The novelist Yun Hŭnggil is another example of a writer who cultivated fiction as an instrument of understanding himself and others.
Just as there is no scientific unit with which to measure human pain, since suffering is subjective, there is equally none to measure genuine contentment, and there can be few blunter instruments for understanding the complexity of emotions than government surveys.
This expression atlas can be an important instrument for understanding the evolution of miRNA regulation, e.g. conserved expression patterns among mammalian species, but also species-specific expression patterns.
For this initial stage of CRUs' and CROs' existence, the instrument of Memorandums of Understanding signed directly between the Regional Councils and UNICEF have been used.
Language is equally an instrument of understanding and knowledge; the specialized languages of mathematics and science, for example, enable human beings to construct theories and to make predictions about matters they would otherwise be completely unable to grasp.
Failure of understanding.
Past research has indicated that the most significant impediment to the use of crop insurance is the complexity of the instruments and lack of understanding on the part of farm operators (Coble et al. 2013).
On the other hand, poor community involvement in the design of survey instruments (77), lack of understanding of the communities' knowledge of health issues, lack of bidirectional translation and implementation (76, 77), and failure of advisory councils to adequately motivate study participants and CHWs (76, 77) were the key factors responsible for poor study outcomes.
The Geoscience Concept Inventory is a multiple choice assessment instrument of geoscience understanding, which has been validated and is unbiased relative to demographic variables (Libarkin & Anderson, 2006, 2007).
Document summarization provides an instrument for faster understanding the collection of text documents and has a number of real life applications.
Our findings will support interpretation of psychometric testing results for the translated instruments (currently underway), contributing to understanding the instrument scores of any further studies using the German versions.
