Our previous body of work has implemented a system for inferring the intended messages of information graphics (bar charts, line graphs) that appear in popular media such as newspapers and magazines. This paper explores how a model of user characteristics could be utilized to tailor information graphics to individual users, thus enabling users with varying degrees of skill and ability to attain...

The article by Homedes and Ugalde in this week’s issue of PLoS Medicine is an important addition to the global discussion about Mexico’s 2003 health reform, the Seguro Popular (SP) [1]. While this reform has been controversial in Mexico [2], it has been highly praised in international circles. The Lancet ran a special series on the reform in 2006, and former U.S. President Bill Clinton lauded S...

OBJECTIVE To explore the basis for patient complaints about the oldness of most magazines in practice waiting rooms. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Waiting room of a general practice in Auckland, New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS 87 magazines stacked into three mixed piles and placed in the waiting room: this included non-gossipy magazines (Time magazine, the Economist, Australian Women's Weekly, N...

OBJECTIVES To measure girls' and boys' exposure to alcohol advertising in magazines and to compare this exposure with that of legal-age persons. DESIGN, SETTING, AND SUBJECTS Alcohol advertisements (N = 6239) in 103 national magazines for which placement, audience, and cost data for 2001 and 2002 were available, categorized by year, beverage type, and brand. Placement and readership (age and ...

The aim of this article is to present the sources available ordinary Turkish citizen for forming an opinion about Byzantium. These range from written (school curricula newspapers) visual (cinema television), and I categorize them on basis a set criteria such as accessibility, control over audience, intellectual depth. show how non-state actors have been laying groundwork more informed perceptio...