BACKGROUND Evaluation of media literacy-based interventions for the prevention of eating disorder risk is limited by the lack of appropriate measures with established psychometric properties with which to assess change in media literacy. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the psychometric properties and use in eating disorders risk factor research of six measures of media literacy th...

Students and researchers of media and communication sciences study the role of media in our society. They frequently search through media archives to manually select items that cover a certain event. When this is done for large time spans and across media-outlets, this task can however be challenging and laborious. Therefore, up until now the focus of researchers has been on manual and qualitat...

In previous chapters, we have explored the industries and organizations that produce our mass media, the content of the media images that circulate widely, and the meaning of these media images for both audiences and the broader political system. In this chapter, we pay closer attention to the specific communication medium on which the various media industries rely. Because we cannot have newsp...

This paper presents implementations of a few selected SQL operations using the CUDA programming framework on the GPU platform. Nowadays, the GPU’s parallel architectures give a high speed-up on certain problems. Therefore, the number of non-graphical problems that can be run and sped-up on the GPU still increases. Especially, there has been a lot of research in data mining on GPUs. In many case...

to select an appropriate medium for the growth of plant is one of the problems of most greenhouse owners in production of pot ornamentals. so, current research was conducted to evaluate effect of some available media in mixtured by perlite on the growth of pothos. study was based on a completely randomized design with 5 treatments, 8 measuring times and 6 replications in a fiberglass greenhouse...

Background:  A significant increase in cesarean section in worldwide is known as one of the health system problems. The WHO has estimated that cesarean section in recent years has been 10% in all countries. Despite the increasing popularity of cesarean section, the literature lacks insights about factors affecting the selection of this delivery method. In this vein, this study investigates the ...

All reversible circuits have an intrinsic advantage over traditional irreversible circuits, because the reduce power consumption. Due to this, reversible circuits have been a source of constant excitement and great enthusiasm in the scientific community. Reversible logic is highly useful in nanotechnology, low power design and quantum computing. This paper proposes a design for a faster adder u...

Window functions are used in the estimation of power spectra, [1] and bispectra [2] in order to ensure the consistency of the periodogram and the Fourier type bispectrum estimation methods. In this paper, a three dimensional optimum bias lag window function is introduced in the estimation of the fourth order cumulant spectrum, also called trispectrum, which is estimated from the three dimesiona...

This paper proposes an architecture for implementing a self-checking 4-bit carry select adder that can be extended to any n-bit addition. The overhead is directly proportional to the number of transistors in the adder.