background: excessive and uncontrolled television watching by children predisposes them to some risks such as developmental, social and psychological disorders. parents play an important role in nurturing their children and controlling the factors affecting their health. the aim of this study was to determine the impact of health education programs on parents' supervision skills to control thei...

A new Digital Terrestrial Television service based on transmission and visualization of 3D images is presented. This service has been designed to be suitable for domestic users without relevant increase of the final cost for the spectator, being the production of the programs what is modified to generate adequate 3D TV signals. The systems that make possible the implementation of the service ha...

The implementation of DSP (Digital Signal Processing) to the television, CCTV, medical, industrial and other cameras caused the numerous benefits to the camera picture processing. Even though the camera CCD (Charge Coupled Device) block is basically an analog device and a part of video signal processing is still performed in the analog domain the A/D converter at the CCD output transforms video...

Many young children have televisions in their bedrooms, which may influence the relationship between parental estimate and objective measures of child television usage/week. Parental estimates of child television time of eighty 4-7 year old children (6.0 +/- 1.2 years) at the 75th BMI percentile or greater (90.8 +/- 6.8 BMI percentile) were compared to an objective measure of television time ob...

portraying women in the media is one of the main social and cultural issues especially on television. television commercials as a genre have ideas about goods and services, but it constructs a secondary discourse about society, culture and gender roles along the way. the main goal of this paper is to examine women’s readings of gender roles representation in iranian television commercials from ...

BACKGROUND Sedentary activities, such as watching television, may disrupt habituation to food cues, thereby increasing motivation to eat and energy intake. OBJECTIVE These experiments were designed to examine the effect of television watching on habituation of ingestive behavior in children. DESIGN In experiment 1, all children worked for access to cheeseburgers in trials 1-7 (habituating s...

In Indonesia, national broadcasting in the 21st century has been characterized by increasing Muslim normativity across the spectrum of commercial programming, along with sectarian clashes that have further marginalized religious minorities. This article investigates the case of a small, regional television station in one of the country’s Christian-majority provinces to explore the ways that suc...

BACKGROUND This survey determined the practices about television (video inclusive), videogames, and computer use in children and adolescents in Italy. METHODS A self-administered anonymous questionnaire covered socio-demographics; behaviour about television, videogames, computer, and sports; parental control over television, videogames, and computer. RESULTS Overall, 54.1% and 61% always at...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether eating while watching television poses a risk for poor nutrition and excess body weight over and above that of time spent watching television. DESIGN We analysed data of grade 5 students participating in a comprehensive population-based survey in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. This survey included the Harvard's Youth Food Frequency Questionnaire, students' ...

VISUAL COMPLEXITY IN TELEVISION NEWS: A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF AUDIENCE EVALUATIONS OF AN ELECTRONICALLY ESTIMA ED FORM COMPLEXITY V BLE Tony Rimmer School of Journalism Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 Telephone: (812) 335-1717 Office The object of this study was to develop a content-free, form complexity measure of a network TV newscast based on pixel light Intensity, and to test aud...