In this paper, we have not reviewed this and other methods in detail since at an earlier stage we found that Intervention Mapping's strong emphasis on intervention development in general, and goal setting and explication of target groups in particular, suited the complex background of the health problem well.
It is uncontroversial that different fields of basic research are often lacking, and would benefit from, an explication of background assumptions behind common concepts.
The story, combined with a critical explication of its background and intent, produces the contestations illustrating the relationships between physics, the cultures in science and technology, as well as politics extending over the internal and external values of the scientific enterprise.
Sullivan is brilliant at presenting convincing near-future scenarios peopled by heart-breakingly real characters – Roksana and Xavier are made to suffer terribly throughout the narrative – and leaves the explication of the technology in the background while concentrating on the human consequences of its malfunction.
Generalized truth values have a strong intuitive background, especially as a tool for the rational explication of incomplete and inconsistent information states.
Our contention is that the time is ripe for an explication and analysis of the active biological background assumptions in the field of risk assessment of GM plants.
Although Richard Ward tells us that More vowed to write this book during a "dangerous fit of Sickness, if it should please God to recover him from it" (Ward 2000, 335), there is every reason to suppose that, after the Immortality, More felt he had said enough about the philosophical background to his beliefs, and fully intended to turn to an explication of his faith.
Lindqvist passes over Oskar's family background — which is to say, his psychology — just as rapidly, as if afraid that too much explication would undermine his interest in depicting the uncanny, which interests Oskar as well.
At the very least, accounts of attempts to quit — by the women smokers and by Sartre himself — may be best understood against the background of literary sources in which the sense of 'being' as a smoker is given its fullest explication.
I won't spoil the many levels of pleasure that await its readers — the historical background, the discerning description of Mann's visual styles (that plural is, as Paul shows, very important), and the voluptuously philosophical explication of the director's ideas — and good, big ideas they are.
