Using a sample of 43 7-8-year-olds and their parents, we examined the extent to which children’s judgments about food products are influenced by the same factors as their parents. The factors manipulated were brand name familiarity, healthiness of product, and use of licensed cartoon characters (children) or celebrity endorsers (parents). Brand name familiarity was a more important factor than ...

This now famous quote neatly captures the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the transgressive character of the action heroine.' Smarter, tougher and better equipped than both the traditional heroines of the action genre and many of their contemporary male counterparts, action heroines are a new breed of arse-kicking female protagonists in action genre films Aggressive, heroic and transforma...

The Japanese script consists of two phonetic syllabaries, called hiragana (eg ft* /ka/) and katakana (eg # /ka/), and thousands of Chinese characters, called kanji (eg ^ hon). Chinese characters have three basic properties: form, sound, and meaning. Many characters are of complex shape, some having more than twenty or even thirty strokes. Each character may be pronounced according to its Chines...

The traditional edit-distance problem is to find the minimum number of insert-character and delete-character (and sometimes change character) operations required to transform one string into another. Here we consider the more general problem of a string represented by a singly linked list (one character per node) and being able to apply these operations to the pointer associated with a vertex a...

Touchless written English character recognizer (TER), a new touchless approach to write and an intelligent approach to recognize English characters has been proposed in this paper. In TER, the inputs of English characters have been taken by touchless fashion i.e. by sensing specific color object with a moving hand tracking in front of a webcam. Then they have been recognized by efficient Artifi...

WINTER 2011 39 The way people interact with robots appears to be fundamentally different from how they interact with most other technologies. People tend to ascribe a level of intelligence and sociability to robots that influences their perceptions of how the interactions should proceed. If a robot, for its part, adheres to this ascription, then the interactions tend to be natural and engaging;...

Periclinal chimera plants could be synthesized by a very easy grafting method. Thanks to this technique we can transfer useful characters from one genotype another, also produce vigorous during short period. Recently in cassava, resistance nematode transferred, and develop combining two types that have high ability. The most striking feature is obtain enormous roots up five times the common one...

Root ofPlumbago indica Linn is used in ayurveda and siddha medicine for the treatment of colic inflammations bronchitis, helminthiasis, hemorrhoids, elephantiasis, hepatosplenomegaly, amenorrhea, odontalgia, piles, and diabetes. The present study aims to investigate the anatomical characters of thin and thick root and to confirm the physicochemical characters of the root. Anatomical st...