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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Buffy"”.
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The Role of Disability in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
… the role of disability in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Data were analyzed with a content analysis, a thematic analysis, and an ideological rhetorical criticism. Disability was found to be used as a tool of character, plot, and atmosphere development. The data also suggested …
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Slaying Literature: Metaphor and Characters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Joss Whedon is a storyteller who created Buffy the Vampires Slayer, a television series about a young girl who is chosen to fight the supernatural evil. She makes friends who help her when she needs it, and enemies who are frequently demonic and generally evil. Whedon uses many metaphors in the …
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Bone Marrow-Derived Buffy Coat Can Supplement the Bone Marrow Stimulation Technique for Articular Cartilage Repair
" Bone Marrow-Derived Buffy Coat Can Supplement the Bone Marrow Stimulation Technique for Articular Cartilage Repair Bone marrow stimulation (BMS) has been used as a popular operating technique to repair defect of knee articular cartilage. However, the regenerated tissue from BMS is known as a …
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Decolonizing the Body of the Chosen One: The Bodily Performance of Anakin Skywalker, Buffy Summers, and T'Challa
… close readings of Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars, Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and T'Challa in Black Panther, these characters decolonize the body of the Chosen One through the expected performance of this hero by engaging with Judith Butler's theory in Performativity. However, each …
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"It's Like We Were Being Watched ... Like There Were Only 3 Walls, And Not a Fourth Wall": Manifestations of Metafiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
… of works related to both Joss Whedon and <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em>, relatively little critical attention has so far dealt with the subject of metafiction. This study aims to make use of narratological analyses as well as drawing upon relevant theorists (e.g., Patricia Waugh, Fredric …
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Bakterielle Kontamination von HbF-Erythrozytenkonzentraten aus Plazentarestblut
… in die Komponenten Erythrozytenkonzentrat, Buffy coat und Plasma aufgetrennt. Diese drei Fraktionen wurden an drei Tagen (1, 3, 35) auf aerobe und anaerobe bakterielle Kontamination untersucht, wobei an Tag 1 zusätzlich auch noch das Vollblut überprüft wurde. Dafür wurden Kulturflaschen mit …
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Management of cartilage deficiency by applying extracellular matrix membrane on bone marrow stimulation technique and evaluating the quality of repaired cartilage
… feasibility of autologous bone marrow-derived buffy coat transplantation in repair of large full-thickness cartilage defects was investigated in this study. Rabbits were divided into four groups: the defect remained untreated as a negative control; performance of BMS only (BMS group); BMS …
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Der Eînfluss von schwangerschaftsassoziierten Hormonen auf die Cytokinproduktion von humanen in vitro kultivierten unreifen dendritischen Zellen
… im menschlichen Immunsystem . Diese wurden aus Buffy coats angezüchtet und mit schwangerschaftsassoziierten Hormonen versetzt. Nachdem man die von den DC produzierten Cytokine mittels ELISA gemessen hatte, liess sich eine Aussage darüber treffen wie die Hormone die dendritischen Zellen in ihrer …
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Girl Power: Feminism, Girlculture and the Popular Media
… female consumers: the Spice Girls, Scream and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These examples are fundamentally different than texts from earlier female targeted generic models because they not only reflect the influence of the feminist movement, they work on feminism's behalf. The project's …
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A study of FT-IR spectroscopy for the identification and classifcation of haematological malignancies
… classified 80.6% of 331 spectra and the buffy coat model correctly classified 99.5% of 1438 spectra. This demonstrated that the buffy coat (containing white blood cells) holds the key biochemical information for discrimination between the pathology of the blood samples. Partial least …
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Structure prediction for human parsing
… depicts a wide range of poses), on the standard Buffy dataset, and on the reduced PASCAL dataset published recently. Results suggest that the Buffy dataset over emphasizes poses where the arms hang down, and that leads to generalization problems. Despite the superior performance of a full …
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Dried spot cards to analyse biologic fluids for diagnostic investigation of patients
… subsequent analysis. Methods: Samples (blood, buffy coat, serum, plasma and urine) were collected into various tubes and spotted onto filter paper cards. Concentrations of total cholesterol, triglyceride, phospholipids, glucose, lactate, and protein were measured in the original sample and …
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Targeting families and teens: Television violence on the WB
… The most violent WB primetime program was "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the highest number of violent acts aired was found on Tuesday night. The author concludes the majority of WB primetime programs contain a low amount of violence. The author suggests future violence studies employ a …
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Bcl-2 Function in Drosophila
… Bcl-2 family members, Debcl (pro-apoptotic) and Buffy (anti-apoptotic). To understand the role of Debcl in Drosophila apoptosis, we produced an authentic null allele at the Debcl locus. Although gross development and lifespans were unaffected, we found that debcl was required for pruning cells in …
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Realities of Change: The changing nature of television in the past twenty years
… on case studies from the period, specifically Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lost, and American Idol with each series illustrating one of the three key areas of transition. The fourth case study, Survivor, specifically the twenty-third season, is utilised to show the complex interrelations of these …
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Associations of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Bovine Prolactin, Melatonin Receptor 1A, and Dopamine Receptor D2 Genes with Hair Coat Shedding Scores and Productivity Traits in Beef Cattle
… traits. Genomic DNA was extracted from buffy coat samples of Angus-based crossbred cows (n = 170). Relationships were determined using mixed model ANOVA with genotype, year, and cow age group as main affects. When F-tests were significant, means were separated using multiple t-tests and …
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Antibody-functionalized nanoporous surfaces enable high throughput specific cell capture
… cancer lines as low as 5 cells/mL spiked into buffy coat.
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Reassortment of bluetongue virus vaccine serotypes in cattle
… 39 days post inoculation using virus isolation. Buffy coats as well as first cell culture passages of buffy coats were used to isolate the virus using the plaque forming unit method. The vaccine parental strains were obtained from Bottle two of the vaccine using the plaque forming unit assay and …
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Quantitative Oil Source-Fingerprinting Techniques and Their Application to Differentiating Crude Oil in Coastal Marsh Sediments
Oil source-fingerprinting is an environmental forensics technique that uses analytical chemistry to determine the origin of oil residues in environmental samples by comparison to a known or suspected source oil. Currently, the only standardized method for oil source fingerprinting is a qualitative …
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Identifying novel roles for basement membrane-associated proteins in the adult Drosophila intestinal epithelium
Maintenance of a healthy epithelium relies on the functionality of resident stem and progenitor cells, which must divide and differentiate in a way that precisely meets tissue requirements. To achieve this, cells integrate an array of information, including chemical, mechanical and adhesion-based …
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