Television - Statistics & numerical data
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Correlates of college students' physical activity: cross-cultural differences.

3 Aug 2009 This study examined cross-cultural differences in personal and behavioral determinants of vigorous-intensity and moderate-intensity physical activity (PA) among college students living in distinctly different cultures, that is, the United States, ... Read more...

Food-related advertising geared toward Mexican children.

14 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Overweight and obesity have dramatically increased in recent years. In 2006, the prevalence of overweight and obesity among 6- to 12-year-old children was 26% in Mexico. Food advertising has shown to be a contributor to childhood ... Read more...

More us than them: positive depictions of mental illness on Australian television news.

30 May 2009 OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to review television news coverage of mental illness including self-depictions from people with mental illness, and views expressed by mental health experts and politicians in all 538 news and current ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Television - Statistics & numerical data'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Correlates of college students' physical activity: cross-cultural differences. 3 Aug 2009
• Food-related advertising geared toward Mexican children. 14 Jun 2009
• More us than them: positive depictions of mental illness on Australian television news. 30 May 2009
• Dying to play video games: carbon monoxide poisoning from electrical generators used after hurricane Ike. 30 May 2009
• Television viewing in Thai infants and toddlers: impacts to language development and parental perceptions. 20 May 2009
• Televisions in the bedrooms of racial/ethnic minority children: how did they get there and how do we get them out? 4 May 2009
• [The portrayal of multiple sclerosis in television series] 30 Mar 2009
• Association of duration of television viewing in early childhood with the subsequent development of asthma. 11 Mar 2009
• A 15-year review of ABC, CBS, and NBC news coverage of organ donation: implications for organ donation campaigns. 27 Feb 2009
• Alcohol-branded merchandise: the need for action. 27 Feb 2009
• Prison life: television, sports, work, stress and insomnia in a remand prison. 5 Feb 2009
• Influence of television on demand for cosmetic surgery. 31 Jan 2009
• Sedentariness, small-screen recreation, and fitness in youth. 30 Jan 2009
• Screen time use among urban children with asthma. 30 Dec 2008
• Healthy depictions? Depicting adoption and adoption news events on broadcast news. 30 Dec 2008
• The reliability of a survey question on television viewing and associations with health risk factors in US adults. 16 Dec 2008
• Physical activity and television watching in relation to risk of type 2 diabetes: the Black Women's Health Study. 2 Dec 2008
• Total energy intake, adolescent discretionary behaviors and the energy gap. 29 Nov 2008
• The medium is not the message. 29 Nov 2008
• Medical and nursing students' television viewing habits: potential implications for bioethics. 29 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Television'

Definition: The transmission and reproduction of transient images of fixed or moving objects. An electronic system of transmitting such images together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible light rays and audible sound. (From Webster, 3rd ed)

Descriptor UI: D013690

Alternative terms: Television; Televisions;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; instrumentation;

Tree Number: J01.897.280.500.898; L01.178.590.875; L01.178.820.090.898; L01.178.847.823;

Technical Notes: for color TV do not coord with COLOR unless specifically emphasized & then NIM only