Whilst the psychosocial and biobehavioural factors of khat use need to be developed and expanded to understand its influences, the concern is mainly related to the indirect impact of khat use on the uptake of tobacco.
"The environmental movement has expanded to understand that people are at the center of these issues," Mr. Pattison says.
The health belief model (HBM) as explained by Nutbeam and Harris (17) is a model that was originally designed to understand the choice to participate in immunization or cancer screening programs but was later expanded to understand long-term behavioral change.
While this decade has seen large advantages in understanding voices Silicon Valley knows (mainly, American male), databases are only now being expanded to understand a wider variety of spoken language.
Scientists in the program will expand efforts to understand the facilities where carbon dioxide emissions are "captured" from fossil fuels used in electricity, hydrogen and synthetic fuel production.
The study is one of the latest entries in an expanding effort to understand the human disposition toward environmental issues, an area of inquiry that has gained new urgency among scientists, politicians and environmental advocates as popular agreement on the gravity of that über-environmental issue, climate change, continues to wane.
Incorporation of new models, assays and biomarkers has expanded our ability to understand the mechanisms of action underlying microbicide toxicity and efficacy, enabling a more rational selection of drug and formulation candidates.
Advances in human neuroimaging have expanded our ability to understand the functioning of the brain, with particular recent advances fostering our analytic capacity to examine networks between the brain's nerve cells (i.e., neurons) and neuroconnectivity (i.e., neural networks).
As their applications to science and technology expand, the need to understand the putative noxious effects of ENPs on humans and ecosystems is becoming increasingly important.
When she joined the Sabeti lab in 2011, the research team was expanding its efforts to understand the virus that causes Lassa fever.
