(1, 0) steps in the first quadrant...

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Self-mutilation is defined as intentional damaging of the body without intent to die.  This behavior is observed among groups of psychiatric patients particularly schizophrenics.  In these patients, self-mutilative behavior may have unusual manifestations related to delusion and hallucination.  In this article, an unusual form of self-mutilation of a paranoid schizophrenic patient is reported. ...

In this paper, we introduce an adolescent suffering from a rare form of self-mutilation, "self-bloodletting", and discuss dynamics of this maladaptive behavior. Deliberate bloodletting is a rare, but not unheard of, form of self-mutilation associated with eating and personality disorders. Although there are already several case reports in the adult psychiatry literature regarding the clinical f...

Ritually motivated pedicide is among contemporary Africa’s most severe crimes against children. Most of these involve brutal acts violence or mutilation the victim. While men are often perpetrators violent crimes, ritually and equally attract women. The role women in not restricted to less aspects crimes; instead, they also extend elements, involving mutilation, decapitation outright murder Thi...

BACKGROUND Female genital mutilation is currently a public health problem which needs investigation and immediate action. Ethiopia is the second-ranked African country in terms of having higher numbers of circumcised girls. This study aimed to determine prevalence and associated factors of circumcision among daughters of reproductive aged women. METHODS A community based cross-sectional study...

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Basic constructions: The completeness and compactness theorems. The Löwenheim-Skolem theorem. Omitting types. Ultraproducts. Indiscernible sequences. Nice properties: Saturation, homogeneity, and the monster model. Elimination of imaginaries and Meq. Quantifier elimination. Model completeness. Countably categorical theories. Stable theories: Characterizations of a stable formula. Stable, supers...

(a) Definition of a ∆-system, statement and proof of the ∆-system lemma. (b) Statement of MA (Martin’s Axiom) and MAκ, proof that MAω holds and MAc fails. (c) Definition of a club and a stationary subset of κ, of the club filter and proof that the club filter on a regular cardinal κ is κ-complete. (d) Statement and proof of the Pressing Down Lemma. i. An application: Statement and proof of Thom...