For instance, Robert Cummins (1996), amongst others, argues that too little attention has been given to diagrammatic representations and that focus on a notion of "structural representation" more akin to diagrammatic representation can help to explicate the nature of representation itself.
According to Peters, defining public issues such as PI as "policy problems" helps to "explicate the relationships between problems and instrument choice" [ 15], and may thus lead to a "conscious selection of instruments, as opposed to their selection merely on the basis of custom, familiarity and institutional inertia" [ 15].
However, it is important to note that although vestiges are useful in explicating differences between evolution and development, they help to explain the synergistic interrelationship both processes share in determining organismal form.
While it is widely accepted that the 'molecular gaze' has transformed and reconfigured understandings of the body, semiotics helps us to explicate the nature of the differences between molecular screening technologies and older methods of visualising the internal body.
A reframing of these problems and challenges with the aid of a human factors systems approach to quality and safety in healthcare [ 12, 28] helps to categorise and explicate these issues as patient safety concerns.
To the extent that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the covenant overlap, however, the latter is understood to explicate and help interpret the former.
To help explicate incommensurability in terms of taxonomic classification, Kuhn developed the no-overlap principle.
Through their work, IE researchers are helping to redefine the problems, rethink the questions and design and conduct studies that explicate how things actually work in practice [ 9].
I checked at the end of each interview what the effect of the process had been, to make sure I had helped them explicate their own thinking, and not imposed my own.
