INTRODUCTION Videos promoting electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) can be easily accessed on YouTube. Marketing claims present in YouTube videos may help shape the public's opinion of e-cigarettes. Thus, it is important to understand the most frequent marketing claims and video sources. METHODS The objectives of this study were to 1) identify marketing claims in YouTube videos that are common...

Pervasive social networking and media sharing technologies have augmented perceptual understanding and information gathering and, while text-based resources have remained the standard for centuries, they do not appeal to the hyper-stimulated visual learners of today. In particular, the research suggests that targeted YouTube videos enhance student engagement, depth of understanding, and overall...

YouTube is the leading Internet video service and one of the most popular websites in 2014. Music videos hold top positions in different YouTube charts, but the music video types or engagement patterns with them have not been systematically studied. In this paper we present three studies that focus on YouTube music. We first show that music videos are the most popular content genre in YouTube. ...

Flaming is defined as " displaying hostility by insulting, swearing or using otherwise offensive language. " It seems to be common in comments on the video sharing website YouTube. In this explorative study, flaming on YouTube was studied using surveys among YouTube users. Three general conclusions were drawn. First, flaming is indeed very common on YouTube, although many users say not to flame...

BACKGROUND An increasing amount of health education resources for patients and professionals are distributed via social media channels. For example, thousands of health education videos are disseminated via YouTube. Often, tags are assigned by the disseminator. However, the lack of use of standardized terminologies in those tags and the presence of misleading videos make it particularly hard to...

BACKGROUND The global prevalence of sedentary lifestyles is of grave concern for public health around the world. Moreover, the health risk of sedentary behaviors is of growing interest for researchers, clinicians, and the general public as evidence demonstrates that prolonged amounts of sedentary time increases risk for lifestyle-related diseases. There is a growing trend in the literature that...

ticular note are Raymond Dasman's ecological analysis of what man hath wrought to his detriment in the Nile Valley, Kenneth Boulding's exposition of an economics based on the recognition of the finiteness of our world, Father Wassmer's discussion of abortion, and Kingsley Davis' detailed attack on the assumption that better contraceptives and better access to these contraceptives will, themselv...

Run No. Run ID Run Description infMAP (%) training on TV08 data 1 IUPR-TV-M SIFT visual words with maximum entropy 6.1 2 IUPR-TV-MF SIFT with maximum entropy, fused with color+texture and motion (NN matching) 5.9 3 IUPR-TV-S SIFT visual words with SVMs 5.3 4 IUPR-TV-SF SIFT with SVMs, fused with color+texture and motion (NN matching) 6.3 training on YouTube data (no use of standard training set...

BACKGROUND Recent publications on YouTube have advocated its potential for patient education. However, a reliable description of what could be considered quality information for patient education on YouTube is missing. OBJECTIVE To identify topics associated with the concept of quality information for patient education on YouTube in the scientific literature. METHODS A literature review was...

Run No. Run ID Run Description infMAP (%) training on TV09 data (type: A) 1 IUPR-VW-TV SIFT visual words with SVMs 8.5 2 IUPR-ADAPT-TV SIFT visual words with PA1SD 5.1 combined training on YouTube and TV09 data (type: C) 3 IUPR-VW+TT-TV SIFT visual words with SVMs, fused with TubeTagger concept detection scores 8.3 4 IUPR-ADAPT-YT SIFT visual words with PA1SD, trained on YouTube, adapted to TV0...