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Beyond the Vampire: Revamping Thai Monsters for the Urban Age
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2017 This article revisits two of the most iconic Thai monstrosities, phi pop and phi krasue, whose changing representation owes equally as much to local folklore, as to their ongoing reinterpretations in popular culture texts, particularly in film and ...
Katarzyna Ancuta
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Creatio Fantastica, 2019 Reviewed book: Piotr Żołądź, Potworność i krytyka. Studia o cyklu wiedźmińskim Andrzeja Sapkowskiego, Kraków: Universitas 2018, ISBN: 97883-242-3424-0, pp ...
Magdalena Łachacz
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Of Monsters, Myths and Marketing: The Case of the Loch Ness Monster [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines the status of the Loch Ness Monster within a diverse body of literature relating to Scotland. Within cryptozoology this creature is considered as a source of investigation, something to be taken seriously as a scientific or quasi ...
Moir, James
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, 2020 This chapter provides a general overview of the issues surrounding semantic monsters. It outlines the basics of Kaplan’s framework and spells out how and why the topic of “monsters” arises within that framework. The chapter distinguishes four notions of a monster and shows why they all coincide within Kaplan’s framework.
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa +2 more
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Advanced Physics Research, EarlyView.The investigation of the Kondo lattice system CeB6${\rm CeB}_6$ by highly surface sensitive techniques is hampered by difficulties in preparing well‐ordered, atomically flat surfaces. The richness of possible surface terminations and their impact on spectroscopic STM results are discussed.
M. Victoria Ale Crivillero +4 more
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Writing biology with mutant mice: the monstrous potential of post genomic life [PDF]
, 2011 Social scientific accounts identified in the biological grammars of early genomics a monstrous reductionism, ‘an example of brute life, the minimalist essence of things’ (Rabinow, 1996, p. 89).
Davies, GF
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Here Be Monsters: Imperialism, Knowledge and the Limits of Empire [PDF]
, 2016 It has become a truism in discussions of Imperialist literature to state that the British empire was, in a very significant way, a textual exercise. Empire was simultaneously created and perpetuated through a proliferation of texts (governmental, legal ...
Macfarlane, Karen E.
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Trabecular bone ontogeny of the human talus
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Studies of trabecular ontogeny may provide insight into the factors that drive healthy bone development. There is a growing understanding of how the juvenile skeleton responds to these influences; however, gaps in our knowledge remain. This study aims to identify ontogenetic trabecular patterns and regional changes during development within ...
Rebecca A. G. Reid +2 more
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Birds of a Feather: Alexander McQueen’s Victorian Bestiary
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2018 With fur, feathers, corals, antlers or butterflies a constant feature of his creations, Alexander McQueen created designs that gave the animal world pride of place whilst his fashion and the imagery of his catwalk presentations were deeply influenced by ...
Ariane Fennetaux
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