underlying problem
collocation in Englishmeanings of underlying and problem
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problem
noun [C]
uk/ˈprɒb.ləm/us/ˈprɑː.bləm/
a situation, person, or thing that needs attention and needs to be dealt with ...
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Examples of underlying problem
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Once again the suspicion is that there is an underlying problem, a lack of institutional space in which archaeological theory could flourish.
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Generally speaking, graphs provide a formal device for making structural properties of an underlying problem explicit.
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A broad range of investigations may have to be performed to identify the underlying problem.
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The underlying problem is the unclear semantics of nested relations.
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The underlying problem is characterized by the calculation (or prediction) of the human performance measure in such a way as to accomplish a specified task.
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It was the interaction of his episodes and his underlying problem that contributed to his impairment.
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This illustrates the underlying problem with adaptationist assessment of the evolution of behavioral patterns in humans.
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Below, we will derive explicit representations for such terms depending on the concrete form of the underlying problem.
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Both may also arise from the same underlying problem of impaired conversion of the spiral arteries, and so are difficult to separate on a clinical basis.
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An underlying problem in linguistic theorizing comes from the fact that linguists are normally not "trained in methods for getting reliable data" (p. 4).
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After data discretization, linguistic terms can be used to describe the input and output parameters of the underlying problem.
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And in this same vein, the cognitive nature of the metaphor only reflects the underlying problem of the subject as process.
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The underlying problem in dealing with indigenous intellectual property is that there is often no clear lineage of ownership to the idea or resource.
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Here the difficulty may be avoided by going back to the underlying problem involving three displacement components which are given by the three equilibrium equations.
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One underlying problem might be that studies are expected to be directly policy-relevant, and to come up rapidly with clear answers.
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Did the resulting policy fail to address the underlying problem as well as some other alternative?
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On the one hand, there are disorders, such as autism, where the underlying problem seems to lie in the presence of cognitive deficits for particular kinds of mental processes.
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The techniques covered in this paper can be employed in such systems by knowledge engineers, when the underlying problem is formalized as a prediction of a continuous target attribute.
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