But "The Interview", a comedy from Sony Pictures Entertainment that includes a scene depicting the assassination of Kim Jong Un, North Korea's leader, has provoked a far more damaging response from one particular bunch of detractors.
It is shown that columnar films display two regimes of responses: one dominated by columnar sliding at a critical shear stress which is determined substantially by the residual stress in the film, and the other, more damaging response, characterized by fracture.
High dose supplementation with α-tocopherol primes mononuclear cells from patients with type 2 diabetes for a potentially damaging response to acute hyperglycaemia.
These data suggest that the high dose α-tocopherol treatment has primed a damaging response to acute hyperglycaemia in type 2 diabetes and may be related to the duration of the disease.
Hosts may be constrained by lymphocyte numbers as well as the need to avoid self-damaging responses in their search of antigenic space.
Specifically, host genotypes enduring costs (either because they launch powerful, self-damaging responses, or because they have invested heavily in preparatory defences) may be outcompeted when the threat of parasitism recedes.
To suggest that the crisis reflects an excess of political and economic liberalism is misleading and likely to lead to damaging policy responses.
It remains puzzling why some renal insults are robustly countered with successful regeneration while other injuries lead to futile or actually more damaging cellular responses.
