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Retinal microvascular features and cognitive change in the Lothian‐Birth Cohort 1936
Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 2019 Introduction We test whether measures of the retinal vasculature are associated with cognitive functioning and cognitive change. Methods Retinal images from a narrow‐age cohort were analyzed using Vessel Assessment and Measurement Platform for Images of ...
Sarah McGrory +11 more
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Slaying the “political vampire”: Aberration as a socio-political construct [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2022 The concept of vampirism in the tradition of peasant culture is an inversion of social norms by individuals or groups, which the community recognizes as responsible for social problems and crises.
Trbojević Danilo
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Livestock abundance predicts vampire bat demography, immune profiles, and bacterial infection risk [PDF]
, 2018 Human activities create novel food resources that can alter wildlife–pathogen interactions. If resources amplify or dampen, pathogen transmission probably depends on both host ecology and pathogen biology, but studies that measure responses to ...
Altizer, Sonia +13 more
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Edda, 2017 The temporal convergence between the social and cultural preoccupation with child sexual abuse, with the pedophile as the ultimate predator, and the appearance of the child vampire as a central character in vampire fiction in the late twentieth century ...
Maria Holmgren Troy
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The Sympathetic Vampire:A Study of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire
آداب الكوفة, 2014 The myth of the vampire has continued to frighten and fascinate people all over the world. The idea of an undead night-stalker that feeds on human blood has been around for centuries and endures to this day.
QASSIM SARHAN, ZAHRAA' SAHIB
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Audition in vampire bats, Desmodus rotundus [PDF]
, 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 ...
A Guppy +21 more
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Predictors and immunological correlates of sublethal mercury exposure in vampire bats [PDF]
, 2017 Mercury (Hg) is a pervasive heavy metal that often enters the environment from anthropogenic sources such as gold mining and agriculture. Chronic exposure to Hg can impair immune function, reducing the ability of animals to resist or recover from ...
Altizer, Sonia +7 more
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Scandinavian Transformations of Dracula
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2020 A couple of years after the publication of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire novel Dracula, different versions were published in one Icelandic and two Swedish newspapers. The Icelandic version could be a translation of the shorter Swedish version.
Ingmar Söhrman
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Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases-producing Escherichia coli in common vampire bats Desmodus rotundus and livestock in Peru [PDF]
, 2018 Antibiotic resistance mediated by bacterial production of extended‐spectrum beta‐lactamase (ESBL) is a global threat to public health. ESBL resistance is most commonly hospital‐acquired; however, infections acquired outside of hospital settings have ...
A. Appelgren +9 more
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Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2020 As a continuation of existing studies, this article tries to show that the connection between the vampire character in fiction and the phenomenon of the migratory body is not accidental: the literary motif of the undead bloodsucker is namely in itself ...
Clemens Ruthner
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