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Cladistics, EarlyView.Abstract We present a morphology‐based backbone phylogeny of Cerambycidae beetles inferred by parsimony analyses using 77 adult characters scored for 101 species. This phylogeny is largely consistent with recent phylogenomic studies regarding key placements (e.g., Parandrini stat. rev. within Prioninae, Necydalini stat. rev.
Burcu Şabanoğlu Şimşek +2 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThe article considers the claims of Western academics like Frayling (1992) that the literary vampire began with Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819). Crawford (2016) identifies a German literary vampire tradition existing one hundred years before Polidori, yet ...
A. J. Dalton
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The role of past experience in development of feeding behavior in common vampire bats [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 The life history strategy of common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) suggests that learning might play a role in development of their foraging skills.
Jineth Berrío-Martínez +4 more
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Dreaming and Living the Globalized World Through IELTS: A Case Study of Bangladeshi Test‐Takers
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This case study investigated the lived experiences of 10 IELTS test‐takers from Bangladesh. It explored their motivations for taking the test as well as their test experiences during and after the test. It demonstrates how the participants sought to position themselves in the imagined community through renegotiating their identities to climb ...
Tazin Ahmed +2 more
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Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture
, 2017 This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation. From Dracula and Carmilla, to True Blood and The Originals, the figure of the vampire embodies taboos and desires about ...
Baker, David +2 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsG. M. Amza and Al. Bilciurescu’s Vampirul (The Vampire), the first vampire novel in Romania, was published in 1938, a decade after the release of the first translation of Dracula into Romanian. Instead of emulating Stoker’s bloodthirsty undead aristocrat,
Anca Simina Martin, Stefan Baghiu
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Television vampire fandom and religion
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2013 Popular culture and fandom provide a setting where people can reflect on the questions of life. A television show defines for many of its fans what it means to be human.
Minja Blom
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Exposure to Climate Change and Earnings Manipulation
Journal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates whether and how climate change exposure (CCE) influences corporate financial reporting practices. Using a newly developed firm‐specific CCE measure from conference calls, we find that US firms with higher CCE exhibit greater real earnings management (REM).
Ramzi Benkraiem +4 more
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Zagadnienia Rodzajów LiterackichThe article analyzes the figure of the vampire-lust-murderer in the works of Tadeusz Konwicki, focusing on the novels Nic albo nic (1971) and Rzeka podziemna, podziemne ptaki (1984).
Jadwiga Piskorska
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Molecular and geographic analyses of vampire bat-transmitted cattle rabies in central Brazil
BMC Veterinary Research, 2008 Background Vampire bats are important rabies virus vectors, causing critical problems in both the livestock industry and public health sector in Latin America.
Santos Hamilton P +9 more
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