OBJECTIVE To compare how smoking was depicted in Hollywood movies before and after an intervention limiting paid product placement for cigarette brands. DESIGN Correlational analysis. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS Top box office hits released in the USA primarily between 1988 and 2011 (n=2134). INTERVENTION The Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), implemented in 1998. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES This st...

— For the classical compact Lie groups K ≡ UN the autocorrelation functions of ratios of characteristic polynomials (z ,w) 7→ Det(z− k)/Det(w− k) are studied with k ∈ K as random variable. Basic to our treatment is a property shared by the spinor representation of the spin group with the Shale-Weil representation of the metaplectic group: in both cases the character is the analytic square root ...

Proof. Now suppose that ρp is absolutely reducible and we want to show that for any other λ ∈ Spec(E), ρλ is also absolutely reducible. Note that there exists a finite extension K over Ep such that ρp is reducible. Then there is a vector e1 in the underline space V ′ = V ⊗Ep K such that G is stable over e1. Let χ1 be the character of G acts on e1, χ2 the character G acts on V ′/K · e1. Since χi...

OBJECTIVE To study the effects of smoking in a film trailer. DESIGN Experimental study. SETTING Ten secondary schools in Northern Germany. PARTICIPANTS A sample of 1051 adolescents with a mean (SD) age of 14.2 (1.8) years. Main Exposures Participants were randomized to view a 42-second film trailer in which the attractive female character either smoked for about 3 seconds or did not smoke...

For a finite group G, the character degree graph ∆(G) is the graph whose vertices are the primes dividing the degrees of the ordinary irreducible characters of G, with distinct primes p and q joined by an edge if pq divides some character degree of G. We determine all graphs with four vertices that occur as ∆(G) for some nonsolvable group G. Along with previously known results on character degr...

We compute the characters of many supercuspidal representations of reductive p-adic groups. Specifically, we deal with representations that arise via Yu’s construction from data satisfying a certain compactness condition. Each character is expressed in terms of a depth-zero character of a smaller group, the (linear) characters appearing in Yu’s construction, Fourier transforms of orbital integr...

We study the p-adic absolute value of the roots of the L-functions associated to certain twisted character sums, and additive character sums associated to polynomials P (x d), when P varies among the space of polynomial of fixed degree e over a finite field of characteristic p. For sufficiently large p, we determine in both cases generic Newton polygons for these L-functions, which is a lower b...

In this paper we are concerned with the problem of determining the character values and Schur indices of a finite group of Lie type over Fq. We show that (under some conditions on q) these values lie in the ring of algebraic integers generated by (1 + ñq)/2 and roots of unity of order prime to q. Furthermore, we determine the Schur indices for some of the (nonrational) unipotent characters in ...

Recently, the capability of character-level evaluation measures for machine translation output has been confirmed by several metrics. This work proposes translation edit rate on character level (CharacTER), which calculates the character level edit distance while performing the shift edit on word level. The novel metric shows high system-level correlation with human rankings, especially for mor...