OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of label design on children's perception of 2 popular snack foods across 3 income levels. DESIGN Labels of 2 snack products (yogurt and sponge cake) were designed using a fractional factorial design with 3 2-level variables: cartoon character, nutrition claims, and front-of-package nutritional information. PARTICIPANTS A total of 221 children (aged 9-13 y...

Re. Bsearchers have long been interested in adolescents' media use. Surprisingly, however, few studies have investigated young teens' newspaper consumption habits. These studies document the significant declines in newspaper readership in general and among young readers in particular.' Fewer researchers have examined the impact of race on newspaper readership.^ Additionally, there are no large-...

It is well-known that curvelets provide optimal approximations for so-called cartoon images whichare defined as piecewise C-functions, separated by a C singularity curve. In this paper, we considerthe more general case of piecewise C-functions, separated by a C singularity curve for β ∈ (1, 2].We first prove a benchmark result for the possibly achievable best N -term approximati...

With the growth of digital television TV program classification has become a major research topic. Recent classification techniques have reported acceptable results for specific genre detection. Cartoons is one of these genres which has deceived some attention because of its importance in push scenarios where parents want to control their children’s access to television. In this paper a flexibl...

The role of shadow is important in cartoon animation. Shadows in hand-drawn animation reflect the expression of the animators' style, rather than mere physical phenomena. However shadows in 3DCG cannot express such an animators' touch. In this paper we propose a novel method for editing the shadow with both advantages of hand drawn animation and 3DCG technology. In particular, we discuss two ph...

Two minimization formulations were proposed in [Elad et.al. ACHA 05] to solve inpainting problems using two separate systems A1 and A2, where A1 can sparsely represent cartoons (the piecewise smooth part of the images) and A2 can sparsely represent textures (the oscillating pattern part of the images). An iterative algorithm is given there to find the minimizer of one of the formulations but th...

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this research was to study whether a fastpaced television show immediately influences preschool-aged children’s executive function (eg, self-regulation, working memory). METHODS: Sixty 4-year-olds were randomly assigned to watch a fastpaced television cartoon or an educational cartoon or draw for 9 minutes. They were then given 4 tasks tapping executive function, includin...

We propose the use of the Kantorovich-Rubinstein norm from optimal transport in imaging problems. In particular, we discuss a variational regularisation model endowed with a Kantorovich-Rubinstein discrepancy term and total variation regularization in the context of image denoising and cartoon-texture decomposition. We point out connections of this approach to several other recently proposed me...