Sentences with phrase «in absorbing the knowledge»

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GetAbstract is a leading online media company, with a mission to find, expertly compress and provide universal access to critical business knowledge, in a format that can be quickly and easily absorbed, allowing subscribers to stay current, competitive and to become leaders who can make better decisions.

When it absorbed, as in Augustine, the Socratic passion for knowledge, it was able to achieve a language and a quality of self - knowledge inaccessible within Socratic existence itself.

This new and developing form of human consciousness is still far from universal, but the world that we each create in our heads1 (our mental picture of reality) is now being constructed rather differently, by absorbing innumerable bits of knowledge and information from all over the world, not just from our own small locality.

Its unity and catholicity were sorely tested, but Christendom was able to contain these threats, absorb new ideas and knowledge (such as Aristotelianism in the twelfth century) and cater for the whole range of human emotions and intellectual levels.

Born and raised in Venezuela, Lorena grew up with a great passion for cooking and through years of travel, she has absorbed influences from many countries around the world expanding her knowledge of flavors and cultures.

But for a pitcher, experience doesn't mean just sticking around in the big leagues for a few years and hoping you'll absorb enough knowledge merely by being there.

As for Ammaccapane, she was considered self - absorbed because she refused to make room in her world for things like tact and because she lacked a working knowledge of the rules of golf.

If everyone was in on that pact, Sunday would have been a disappointment, the stadium would have roared the team on in a way that encourages them and makes things a bit less tense for the players; afterwards we would all have absorbed the blow of that poor performance and defeat and consoled ourselves with the knowledge the season is long.

Prior to studying for and taking the exam, I was passionate about supporting mothers but there were holes in my knowledge; I had absorbed many skills, but I still came across cases where I was stumped, and so was everybody else.

So we need to find ways that will benefit the low - and middle - income group [s], who may not have access to knowledge or have the education to absorb it in the same way.

«There's a balance between the importance of making sure our children go to school every day and absorb the knowledge they need and the safety and security of those children,» she said, speaking at a CDC press conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

It enhances our knowledge about what we are absorbing in our workplaces and in childcare facilities.

Only when we have high - quality basic research in various fields and can work at the cutting edge of knowledge will we have the capacity to absorb frontier technologies and adapt them for our use.

If you find yourself doubting your time spent on pastimes, such as, in my case yoga and writing, take the time to answer the question «Why am I doing this»... For me, today, I am more solid in the knowledge that this is where I need to spend my time — it is not self - absorbed, it is self - giving and in turn self - receiving... The more you give the more you get.

An inspiring teacher will guide students to absorb knowledge and the techniques of yoga in a way that keeps the questioning mind of the students active.

I did my best to ask a lot of questions in all my roles to absorb as much knowledge as possible from people that had experience.

Going by the earlier definition of what it means to be a geek, it's fair to make the assumption you will absorb a good deal of information via osmosis as you paddle around in the fountain of juicy knowledge that is your other half.

Hi, this is Gerardo Valero and today I'd like to talk to you about «Changing Lanes» in which Ben Affleck plays the typical bright but self - absorbed, school - smart Yuppie who gets to marry the boss» daughter but his knowledge of the ways of the world are rather limited, specially since he's mastered the art of lying to himself all his life.

When Diane Kruger started to research her role in director Fatih Akin's «In The Fade,» a German - language film in which Kruger plays a grief - stricken woman whose husband and young son are murdered by two neo-Nazi terrorists, she reached out to several support groups in her adopted hometown of New York City, thinking she could quickly absorb some of the painful knowledge of those who'd lost loved ones to violent actin director Fatih Akin's «In The Fade,» a German - language film in which Kruger plays a grief - stricken woman whose husband and young son are murdered by two neo-Nazi terrorists, she reached out to several support groups in her adopted hometown of New York City, thinking she could quickly absorb some of the painful knowledge of those who'd lost loved ones to violent actIn The Fade,» a German - language film in which Kruger plays a grief - stricken woman whose husband and young son are murdered by two neo-Nazi terrorists, she reached out to several support groups in her adopted hometown of New York City, thinking she could quickly absorb some of the painful knowledge of those who'd lost loved ones to violent actin which Kruger plays a grief - stricken woman whose husband and young son are murdered by two neo-Nazi terrorists, she reached out to several support groups in her adopted hometown of New York City, thinking she could quickly absorb some of the painful knowledge of those who'd lost loved ones to violent actin her adopted hometown of New York City, thinking she could quickly absorb some of the painful knowledge of those who'd lost loved ones to violent acts.

Professors stand in front of classrooms and give lectures, sometimes to hundreds or even thousands of students, who are expected to absorb it all and then apply their knowledge to writing papers and taking tests.

Thanks to the growing popularity of mobile devices in recent years, more and more learners are now turning to their tablets and smartphones to develop their skill sets and absorb invaluable knowledge on a daily basis.

Instead of having to sit through a lengthy half - hour online training course, online learners can simply click on the online modules they need and absorb the knowledge in a fraction of the time.

The beginning of implementation marks the first time the target audience interacts with your course in earnest, the moment of truth, in which the knowledge contained in the course's materials is absorbed by the learners.

Because students in schools are absorbing and applying knowledge to pass a test.

Philosophically speaking, 30 or 40 odd hours in a year is too little time to absorb the ocean of knowledge generated in 8760 hours by your peers in your own profession across the globe.

Learners can absorb articles, videos, interactive scenarios, and demonstrations on their own, then arrive with the knowledge they need for in - person activities.

A learner's background knowledge is a key ingredient in her ability to learn and absorb information from what she is reading and consuming.

Gareth Jenkins, the charity's director of UK poverty, said: «Toddler's brains are like sponges, absorbing knowledge and making new connections faster than any other time in life.

A student in Durham using an iPad to Google her way to Wikipedia to find a description of the Harlem Renaissance is learning no more than did a student twenty - five years ago who used an encyclopedia to find the same information (though, the fact that it's now easy to cut - and - paste rather than hand - copy the information can make it even easier for a student to avoid absorbing new knowledge).

As such, we are all lifelong learners that have the ability to absorb and retain knowledge every day of our lives, even if we aren't enrolled in school or participating in training activities on - the - job.

Ultimately, the key to ensuring good learning retention is to exploit the way in which the adult brain absorbs and holds on to information: Keep learning objectives clear, keep learning sessions short, make an explicit link between what is being learned and real - life context, and finally, get trainees to put that knowledge to use as soon as possible.

In response to the previous comment, I would venture that a classroom full of students who are required to passively absorb information in a vacuum would be much more likely to descend into «sheer chaos» than a classroom full of actively engaged students who are applying their knowledge to real - world situationIn response to the previous comment, I would venture that a classroom full of students who are required to passively absorb information in a vacuum would be much more likely to descend into «sheer chaos» than a classroom full of actively engaged students who are applying their knowledge to real - world situationin a vacuum would be much more likely to descend into «sheer chaos» than a classroom full of actively engaged students who are applying their knowledge to real - world situations.

So, sorry Nick Gibb, but simply forcing pupils to absorb knowledge will not do — they need opportunities to embed and consolidate what they have been taught — to refashion what they know, testing facts and theories out in a wide range of activities, for a variety of purposes.

If your learners are lacking in product knowledge, for example, you need to find the most effective way of giving them that knowledge so that it is absorbed and retained.

As Christopher Pappas notes, with bite - sized learning, learners have the «ability to absorb and assimilate each topic before progressing to the next» (read the full article here: 8 Tips to Improve Knowledge Transfer in eLearning).

«Italian - born author Elsa Hart lived in China for a time, absorbing knowledge of its history, customs and manners, and in her exceptional debut mystery, Jade Dragon Mountain, she evokes its essence for readers in often dreamlike, mesmerizing prose.

Since I saw him often reading it, I also sneaked around and read it, too, absorbing Service's colorful language, his deep knowledge of the adventurous men and women of the North, and his masterful ability to tell a good story in rhyme.

He imparts his knowledge and experience in a way that makes it very easy to absorb.

There is no doubt that her wide - ranging travels influenced her but so did household items in her kitchen and detritus from the studio and foundry which she then absorbed into her broad knowledge of all art history.

Then, IMO, they'd have the knowledge to absorb «climate change science» without being overly frightened or depressed by hyperbole and exaggerations they may be exposed to in the future.

This knowledge is not new; the same year as Charles Darwin published «The Origin of Species», John Tyndall, an Irish scientist, published a paper in 1859 describing how he measured the absorption of infrared radiation in his laboratory, finding that CO2 and water vapour absorbed the radiation, whereas nitrogen and oxygen, the main gases in the atmosphere, do not.

Any useful summary of knowledge on the causes and consequences of climate change and possible responses would have to include a hard look at the substantial (and sobering) body of work on what shapes human behavior: how people absorb or ignore scientific information — including the climate panel's own reports — and what roadblocks in human behavior await the menu of possible policy options for limiting climate - related risks.

This a decades ling conundrum of communicating AGW / CC knowledge in way that is consistent and in a way that can be absorbed in a nuanced and understandable cognitively consistent way by people that makes clear sense to them and builds a know - how about the consequences of AGW / CC that will lead to a change in personal behavior, especially when Voting....

Scientists generally absorb this background knowledge through a kind of osmosis in graduate school.

Human knowledge is accelerating in an exponential fashion, and between the ability to change the carbon dioxide absorbing capabilities of plants or insects or the ability to reflect sunlight back into space, reducing warming should be a trivial task in a 50 - 100 year time frame, if warming becomes a problem.

QUOTE: «As shown on figure 17 - D the regions for absorption and out - gassing are separate; there is no «global» equilibrium between the atmosphere and the ocean; carbon absorbed tens of years ago at high latitudes is resurfacing in up - wellings; carbon absorbed by plants months to centuries ago is degassed by soils Sorry, there is a fundamental lack of knowledge of dynamic systems here: as long as the total of the CO2 influxes is the same as the total of the CO2 outfluxes, nothing happens in the atmosphere.

Solving those equations, as you can see in CO2 — Part Three, Four and Five — requires knowledge of the temperature profile as well as the concentration of the various gases that absorb longwave radiation.

That, in turn, requires knowledge about the rate at which they will break down and / or be absorbed.

I take measurements of the energy received by the surface, the energy absorbed by the surface, and resort to my extense knowledge of physics for calculating the energy implied in the real natural process.

The Bar Admission Course afterwards was then excellent at filling in the holes and providing the practical and theoretical knowledge that was taught now to students who had some real practical experience as lawyers and who because of that practical experience realised what they needed to know and absorbed it more readily.