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

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

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 redshift of an object in this way requires a frequency-or wavelength-range.

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

Determining optimality for rational behavior requires a quantifiable formulation of the problem, and the making of several key assumptions.

Determining costs requires keeping records of goods or materials purchased and any discounts on such purchase.

Determining how much of each of these components to allocate to particular goods requires either tracking the particular costs or making some allocations of costs.

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

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

Determining the maximum effective conjugation length requires the synthesis of regioregular PTs of defined length.

Determining a clear winner ( and, incidentally, a clear loser ) usually requires the same number of rounds as a knockout tournament, that is the binary logarithm of the number of players rounded up.

Determining the strain energy within a molecule requires knowledge of the expected internal energy without the strain.

Determining source routes requires accumulating the address of each device between the source and destination during route discovery.

Determining the ground speed of an aircraft requires the calculation of the head or tailwind.

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 limited to at most two literals is NL-complete ; this problem is called " 2SAT ".

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.

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 whether there is an isomorphism between two graphs is also an important problem in computational complexity theory ; see graph isomorphism problem.

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

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.

Determining the distinction between elliptical galaxies and lenticular galaxies often relies on the measurements of velocity dispersion ( σ ), rotational velocity ( v ), and ellipticity ( ε ).

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 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 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 the distance to " island universes ", as they were dubbed in the popular media, established the scale of the universe and settled the Shapley-Curtis debate once and for all.

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 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 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.

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 ).

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 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 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.