The germane issue for improvement practitioners, therefore, is not whether they use theory but whether they make explicit the particular theory or theories, informal and formal, they actually use.
But the germane issue for improvement practitioners at this point remains not so much whether they use theory they always do, even when they are not aware of it but whether they make explicit and well-founded the theory or theories they actually use.
For both sides, the uproar created by events like the flotilla operation tend to cloud the more germane issues.
Condition-based maintenance strategy has recorded progressive report in recent times characterised by models and simulation addressing failure prediction problems; however, germane issues are still not fully integrated to make this technology result-oriented.
These three examples reveal that the direct influence of military activities on conservation issues are not straightforward, and the interplay between political realities, societal needs, and the roles of indigenous peoples are germane issues for research.
"These are not new issues, and that to me is not a germane argument," he said.
A bit later, he returned to the risk factor, bringing up a germane historical parallel.
Then a germane mathematical programming model is developed for solving this problem.
"It's quite a germane question, this whole concept of God as an alien.
The commission produced a report "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform", which focused national attention on education as a national issue germane to the federal government.
