The television viewing habits of ten Indianapolis-based households were researched and analyzed as to the effects of television on the middleclass American family. This study illustrates how television reinforces Americans' abilities to make choices and exhibit control over technology. With television use as its main focus, this study examines choice in American culture, remote control use, gender-based comparisons, and television's role in the American home-individualism and community. / Department of Anthropology

Periods of crisis communication are uncertain, at best, for any organization dealing with a product tampering. This study examined how the public would use the media to gain information about the product tampering, if there would be a difference between newspaper and television usage, and what gratifications the public would seek from the media.The hypothesis stated that there would be no significant difference in media use during product tampering cases between newspapers and television. Three hundred eighty-eight households, the number needed for statistical reliability, were surveyed by telephone in the Muncie, Indiana, area. Results of the data supported the hypothesis. / Department of Journalism

It was argued that the social psychology of person perception, mass communications and cultural studies can be related to viewers' representations of television characters. Mass communications needs to incorporate viewers' interpretations and programme structure. Social cognition could satisfy the former need and cultural studies the latter. A literature review showed little research on viewers' interpretations of television programmes. There is a considerable body of research on person perception, gender stereotypes, the effects of viewing and programme structure. A study of viewers' accounts of viewing soap opera showed that they become involved with the characters and find the programmes realistic. Soap opera plays an important role in their lives. Viewers' representations of soap opera characters were examined using multidimensional scaling. This revealed stable, replicable character representations for Dallas, Coronation Street and EastEnders. The representations were compared with the oppositions which structure the programmes, Implicit Personality Theory and Gender Schema Theory. Dallas characters were represented by themes of morality and power/activity. Power was correlated with gender, with some counter-stereotypic females. Coronation Street characters were organised around morality/potency, gender (matriarchal) and approach to life. This related to person prototypes and contrasted with interaction patterns between characters. EastEnders characters were represented by themes of morality/power, gender and approach to life/centrality. Free descriptions validated the attribute ratings and showed further features of the representation. No socio-structural group differences in representation were found. Viewers' character representations were a constructive integration of programme structure and social knowledge. The application of abstract knowledge to a structured domain was discussed. Textual analysis of a narrative identified the 'role of the reader' and textual openness. This was related to stereotypes, narrative expectancies, myth and character representation. Distinct types of divergence in viewers' interpretations of narrative were discovered. Further, a narrative containing two readings was interpreted in four distinct ways by viewers, depending on their perceived relationships with characters. The conclusions and limitations of the research were discussed. Implications for person perception, stereotyping and textual analysis were examined. A taxonomy of factors relating to the interpretation and representation of television drama was presented.

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Adelaide, Department of Education, 1996. / Bibliography: leaves 156-165. Also available in a print form.

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographic references (p.127-136).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, August, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S. in Arts Administration)--Shenandoah University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)-- Brigham Young University. Dept. of Communication. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-117).

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-129). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία, συλλέγονται ηλεκτροκαρδιογραφήματα από τα ακόλουθα εμπορικά συστήματα, που απαρτίζουν τον εξοπλισμό της εργασίας: ο 12‐κάναλος καρδιογράφος BT‐12, η ζώνη corbelt, το holter 3 και 12 απαγωγών, και ο 12‐κάναλος καρδιογράφος ELI‐10. Οι καρδιακές αρρυθμίες, ο έλεγχος ενήλικων ασθενών με βηματοδότες, η αξιολόγηση ECG που τεκμηριώνει τις θεραπευτικές επεμβάσεις σε μεμονωμένες ασθενείς ή σε ομάδες ασθενών, η μεταβλητότητα του καρδιακού ρυθμού σε συγκεκριμένο χρόνο, οι κλινικές και οι επιδημιολογικές μελέτες και έρευνες και η παρακολούθηση της καρδιακής λειτουργίας ακόμη και των νηπίων είνα ορισμένες από τις ενδείξεις που έχουν πιστοποιήσει ότι τα παραπάνω όργανα είναι κατάλληλα για χρήση! Τα καρδιογραφήματα που δίνουν αυτά τα συστήματα μπορεί να βρίσκονται με μια από τις παρακάτω μορφές: αρχείου κειμένου .txt, αρχείο .scp, αρχείο .xml, αρχείο .pdf/edf ή αρχείο dicom. Η ανάλυση όλων των μορφών των αρχείων καρδιογραφήματος και η πλήρη κατανόηση της δομής τους είναι αναγκαία για την σωστή διαχώιση των αρχείων καρδιογραφήματος ανάλογα με το χρησιμοποιούμενο πρότυπο! Ανάλογα με τον τύπο του καρδιογραφήματος, χρειάζεται και διαφορετικό προγράμμα ώστε να μπορεί να διαβάσει το αντίστοιχο καρδιογράφημα και να το απεικονίζει σε μορφή ‘φιλική’ για το γιατρό. Ο αρμόδιος γιατρός δεν ενδιαφέρεται για το ποιά μορφή έχει το αρχείο καρδιογραφήματος (εάν είναι .txt, .scp, .xml, .pdf/edf ή αρχείο dicom), απλά επιθυμεί να βλέπει μια απεικόνιση ώστε να κάνει επεξεργασία αυτής και να προβλέπει τις αρρυθμίες. Τα συστήματα που περιγράφηκαν στην εργασία αυτή, παρέχουν διαφορετικούς τύπους δεδομένων και χρησιμοποίησαν διαφορετικούς viewers για να μπορέσουν να γίνουν ορατά σε κατανοητήμορφή τα αντίστοιχα δεδομένα. Στο τελευταίο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζονται δεδομένα προσομοίωσης φυσιολογικών εθελοντών, ασθενών στο νοσοκομείο και ασθενούς κατ’οίκον νοσηλεία. / In the present diplomatic work, are collected electrocardiograms from the following commercial systems, that compose the equipment of work: 12 ‐ chanel ECG, BT ‐ 12, the area corbelt, holter 3 and 12 kidnappings, and 12 ‐ chanel ECG, ELI ‐ 10. The cardiac arrhythmias, the control of adult patients with pacemakers, evaluation ECG that argues the therapeutic interventions in individual patients or in teams of patients, the variability of cardiac rythm in concrete time, the clinics and the epidemiologic studies and certain researches and the follow-up of cardiac operation of even infants from the clues that have certified that the upper bodies are suitable for use! The cardiograms that give these systems can they are found with one of the following forms: file of text .txt, file .scp, file .xml, file .pdf/edf or file dicom. The analysis of all forms of files of cardiogram and complete comprehension of their structure is necessary for the correct distribution of files of cardiogram depending on the used model! Depending on the type of cardiogram, it needs also different program so that it can read the corresponding cardiogram and portray him in form 'friendly' for the doctor. The responsible doctor does not interest itself for who form she has the file of cardiogram (if it is .txt, .scp, .xml, .pdf/edf or file dicom), simply she wishes she sees a depiction so that she makes treatment of this and she forecasts the arrhythmias. The systems that were described in this work, provide different presses of data and used different viewers in order to they can become visible in undertsandable format for the corresponding data. In the last capital are presented data of simulation of physiologic volunteers, patients in the hospital and ill at home hospitalisation.