Determining ownership in law involves determining who has certain rights and duties over the property.

Determining a site to be NSFW is invariably subjective, and poses challenges for academics who study sexuality.

* Position Determining Entity, used by cellular phone companies for E911 location determination

* Trajectory Generation ( sometimes called Motion planning ): Determining an optimal control maneuver to take to follow a given path or to go from one location to another

Determining the location of the county is difficult, given the conflicting references in the books.

Determining the size, type and location of habitat to conserve is a complex area of conservation biology.

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 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 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 present location of Amundsen's tent requires consideration of the precision of Amundsen's navigation in 1911, the flow of ice since then, and the amount of burial by intervening snow fall.

Determining the date and length of Eric's reign ( before and after his father's death ) is a challenging and perhaps impossible task based on the confused chronology of our late sources.

* Determining that the Seifert-Weber 3-manifold contains no incompressible surface has been algorithmically implemented by Rubinstein, Tillmann and Burton and based on normal surface theory.

Determining what to include in the carbon footprint depends upon the organization and the standards they are following.

Determining the differences between the advantages of followers and first-movers may be a conceptual issue, but empirical issues revolve around explicit strategies that first-movers employ to improve upon their advantage of being the first to offer a product.

Determining the final boundaries of these " western " areas between North and South Carolina would become a decades long process.

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 what is and is not a code smell is often a subjective judgment, and will often vary by language, developer and development methodology.

When testing a new medical device for regulatory submission, device manufacturers will usually evaluate the radiocontrast according to ASTM F640 " Standard Test Methods for Determining Radiopacity for Medical Use.

Determining which two cast members will be sent into the elimination round frequently leads to drama and contestants playing the game dirty.

Determining the class of water damage is an important first step, and will determine the amount and type of equipment utilized to dry-down the structure:.

Determining exactly the various influences is, after more than two thousand years of internal and external influences and developments, impossible but the result has been a large number of unique musical traditions.

The ability of an ion to preferentially dissolve ( as a result of unequal activities ) is classified as the Potential Determining Ion.

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 structure of LDL has been a tough task because of its heterogeneous structure.

Determining the number of films he made during the early part of his career is difficult because the ad copy rarely named him.

" 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.

Determining whether news is " good " or " bad " must be determined by the price action of the stock, because the market reaction may not match the tone of the news itself.

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 which amino acid forms the N-terminus of a peptide chain is useful for two reasons: to aid the ordering of individual peptide fragments ' sequences into a whole chain, and because the first round of Edman degradation is often contaminated by impurities and therefore does not give an accurate determination of the N-terminal amino acid.

Determining mass is even more difficult, because little evidence of soft tissues survives in the fossil record.

Determining the optimal parameters in a model of this type is not trivial, and local numerical optimization methods such as gradient descent can be sensitive to initialization because of the presence of local minima of the training criterion.

Determining the appropriate treatment for noncyclical breast pain is more difficult, not only because it is hard to pinpoint where the pain is coming from, but also because the pain may not have hormonal causes and very often does not respond to hormonal treatment.

Determining the exact cause of CNH has proven to be difficult, specifically because only 21 additional cases have been reported since Plum and Swanson ’ s initial report of the condition in 1959.

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 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 the water balance of a region.

* Determining the agricultural water balance.

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

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.

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

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

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