“More than Women”: Unveiling Complex Bodies and Exploring Gender Dynamics in The Blood of the Vampire and The Great God Pan

Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan and Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire are two novels that delve into the representation of monstrosity, women, gender dynamics, and body horror. The portrayal of the protagonists as monstrous creatures has sparked scholarly interest in understanding the gender implications and societal anxieties embedded in the narrative (Lennox, 2018). The present paper analyses the exploration of two novels of monstrosity and its link to the female protagonists’ p...

Post‐Apocalyptic Bodies and Spaces in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003)

The Twin Transition in Practice. Digital Technologies, Sustainability, and the Role of Family Ownership in Europe

This paper examines whether and to what extent digital technologies (DTs) foster the adoption of environmental sustainability (ES), and how this relationship is moderated by family ownership. Using data from approximately 14,000 European firms surveyed in the Flash Eurobarometer 486, we estimate a recursive simultaneous equation model via a conditional mixed-process (CMP) to address potential endogeneity concerns. Results indicate that digitalization has a positive influence on ES adoption, a...

Natural language-driven production planning: integrating large language models with automatic simulation model generation in manufacturing systems

Simulation modeling provides powerful decision support capabilities for production planning in manufacturing systems, yet widespread adoption remains limited by significant barriers in model development and maintenance. Traditional simulation approaches require substantial expertise, time investment, and financial resources, creating accessibility challenges particularly for small and medium enterprises. Current research on automatic simulation generation overlooks the significant potential t...