Vampires - Science topic

Controlling pathogen circulation in wildlife reservoirs is notoriously challenging. In Latin America, vampire bats have been culled for decades in hopes of mitigating lethal rabies infections in humans and livestock. Whether culls reduce or exacerbate rabies transmission remains controversial. Using Bayesian state-space models, we show that a 2-yea...

The angiosperm genus Cuscuta lives as an almost achlorophyllous root- and leafless holoparasite and has therefore occupied scientists for more than a century. The "evolution" of Cuscuta research started with early studies that established the phylogenetic framework for this unusual genus. It continued to produce groundbreaking cytological, morpholo...

Human activity changes multiple factors in the environment, which can have additive or neutralizing effects on organisms. However, few studies have explored the causal effects of multiple anthropogenic factors, such as urbanization and invasive species, on animals, and the mechanisms that mediate these interactions. This study examines the influenc...

Transmissible vaccines are an emerging biotechnology that hold prospects to eliminate pathogens from wildlife populations. Such vaccines would genetically modify naturally occurring, nonpathogenic viruses ("viral vectors") to express pathogen antigens while retaining their capacity to transmit. The epidemiology of candidate viral vectors within the...

Este artigo apresenta uma leitura crítica dos romances A Parábola do Semeador (2018) e A Parábola dos Talentos (2019) da autora afro-americana Octavia E. Butler, com foco na análise das diferentes representações e experiências de corpos marginalizados nessas produções distópicas. No contexto dessas narrativas, entendem-se corpos marginalizados como...

We describe the translation of the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) to Typed First-order Form (TFF) with level 0 polymorphism. Building on our prior work to create a TPTP FOF translation of SUMO for use in the E and Vampire theorem provers, we detail the transformations required to handle an explicitly typed logic, and express SUMO's type hie...

The present paper discusses the United-Statesian TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer reassessing its protagonist, Buffy Summers, in 2022, twenty-five years after its first broadcasting. As a teenage girl turned into a vampire/demon hunter, Buffy undergoes significant changes in relation to her calling as a slayer. Reluctant at first, she comes to term...

One of the greatest novels in English literature, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, has been the object of numerous and various interpretations, some of which include sociological, phenomenological, deconstructivist, feminist and psychological (both Freudian and Jungian) interpretations. The text has been read as Victorian and Romantic discourse, b...

Kuasa ‘standby’ juga dipanggil ‘vampire power’, ‘phantom power’ adalah tenaga yang digunakan oleh perkakasan elektrik dimana ia digunakan tidak mengikut fungsi utama perkakasan elektrik tesebut. Ia berdasarkan kepada keadaan apabila perkakas elektrik tersebut telah dimatikan tetapi suis tidak dimatikan. Di Politeknik Tun Syed Nasir Syed Ismail...

The concept of supernatural forces has always been part of medicine and allied science. These beliefs play a pivotal role in the patient-healthcare bond and disease awareness. Traditionally it was believed that psychiatric illnesses are mostly linked with mythologies and paranormal beings since most mental diseases appear to be lunatic and have no...

Ancient DNA (aDNA) research is characterized by asymmetric relationships between disciplines, institutions, and countries—“core-peripheral” or Global North and South. These asymmetries are driven through practices that have been described as“parachute”, “parasitic” or “helicopter research, as well as“vampire science”. We consider the concept of“cor...

Wireless networks are an ideal research direction in the areas of sensors and pervasive computing. Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks are a new platform in the fields of remote sensing, data collection, analysis, problem solving, and various research studies. They contain nodes that act as transmitters and receivers, and are vulnerable to various atta...

Background: COVID-19 continues to pose a significant risk to human health and is a prominent global vampire. COVID-19 diseases have a similar burden in all parts of the world, but they present a significant challenge to public health in low- and middle-income nations like Bangladesh. The primary purposes of the study are to describe the extent to w...

Background The term virus ‘spillover’ embodies a highly complex phenomenon and is often used to refer to viral transmission from a primary reservoir host to a new, naïve yet susceptible and permissive host species. Spillover transmission can result in a virus becoming pathogenic, causing disease and death to the new host if successful infection and...

In the Galapagos Islands, many endemic landbird populations are declining due to habitat degradation, food availability, introduced species and other factors. Given nestlings typically lack efficient defense mechanisms against parasites, hematophagous ectoparasites such as the larvae of the introduced Avian Vampire Fly, Philornis downsi, can impose...

Narcissistic relationships manifest as nonreciprocal affiliations that allow no room for genuine partnership or cooperation. The trait of narcissism is more prevalent in men than in women. However, Egypt's powerful patriarchal culture has prevented adequate scholarly examination of narcissistic relationships. The current study intends to bridge thi...

КАМИЈЕВ МЕРСО У КОНТЕКСТУ АПСУРДА И МЕТАФОРЕ ВАМПИРА – МЕТОДИЧКИ ПРИСТУП АПСТРАКТ: У раду је дат један вид наставне интерпретације романа Странац Албера Камија који укључује анализу главног лика у контексту филозофије апсурда и метафоре вампира. У уводном делу осветљен је контекст егзистенцијализма као филозофског правца и његовог упоришта у Камије...

Persistent bacterial presence is believed to play an important role in host adaptation to specific niches that would otherwise be unavailable, including the exclusive consumption of blood by invertebrate parasites. Nearly all blood-feeding animals examined so far host internal bacterial symbionts that aid in some essential aspect of their nutrition...

Background: Psychological archetypes are according to Carl Jung universal, archaic patterns and images that are derived from the collective unconscious and are the psychic counterpart of an instinct. Besides fundamental Jungian archetypes (persona, shadow, anima, animus, great mother, wise old man, hero, self and self-realization), there may be ple...

The article attempts to explain the forgotten poem by Tomasz August Olizarowski, which represents the tenebrous wing of the poet’s imagination, the Werewolf, which is full of cruelty and wildness and bears the subtitle: Powieść. A. Olizarowskiego podług gminnych podań (A Novel by A. Olizarowski based on Folk Tales). The poem was published in the Lv...

Unlike most animals, most bats cannot synthesize vitamin C endogenously. Consequently, this vitamin must be obtained from the diet. Among the bat species, there are several food groups, such as frugivorous, nectarivorous, insectivorous, and hematophagous. In this work, we measured and compared vitamin C levels in different organs of four species of...

The shape coexistence and mixing and the strengths of the E0 transitions in the mirror nuclei 70Se and 70Kr are investigated in the frame of the beyond-mean-field complex Excited Vampir model with variation after symmetry projection. The effective interaction is obtained renormalizing a nuclear matter G-matrix derived from the charge dependent Bonn...

Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer’s introduction of the term ‘Anthropocene’ as a new geological epoch in 2000 marks the evolution of humankind into a geological force that threatens the well-being of the planet. Translated as the ‘recent age of humankind,’ Anthropocene seems to strengthen the anthropocentric legacy of the human since it underl...

"The association of the vampire with Eastern Europe has evolved in crime fictions which transform this fantastic character from a supernatural being to a means to comment on politics, many of them focusing on the imagological opposition between Eastern Europe and the Western world, a treatment that began with Stoker’s Dracula. Our paper analyses th...

In anticipation of the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses visible in North America, some members of the American Astronomical Society Eclipse Task Force asked for a guide to connect eclipses with such fields as fiction, music, films, and art. With help from a number of colleagues, I have now assembled such a guide, including both print and web resources...

En 1964, un groupe de spéléologues amateurs de Villers-la-Ville, appelé "Vampire", fouille une cavité dans les Rochers de Freyr situés dans la Province de Namur (Belgique). Les vestiges exhumés sont actuellement conservés au Musée régional d’Histoire naturelle de Mons. Le matériel archéologique est pauvre et composé principalement d’éclats de silex...

In The Robber Bride and its sequel, “I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth,” Margaret Atwood underscores the complex feminine identity through the femme fatale, who is depicted using mythic Gothic figures, such as the vampire. Atwood contradicts socially-sanctioned roles for women. She shapes newer and more complete social and personal female...

Dogs and cats maintain the urban cycle of rabies, and vaccination is the main form of prevention and control of the disease. Brazil has seen human rabies cases transmitted by dogs and cats infected with the bat variant in regions where annual campaigns no longer take place. Although the municipality of Curuçá has no cases of urban rabies and viral...

The theme of the article is evolution of the popular folklore image of the vampire in world literature. From the monster of folk narrative the image of the vampire entered literary culture at the beginning of the 19th century when writers of the age of Romanticism sought material for their work in folk tales. The novel “Dracula” written by the Iris...

Background: The study objective was to explore opinions, identify experiences, and describe perspectives on the acceptability of intravenous (IV) iron to treat anaemia in pregnancy and identify potential barriers and facilitators of introducing IV iron in the Malawian healthcare system. Methods: We conducted 15 in-depth interviews and two focus gro...

Understanding roosting behaviour is essential to bat conservation and biomonitoring, often providing the most accurate methods of assessing population size and health. However, roosts can be challenging to survey. Roosts can be physically impossible to access or present risks for researchers and disturbance during monitoring can disrupt natural bat...

A taxonomic revision is presented of the genus Paracanthopoma, probably the least-known vandelliine genus at present. The work is based on most of the material available in museums worldwide and includes a major expansion in the knowledge about the genus. Paracanthopoma is circumscribed as a monophyletic group on the basis of nine putatively synapo...

Lampreys are blood-sucking vampires in the marine. From a survival perspective, it is expected that lamprey buccal gland exhibits a repository of pharmacologically active components to modulate the host’s homeostasis, inflammatory and immune responses. Several proteins have been found to function as anticoagulants, ion channel blockers, and immune...

Morphological and functional changes in retinal vessels are indicators of a variety of chronic diseases, such as diabetes, stroke, and hypertension. However, without a large number of high-quality annotations, existing deep learning-based medical image segmentation approaches may degrade their performance dramatically on the retinal vessel segmenta...

This study aims to examine the main reasons of the emotional exhaustion that cause job dissatisfaction and loss of motivation in organizations and which finally lead to emotional exhaustion of the both leaders and employees at workplaces. Emotional exhaustion, which decreases the job performance, motivation, creativity and satisfaction of the emplo...

This article examines the dynamics of fin-de-siècle European antisemitism through the lens of two gothic novels, Jules Verne’s Le Château des Carpathes and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The complexities of Verne’s depictions of Jews are placed in the wider context of persecution, integration and exclusion, and economic characterisations of ‘the Jew’ in We...

In the article I review and discuss recent books on people’s history of Poland. The first part is a classic review of the books Ludowa historia Polski [A People’s History of Poland] by Adam Leszczyński, Chamstwo by Kacper Pobłocki and Siła podporządkowanych [The Power of the Subjugated] by Michał Rauszer. I draw attention, among others, to the one-...

Spatial expansions of vampire bat-transmitted rabies (VBR) are increasing the risk of lethal infections in livestock and humans in Latin America. Identifying the drivers of these expansions could improve current approaches to surveillance and prevention. We aimed to identify if VBR spatial expansions are occurring in Colombia and test factors assoc...

For me - an Afro-L’nu interdisciplinary doctorate candidate rooted in cinema and media studies - vampirism resembles cinematic realism: a visuality of authenticity effected in scene, setting, and storyline on-location respective to narrative milieux. However, what often defines reality as opposed to preferred realism is that Black positionalities c...

The film Twilight produced by Wyck Godfrey, Mark Morgan and Greg Mooradian and directedby Catherine Hardwicke, enjoyed global box office success, and proved particularly popularwith female filmgoers. Despite the commercial success of the film, it was derided specificallyby feminist critics for its portrayal of women and heterosexual relationships....

Due to novel or dynamic fluctuations in environmental conditions and resources, host and parasite relationships can be subject to diverse selection pressures that may lead to significant changes during and after invasion of a parasite. Genomic analyses are useful for elucidating evolutionary processes in invasive parasites following their arrival t...

Many cultures have developed myths and legends rooted in the ideas of vampirism, lycanthropy, and witchcraft. According to anthropological currents, these stories don’t come up from nothing, but follow a process of transformation of elements drawn from real experiences eventually transformed into fictional stories depending on the message they are...

Rabies is known to mankind for more than 4000 years; one of the oldest known zoonoses with 100% fatality. It is well known that the rabies virus (RABV) can evade innate immunity. RABV has evolved diverse strategies for immune evasion as “accessory” functions of the P, N, and M proteins, although many of these studies have used in vitro approaches f...

Vampires are mythological and folkloric creatures that have been catching people’s attention for centuries. They (fortunately or unfortunately) do not exist in the real world, but our intention in this article is to conduct a scientific interpretation of vampires as if they were real. Here, we examine some possible scientific explanations for vampi...

Bats are important reservoirs of viral entities that cause diverse economical and health problems in several sectors. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of the rabies virus in vampire bats. We also tested for 3 other zoonotic viruses in the collected tissue. We captured 45 vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus), which were measured...

This article seeks to examine the emotional impact of disaster in the novel I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson, one of the most celebrated writers of science fiction and horror genre in the 20 th century. A global pandemic appears to have transformed all people into vampires, except for Robert Neville, the hero, who is immune to the virus. The...

The present study focused on investigating the predictive role of narcissistic features concerning marital distress and depressive symptomology. Sample of the study comprised two hundred diagnosed depressive married individuals (N=200). Data was obtained from conveniently selected diagnosed depressed females (n= 108) and males (n= 92) from public a...

Rabies is a disease caused by the rabies virus (RABV), which belongs to the Lyssavirus genus within the Rhabdoviridae family. This disease is transmitted, mainly, by the aggression of a carrier animal, through saliva, to a susceptible animal or to humans. The reservoirs of the virus are all homeothermic or "warm-blooded" animals, especially mammals...

Energi listrik merupakan salah satu kebutuhan manusia yang sangat penting dan vital yang tidak dapat dilepaskan dari keperluan sehari-hari. Tanpa disadari pada umumnya kebiasaan masyarakat dalam memperlakukan peralatan listrik/elektronik masih belum memperhatikan terhadap aturan standard baku. Salah satu perilaku kebiasaan yang kurang tepat apabila...

As far as Greek cinema is concerned, the last few decades have seen both a rise in genre –including horror- films and the emergence of the so-called (Greek) Weird Wave, a term that refers not to a specific genre as such but rather to an aesthetic (mostly with regard to the stylistic approach but frequently with regard to the subject matter too). Bo...

Stephenie Meyer’s (2005) Twilight is a paranormal, young adult series chronicling the love story between 17-year-old high schooler, Bella Swan, and 104-year-old vampire, Edward Cullen. Despite Twilight’s blatant heterosexual canon, the franchise was met with widespread homophobic backlash and was seen as girly, uncool and, hence, ‘gay’. Over ten ye...

The pathogen transmission dynamics in bat reservoirs underpin efforts to reduce risks to human health and enhance bat conservation, but are notoriously challenging to resolve. For vampire bat rabies, the geographical scale of enzootic cycles, whether environmental factors modulate baseline risk, and how within-host processes affect population-level...

Rabies virus (RABV) transmitted by the common vampire bat ( Desmodus rotundus ) poses a threat to agricultural development and public health throughout the Neotropics. The ecology and evolution of rabies host–pathogen dynamics are influenced by two infection-induced behavioural changes. RABV-infected hosts often exhibit increased aggression which f...

This article explores the relationship between Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and its influence on video game narratives. Video game sales have increased significantly since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. The influence of Stoker’s Dracula and the narratives of vampire and pandemic video games is important, since some popular games are explicitly c...

Vampire bat transmitted rabies (VBR) is a continuing burden to public health and agricultural sectors in Latin America, despite decades-long efforts to control the disease by culling bat populations. Culling has been shown to disperse bats, leading to an increased spread of rabies. Thus, non-lethal strategies to control VBR, such as vaccination, ar...

Table des matières Lascaux, Chauvet, Cosquer… Comment ces découvertes ont changé notre regard sur la préhistoire 2 Sud-Ouest : Exposition itinérante Lascaux 3 : un transporteur de Dordogne s’affiche au-delà des frontières 6 place Gre’net : Le synchrotron de Grenoble met en lumière le caractère prédateur de l’ancêtre du vampire des abysses 8 Hominid...

A bstract Non-Standard-Model parity violation may be occurring in LHC collisions. Any such violation would go unseen, however, as searches for it are not currently performed. One barrier to searches for parity violation is the lack of model-independent methods sensitive to all of its forms. We remove this barrier by demonstrating an effective and m...

This article aims at presenting a cross-cultural examination of uncle-niece incest through the theoretical scope of feminist psychoanalysis in literary studies. The paper is thus centered on two novels: Woman at Point Zero (1975) by Nawal El Saadawi and Uncle Vampire (1993) by Cynthia Grant. The main contribution in this article is to highlight the...

Desmodus rotundus bats show a complex social structure and developed adaptive characteristics, considered key features of a pathogen disseminator, such as the rabies virus, among bats and other mammals, including cattle and humans. Our aim was to understand the correlation between the environment and the ecological features of these bats in bovine...

We now live in a digital world. Everyone is always following the latest trends using the Internet and mobile phones. The web series runs on multiple digital platforms. Web serials play an important role in India. In countries where television programming and various film and entertainment industries face strict censorship of content, web series hav...

Treating a saturation-based automatic theorem prover (ATP) as a Las Vegas randomized algorithm is a way to illuminate the chaotic nature of proof search and make it amenable to study by probabilistic tools. On a series of experiments with the ATP Vampire, the paper showcases some implications of this perspective for prover evaluation.

The multitude of Slavic names for ‘werewolf’ (conflated with ‘vampire’ in the south) can be reduced to just ten types, of which the most widespread are l-dl (vukodlak), and l-l (wilkołak). The paper focuses primarily on these two, in combination with rd-l (vurdalak), and rk-l (vărkolak). The remaining six types are examined more briefly, as are rel...

Praca licencjacka pt. „Postać wampira w »Mrocznych cieniach« Tima Burtona” poświęcona jest wizerunkowi wampira, który staje się reprezentantem nieujawnionych treści zawartych w ludzkiej nieświadomości oraz temu, w jaki sposób zostają one za jego pośrednictwem przedstawione w produkcji filmowej. W pracy zastosowana jest psychoanaliza Freudowska, jej...

Due to the biological uniqueness of the Galápagos Islands, ectoparasites of their avian fauna are relatively well-studied compared with other oceanic islands. However, in this study, quill mites (Acariformes: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) were investigated for the first time in this archipelago. We investigated 7 species (out of 9) and 133 specimens...

Poster published in international Literature conference. The original abstract is in Portuguese, but a translate by the author follows, as well as the original version: In horror literature, we are constantly faced with monstrous figures and, sometimes, we have difficult to understand at first, either because they escape the standards established...

The present study analyses the novel „Death’s Lover” (1990) by the Yugoslav writer Miodrag Bulatović. The main character is the controversial figure Vlad Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler, a medieval Romanian prince. The first part of the study identifies the elements that remain true to the historical chronicle thereby giving the text the ch...

I just published ROMANIA OUR IFIASA FRIENDS. Romania is the heart of Europe and has been for twenty centuries now, since the Roman Empire which made it a special destination of their civilization. They even turned Latin into a very special language. They also imported their agriculture with wine and slaves equally represented, and yet Romania becam...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) and its companion series Angel (1999-2004) are fictional American television shows featuring humans, vampires, and the complex interactions between them. Vampires contrast strongly from humans via their significant physical advantage and tendency to act without guilt or remorse, yet vampires retain many deeply h...

The paper offers a new insight into the global perception of vampirism as cultural diversity tradition lens in the British writer Kim Newman’s novel Anno Dracula, published in 1992. The historical allusions throughout the novel presents the discourse of intercultural concepts that does not only speak to the Western Dracula tradition and the 19th Ce...

e most e ective threat for wireless sensor networks (WSN) is Vampire attacks on sensor nodes as they can stretch the network connectivity among them and in uence the network's energy, which can drain the network. Vampire attack has particular malicious nature of sensor nodes in which they can widely exploit features of combined routing protocol. Fu...

Hematophagous bats are fascinating mammals due to their social structure and complex anatomical and physiological characters. We present evidence of the potential use of the giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) in the feeding spectrum of the common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus. Observations were made in the Parque Sesc Serra Azul, located in the m...

This paper considers the Twilight novels alongside the Vampire Academy books, as young adult readers regularly invoke these series as touchstones of the contemporary adolescent Gothic genre. The abiding appeal of these vampire novels is related to the ways they reflect the experiences of young adults with the rapacity and greed displayed in our tim...

Central to this essay is the feature film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night by the Iranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour. The director binds viewers to a vampire’s point of view – one that expresses both female desire and feminist anger – by using film-specific stylistic devices such as the depth of field, framing, lighting, sound, and locatio...

1. Quantitative food web analyses can provide insights into the specificity of consumers such as herbivores, parasites, and parasitoids. Understanding such patterns can be useful in forecasting the potential benefits and risks of biological control agents being considered for introduction against invasive species. 2. The avian vampire fly, Philorni...

Human–bat interactions are now the source of the majority of locally acquired human lyssavirus infections in many high‐income countries without hematophagous or ‘vampire’ bat species. This study aims to identify the most common types and circumstances of bat exposures occurring among members of the general public in high‐income countries with no he...

Vampire bat-transmitted rabies has recently become the leading cause of rabies mortality in both humans and livestock in Latin America. Evaluating risk of transmission from bats to other animal species has thus become a priority in the region. An integrated bat-rabies dynamic modeling framework quantifying spillover risk to cattle farms was develop...

Attitudes towards the naked body vary from culture to culture. Even within one culture, the nakedness often symbolises very different and sometimes arbitrarily contradictory things. It can be associated with eroticism, sanctity, aggression, a certain type of culture (from savagery to elitism), etc. Focusing on specific cinematic examples, the autho...

The sensor nodes comprising sensing devices, small processing units, and battery, cooperate in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for gathering potential factors that aids in achieving significant decision‐making processes in deployed applications. WSNs are vulnerable to security threats due to their open nature, availability characteristics, and lack...

Non-Standard-Model parity violation may be occurring in LHC collisions. Any such violation would go unseen, however, as searches are for it are not currently performed. One barrier to searches for parity violation is the lack of model-independent methods sensitive to all of its forms. We remove this barrier by demonstrating an effective and model-i...

Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is a senior lecturer in film studies and American studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. She specializes in gothic studies, horror cinema, popular culture, and American studies indeed. Her work is focused in particular on vampire and monster narratives. She has published a long list of essays and several books, among which...

Background: The study objective was to explore opinions, identify experiences, and describe perspectives on the acceptability of intravenous (IV) iron to treat anaemia in pregnancy and identify potential barriers and facilitators of introducing IV iron in the Malawian healthcare system. Methods: We conducted 15 in-depth interviews and two focus gro...

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is currently Professor of English at Central Michigan University, where he has been teaching a variety of courses on American literature and popular culture since 2001. He’s a scholar of the Gothic with a vast academic production, in particular on supernatural fiction, film and television. His research interests span topics...

The construction of sound aesthetic atmospheres in video games and horror films break the traditional limits between noise, sound, silence and music. Permeating and enabling sound design creators of new ways to create acoustic spaces based on recordings and compositions based on common, rustic and urban sounds elements. This workshop focuses on the...

A recent study in PLOS Biology shows that a betaherpesvirus circulating with the vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, could serve as an effective vector for a transmissible vaccine capable of reducing the risk of rabies virus spillover in Peru. This Primer explores a recent study in PLOS Biology showing that a betaherpesvirus circulating in the vampire...

Vaccination is a powerful tool in combating infectious diseases of humans and companion animals. In most wildlife, including reservoirs of emerging human diseases, achieving sufficient vaccine coverage to mitigate disease burdens remains logistically unattainable. Virally vectored “transmissible” vaccines that deliberately spread among hosts are a...

The feeding behaviour of the sanguivorous common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) facilitates the transmission of pathogens that can impact both human and animal health. To formulate effective strategies in controlling the spread of diseases, there is a need to obtain information on which animals they feed on. One DNA-based approach, shotgun sequenc...