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Cognition, 2021 In philosophical thought experiments, as in ordinary discourse, our understanding of verbal case descriptions is enriched by automatic comprehension inferences. Such inferences have us routinely infer what else is also true of the cases described. We consider how such routine inferences from polysemous words can generate zombie intuitions: intuitions ...
Fischer, E, Sytsma, Justin
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All of Us Are Dead. The Figure of the Zombie as a Metaphor for Social Vulnerability During Pandemics [PDF]
OculaIn the media landscape, the figure of the zombie is widely pervasive, influencing films, television series, and various paratexts. Some epidemiological studies consider the zombie apocalypse as the quintessential epidemic, suggesting that this figure can
Allegra Sonego, Greta Iapalucci
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Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse: A Population Dynamics Based Approach [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, 2020 Living-dead creatures are recurrent in various folk myths and recently became an icon of popular culture. The “zombie-ism” is usually caused by an infectious-like disease that has no cure and ultimately inflicts most of the human population, leading to a
L. H. Miranda Filho +4 more
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Lo zombie, l’umano e l’AI. Semiotica della voce e del sintomo [PDF]
OculaL'apparato figurale (Eco 1964) dello Zombie aiuta a mettere a tema la relazione semiotica tra voce, corpo e sintomo. Nessuno zombie ha una voce, eppure produce suoni inquietanti.
Nicolò Fazioni
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L’isola degli zombi. Haiti e il passato che non passa da White Zombie di Victor Halperin a Zombi Child di Bertrand Bonello [PDF]
OculaThe zombie is the quintessential political figure of horror, not only in cinema but across various forms of media. Originating from the folkloric traditions of Haiti, it firmly established itself in the collective imagination through the horror films of ...
Lorenzo Rossi
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Are zombie firms more incentivized to financialize?
China Journal of Accounting Research, 2021 This paper investigates whether zombie firms demonstrate a tendency to invest in the financial sector, a practice we term financialization strategy.
Haomin Wu, Meng Yang, Jun Gu
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Why Phenomenal Zombies Are Conceivable Whereas Anti-Zombies Are not
Актуальні проблеми духовності, 2019 In this article, I discuss Keith Frankish’s attempt to neutralize the zombie argument against materialism with a closely parallel argument for physicalism, the anti-zombie argument, and develop David Chalmers’ reply to this species of arguments.
Dmytro Sepetyi
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El zombi en tres ucronías de lengua española
ILCEA, 2022 Three Spanish-language works take over the figure of the zombie to tell uchronias: the Conquest in Argentina zombie. Historia oculta de la patria (2013), by Argentine author Luciano Saracino, the Mexican war against the narco traffic in the 2000s in ...
Laurence Pagacz
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Long shadows of the walking dead on economic activity
Central Bank Review, 2023 This paper presents the panorama of zombie firms in the Turkish economy, which are highly inefficient, highly indebted firms that have low or sometimes negative productivity, and provides an analysis of the impact of these firms on economic activity for ...
N. Nergiz Dincer +2 more
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Journal of Virology, 2015 ABSTRACT Next-generation sequencing results obtained to detect somatic mutations in human cancers can also be searched for viruses that contribute to cancer. Recently, human papillomavirus 18 RNA was detected in tumor types not typically associated with HPV infection.
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