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A database of common vampire bat reports
Scientific Data, 2022 The common vampire bat ( Desmodus rotundus ) is a sanguivorous (i.e., blood-eating) bat species distributed in the Americas from northern Mexico southwards to central Chile and Argentina.
P. Van de Vuurst +10 more
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Forced proximity promotes the formation of enduring cooperative relationships in vampire bats
bioRxiv, 2022 Spatial assortment can be both a cause and consequence of cooperation. Proximity promotes cooperation when individuals preferentially help nearby partners, and conversely, cooperation drives proximity when individuals move towards more cooperative ...
I. Razik, Bridget K. G. Brown, G. Carter
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Social effects of rabies infection in male vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus)
Biology Letters, 2022 Rabies virus (RABV) transmitted by the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) poses a threat to agricultural development and public health throughout the Neotropics.
Elsa M. Cárdenas-Canales +5 more
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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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Cultivation of a vampire: 'Candidatus Absconditicoccus praedator'.
Environmental Microbiology, 2021 Halorhodospira halophila, one of the most-xerophilic halophiles, inhabits biophysically stressful and energetically expensive, salt-saturated alkaline brines.
M. Yakimov +8 more
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Current Biology, 2019 Gerald Wilkinson introduces the blood-drinking vampire bats.
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A Higher-Order Vampire (Short Paper) [PDF]
International Joint Conference on Automated ReasoningThe support for higher-order reasoning in the Vampire theorem prover has recently been completely reworked. This rework consists of new theoretical ideas, a new implementation, and a dedicated strategy schedule.
Ahmed Bhayat, Martin Suda
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Vampires, Viruses and Verbalisation: Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a genealogical window into fin-de-siècle science [PDF]
, 2018 This paper considers Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, published in 1897, as a window into techno-scientific and sociocultural developments of the fin-de-siècle era, ranging from blood transfusion and virology up to communication technology and brain research,
Zwart, Hub
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Novel hemotropic mycoplasmas are widespread and genetically diverse in vampire bats [PDF]
, 2017 Bats (Order: Chiroptera) have been widely studied as reservoir hosts for viruses of concern for human and animal health. However, whether bats are equally competent hosts of non-viral pathogens such as bacteria remains an important open question. Here,
Altizer, S.M. +7 more
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2022 The most effective threat for wireless sensor networks (WSN) is Vampire attacks on sensor nodes as they can stretch the network connectivity among them and influence the network’s energy, which can drain the network.
Lulwah M. Alkwai +5 more
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