As creatures that come back from the dead to haunt and hunt living, vampires represent fear of an uncontrollable, mysterious, foreign threat. Bram Stoker’s Gothic novel Dracula (1897) presents vampirism not only as a curse resurrects human body undead monster, but also metaphor for contagious disease. Transgressing boundaries between life death, animal, past present, vampire breaches purity by ...

In this study, I examine aspects of Jane Austen, vampire fiction, and contemporary culture through the lens of vampire adaptions of Austen's work. Although a study of vampire fiction may seem peripheral to any serious study of Austen's novels, I contend that studying those adaptations is central to understanding Austen in modern culture, as her work is recycled and reapportioned. Vampire fictio...

In this paper we present a regularization tool for solving inverse problems arising in atmospheric remote sensing. The tool incorporates several direct and iterative regularization methods based on different basic principles. To deal with model parameters that introduce uncertainties which cannot be ignored we use the marginalizing technique. The tool also includes a postprocessing part for cha...

This article examines the dynamics of fin-de-siècle European antisemitism through lens two gothic novels, Jules Verne’s Le Château des Carpathes and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The complexities depictions Jews are placed in wider context persecution, integration exclusion, economic characterisations ‘the Jew’ Western Eastern Europe. is compared with visceral fear ‘other’ as expressed differences bet...

This text describes the first application of a novel path flow and origin/destination (OD) matrix estimator for iterated dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) microsimulations. The presented approach, which operates on a trip-based demand representation, is derived from an agent-based DTA calibration methodology that relies on an activity-based demand model. The objective of this work is to demonstr...

Matthias Meurer, Veronika Chevyreva, Bram Cerulus and Michael Knop Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. KU Leuven Department Microbiële en Moleculaire Systemen, CMPG Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics, Gaston Geenslaan 1, 3001 Leuven, Belgium VIB Laboratory of Systems Biology, Gaston Gee...