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On the quantitative effects of compression of retinal fundus images on morphometric vascular measurements in VAMPIRE

Comput. Methods Programs Biomed., 2021
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This paper reports a quantitative analysis of the effects of joint photographic experts group (JPEG) image compression of retinal fundus camera images on automatic vessel segmentation and on morphometric vascular measurements ...
M. Mookiah, Stephen Hogg, T. MacGillivray, E. Trucco   +3 more
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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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What is a hologenomic adaptation? Emergent individuality and inter-identity in multispecies systems [PDF]

, 2020
Contemporary biological research has suggested that some host–microbiome multispecies systems (referred to as “holobionts”) can in certain circumstances evolve as unique biological individual, thus being a unit of selection in evolution.
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Financialization revisited: the economics and political economy of the vampire squid economy

Review of Keynesian Economics, 2021
This paper explores the economics and political economy of financialization using Matt Taibbi's vampire squid metaphor to characterize it. The paper makes five innovations.
T. Palley
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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, A Møller, AJ Rockel, EF Evans, ER Buchler, G Joermann, G Marimuthu, G Neuweiler, GD Pollak, GP Bell, H-U Schnitzler, I Stiebler, J Fiedler, J Vernon, LM Aitkin, LM Aitkin, N Suga, P Schlegel, R Rübsamen, RS Payne, U Schmidt, U Schmidt   +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, Becker, Daniel J., Bentz, Alexandra B., Chumchal, Matthew M., Czirják, Gábor Á., Platt, Steven G., Rainwater, Thomas R., Streicker, Daniel G.   +7 more
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Verifying Tight Logic Programs with anthem and vampire [PDF]

Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 2020
This paper continues the line of research aimed at investigating the relationship between logic programs and first-order theories. We extend the definition of program completion to programs with input and output in a subset of the input language of the ...
Jorge Fandinno, V. Lifschitz, Patrick Lühne, Torsten Schaub   +3 more
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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, C. Shiva, C. Tello, D. G. Streicker, J. A. Benavides, J. Solassol, J. Vendrell, M. Virhuez, S. Godreuil, World Health Organization   +9 more
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Assessing the potential impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of a rabies virus vector.

PLoS ONE, 2018
Common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) occur throughout much of South America to northern México. Vampire bats have not been documented in recent history in the United States, but have been documented within about 50 km of the U.S.
Mark A Hayes, Antoinette J Piaggio
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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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