While zombies have been studied in a certain detail in vivo, the attention has been mostly focused on small-scale experiences, typically on case studies unexplicabily concentrating on just a hero and a few dozen zombies. Only recently a new, fruitful area of research on the behaviour of masses of zombies has been investigated. In this paper, we focus on modeling the behaviour of swarms of zombi...

The present book has the...purpose of straightening thought about war and peace.... [I]t seemed best to refrain from condemnation altogether. For indignation is so easy and satisfying a mood that it is apt to prevent one from attending to any facts that oppose it. If the reader should object that I have abandoned ethics for the false doctrine that “to understand everything is to pardon everythi...

The aim of this paper to retrace the development of speaking styles within the genre 'live football commentary' by exploring several examples of broadcasts for a German audience in a time span of 80 years. It was shown that the affective information is consistently reflected by a pitch rise between one and two octaves during the phases of building up suspense before a goal and with the goal com...

Readers of Mary Chubb's Nefertiti Lived Hereand they seem to be legion, judging by the number of enquiries addressed to the Museum's Information Desk-will remember that the "crowning moment" in the life of the excavators at Tell el Amarna during that season of 1931 was the discovery, in the ruins of a house in the northern suburbs, of the small but exquisite head shown on this page. After some ...

The feeling of anxiety, a conscious experience, is associated with uneasiness, painfulness, or disturbing suspense. The current paper presents the phenomenology of anxiety disorders based on diagnostic criteria and reviews neuroimaging studies on anxiety including dissociation studies. Activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, insula, temporal poles and amygdala sugge...

This is an introduction to definitions of crime fiction, its sub-genres, key features and how these impact on and shape translation strategies. It considers the status quo of research into the field and suggests areas for future work. As an example of genre-specific translation challenges, a more detailed discussion of Inge Löhnig’s novel So unselig schön (2011) considers how lexical cohesion a...