This study utilized a survey to assess television viewing and risk-taking behavior in 717 adolescents (age 11–22). Results indicated that, among adolescents, there is a link between exposure to violent television in the form of violent drama, realistic crime shows and contact sports and participation in various forms of risk taking: problem drinking, drinking and driving, delinquency (vandalizi...

A literary work is a representation of human thought that has been poured into medium. The works classified as informative literature or imaginative literature. Informative focuses on facts, history, explanations, and famous people, whereas based fantasy employs connotative language qualified aesthetic art. Moral values are the than can give readers viewers some positives message from works. Th...

It is well known that some XML elements correspond to objects (in the sense of object-orientation) and others do not. The question we consider in this paper is what benefits we can derive from paying attention to such object semantics, particularly for the problem of keyword queries. Keyword queries against XML data have been studied extensively in recent years, with several lowest-common-ances...

This paper provides a critical review of existing interactive drama systems. An interactive drama takes place within a virtual world in which the user has a high degree of freedom to physically and mentally interact with non-player characters and objects within a dramatically interesting experience which is different on every play, and adapts to the user’s interactions. Those criteria which sho...