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Validating Wing Biopsies for Blood-Borne Pathogen Characterization in Bats. [PDF]

open access: yesMol Ecol
ABSTRACT Wildlife surveillance is critical for tracking disease emergence, characterizing pathogen diversity, and assessing spillover risks. Blood‐borne pathogens are of particular interest for such efforts due to their global distribution, broad host taxa, and zoonotic potential.
Simonis MC   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The “Vampire Bat” [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1883
DR. ROMANES, in criticising a book (“Zoological Sketches”), in NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 333, says: “The writer speaks of vampire bats as those which suck the blood of sleeping persons, whereas the truth is, as Belt has remarked, ‘the vampire is the most harmless of bats.’”
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The vampire and the FOOL [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 5th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs, 2016
This paper presents new features recently implemented in the theorem prover Vampire, namely support for first-order logic with a first class boolean sort (FOOL) and polymorphic arrays. In addition to having a first class boolean sort, FOOL also contains if-then-else and let-in expressions.
Evgenii Kotelnikov   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Vampire Problems in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation-Navigating Transformative Experiences and Informed Consent. [PDF]

open access: yesPediatr Transplant
ABSTRACT There are clear legal and ethical requirements for informed consent in pediatric kidney transplantation. While much is done pre‐transplant to educate patients and families on the risks and benefits of transplantation and its associated medical therapies, it can be difficult to truly prepare them for the transformative nature of the transplant‐
Thiel V, Goldberg A.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Vampirism as literary piracy in Paul Féval’s Vampire City (1875) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The prolific French writer Paul Féval was well known on both sides of the Channel for his stories of adventure, crime, and gothic horror. In this final category of his oeuvre are three vampire novels, the last of which is Vampire City (originally La ...
Civale, S.
core   +1 more source

Effect of chronic high-altitude hypoxia on retinal vascular phenotype, choroidal and retinal vasoreactivity in Peruvian highlanders. [PDF]

open access: yesExp Physiol
Abstract High‐altitude chronic hypoxia can induce excessive erythrocytosis (EE, defined as a haemoglobin concentration of ≥21 g/dL in men), leading to hyperviscosity and promoting endothelial dysfunction. We aimed to assess whether EE affects the retinal vascular phenotype and the ophthalmological vascular response to CO2.
Paillisser A   +12 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

mbari-media-management/vampire-squid: vampire-squid 0.4.11

open access: yes, 2022
This addresses issue #4. There are no API changes in this release.
Brian Schlining
core   +1 more source

Fossil evidence for vampire squid inhabiting oxygen-depleted ocean zones since at least the Oligocene

open access: yesCommunications Biology, 2021
A new fossil of a vampire squid bridges a 120 million-year gap in their fossil record. Vampire squid today are adapted to low oxygen, deep sea environments and this new specimen provides evidence that the deep sea specialisation of vampire squid may have
Martin Košťák   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The transformative potential of popular television: the case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper reports findings from an empirical study examining viewers’ responses to a popular and critically acclaimed television program, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Jarvis, Christine, Burr, Vivien
core   +1 more source

Audition in vampire bats, Desmodus rotundus [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
1. Within the tonotopic organization of the inferior colliculus two frequency ranges are well represented: a frequency range within that of the echolocation signals from 50 to 100 kHz, and a frequency band below that of the echolocation sounds, from 10 ...
J Comp Physiol A   +8 more
core   +1 more source

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