Banning Ads from Prime-Time State Television: Lessons from France

Tobacco imagery on prime time UK television

BACKGROUND Smoking in films is a common and well documented cause of youth smoking experimentation and uptake and hence a significant health hazard. The extent of exposure of young people to tobacco imagery in television programming has to date been far less investigated. We have therefore measured the extent to which tobacco content occurs in prime time UK television, and estimated exposure of...

Television advertising and children: lessons from policy development.

AIM To conduct a policy review of the regulations related to food advertising on television aimed at children. DESIGN The study consisted of documentary analysis of relevant legislation and policy documents related to children's advertising from both industry and non-governmental organisations at a global level and in 20 countries. This was supported with semi-structured telephone interviews ...

Lessons from giant gravitons on AdS 5 × T 1 , 1

We implement Mikhailov’s holomorphic curve construction to explore various properties of giant gravitons in type IIB string theory on AdS5 × T . By coloring the D-brane worldvolume, we are able to show how, in the string theory, the giant graviton factorizes at its maximal size into two dibaryons topologically stable D-branes wrapping non-contractible cycles in the T . This is related to the st...

Crime and Law Enforcement on Prime-Time Television

Portrayals of reproductive and sexual health on prime-time television.

Prime-time broadcast television provides health information and establishes norms for millions of people in the United States (Beck, 2004; Brodie et al., 2001; Murphy & Cody, 2003; Rideout, 2008). To understand what people may be learning about reproductive and sexual health, a content analysis was conducted of story lines from the 10 most popular prime-time television programs in 2009, 2010, a...