CHILDREN’S HEALTH: School Siting: EPA Says Location Matters

Children’s Health: School Siting Poses Particulate Problem

Understanding the Importance of Context: A Qualitative Study of a Location-Based Exergame to Enhance School Childrens Physical Activity

Many public health interventions are less effective than expected in 'real life settings', yet little work is undertaken to understand the reasons why. The effectiveness of complex public health interventions can often be traced back to a robust programme theory (how and why an intervention brings about a change in outcome(s)) and assumptions that are made about the context in which it is imple...

For Gene Activation, Location Matters

Examination of Legal Matters Covered in Elementary School Textbooks

Theoretically speaking, among topics that need to be covered throughout the elementary school years, legal ones loom large. In order to determine the extent to which this coverage is actually present in elementary school textbooks, a set of 17 such books from among 51 in total, deemed appropriate for such matters to be covered in, was selected and content analyzed utilizing concepts related to ...

Location matters: why target location impacts performance in orientation tasks.

This research explores human performance in a spatial orientation task. In three experiments, participants saw a target highlighted in a visual scene and were asked to locate it on a map of the space. Across all of the experiments, the target's location in the visual scene influenced the participants' response times. Generally, response times increased when the target was located farther away f...