The absence of associations with natural geographical characteristics (e.g. rurality) and receipt of chemotherapy suggests that local treatment habits, capacity and policy are more influential.
Evidence that variation is greatest for NHS healthcare boundaries, rather than natural geographical entities, such as rurality, suggests that local treatment habits, capacity and policy may be more influential than natural geographical barriers to access.
At the same time, accessibility is also influenced by changes in the location of economic activities (such as changes brought about by new activities or the relocation of existing ones, or changes in the attractiveness of the destination), as well as the impacts of societal changes in habits, capacities or willingness to travel.
It is a form of " qualitative identity" that is specified by detailed, conceptual or substantial attributes: we describe somebody by the particular social roles, which he or she assumes or refuses to assume in his or her action orientation and life praxis, by the ideals and values that matter to him or her, by specific habits, capacities, skills, and biographical experiences [ 7].
Davis, in his memoirs, remarked that he chose Benjamin because he "had a very high reputation as a lawyer, and my acquaintance with him in the Senate had impressed me with the lucidity of his intellect, his systematic habits, and capacity for labor".
Only 21 behavioural intervention studies (15% of all studies; Supplemental Table 4) have incorporated habit in any capacity, and thirteen (62%) of these entered habit only as a potential covariate, mediator or moderator of effects on behaviour.
The drought-tolerance of grain amaranth has been attributed to the inherently stress-attenuating physiology of the C4 pathway, an indeterminate flowering habit and the capacity to grow long taproots and develop an extensive lateral root system in response to water shortage in the soil [ 20, 24, 25].
In Gretchen Rubin's book Better Than Before she argues that our habits have the capacity to lengthen or shorten our lives.
In a new book coming out in March, Better Than Before (Two Roads), Gretchen Rubin, author of a series of bestselling books on happiness, contends that our habits have the capacity to lengthen or shorten our lives.
Whatever the reason, there can be no doubt that the shift has important consequences for the epidemiology and control of LF, as the anopheline and culicine vector species differ in biology, biting habits and vectorial capacity.
We also measured body mass index, handgrip strength, normal walking speed, functional capacity, exercise habits, snow-shovelling habits, a change in frequency (between early winter and midwinter) of outdoor excursions, the length of outdoor excursions, social support, and morbidity.
