introduction: physical inactivity is one of the cardiovascular disease (cvd) risk factors. watching tv is a predictor of inactivity which is related to cvd risk factors and obesity. the objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of leisure-time physical activity and television watching on atherosclerosis risk factors in housewives and employees. materials & methods: in a cross sectio...

Due to rapid growth of using mobile phones, this device becomes a part of todays humans life using it for many applications from a simple camera, MP3 player, FM radio to now mobile TV. Technology has shifted the handset from a simple calling and answering device to being a part of an advanced entertainment, Internet access, gaming, office application, mobile commerce and utility device. Mobile ...

Understanding potential determinants of change in television (TV) viewing among children may enhance the effectiveness of programs targeting this behaviour. This study aimed to investigate the contribution of individual, social and home environment factors among 10-year-old Australian children to change in TV viewing over a 21-month period. A total of 164 children (49% boys) completed a 19-less...

Television viewing (TV) is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and all-cause mortality (1). In particular, excessive TV viewing was found to be more prevalent among older adults aged over 55 years than among younger age groups (2). Moreover, it has been emphasized the importance of identifying atrisk populations with excessive TV viewing time and its p...

this article is part of a much broader study of persuasive techniques in television news in iran. as a very important part of irib news irinn has been chosen for this study. if we assume that one of the most influential television news, the power of persuasion to influence the audience is very important. it seemed that choosing the highest hypothetical level of news and deconstructing it would ...

Background: Television (TV) viewing in children is associated with a higher body mass index, but it is unknown whether this reflects body fatness, and, if it does, why. Objective: The objective was to investigate whether TV viewing is associated with body fatness, physical activity, and total energy expenditure in preschool children. Design: Eighty-nine children were recruited into a cross-sect...

We establish the relationship between regularity of a Hausdorff (LB)tv -space and its properties like (K), M.c.c., sequential completeness, local completeness. We give a sufficient and necessary condition for a Hausdorff (LB)tv-space to be an (LS)tv-space. A factorization theorem for (LN)tv-spaces with property (K) is also obtained.

Automatic identification of TV programs within TV streams is an important task for archive exploitation. This paper proposes a new spatial-temporal approach to identify programs in TV streams in two main steps: First, a reference catalogue for video grammars of visual jingles is constructed. We exploit visual grammars characterizing instances of the same program type in order to identify the va...