Does a low score in mathematics on transcripts affect graduate admissions? (CS PhD USA)
How does the admissions process work for Ph.D. programs in the US, particularly for weak or borderline students?
Our son is about to turn 3 months but he is yet to sleep on his own (as in we put him to sleep, put him down on the crib then he sleeps for few hours). He only sleeps when he is carried during the day, the moment we put him down he wakes up crying. At night, he sleeps with us on the bed where he is right next to his mommy. We blame ourselves for letting this happen but now my wife can't do anything during the day but carry him.  What can we do to break him out of this habit? Any pointers would be great appreciated. How to handle a deliberate duplicate question Can a wizard use his familiar's senses to enlarge his "you can see" area? How do I prove that $$ a^3+b^3+c^3−3abc = 1 $$ if   $ a = 1+\frac{x^3}{3!}+\frac{x^6}{6!}......$ , $b=x+\frac{x^4}{4!}+\frac{x^7}{7!}....$ , $c=\frac{x^2}{2!}+\frac{x^5}{5!}+\frac{x^8}{8!}......$ ?  I have tried the following :-  I discovered that $a+b+c=e^x$ and that $a=\frac{d(b)}{dx}$, $b=\frac{d(c)}{dx}$, $c=\frac{d(a)}{dx}$ . 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Furthermore you could come up with quantities in the spirit of $F\wedge F$ and $F \wedge *F$ and okay yes... maybe any made up scalar just doesn't describe physics or misses valuable symmetries. On there other hand in the whole renormalization business, they seem to be allowed to use lots and lots of terms in their Lagrangians. And if I understand correctly, supersymmetry theory is basically a method of introducing new Lagrangian densities too.   Do we know the limit for making up these objects? What is the fundamental justification for order two? Selenium python drop down menu select How do I enforce a password complexity policy? What exactly is a bad backlink that is Disavow worthy? I have been reading Webmasters SE and many other blogs on this topic but I could not understand how do we truly evaluate a bad link that we must disavow in GWT. Everybody seem to have a different opinion on this.  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MySQL server source and destination version:     mysqld Ver 5.7.26 for Linux on x86_64 (MySQL Community Server (GPL))   MariaDB mysqldump CLI version:     mysqldump Ver 10.17 Distrib 10.3.12-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) I've just installed Mir and I'm wondering if I'm actually running it or if it fell back to X. How can I tell if Mir is running? What is the point of isomorphism concept? which vectors are perpendicular to each other? which vectors are perpendicular to each other?  $\vec a = (1, -2, 3)$, $\vec b = (5, 4, 1)$, $\vec c = (1, 0, -5)$  Do i just take the dot product of 2 of them. If the dot product they are at $90^\circ$? But how do i know if there perpendicular? Bind a key for multiple units to use the same spell Does opacity:0 have exactly the same effect as visibility:hidden If so, does it effectively deprecate the visibility property?  (I realize that Internet Explorer does not yet support this CSS2 property.) Where is the flaw in this "proof" that 1=2? 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