Whether or not IBM was aware of this questionable use of its licensed intellectual property is not known.

Whether a purchase is perceived as being a " friendly " one or a " hostile " depends significantly on how the proposed acquisition is communicated to and perceived by the target company's board of directors, employees and shareholders.

( Whether or not other employees ultimately get involved in your transaction is irrelevant, because it is expected that ideally she is the only person required to complete your business.

Whether by virtue of their actual or ostensible authority as agents acting within their authority ( see Lloyd v Grace, Smith & Co. AC 716 ) or as employees acting in the course of their employment ( see Armagas Limited v Mundogas S. A. 1 AC 717 ), their acts and omissions and their knowledge could be attributed to the company, and this could give rise to liability as joint tortfeasors where the directors have assumed responsibility on their own behalf and not just on behalf of the company.

* Iraqi Nuclear Site Is Found Looted: U. S. Team Unable to Determine Whether Deadly Materials Are Missing, Washington Post, May 4, 2003

Whether or not a concealment of such an asset should also be considered for prosecution as fraud and / or perjury would then be at the discretion of the judge and / or U. S. Trustee.

Whether the correct spectrum of density fluctuations can be produced, and whether the universe can successfully navigate the Big Bang / Big Crunch transition, remains a topic of controversy and current research.

Whether this Aquitanian language ( Proto-Basque ) was a remnant of a Vasconic language group that once extended much farther, or whether it was generally limited to the Aquitaine / Basque region is not currently known.

Whether Schindler's story is true or not that Beethoven at first contemptuously dismissed Diabelli's waltz as a Schusterfleck ( rosalia / " cobbler's patch "), there is no doubt the definition fits the work perfectly – " musical sequences repeated one after another, each time modulated at like intervals " – as can be seen clearly in these three examples:

* Whether the person in question was armed and / or violent

Whether this chloride flow is excitatory / depolarizing ( makes the voltage across the cell's membrane less negative ), shunting ( has no effect on the cell's membrane ) or inhibitory / hyperpolarizing ( makes the cell's membrane more negative ) depends on the direction of the flow of chloride.

" It is common in hip-hop music, as for example in the song Zealots by the Fugees: " Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile / Whether Jew or gentile I rank top percentile.

Whether ATP hydrolysis may be required for nucleation and / or Y-branch release is a matter under active investigation.

Whether in a studio or on-location setup, the scene's environmental factors and camera placement are known beforehand, allowing the director of photography to determine the proper camera / lens setup and apply any necessary environmental adjustments, such as lighting.

* Whether to use the subjunctive mood – e. g., " I wish I were / was a better man.

Whether this is simply artistic license or the device was actually one of those kept by the ruling family of Naples in the late 1400s / early 1500s ( the time period in which the series is set ) is unknown.

Whether ooids become calcitic or aragonitic can be linked to strontium / calcium substitution within the crystalline structure.

Whether an employee resigned or was terminated is sometimes a topic of dispute, because in many situations, a terminated employee is eligible for severance pay and / or unemployment benefits, whereas one who voluntarily resigns may not be eligible.

Whether the recipient maintains and / or uses that order can vary.

Whether the anti-settling additive is nanosphere-based or surfactant-based, their addition decreases the packing density of the ferroparticles while in its activated state, thus decreasing the fluids on-state / activated viscosity, resulting in a " softer " activated fluid with a lower maximum apparent yield stress.

Whether the Fifth and / or Fourteenth Amendments were intended to serve this function continues to be a matter of scholarly as well as judicial discussion and dissent.

Whether the play was ever produced in the Elizabethan / Jacobean age is not known, but it is obvious by the nature of the revisions and the mention of the actor Thomas Goodale in 3. 1 that it was written for the public stage.

Whether these description languages are the best possible for the job, and whether they will become / remain the favorites in the future, remain open questions.

Whether his / her name really was Bharata is open to question: near the end of the text we have the verse: " Since he alone is the leader of the performance, taking on many roles, he is called Bharata ", indicating that Bharata may be a generic name.

Whether a student is graduating with an Honors Diploma / Honors Recognition or not, an Honors course is noted as “ HONORS: ( course title )” on the Official Transcript.

Whether the new house, the Third Dáil / Provisional Parliament, was a republican parliament or crown assembly became an issue for some Anti-Treaty Irish republicans.

* Whether they will use any magazines / newspapers to find vacancies

In the United States, variances in the insanity defense between states, and in the federal court system, are attributable to differences with respect to three key issues: ( 1 ) Whether to provide the insanity defense, ( 2 ) how to define " insanity ," and ( 3 ) the burden of proof.

Whether the effects were aggravated further or not, the result was that the peso crashed under a floating regime from four pesos to the dollar ( with the previous increase of 15 %) to 7. 2 to the dollar in the space of a week.

Whether Handel originally intended to perform Messiah in Dublin is uncertain ; he did not inform Jennens of any such plan, for the latter wrote to Holdsworth on 2 December 1741: "... it was some mortification to me to hear that instead of performing Messiah here he has gone into Ireland with it.

Lowry's lengthy reply, dated 2 January 1946, was a passionate defense of the book in which he sensed he had created a work of lasting greatness: " Whether it sells or not seems to me either way a risk.

Whether Bakke's exclusion from consideration in UC Davis Medical School special admissions program for minorities because he was white was unconstitutional and a violation of section VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ; and 2. if it was unconstitutional, should UC Davis Medical School be required to admit him.

Whether the wigeons, which are very distinct in morphology and behavior, but much less so in mtDNA cytochrome b and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 sequences, should also be considered a distinct genus Mareca ( including the Gadwall and Falcated Duck ) is essentially the one remaining point of dispute as regards the question which taxa should remain in this genus and which ones should not.

Whether such Enron-only trades were covered by the Section 2 ( h )( 1 ) “ bilateral swaps market ” exemption for energy products or the broader Section 2 ( g ) exclusion for swaps generally depended whether there was “ individual negotiation .”

Whether such Enron-only trades were covered by the Section 2 ( h )( 1 ) “ bilateral swaps market ” exemption for energy products or the broader Section 2 ( g ) exclusion for swaps generally depended whether there was “ individual negotiation .”

Whether treated or not, the clinical course for the acute disease lasts about 2 to 3 days.

Whether this was an accidental misreading of Märklin's Gauge 2 specifications or an intentional incompatibility is unclear, but Lionel named this non-standard track Standard Gauge, and then trademarked the name.

Whether Route 2 west of Route 101 will stay as a paper route after relinquishment is yet to be determined.

Whether Web 2. 0 is substantively different from prior web technologies has been challenged by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, who describes the term as jargon.

Whether there are also edits in the June 2 versions remains controversial.

Whether animated or live-action, the themes and elements in this program are specifically designed for a very young audience, including children from ages 2 – 6.

The following problem from Paul Erdős is unsolved: Whether for any arbitrarily large N there exists an incongruent covering system the minimum of whose moduli is at least N. It is easy to construct examples where the minimum of the moduli in such a system is 2, or 3 ( Erdős gave an example where the moduli are in the set of the divisors of 120 ; a suitable cover is 0 ( 3 ), 0 ( 4 ), 0 ( 5 ), 1 ( 6 ), 1 ( 8 ), 2 ( 10 ), 11 ( 12 ), 1 ( 15 ), 14 ( 20 ), 5 ( 24 ), 8 ( 30 ), 6 ( 40 ), 58 ( 60 ), 26 ( 120 ) ); D. Swift gave an example where the minimum of the moduli is 4 ( and the moduli are in the set of the divisors of 2880 ).