Pyriproxyfen, villain or good guy? A brief review by Andressa Pereira Cabral, Fabrício Pereira dos Santos Maia, D’Angelo Carlo Magliano, Jones Bernardes Graceli, Paula Soares, Eduardo Andrés Rios Morris, Leandro Miranda-Alves

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Victim or Villain? A Study of Deconstruction in Tiara Andini’s ‘Maafkan Aku’ by Meria Zakiyah Alfisuma, Eka Susylowati, M. Masqotul Imam Romadlani

“…The lyrics deconstruct the notion of penitence as a "victim" with an opposing sense of expectation as a "villain." This study offers a nuanced exploration of how deconstruction unveils alternative interpretations, contributing to a broader understanding of how popular culture uses language to express complex emotional and relational dynamics.…”
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“Me will homa to France and no be hanged in a strange country”: Comic French Villains in Late Elizabethan Drama by Charles Whitworth

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The literary portrayals of Ivan Mazepa in Byron’s Mazeppa and Pushkin’s Poltava. A comparative analysis by Tatiana Krol

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Raison d’agir des écologistes océaniques : du golfe de Biscaye à la mer de Patagonie by Milo Villain

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The use of pigs vocalisation structure to assess the quality of human-pig relationship by Villain, Avelyne S, Guérin, Carole, Tallet, Céline

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Carbonatation and Decarbonatation Kinetics in the La2O3-La2O2CO3 System under CO2 Gas Flows by Bahcine Bakiz, Frédéric Guinneton, Madjid Arab, Abdeljalil Benlhachemi, Sylvie Villain, Pierre Satre, Jean-Raymond Gavarri

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Electrical Properties of a CeO2-Bi2O3 Mix System Elaborated at 600°C by Lamia Bourja, Bahcine Bakiz, Abdeljalil Benlhachemi, Mohamed Ezahri, Sylvie Villain, Claude Favotto, Jean-Raymond Gavarri

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New Keratoconus Risk Factors: A Cross-Sectional Case—Control Study by Eloi Debourdeau, Gabriel Planells, Chloe Chamard, David Touboul, Max Villain, Pascal Demoly, Fanny Babeau, Pierre Fournie, Vincent Daien

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Impact of Online Interactive Decision Tools on Women’s Decision-Making Regarding Breast Cancer Screening: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Patricia Villain, Laura Downham, Alice Le Bonniec, Charlotte Bauquier, Olena Mandrik, Tom Nadarzynski, Lorie Donelle, Raúl Murillo, Eleni L Tolma, Sonali Johnson, Patricia Soler-Michel, Robert Smith

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Are adverse childhood experiences scores associated with heroism or villainy? A quantitative observational study of Marvel and DC Cinematic Universe characters. by Julia Wigmore, Bilal Ahmed, Gabriel Joaquino, Elke Jaibeeh Barah, Zahra Upal, Teressa Boring, Marika Lee, Eron Muel, Samantha Perry, Sandra Davidson, Carla Ginn, Carla Ferreira, Twyla Ens, Jennifer Jackson

“…Many superhero and villain stories include trauma, which could influence how the public perceives the impact of trauma in their own lives. …”
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Quantum quench dynamics of geometrically frustrated Ising models by Ammar Ali, Hanjing Xu, William Bernoudy, Alberto Nocera, Andrew D. King, Arnab Banerjee

“…In particular, the triangular antiferromagnet and Villain model in a transverse field can be understood through distinct XY pseudospins, but have qualitatively similar phase diagrams including a quantum phase transition in the (2+1)-dimensional XY universality class. …”
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Les « méchantes » de la fiction criminelle édouardienne de L.T. Meade et Robert Eustace : Sympathy for the (she)devil ? by Charlotte Arnautou

“…Meade serialized in the English press at the end of the 19th century: the “villainesses” they portray constitute a feminized version of the archetypal villain of criminal fiction. Drawing on cultural studies and the theory of fictional immersion, this article highlights the way in which readers’ emotional involvement with these female characters at odds with the Patmorian ideal of the “angel in the house”, undermines the traditionally conservative values of detective fiction.…”
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“Though Hermes never taught thee”: The Anti-Patriarchal Tendency of Charles Brockden Brown’s Mercurial Outcast Carwin, the Biloquist by Evert Jan van Leeuwen

“…This article traces the allusions to the utopian cultural schemas of alchemy and hermetic philosophy in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland and “Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist” in order to show that the mysterious anti-hero Carwin does not have to be cast in the role of gothic villain but instead can play the part of marginalised utopian idealist, whose dissident presence in the novel reveals that the seemingly enlightened community of Mettingen is in fact reliant on old-world patriarchal ideology to ensure its stability.…”
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De la ventriloquie au trauma by Marc Amfreville

“…Drawing extensively from Freud, but also to a lesser extent from Derrida, this paper, jointly interrogating the figure of the biloquist villain in Wieland, the picture of the aftermath of the Civil War in “Chickamauga” and the 9-11 icon of destruction in Falling Man, endeavors to highlight the parallel and converging lines of psychoanalysis and literature as regards the representation of trauma.…”
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Le succès du crime sur scène avec Robert Macaire : modernité théâtrale et protestation sociale au xixe siècle by Noémi Carrique

“…In the traditional  French melodrama, the traitor was always an unsympathetic character, which prepared the audience for a moralizing outcome of the play, with either remorse from or punishment of the "villain". Frédérick Lemaître undermined this tradition by turning the murderer into a hero. …”
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"On the very brink of a precipice": Landscapes of the Mind in Wilkie Collins’s Basil (1852) by Laurence Τalairach-Vielmas

“…Pourtant, c’est sur les falaises de Cornouailles que l’intrigue mène finalement le lecteur, alors que le héros regarde chuter le "villain" gothique qui le poursuit. C’est à partir des échos entre le roman de Collins et Frankenstein de Mary Shelley que cet article mettra en lumière l’importance de l’espace déchiré de la fin du roman où les falaises et les gouffres servent à Collins à métaphoriser l’esprit tourmenté de son protagoniste, réécrivant ainsi les clichés romantiques du promeneur solitaire…”
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Pirates and Gallows at Execution Dock : Nautical Justice in Early Modern England by Samantha Frénée

“…We also find huge divergences between historical truth and the literary representations of pirates. Villain or hero the pirate of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries was both adroit and ambiguous.…”
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Herkules Poirot i marny kryminał. Na marginesie powieści Agathy Christie „Morderstwo w Orient Expressie” (1934) by Anna Gemra

“…In Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie reached for many solutions well known to readers from ‘poor crime stories,’ such as the appearance of the murderer, basing the investigation on hunches instead of deduction, introducing more than one villain, etc. She invited readers to a game, the stakes of which were solving a seemingly completely formulaic, but in fact extremely sophisticated murder mystery.…”
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« You don’t suspect me of doing anything wrong, do you ? » Peurs, soupçons et paranoïa dans The Woman in White de Wilkie Collins by Laurence Taleirach-Vielmas

“…The discovery of Sir Percival Glyde’s real identity or the recovery of Laura Fairlie’s identity fade behind the mysteries revolving around Collins’s modern villain, Count Fosco and many other Italian spies who endanger the British nation. …”
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