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Many print ads are not on flat surfaces but rounded ones. For example, billboards, which are flat, are common examples of advertising, but there are also ads on telephone poles, which are curved. Even modern computer and television monitors are increasingly available in curved, not flat, surfaces, meaning that online ads in the future are more and more likely to be shown on curved surfaces. Do recipients process flat and curved ads similarly? In this research, we investigate the persuasiveness of concave-shaped compared to convex-shaped as well as flat ads. We report that concave-shaped ads—whose sides are curved inward toward viewers—are more persuasive by facilitating viewers' immersion into the ad. In Experiment 1, we find that immersion mediates the effect of curved ad shapes on purchase intentions. In Experiment 2, curved ad shapes moderate purchase intentions, again offering evidence of immersion as a likely mechanism. Experiment 3 shows that consumers' skepticism serves as a boundary condition: High levels of skepticism dampen the persuasiveness of concave ads by restricting immersion. These findings are the first to explore how ads of different shapes influence consumers. Theoretical and practical contributions are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In January 2021 the BBC continuing medical drama Casualty (1986-present) returned to UK television screens for the start of its thirty-fifth series, with the premiere serving as the first episode of the show to have been produced and broadcast since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused production to stop suddenly in March 2020. It was, in many ways, a "Very Special Episode," and not least because it was the first new episode of the series to be seen by audiences for four months. Set during spring and summer of 2020, the episode begins with a title card that reads "June 2020. Days into the lockdown: 90." This article takes the position that this first episode of Casualty to screen on UK television following the March 2020 production shutdown (Ritman 2020) is productively understood as a "Very Special Episode" (VSE), with a view to arguing for its status as quietly radical television. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to the WHO, in 2019, physical inactivity affected more than 80% of adolescents worldwide and 83.6% in Brazil. As a result of a sedentary lifestyle and a lack of time for physical activity, adolescents tend to be prone to developing overweight and obesity. The aim of this study was to associate nutritional status with the level of physical activity of adolescents at a public school in the state of Minas Gerais. This was a crosssectional study of adolescents enrolled in the 6th to 9th grades of elementary school and the 1st to 3rd grades of secondary school, aged 10 or over and under 20. The International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) short version was used and anthropometric data on weight and height were collected on site at the school. The data was tabulated in Microsoft Excel Office 2010 and analyzed using descriptive statistics. A total of 101 adolescents took part, with an average BMI of 20.3 kg/m2 . 80.2% had the habit of eating in front of the television or other screens, the average daily screen time was approximately 5 hours and 45 minutes and there was a prevalence of BMI associated with moderate physical activity, and it was pointed out that the better the BMI (within the appropriate classification range) the greater the adolescent's interest in regular moderate physical activity. The results obtained contributed to understanding the nutritional status of the population investigated and the factors that may condition it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The generation and transformation of screen narrative characteristics are closely related to the formation and development of screen writing. Screenwriting is a product of the combination of screen media and human narrative needs. It was structured and generated in the birth of film art, and expanded and refined in the development and narrative transformation of television screens and mobile phone microscreens. The generation and transformation of screen narrative characteristics constitute a narrative compensation path. It reflects the standardization and shaping of narrative forms by screen media, supplements the function of screen narrative, and also records the process of human subjects from using screen stories for communication to replacing screen stories as narrative subjects in the process of controlling media technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thin and light design, picture quality and sound quality are important factors in TVs and monitors. Recently, a monitor speaker has been developed that provides a new sound experience combining an electrostatic thin actuator to vibrate the OLED display and an electrodynamic woofer. However there are limitations in evaluating sound quality of this technology because the existing international standards are speaker unit evaluation method based on an anechoic chamber environment. In this study, we propose a sound quality measurement method that can reflect the listening environment of monitor customers based on the new IEC standard and share the results of OLED thin actuator panel speaker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Minimally invasive abdominal surgery (MAS) can exert a physical cost. Surgical trainees spend years assisting minimally-invasive surgeries, increasing the risk of workplace injury. This prospective questionnaire-based cohort study was conducted amongst general surgery residents in Singapore. Residents assisting major MAS surgery were invited to complete anonymous online survey forms after surgery. The Phase 1 survey assessed physical discomfort scores and risk factors. Intraoperative measures to improve ergonomics were administered and evaluated in Phase 2. During Phase 1 (October 2021 to April 2022), physical discomfort was reported in at least one body part in 82.6% (n = 38) of respondents. Over a third of respondents reported severe discomfort in at least one body part (n = 17, 37.0%). Extremes of height, training seniority, longer surgical duration and operative complexity were significant risk factors for greater physical discomfort. In Phase 2 (October 2022 to February 2023), the overall rate of physical symptoms and severe discomfort improved to 81.3% (n = 52) and 34.4% (n = 22) respectively. The ergonomic measure most found useful was having separate television monitors for the primary surgeon and assistants, followed by intraoperative feedback on television monitor angle or position. Close to 20% of survey respondents felt that surgeon education was likely to improve physical discomfort. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Light‐emitting diodes (LEDs) producing pure, highly saturated colors are the industry standard for efficient backlighting of high‐color gamut displays. Vivid color reproduction, matching the eye's perception of nature, is the central paradigm in the design of narrow‐band emitting phosphors. To cover a wide range of naturally occurring color tones, expansion of the color gamut in the green spectral region, and therefore an advanced applicable green phosphor, is highly desired. Herein, the oxonitridoberyllosilicate Ba[BeSiON2]:Eu2+ showing outstanding narrow‐band green emission (λmax ≈526 nm with FWHM ≈1600 cm−1 (≈45 nm), x = 0.212, y = 0.715) when excited with InGaN‐based blue LEDs is presented. High quantum efficiency and low thermal quenching (>90% rel. quantum efficiency at 100 °C) as well as excellent scalability make the material suitable for industrial application in high color‐gamut LED displays. A prototype phosphor‐converted‐LED (pc‐LED), with green‐emitting Ba[BeSiON2]:Eu2+ and K2SiF6:Mn4+ as red phosphor shows an extraordinary coverage in the CIE 1931 color space of 109% compared to the DCI‐P3 standard, topping the widely applied β‐SiAlON:Eu2+ phosphor (104%), making it suitable for use in phone displays, monitors, and television screens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Le présent article revisite The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood , un long-métrage de Mike et Andy Jones paru en 1986 qui est un emblème du cinéma terre-neuvien et qui est bien trop peu étudié dans l'histoire du cinéma canadien, à part le traité révolutionnaire de Darrell Varga sur le cinéma régional de l'Atlantique canadien, qui évalue l'utilisation généralisée des trames, des thèmes et des métaphores. L'autrice y aborde la signification des trames dans le film au-delà de la réalité des trames, une théorie que le patron de Faustus, Fred-Bonia Coombes, élabore après avoir vu une énorme trame suspendue dans le ciel lorsqu'un ami a été heurté mortellement par un sac de soupe congelé tombé du ciel. Dans un dialogue avec les écrits sur la forme de la trame par des penseuses comme Eugenie Brinkema et Rosalind Krauss, l'autrice perçoit les trames graphiques et les métaphores du film—les fenêtres, les clôtures de grillage, les tuiles de plafond, les croix, l'architecture moderniste, les écrans de télévision et un capteur de pépins de raisin—comme des points de rencontre capitaux de la structure et de l'imprévu. Ce faisant, le présent article défend non seulement l'importance historique ou politique du film pour la modernisation culturelle de la province ou la Renaissance de Terre-Neuve, mais propose également une interprétation approfondie du film qui en fait valoir l'importance historiographique et théorique pour son attachement formel envers les questions de structure et d'imprévu et le rôle qu'y joue le cinéma This article revisits Mike and Andy Jones' 1986 feature film The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood , a landmark Newfoundland film that has appeared in too few accounts of Canadian cinema besides Darrell Varga's groundbreaking treatise on Atlantic Canadian regional cinema, to analyze its pervasive use of grid forms, themes, and metaphors. It discusses the grid's significance in the film beyond grid-reality, a theory that Faustus's boss, Fred-Bonia Coombes, develops after seeing an expansive grid suspended in the sky when a friend gets fatally struck by a falling bag of frozen soup. In dialogue with writings on the grid as a form by thinkers such as Eugenie Brinkema and Rosalind Krauss, it examines the film's graphic grids and metaphors— windows, chain-link fences, ceiling tiles, crosses, modernist architecture, television monitors, and a grape seed catcher—as crucial meeting points for structure and contingency. In doing so, this article not only makes an argument for the film's historical or political importance for a culturally modernizing province or the Newfoundland Renaissance but also offers an in-depth reading of the film that argues for its historiographic and theoretical importance as a film that formally engages with questions of structure and contingency and cinema's role therein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), Washington, installed an educational display to raise passengers' knowledge and awareness of wildlife trafficking. Little is known about the efficacy of wildlife trafficking-related educational displays at airports. In the fall of 2022, Port of Seattle (PoS) Business Intelligence conducted an evaluation to assess the impact of the display. The evaluation included three components: observation of passengers viewing the display; a survey with passengers who viewed the display; and a survey with passengers who did not view the display. Observations revealed that 0.8 per cent of passengers stopped to view the display. Mean viewing time was 48 seconds. The more passengers passed through the concourse, the fewer stopped at the display. Most non-viewers (88 per cent) did not notice the display as they passed it on the way to their gate. Non-viewers who noticed the display but did not stop to view it gave being in a hurry and wanting to get to their gate as primary reasons for not stopping. Viewers of the display, compared to non-viewers, reported a greater level of confidence that they could spot a product made from endangered wildlife, increased knowledge about actions that can contribute to wildlife trafficking and a greater belief that their actions can help save endangered animals. Although the display did have an impact on viewers, fewer than 1 per cent of passengers who passed by the display viewed it. Most passengers did not notice it. The findings of this evaluation raise the issue of whether passengers on the way to their departure gate are receptive to viewing an educational display. There may be more opportune approaches to educate passengers about wildlife trafficking, such as presenting information about wildlife trafficking on television screens in gate areas or as part of in-flight entertainment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our aim was to describe the exposure of French children aged 12–36 months to screens (time, content, age of first exposure) and to analyze different moderating factors: sociodemographic data, parents' screen time, and other factors (childcare arrangements, language spoken at home, book reading). We conducted an observational, cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study based on 171 questionnaires from parents of children aged 12–36 months who consulted different hospitals in the Paris region during the summer of 2020. The median screen time was 1 h per day and was essentially television time. The median age of first exposure for children was 12 months. Among the most-watched sites, YouTube was in first place. One third of the children chose the content they watched alone, and the majority did so without any parental guidance (66%). Children watched a screen during mealtime every day in 25% of cases, before bedtime in 12.3% of cases, and 8.8% had a screen in their bedroom. More than one third of families left the television on in the background most of the time. In the multivariate analysis, a high level of screen time was notably linked to the child's age, the parents' screen time, and background television. However, the parental reason for exposure "to calm the child" was the most strongly correlated factor with significant child screen time. Reading books appeared to be a determining factor for less screen exposure. These results emphasize the importance of raising parents' awareness about the potential negative effects of screen exposure (particularly on children's cognitive and emotional development) as early as possible during the maternity period. Implementing this prevention in the maternity wards could be an effective way of informing and educating parents about the potential negative effects of screen time on their child's development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article traces the social, technological and legal factors that, from the 1960s onward, transformed karaoke into a televisual medium. The author shows how the incorporation of the television screen into karaoke performance reveals a cross-section of postwar Japanese anxieties surrounding gendered leisure practices, licensing and storage of emerging media formats, and the regulation of the body within urban space. She further argues that the resultant ambient aesthetics of karaoke background videos encode a particular historical moment in the 1980s, in which karaoke emerged as a leisure activity involving the visually orchestrated somatic reconstitution of ambient space under pressure within Japan's increasingly mediatized urban environment. The article ultimately suggests that resituating karaoke within television and media studies allows for a more resonant understanding of it as an embodied practice in which a visually driven nostalgia for ambient media alters, if not outright displaces, the affective connection to the audio it accompanies. The televisually mediated space of karaoke performance, then, reframes the nostalgia typically associated with both television and popular audio as, instead, nostalgia for the way ambient media allows for renegotiations of the relationship between the body and its surroundings under the attendant pressures of late capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the article, we address the issue of automated initialization, installation, and configuration of the General Program Monitoring, version 3 application with minimal human involvement and manipulation. General Program Monitoring is Internet Protocol TV monitoring software built from scratch. It is used to monitor the viewing behavior of customers of the television operators A1 and Vivacom. The purpose of the article is to present an approach for an automated installation and configuration process. To achieve this goal, we review the design and implementation of the software as well as the client application. The novelty of the approach is realized in a fully automated integration of the monitoring software and the procedures for its installation and configuration on the client device and the network, in the conditions of independence from the architecture of the network infrastructure and other accompanying hardware and software limitations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mini‐LED technology is becoming a mainly driving force in the development of LCD industry. Only using excellent spatial viewing angle characteristics, high picture quality and high contrast ratio LCD panel, Mini‐LED can maximize its effectiveness in improving image quality and has the strength to challenge the dominance of OLED in the high‐end market. As we known, ADS technology belongs to plane field switching display mode, taking into account the excellent wide‐angle characteristics and excellent image quality, has been widely used in mobile phone, tablet, notebook, monitor and TV, the only shortcoming is the low contrast ratio (CR), just at 1000‐1200:1. This paper aims to introduce the development of ultra‐high contrast ADS LCD panel and its implementation method. By using low scattering coefficient negative liquid crystal, fine rubbing alignment process, and fine calibrated POL attachment process, an ultra‐high contrast ratio of CR 3000‐3500:1 is achieved for the first time on ADS panel. The slow response time of negative liquid crystal is improved by balancing the operating voltage (Vop) and adjusting the Cell gap, while the decrease in transmittance caused by lower Cell gap can be overcome by the spectral aperture pixel (SAP) design. All the techniques described in this paper are applicable to various types of plane field switching panels. The paper also concludes with a discussion and outlook on how to further improve the contrast ratio of ADS‐like panel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A study was performed to determine through computer fire modeling up to what extent a room fire in which a flat screen television is the first major item ignited is more likely to result in flashover if the television casing is not treated with flame retardants. This was accomplished by quantifying the risk of flashover in a living room or bedroom due to a fire in which a flat screen television is the first major item ignited, and by calculating the ratio of the risk measures for televisions with untreated casing versus those with flame retardant treated casing. This ratio is an indication of the increased likelihood of flashover should flame retardant treated television casings be replaced with untreated casings. The results of the risk quantification indicate that living room fires initiated with a flat screen television are between 4.2 and 15.2 times more likely to result in flashover when the casing is not treated with flame retardants compared to a flame retardant treated television. For fires in the (master) bedroom, the relative likelihood is between 4.1 and 15.5. The relative likelihood of flashover is slightly lower for apartments than for single family homes. The calculated ratio varies depending on the assumed probability that the ignition source is sufficiently severe to ignite a television with flame retardant treated casing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Sisonke Msimang's Always Another Country is an intimate account of the lifelong search for 'home' by its autobiographical narrator, the child of exiled South African parents. My essay argues that Msimang's figuring of a complicated, nationally-organized external realm through the exilic subjectivity of its narrator provides an opportunity to read a series of spaces in the text as what Michel Foucault, in 'Of Other Spaces' (1986), calls 'utopias' and 'heterotopias'. Simply put, South Africa exists as a non-real space - a utopia - for most of the memoir. It carries down telephone wires and from television screens into the mind of Sonke, where it is reproduced as an alternate, imagined version of itself. On the other hand, 'real' spaces - living rooms, principals' offices, family homes - all develop characteristics of Foucauldian heterogeneity. They are sites within sites or, as Peter Johnson explains, microcosms of reverse social ordering. Rather than producing an overly theoretical rendering of a deeply personal text, my essay aims to show the benefits of Foucauldian approaches in conceptualizing and understanding the complicated ways in which exiled-subjects occupy space in our nationallyorganized world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the presence of QR codes in Spanish television news programmes, as well as their use and characteristics. The methodology used is the content analysis of the news programmes of Antena 3, La Sexta, La 1 and Telecinco. Among the results obtained in this article, it is confirmed that QR codes are still underdeveloped in these programmes, because its use is variable, they are not implemented in all channels and they act mostly as another decorative element that appears on the television screen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The internet, including social media, has been developing rapidly in line with the growth of the changing social situation. One example is the YouTube video platform. The use of internet technology has also penetrated the business world. The popularity of YouTube has enabled content creators (Youtubers) to use this app or social media to promote themselves. Bayu Skak is one of the Youtubers who has managed to make a living by producing videos, even reaching the big screen and television. One of his monumental works is Mesoh which uses features of East Javanese dialect. This study used a qualitative approach, supplemented by a narrative analysis. Primary data were obtained through visual and audio observations, and secondary data from desk research. The results demonstrated that the use of East Javanese vocabulary and dialect in the Mesoh work is an attribute of Bayu Skak's personal ethics and serves to increase his popularity as a Youtuber and in film and television media. This personal ethics has become a personal mark of Bayu Skak which is an attraction for the public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A method for producing large-area, broadband, quasi-omnidirectional low-reflectivity glass surfaces is presented. Using block copolymer patterning and inductively coupled plasma etching, near-periodic arrays of pillars are formed in glass. The patterned surface has reflectivity < 0.5%â€"almost an order of magnitude smaller than plain glassâ€"with a bandwidth of ∼300 nm. Substrates etched on both sides transmit > 99.5% across the wavelength range 850â€"1200 nm, with > 99% down to λ  = 650 nm. The process is demonstrated on a 5 cm diameter fused silica wafer and high transmittance is maintained up to at least 70∘ incidence. The resulting substrates might find application as lab optics (windows, lenses, etc) display screens for televisions, computers, phones, and as encapsulants for optoelectronic devices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The memories and the visual images of 9/11 are embedded in the public psyche as remnants of a collective trauma, and this collectivity can serve to create a common ground and an intersubjective space for trauma work. In addition to emphasizing the importance of enactive witnessing and recognition in the healing process, I discuss in this paper the impact of trauma, including that of 9/11, that has been experienced from afar, as I was living in Ohio on September 11, 2001. I will also address the impact of experiencing a traumatic event from a physical distance on trauma work, using the concept of "distance" both literally and figuratively. The clinical illustrations provided all involve witnessing 9/11 on a television screen. Each vignette illustrates how the images themselves can be used as actual screens on which to project earlier trauma history. Similarly, part of the clinical work was done from afar. Telephone and virtual therapy at certain times facilitated both disclosures and, paradoxically, enhanced feelings of closeness. The analyst's engagement in the process of witnessing facilitated connection to dissociated areas of experience, but enactive witnessing brought cohesiveness and clarity to the fragmentation caused by trauma and lack of early recognition. The clinical stories illustrate how this engagement enabled both participants to enliven deadened, dissociated parts of the self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Polarimetric radar data from the WSR-88D network are used to examine the evolution of various polarimetric precursor signatures to tornado dissipation within a sample of 36 supercell storms. These signatures include an increase in bulk hook echo median raindrop size, a decrease in midlevel differential radar reflectivity factor (ZDR) column area, a decrease in the magnitude of the ZDR arc, an increase in the area of low-level large hail, and a decrease in the orientation angle of the vector separating low-level ZDR and specific differential phase (KDP) maxima. Only supercells that produced "long-duration" tornadoes (with at least four consecutive volumes of WSR-88D data) are investigated, so that signatures can be sufficiently tracked in time, and novel algorithms are used to isolate each storm-scale process. During the time leading up to tornado dissipation, we find that hook echo median drop size (D0) and median ZDR remain relatively constant, but hook echo median KDP and estimated number concentration (NT) increase. The ZDR arc maximum magnitude and ZDR–KDP separation orientation angles are observed to decrease in most dissipation cases. Neither the area of large hail nor the ZDR column area exhibit strong signals leading up to tornado dissipation. Finally, combinations of storm-scale behaviors and TVS behaviors occur most frequently just prior to tornado dissipation, but also are common 15–20 min prior to dissipation. The results from this study provide evidence that nowcasting tornado dissipation using dual-polarization radar may be possible when combined with TVS monitoring, subject to important caveats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current cultural and technological context, disciplines and academic education face new challenges related to teaching and learning practices, due to the fact that technological mediations, advanced supports and archives have transformed these processes. In this paper we explore the alternatives that transmedia narratives offer for the Humanities, in particular, for Literature and Philosophy. We emphasize the need to incorporate other supports and other narratives in the work of these areas, including and taking advantage of technological mediations. Therefore, instead of having gaps between education and technology, we identify the challenges caused by the transformation of actors, roles and training processes, as well as the emergence of "informal" methodologies and platforms. To this end, we begin with the conceptual characterization of the technologically mediated environment that university education is increasingly facing. Secondly, we identified some contemporary literary practices and we make a historical account of some Latin American works that can be analyzed from the category of Transmedia Literature. Finally, will be problematized the written and visual registers that are transformed and conditioned by information flows on the Internet, television and other screens in electrically supported circuits. The discussion on technological mediations puts us in a problematizing context of the places and habitual uses of literary, philosophical and educational discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines the brilliant caricatures by Nikolai Vladimirovich Remizov (Re-mi, born Vasil'ev, 1887–1975) for the Russian satirical journals of 1905–1907. This period marked the first stage of Remizov's long career, when he emerged as one of the country's most talented and well-known caricaturists. The article focuses on Remizov's new, no-holds-barred satire depicting episodes of state-sponsored bloodletting. The satirical journals widely quoted the words of Dmitri Trepov to his troops during the October general strike "not to fire blanks and to spare no cartridges," a phrase that became a tragi-comic mantra in the satirical journals. It also reflected the take-no-prisoners spirit of Remizov's caricatures. Further, the article outlines Remizov's subsequent participation in the few journals—in particular, Satirikon and Novyi Satirikon (New Satyricon)—that strove to keep the satirical tradition of 1905 alive. After the Bolshevik Revolution put a forcible end to these publications, Remizov emigrated, and later forged a long career in the United States as an art designer for stage, television and the big screen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Before HDR signals can be displayed on traditional TVs and monitors, tone mapping is required to compress the luminance and color range to the display device's displayable low dynamic range (LDR). However, there is a common problem of loss of image details after tone mapping of HDR signals, which affects video/image quality. To solve this problem, we proposes an enhanced tone mapping (ETM) with guided filter. In the constructed enhance channel, guided filtering is used to extract and reconstruct the image detail layer, which accurately preserves the image detail and removes the halo problem. which improves local dynamic contrast, enhances image details, and improves image clarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A radiation monitor based on a cast polystyrene scintillator with wavelength-shifting optical fibers is described, which has a large aperture; the dimensions of the active part of the detector are 100 × 200 × 5 cm. The monitor also includes a sensor for the presence of a monitored object and a television camera, united by a single control system. The monitor is designed to control transportation of radioactive materials. The operating experience is described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: This study examined the pattern of sedentary behaviour during the week and on weekends and associations with health outcomes among children aged 5–7 years in Sweden. Methods: This cross‐sectional study used data from 342 children, many of whom had at least one parent born outside the Nordic region. Physical activity and sedentary time were measured by accelerometry. A sedentary bout was defined as 1–4 and 5–9 min. Diet, time in front of television or computer screen, sleep and physical activity behaviour were measured via parental reports, and anthropometric data by research staff. Results: The number of sedentary bouts was higher on weekends than on weekdays. Compared to girls, boys had more 1–4 min bouts on both weekdays and weekend days, and more 5–9 min bouts on weekends. A higher number of 5–9 min bouts was associated with a higher body mass index and waist circumference. Conclusion: This study showed an association between sedentary activity and weight status in children as young as 5–7 years. Reducing time, especially longer bouts, spent in sedentary activities may encourage healthy weight development in children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Posterior cortical atrophy is a rare neurodegenerative disease that presents with progressive higher-order visual impairment. We describe a case of posterior cortical atrophy in a 62-year-old, right-handed man, who initially presented with difficulty in viewing the television screen, followed by reading difficulty a few months later, and then developed features of Balint's syndrome over the course of 3 years. We report an illusion, which we noticed at the time of the initial presentation, where the characters in the television appeared to be popping out of the screen. We describe this as the "pop-out illusion". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: This study aims to provide an ergonomic design of the monitoring room that has resulted in safe, functional and comfortable environment for the operators, which may lead to improve the efficiency. Currently, uses of closed‐circuit televisions to monitor the critical environments are widely applicable. The information is continuously transferred and analyzed through a center called monitoring room. Design/methodology/approach: Here, through creating a systematic analysis, a series of experiments was performed initially to evaluate and then optimize the parameters such as illumination, visual angle, operator-screen distance, number of scenes display in a single screen, workstation height, screen dimension and monitoring time that may affect the visual skill of the operators. Taguchi orthogonal array was used to analyze the significance of parameters on operator's response time to a threat. The five parameters were distinguished as significant. Later response surface methodology was utilized to optimize the parameters. Findings: Quadratic empirical model developed for the response time exposes the optimum response time was achievable at illumination of 500 lux, visual angle of 13°, operator-screen distance of 60 cm, three scenes, workstation height of 120 cm, screen dimension of 34" and monitoring time of 15 min. This shortened the response time by 28 per cent. The adequacy of the fitted model was successfully verified using the confirmation test with α = 95 per cent. Originality/value: The novelty of this work lies in the application of a systematic statistical analysis, which enables considering the interaction among the noise parameters and controllable one simultaneously. Furthermore, the obtained regression model can widely be used for adjusting the parameters accordingly based on various anthropometric data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, and for the next generation of TVs and monitors, increasing resolution is a key trend. One challenge is keeping the transmittance while pixel density increases. Chiral Polymer Stabilized Vertical Alignment (C‐PS‐VA) technology uses LC mixtures with higher birefringence and a chiral dopant and increases transmittance by more than 10% compared to conventional Polymer Stabilized Vertical Alignment (PS‐VA). This paper summarizes the recent developments of liquid crystal mixtures for C‐PS‐VA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the new functionalities introduced to the source code of the decoder box model SDP160 of the SOYEA brand to obtain, adjust and correct the Signal Level values and the Signal to Noise Ratio of the DTMB digital television signal received. (Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast) with 6 MHz channeling. These modifications to the source code of the decoder box give rise to the Tool to monitor the digital television signal. It explains the process of calibration and adjustment of these parameters. The functionalities implemented for storage are shown with flow diagrams. Moreover, it is exposed the incorporated functionalities for the analysis and display on the screen of the received signal data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper hinges on the correctness of the subtitled expressions in context: The translator in film making process. The objective of the study is to ascertain the correctness of subtitled expressions in context, in the movie used for the study. It focuses on fishing out the wrong subtitled expressions in context of discourses in the movie Onye Bụ Nna M. The study sees subtitle as substituting the vocal utterances in a filmic material to a written equivalence on the screen of the television. The discredit of subtitle in the Nollywood touches the areas of wrong expression of a particular utterance in a movie into another language through subtitle and non alignment of the spoken utterances with its subtitled equivalences. However, all these formed the problem of the study. This study adopts the formal and dynamic equivalence of Nida as well as Gottlieb's strategies of subtitle as the frameworks of the study in order to effectively carry out this research. This research adopts the emergent design approach in its methodology. The study reveals that if information is subtitled well with the correct tenses in context, there will be no misinterpretation of ideas or information by the target audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article is to examine and assess the role played by television in modern society in defining the classification of entertaining television formats and the television formats influence on the recipients' minds. The methodology of the research is based on the selection of the actual material on the suggestive properties study of television is based on the domestic and foreign scholars' concepts, as well as on the philosophers views, sociologists, semiotics, cultural scientists, art critics, who consider television as a phenomenon of modern culture. The scientific novelty of the work lies in that the semantic properties' perception of reality on TV has got a tendency to withdraw from person's conscious control and society, pushing the subconscious of the viewer to mythological stereotyping. Conclusions. In practice, everyone is influenced by various media. Creating the whole picture of reality with all its contradictions can bring us to a comprehensive understanding of the world in all its diversity, which will help, in our opinion, overcome the crisis on a television screen, where today a vivid visual image often covers the lack of spirituality and the screen's aggressiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]