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The significance of unusual acts in sexual homicide
Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, Volume 20, Issue 3, Page 181-195, October 2023., 2023 Abstract In addition to being an unusual form of crime, sexual homicide (SH) sometimes includes unusual crime scene behaviours, such as carving on the victim, evisceration (i.e., removal of internal organs), skinning the victim, cannibalism and vampirism.
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Voicing the Queer Self: Listening to Portraits with Vernon Lee
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 428-457, June 2023., 2023 Originating in a critical examination of Vernon Lee's perceived ugliness and her excessive talking among her acquaintances, this essay situates historically a series of portraits in which she features as a sitter, subject of comment and commentator, to suggest that the interweaving of voices and faces can be useful to resist the elision of seeing and ...
Francesco Ventrella
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Revisiting Vampirism: Myth, Mystery, Science, History
The Creative Launcher, 2022 Many legends and myths have survived through ages. They also have strong connection with reality of past and present. History, mythology, science, psychology, fiction all is entwined in such a way that it becomes difficult to segregate them from one ...
Debalina Roychowdhury Banerjee
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Body and Blood: Literary Vampirism at the Intersection of Theological Hunger and Physical Waste
Literature and medicine, 2022 :Bram Stoker's Dracula, Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla," and Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles all paint a picture of primeval hunger. But the satiation of this hunger sustains an undead, monstrous existence.
Madeleine Potter
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A new vampyromorph species from the Middle Jurassic La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône Lagerstätte
Papers in Palaeontology, Volume 9, Issue 3, May/June 2023., 2023 Abstract Eight coleoid genera have so far been described from the Callovian‐aged La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône Lagerstätte (c. 165 Ma; Ardèche, France), a locality noted for its unique three‐dimensional preservation of soft tissues. Here, we used high resolution x‐ray‐based imaging methods, in conjunction with reflectance transformation imaging, to study the ...
Alison J. Rowe +3 more
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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Volume 69, Issue 6, November/December 2022., 2022 Abstract Eating is fundamental and from this basic principle, living organisms have evolved innumerable strategies to capture energy and nutrients from their environment. As part of the world's aquatic ecosystems, the expansive family of heterotrophic protozoans uses self‐generated currents to funnel prokaryotic prey into an ancient, yet highly ...
Ronald Drew Etheridge
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Advanced Materials, Volume 34, Issue 37, September 15, 2022., 2022 Design strategies for structurally controlled polymer surfaces via cyclophane‐based chemical vapor deposition (CVD) polymerization with precise control over chemical functionalities, and post‐CVD fabrication via orthogonal surface functionalization that facilitates the formation of designable biointerfaces are summarized.
Zahid Hassan +5 more
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 904-909, July/August 2022., 2022 Abstract In early medieval times, the people of the Baiuvarii inhabited large parts of modern Bavaria (Germany). Among other evidence, about 10,000 graves dating from this time provide evidence of an exceptional level of settlement activity. These graves were arranged predominately in multiple parallel rows, so‐called Reihengräber, whereby the bodies ...
Ja Young Lee +5 more
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Dyslexia, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 373-410, August 2021., 2021 Digital technology has an increasing influence on writing processes. In this context, the question arises whether changes in writing mode (i.e., handwriting vs. computer‐keyboard typing) also require changes in writing assessments. However, data directly comparing writing mode influences in children with and without developmental writing deficits are ...
Stefanie Jung +3 more
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Current Biology, 2019 Gerald Wilkinson introduces the blood-drinking vampire bats.
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