The phrase "ability to understand complex" is not complete and lacks a noun to clarify what is complex.
You can use it when discussing someone's skills or competencies, but it needs to be part of a fuller expression.
Example: "Her ability to understand complex concepts in physics sets her apart from her peers."
Alternatives: "capacity to grasp intricate" or "skill in comprehending complicated".
Decision making requires the ability to understand complex medical information and its relevance to one's own situation, to reason with the information, to see things from different perspectives and to say yes or no in a consistent way.
Foreign-owned corporations in China often use Chinese graduates differently, putting more emphasis on long-term career development through a variety of assignments to build a trainee's ability to understand complex issues, work in teams and lead.
"We think we have an ability to understand complex tech challenges.
Although we have barely begun to explore this arena, it remains plausible that spatial analogies lie at the core of the human ability to understand complex relational phenomena.
So far, we have established that assigning the correct gender to nouns presents a major problem for many children in Germany, especially for those growing up with German as a second language, and that this may impact negatively on their ability to understand complex written texts.
The advantages of MFCs may allow widespread use of diagnostic procedures that are currently too expensive to implement (e.g., prescreening for cancer) while the new capabilities may dramatically improve our ability to understand complex diseases such as cancer (e.g., through single-cell analysis).
Interestingly, the minority students felt more confident in their abilities to understand complex topics in their majors (5.95), which was a similar but higher rating than the White students (5.85).
He doesn't have the ability yet to understand complex intricacies.
Belfiore recounts several low-impact crashes caused by the limited ability of current software to understand complex traffic situations.
When trying to understand complex signalling networks, success depends on the ability of the investigator to access the system in order to manipulate components and test hypotheses; for this, a simple experimental system is needed.
For most jobs, it provides basic intellectual skills: the ability to understand relatively complex instructions, to write and speak clearly and cogently, to evaluate options critically.
