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Longitudinal Evaluation of Vitamin D, Parathyroid Hormone, Antimicrobial Peptides, and Immunomodulatory Genes in Hospitalized Foals [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Volume 39, Issue 2, March/April 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Information about the association of antimicrobial peptides with hypovitaminosis D in hospitalized foals is lacking. Hypothesis/Objectives We aimed to longitudinally determine the association of serum concentrations of vitamin D metabolites, vitamin D binding protein (DBP), and parathyroid hormone (PTH) with antimicrobial peptides ...
Ahmed M. Kamr   +10 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Be Brave, live: reviewing Buffy's journey in Buffy The Vampire Slayer from Final Girl to Heroine twenty-five years later

open access: yesIlha do Desterro, 2023
The present paper discusses the United-Statesian TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer reassessing its protagonist, Buffy Summers, in 2022, twenty-five years after its first broadcasting.
Yasmim Pereira Yonekura   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Heroine and the Meme: Participating in Feminist Discourses Online

open access: yesCurrent Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2016
This article examines the relationship between feminist participatory culture and online ativism. I argue that Internet users participate in feminist discourses online by creating memes that present popular fictional female heroes such as Katniss ...
Svenja Hohenstein
doaj   +1 more source

Les médiamorphoses de Chloé Delaume

open access: yesNouvelle Revue Synergies Canada, 2020
Chloé Delaume se pose en « personnage de fiction pire que les autres » car elle refuse de s’incarner dans un livre, prenant, au gré de ses médiamorphoses, différentes enveloppes corporelles et textuelles, présentées comme autant d’hôtes successifs. Entre
Alexandra Profizi
doaj   +1 more source

"It's good to be me.": Buffy's Resistance to Renaming [PDF]

open access: yesSlayage, 2020
In a series rife with examples of renaming, self-naming, loss of name, nick-naming, and name-based magic, Buffy Summers stands out as a character resistant to any attempt to over-write her core identity through re-naming or un-naming.
Janet Brennan Croft
doaj  

From the Valley to the Hellmouth: “Buffy”’s Transition from Film to Television [PDF]

open access: yesSlayage, 2001
The Buffy who fights demons on television in Sunnydale is a far cry from the Buffy who fought vampires on the big screen in the early nineties. In the transition from film to television, Buffy has mutated from a bubbly Valley girl into a feminist heroine
Gabrielle Moss
doaj  

‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 121-130, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
wiley   +1 more source

Hepatitis E virus screening in Irish blood donors: Seven years of individual donation nucleic acid testing reveals a frequent blood donor infection—but what is the risk?

open access: yesTransfusion Medicine, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 279-289, June 2026.
Abstract Background Screening blood donations for HEV RNA mitigates the risk of transfusion‐transmitted HEV infection (TT‐HEV), a recognised blood safety issue in Europe. This study reports the findings of government‐funded HEV RNA blood donation screening 2016–2022 and includes an estimate of residual risk. Method Donation samples were universally and
Niamh O'Flaherty   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vector‐borne diseases‐knowledge maps

open access: yesEFSA Journal, Volume 24, Issue 5, May 2026.
Abstract This scientific report provides a structured overview of the main characteristics of 25 selected vector‐borne diseases (VBDs) of potential relevance for the EU, including 12 diseases listed under the Animal Health Law (AHL) and 13 non‐listed diseases.
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fungal Diversity and Potential Health Benefits of Mycophagy in Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus)

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Primatology, Volume 88, Issue 4, April 2026.
Free‐ranging chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in Nature's Valley, South Africa, of multiple age/sex classes eat diverse fungi (10 identified to species level, 3 to genus level). We assess potential nutritional, medicinal and ecosystem implications of consumption of these fungi based on human and other mammalian mycophagy literature.
Margaret A. H. Bryer   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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