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19 October 2025

Fascination with the unknown has always characterized humanity. This includes creation of mythical creatures that are believed to exist even though fully unproven. Fabricating monsters began to peak in early modern Europe. Sixteenth-century monsters...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
10,924 Views
15 Pages

19 December 2023

North America is steeped in legends of cryptids, (mostly) unseen creatures woven into the fabric of its folklore. From legends told by early explorers to contemporary legends told today, these enigmatic beings shape societal perceptions and reflect c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,145 Views
14 Pages

21 December 2016

The Monster group, the biggest of the sporadic groups, is equipped with the highest known number of dimensions and symmetries. Taking into account variants of the Borsuk–Ulam theorem and a novel topological approach cast in a physical fashion that ha...

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  • Open Access
798 Views
13 Pages

29 November 2025

Recent scholarly work on the influence of the Book of Revelation on popular cinematic, literary, and visual apocalyptica has shown steady growth. These studies not only highlight the influence and the processes of de- and recontextualisation of Revel...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,788 Views
12 Pages

22 January 2020

What happens when we imagine the unimaginable? This article compares recent films inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos with that author’s original early 20th century pulp horror stories. In Guillermo del Toro’s films Pacific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
24,254 Views
37 Pages

4 December 2019

Elephants were first deployed in warfare by Indian and Persian armies. The Greco-Macedonian troops first encountered these fearsome creatures in battle during the campaign of Alexander the Great. Subsequently, the Successors and later Hellenistic rul...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
11,181 Views
14 Pages

Fossilized Venom: The Unusually Conserved Venom Profiles of Heloderma Species (Beaded Lizards and Gila Monsters)

  • Ivan Koludarov,
  • Timothy N. W. Jackson,
  • Kartik Sunagar,
  • Amanda Nouwens,
  • Iwan Hendrikx and
  • Bryan G. Fry

22 December 2014

Research into snake venoms has revealed extensive variation at all taxonomic levels. Lizard venoms, however, have received scant research attention in general, and no studies of intraclade variation in lizard venom composition have been attempted to...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,907 Views
17 Pages

Before the Page Time: Maximum Entanglements or the Return of the Monster?

  • Jeong-Myeong Bae,
  • Dong Jin Lee,
  • Dong-han Yeom and
  • Heeseung Zoe

10 August 2022

The conservation of information of evaporating black holes is a very natural consequence of unitarity, which is the fundamental symmetry of quantum mechanics. In order to study the conservation of information, we need to understand the nature of the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
10,402 Views
10 Pages

Introduction: Hip abductor strength is essential for pelvic stability, lower limb alignment, and injury prevention. Weaknesses of the gluteus medius and minimus contribute to various musculoskeletal conditions. Lateral band walks and monster walks ar...

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  • Open Access
5,136 Views
21 Pages

11 December 2024

In 2024, Eilish Quin published the novel Medea, which is a feminist approach to the Medea myth from Greek mythology. Medea’s myth is heavily influenced by Euripides’ play Medea, a play in which she kills her children to enact revenge on h...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
32 Citations
39,878 Views
12 Pages

8 August 2017

Moana (2016) continues a tradition of Disney princess movies that perpetuate gender stereotypes. The movie contains the usual Electral undercurrent, with Moana seeking to prove her independence to her overprotective father. Moana’s partner in her adv...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,601 Views
31 Pages

Monstrous M-Theory

  • Alessio Marrani,
  • Mike Rios and
  • David Chester

13 February 2023

In 26+1 space–time dimensions, we introduce a gravity theory whose massless spectrum can be acted upon by the Monster group when reduced to 25+1 dimensions. This theory generalizes M-theory in many respects, and we name it Monstrous M-theory, o...

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  • Open Access
2,867 Views
18 Pages

14 March 2024

In 2009, Seth Grahame-Smith published Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, sparking a subgenre that situates itself within multiple genres. I draw from the rebellious nature of nineteenth-century proto-feminists who tried to reclaim the female monster as...

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  • Open Access
3,212 Views
18 Pages

8 October 2024

After a decade of dormancy following the release of Tōhō Studios’ Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), Godzilla and other kaijū burst back onto the scene with Legendary Pictures’ Godzilla (2014). Several American sequels and a tele...

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  • Open Access
39 Citations
24,764 Views
30 Pages

22 April 2015

The internet provides the means through which a “self-activating terrorist” may first self-radicalize through some imaginary or sympathetic connection with an organized terrorist network. Additionally, the internet allows such a self-activating terro...

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  • Open Access
3,321 Views
13 Pages

15 December 2020

To explore Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s rise from obscure rural Haiti to become the nation’s first democratically elected president—by a landslide—is to enter into a world and a swirl of events that reads like surreal fiction or m...

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  • Open Access
1,439 Views
26 Pages

19 December 2025

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has begun to revolutionize our view of the Cosmos. The discovery of Blue Monsters (i.e., ultra-compact yet very bright high-z galaxies) and the Little Red Dots (i.e., very compact dustless strong Balmer break cos...

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  • Open Access
7,852 Views
30 Pages

17 September 2020

This paper focusses on the animal presence in the archaeological records from the Phoenician island town of Motya (Sicily), which grew to prosperity from its settlement in the 8th century until its destruction in 397 bce. Offering a preliminary revie...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
14,067 Views
17 Pages

3 June 2016

This paper considers transforming forms and their purposes in the popular culture trope of the televised Monster of the Week (MOTW). In the rare televised appearances outside of Slavic nations, Baba Yaga tends to show up in MOTW episodes. While some...

  • Review
  • Open Access
86 Citations
10,868 Views
15 Pages

11 June 2019

Distinct from normal differentiated tissues, cancer cells reprogram nutrient uptake and utilization to accommodate their elevated demands for biosynthesis and energy production. A hallmark of these types of reprogramming is the increased utilization...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,915 Views
21 Pages

Thermogravimetry and Mass Spectrometry of Extractable Organics from Manufactured Nanomaterials for Identification of Potential Coating Components

  • Per Axel Clausen,
  • Vivi Kofoed-Sørensen,
  • Asger W. Nørgaard,
  • Nicklas Mønster Sahlgren and
  • Keld Alstrup Jensen

6 November 2019

Manufactured nanomaterials (MNMs) often have a surface-chemical modification in order to tailor their physicochemical properties, including also powder properties and miscibility. Surface-chemical modifications may influence the toxicological propert...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,586 Views
7 Pages

Relapse of Neonatal Escherichia coli Meningitis: Did We Miss Something at First?

  • Nadja H. Vissing,
  • Mette B. Mønster,
  • Sannie Nordly,
  • Gholamreza K. Dayani,
  • Sofie S. Heedegaard,
  • Jenny D. Knudsen and
  • Ulrikka Nygaard

10 February 2021

Relapse of neonatal meningitis is most commonly caused by Escherichia coli. Management to prevent relapse varies and evidence is limited. We present four cases of relapsing neonatal E. coli meningitis in Denmark in 2016–2017 and review the current li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,885 Views
16 Pages

Bugs on Drugs: Paracetamol Exposure Reveals Genotype-Specific Generational Effects on Life History Traits in Drosophila melanogaster

  • Birk Nete Randlev Gleerup Hundebøl,
  • Palle Duun Rohde,
  • Torsten Nygaard Kristensen,
  • Rune Wittendorff Mønster Jensen,
  • Thomas Vosegaard and
  • Jesper Givskov Sørensen

1 October 2024

Few investigations have been made to determine whether pharmaceutical drugs cause any generational effects. These effects can be divided into intergenerational and transgenerational effects. In insects, the F1 offspring of exposed individuals are con...

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  • Open Access
515 Views
28 Pages

23 March 2025

Partially nonlocal (PNL) variable-coefficient nonlinear Schrödinger equations (NLSEs) represent a significant area of study in mathematical physics and quantum mechanics, particularly in scenarios where potential and coefficients vary spatially...

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  • Open Access
2,833 Views
30 Pages

26 December 2022

Supernatural entities are often described as ambiguous, but ambiguity is underdetermined and undefined. This article has a twofold goal: first of all, it constructs an ideal-type model for identifying and specifying ambiguity in supernatural beings;...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,729 Views
19 Pages

The search for extraterrestrial life, recently fueled by the discovery of exoplanets, requires defined biosignatures. Current biomarkers include those of extremophilic organisms, typically archaea. Yet these cellular organisms are highly complex, whi...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
72 Citations
86,387 Views
31 Pages

The Dark Side of Energy Drinks: A Comprehensive Review of Their Impact on the Human Body

  • Andrea Costantino,
  • Aniello Maiese,
  • Julia Lazzari,
  • Chiara Casula,
  • Emanuela Turillazzi,
  • Paola Frati and
  • Vittorio Fineschi

9 September 2023

In recent years, the consumption of energy drinks by young adults and athletes has risen significantly, but concerns have been raised about the potential health risks associated with excessive consumption. These concerns include cardiovascular proble...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,424 Views
22 Pages

Beowulf and the Hunt

  • Francis Leneghan

3 March 2022

The presence of hunting imagery in Beowulf has often been noted, but the significance of the figures of the stag and the wolf to the thematic design of the poem has yet to be fully explored. In this article, I first analyse the sustained presentation...

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  • Open Access
3,345 Views
22 Pages

8 January 2025

In Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle’s graphic novel Squad, protagonist Becca and her new friends at Piedmont High are not human adolescents but a pack of werewolves who must kill to stay alive and select teenage boys—“the WORST on...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,315 Views
19 Pages

In this paper, we study the effects of viscosity on the evolution of the double tearing mode (DTM) in a pair of adjacent Harris sheets based on the resistive MHD model in the NIMROD code. Similar to the tearing mode in the conventional single Harris...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,905 Views
20 Pages

18 October 2024

One amongst many of the defining characteristics of so-called ‘late stage’ capitalism are human-animal relationships that have become acrimonious, hostile, or even monstrous in nature. A foundational premise of monster theory, and one tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
18,485 Views
27 Pages

17 April 2020

The popular yet demonic guardian of ancient Egypt, Bes, combines dwarfish and leonine features, and embodies opposing traits such as a fierce and gentle demeanor, a hideous and comical appearance, serious and humorous roles, an animalistic and numino...

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  • Open Access
2,942 Views
9 Pages

Hybrid: Reading Godzilla Through Posthumanism

  • Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns,
  • Emiliano Aguilar and
  • Jorge Eduardo Traversa

21 October 2024

This essay proposes to read the classic cycle of Godzilla films (roughly, 1954–1995) using a posthuman perspective that makes its emphasis on animal, vegetal and mineral life. We will use posthuman and materialist philosophy to analyze hybrid m...

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  • Open Access
2,264 Views
18 Pages

6 November 2023

In 1748, an image of Our Lady of Sorrows brought from Mexico by Marcos Torres, an Indiano born in Tenerife who made his fortune in New Spain, was enthroned with a festivity and sermon. The image of the Virgin was accompanied by a stuffed crocodile th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
64 Citations
5,980 Views
27 Pages

Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative pathogen responsible for a variety of community- and hospital-acquired infections. It is recognized as a life-threatening pathogen among hospitalized individuals and, in particular, immunocompromised patient...

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  • Open Access
4,199 Views
12 Pages

15 December 2023

Jacques Derrida’s theory of deconstruction provides an ideal means of appreciating and interrogating the duality central to both Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and its adaptations. Moreover, because deconst...

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  • Open Access
2,055 Views
11 Pages

9 October 2024

Chris Bush’s Faustus: That Damned Woman (first performed in 2020) is a feminist and contemporary adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. The magus is a woman who travels through time from the seventeenth century to the far dis...

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