In Taiwan, there are different types of TV programs, and each program usually has its broadcast length and frequency. We accumulate the broadcasted TV programs’ word-ofmouth on Facebook and apply the Backpropagation Network to predict the latest program audience rating. TV audience rating is an important indicator regarding the popularity of programs and it is also a factor to influence the rev...

Social Impact Analysis is one of the most essential parts project implementation. Disagreements and change in time, design, budget implementation at time construction Papua New Guinea were mostly occur due to influence from past delay compensations project. This research was carried out Highlands Highway classify assess impact social cultural factors on road In this study local people participa...

BACKGROUND TV time and total sedentary time have been positively related to biomarkers of cardiometabolic risk in adults. We aim to examine the association of TV time and computer time separately with cardiometabolic biomarkers in young adults. Additionally, the mediating role of waist circumference (WC) is studied. METHODS AND FINDINGS Data of 634 Dutch young adults (18-28 years; 39% male) w...

BACKGROUND Television (TV) viewing has been associated with many undesirable outcomes for children, such as increased risk of obesity, but TV viewing can also have benefits. Although restrictive parenting practices are effective in reducing children's TV viewing, not all parents use them and it is currently unclear why. The current study examined parenting practices related to TV viewing in the...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to explore the association between family-related factors and excessive time spent on screen-based activities among school-aged children. METHODS A cross-sectional survey using the methodology of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study was performed in 2013, with data collected from Slovak (n = 258) and Czech (n = 406) 11- and 15-year-old childre...

In the last decade, many clinical trials with gene- and cell-based therapies were performed and increasing interest in the development was established by (national) authorities, academic developers, and commercial companies. However, until now only eight products have received marketing authorization (MA) approval. In this study, a comprehensive overview of the clinical development of gene- and...

In sensitivity encoding reconstruction, the issue of ill conditioning becomes serious and thus the signal-to-noise ratio becomes poor when a large acceleration factor is employed. Total variation (TV) regularization has been used to address this issue and shown to better preserve sharp edges than Tikhonov regularization but may cause blocky effect. In this article, we study nonlocal TV regulari...