The mutually reinforcing influences made possible through partnerships could significantly assist an agency such as WHO, which has limited resources of its own, and whose political influence is centred on Health Ministries.
The subtle reinforcing influences of DNA sequence could serve to stabilize an otherwise dynamic epigenetic replication process and allow centromeres to be maintained with a stability that nearly mimics a purely genetic form of inheritance.
The Spouse Response Inventory (SRI) follows the operant behavioural model of chronic pain first introduced by Fordyce. 1 Fordyce suggested that pain behaviour (defined as all forms of behaviour indicating that a person is in pain, such as grimacing, groaning, limping, guarding, etc), as a strongly disabling behaviour, can come under control of reinforcing influences of the environment.
Predisposing factors provide the motivation to act in some way, enabling factors are those that make it possible to carry out the action and reinforcing factors influence the likelihood that one will perform the behaviour in the future based on positive or negative feedback.
Parents are the main source of children's health care information [ 14]; therefore parents can play an important role in reinforcing positive influences and filtering out negative influences on their children [ 12].
Ottoman Turkish craftsmen sent to Aceh in the 16th century left a legacy of jewelry-making techniques, reinforcing Islamic influences.
Starting in 1962, the Saudi royal family viewed Yemenis' democratic aspirations with alarm and began paying hefty stipends to tribal sheiks throughout the country to reinforce its influence.
The Crusades transmitted motifs of Saracenic art (such as pairs of confronting stylized animals), further reinforced Byzantine influence in Europe, and initiated heraldic embroidery.
French children also are tracked into different academic paths by age 12, a practice that reinforces the influence of parental socioeconomic status on educational and career outcomes, reducing social mobility.
As if to reinforce the influence of administration hard-liners, one of their camp's members, John R. Bolton, the under secretary of state for arms control, delivered a stern denunciation of Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, in a speech today in Seoul, South Korea.
