Determining the prime factors of a number is an example of a problem frequently used to ensure cryptographic security in encryption systems ; this problem is believed to require super-polynomial time in the number of digits-it is relatively easy to construct a problem that would take longer than the known age of the Universe to solve on current computers using current algorithms.

* Determining how much to spend on information security for each class of information asset

* Leading / directing: Determining what needs to be done in a situation and getting people to do it.

DELTA, ( D ) Determining cultural values, ( E ) Employing typical coaching techniques, ( L ) Looking and listening for motivational needs and deficiencies, ( T ) Tailoring coaching techniques to motivational needs and cultural values, and ( A ) Assessing the effectiveness of these.

Determining the distances to astronomical objects is crucial to understanding them, but the vast majority of objects are too far away for their distances to be directly determined.

Determining if the customer is likely to return to reclaim an item is a subjective decision, and wily customers may attempt to persuade the pawnshop owner that the item in question is important to them (" that necklace belonged to my grandmother, so I will certainly return for it "), and they will claim that they will return to recover it.

Determining that the Enterprise did not fire the torpedoes but that the assassins are still aboard, the crew begins looking for them.

( Determining who the stakeholders are and how to incorporate them are other questions entirely.

Determining that there was an artificial effect suppressing the crew's memories, Dr. Crusher works to quickly restore them to the crew.

Determining differentials or finding ways to work around them is one of the main challenges to successfully applying a spectral sequence.

Determining the presence of both parts of this definition is not always straightforward, as hypoglycemic symptoms and effects are vague and can be produced by other conditions ; people with recurrently low glucose levels can lose their threshold symptoms so that severe neuroglycopenic impairment can occur without much warning, and many measurement methods ( especially glucose meters ) are imprecise at low levels.

Determining whether a particular event or proceeding constitutes the commencement of adversarial criminal proceedings requires both an examination of the rules of criminal procedure for the jurisdiction in which the crime is charged and the Supreme Courts cases dealing with the issue of when formal prosecution begins.

Determining a precise distance to the LMC, as with any other galaxy, was challenging due to the use of standard candles for calculating distances, with the primary problem being that many of the standard candles are not as ' standard ' as one would like ; in many cases, the age and / or metallicity of the standard candle plays a role in determining the intrinsic luminosity of the object.

In 1811, he published an article with the title Essai d ' une manière de déterminer les masses relatives des molécules élémentaires des corps, et les proportions selon lesquelles elles entrent dans ces combinaisons (" Essay on Determining the Relative Masses of the Elementary Molecules of Bodies and the Proportions by Which They Enter These Combinations "), which contains Avogadro's hypothesis.

Determining latitude was relatively easy in that it could be found from the altitude of the sun at noon with the aid of a table giving the sun's declination for the day.

* Task Allocation and Scheduling: Determining the optimal distribution of tasks amongst a group of agents, with time and equipment constraints

Determining the grazing angle with respect to a planar surface is trivial, but the computation for almost any other surface is significantly more difficult.

Determining Y-chromosomal Adam's DNA sequence, and the time when he lived, involves identifying the human Y-chromosome lineages that are most divergent from each other — the lineages that share the least unique mutations with each other when compared to a non-human primate sequence in a phylogenetic tree.

Determining the new territory too large to administer as one unit, Britain divided its new southeastern acquisitions into two new colonies separated by the Apalachicola River: East Florida, with its capital in the old Spanish city of St. Augustine, and West Florida, with its capital at Pensacola.

Determining overhead costs often involves making assumptions about what costs should be associated with production activities and what costs should be associated with other activities.

This new system integrates with the various LTA's traffic management existing systems, such as the Green Link Determining System ( GLIDE ), TrafficScan, Expressway Monitoring Advisory System ( EMAS ), Junction Electronic Eyes ( J-Eyes ), and the Electronic Road Pricing system.

Determining an orthogonal transformation to tridiagonal form can be done with the Lanczos algorithm.

* Determining flatness — When working with wood the first step is to designate a reference surface on a board which is known as the face side.

Determining the number of men who have ever had sex with another man is difficult.

Determining which contact to communicate with through direct marketing may be difficult.

Determining the head of navigation can be subjective on many streams, as this point may vary greatly with the size of the ship being contemplated for navigation.

He, along with J. Richard Fisher, proposed the now-famous Tully-Fisher relation in a paper, A New Method of Determining Distances to Galaxies, published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol.

Fisher, along with R. Brent Tully, proposed the now-famous Tully-Fisher relation in the paper, A New Method of Determining Distances to Galaxies ( published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol.

Determining what rank each pilot would assume in the USAAF had to be negotiated, with most being given a rank equivalent to their RAF rank.

Determining the velocities for the case of one ball striking four " touching " balls is found by modeling the balls as weights with non-traditional springs on their colliding surface.

Determining the point at which a compound is capable of detonating under confinement with thermal stress is useful.

Determining that the low budget precluded an orchestral soundtrack, Warren and his long-standing composer, John Scott, agreed that all the music should be electronic.

Determining the composition of the Memorial depends on the dates of Nehemiah's mission: It is commonly accepted that " Artaxerxes " was Artaxerxes I ( there were two later kings of the same name ), and that Nehemiah's first period in Jerusalem was therefore 445-433 BC ; allowing for his return to Susa and second journey to Jerusalem, the end of the 5th century BC is therefore the earliest possible date for the Memorial.

Determining the satisfiability of a formula in which each clause is a Horn clause ( i. e. it contains at most one positive literal ) is P-complete ; this problem is called Horn-satisfiability.

Determining styles in capoeira is a very tough task, since there was never a unity in the original capoeira, or a teaching method before the decade of 1920.

Determining an instance of the membership problem ; i. e. given a string, determine whether where is the language generated by some grammar ; is also known as parsing.

Determining how much insurance to get, at the most cost effective terms requires knowledge of the market for personal insurance.

Determining a " country of origin " is thus much more difficult than determining other aspects of a gem ( such as cut, clarity etc.

* Determining the water balance of a region.

* Determining the agricultural water balance.

Determining how many people died in these massacres overall is difficult.

Determining a precise value for a particular knot is difficult because many factors can affect a knot efficiency test: the type of fiber, the style of rope, the size of rope, whether it is wet or dry, how the knot is dressed before loading, how rapidly it is loaded, whether the knot is repeatedly loaded, and so on.

Determining the redshift of an object in this way requires a frequency-or wavelength-range.

Determining what exactly separates a short story from longer fictional formats is problematic.

Determining the sequence is therefore useful in fundamental research into why and how organisms live, as well as in applied subjects.

Determining part of a protein's amino-acid sequence ( often one end ) by one of the above methods may be sufficient to enable the identification of a clone carrying the gene.

Determining the temperature of a pot of hot liquid required the user to leave the thermometer in the hot liquid until after reading it.