Television (TV) cooking shows have evolved from focusing on educating to focusing on entertaining, as well. At present, educational TV cooking shows focus on the transfer of cooking knowledge and skills, whereas edutainment TV cooking shows focus on entertaining their viewers. Both types of shows are ongoing success stories. However, little is known regarding the shows' links with the cooking a...

In today’s scenario, working overtime on computers or watching television has been increased leading to early age dry eye syndrome. The stress can lead to adverse ocular conditions such as those associated with oxidative and/or free radical damage within the eye. These conditions can evolve a condition, disease, or disorder of the cornea, retina, lens, sclera, anterior segment, or posterior seg...

While controversy continues to surround the way the content of screen media affects our thoughts and behaviour, a growing body of empirical evidence is indicating that watching television causes physiological changes, and not for the better. Most of these effects occur irrespective of the type of programme people watch – whether it is sex and violence or the Teletubbies. It is the medium, not t...

Microphone If more than slight, deafness holds serious implications for the patient's family, social, and working life. Difficulties with a job may be exacerbated by the need to use a telephone. These generate financial worries, which, together with the problems of sharing activities such as watching television or going to the theatre, create tensions in the home. The deaf patient becomes isola...

The authors followed 5,437 people aged 55 years and older with normal baseline Mini-Mental State Examination score annually for 5 years. The mean incidence of cognitive impairment was 2.3% per year. Cognitive activities in both the individual item (playing board games and reading) and the composite measure were associated with the reduced risk of cognitive impairment, while watching television ...

A 77-year-old woman presented with the complaint of observing her left hand moving without her knowledge while watching television. Her left hand stroked her face and hair as if somebody was controlling it. These movements lasted only half an hour but on recovery, she had left hemiparesis. Alien hand syndrome as the presentation of cardioembolic stroke is extremely rare but can be terrifying to...

OBJECTIVES We tested the associations of content types of children's television viewing with subsequent body mass index (BMI) to assess the plausibility of different causal pathways. METHODS We used time-use diary data from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics to measure television viewing categorized by format and educational and commercial content. Analyses were stratified by age because chi...

PURPOSE Based on theories suggesting that frequent television viewers act and react in hostile, malicious, malevolent, or verbally aggressive ways rather than being physically violent, the present study investigates relationships between television viewing and different forms of bullying. METHODS Multilevel regression models were estimated based on cross-sectional data from 31,177 adolescents...

INTRODUCTION Child and adolescent overweight is a serious health issue. Both snacking and television watching have been associated with childhood overweight, but the relationships have not been well examined in a multiethnic population. The aim of this study was to examine relationships between weekday television viewing, snack consumption, consumption of foods advertised on television, and ove...

This letter proposes a new mechanism that supports adaptive sending control using Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) for IPTV service over heterogeneous networks. The proposed mechanism is implemented on a mobile IPTV device and its performance is verified for providing seamless television watching in heterogeneous networks, even when in motion. key word...