Section 702, passed in 2008, permits the US government to collect large amounts of Americans' international communications, provided that no "US person" within the country is an explicit target of the surveillance dragnet.
Substance abuse is not an explicit target of this programme, but is considered as one (minor) point within the scope of workplace health promotion and primary prevention activities within the "setting approach", e.g., measures in schools to improve life-skills [ 32].
Thus, the application of systems pharmacology to herbal medicine affords new possibilities for investigating the explicit targets of medicinal herbs' active ingredients and their interactions in the context of molecular networks [4 7].
1, 2 The strategic goals of the Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) Initiative include the explicit target of "Improving the Health of our Communities and the Nation".
A policy of raising interest rates with the explicit target of bursting the bubble – for example, a commitment to raise rates until house prices fall, – would almost certainly accomplish its goal in fairly short order.
The Fed's explicit targeting of stock prices as a means to improve the labor market for the masses has backfired.
At the same time an explicit target of 10% would set a limit to the looseness, preventing people's expectations for inflation becoming permanently unhinged.
Race is less the explicit target of their anxiety (issues such as affirmative action and civil rights no longer dominate) than the primary (if not exclusive) prism through which their political consciousness is being filtered.
Explicit targeting of a specific point along the chain of events leading to death is useful in terms of data collection and analysis and may allow more useful discussions of new methods in terms of adequacy for purpose rather than absolute validity in relation to dubious gold standards (40, 49).
Mr. Dervis's remarks, made during a news conference about the agency's plans for the new year, underscored deep fears in the United Nations' senior ranks that the organization was increasingly becoming an explicit target of terrorist groups.
