Dentists call for real effort to push junk food brands out of sport

Call to reduce junk food at checkouts.

Junk food thoughts.

Selective Call Out and Real Time Bidding

Display ads on the Internet are increasingly sold via ad exchanges such as RightMedia, AdECN and Doubleclick Ad Exchange. These exchanges allow real-time bidding, that is, each time the publisher contacts the exchange, the exchange ”calls out” to solicit bids from ad networks. A major issue is the infrastructure mismatch: the volume of impressions that come to the ad exchange is very large, but...

Children’s implicit recall of junk food, alcohol and gambling sponsorship in Australian sport

BACKGROUND In Australia, sport is saturated by the promotion of junk food, alcohol and gambling products. This is particularly evident on player jerseys. The effect of this advertising on children, who are exposed to these messages while watching sport, has not been thoroughly investigated. The aim of this research study was to investigate: (1) the extent to which children implicitly recalled s...

Call-by-push-value

Call-by-push-value (CBPV) is a new programming language paradigm, based on the slogan “a value is, a computation does”. We claim that CBPV provides the semantic primitives from which the call-by-value and call-by-name paradigms are built. The primary goal of the thesis is to present the evidence for this claim, which is found in a remarkably wide range of semantics: from operational semantics, ...