Live Breaking News & Updates on வியன்னா அறிவியல்

Stay updated with breaking news from வியன்னா அறிவியல். Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Frontiers | The Relationship Between Crime-Related Television Viewing and Perceptions of the Death Penalty: Results of a Large Cross-Sectional Survey Study


1,2
1Unit Suicide Research & Mental Health Promotion, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research, Vienna, Austria
3Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Background: According to cultivation theory, distorted representations of social reality on television can lead to distorted perceptions of reality among viewers. For example, the death penalty has been abolished in most Western countries a long time ago, but is often portrayed or mentioned in US crime shows, which are very popular outside the United States. Previous research suggests that the amount of television viewing can be associated with erroneous perceptions of the use of the death penalty even when the death penalty is not used in the respective country. Unfortunately, available evidence on this association is inconclusive. ....

Mecklenburg Vorpommern , New York , United States , United Kingdom , City Of , D Zillmann Hillsdale , States Worldatlas , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , Lawrence Erlbaum , Cambridge University , Cambridge University Press , Amnesty International , Amnesty International Global , Technology Fund , Weighting Excel Macro Survey Science , Associations Between Television , York University , Relationship Between American Legal Crime Television , International Encyclopedia Of Media , European Audiovisual Observatory , Statistics Austria , Rim Weighting Excel Macro , Survey Science , Supplementary Tables , Between Television Viewing , Der Standard ,

Tracking down the tiniest of forces: How T cells detect invaders


 E-Mail
IMAGE: The T cell (yellow) touches the antigen-presenting cell. Tiny forces are applied on the surface, eventually the connection breaks.
view more 
Credit: TU Wien / MedUni Wien
T-cells play a central role in our immune system: by means of their so-called T-cell receptors (TCR) they make out dangerous invaders or cancer cells in the body and then trigger an immune reaction. On a molecular level, this recognition process is still not sufficiently understood.
Intriguing observations have now been made by an interdisciplinary Viennese team of immunologists, biochemists and biophysicists. In a joint project funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund and the FWF, they investigated which mechanical processes take place when an antigen is recognized: As T cells move their TCRs pull on the antigen with a tiny force - about five pico-newtons (5 x 10-12 or 0.0000000005 newtons). This is not only sufficient to break the bonds between the TCRs and ....

Angewandte Immunologie , Technische Universit , Florian Kellner , Medizinische Universit , Johannes Huppa , Angewandte Physik , Lukas Schrangl , Nature Communications , Technology Fund , Vienna Science , Gerhard Sch , Meduni Vienna , Biomechanics Biophysics , Cell Biology , Medicine Health , Immunology Allergies Asthma , இயற்கை தகவல்தொடர்புகள் , தொழில்நுட்பம் நிதி , வியன்னா அறிவியல் , ஜெர்ஹார்ட் ஸ்ச் , பயோமெக்கானிக்ஸ் உயிர் இயற்பியல் ,