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META-MORFUL – CONSTRUCT AL IMAGINARULUI FANTASTIC ELIADESC / THE META-MORPHUS – CONSTRUCT OF THE FANTASTIC ELIADESCIAN IMAGINARY [PDF]

open access: yesIncursiuni 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
doaj   +1 more source

The plant vampire diaries: a historic perspective on Cuscuta research

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Botany, 2023
The angiosperm genus Cuscuta lives as an almost achlorophyllous root- and leafless holoparasite and has therefore occupied scientists for more than a century.
Maleen Hartenstein, M. Albert, K. Krause
semanticscholar   +1 more source

"Blood Suckers Most Cruel:" The Vampire and the Bat In and Before Dracula [PDF]

open access: yesAthens 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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Mitigating the Vampire Effect of Using Celebrity in Advertising: An Eye-Tracking Approach

open access: yesJournal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising, 2023
While marketing literature evidences celebrities and other well-known personalities as effective brand endorsers, practitioners are troubled by the potential for such famous personas to overshadow the brands and harm brand recall—a condition referred to ...
Terri H. Chan, Bolton K. H. Chau
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Retinal vessel architecture and geometry are not impaired in normal-tension glaucoma

open access: yesScientific 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
doaj   +1 more source

Introducing VAMPIRE – Using Kinaesthetic Feedback in Virtual Reality for Automated Driving Experiments

open access: yesUI, 2022
Investigating trust, acceptance, and attitudes towards automated driving is often investigated in simulator experiments. Therefore, behavioral validity is a crucial aspect of automated driving studies.
Philipp Hock   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ecological determinants of rabies virus dynamics in vampire bats and spillover to livestock

open access: yesProceedings of the Royal Society B, 2022
The pathogen transmission dynamics in bat reservoirs underpin efforts to reduce risks to human health and enhance bat conservation, but are notoriously challenging to resolve.
Diana K. Meza   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Concordance between SIVA, IVAN, and VAMPIRE Software Tools for Semi-Automated Analysis of Retinal Vessel Caliber

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2022
We aimed to compare measurements from three of the most widely used software packages in the literature and to generate conversion algorithms for measurement of the central retinal artery equivalent (CRAE) and central retinal vein equivalent (CRVE ...
Thibaud Mautuit   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gene losses in the common vampire bat illuminate molecular adaptations to blood feeding

open access: yesbioRxiv, 2021
Feeding exclusively on blood, vampire bats represent the only obligate sanguivorous lineage among mammals. To uncover genomic changes associated with adaptations to this unique dietary specialization, we generated a new haplotype-resolved reference ...
Moritz Blumer   +16 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Characterizing and Evaluating the Zoonotic Potential of Novel Viruses Discovered in Vampire Bats

open access: yesViruses, 2021
The contemporary surge in metagenomic sequencing has transformed knowledge of viral diversity in wildlife. However, evaluating which newly discovered viruses pose sufficient risk of infecting humans to merit detailed laboratory characterization and ...
L. Bergner   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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