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Parental Behavior And Movies Can Alter Perceptions About Smoking

...tes and alcohol if they are exposed to the same in movies or if parents smoked as well. // When pretending ...s smoked and children who viewed PG-13- or R-rated movies were five times as likely to choose wine or beer. Most tobacco and alcohol prevention studies targe...

Movie Smoking Is The Prime Triggering Factor For Adolescents

...found that as the amount of exposure to smoking in movies increased, the rate of smoking also increased," said lead author James Sargent, professor of paediatrics at DMS and director of the Cancer Control Research Program at NCCC. "Part of the reason that exposure to movie smoking has such a considerable i...

Watching Violent, Churning Movie Scenes Affect Problem-Solving Ability

...ty. The researchers juxtaposed two very different movies - 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Shrek' - to induce stress or set up a control condition before testing participants for verbal mental flexibility, reported 'Newswise', the online news service for universities and research institutions. Those who watche...

US Politicians Urge Movie Moghuls To Add Anti-Smoking Announcements

... that suggests, 'Young people who watch smoking in movies are more likely to begin smoking.' He urged other attorney generals to also sign their names on a letter he sent to movie executives. The American Legacy Foundation is funding a new anti-smoking public service announcement. Curran hopes studio bos...

Stress Levels Determine Problem-Solving Abilities Of An Individual

...nd problem solving abilities. Two very different movies - "Saving Private Ryan" and "Shrek" were used to induce stress or set up a control condition before testing participants for verbal mental flexibility. A significant difference was noted amongst the performance of those who watched the two different ...

Smoking Related Scenes in Movies Increase Teenage Susceptibility To Smoke

... favor of exclusion of smoking related scenes from movies rated for adolescent audience. It is appropriate t...nclusions regarding smoking, teenage behaviour and movies in general. The U.S. movies have again been found to exhibit as much smoking as they did in 1950. Th...

Movies Influence Youngsters To Drink

...study has measured the influence of alcohol use in movies and, using data from more than 600 films and 5,000 students, found that movies play a significant role in an adolescent's decision to drink at a young age. The regional study w...

Poor Quality of Cabin Air in the Plane Can Cause DVT, After A Long Flight

...ar tests while on a movie spree, the group watched movies for eight hours at a stretch that saw them sedentary for eight long hours. Regular activity on a normal day for eight hours was also monitored for the group. After the flight, the levels of TAT complex shot up by an average of 30%, but dropped by a...

Needed, more space for women's sexual identity on marquees

...d Boman Irani. With the exception of a handful of movies like "Freaky Chakra", "Leela", "Dil Chahta Hai", "...s now emerged as a new genre of home grown English movies in the Indian cinema. The favorable box-office collections have led corporate houses to put their m...

US Thinks About The Alternative Methods To Combat Bird Flu

...ces where they could encounter a virus such as the movies or other places in the community. On the other hand they said that home confinement would work wonders in stemming the spread of the disease. The study estimated that infection rates could be reduced up to 52 % and death rates up to 60 % by home c...

Novel Device Developed To Help Autistic Individuals Communicate Better

...formance, it is now being trained on excerpts from movies and footage captured by webcams. The device would be tested on autistic individuals who would participate in a voluntary study, to be conducted this week. Identification of a high resolution camera that can be worn comfortably by the user and train...

Kannada Superstar Dr. Rajkumar's Eyes Donated As Per His Wish

...umar's wish that his eyes be donated. Rajkumar’s movies have always carried a social message. The mother was given the highest place in practically every movie. So were good values, ethics, Kannada culture and patriotism. He had enjoyed a larger-than-life image among the people of Karnataka as he always p...

Movies Represent Coma In A Wrong Way

...iew of U.S. and foreign movies, only two out of 30 movies with characters in prolonged comas showed a reason...rooming and tanned complexions. All but one of the movies showed the comatose person only with closed eyes, when in reality people in comas often have their e...

Women Read Men’s Faces Quite Accuratel

.... In fact the move away from macho-man Hollywood movies such as ‘Terminator’ to caring male characters such as Hugh Grant’s in ‘About a Boy’ typifies the need for men to be seen as emotional beings. Yet all said and done women's assessment of masculine appearance is still culturally governed with good c...

Cell Behavior Better Understood with Nano Probe

...mode, the SMS probe could create images similar to movies of cell biochemical activities with high spatial and temporal resolution. The SMS probe can be readily integrated with the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) or other scanning probes, and can not only image biochemical activity but also monitor the chan...

Measuring the Quantity of Information Passed on From the Eye to the Brain

...etina was placed in a dish and then presented with movies containing four types of biological motion, for example a salamander swimming in a tank to represent an object-motion stimulus. After recording electrical spikes on an array of electrodes, the researchers classified each cell into one of two broad cl...

Tobacco Advertising Through Movies Luring Kids

...unger than 18 years." Studies have shown that most movies released in the United States contain images of sm...f their favorite movie stars do, and that watching movies in which characters smoke can have an immediate effect on their attitudes toward smoking. Cheryl G....

Malayali Nurses - Lifeline of Keralites Abroad

...pt. While the parents watch Malayalam and Hindi movies with passion and usually visit their native place once a year, some youngsters find little joy in the compulsory rediscovery of their roots. Most Malayali migrants, about to reach retirement age, want to return to Kerala where they have built hous...

Thermal Imaging Shatters Arousal Gender Gap Myth

...d a montage of material from pornography to horror movies to The Best of Mr. Bean to Canadian tourism travelogues to provide a base of control data. During the arousal experiment, the male and female subjects watched separate sexually explicit films procured from the Kinsey Institute and determined to be se...

Innovative Movies Show Real-Time Immune-Cell Activity within Tumors

...e first time created three-dimensional, time-lapse movies showing immune cells targeting cancer cells in liv...therapies to treat the disease. With a series of movies made under different experimental conditions, the researchers resolved important questions about the...

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