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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.We integrated short‐read and long‐read RNA‐seq data from cochlear tissues of echolocating and non‐echolocating bats to disentangle transcriptional and post‐transcriptional regulation. Echolocating bats showed neural‐function enrichment among differentially expressed genes, while alternatively spliced genes were linked to epigenetic regulation. Overlaps
Jianyu Wu +3 more
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Revista de Lenguas Modernas, 2018 The present paper explores the connections between the radical sexual behavior of the main female characters in the TV show Lost Girl and Octavia Butler’s novel Fledgling, Bo and Shori respectively.
Adriana Jiménez Rodríguez
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Wendigos, Eye Killers, Skinwalkers: The Myth of the American Indian Vampire and American Indian “Vampire” Myths [PDF]
, 2016 Drawing on American Indian myths and folklore that previous scholarship has placed into direct relationship to the Anglo-European vampire narrative, and on recent U.S. mainstream commodifications of these myths, my paper traces and contextualizes the two
Lenhardt, Corinna
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Dementia, Advance Directives, and Second‐Order Volitions
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the ongoing debate over the authority of advance directives in cases where patients with dementia express desires that conflict with their earlier wishes. Drawing on Harry Frankfurt's concept of second‐order volitions, I argue that the preferences of the pre‐dementia self (the “then‐self”) should, in most cases, take ...
Rand Hirmiz
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Critical Social Work, 2019 This reply analyzes criticism of the article “Do We Always Practice What We Preach? Real Vampires’ Fears of Coming Out of the Coffin to Social Workers and Helping Professionals” published in Critical Social Work (2015), 16(1) by DJ Williams and Emily E.
Joseph Laycock
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Objectifying Anxieties: Scientific Ideologies in Bram Stoker’s \u3cem\u3eDracula\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eThe Lair of the White Worm\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2006 Scientific ideologies swirl throughout Stoker’s two most gothic novels, Dracula (1897) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911), and this essay will address those ideologies as literary manifestations of just some of the “weird science” that was permeating ...
Hoeveler, Diane
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Automating the analysis of public saliency and attitudes toward biodiversity from digital media
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Measuring public attitudes toward wildlife provides crucial insights into human relationships with nature and helps monitor progress toward Global Biodiversity Framework targets. Yet, conducting such assessments at a global scale presents challenges.
Noah Giebink +8 more
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Rusycystyczne Studia Literaturoznawcze, 2020 The main subject of this article is an analysis of the novel Пищеблок. The author of the article gives special attention to the theme of vampirism, used by Ivanov as a metaphor for the authoritarian Soviet system and its influence on citizens of the USRR,
Katarzyna Arciszewska-Tomczak
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Being Wrong About Personal Transformation
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Transformative experiences are thought to change us in different ways. Some transform us epistemically by providing genuinely new, previously unimaginable experiences, while others bring about personal transformation by altering our values. Recent debates on transformative experiences have explored the challenges these experiences pose for ...
Adrian Kind
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As a rapidly evolving sub‐field of computer‐assisted language learning, informal digital learning of English (IDLE) has become a significant catalyst for linguistic, affective, and pedagogical development among English as a second language (L2) learners.
Yue Zhang
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