And even just understanding the atomic-scale defects in a material can suggest better ways of making it.
Just understanding the rules is a major challenge, possibly even greater than altering practices to comply with the rules.
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However, the key to getting regulation right is not just understanding why and how markets fail, but also focusing on when they tend to fail.
Martha had been supportive, not just understanding that Eva needed a hobby but getting it getting, without having to be told, the whole thing about the lighted church and the belfry and that magical resonance of the bells ringing out over the fields and the village green.
And learning is not just about understanding your field of work.
Just by understanding that psychology regarding colors, you can certainly improve your webpage design, come up with a memorable product, and expand your conversion process rate.
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Sadly, there's no word on pricing just yet, but hopefully we'll get a clearer understanding of just what this do-it-all device is about in a few days.
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Jobs' real insight, says Pitzer, was understanding just how willing his customers would be to forgive him.
Just again, understanding that health care inflation is not nearly rising at that level, though their profit looks quite nice.
This kind of due diligence is necessary for understanding just what you are buying when you invest in a mutual fund or an ETF.
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Kandel had the first clues, but the most dramatic proof in understanding just how much CREB influences memory came from Tim Tully and his Cold Spring colleague Jerry Yin.
But now we have a start on understanding just how much shale gas the world has to offer, and from here economic and environmental concerns will have to fight it out.
Now the discussions with the institutions, the discussions on Capitol Hill with the Congress, just looking for whatever solution we can, but understanding that we just can't wait for the market to adjust itself.
That was just the beginning of understanding of the role of gratitude and service in business.
It's just a matter of understanding the law and following suit.
"It's just a matter of understanding it, and maturing as a player and getting that necessary experience to use it at the right moments to cope, " he says.
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To succeed in those markets, they will need to become experts in fan behaviour, understanding not just how and why people buy music but how they weave it into their lives.
But I think it's very important for the United States to continually deepen its understanding of China, just as it's important for China to continually deepen its understanding of the United States.
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It's not just about a better understanding of communication over the ages, either, as the timeline of a language can also play a useful role in determining the order of pre-history events, such as the movement of populations over a continent.
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And not only do we not understand each other, we still think we're understanding one another just fine.
Even the process of creation is hugely important in developing a sophisticated understanding of not just what works, but why it works.
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Techonomy is so convinced of the significance of these changes that it is hosting a special event devoted just to discussing and better understanding it.
Most Americans have only the vaguest notion of who the Afghans are, just as they had little understanding of the Vietnamese, Somalis, Slavs and Iraqis who populated other recent battlefields where U.S. forces have fought.
The president, who is meeting with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan later this week, wants an "understanding that not just the United States faces security concerns, but each individual government has security concerns about extremists in the area, " Gibbs said.
Whilst research in more recent years has begun to move away from focusing on the successes or failures of a small number of generals, the diary has remained central to an understanding of not just the role played by Haig, but of the British Army, her generals and her allies.
We don't know if Apple plans to use its learning in any kind of shipping product, although it's undoubtedly been interested in the category before -- and its ambitions of having iPhone-optimized hearing aids could well get a lift from technology that promises real understanding, not just a boost in volume.
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The whole idea of implementing a marketing automation technology like Eloqua or Marketo is to be able to track the customer as they interact through any channel, to create a central brain that indicates at which stage of the buying process a customer may be at, and then to use that understanding to send just the right message.
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