BACKGROUND Electronic media use is becoming an increasingly important part of life for today's school-aged children. At the same time, concern of children's sleep habits has arisen, and cross-sectional studies have shown that electronic media use is associated with short sleep duration and sleep disturbances. The purpose of this longitudinal study was to investigate whether baseline electronic ...

Internet TV is a convergent appliance from TV and desktop PC with Internet. Since TV and desktop PC have many different characteristics, so two major questions would be raised. The first question is which one of two media will be the dominant anchor across the three domains of Internet businesses; contents, community, and commerce. The second question is how the total value of convergence will ...

TV and Web convergence is becoming more and more a reality. This paper provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges that arise in future TV environments regarding unobtrusive, context-aware personalisation of digital media content. Subsequently, it describes the vision and first conceptual personalisation approach within the LinkedTV EU project. LinkedTV aims to seamlessly interlink...

BACKGROUND TV and other screen use are common among elementary school aged children with both potential benefits and harms. It is not clear why some parents restrict their children's screen use and others do not. Parent's outcome expectations for allowing their child to watch TV and other screen media, i.e. the perceived 'costs' and 'benefits,' may be influential. Our objective was to develop a...

Background: Tinea versicolor (TV) is common superficial fungal infection of the human skin characterized by scaling macula and mild disturbance of skin observed as pigmented and depigmented regions. Typically, it affects the chest, upper back, neck and shoulders. However, rarely, involvement of other unusual regions of the body such as the scalp and face, arms and legs, palms and soles, groin, ...

Data from Princeton University’s New Immigrant Survey were analyzed to examine the associations between immigrants’ media use and 3 indicators of acculturation—current English proficiency, preference to use English in interactions, and American political knowledge. Findings show that pre-immigration uses of English language TV, radio, and print media and post-immigration use of English language...

The recent proliferation of reality-based television programming anticipates the development of interactive media insofar as it deploys the promise of participation: that "real" people can be more than just viewers — they can also participate in shaping the content of the programs they watch. In this respect, reality programming helps to reinforce the promise that new media will revolutionize s...

On Media A workshop report from US Institute for Peace examined Arab media, August, 05 (http://usip.org/virtual diplomacy/publications/reports/18.html), with special focus on attitudes to US and to the West. The relevant Arab governments play a double role since mostly, they control the media, where they appease the ideological positions of their own threatening insurgencies while focusing publ...