Ambitious plans to raise the performance of public services through a new set of local government league tables could be jeopardised by a lack of "understanding" on the part of inspectors, one of the country's leading council chiefs warned today.
The building block approach is much more powerful, but demands a bit more thinking and understanding on the part of the developer.
A lack of proper understanding on the part of researchers about what the public understand by research and consent processes will only widen this gap, increasing the potential for malpractice in conducting research and intentional or unintentional exploitation of vulnerable subjects, especially in the developing world [ 3, 5, 6].
The absence of any serious impeachment process is informative, because it suggests a clear understanding, on the part of the founding generation and the one that followed, that truly egregious misconduct was required.
I believe, ultimately, this is due to a lack of understanding on the part of western countries.
But the 'egotistical' nature of academia is as much to blame as any lack of understanding on the part of the public.
"I am certain that a solution of the general problem of peace must rest on broad and basic understanding on the part of free peoples".
Getting such an international framework to apply to Crispr gene drives will require scientific understanding on the part of the whole population, and political will.
And keeping them, realtors say, especially those from big cities, requires a certain degree of patience and understanding on the part of longtime residents and newcomers alike.
