The example of Turkey under premier-then-president Recep Tayyip Erdogan presents a potentially theory-busting specimen of a highly developed democracy going authoritarian.
And I can't help but wonder, in those sobering, potentially theory-altering moments, what will such people think?
A more theory-driven approach would have been to have identified a potentially useful theory at the outset and drafted an intervention as others have done [ 34] via multidisciplinary discussion.
By analyzing the Framingham data, Christakis and Fowler say, they have for the first time found some solid basis for a potentially powerful theory in epidemiology: that good behaviors — like quitting smoking or staying slender or being happy — pass from friend to friend almost as if they were contagious viruses.
The "best fit" method of framework synthesis offers a pragmatic means of conducting rapid qualitative evidence synthesis and generating models and, potentially, programme theories, and is of potential relevance both to researchers and policy-makers.
It is important to note here that while our intention was to provide a list of potentially relevant theories across different disciplines, it was not possible to categorise the theories according to disciplines.
Dr. Hicks said the new particles could potentially affect theories of the very early universe or even exist in the cores of some stars.
Research in the field of perinatal programming suffers from several drawbacks: some potentially premature theories that are presently being further developed and the need for extremely large and costly studies.
In these situations there is a need for an accessible source of potentially useful theories, as well as a method for selecting amongst them.
Additional potentially relevant theories were identified through expert consultation and web searching for key documents from organisations known for their interest in behaviour change.
This "best fit" approach to synthesis was therefore found to work well overall, particularly within the role previously identified as an existing strength, namely for testing existing potentially generalisable theories and models within a specific context.
