Based on our TLU research with the McMurray Métis community, the authors describe how TLU studies can undervalue Indigenous geographic knowledge by deemphasizing cultural landscapes, compromising land use locations, and reducing understanding of impacts to site-specific analyses.
As Butow and Lobb (2004) noted, passive listening reduces understanding and especially where substantial amounts of new information are presented, a more interactive discussion might increase counselees' understanding and recall.
However, there are concerns that these new methods of teaching may reduce students' understanding of medical procedures.
This isn't to suggest we now have perfect environmental policy, nor that we should reduce our understanding of the environment to purely financial terms, rather that the use of economics has helped decision-makers understand the costs and benefits of any given policy in a clearer way.
But we shouldn't reduce our understanding of "their lives after graduation" to their very first job -- which should be the worst job they'll ever have.
Parents of lower SES may have less education which could reduce their understanding of the information about AEFI given to them by physicians.
The aim of this study is to compare the effects of presenting cardiovascular risk in different formats on individuals' intention to change behaviour to reduce risk, understanding of risk information and emotional affect.
The overall aim of this trial is to compare the effects of different graphical cardiovascular risk presentation formats on individuals' intention to reduce risk, understanding of risk information, emotional affect and worry about future heart disease, using a web-based risk calculator.
This development, intended to assist in public expenditure control by providing simple-to-understand criteria, has, according to some critics, reduced public understanding of the public expenditure process and therefore the accountability of government for its actions.
It creates a system of parroting that reduces kids' understanding of text — though it does create bumps in test scores.
