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Blutige Grenzüberschreitungen

open access: yesCahiers 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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Social Grooming in Bats: Are Vampire Bats Exceptional? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Evidence for long-term cooperative relationships comes from several social birds and mammals. Vampire bats demonstrate cooperative social bonds, and like primates, they maintain these bonds through social grooming.
Gerald Carter, Lauren Leffer
doaj   +1 more source

Hybrid worlds of imagination: A comparative analysis of demonological narratives among rural communities in Croatia and Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU
The co-authored text by Luka Šešo and Danilo Trbojević represents a unique comparative analysis of ethnographic material, relating to the form, role, and status of demonological traditions in rural communities of Croatia and Serbia. The research
Šešo Luka, Trbojević Danilo
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The Corporeality of the Domestic Vampire in the Context of Soviet Nostalgia

open access: yesCorpus Mundi, 2023
The article deals with the analysis of the corporeality of Russian vampires, naturalized in the domestic serial cinema at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century. The vampire was a marginal character in the Russian cultural tradition of the
Sophia V. Tikhonova
doaj   +1 more source

Everyman with fangs: The acceptance of the modern vampire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The vampire, an enduring demon from the European middle ages has through the course of the 20th century undergone a journey of transformation. The journey of the beast describes a circle, starting and ending with the depiction of the vampire as a ...
Cardow, Andrew
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Premise Selection and External Provers for HOL4 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Learning-assisted automated reasoning has recently gained popularity among the users of Isabelle/HOL, HOL Light, and Mizar. In this paper, we present an add-on to the HOL4 proof assistant and an adaptation of the HOLyHammer system that provides machine ...
Farmer W. M.   +7 more
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Development of New Food-Sharing Relationships in Vampire Bats.

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2020
Some nonhuman animals form adaptive long-term cooperative relationships with nonkin that seem analogous in form and function to human friendship [1-4]. However, it remains unclear how these bonds initially form, especially when they entail investments of
G. Carter   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Strain Engineering of Magnetoresistance and Magnetic Anisotropy in CrSBr

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Biaxial compressive strain significantly enhances magnetoresistance and critical saturation fields in thin flakes of the 2D magnet CrSBr, along all three crystallographic axes. First‐principles calculations link these effects to strain‐induced increases in exchange interactions and magnetic anisotropy.
Eudomar Henríquez‐Guerra   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

The anthropology of death or the new anthropology and the religious complex connected to death

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
In this article the authors give a review of new anthropological work pertaining to dying, death and beliefs in life after death. Dying and the valorization of ways of dying are the subject of a paper by sociologist Todor Kuljić, while other relevant ...
Ivan Kovačević, Danijel Sinani
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Lestat, C\u27est Moi : Anne Rice\u27s Revelation of Self Through The Vampire Chronicles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In lieu of an abstract, below is the article\u27s first paragraph. To most, the word vampire conjures visions of Halloween, of old black and white horror movies, of Bela Lugosi whispering I vant to suck your blood. Yet for Anne Rice, this view of the
Kutzuba, Kerry
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