OBJECTIVE To estimate youth exposure to smoking in movies in the UK and compare the likely effect with the USA. METHODS We collected tobacco occurrences data for 572 top-grossing films in the UK screened from 2001 to 2006 and estimated the number of on-screen tobacco impressions delivered to British youths in this time period. RESULTS 91% of films in our sample that contained smoking were y...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the influence of age and social circumstances on probability of revascularisation among British men. DESIGN Prospective population based study SETTING 24 medium sized British towns, none of which contained a hospital undertaking coronary artery bypass surgery. SUBJECTS 5814 surviving participants of the BRHS (British regional heart study), aged 52-73 years, with n...

Objective: To investigate the influence of age and social circumstances on probability of revascularisation among British men. Design: Prospective population based study Setting: 24 medium sized British towns, none of which contained a hospital undertaking coronary artery bypass surgery. Subjects: 5814 surviving participants of the BRHS (British regional heart study), aged 52–73 years, with no ...

In November 2014, OPEC announced a new strategy geared towards improving its market share. Oil-market analysts interpreted this as an attempt to squeeze higher-cost producers, notably US shale oil, out of the market. Over the next year, crude oil prices crashed, with large repercussions for the global economy. We present a simple equilibrium model that explains the fundamental market factors th...

Getting Started with Ecclesiastes: Coming to Grips with Mortality Dr. Elaine Phillips, © 2013 Introduction Ecclesiastes presents the reader with alternately disturbing and oddly reassuring realities. While scholars differ as to whether these views are a comfortable fit with “orthodoxy” and debate how to label and understand the various attitudes expressed, Ecclesiastes unquestionably speaks to ...

This 24-nation European–US study (1999–2000) of the democratic political values, attitudes, and behavior of adolescents uncovers a generally high level of self-predicted future political participation as adults. Four of five14-year-olds regard themselves as future voters, and 61% predict involvement in protest activities. Moreover, law breaking as an act of protest is almost as attractive in th...

the adaptation of sociological theories to historical subjects, despite the problems it encounters, is something that new historiography should start to do for dynamism and to avoid pure quotation of historical events and it should enjoy the results of other fields studies, especially sociology. in this case, system theory has an important position in appropriate analysis and explanation of his...

This study involves automatically identifying the sociolinguistic characteristics of fictional characters in plays by analyzing their written “speech”. We discuss three binary classification problems: predicting the characters’ gender (male vs. female), age (young vs. old), and socioeconomic standing (upper-middle class vs. lower class). The text corpus used is an annotated collection of August...

In the history of the Rice Dramatic Club, there have been occasions when it has fallen in the power of the or ganization to produce outstanding modern dramas by contemporary playwrights—plays rich in enter ta inment quality, subtle in humor ; plays which live in the minds of the a u dience long af ter the final curtain falls. Such plays as "The Roynl Family," "Hay Fever ," and "Hell Bent for He...

Childless marriage has exercised the medical profession for centuries, but has hardly begun to interest the social scientist. For novelists and playwrights it has proved intrinsically fascinating. Nigel Balchin, for example, has written more than one compelling account of what can happen when the stresses inseparable from any marriage have to be contained within the two-person relationship. In ...