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Predator and Prey

open access: yesEdda, 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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Vampire 1.1 (System Description)

open access: yes, 2001
In this abstract we describe version 1.1 of the theorem prover Vampire. We give a general description and comment on Vampire's original features and differences with the previously described version 0.0.
Voronkov, Andrei, Riazanov, Alexandre
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Demon girl power: Regimes of form and force in videogames primal and Buffy the Vampire Slayer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
'There's nothing like a spot of demon slaughter to make a girl's night'. Since the phenomenal success of the Tomb Raider (1996) videogame series a range of other videogames have used carefully branded animated female avatars.
Krzywinska, T
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Retinal microvascular features and cognitive change in the Lothian‐Birth Cohort 1936

open access: yesAlzheimer’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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Quantitative measurements of enlarged perivascular spaces in the brain are associated with retinal microvascular parameters in older community-dwelling subjects

open access: yesCerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior, 2020
Background: Perivascular Spaces (PVS) become increasingly visible with advancing age on brain MRI, yet their relationship to morphological changes in the underlying microvessels remains poorly understood.
Lucia Ballerini   +13 more
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Vampire bats [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2019
Gerald Wilkinson introduces the blood-drinking vampire bats.
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From demon to god : the evolution of the vampire in literature. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Includes bibliographical references.Vampires may be centuries-old mythological creatures, but depictions thereof abound in our modern society in literature, film, and television.
Palfi, Benike
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Slaying the “political vampire”: Aberration as a socio-political construct [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik 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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The Sympathetic Vampire:A Study of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire

open access: yesآداب 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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The Moral Undead: Representations of the soul in contemporary vampire film and television [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This research examines representations of the soul in popular Western, post-millennial vampire film and television released between 2008 and 2017. A genre analysis, the study examines key vampire texts through the lens of sacred and secular philosophies ...
Somogyi, Emma
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