Sentences with phrase «by communication researchers»

The continuous analysis of programme content by communication researchers such as George Gerbner shows that the levels of gratuitous violence in U.S. television are as high as ever.
The full report and accompanying commentary by communications researcher Ellen Wartella (Northwestern University) are available free to the public online.
Some 10 guests sat at a long table for a discussion about «the importance of trust in modern times,» led by communication researcher Stefanie Molthagen - Schnöring of the University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economics in Berlin.

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The researchers also revealed some disturbing forward - looking calculations should major reform not be implemented: If healthcare costs rise to a predicted 20 percent of GDP by 2017, eight industries, including educational services, communications, and manufacturing, would shed more than 20 percent of their workforces over the same period.
Inspired by Braille and Tadoma, a method of communication for the blind and and deaf, researchers were able to teach participants to feel four of the sounds that form the building blocks of language within three minutes.
The attacks, which took place this year and have not been previously reported, jeopardized the communications of activists, journalists and other people in sensitive positions in Iran, where Telegram is used by some 20 million people, said independent cyber researcher Collin Anderson and Amnesty International technologist Claudio Guarnieri, who have been studying Iranian hacking groups for three years.
By contrast, European researchers have seen communication much more as a process through which a shared culture is created, modified, and transformed.
They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.
This dynamic was identified more than 35 years ago by the media researchers Lazarsfeld and Merton and presented in their seminal article «Mass Communication, Popular Taste and Organized Social Action:»
However, research like that done by Dr. Lise Eliot a leading researcher in neuroscience has shown that talking to infants and small children helps to develop their verbal communication skills and gives children a greater range of vocabulary skills.
For the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used a technique recently borrowed from the computer science field by neuroscientists — multivariate pattern analysis — to examine brain scans that were taken while people looked at a picture of someone who had rejected them.
Thanks to the computer programs created by the researchers, they can control each cell individually in various ways, or create virtual communication between several cells, which circulate messages in an easily reconfigurable order.»
Their report, published May 10 in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that among more than a dozen different lines of mice developed around the world to mirror autism caused by mutations to the SHANK3 gene, Duke researchers are the first to create a mouse in which that gene has been completely eliminated.
Social media channel communication (e.g. Twitter and Facebook) is sometimes the only telecommunications medium that survives, and the first to recover as seen in disasters that struck the world in recent years, according to a review study of emergency situations by Ben - Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers in the International Journal of Information Management.
In a paper published January 2, 2018, in Nature Communications, Berkeley Lab researchers led by the Northen lab report that specific compounds are transformed by and strongly associated with specific bacteria in native biological soil crust (biocrust) using a suite of tools Northen calls «exometabolomics.»
Since the largest portion of individuals affected by wildfires base their final decision on physical cues, the researchers recommend that communication to this population should focus on how to appropriately assess physical wildfire cues and the challenges of making an accurate assessment.
A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology (MRC CDN) at IoPPN, carried out in collaboration with the Tian lab at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (USA), unravels how this synchrony is achieved at the molecular level.
This scenario is one of the goals of CarSpeak, a communication system for autonomous cars developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
This was the topic of a new study by researchers from Stockholm University and international partners published in Nature Communications.
That is the finding by researchers Erin K. Maloney, Ph.D. and Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, as reported in the journal Health Communication (online, March 2015).
But in a new paper in the journal Nature Communications, researchers investigating nutrients in runoff from agricultural land warn that phosphorus losses will increase, due to climate change, unless this is mitigated by making major changes to agricultural practices.
A recent study published in the journal Human Communication Research by researchers at Rollins College and The Pennsylvania State University found that individuals who were exposed to intense verbal aggression as children are able to handle intense conflict later in life.
Intel researchers have produced an optical chip that could help revolutionize computer communications by making it affordable to connect computers with fiber optics over short distances.
An international team of researchers, led by Professor Paul Walton and Professor Gideon Davies of the Department of Chemistry at York, carried out the research which is published in Nature Communications.
The researchers found evidence that the impact of consumers» exposure to a company's social media activities is strengthened by the level of «human voice» in the online communication of companies, and that this results in a positive effect on a company's reputation.
A paper by Yan's research group, published in the Jan. 8 issue of the multidisciplinary journal Nature Communications, helps pin down the basic mechanisms of the fuel - cell reaction on platinum, which will help researchers create alternative electrocatalysts.
«Mechanics of cells» long - range communication modeled by researchers
The survey was led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine, published online Jan. 16 in the journal Health Communication, and funded by the communications company Verizon.
This finding led the researchers to assume that in the future it may be possible for Oxytocin to be used as a psychobiological treatment option in couple therapy as it may increase positive communication behaviors among partners, particularly among couples where the husband suffers from PTSD, and thereby it may improve the quality of the couple's marriage — which is often impaired by the disorder.
The new study, published August 18 in Nature Communications and led by UC Santa Cruz researcher Erin McCreless, closes that gap.
According to a poll conducted by researchers at Yale University's Project on Climate Change Communication, four out of five Americans reported personally experiencing one or more types of extreme weather or a natural disaster in 2011, while more than a third were personally harmed either a great deal or a moderate amount by one or more of these events.
Furthermore, results closely related to this group's research results were simultaneously published in the Nature Communications by a joint group of researchers from Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and French research institutes.
The researchers also found that the communication was initiated by the IFJ and the activity was staggered by 20 milliseconds — about the amount of time it would take for neurons to electrically convey information from the IFJ to either the FFA or PPA.
The pet, and overall game platform, was developed by an interdisciplinary group of UGA researchers from the College of Engineering, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and the College of Veterinary Medicine.
In this study, U.S. researchers, led by Deanna Sellnow, a Communication Professor from the University of Central Florida, examined the impact of the L'Aquila earthquake on the international scientific earthquake community of practice (CoP).
In a study published in the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo - and climate researchers at the Alfred - Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar - and Marine Research (AWI) show that, in the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than today.
What we have, as expressed in our mission statement, is a goal to»... improve the UNC experience for postdoctoral fellows by fostering a sense of community among junior researchers, facilitating communication with the university, and promoting the professional development of all UNC postdoctoral fellows.»
The researchers reason that since each detector's setting is determined by sources that have had no communication or shared history since the beginning of the universe, it would be virtually impossible for these detectors to «conspire» with anything in their shared past to give a biased measurement; the experimental setup could therefore close the «free will» loophole.
Researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland have uncovered a new form of secret light communication used by marine animals.
Researchers led by Nigel Bamford of the University of Washington in Seattle, US, gave mice large doses of methamphetamine, equivalent to those taken by addicts during drug binges, to see how this affected communication between cells in the brain's cortex and those in a region of the brain called the striatum.
Successful trials of a communications system devised at the University of Leeds could signal the end of the fashionionable science parks in which academic researchers work side by side with high - tech businesses.
The work is detailed in a paper in Nature Communications by fisheries researchers Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and it builds on a decade - long project that has drawn in hundreds of researchers from around the world.
Researchers have struggled for years to understand the disorder, challenged by their communication barrier with the children they study.
A researcher in the UPV / EHU's Department of Communications Engineering has developed the Ladon security protocol, an efficient mechanism to authenticate, authorise and establish the end - to - end keys (keys for communication between the terminal used by the doctor and the patient's device), which offers revolutionary features for sensors of this type.
A new generation of platinum - copper catalysts that require very low concentrations of platinum in the form of individual atoms to cleanly and cheaply perform important chemical reactions is reported today by Tufts University researchers in the journal Nature Communications.
Researchers knew that cells in the inner ear below hair cells — known as supporting cells — can become the sensory cells themselves when stimulated by a protein that blocks Notch signaling, which is an important mechanism for cell communication.
The two devices built by the researchers are key components for the communication link between a computer's central processing unit and its memory.
We propose that this dogma of all - you - can - eat data should be challenged, for example by reducing previews or making people click through to view content that interests them,» said Dr Oliver Bates, senior researcher at Lancaster University's School of Computing and Computing and Communications.
In a series of papers presented at the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, researchers at MIT and Maynooth University in Ireland have shown that existing, practical cryptographic schemes come with their own information - theoretic guarantees: Some of the data they encode can't be extracted, even by a computationally unbounded adversary.
Electronics researchers would like to integrate silicon light emitters with other silicon electronics, in order to send signals between chips optically, avoiding bottlenecks caused by electrical transmission and so speed up communications.
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