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 precise end of the Republic is a task of dispute by modern historians ; Roman citizens of the time did not recognize that the Republic had ceased to exist.

Determining a precise location in the sky was complicated by the fact that the Big Ear telescope used two feed horns to search for signals, each pointing to a slightly different direction in the sky following Earth's rotation ; the Wow!

Determining the spatial lightning distribution from Schumann resonance records is a complex problem: in order to estimate the lightning intensity from Schumann resonance records it is necessary to account for both the distance to lightning sources as well as the wave propagation between the source and the observer.

Determining the distance to " island universes ", as they were dubbed in the popular media, established the scale of the universe and settled the Shapley-Curtis debate once and for all.

Determining your location in 2D space requires two measurements or angle or range-two angle measurements, two distance measurements, or one angle and one distance.

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 and prioritizing security needs and aligning them with the perceived threats and the available budget.

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 the type of rock being drilled at any one time is a matter of knowing the ' lag time ' between a chip being cut by the bit and the time it reaches the surface where it is then examined by the wellsite geologist ( or mudlogger as they are sometimes called ).

Determining costs requires keeping records of goods or materials purchased and any discounts on such purchase.

Determining whether any changes have been made to a message ( or a file ), for example, can be accomplished by comparing message digests calculated before, and after, transmission ( or any other event ).

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

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

The color, consistency, acidity, and other characteristics of the discharge may be predictive of the causative agent. Determining the agent is especially important because women may have more than one infection, or have symptoms that overlap those of another infection, which dictates different treatment processes to cure the infection.

Determining the UMVUE, if one exists, for a particular problem is important for practical statistics, since less-than-optimal procedures would naturally be avoided, other things being equal.

Van Deman extended her research to other kinds of concrete and brick construction and published " Methods of Determining the Date of Roman Concrete Monuments " in The American Journal of Archaeology in 1912.

Determining the habitability of red dwarf stars could help determine how common life in the universe might be, as red dwarfs make up between 70 to 90 % of all the stars in the galaxy.

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 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 such forces was required before building codes could specify the required strength of such buildings and such tests continue to be used for large or unusual buildings.

The term ‘ fair ’ is meant to denote not only a smooth transition from fore to aft but also a shape that was ‘ right .’ Determining what is ‘ right ’ in a particular situation in the absence of definitive supporting analysis encompasses the art of naval architecture to this day.

" Although a Human Effects Advisory Panel was established in 1998 to provide independent assessment on human effects, data, and models for the use of ' non-lethal weapons ' on the general population, the TECOM Technology Symposium in 1997 concluded on non-lethal weapons: " Determining the target effects on personnel is the greatest challenge to the testing community ," primarily because " the potential of injury and death severely limits human tests.

" Determining the link between data breaches and identity theft is challenging, primarily because identity theft victims often do not know how their personal information was obtained ," and identity theft is not always detectable by the individual victims, according to a report done for the FTC.

It is also supported by the principles found in paragraph 171 of the Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status which was issued by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ).

Determining that the actions of Blount, now a senator from Tennessee, constituted a crime, Adams sent Blount's letter to the Senate, where it was presented on July 3, 1797, while Blount was out for a walk.

It was defined in a paper titled “ Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of a Distributed System .”

Determining when a given medal was struck is sometimes difficult.

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

Determining longitudinal position was a major problem in marine navigation ; Newton argued that astronomical positioning could be used, but an easier theoretical possibility was to use accurate knowledge of the time at a specific, base, location.

Determining Yamashita ’ s intent was therefore paramount in establishing responsibility for the sook ching.

Determining exergy was also the first goal of thermodynamics.

Determining that the section of the defensive line was manned primarily by artillery, he ordered an attack.

* Evaluation: Determining the effectiveness of the treatment plan that was administered.

The title of his thesis was " The Effects of Fixed Action Patterns and Neuro-Linguistic Programming in Determining Outcomes in Human Behaviour ".