BACKGROUND In 2009, China changed its health warnings on cigarette packs from side-only text warnings to two text-only warnings on 30% of the bottom of the front and back of the pack. Also in 2009, Malaysia changed from similar text warnings to pictorial health warnings consistent with Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 11 Guidelines. OBJECTIVE To measure the impact of the...

This paper introduces a novel framework for generating pictorial storylines given topics from text and image data on the Internet. Unlike traditional summarization timeline generation systems, proposed combines analysis delivers storyline containing textual, pictorial, structural information to provide sketch of topic evolution. A key idea in is use an approximate solution dominating set proble...

OBJECTIVE The use of pictorial warning labels on cigarette packages is one of the provisions included in the first ever global health treaty by the World Health Organization against the tobacco epidemic. There is substantial evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of graphic health warning labels on intention to quit, thoughts about health risks and engaging in cessation behaviors. However, st...

This pictorial essay illustrates the imaging appearances of a wide variety of metastases to the pancreas as seen on computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography/CT. Key clinical and radiologic features (lesion distribution, non-contrast imaging appearance, enhancement pattern and pattern of spread) that may aid differentiation of primary from solitary se...

Past research has demonstrated that pictorial preference assessments can predict subsequent reinforcement effects for individuals with developmental disabilities only when access to the selected stimulus is provided contingent on a pictorial selection. The purpose of the present investigation was to assess more comprehensively the feasibility of the pictorial format with children with developme...

Six species of the subgenus Ochlerotatus and one species of the subgenus Coetzeemyia of the genus Aedes in the Afrotropical Region are treated in a pictorial key based on diagnostic morphological features. Brief remarks on the new reclassification of the genus Aedes are also included.

OBJECTIVE Countries around the world have increasingly adopted pictorial health warning labels (HWLs) for tobacco packages to warn consumers about smoking-related risks. Research on how pictorial HWLs work has primarily analysed self-reported responses to HWLs; studies at the neural level comparing the brain's response to different types of HWLs may provide an important complement to prior stud...

BACKGROUND In commitment to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), four new pictorial warnings are now being proposed for display on cigarette packages sold in Jordan. The aim of this study was to gauge the immediate perceptions of young Jordanian adults towards these new pictorials and compare these perceptions to those of the pictorial currently being used in the country. METHO...

A study is underway aimed at increasing understanding of the design of pictorial stimuli in perceptual experiments. Since this work centers on pictorial scenes, a variety of such scenes must be selected as stimuli. The experiments planned require scenes that are perceived to have at least five key areas of interest. Further, each of these must be able to be cropped to versions perceived to have...