Vampires, Viruses and Verbalisation: Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a genealogical window into fin-de-siècle science [PDF]
This paper considers Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, published in 1897, as a window into techno-scientific and sociocultural developments of the fin-de-siècle era, ranging from blood transfusion and virology up to communication technology and brain research,
Zwart, Hub
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Bats that walk: a new evolutionary hypothesis for the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand's endemic mystacinids. [PDF]
RIGHTS : This article is licensed under the BioMed Central licence at http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/license which is similar to the 'Creative Commons Attribution Licence'.
Archer, Michael +6 more
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With or Without a System: How Category‐Specific and System‐Wide Cognitive Biases Shape Word Order
Abstract Certain recurrent features of language characterize the way a whole language system is structured. By contrast, others target specific categories of items within those wider systems. For example, languages tend to exhibit consistent order of heads and dependents across different phrases—a system‐wide regularity known as harmony.
Annie Holtz +2 more
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Outbreaks of attacks upon human beings by vampire bats seems to be a common phenomenon in several regions of Latin America, but the occurrence of rabies infection among humans bled by vampires, is relatively low.
Marcio A.S. Gonçalves +2 more
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Opportunistic evidence of the impact of bacterial infections on social integration in vampire bats
Social integration can affect an individual’s susceptibility to infectious disease. Conversely, infectious disease can reduce an individual’s social activity. Yet, it remains unclear to what extent short-term infections can inhibit social integration and
I. Razik +3 more
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Hologenomics Reveals Specialized Dietary Adaptations in the Mengla Snail‐Eating Snake
Dietary adaptation studies from a holobiome perspective are scarce beyond mammals. This research reveals how genomic and microbial interactions drive dietary specialization in the Mengla snail‐eating snake, with evidence of gut symbiont convergence between reptiles and mammals.
Chaochao Yan +10 more
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Cooperation: How Vampire Bats Build Reciprocal Relationships [PDF]
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) In theory, reciprocal relationships should develop gradually, to reduce the risk of helpers being exploited. In a classic case of reciprocity, vampire bats share blood with starving roost-mates. Now it transpires they share food only after first having established grooming relationships.
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Multiplayer gaming and autism: Social communication through repetitive behaviours
Abstract The popularity of online multiplayer gaming among primary‐school students, including autistic students, has rapidly increased over the past decade. Social characteristics and interactions of autistic students have been a focus of research, but less attention has been given to the relationship between online multiplayer gaming and social ...
Bessie G. Stonea +4 more
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Bartonella spp. in Bats, Guatemala
To better understand the role of bats as reservoirs of Bartonella spp., we estimated Bartonella spp. prevalence and genetic diversity in bats in Guatemala during 2009.
Ying Bai +10 more
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Hyper-Document structure: maintaining discourse coherence in non-linear documents [PDF]
The passage from linear text to hypertext poses the challenge of expressing discourse coherence in non-linear text, where linguistic discourse markers no longer work.
Mancini, Clara, Scott, Donia
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