BACKGROUND Sedentary activities, such as watching television, may disrupt habituation to food cues, thereby increasing motivation to eat and energy intake. OBJECTIVE These experiments were designed to examine the effect of television watching on habituation of ingestive behavior in children. DESIGN In experiment 1, all children worked for access to cheeseburgers in trials 1-7 (habituating s...

BACKGROUND This survey determined the practices about television (video inclusive), videogames, and computer use in children and adolescents in Italy. METHODS A self-administered anonymous questionnaire covered socio-demographics; behaviour about television, videogames, computer, and sports; parental control over television, videogames, and computer. RESULTS Overall, 54.1% and 61% always at...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether eating while watching television poses a risk for poor nutrition and excess body weight over and above that of time spent watching television. DESIGN We analysed data of grade 5 students participating in a comprehensive population-based survey in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. This survey included the Harvard's Youth Food Frequency Questionnaire, students' ...

OBJECTIVE US parents were surveyed to determine the amount of background television that their children are exposed to as well as to isolate demographic factors associated with increased exposure to background television. After this, we ask how certain home media practices are linked to children's background television exposure. METHODS US parents/caregivers (N = 1454) with 1 child between th...

We set up an environment in which a database is lled with television data from several information channels. Philips Sound and Vision provides a prototype television that is very suited for this application. The combination of television and personal computer is used to investigate new paradigms to enhance the traditional television interface. Multimedia database technology provides the basis f...

Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DVB-T) is the most widely deployed digital terrestrial television system worldwide with services on air in over thirty countries. In order to increase its spectral efficiency and to enable new services the DVB consortium has developed a new standard named DVB-T2. A nearly definitive specification has already been published as a BlueBook as well as an impl...

TV stream structuring is very important for huge archives holders like the French National Institute, the BBC or the RAI, because it is the first necessary step to describe the various telecasts broadcast on various channels. It is also necessary for television ratings in order to isolate the telecasts that must be rated. One can think this structuring is a simple alignment of the TV guides on ...

BACKGROUND Few young people meet television viewing guidelines. PURPOSE To determine the association between factors in the family and home environment and watching television, including videos and DVDs, in early adolescence. METHODS Cross-sectional, self-report survey of 343 adolescents aged 12-13 years (173 girls), and their parents (338 mothers, 293 fathers). Main measures were factors i...

In this paper, I describe the use of email reception as an authentication mechanism for public access servers, such as emailand Web-based servers in untrusted and low-risk environments [DoD]. Even the simplest implementation provides security that is significantly better than trust and requires significant power to crack. Despite its security limitations, this type of authentication should be a...