Meeting one-on-one with or serving as a peer tutor in mathematics, the natural sciences or a foreign language sharpens understanding for both the tutee and the tutor, and allows for a level of inquiry often shied away from in the classroom.
So it's back to the drawing board, this time with a sharpened understanding that social change, serious social change, profoundly serious social change is never a process that takes place overnight.
More recently, the 2009 H1N1 influenza epidemic, given the very severe forms of ARDS observed in young subjects, led to improvements in equipment (cannulae, pumps and membranes), sharpened understanding of protective ventilation modalities, and renewed interest in the use of ECMO.
Manning Marable, the director of African-American studies at Columbia University who is writing a biography of Malcolm X, said the documents would sharpen scholars' understanding of his intellectual evolution.
And then, as is always the way with Rosten – and Yiddish – he sharpens ones understanding illustratively: "A nebech is sometimes defined as the kind of person who always picks up what a shlemiel knocks over".
"It's really a tribute to this great telescope," he says, adding that Subaru's analysis could also sharpen astronomers' understanding of star formation.
We suggest that a more careful consideration of these areas sharpens understandings of the contributions, and limitations, of mitochondrial interventions as well as of their wider socio-ethical impacts.
The new outlook described in the strategic plan involves an increased emphasis and sharpened focus on understanding how environmental exposures affect human biology, and on applying that knowledge to reduce morbidity and mortality.
Therefore, the proposed heuristic may provide a useful tool, sharpening the understanding of integration policy effectiveness.
Block concludes that Searle's arguments fail, but he concedes that they "do succeed in sharpening our understanding of the nature of intentionality and its relation to computation and representation" (78).
It is my strong belief that if we, as an educational community, are to succeed in taking full advantage of our ever-evolving "21st century" tools, we first need to commit ourselves to sharpening our understanding and usage of some "20th century" (or older) educational staples, such as Bloom's taxonomy and objective setting.
