Sentence examples for difficulty determining from inspiring English sources

That standard is so low that technicians have difficulty determining whether dirt or concrete has enough radioactivity above natural background that it will contribute to extra exposure.

This research helps explain why a person with prosopagnosia may still have difficulty determining who a person is even after she has begun to speak.

The president of the consortium, the Midwest Independent System Operator, known as Miso, confirmed in later testimony today that his organization had difficulty determining what was happening in the time just before the blackout.

For example, more than a few Democrats said, after he appeared on the NBC program "Meet the Press," that they had difficulty determining precisely what his views were on White House efforts to oust Saddam Hussein.

Our planet's dimensions had been known with some precision for several centuries, and French scientists had no difficulty determining that if the distance between the equator and the North Pole was divided by ten million (an auspiciously round and decimal-friendly number) the result would be very close to an aune.

SEOUL, South Korea — Even if North Korea follows through with its threat to conduct a third nuclear test, Washington and its allies will have difficulty determining whether the device detonated is made of plutonium or uranium, a prominent American nuclear scientist and South Korean officials said on Tuesday.

When this continuously distributed ability is measured using dichotomous success/failure measures, test difficulty determines the cut-off point.

To control for this, the radiographs were chosen from 3 levels of difficulty determined a priori.

Sentences were presented in blocks of fixed difficulty, determined by the range of suitable words suggested by the sentence context, of which there were four levels.

Comerchero and Polich (1999) have demonstrated that the degree of infrequent/frequent stimuli discrimination difficulty determines the P3a generation (Comerchero and Polich, 1999).

To summarize, the data from these four experiments do not directly support the view that difficulty determines strategic or heuristic involvement of memory affecting search.