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Viruses, 2021 The common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) is a hematophagous species responsible for paralytic rabies and bite damage that affects livestock, humans and wildlife from Mexico to Argentina. Current measures to control vampires, based upon coumarin-derived
Horacio A. Delpietro +3 more
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A contribution to the vampire studies among Serbs or vampire stories from Luznica [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2004 This paper is the result of original fieldwork performed in the village of Strelac, in southeast Serbia during August 2003. All Slavs believed in the existence of a vampire; still today, this belief is widespread among Serbs.
Blagojević Gordana
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Effect of using different fundus cameras and image resolutions on automatic measurements of retinal vascular parameters [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMorphological measurements of retinal vessel parameters are commonly obtained from fundus images using semi-automatic software packages. Since image quality, and image processing methods are potential sources of variation of such measurements, the aim of
Pierre Cunnac +6 more
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Vampire Bat Rabies: Ecology, Epidemiology and Control
Viruses, 2014 Extensive surveillance in bat populations in response to recent emerging diseases has revealed that this group of mammals acts as a reservoir for a large range of viruses.
Nick Johnson +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The use of 2D alpha-shapes (α-shapes) to quantify morphological features of the retinal microvasculature could lead to imaging biomarkers for proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR).
Emma Pead +6 more
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"Blood Suckers Most Cruel:" The Vampire and the Bat In and Before Dracula [PDF]
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2019 The relationship between the nineteenth century vampire monster and the vampire bat has not yet been seriously investigated in English. Three common assumptions made by experts are examined in this paper.
Kevin Dodd
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META-MORFUL – CONSTRUCT AL IMAGINARULUI FANTASTIC ELIADESC / THE META-MORPHUS – CONSTRUCT OF THE FANTASTIC ELIADESCIAN IMAGINARY [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2022 Romanian folklore and its fundamental myths have aroused a real interest both for the researcher in the field of the history of religions and for the writer.
Liliana Danciu
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Retinal vessel architecture and geometry are not impaired in normal-tension glaucoma
Scientific Reports, 2023 To investigate the associations between retinal vessel parameters and normal-tension glaucoma (NTG). We conducted a case–control study with a prospective cohort, allowing to record 23 cases of NTG.
Anne-Sophie Leveque +7 more
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The Vampiric Mother in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” [PDF]
Acta Iassyensia Comparationis, 2022 The current paper intends to discuss the figure of the ‘vampiric’ mother in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story, “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”, in which a young woman is suspected and accused of sucking the blood of her young infant. When
NĂSTASE FLORINA
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Terrifying Nudity: the Naked Truth of Horror Film
Corpus Mundi, 2022 Attitudes towards the naked body vary from culture to culture. Even within one culture, the nakedness often symbolises very different and sometimes arbitrarily contradictory things.
Olesya S. Yakushenkova
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