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

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 ).

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.

Determining if and to what extent a person can transfer their learned knowledge can be a strong indication of the quality of the learning experience itself.

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

Determining what your objectives are is the first step in pricing.

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.

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

Determining who owed what feudal incidences filled the court dockets for generations.

Determining exactly what constitutes the " operating system " per se is a matter of continuing debate.

Determining what National Socialists saw as the concept of Nazi Architecture is problematic.

Determining what records have enduring value can be challenging.

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 exactly what formed the Serpent Mound Cryptoexplosion Structure is a problem that geologists continue to debate.

Determining what part of the butterfly genome controls wing color and pattern is also a major component that must be taken into account when trying to understand the evolution of mimicry.

Determining what constitutes this life-cycle includes assessing the relevance and extent of energy into raw material extraction, transport, manufacture, assembly, installation, dis-assembly, deconstruction and / or decomposition as well as human and secondary resources.

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.

In 1730, he published the ( New Method for Determining the Distance from the Sun to the Earth ).

Determining the truth or factual accuracy of information in a message is generally considered a separate problem from authentication.

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.

* 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 root cause of the indicator displacement ( lateral runout ) requires disassembly of the disc from the hub.

* Image processing – Determining information from an image through computation.

* Determining how hydrogen from water is ultimately incorporated in kerogen.

Determining factors in reaching the highest speeds are the basal frequency of a rod and the transfer of the speed from the tip of the rod to the fly line.

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 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 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.

Determining that a sequence is functional should be distinguished from determining the function of the gene or its product.

Determining that they need a symbol of equally-powerful positivity to break through the slime, the Ghostbusters use positively-charged mood slime from their slime blowers, an adapted NES Advantage Controller, and a remix of " Higher and Higher " to animate the Statue of Liberty and pilot it through the streets of New York, using its torch to break through the museum's ceiling to attack Vigo and Janosz.

Determining the achromatic number is NP-hard ; determining if it is greater than a given number is NP-complete, as shown by Yannakakis and Gavril in 1978 by transformation from the minimum maximal matching problem.

* Determining the effect of temperature change on relative humidity: For air of a fixed water composition or moisture ratio, find the starting relative humidity from the intersection of the wet and dry bulb temperature lines.

Determining fraud committed by the health insurance companies can sometimes be found be comparing revenues from premiums paid against the expenditure by the health insurance companies on claims.

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 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 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 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 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.