Ideograph characters are often formed by some smaller functional units, which we call character components. These character components can be ideograph radicals, ideographs proper, or some pure components which must be used with others to form characters. Decomposition of ideographs can be used in many applications. It is particularly important in the study of Chinese character formation, phone...

This study analyzes the relation between national identity and the appreciation of the characters and events of Peruvian history in a sample of public school teachers from the city of Lima (N = 99). Adapted versions of the NATID Scale (Keillor et al., 1996) and the CSES Scale (Luhtanen & Crocker, 1992) are used as measures of national identity. National pride and interest in knowing about Peruv...

The q-rook monoid Rn(q) is a semisimple C(q)-algebra that specializes when q → 1 to C[Rn], where Rn is the monoid of n × n matrices with entries from {0, 1} and at most one nonzero entry in each row and column. We use a Schur-Weyl duality between Rn(q) and the quantum general linear group Uqgl(r ) to compute a Frobenius formula, in the ring of symmetric functions, for the irreducible characters...

The notion of depth is defined by Moy-Prasad [MP2]. The notion of a generic character will be defined in §9. When G = GLn or G is the multiplicative group of a central division algebra of dimension n with (n, p) = 1, our generic characters are just the generic characters in [My] (where the definition is due to Kutzko). Moreover, in these cases, our construction literally specializes to Howe’s c...

A tabulation-based hash function maps a key into d derived characters indexing random values in tables that are then combined with bitwise xor operations to give the hash. Thorup and Zhang [8] presented d-wise independent tabulation-based hash classes that use linear maps over finite fields to map a key, considered as a vector (a, b), to derived characters. We show that a variant where the deri...