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Vampires, Viruses and Verbalisation: Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a genealogical window into fin-de-siècle science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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
core   +2 more sources

Bats that walk: a new evolutionary hypothesis for the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand's endemic mystacinids. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
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
core   +3 more sources

With or Without a System: How Category‐Specific and System‐Wide Cognitive Biases Shape Word Order

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 11, November 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Outbreak of aggressions and transmission of rabies in human beings by vampire bats in northeastern Brazil

open access: yesRevista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2002
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
doaj  

Opportunistic evidence of the impact of bacterial infections on social integration in vampire bats

open access: yesbioRxiv
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hologenomics Reveals Specialized Dietary Adaptations in the Mengla Snail‐Eating Snake

open access: yesAdvanced Science, Volume 12, Issue 40, October 27, 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Cooperation: How Vampire Bats Build Reciprocal Relationships [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2020
(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.
openaire   +2 more sources

Multiplayer gaming and autism: Social communication through repetitive behaviours

open access: yesJournal of Research in Special Educational Needs, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 752-765, October 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Bartonella spp. in Bats, Guatemala

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2011
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
doaj   +1 more source

Hyper-Document structure: maintaining discourse coherence in non-linear documents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
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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