Secondly, TTF has been mainly used to explain the adoption of IT innovations by individuals [20], while Cooper and Zmud [16] suggest a link between TTF and adoption at the organizational level.
Andersen's model has been mainly used for explaining health care utilization patterns by the general population and suggests that use of health services is a function of predisposition to use services, factors that enable or impede use, and need for care, thus providing a way to conceptualize variations in utilization.
But that model has been mainly used for explaining the resemblance of gene expression signature [ 43, 44] or genetic alterations [ 45] between primary and "secondary" cancers under a predetermined assumption of "metastasis" [ 42, 45].
Drowning in cool water appears to have a favorable impact and can be mainly explained by the neuroprotective effects of rapid brain cooling (in our study a better neurological outcome was found in DCA patients) [8, 14, 15].
More generally, in a context of increase in incidence, De Angelis et al. [ 19] have shown that this increase may be mainly explained by a change in incidence.
20 In fact, the higher prevalence of twin births in women with BN was mainly explained by having received fertility treatment (the odds ratios for twin births became non-significant when adding fertility treatment as a covariate).
In this context it is worthy to note that although the underlying mechanism of glucose intolerance in cirrhosis has not been fully elucidated, it can be mainly explained by the insulin resistance [ 9], in addition to reduced glucose sensitivity in liver cirrhosis [ 18, 19].
(Epictetus, born 55 AD) Likely, the majority of rheumatologists have been trained in the belief that health outcomes are mainly explained by biomedical factors related to the disease.
Some studies of health differences between occupational groups have found that these differences between IBS cases and controls were mainly explained by differences in sex ratio [ 40].
