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Balancing risk and reward—Perceptions of bats and their ecological role in Reunion island

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 8, Page 2720-2733, August 2026.
Abstract Context: Bats provide vital ecosystem services but can also generate disservices or sanitary concerns, particularly where human–bat interactions are frequent. Understanding public perceptions of bats is essential for effective conservation and risk communication.
Rachel Leong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘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

Impact of Co‐Solvents and Additives on the Indoor Stability of Green Solvent‐Processed Organic Solar Cells

open access: yesSolar RRL, Volume 10, Issue 10, 27 May 2026.
This study investigates the stability of TPD‐3F:FCC‐Cl blends under indoor conditions with various cosolvents and additives. The results reveal significant burn‐in degradation due to morphological instability under mild testing conditions. However, the DBDMF solid additive demonstrates improved stability, attributed to its lower miscibility and more ...
Ignacio Ballesteros García   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acting authentically: Using play to cultivate authentic interrelating in role performance

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 527-549, May 2026.
Summary Research is increasingly demonstrating that authenticity and human connection are fundamental and interrelated human needs. However, organizational roles often constrain authenticity and connection in workplace interactions, especially roles that are highly scripted.
Lyndon E. Garrett
wiley   +1 more source

Investing in Game‐Based Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE): A Chinese‐Speaking Gaming Community

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 1371-1387, May 2026.
ABSTRACT As a rapidly evolving sub‐field of computer‐assisted language learning, informal digital learning of English (IDLE) has become a significant catalyst for linguistic, affective, and pedagogical development among English as a second language (L2) learners.
Yue Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

The Tyrant and the Saint: Cruelty, Ambivalence, Humour in the Earliest Dracula Tales [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Litterarum
The article explores the literary and artistic traditions around Vlad III (alias Dracula), Prince of Wallachia, which started circulating about him in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Levente Nagy
doaj   +1 more source

Dracula Gramophone

open access: yesRevue LISA, 2009
The article draws on two 1987 lectures by Derrida, collected under the general heading, Ulysse Gramophone, for its own title. Its basic aim is to register the full (and so far little explored) impact of the sense of hearing, and of the auditory ...
Marc Porée
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural Diversity and the Alternate History in Kim Newman’s Novel ‎Anno Dracula

open access: yesالأستاذ, 2022
The paper offers a new insight into the global perception of vampirism as cultural diversity tradition lens in the British writer Kim Newman’s novel Anno Dracula, published in 1992.
Dr. Tatheer Assim Faiq
doaj   +1 more source

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Swampland: The Cosmologist's Handbook to the String‐Theoretical Swampland Programme

open access: yesFortschritte der Physik, Volume 74, Issue 4, April 2026.
Abstract String theory has strong implications for cosmology, implying the absence of a cosmological constant, ruling out single‐field slow‐roll inflation, and that black holes decay. The origins of these statements are elucidated within the string‐theoretical swampland programme.
Kay Lehnert
wiley   +1 more source

Cartography of the Imperial Mind: The Dangerous Forms and Reforms of Dracula

open access: yes, 2017
The late Victorian era was imbued with progressive scientific reform and palpable anxiety regarding the future of the British empire. These two topics may seem distinct, but they find mutual expression in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, in which the ...
Caitlin Duffy
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