Nostalgic preferences are widespread—people believe past movies, music, television shows, places, and periods of life to have been better than their present counterparts. Three experiments explored the cognitive underpinnings of nostalgic preferences. Participants rated past experiences to have been superior to similar present and recent experiences. These nostalgic preferences appeared to be d...

For more and more programs today’s television can receive, and the reality that television is often viewed by groups of people, such as a family or a student dormitory, smart TV that can recommend programs for multiple viewers is required eagerly. In this paper, we propose a recommendation scheme that merges individual user profiles to form a common user profile, and then generates common recom...

establishing and operating private radio and television and its possible activity beside state radio and television is the selective method of administering radio and television in many countries worldwide. in legal system of iran, state run radio and television in article 44 of the constitution and interpretation of guardian council of mentioned article, establishing private radio and televisi...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship of mood and depressive symptoms with both the amount and type of television programming viewed. This study was also concerned with learning whether members of different genders and age groups are more or less likely to exhibit correlations between positive or negative mood and certain amounts and types of programs watched. The study addr...

This research was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a distraction technique in reducing young children’s negative responses to dental care. Fifty-five dentally naive children, ranging in age from two to six years, were studied over a sedes of four dental visits. Patients in the distraction condition viewed familiar ch3"ldren’s television programs throughout heir dental visits; patients...

We have been working on speech retrieval from Chinese (Cantonese) television news programs. The use of automatic speech recognition for audio indexing produces imperfect transcriptions, and recognition errors affect retrieval performance. A news story typically contains a brief report by the anchor person(s) in the studio, as well as news footage from the field. Investigation shows that our rec...

Concern about how much television alcohol advertising reaches underage youth and how the advertising influences their attitudes and decisions about alcohol use has been widespread for many years. Lacking in the policy debate has been solid, reliable information about the extent of youth exposure to television alcohol advertising. To address this critical gap, the Center on Alcohol Marketing and...

The development of Digital Television opens new perspectives in the distribution of audio-visual material to the general public. The immediate advantages of digital broadcast are the improvement in transmission quality and the increase in transmission capacity. But the major change for users will come from the future capacity of the video delivery chain to process this digital information to bu...

In this paper, I analyze the trade-off between mimicking and counterprogramming strategies in the payand the advertiser-supported television industries. Two channels compete with respect to both program profile and program quality. I show that profile differentiation is higher under pay-support than under advertiser-support, as a consequence of the inability of channels to compete in price unde...

"Teen drama" television programs use sexual scripts that provide a framework for narrating virginity loss (Gagnon & Simon, 1973). Drawing on the work of Carpenter (2005), this study identifies the following sexual scripts in virginity-loss narratives: (a) the abstinence script, which places a high value on virginity and emphasizes delaying virginity loss; (b) the urgency script, which defines v...