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Ecological constraints on mammalian sleep architecture (2012)
Book Chapter
Preston, B., Nunn, C., McNamara, P., Barton, R., & Capellini, I. (2012). Ecological constraints on mammalian sleep architecture. Evolution of Sleep. Phylogenetic and functional perspectives (12389). Cambridge University Press

In this chapter, we review the evidence for how ecological factors, including predation risk and foraging requirements, might shape patterns of sleep among mammals. We also highlight the need for more research on the degree to which animals can exhib... Read More about Ecological constraints on mammalian sleep architecture.

Coalition cohesion (2012)
Book Chapter
Norton, P. (2012). Coalition cohesion. In T. Heppell, & D. Seawright (Eds.), Cameron and the Conservatives: The transition to coalition government (181-193). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230367487_13

Anthony King (1976) identified different modes of executive-legislative relations. In the United Kingdom, the most visible is the opposition mode, in which the party in government is pitted against the party or parties, in opposition. This mode, as K... Read More about Coalition cohesion.

Import, Export, and Multilateral Translation: Methodological Lessons from an Economic Analysis of Paternalism in Contract Law (2012)
Book Chapter
Cserne, P. (2012). Import, Export, and Multilateral Translation: Methodological Lessons from an Economic Analysis of Paternalism in Contract Law. In S. Kirste, A. van Aaken, M. Anderheiden, & P. Policastro (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Research in Jurisprudence and Constitutionalism (129 - 151). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag

In this paper I discuss the conceptual and methodological background of an economic approach to paternalism in contract law. This serves as a case study to the general theme of this collective volume: the role of inter- and multi-disciplinary researc... Read More about Import, Export, and Multilateral Translation: Methodological Lessons from an Economic Analysis of Paternalism in Contract Law.

Constitutional change and the tensions of liberal democracy (2012)
Book Chapter
Norton, P. (2012). Constitutional change and the tensions of liberal democracy. In J. Connelly, & J. Hayward (Eds.), The Withering of the Welfare State (71-85). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230349230_5

The past 50 years have witnessed significant changes in the constitutional arrangements of nations around the globe. Changes have been necessary in order to ensure a stable polity, achieving or maintaining some degree of balance between effectiveness... Read More about Constitutional change and the tensions of liberal democracy.

'Thatcher, 1975-9' (2012)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2012). 'Thatcher, 1975-9'. Leaders of the Opposition from Churchill to Cameron (97 - 108). Palgrave Macmillan

Democratisation (2012)
Book Chapter
Seoane, E., & Farrelly, M. (2012). Democratisation. The Oxford handbook of the history of English (392 - 401). Oxford University Press

The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: Negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia, 1990-2008 (2012)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2012). The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: Negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia, 1990-2008. In S. Fast, & K. Pegley (Eds.), Music, Politics, and Violence (60-82). Middleton, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press

© 2012 Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved. An essay by Dubravka Ugrešic tells the story of the singer "Neda U.," who "came from Sarajevo, and her songwriter, N., [who] came from Zagreb." Neda "became⋯ a Serb" during the war in Croatia whe... Read More about The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: Negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia, 1990-2008.

Content Net Neutrality – A Critique (2012)
Book Chapter
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2012). Content Net Neutrality – A Critique. In H. Demir (Ed.), Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Technology : Critical Reflections (151-167). Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4292-5_8

This Essay takes issue with two prevailing arguments. The first endorses content net neutrality while the second holds that the Internet is a public domain with the widest possible scope for freedom of expression. I argue that some value screening of... Read More about Content Net Neutrality – A Critique.

Presence pattern and the original body in networked encounters (2011)
Book Chapter
Chatzichristodoulou, M. (2011). Presence pattern and the original body in networked encounters. In J. Sunden, & R. Hughes (Eds.), Second nature: origins and originality in art, science, and new media (99-122). Stockholm: Axl Books

Governance in a globalised world (2011)
Book Chapter
Woodward, R. (2011). Governance in a globalised world. In J. Michie (Ed.), The Handbook of Globalisation (381-392). (2nd). Cheltenham, Glos.: Edward Elgar Publishing

Using the 3V model to explore virtuality, veracity and values in liminal spaces (2011)
Book Chapter
Burden, K., & Atkinson, S. (2011). Using the 3V model to explore virtuality, veracity and values in liminal spaces. In S. D'Agustino (Ed.), Adaption, resistance and access to instructional technologies: assessing future trends in education (199-215). The University of Hull. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-854-4

Adaptation and adoption of immature emergent technologies for instruction fails to account for the challenge to, and creation of, new concepts of self, identity and community both in real and virtual spaces. New insight is necessary to develop social... Read More about Using the 3V model to explore virtuality, veracity and values in liminal spaces.

Construção, validação e padronização da escala de qualidade de vida para portadores de distúrbios osteomusculares relacionados ao trabalho (EQV-DORT) (2011)
Book Chapter
Menezes, I., Carneiro Mussi, F., Kimura, M., Santana Freitas, K., Passos Gomes, A. C., Assis Lozado, J., …de Mendonça Filho, E. J. (2011). Construção, validação e padronização da escala de qualidade de vida para portadores de distúrbios osteomusculares relacionados ao trabalho (EQV-DORT). In Avaliação de tecnologias em saúde: seleção de estudos apoiados pelo Decit (45). Brazil: MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE

Multiple Developments in Counterfactual Thinking (2011)
Book Chapter
Beck, S. R., Riggs, K. J., & Burns, P. (2011). Multiple Developments in Counterfactual Thinking. In C. Hoerl, T. McCormack, & S. R. Beck (Eds.), Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology (110-122). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199590698.003.0006

Mapping the development of children's counterfactual thinking should allow insight in to this process in adults and its relation with causal understanding. We argue that there is not one critical development that should be thought of as marking child... Read More about Multiple Developments in Counterfactual Thinking.

Censorship (2011)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2011). Censorship. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (276 - 294). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566105.013.0016

This article discusses the control and regulation of playhouses during Shakespeare's career; The Book of Sir Thomas More; and Jacobean censorship. Elizabethan censorship in the decades preceding and coinciding with Shakespeare's early career evolved... Read More about Censorship.