Meaning of problem in English

Additionally, these plans serve to identify possible problems and recognize ineffective designs.

The problem is that each player's use indirectly interferes with the other's use and that some arrangement is necessary to reconcile both uses.

Coordination problems abound, and their solutions are facilitated when players have the ability to quickly acquire expectations about fellow players' behavior.

Qualitative researchers have also recognized the problem of hierarchical, nested levels of context, even if they have not expressed the problem in those terms.

The zero plural avoids the problem of having two sibilants in quick succession at the end of the words, and coincidentally maintains the classical tradition.

In particular, problems of coexistence and exclusion of competing species have been theoretically investigated using models based on partial and ordinary differential equations.

Validated solutions of initial value problems for ordinary differential equations.

Perhaps, moreover, a case can be made for saying that philosophical understanding is advanced, not by solving problems head-on, but by moving around them.

I come now to what is perhaps a more serious problem from a philosophical perspective.

For this, we must rely on the physically-based model equation, and on comparisons with solutions (numerical) of the exact problem.

An uncomputable problem might not be very interesting since the answer can never physically exist.

Reconstructive procedures, however, lie along a continuum, without any clear boundary between therapeutic reconstructive surgery for a diagnosable problem and purely cosmetic surgery.

Note that even if we rely on purely structural tests, this is a problem.

None had been referred for assessment or treatment of any psychological problem.

These results can be applied to the type retractions problem as the problem can be reduced to the higher-order matching problem using the following theorem.

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