OBJECTIVE To compare how smoking was depicted in Hollywood movies before and after an intervention limiting paid product placement for cigarette brands. DESIGN Correlational analysis. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS Top box office hits released in the USA primarily between 1988 and 2011 (n=2134). INTERVENTION The Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), implemented in 1998. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES This st...

meaning is both the reference and the content and their concomitant mental associations. the current research aims to find the meaning of home and its constituents in the everyday life of house residents. in this perspective, we seek to investigate this meaning-making processes through exploring the represented houses in four iranian movies in tehran. therefore, “freeway”, “sealed secret”, “sa’...

" had a higher prevalence than that in the general US population, and not to study whether " movies influence smoking habits of their viewers, " as other authors have done. 2,3 In order to answer our question, we had to exclude films that took place " outside the United States, in earlier times.. . and smoking by United States citizens " because they obviously do not portray the lives of US cit...

be up to date for at least a few months. It does suffer from the deliberate shortcoming of being only a supplement; beginning students of molecular biology will need to read the Supplement side by side with the original text. But for those lucky enough to have already read DNA Replication, this Supplement is not to be missed, especially with a price tag of less than an evening out at the movies.

ONSCREEN SMOKING IS A FORM OF TOBACCO MARKETING Tobacco advertising has been prohibited in New Zealand since 1990, and the government has set a goal of becoming a smokefree nation by 2025. However, tobacco marketing persists indirectly through smoking in motion pictures, and there is strong evidence that exposure to onscreen smoking causes young people to start smoking. We investigated the rela...

A data-integration system provides a uniform interface to a multitude of data sources. Consider a data-integration system providing information about movies from data sources on the World Wide Web. There are numerous sources on the Web concerning movies, such as the Internet Movie Database (which provides comprehensive listings of movies, their casts, directors, genres, and so forth), MovieLink...

idiomatic expressions are considered as a part of everyday language. in other words, they are the essence of each language and one of the most problematic parts to cope with, especially in the process of interlingual translation. furthermore, there is sometimes no one-to-one equivalent for the idioms of the source language (sl) in the target language (tl). this study aimed at investigating the ...

The National Cancer Institute has concluded that studies indicate a causal relationship between exposure to depictions of smoking in movies and youth smoking initiation. Adolescents in the top quartile of exposures to onscreen tobacco incidents have been found to be approximately twice as likely to begin smoking as those in the bottom quartile. The 2010 U.S. Department of Health and Human Servi...

This paper investigates the key factors that contribute to success of movies. By using sentiment and survival analysis, this study classified 1,038 movies according customer comments movie characteristics compared number screening days, primary measure movies, between groups. Based on analysis film reviews (i.e., positive, negative, neutral), days showed significant differences (1) positive neu...

Increased interest in longitudinal social networks and the recognition that visualization fosters theoretical insight create a need for dynamic network visualizations, or network “movies.” This article confronts theoretical questions surrounding the temporal representations of social networks and technical questions about how best to link network change to changes in the graphical representatio...