Baseline knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) surveys were undertaken on 100 or 200 randomly chosen households in each commune to gain an understanding of the community knowledge about dengue disease, risk, and control options.
It is now clear that an understanding of the community structure, function and evolution of bacteria in their natural environments is required to meet the promise of microbial biotechnology.
This requires an understanding of the community connections between plants (i.e., primary producers) and the decomposers (e.g., fungi and bacteria), or the analysis of predator-prey dynamics affecting amphibian biomass.
This aimed to provide an understanding of the community's health problems and the range of potential factors affecting risk behaviours for the priority health problems.
Predicting future change in ecosystem functioning requires an understanding of the community impacts of both global environmental change and any associated remediation strategies.
Thus, it has been increasingly recognized that management may gain from an understanding of the community context of numerical changes (Root et al. 2003; Early and Thomas 2007).
Indeed, the preparation for policy change to strengthen food assistance programs or program delivery activities, or interventions to improve nutritional health of this growing population should include an understanding of the community - where people live and where they shop for food [ 82].
Molecular techniques, including profiling, identification and quantification of 16S rRNA and key functional genes, have provided an understanding of the microbial communities in relation to position and biogeochemical activity.
That world grows quickly, and within a few short years children are able to broaden their educational possibilities to include an understanding of the families and communities that construct their very sense of life on earth.
We distinguish 'threat' from 'risk', as the latter incorporates an understanding of the vulnerabilities of the communities, and probabilities associated with the hazard, which is beyond the scope of this paper.
