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Researcher Provido, Eden Delight B.

Title ON THE SYMMETRY GROUPS OF HYPERBOLIC SEMI-REGULAR TILINGS AND THE

INDEX 2 SUBGROUPS OF SOME HYPERBOLIC GROUPS

Adviser Maria Louise N. De Las Peas, Ph.D.

Discipline Mathematics Degree conferred M.S.Year 2006

ABSTRACT: This study has two parts. In the first part, the incenter process will be used as a basis to determine the symmetry groups of some classes of semi-regular tilings on the hyperbolic plane. The second part provides an approach in the determining the index 2 subgroups of the hyperbolic triangle group *pqr and its subgroup pqr, as well as the subgroup q*(p/2) of *pq2.

KEYWORDS: hyperbolic groups, hyperbolic semi-regular tilings, incenter process for generating tilings, tilings of the hyperbolic plane, symmetry groups of semi-regular tilings THESIS/DISSERTATION ABSTRACT

Researcher Ofreneo, Mira Alexis P.

Title POSITIONING THEORY AS A DISCURSIVE APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING SAME- SEX INTIMATE VIOLENCE

Adviser Cristina J. Montiel, Ph.D.

Discipline Psychology

Degree conferred Ph. D.Year 2006

ABSTRACT: This study used positioning theory as a discursive approach to understanding the dynamics of same-sex intimate violence as an alternative to the dominant psychological (i.e., intra-individual) and sociological (i.e., feminist) discourses. Framing same-sex violence as embedded in a system of rights and duties through positioning, 25 episodes involving physical violence from interviews with 2 gay and 2 lesbian couples were analyzed discursively. This study found a basic pattern wherein physical violence ensued only after the initiator or violence attributed guilt or blame on the other while claiming innocence or blamelessness as the aggrieved. Initiators also used more command and control storylines compared to receivers of violence. The findings were discussed in relation to issues of materiality and agency vis--vis discursive practices.

KEYWORDS: family violence, intimate violence, positioning theory, same-sex domestic violence