Afar from the World

Visuality, mobility and the cosmopolitan: inhabiting the world from afar.

In earlier publications based on the research discussed in this article (e.g. Szerszynski and Urry 2002), we argued that an emergent culture of cosmopolitanism, refracted into different forms amongst different social groups, was being nurtured by a widespread 'banal globalism'--a proliferation of global symbols and narratives made available through the media and popular culture. In the current ...

From Lisbon to the World...

Suppression from Afar: Striatal D2 Receptors Temper Inhibition in Cortex Turning down Inhibition from Afar

11 July 2011. Altering dopamine signaling in one region of the brain can have substantial repercussions elsewhere, according to a study published online on July 5, 2011, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The laboratories of Wen-Ju Gao at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Eric Kandel at Columbia University in New York joined forces to examine the synaptic...

Eiger triggers death from afar

Cells undergoing programmed cell death release signals that can trigger the death of cells at remote locations.

Remote ischaemic conditioning: cardiac protection from afar

For patients with ischaemic heart disease, remote ischaemic conditioning may offer an innovative, non-invasive and virtually cost-free therapy for protecting the myocardium against the detrimental effects of acute ischaemia-reperfusion injury, preserving cardiac function and improving clinical outcomes. The intriguing phenomenon of remote ischaemic conditioning was first discovered over 20 year...