Also, the flexible consumption of services developed by others requires good understanding of service levels by consumers.

同样，要想灵活地消费别人开发的服务就要求消费者能很好地理解服务水平。

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Understanding and monitoring the size-to-status relationship of food options within an assortment is an important tool at the disposal of policy makers to effectively fight against over-consumption.

了解了这种选择食品的型号—地位相关关系，有助于决策者采取有效的措施打击过度消费。

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Richins writes that understanding what drives consumption might help people better manage their finances and purchases.

Richins提出，了解趋使消费的原因就有可能帮助人们更好的管理他们的资金和购买的产品。

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So why is it that average consumers are now required to choose a data plan, deciding exactly how much data they will use per month, when understanding data consumption is near impossible for most people?

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Yet, many organizations have a poor understanding of their energy consumption and how to reduce it.

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In order to participate as a virtual power plant, you have to have a clear understanding of your data center power consumption, your forecast, and your flexibility for reducing (and increasing) power consumption with different application load.

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