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.

Determining this cut-off point, the rate above which the growth is deemed to be significant ( and likely to lead to extra demands on cash ) is a critical requirement of the technique ; and one that, again, makes the use of the BCG Matrix problematical in some product areas.

Determining the satisfiability of a formula in conjunctive normal form where each clause is limited to at most three literals is NP-complete ; this problem is called " 3SAT ", " 3CNFSAT ", or " 3-satisfiability ".

Determining the satisfiability of a formula in which each clause is limited to at most two literals is NL-complete ; this problem is called " 2SAT ".

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

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 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.

Determining one's longitude remained the primary navigational concern at that time.

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

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 relative humidity: The percent relative humidity can be located at the intersection of the vertical dry bulb and diagonally down sloping wet bulb temperature lines.

* Helen Ghebrewebet: " Identifying Units of Statehood and Determining International Boundaries: A Revised Look at the Doctrine of Uti Possidetis and the Principle of Self-Determination ", Verlag Peter Lang 2006, ISBN 3-631-55092-8.

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 what average input means is difficult, and often that average input has properties which make it difficult to characterise mathematically ( consider, for instance, algorithms that are designed to operate on strings of text ).

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 which instructions would actually be encountered during a run of the program reduces to the proven-unsolvable halting problem.

Determining which proteins are poly-ubiquitinated can be helpful in understanding how protein pathways are regulated.

Determining which clue is to be applied to which grid is part of the puzzle.

Determining which of Elgar's friends is represented in each variation is, surprisingly, not the " enigma " mentioned in the title.

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 the extent to which the changes that have occurred would have happened in the absence of the Mackinac Center is not possible.

Determining whether such paths and cycles exist in graphs is the Hamiltonian path problem, which is NP-complete.

Determining which goods have been sold, and the cost of those goods, requires either identifying the goods or using a convention to assume which goods were sold.

Determining which cells are to be empty ( called spaces ) is as important as determining which are to be filled ( called boxes ).

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

Determining appetite for operational risk is a discipline which is still in its infancy.

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 the degree which this expression of popular opposition truly represents a “ liberal movement ” in the classical sense of the term is not without complications.

Determining the absolute concentration of a compound requires knowledge of the compound's absorption coefficient.

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

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 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.