A123 expects this to lower cost, reduce weight and improve reliability, providing automakers with a cost-effective solution that A123 believes will increases efficiency and minimize system complexity without sacrificing vehicle performance, battery life or driving range.
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The second alarming point is that when the complexity of a system reaches its corresponding critical threshold (critical complexity) the system in question becomes very fragile and therefore vulnerable.
That means that taxpayers would be free to choose to file their taxes under the current system with all of its complexity, or the new reformed alternative system, where their taxes could be filed on a postcard, saving hundreds of billions in unnecessary costs each year.
This means that the critical complexity (blue curve), which measures how much complexity a system can sustain without imploding, increases.
Experts say flat tax models, such as the plan put forward by Mr Perry, are usually favoured by those hoping to increase efficiency and fairness in the system, while reducing complexity.
But my point is that we have a system that not only redefines complexity, but also defies understanding.
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In fact, the situation seems worse today than ever before, both because of the growing complexity of the system and electronic filing.
If it were combined with an assault on other tax reliefs, then it would simplify a tax system that is groaning with complexity.
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So, part of what has to be done is to reduce the complexity of the system so that our definitions of patents can be clearer.
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They are concerned about the cost and the complexity of the system, and they should be concerned because that is still going to be a problem.
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And if you add complexity to the system prematurely just to optimize something, you may not be able to keep the system running optimally over time.
This is handy for deterring forgers, but it raises the price and complexity of the system well above anything that exists, or is being contemplated, elsewhere in Europe.
The complexity of this system is a bit daunting.
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They included "the complexity of the system, lack of knowledge of entitlement, a perception of being stigmatised by the receipt of benefit and physical or other difficulties in the processes of claiming".
And, although the stability of the financial system is not to be taken lightly, it would be odd to pick on buy-outs as the chief systemic risk, instead of looking at the complexity of the system as a whole.
The white paper is expected to remove complexity from the system and to make millions better off in retirement - the idea is to provide a flat pension payout that "everyone can build towards", according to BBC business correspondent Philip Hampsheir.
We will need to figure out how to keep the large and diverse set of participants engaged, how to share the risks and value of innovation, how to manage complexity of this system without laying out too many constraints, and how to manage flow of information and activity across the boundaries where the degree of trust is yet to be established.
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All of the complexity in our tax system, in turn, may actually facilitate unscrupulous behavior that preys upon taxpayers.
Unlike a fine wine, the tax code has not aged well, and the current system has reached staggering levels of complexity.
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But it does little to reduce the system's staggering and increasing complexity.
The complexity of our current system demands better communications across agencies and a holistic approach to the challenges and needs facing our public lands.
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The contrived complexity of the SSDI system has spawned a cottage industry of doctors and specialized legal teams to navigate the byzantine multi-tiered documentation process.
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Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he had concerns about the complexity of the voting system when he was Scottish secretary.
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Yet the real disadvantage of complexity in the international system is that it often makes it impossible for decision-makers to comprehend the challenges they face and to deal with them effectively.
These include the fact that policing is "inextricably linked" with the criminal justice system, and the cost and complexity of separating out national structures and arrangements and the management of national threats.
He reflects, with evident exasperation, at the complexity of a tax system over which he used to have considerable influence, warning that the power of vested interests and of the status quo tend to bear down on wannabe reformers.
Vittorio Giulini, chairman of Moda Industria, the Italian clothing and knitting industries' association, says that the technological complexity of the industrial system that connects the spinner to the catwalk, and the historical memory it embodies, are two of the four pillars holding up Italian fashion.
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He says the health care system's biggest problems are its complexity and that not everyone is covered.
But most carriers have not instituted automatic traffic offloads between their networks and Wi-Fi due to the complexity of building such a system.
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