In East Africa, as long ago as the 1930s, the excavations of the inshore islands and Kenyan shores of Lake Victoria by Louis Leakey and a number of colleagues began to illuminate knowledge of human and ape evolution.
Since then the group, with funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, has produced all manner of work that has deepened, widened and illuminated our knowledge of what's going on out there, a kind of living map that encompasses not only the tangible signposts of earth, rock, vegetation and wildlife, but also the interpenetrating elements of sunlight and water in all its myriad forms.
Plants in particular have illuminated our knowledge of mobile genetic elements, the role of gene-silencing in resistance and its application to genetic engineering, and conceptual aspects of demography and micro-evolution.
However, the strength of this study is that its findings are based on a nationally representative sample and they illuminate the knowledge gap about the health status of older persons in Uganda.
As our enquiry broadened, we identified those with particular roles who could further illuminate the knowledge acquisition behaviours of commissioners (e.g. chairs of the commissioning organisation, directors, public health consultants).
Although the findings of this study help illuminate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards influenza A/H1N1 infection in Italy, it is important to underline that the interpretation of the results should be assessed in the context of potential identified limitations in the study design and execution.
Salient to network dynamics, Routti (2003) illuminates: The knowledge-based economy can be characterized as fractal.
The framework also illuminated that assessments, the knowledge creation processes, need to be deeply intertwined with the decision making processes, the knowledge use, if they seriously attempt to achieve their purposes of influencing policy.
In the post-September 11 preoccupation with Afghanistan, and the Middle East, it is the book that has illuminated my lack of knowledge and begun to provide some facts and explanations for some of why we are where we are today.
But sadly, the bleak self-knowledge that illuminated the brilliant Marshall Mathers LP is conspicuous by its absence here, as time and again Eminem returns to the subject of the drug addiction into which he fell following the swift collapse of his remarriage to Kim and the murder of his best friend, rapper DeShaun "Proof" Holton, in 2006.
