According to a paper published in 2014 in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the more humanlike the car's alert features — name, voice, gender — the more people trust it to operate competently, as a human driver would.
Presumably she in fact judged that her particular surgeon would operate competently, but still had a critical and suspicious attitude to surgeons.
It is well known that the biological characteristics of these carcinomas are generally mild and the prognosis is excellent if operated on competently.
Technical problems in the past 12 months have raised serious concerns about Iran's capacity to competently operate the facility.
If leaders felt more valued for their contribution and were able to competently operate in their role, they would be much less defensive about relinquishing power and control.
Michael LeVine, senior Pacific counsel for the environmental advocacy group Oceana, said that government regulators were too lax in allowing the program to go forward without adequate assurances that Shell could operate safely and competently.
With its extensive experience in competently operating hospitals -- including those run by UC San Diego and UC Irvine, which function as public hospitals for San Diego and Orange counties -- the UC system should be able to provide the kind of quality care that King-Harbor patients deserve.
"We have confidence – both from the bid that they put together but also looking at the successful contracts they have operated in Australia, Canada and USA – that Maximus are able to deliver these assessments competently over the next three years," he told the House of Commons.
In medicine we've long operated under the mantra "doctor knows best". Physicians sleep comfortably at night knowing they have competently performed a surgery or drawn on their medical knowledge to make life-saving diagnostic and treatment decisions.
England was competently governed under Henry V. Problems of law and order were dealt with by reviving the use of the King's Bench as a traveling court; central and local administration operated smoothly.
"The recent ZTE incident made us see clearly that no matter how advanced our mobile payment is, without mobile devices, without microchips and operating systems, we can't compete competently," Pony Ma, chief executive of the Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings said last month at a science forum.
