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TV listening and hearing aids. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
TV listening plays a large role in the lives of hearing-impaired (HI) individuals. Yet, few studies have examined TV listening in this group. In this paper, we report the findings of an online survey on TV listening conducted among HI individuals with ...
Olaf Strelcyk, Gurjit Singh
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Dietary habits and lifestyle in school-aged children from Bucharest, Romania [PDF]

, 2018
Background. This study evaluated the difference between boys and girls in terms of nutritional status, lifestyle, and dietary habits during school life. Materials and Methods.
Andronache, Liliana F., Arsene, Andreea, Badiu, Cristinel D., Ditu, Georgiana, Hainarosie, Razvan, Mehedintu, Claudia, Nitipir, Cornelia, Orlov, Cristina, Oros, Mihaela, Paduraru, Dan N., Pantea Stoian, Anca, Pituru, Silviu M.   +11 more
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The affective, cognitive, and behavioral echo of cumulative series reception aka binge-watching: A qualitative study

Acta Psychologica
When analyzing the cumulative reception of TV series, often called binge-watching (i.e., watching several episodes of one TV series back-to-back), there has been a strong focus on potentially harmful consequences in the literature, such as insomnia ...
Sarah Eberhard-Bölz
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La lectura por placer: su incidencia en el rendimiento académico, las horas de televisión y las horas de videojuegos. The pleasure of reading: its impact on academic achievement, on TV-watching hours and video games-playing hours

Ocnos, 2014
En el presente trabajo se ha relacionado el gusto y la afición por la lectura y el tiempo que pasan los alumnos viendo la televisión o jugando a videojuegos en los ratos de ocio, y cómo estas variables correlacionan con el rendimiento académico, medido a través de las notas escolares. La muestra ha sido compuesta por un total de 510 alumnos de los tres
Teresa Dezcallar, Mercè Clariana, Ramón Cladellas, Mar Badia, Concepció Gotzens   +4 more
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Effects of tv time and other sedentary pursuits

, 2008
Television (TV) viewing is the dominant recreational pastime at all ages, especially for children and adolescents. Many studies have shown that higher TV viewing hours are associated with higher body mass index (BMI), lower levels of fitness and higher ...
A Furnham, A Shelly, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Communications, B Hernandez, B Kelly, B Swinburn, B Swinburn, C Currie, C Delmas, CJ Crespo, DA Crawford, G Hastings, J Mota, J Salmon, J Salmon, J Salmon, J Salmon, J Van den Bulck, J-M Oppert, JC Eisenmann, JCG Halford, LH Epstein, M Schneider, M van Zutphen, MM Carvalhal, MS Tremblay, O Carter, O Samdal, RC Klesges, RJ Hancox, S Lioret, SA Bowman, SJ Marshall, SJH Biddle, SL Gortmaker, SL Gortmaker, T Lobstein, TN Robinson, TV Cooper, V Burke, VB Jenvey, WH Dietz Jr   +42 more
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Diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and perceptions of the environment in young adults [PDF]

, 2009
Background Few studies have explored both food behaviour and physical activity in an environmental context. Most research in this area has focused on adults; the aim of the present study was to describe perceptions of the environment, diet, physical ...
Adamson, Ashley, Alvanides, Seraphim, Lake, Amelia, Stamp, Elaine, Townshend, Tim   +4 more
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Sedentary behaviors and adiposity in young people: causality and conceptual model [PDF]

, 2018
Research on sedentary behavior and adiposity in youth dates back to the 1980s. Sedentary behaviors, usually screen time, can be associated with adiposity.
Biddle, Stuart J. H., Pearson, Natalie, Salmon, Jo   +2 more
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Effects of Captioned TV Shows on Language Learners Motivation and Perception

Respectus Philologicus, 2013
This study aimed at identifying the possible effects of using English TV shows with captions on adult Turkish learners’ language learning motivation. It also investigated how learners perceived the use of captions as a language learning tool.
Suleyman Basaran, Eyup Dilber
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Health Status and the Allocation of Time [PDF]

In this paper, we quantify the effects of health on time allocation. We estimate that improvements in health status have large and positive effects on time allocated to home and market production and large negative effects on time spent watching TV ...
Melinda Podor, Timothy J. Halliday
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Relationship between parental estimate and an objective measure of child television watching

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2006
Many young children have televisions in their bedrooms, which may influence the relationship between parental estimate and objective measures of child television usage/week. Parental estimates of child television time of eighty 4–7 year old children (6.0
Roemmich James N, Fuerch Janene H, Winiewicz Dana D, Robinson Jodie L, Epstein Leonard H   +4 more
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