Key to creating a successful hybrid will be whether Japan's leaders allow certain parts of the system to be unmanaged -- whether they fully understand that detailed planning and close interfirm cooperation have limitations when exploring the technological frontier, especially in software and biotechnology.
In drawing its findings on the question, commission spoke to voters across Scotland to see whether they could easily understand and answer the question and took advice from "plain language" experts, politicians, academics and others.
Following an agreement with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Santander has agreed to write to 270, 000 customers to explain more clearly what occurred in December 2008, and to help them understand whether they were affected.
Goodfellow and his ICRF colleagues figured that if they could understand what decided whether a person grew male or female sexual organs--the most fundamental of developmental decisions--they might better understand the erroneous decisions made by cells at the start of cancer.
They want to understand what makes such compounds refractory and whether they can be made more or less so.
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This has caused some industry experts to question whether investors and executives really understand what they're getting into.
The sheer size (hundreds or even thousands of pages) of some of the legislation that has been enacted in recent years calls into question whether members of Congress even understand what they are voting for.
And this prevents them from having clear visibility into their supply base, which makes it difficult to understand whether suppliers have the goods they need and whether they can be shipped on time.
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If the United States government has any real concerns of this nature about Huawei we would like to clearly understand those concerns, and whether they relate to the past or future development of our company.
Understand the details and whether or not they work for you.
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Jeffrey Molitor, Vanguard's overseer of outside managers, says he and his staff spend a lot of time talking to potential managers to understand how they make decisions and whether they have an approach that's likely to let them beat the market.
Sometimes we try to understand humans without making a value judgment of whether they are right or wrong.
For one thing, once prospective traders understand the workings of options, they can better decide whether trading is for them, Sebastian said.
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In contrast, for someone using affordable loss reasoning, the idea of getting underway is far more important than having a fixed goal, because they understand they have no idea of knowing ahead of time whether their idea will truly work as imagined.
Among other things, it makes you wonder yet again whether bank CEOs really understand how the markets interact with the financial instruments that they have created.
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Hulme argues that when companies innovate, they need to understand the interactions among the value network participants to figure out whether the innovation will work.
Making a grounded assessment requires us to understand who is making the promise, what action they are promising, and whether they are sincere and competent to fulfill their promise.
There are reassuring signs that the SOPA battle has some resonance for Internet users, who now understand the breadth of threats to the Internet and are willing to fight them whether they come in the form of international regulation of the Internet through the UN or trade pacts like the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
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The key is not to ignore your emotions, but to understand the role they play and account for possible bias when you are figuring out whether to buy, sell or hold.
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They understand that just as we invest in maintaining our critical human-built infrastructure, whether roads, bridges, power plants, or orbiting satellites, so too must we be vigilant in safeguarding natural infrastructure to avoid crippling costs down the road.
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