AIM To investigate the longitudinal association between television viewing time and risk of incident diabetes mellitus in an elderly sample of adults in England. METHODS Analyses of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. At baseline (2008), participants reported their television viewing time and physical activity level. Diabetes mellitus was recorded from self-reported physician ...

Much attention has been paid to the amount of time Americans spend watching television. Cultivation theory has been important in exploring behavioral effects of television viewing for many years. However, psychosocial health has received much less scrutiny in relation to television viewing time. This investigation examined the hypotheses that television-free individuals and viewers adhering to ...

The purpose of this paper is three fold. First, the major theoretical pattern relationships of TV and/or FM transmitting antennas are dealt with. Secend, the computer calculation method and designing of such patterns using the given relationships. And third, a method in which a computer graphic system can be used to design such antennas for a specific pattern is introduced and its results are p...

This paper examines the use of television as a political campaign tool in the 1983-1989 elections in Argentina. Campaigns were conducted against the background of a national television system that was subject to both commercial and political pressures. Initially, politicians’ lack of experience in exploiting the medium led to a scramble for air time right before the election. Within a few years...

This paper discusses the use of MetaEdit+ as a tool for creating and using domain specific modeling languages and code generators. Creating a modeling language with graphical and form-based metamodeling, the usage of MetaEdit+’s modeling tools and the development of a code generation are demonstrated using an Interactive Television Application example. Further tooling issues, such as integratio...

dard 14496) defines a multimedia system for interoperable communication of complex scenes containing audio, video, synthetic audio, and graphics material. In part 1 of this two-part article we provide a comprehensive overview of the technical elements of the Moving Pictures Expert Group’s MPEG-4 multimedia system specification. In part 2 (in the next issue) we describe an application scenario b...

An image enhancement algorithm for low-vision television viewing was developed. The algorithm enhances the images in the JPEG/MPEG domain by weighting the quantization table. The advantages of our algorithm are threefold: (1) Low computation (only a change of the 8× 8 quantization table in the decoding stage); (2) Suitable for real–time application; and (3) easily manipulated by individual user...

We propose a new algorithm based on machine learning techniques for automatic intruder detection in surveillance networks. The algorithm is theoretically founded on the concept of minimum volume sets. Through application to real images from an example, simple closed-circuit television system and comparison with some existing algorithms, we show that it is possible to easily obtain high detectio...

OBJECTIVE To determine if television viewing is associated with the risk of initiating sexual intercourse in young adolescents. DESIGN Secondary analysis of data obtained from 1994 through 1996. SETTING The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. PARTICIPANTS The 4808 students younger than 16 years who had not initiated intercourse before baseline interview. EXPOSURES Primary ...