OBJECTIVE This article presents a DVD-based educational program intended to help pediatric residents and practicing pediatricians recognize and respond to adolescent depression in busy primary care settings. METHODS Representatives from pediatrics and adolescent medicine, child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology, and experts in the creation of educational mental health programs met to d...

Movies are distributed through multiple, carefully segmented, channels. This paper investigates how consumption in a movie’s theatrical channel affects demand in the subsequent DVD retail channel. We exploit exogenous variation in events that affect theatrical attendance in a geographic market to estimate the causal impact of theater attendance on home entertainment demand. Specifically, we use...

The availability of digital distribution channels for media content has raised several important questions for marketers, notably whether the use of digital distribution channels will significantly cannibalize physical sales and whether legitimate digital distribution channels will be able to dissuade consumers from using (illegitimate) digital piracy channels. We address these two questions us...

The present study examined the effects of multimedia instructional material on students’ learning and their perceptions of the instruction. A between-group quasiexperimental study design was used for the purpose of this study. One hundred eleven students enrolled in a Quantity Food Production laboratory class in two different semesters were designated to either the control or experimental group...

Four experiments explored the relative contributions of spectral content and phonetic labeling in effects of context on vowel perception. Two 10-step series of CVC syllables ([bVb] and [dVd]) varying acoustically in F2 midpoint frequency and varying perceptually in vowel height from [delta] to [epsilon] were synthesized. In a forced-choice identification task, listeners more often labeled vowel...

Combining written and video material could increase the impact of health education for people with less education, but more evidence is needed about the impact of combined materials in different formats, especially in the context of chronic pain self-management. This study tested the impact of combining written information about self-managing chronic joint pain, which used language at a high re...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of the use of children’s literature and DVD films on EFL adult language learning. A total of 89 non-English majors enrolled in two Freshman English classes participated in the study. The study employed a quasi-experimental, pretest/posttest comparison group design. The participants in the experimental group were exposed to the children’s l...