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Accounting for youth audiences’ resistances to HIV and AIDS messages in the television drama Tsha Tsha in South Africa

open access: yesSAHARA-J, 2018
Theoretical debates and literature on E-E efforts in Africa have largely focussed on understanding how and why interventions on HIV and AIDS are effective in influencing behaviour change among target communities.
Blessing Makwambeni, Abiodun Salawu
doaj   +1 more source

Promoting Prosocial Beliefs And Behavior Toward People With Disabilities In Nepal Through A Children’s Entertainment-Education Program

open access: yesDisability, CBR and Inclusive Development, 2011
PurposeThis quasi-experimental field study examines the prosocial influences of a children's entertainment-education television programme, Khushi Ko Sansar, on children’s beliefs and intended behaviour towards people with disabilities in Nepal.MethodPre ...
William J Brown, Deborah A Strong
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Technology, Computation and Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Web Ecosystem

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
Since the appearance of the Internet, many traditional businesses have been transformed, across the areas of shopping, advertising, education, entertainment, and more [...]
José A. Ruipérez-Valiente   +2 more
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PhyLab – a virtual reality laboratory for experiments in physics: a pilot study on intervention effectiveness and gender differences

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
IntroductionNew technologies have great potential to facilitate students’ understanding and appreciation of one of the most abstract and challenging school subjects – physics.
Selma Korlat   +6 more
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Increasing the willingness to participate in organ donation through humorous health communication: (Quasi-) experimental evidence.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Increasing people's willingness to donate organs after their death requires effective communication strategies. In two preregistered studies, we assessed whether humorous entertainment education formats on organ donation elicit positive effects on ...
Cornelia Betsch   +3 more
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En Nuestra Casa No Hay Chinchorros: A Youth-Oriented, Participatory Approach to Chagas Prevention in Guara, Loja Province, Ecuador

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2020
Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease that disproportionately affects impoverished rural communities. Insecticide-based approaches are inconsistently performed and exorbitantly priced for the communities affected.
Benjamin R. Bates   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Entertainment-Education Versus Extremism: Examining Parasocial Interaction among Arab Viewers of Anti-ISIS TV Drama

open access: yesJournal for Deradicalization, 2020
Radicalization amongst youth is a challenge facing the Arab world. Recent reports indicate that over 20,000 Arab fighters traveled to join ISIS in Iraq and Syria and another 5-15 percent of millennials across seven Arab countries consider some violent ...
Kareem El Damanhoury
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Artificial Intelligence‐Assisted Workflow for Transmission Electron Microscopy: From Data Analysis Automation to Materials Knowledge Unveiling

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
AI‐Assisted Workflow for (Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscopy: From Data Analysis Automation to Materials Knowledge Unveiling. Abstract (Scanning) transmission electron microscopy ((S)TEM) has significantly advanced materials science but faces challenges in correlating precise atomic structure information with the functional properties of ...
Marc Botifoll   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mediating Islamic State| The Geopolitics of Television Drama and the “Global War on Terror”: Gharabeeb Soud Against Islamic State

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2020
This article examines the television program Gharabeeb Soud (GS), which aired on the Saudi-owned media channel MBC in May and June 2017. Described by MBC as part of a global campaign to counter the group that calls itself Islamic State (IS), GS focuses ...
Heather Jaber, Marwan M. Kraidy
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Design and Modeling of a High‐Displacement, Skin‐Integrated Flexible Electromagnetic Actuator for Haptic Interfaces in Virtual Reality

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A flexible, skin‐integrated electromagnetic actuator is developed for wearable virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) haptic systems. A tunable design model enables control over displacement and resonance frequency. The system is validated through a custom VR application with a 6 × 4 actuator array, demonstrating real‐time, spatially targeted tactile ...
Naji Tarabay   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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