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A case of clinical vampirism in Asia by Phang, Cheng Kar, Sekvakumar, Kayatri, Ang, Jin Kiat

“…Clinical vampirism in psychiatric practice is very rare and usually associated with schizophrenia, antisocial personality disorder or paraphilia. …”
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Attributing minds to vampires in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend by Nuttall, Louise

“…In this article, I explore the application of such research to the minds constructed for the vampire characters in Richard Matheson’s (1954) science fiction/horror novel I Am Legend. …”
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Hologenomic adaptations underlying the evolution of sanguivory in the common vampire bat. by Zepeda Mendoza, M., Xiong, Z., Escalera-Zamudio, M., Runge, A., Thézé, J., Streicker, D., Frank, H., Loza-Rubio, E., Liu, S., Ryder, O., Samaniego Castruita, J., Katzourakis, A., Pacheco, G., Taboada, B., Löber, U., Pybus, O., Li, Y., Rojas-Anaya, E., Bohmann, K., Carmona Baez, A., Arias, C., Liu, S., Greenwood, A., Bertelsen, M., White, Nicole, Bunce, Michael, Zhang, G., Sicheritz-Pontén, T., Gilbert, M.

“…We applied a hologenomic approach to the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus), one of the only three obligate blood-feeding (sanguivorous) mammals, to study the evolution of its complex dietary adaptation. …”
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Buffy the vampire slayer: what being Jewish has to do with it by Stratton, Jon

“…This article examines the whiteness in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The author argues that the show’s overwhelming whiteness is a product of a generalized white anxiety about the numerical loss of white dominance across the United States and, in particular, in California. …”
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Pelakon buat lima kerja satu masa mampu raih MBA by Mohamed Rafic, Nurul Amiraa

“…SERDANG, 30 Okt – Pelakon, pengacara dan penyanyi Nazeera Sardi yang terkenal dalam drama ‘Hanya Padamu’ dan ‘Pembancuh Kopi Mr. Vampire’ akhirnya berjaya meraih Master Pentadbiran Perniagaan (MBA) pengkhususan pemasaran dari Putra Business School (PBS) Universiti Putra Malaysia hari ini.…”
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Improving wagon running safety - predicting wagon instability during normal freight operations by Xia, F., Cole, C., Wolfs, Peter

“…Additional validation was also achieved by comparison with wagon simulations developed using VAMPIRE.…”
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An inverse railway wagon model and its applications by Xia, F., Cole, C., Wolfs, Peter

“…The inverse model was also compared with results from simulations completed in VAMPIRE for more complicated track input profiles. …”
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Molecular clocks indicate turnover and diversification of modern coleoid cephalopods during the mesozoic marine revolution by Tanner, A., Fuchs, D., Winkelmann, I., Gilbert, Thomas, Pankey, M., Ribeiro, A., Kocot, K., Halanych, K., Oakley, T., Da Fonseca, R., Pisani, D., Vinther, J.

“…We show that crown cephalopods diverged in the Silurian–Devonian, while crown coleoids had origins in the latest Palaeozoic.While the deep-sea vampire squid and dumbo octopuses have ancient origins extending to the Early Mesozoic Era, 242+38 Ma, incirrate octopuses and the decabrachian coleoids (10-armed squid) diversified in the Jurassic Period. …”
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From International Horror Films to the Local Filem Seram: Examining the Cinematic Identity and Roles of the Malaysian Pontianak by Lee, Yuen Beng, Balaya, Sarata

“…Malaysian horror films describe the pontianak as a supernatural entity with overflowing hair, vampire-like traits and a beautiful woman capable of seducing, charming and alluring her male victims. …”
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The poetics of deviance in contemporary American crime fiction by Gregoriou, Christiana

“…I name THE MONSTER, THE VAMPIRE, and THE SPOILT CHILD as contemporary criminal archetypes that feature in the genre, and additionally deal with the implications that such a classification bears for the reading of it. …”
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Contagion and the subject in contemporary American speculative fiction by Donner, Mathieu

“…Over the past decade, the success of texts centred on such figures as the vampire, the werewolf and the zombie has triggered a return of contagion to the forefront of the American popular fictional imagination. …”
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The Villainous Pontianak? Examining Gender, Culture and Power in Malaysian Horror Films by Lee, Yuen Beng

“…Often described as a fearsome mythical creature with vampire-like qualities, she is said to have fangs, possesses ghost-like traits and can only be subdued using a sharp object which is usually a nail struck to the back of her neck. …”
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Legitimating telefantasy: exploring the value of telefantasy through television history by Dervish Ali, Erdem

“…Following these historical frameworks, chapters 3, 4, 6, and 7 offer an in-depth investigation of the case studies within each period of television, The Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959-1964) and Star Trek (NBC, 1966-1969) in TV I, and The XFiles (Fox, 1993-2002) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The WB, 1997-2001, UPN, 2001-2003) in TV II. …”
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