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Resuscitating the Undead Queer in Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Saga
Broadly, this is an article about queerness and its relationship to Stephanie Meyer’s gothic romance series, Twilight—a narrative about a supposedly odd and out-of-place girl meeting and falling in love with a vampire (or, more appropriately, a rich ...
Jami McFarland
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Book review: Gender, violence and popular culture: tellingstories [PDF]
This book approaches the interrelation of popular representations of gender and violence and global politics by focusing on the narrative of television shows like Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The West Wing.
Gouseti, Ioanna
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Splitting Proofs for Interpolation
We study interpolant extraction from local first-order refutations. We present a new theoretical perspective on interpolation based on clearly separating the condition on logical strength of the formula from the requirement on the com- mon signature ...
A Cimatti +14 more
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The combination of a rigid monomer (IBOA) and a flexible monomer (2‐EHA) via free‐radical copolymerization yields amorphous poly(IBOA‐co‐2‐EHA) with a wide range of tunable mechanical properties. The image depicts how increasing the IBOA content shifts the material's behavior from that of an elastic elastomer (PEHA) to a rigid, brittle plastic (PIBOA),
Djazia Bendeddouche +7 more
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Analysis of the Progression of the Representation of Female Protagonists in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Shows Orphan Black and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Girl Power, Appropriated “Masculinity” in Conjunction with Femininity, Empowered Sexuality, and the Heterosexual Script [PDF]
Buffy Summers goes from urban Los Angeles to Sunnydale, California after she is expelled from her previous high school on the grounds of an assortment of Slayer-related incidents.
Becker, Dakota
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This study reviews the historical taxonomic classification and evolutionary background of musk deer, clarifying long‐standing confusion in their identification. It highlights the current global distribution and conservation status of these species, emphasizing the threat posed by poaching and habitat destruction. The work aims to raise public awareness
Zhirong Zhang +7 more
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This article aims to show the development of the image of vampires from folklore to computer games and tries to determine in which ways folklore enters the mass media and which are its new functions and shapes. Different mass media have changed the image
Simona Govednik
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Reasoning in the OWL 2 Full Ontology Language using First-Order Automated Theorem Proving
OWL 2 has been standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as a family of ontology languages for the Semantic Web. The most expressive of these languages is OWL 2 Full, but to date no reasoner has been implemented for this language.
Schneider, Michael, Sutcliffe, Geoff
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The First Fantasy Characters of the Mexican Cinema: from Ghosts to Vampires
This article explores the kind of fantasy characters of Mexican film between 1933 and 1969. The appearance of these characters is related to two periods of Mexican film industry: the thirties, an epoch of cinematic experimentation and the search of new ...
María Dolores Cabrera Carreón
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Should Dracula Myth be a Brand to Promote Romania as a Tourist Destination? [PDF]
Dracula is an international brand, not a Romanian one. But Bram Stocker chose to locate his vampire in the mysterious location of Transylvania. Thus, Romania is the only country in the world which can exploit the myth of Dracula as being at its ‘home ...
Adina Negrusa +2 more
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