Accompanying the gradually deepening understanding of the deformation mechanisms and their relative importance, quantitative and mechanisms-based constitutive models that can realistically capture experimentally measured and grain-size-dependent stress strain behavior, strain-rate sensitivity and even ductility limit are becoming available.
More recent attempts have gradually increased understanding through the investigation of neuroglial interactions and spinal sensory nerves and the modulation of spinal pain transmission and brain-derived inhibitors in relation to refractory hyperalgesia and allodynia.
Over the last four decades, progress in understanding photosynthesis is gradually moving from a descriptive and physiological approach to a molecular one.
The initial focus on survey-based research and data analysis gradually transformed in the direction of understanding local governance, political analysis, marginalization, gender and empowerment.
Qualitative research among mental health decision makers indicates that research can also shape policy makers' understanding of policy issues gradually, indirectly, and unconsciously [ 40, 46].
For liberal Mormons, revelation is a process through which God gradually brings fallible human beings to greater understanding.
He watches as his father is transformed, gradually sensing the "mysterious forces" around him, finally understanding a profound enigma: "We are living in a world of riddles". .
After receiving the professional development program, they gradually become familiar with DI, as well as understanding how to design DI within the thematic integrated curriculum.
We must also acknowledge that while the "progressive fallacy" is a reasonable fear when it comes to charting humankind's collective wisdom as beneficially cumulative, it's not unreasonable to suppose that the species does gradually gain in understanding and self-understanding -- a very different question from what we do with that understanding.
With an increasing amount of satellite data being released to the public free of charge, understanding forest change dynamics in the tropics is gradually becoming a reality.
