Made by Gary Hustwit, of design-geek classic Helvetica, and out now on DVD, it's a scattershot survey of the problems of designing cities the world over – and the inspiring solutions planners, architects, grassroots groups and even politicians have come up with.
Jim Manzi, in his recent book, "Uncontrolled," offers a careful and informed survey of the problems of research in the social sciences and concludes that "nonexperimental social science is not capable of making useful, reliable and nonobvious predictions for the effects of most proposed policy interventions".
Through writing a best-selling introductory survey called The Problems of Philosophy (1911), Russell discovered that he had a gift for writing on difficult subjects for lay readers, and he began increasingly to address his work to them rather than to the tiny handful of people capable of understanding Principia Mathematica.
Writing in The New York Times in 1971 and surveying the problem of intolerance and violence worldwide, Dr. MacLean found that "language barriers among nations present great obstacles".
We survey the problem of deciding the stability or stabilizability of uncertain linear systems whose region of uncertainty is a polytope.
This article provides an extensive survey, which summarizes the problems of using TCP over multi-hop wireless networks.
In the middle of the week, I did a piece about diet surveys and the problem of underreporting – people lie so ferociously about their diets that two thirds of them wouldn't be able to survive on the food they claim to have eaten – and it struck me that if you counted the calories on this blog, I've probably been living on roughly Bridge of the River Quai rations.
Omission and misclassifications of births in the 5th year preceding the survey are one of the problems of the DHS surveys [ 21].
It is always difficult to measure turnout using survey questions due to the problems of over-reporting, sample selectivity, social desirability bias and the stimulus effects of pre-elections interviews (e.g. Aarts and Wessels, 2005; Bernstein et al., 2001; Karp and Brockington, 2005).
Repeated geomorphological surveying therefore appears to mitigate the problems of hydrological studies underestimating sediment fluxes on decadal annual time-scales.
