American National Standard for Video Recording — ½-in Type L Mode 1 Electrical Parameters — Video, Audio, Time and Control Code and Tracking Control

The actor/observer effect was examined by Storms in a 1973 study which manipulated perceptual orientation using video recordings. Storms' study was complex and some of his results equivocal. The present study attempted to recreate the perceptual reorientation effect using a simplified experimental design and an initial difference between actors and observers which was the reverse of the original effect. Female undergraduates performed a motor co-ordination task as actors while watched by observers. Each person made attributions for the actor's behaviour before and after watching a video recording of the performance. For a control group the video recording was of an unrelated variety show excerpt. Actors' initial attributions were less situational than observers'. Both actors and observers became more situational after the video replay but this effect occurred in both experimental and control groups. It was suggested the passage of time between first and second recording of attributions could account for the findings and care should be taken when interpreting Storms' (1973) study and others which did not adequately control for temporal effects.

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Time and control code for video tape recorders

10.3403/02444768u ◽

2015 ◽

Keyword(s):

Video Tape ◽

Control Code ◽

And Control

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Current status, problems and control strategies of water resources pollution in China

Water Policy ◽

10.2166/wp.2014.018 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 423-440 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Lei Wu ◽

Tong Qi ◽

Dan Li ◽

Huijuan Yang ◽

Guoqing Liu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Water Pollution ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Water Environment ◽

Underground Water ◽

National Standard ◽

Current Status ◽

Food Borne ◽

Major River ◽

And Control ◽

Research And Policy

The surface water of 10 major river systems across China has been under intermediate pollution with striking eutrophication problems in major lakes (reservoirs). More data from the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China showed that underground water in 57% of monitoring sites across Chinese cities was polluted or extremely polluted. Rural water pollution, the rising number of incidents of industrial pollution, outdated sewerage systems, and the overuse of pesticides and chemical fertilizers also endanger the health of rural inhabitants in China. Nearly 0.2 billion rural residents could not use drinking water in accordance with the national standard, and there were reports of ‘cancer villages' and food-borne diseases (cancer village refers to a village where a certain proportion of its inhabitants suffer from the same kind of cancer or where there is a hike in cancer incidence in that area). This study aims to raise awareness of the prevention and control of water pollution and to propose a set of national research and policy initiatives for the future safety of the water environment in China.

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