They are also a leading cause of antibiotic resistance, a problem highlighted by the World Health Organization as "a global crisis that we cannot ignore". Understanding how biofilms form could enable new strategies to disrupt them.
Now, however, the players are accusing U.S. Soccer of ignoring that understanding and of making scheduling decisions without fair consideration of the team's input and concerns.
About six pages into The Secret of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton (1951, p. 639) reveals both the moral and the cognitive damage from ignoring our understanding from within: "What do these men mean… when… they say criminology is a science?
"We ignore public understanding of science at our peril". Rolf F. Lehming, who directs the science foundation's surveys on understanding of science, calls him "absolutely authoritative". Dr. Miller's data reveal some yawning gaps in basic knowledge.
The Yankees believe Rodriguez not only violated the collective bargaining agreement by having Gross speak on his behalf but also ignored an understanding between him and the club that said he would not make declarations about being ready to play before the Yankees have done so.
One reason is language: according to Ilya Segalovich, Yandex's chief technology officer, Google "totally ignored language understanding" at first, though "they've now got quite efficient".
The broader message from this case is that practitioners on-the-ground often have knowledge gleaned from careful and systematic observation, and we ignore that understanding at our peril.
That was paramount". Her parents' work made her aware from an early age, she says, "that a lot of people lived with difficult things … and that was not something that should be hidden away, or ignored". This understanding deepened when her father died of cancer when she was eight.
To ignore this understanding and to allow anything less than full equality is neither compassionate nor just.
Scalia sometimes betrays his own principles -- ignoring the original understanding of the Constitution in voting rights cases, for example -- but he reminds us how important it is for judges to have principles to betray.
As it happens, it's not only some Democrats who view Scalia as a constitutional hypocrite: many prominent independent and Republican judges and scholars have also criticized him for ignoring the original understanding of the Constitution in the cases he cares most passionately about.
