BACKGROUND There is increasing concern about the time young people spend in sedentary behaviour ('sitting time'), especially with the development of attractive home-based electronic entertainment. This may have deleterious health effects. PURPOSE To ascertain, through a meta-analytic review, whether interventions targeted at reducing sedentary behaviours in young people are successful. METH...

The process of translating research into policy has gained considerable attention in recent years and a number of studies have investigated the nexus between the two 'worlds' of research and policy. One issue that has been little addressed is about the boundaries between research and advocacy: how far scientists do, or should, promote particular findings to policy makers and others. This articl...

Framing research seeks to understand the forces that shape human behaviour in the policy process. It assumes that policy is a social construct and can be cast in a variety of ways to imply multiple legitimate value considerations. Frames provide the cognitive means of making sense of the social world, but discordance among them forms the basis of policy contestation. Framing, as both theory and...

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The objective of the study was to describe effect six types mathematical connections (representation connections, structural procedural implication generalization and hierarchy connections) on abstract algebraic materials through four stages, i.e., abstraction, analogy-abstraction, construction-analogy, construction. employed qualitative descriptive approaches, including tests, questionnaires, ...