AIMS Alcohol portrayal in movies and commercials is generally positive and might stimulate young people to drink. We tested experimentally whether portrayal of alcohol images in movies and commercials on television promotes actual drinking. METHODS In a naturalistic setting (a bar lab), young adult male pairs watched a movie clip for 1 h with two commercial breaks and were allowed to drink no...

Male cartoonists dominated the cartoon industry of Keralam in second half twentieth century. Women stereotypes are highlighted discourse cartoons, probably like any other artform world. This paper is an attempt to analyse representation women folk cartoons Keralam, during post independent period India. The veteran male namely Cartoonist Toms, Yesudasan and Thomas have been analysed for study. m...

Children's maternal, self, and marital representations were examined in 46 children 3 1/2 to 7 years old using the MacArthur Story Stem Battery. Children drawn from agencies serving battered women expressed fewer positive representations of their mothers and themselves, were more likely to portray interparental conflict as escalating, and were more avoidant and less coherent in their narratives...

Computational complexity is examined using the principle of increasing entropy. To consider computation as a physical process from an initial instance to the final acceptance is motivated because information requires physical representations and because many natural processes have been recognized to complete in non-deterministic polynomial time ( ). The irreversible process with three or more d...

The migration literature agrees on several key factors that motivate individual decisions to move: human capital investments, socioeconomic status, familial considerations, social networks, and local opportunities in origins relative to opportunities abroad. Yet further analysis of the social forces underlying these relationships reveals interwoven gender relations and expectations that fundame...

Homemakers' efforts to the growth of their homes and economies in Indian society have been downplayed. As civilizations proceeded toward modernism, women's responsibilities changed dramatically. Are same happening film industry industry's portrayal women films at a time when appear broken free from home family setup into world are ready challenge stereotypes? Is this evolving social trend refle...

Legitimacy of women existences captured diverse and compound through the lens cultural social background. In course history, American Indigenous Women elucidated their identity articulation following West at hand feminism. However, ‘white’ feminism is not in position to accommodate unique characteristics Women. Their contour commandment which giving a rise out power cried for suitable paradigm....

Obesity is a major medical health challenge; however, the associated stigma represents a harmful and obstructive obstacle to treatment. The study purpose was to explore the portrayal of obesity in UK national newspapers. A purposive sample of 312 editions (weekday: n = 208; weekend: n = 104) from six newspapers (3 broadsheet; 3 tabloid) was analysed. All text related to obesity was content anal...

Anne Brontë, in her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, criticizes the power patriarchal society nineteenth century and practices that legitimize actions men considered superior to women. Helen, female protagonist novel, shows by running away from home with child due cruel neglectful husband, she can both stand on own feet raise well without a father like Arthur, thus opposes order discourse per...