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 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.

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

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

* 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:.

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.

Determining an appropriate and safe exercise program is challenging and must be carefully individualized to each person being sure to account for all contraindications and precautions.

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 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 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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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 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.

* 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 poverty line is usually done by finding the total cost of all the essential resources that an average human adult consumes in one year.

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 this relationship is presently one of the major focuses of LTD research.

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

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 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 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 an absolute poverty line is usually done by finding the total cost of all the essential resources that an average human adult consumes in one year.

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

* Determining environmental conditions and " ground rules " such as day / night, weather, scoring systems, allowable weapons or gameplay types, time limits, and starting resources.

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 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 time of Salah anywhere

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 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 the minimum time required to heat the material.

Determining that a risk has been reduced to ALARP involves an assessment of the risk to be avoided, of the sacrifice ( in money, time and trouble ) involved in taking measures to avoid that risk, and a comparison of the two.

The Law Determining the Time ( ) is an Israel law governing Israeli daylight saving time.