A scoping review of the ethics frameworks describing issues related to the use of extended reality [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Rigmor C. Baraas, Alina Kadlubsky, Rosemarie D.L.C Bernabe, Shereen Cox, Jonathan Adams, Ellen Svarverud

“…Immersive technologies are used in entertainment, commerce, training, education, health, and the military among others. …”
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Las mujeres y la revolución mediática: una de las bases de las revueltas y del cambio en el mundo árabe by José María Perceval, Núria Simelio i Solà

“…This transformation was generated on the traditional mainstream media (entertainment programmes and the shows), on the information from the satellite televisions and essentially on the social networking and the blogs that have completely changed the media system of the Arabic World.…”
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Internet addiction and associated factors among undergraduate students of Jimma University; Jimma, South West Ethiopia, institutional based cross-sectional study by Abdulkarim Amano, Gutema Ahmed, Kabtamu Nigussie, Henock Asfaw, Gelana Fekadu, Ahmed Hiko, Tilahun Abdeta, Matiwos Soboka

“…Being dissatisfied with a major study, having a cumulative grade point average of a promoted grade report, using the internet for entertainment, using the internet for Facebook, using the internet for telegram, depression, social anxiety, and poor social support. …”
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Flexible fuel cells: A prospective review by Yifei Wang, Xinhai Xu, Guangzhong Dong, Mingming Zhang, Kui Jiao, Dennis Y.C. Leung

“…With the widespread of wearable electronics in healthcare, military and entertainment sectors, flexible power sources have attracted great attention, among which flexible fuel cells are relatively young compared with flexible batteries, supercapacitors and energy harvesters. …”
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Patterns and Influencing Factors of the Mobile Network of Traditional Creative Talents: Focus on Chinese Celebrity Chefs by Zhang Yaning, Zhang Xu

“…In contrast, urban amenity factors, such as infrastructure and cultural and entertainment facilities, do not have a significant impact on the mobility of celebrity chefs. …”
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Editorial by Ralf Risser

“…Boni et al. in their study "Characterizing Technology's Influence on Distractive Behavior at Signalized Intersections" deal with distraction caused or enhanced by electronic devices and in-vehicle entertainment systems with the help of a field test conducted at three intersections. …”
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Is Social Media Causing Anorexia? A Case Report on Kpop and Cultural Awareness by J. Kim, K. Tran, P. Korenis, A. Sareen

“…The cultural influence of entertainment figures is not a new phenomenon; however, there has a revolution in the way celebrities interact with their fans, specifically in the Korean Pop (Kpop) industry. …”
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Resolving Engineering, Industrial and Healthcare Challenges through AI-Driven Applications by Muhamad Asvial, Teuku Yuri M. Zagloel, Ismi Rosyiana Fitri, Eny Kusrini, Yudan Whulanza

“…The applications of AI are vast, including in industrial automation, healthcare, transportation, finance, entertainment, and more. AI continues to develop along with advances in technology and research, with the ultimate goal of creating systems that have levels of intelligence and capabilities that increasingly approach human capabilities. …”
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Design, Analysis, and Experimental Evaluation of a New Secure Rejoin Mechanism for LoRaWAN Using Elliptic-Curve Cryptography by Stefano Milani, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis

“…The resulting software is evaluated on the FIT IoT-Lab real-world experimentation facility under a diverse set of ARM Cortex-M* devices targeting a broad range of IoT applications, ranging from advanced wearable devices to interactive entertainment devices, home automation and industrial cyber-physical systems. …”
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Perceived Life Outcomes of Indian Children During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Lockdown: The Protective Roles of Joint and Nuclear Families by Gyanesh Kumar Tiwari, Raghavendra Prasad Tiwari, Rakesh Pandey, Bablu Ray, Abhigyan Dwivedi, Devaki Nandan Sharma, Pankaj Singh, Ajay Kumar Tiwari, Ajit Kumar Singh

“…The results showed that the joint families availed and utilized more resources to positively engage their children in creativity, studies, exercise, and entertainment during the restrictions of the lockdown compared to the nuclear families. …”
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Which Matters More in Fighting COVID-19—Government Policy or Community Participation? by Ying Qian, Jiaoling Huang, Laijun Zhao, Io Hong Cheong, Siqi Cao, Li Xiong, Qin Zhu

“…Here, we investigated the impact of these stakeholders and examined who played a major role across different epidemic stages.DesignWe extended the classic susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered (SEIR) model considering the heterogeneous contact structure in four social sceneries, i.e., school, workplace, public entertainment venues, and neighborhood community, which could reflect the impact of lockdown policy and wide participation of residents happened at the community level.ResultThe simulation results showed that without lockdown policy and only with community participation, the daily new confirmed cases would gradually increase to more than 7,000 [292/1,000,000] at the end of Sep. …”
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Risky behavior regarding drug use and HIV infection: an Internet questionnaire coupled with short education texts for Portuguese speakers Comportamento de risco para uso de drogas... by Leila Strazza, Raymundo S. Azevedo, Heráclito B. Carvalho

“…Different types of strategies must be encouraged, in order to reach people that use this means of communication and entertainment.<br>Levantamentos de comportamento de risco para HIV/AIDS são geralmente feitos para grupos de risco onde a prevalência é normalmente esperada ser maior que na população geral. …”
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AKADEMI DESAIN ANIMASI DENGAN PENDEKATAN ARSITEKTUR NUSANTARA by St Aisyah Rahman, Kurnia Afdillah, Taufik Arfan

“…Kata kunci : Akademi Animasi; Arsitektur Nusantara; Perancangan   Abstract_At this time, The use of animation today has covered the whole sector, start from entertainment such as film, from education as a media of learning in schools, until to the business world as a media of promotion and sales. …”
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Effectiveness of an edutainment video teaching standard precautions – a randomized controlled evaluation study by Aline Wolfensberger, Alexia Anagnostopoulos, Lauren Clack, Marie-Theres Meier, Stefan P. Kuster, Hugo Sax

“…We assessed learning effect (primary outcome) and satisfaction (secondary outcome) of watching a 5-min humorous “edutainment (=education and entertainment) video” on Standard Precautions compared to reading a written standard operating procedure (SOP) or receiving no intervention. …”
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Style attention based global-local aware GAN for personalized facial caricature generation by Xiuzhi Zhao, Wenting Chen, Weicheng Xie, Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen, Linlin Shen

“…IntroductionCaricature is an exaggerated pictorial representation of a person, which is widely used in entertainment and political media. Recently, GAN-based methods achieved automatic caricature generation through transferring caricature style and performing shape exaggeration simultaneously. …”
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Criminal liability models and criminal participation in the digital environment: A modern challenge in the perspective of Italian constitutionalism by Piparo Carlo

“…From the realms of commerce and industry to healthcare, transportation, and entertainment, Artificial Intelligence technologies have become indispensable tools shaping the way we interact, work, and navigate the world around us. …”
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Implementing Mobile Games into Care Services—Service Models for Finnish and Chinese Elderly Care by Sari Merilampi, Antti Koivisto, Mirka Leino, Nuno Pombo, Virginie Felizardo, Jue Lu, Anja Poberznik, Johanna Virkki

“…In general, rehabilitation orientated games should incorporate entertainment (motivation) and relevant therapeutic content (rehabilitation) in order to be effective. …”
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The Parental and Children Report of the Prevalence of Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study From Oman by Fahad Zadjali, Amna Al-Futaisi, Amira Al-Hosni, Salim Al-Huseini, Maarten Crommelin, Hassan Mirza

“…The presence of depressive symptoms was associated with increased food intake (OR 1.81, 95% CI 1.00–3.29, p-value &lt;0.05), longer use of smartphones (OR 2.72, 95% CI 1.56–4.73, p-value &lt;0.001), whereas additional entertainment activities during lockdown were protective against depression (OR 0.35 95% CI 0.19–0.64, p-value &lt;0.001).Conclusion: This study from Oman concurs with recent reports of depression being common during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Exploring the Association Between Behavioural Modification in Response to the Prevailing Economic Crisis and Mental Health Outcomes of Nurses from Teaching Hospitals, Sri Lanka by C.P Senevirathne, L. Senarathne, M. Fernando

“…In response to the economic challenges, 91.6% of study participants reported reducing expenditures on general household needs, while the proportion of participants who curtailed spending on food, monthly savings, and entertainment were 75.9%, 79.3%, and 73.6% respectively. …”
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المرأةُ (الواقعُ والمثالُ)قراءةٌ في شعرِ (شهاب الدين التلعفري)(ت675هـ-1287م)

“…If it is not the symbol at the end and for the other, it is for the poet himself and from himself, where the reader becomes aware face to face “A woman” through private and personal view, by which the poet moves from observation into imagination and from dream into experimentation when he found in “A woman” “Reality and Typical Example” life in existence taking from the verse a means to express his emotions and ideas, and his values about a female body which is considered an aesthetic example and a place of love and entertainment in a body symbol.…”
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