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The 'Impact' of Interactivity on Television Consumption

This final working paper is part of the study I conducted during my 5 months stay as a doctoral fellow with STeM in the School of Communications at Dublin City University (autumn/winter 2002). The aim of this paper, which is the amalgamation of two papers I worked on at DCU, is to sum up the main issues that I am concerned with in relation to the introduction of interactive television: domestic...

Does television cause childhood obesity?

The Effects of Television Food Advertising on Childhood Obesity

Children’s food choices are influenced by the media, television advertising, focusing directly at infants and toddlers. This literature review presents multiple studies that explain how TV advertising of fast food, sugary cereals and other foods high in calories, fat, sugar, sodium and low in nutrients are contributing to the increase rates of childhood obesity. It is concluded that children ar...

Childhood overweight and obesity--beyond television viewing.

From the Department of Forensic Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India Received: Nov. 11, 2014; Accepted: Jan. 13, 2015 Correspondence to: Dr. Tanuj Kanchan, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal University, India. State Highway 65, Madhav Nagar, Manipal, India. Tel.: 91‐9448252394; Fax: 91‐824‐2428183; E‐mail: tanuj.kanchan@ ...

Improper Priors Are Not Improper

It is well known that improper priors in Bayesian statistics may lead to proper posterior distributions and useful inference procedures. This motivates us to give an elementary introduction to a theoretical frame for statistics that includes improper priors. Axioms that allow improper priors are given by a relaxed version of Kolmogorov’s formulation of probability theory. The theory of conditio...