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Weak Corporate Insolvency Rules: The Missing Driver of Zombie Lending
, 2022 "Zombie lending"—lending to less-productive firms at subsidized rates—can help banks with misaligned incentives in the short run, but it prolongs economic downturns.
Ivashina, Victoria,, Becker, Bo,
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Vulnerable Life: Zombies, Global Biopolitics, and the Reproduction of Structural Violence
Humanities, 2016 This essay offers an intervention in biopolitical theory—using the term “vulnerable life” to recalibrate discussions of how life is valued and violence is justified in the contemporary bioinsecurity regime.
Steven Pokornowski
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Comparing COVID-19 metaphors in Chinese and English social media with critical metaphor analysis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Metaphors extracted from COVID-19-related online texts offer a unique lens for examining how individuals perceive the pandemic. Users from distinct linguistic backgrounds may select varying source domains to discuss COVID-19, with these choices ...
Qingshu Xu, Qingshu Xu
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‘Ethnobotanicals’ and ‘Spice zombies’: new psychoactive substances in the mainstream media [PDF]
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 2018 This paper observes and compares discursive framings of new psychoactive substances (NPS) in parts of the mainstream media in Romania and the United Kingdom.
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, 2013 Deadgirl (2008) is based around a group of male teens discovering and claiming ownership of a bound female zombie, using her as a sex slave. This narrative premise raises numerous tensions that are particularly amplified by using a zombie as the film’s ...
Steve Jones, Jones, Steve
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Undeath in Paradise: The Humanity of the Zombie in (Religious) Utopias
[sic], 2015 The words ‘utopia’ and ‘zombie’ are likely to conjure up strong images in the mind of the reader. The first makes one think of perfection, of happiness, of something new and better; the other, of the monstrous, of death and decay.
Madelon Hoedt
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Children &Society, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little
Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li
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Living as a Zombie in Media (is the Only Way to Survive)
Matrizes, 2013 Writing about yet another among countless polls, surveys, and reviews of people’s media use, Hamilton Nolan of the US-based Gawker blog expresses exasperation that all the breathless rhetoric in such reports boils down to one conclusion: "we’re all fucking zombies" (posted on March 27, 2009).
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.The role of viscoelasticity in the invasion of heterogeneous glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs) was investigated with GSCs categorized into subgroups based on molecular profile, as Reactive, Invasive, or Constructive using viscoelastic biomimetic hyaluronan‐oxime hydrogels.
Nicole J. Blaine +4 more
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A Peer-Reviewed Journal About, 2015 Spam appears everywhere on the Internet, from downloaded emails to server-based blogs, forums and social media communications. This article explores this notion of the living dead in the context of spam culture.
Winnie Soon
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