Bodies in archival situations : editorial

Editorial: Personality and Situations

During the last few decades the personality domain has witnessed several major controversies, including the person±situation debate and the debates on accurate re ̄ection versus systematic distortion, on nomothetic versus idiographic approaches, on nature±nurture, etc. Within these controversies several sharp contrasts and pendulum movements have stood out. In particular, regarding the person±si...

Editorial: Information Technologies for Emergency and Crisis Situations Management

Editorial: Animal Genomes, Bodies and Tissue in Science and Society

The papers in this issue address the field of animal biotechnology and, particularly, animal genomics. Together they seek to understand the context and shaping of the science of animal genomics, reflect on connections between this science and the social position and cultural construction of animals and human-animal relationships, and explore current and future regulation and policy. Each paper ...

Editorial: Friction and Lubricants Related to Human Bodies

Biolubrication plays a crucial role in assisting the sliding contacts in many organs in the human body. Notable examples are the joints, the skin surface, the eye, the mouth and gastrointestinal tract, the lungs and the red blood cells. In all cases, reduced lubrication leads to increased friction and adhesion between the surfaces in contact, which may lead to the surfaces becoming stuck and da...

Editorial: Multitasking: Executive Functioning in Dual-Task and Task Switching Situations

Persons are often engaged in activities that combine multiple tasks (so called multitasking), even though this combination is typically accompanied by performance costs in the individual tasks in comparison to their performance as single tasks. Such performance costs suggest that performing multiple tasks brings the cognitive processing system to its limits. However, the observed limitations ca...