However, obesity and its management is a complex issue and although the pilot study suggested the survey was easy to understand, respondent understanding of the obesity information was not tested in the main survey.
Although the impact of wildfires on ecosystem/cultural resources is more or less understood, our understanding of the complex set of biophysical and social factors that initiate such events is less well developed.
"They were just using that law to help us understand what the concepts meant to other countries, and to help us understand whether our understanding of our own constitutional rights fell into the mainstream of human thinking".
There is a difference between a failure to understand and an understanding of failure.
In addition, the rational actor would need to understand: her interactors' understanding of all the previous factors, the interpretation of her act by others, the reactions of other people and their motivation, and the useful categories she had already discovered in the social world.
A mathematical model is used in science for a two-fold purpose: first, to understand and convey understanding of observed phenomena, and second, to predict the state of a system given initial conditions [ 4].
While the result still seems to be quite complex, it does provide evidence that these complex systems can be understood from an understanding of their component parts.
Primitive logical notions must be completely understood, and our understanding of them must be direct in the sense that it doesn't depend on or involve an understanding of notions that must be classified as extra-logical.
The role that mtDNA deletions play in neuronal loss is not yet fully understood, so better understanding of how mtDNA deletions accumulate is an area of active research.
Migration, in turn, cannot be understood without some understanding of the underlying fundamental processes: cell adhesion (and de-adhesion), spreading, and contraction.
