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.
Not exact matches
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.