Beyond that, she hoped to advance Hardy's suggestion that life at the water's edge may have facilitated the origins of humanity.
Because all the volunteers said they wanted their sex lives to be more satisfying, enrollment in the study "may have facilitated communication within couples," the researchers said.
E-mail may have facilitated protest by the Falun Gong, but protest does not equal democratization, especially when answered by crackdowns from a powerful government.
Indeed, Microsoft's inclusion of Internet Explorer in Windows may have facilitated Nagivator's distribution by providing a convenient means of downloading the program from the Internet.
The rating agencies may have facilitated the banks' actions by publishing their rating models on their corporate Web sites.
Justice Department officials said in recent interviews that they plan to broaden their corporate investigations to focus more intensely on the professional "gatekeepers" -- lawyers, accountants and others -- who may have facilitated frauds.
The foreign ministers of Poland, Germany and France were in Kiev at the height of the shooting, and may have facilitated a controlled collapse of Mr Yanukovych's rule.
Yet, there were also long periods of peace, and the stability provided by the empire and its network of roads and communications may have facilitated Christianity's growth.
In addition, the abundance of plant litter in these first forests may have facilitated the evolution of a diverse and abundant terrestrial arthropod fauna.
Historians suggest that the desert rains and vegetation encountered by the Spaniards may have facilitated their conquest of the Inca empire.
The lawyers and accountants may have facilitated those structures.
