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 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 the Hadwiger number of a given graph is NP-complete but fixed-parameter tractable: there is an algorithm for finding the largest clique minor in an amount of time that depends only polynomially on the size of the graph, but exponentially in h ( G ).

Determining if the culture leans more toward individualism or collectivism would allow the coach to determine the type of feedback necessary for motivation.

Determining whether the principal is " disabled " enough to initiate this type of representation is a formal process.

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 ).

; Interpretation: Determining if an indication is of a type to be investigated.

* Determining the appropriate metadata needed for each object type and how it is associated with the objects.

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

* 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 a property or site location based upon Magnetic North will result in inaccuracies because true magnetic north fluctuates.

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 whether a player is in " active play " can be complex.

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 whether a name is correct is a complex procedure.

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

* Determining the water balance of a region.

* Determining the agricultural water balance.

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

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.