Ill Effects of Smoking: Baseline Knowledge among School Children and Implementation of the “AntE Tobacco” Project by Salim Surani, Raghu Reddy, Amy E. Houlihan, Brenda Parrish, Gina L. Evans-Hudnall, Kalpalatha Guntupalli

“…Children in grades 1–3 were administered a 10-item questionnaire to ascertain their baseline knowledge about the ill effects of smoking, shown an educational cartoon video depicting the ill effects of tobacco, and given a story book based on the video. …”
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A conceptual approach to material detection based on damping vibration-force signals via robot by Ahmad Saleh Asheghabadi, Mohammad Keymanesh, Saeed Bahrami Moqadam, Saeed Bahrami Moqadam, Saeed Bahrami Moqadam, Jing Xu

“…Data clustering was performed using the deflection of the cantilever beam to boost classification accuracy.Results and discussionOnline object materials detection shows an accuracy of 95.46% in a study of ten objects [metals (steel, cast iron), plastics (foam, compressed plastic), wood, silicon, rubber, leather, brick and cartoon]. This method overcomes the limitations of the tactile approach and has the potential to be used in industrial robots.…”
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Genome-wide identification, characterization and expression pattern analysis of HAK/KUP/KT potassium transporter gene family in potato by Kun Liu, Yonglin Qin, Lan Wu, Rong Yi, Xiaohua Shi, Jing Yu, Xiaohong Shi, Wenzhuo Dong, Liguo Jia, Mingshou Fan

“…To provide a clear and convenient view of StHAK gene expression across different tissues in potato, we generated a cartoon heatmap to vividly illustrate the tissue-specific expression of StHAK genes, which is unprecedented in the gene family analysis of potato. …”
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Piloting creative engagement strategies to explore themes of parenthood with fathers by Iryna Culpin, Iryna Culpin, Catherine Lamont-Robinson, Mark Billington, Matthew James, James Prewett, Gareth Ward, Mireia Bes Garcia, Giovanni Biglino, Giovanni Biglino

“…Two further shorter sessions followed as fathers' key messages emerged, and the final forms of their own creative expressions crystallised.ResultsThe final pieces included a musical composition around sharing vulnerability as a new father, a word cloud to represent gendered language of parenthood, an animated graphic image representing the bond between father and child, a combination of short poetic stanzas highlighting assumptions around fatherhood, an experiential photographic record of a father and a son in the early years, and a cartoon strip around emotional intelligence in parenting.DiscussionArts-based participatory engagement enabled to capture deep-rooted experiences of being a father in modern society, illuminating common cultural and intergenerational perspectives, while also tapping into unique individual experiences. …”
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Humoriste, journaliste et artiste engagé by Farida Souiah

“…It also analyzes the commitment of those who draw political cartoons in a non-democratic context. First, this article explores the history of caricatures in Algeria in a direct link with the development of comics and press. …”
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IRONIMUS ou l’art d’éclairer par l’image by Valérie de Daran

“…But this does not take into account the way it derives force from simplification, or its instructive and pedagogical dimension. The cartoons the Austrian caricaturist IRONIMUS (Gustav Peichl) drew for the press over nearly 60 years offer a particularly illuminating survey of political life under the Second Republic. …”
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La imagen del gaucho argentino en los primeros films de dibujos animados estadounidenses by Ana Teresa  Fanchin

“…This particular source of cartoons, exhibited on the screen and that would reach wide dissemination, has to illustrate the representation of the gaucho of the Argentine pampas by the estadounidense vision, in instances that aspired to achieve its world hegemony. …”
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CREATING AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR PRESCHOOLERS: LINGUODIDACTIC ASPECT by Oksana Khomyshak

“…The didactic value of English vlogs and cartoons as the most interesting and engaging audiovisual support for children’s English language communicative competence formation is determined. …”
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Slache, le rire brusseleir de la radio à la bande dessinée by Benoît Crucifix, Sébastien Hermans

“…This article reconstructs the multimedia trajectory of Slache and its creator Marcel Antoine in order to unravel networks of circulation between radio, the performing arts, the illustrated press, cartoons and comics. The article takes up the issues of this transmedia circulation between sound culture and graphic culture in terms of materiality, seriality and auctoriality.…”
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Las edades de la República by Lara Campos Pérez

“…The analysis was made from six newspaper cartoons, from different ideological positions, allowing appreciate the richness and plasticity of both the metaphor itself as the political symbol used to embody. …”
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APPROPRIATE AND INAPPROPRIATE USES OF HUMOR BY TEACHERS AND THE EFFECT OF IT IN LEARNING by Fitriah Fitriah

“…However, humor related to the topic being taught, cartoons, funny stories, puns, language mistakes was perceived as appropriate, and 94% of them believed that these types of humor affect positively in the learning. …”
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Neon Genesis Evangelion ou la déconstruction du robot anime by Bounthavy Suvilay

“…In Japan, the growth of manga and cartoons adaptation on television can not be separate from science fiction and the development of the robot anime genre. …”
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Victorian and Edwardian Virtual Reality: from Stoker to Forster by Catherine Lanone

“…Fantasies of global transmission haunted the Victorian era, as demonstrated by one of George Du Maurier’s cartoons. Dracula engages with transmission in a dual way, turning Mina’s mind into a radio-system which the Count may switch on and off, whereas Van Helsing may reverse the signal and spy on the vampire; technology embodying modernity, from the phonograph to the typewriter or telegraph, may vanquish the Count’s archaic powers of transmission. …”
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‘A place for everyone who gets it’: by Charlotte Johanne Fabricius

“… This article discusses the political potential of sharing comics and cartoons on Instagram when that practice lies in the intersection of autobiographical art, feminist activism, and for-profit influencer work. …”
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“Consummate Too Too”: On the Logic of Iconotexts Satirizing the “Aesthetic Movement” by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…The object of this paper is to examine a series of “iconotexts” (Alain Montandon), such as cartoons in periodicals, illustrations, cards, adverts, etc., that were produced in response to the Aesthetic Movement in the context of late 19th-century marketplace culture (Regenia Gagnier). …”
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MEDIA USE AND HAPPINESS IN SERBIA by LJubiša Bojić, Maja Pavlović

“…When looking at television use, individuals that prefer programs such as cartoons, culture, music, fashion, science, IT and sports are happier than others. …”
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Análisis lingüístico-comunicativo del tratamiento informativo de la guerra de Irak en la prensa venezolana by Sylvia Fernández Franco

“…In this paper, the informative treatment for the conflict originated by the publication of Mahoma’s cartoons is analyzed using two newspaper texts as sample: an opinion article from El País (Spain) and an informative piece from Panorama (Venezuela). …”
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« Culture for the million, or society as it may be » by Françoise Baillet

“…From the vantage point offered by such publications as The Illustrated London News and, of course, Punch, cartoons became the missing link between highbrow and lowbrow culture, thus contributing to the long-lasting fascination exerted by Aestheticism on the rest of society.…”
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La menace sans visage : Images de l’ennemi dans la presse britannique à la suite des attentats du 11 septembre 2001 by Pascale Villate-Compton

“…Despite repeated warnings against equating terrorists with the Muslim population, some sections of the British press have tended to generalise and to foster irrational fears. The cartoons and photographs of the daily British press in the three months after the attacks show that, often, beyond the precise identification of a culprit, the Other (the foreigner marked by a difference, the Muslim and his religious and cultural practices) ends up representing the enemy. …”
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