BACKGROUND Highly sensitive, commercial nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT) for Trichomonas vaginalis have only recently been recommended for use in the UK. While testing for T. vaginalis is routine in symptomatic women attending genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics, it is rare in asymptomatic women or those attending primary care. The aim of this study was to evaluate the positivity of T. ...

This paper describes the process of an educational institution implementing an interactive television solution. The fundamental issue is the educational role within a TV environment as research continues to show that viewers expect entertainment on television. Edutainment, the successful integration of education into the entertainment environment of television, is not going to be a trivialisati...

The dedication of a single authored monograph to one television show is becoming increasingly rare. BFI unceremoniously dropped their TV Classics series ten years ago; Manchester University Press’s indefatigable Television Series now produces books on entire genres alongside volumes that focus particular auteurs. Given commercial imperative cover as many programmes possible within study, the ...

The dedication of a single authored monograph to one television show is becoming increasingly rare. BFI unceremoniously dropped their TV Classics series ten years ago; Manchester University Press’s indefatigable Television Series now produces books on entire genres alongside volumes that focus particular auteurs. Given commercial imperative cover as many programmes possible within study, the ...

The use of peer-to-peer overlay networks (P2P) to deliver live television on the Internet (P2P TV) is gaining increasing attention. P2P TV systems are growing nowadays at increasing speed as a result of the opening of video content producers to new business models. This process is supported and accelerated by larger bandwidth availability of Internet and better algorithms for compression, repro...

As evermore applications and services are developed for wireless devices, the dramatic growth in user data traffic has led to the legacy channels becoming congested with the corresponding imperative of requiring more spectra. This has motivated both regulatory bodies and commercial companies to investigate strategies to increase the efficiency of the existing spectrum. With the emergence of cog...

OBJECTIVE This work intends to evaluate the functional characteristics of the cerebral network during the successful memory encoding of TV commercials. METHODS We estimated the functional networks in the frequency domain from a set of high-resolution EEG data in a group of healthy subjects during the showing of commercial spots within a neutral documentary. We evaluated the differences in the...

This paper explores recent problems with Premium Rate Number Service (PRS) use in UK participation TV through a regulatory convergence analytical lens. In 2003, the UK government created the communications convergence regulator, Ofcom, yet PRS regulation continued to remain the responsibility of PhonepayPlus (PPP), originally established in 1986. The paper argues that Ofcom could have anticipat...

In this paper, a coarse-to-fine matching strategy and corresponding approaches are proposed to address the two key research issues in commercial recognition, which are robust signature generation and efficient indexing structure. Specially, aiming at resisting the visual perception distortion, some novel and robust video content signatures are extracted by exploiting the global and local photom...