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91Molyneux's problem — is a thought experiment in philosophy concerning immediate recovery from blindness. It was first formulated by William Molyneux, and notably referenced in John Locke s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. The problem can be stated in brief,… …
92Cross-sectional study — Cross sectional studies (also known as Cross sectional analysis) form a class of research methods that involve observation of all of a population, or a representative subset, at one specific point in time. They differ from case control studies in …
93Homicidal chauffeur problem — In game theory, the homicidal chauffeur problem is a mathematical pursuit problem which pits a hypothetical runner, who can only move slowly, but is highly maneuverable, against the driver of a motor vehicle, which is much faster but far less… …
94Is–ought problem — David Hume raised the is ought problem in his Treatise of Human Nature The is–ought problem in meta ethics as articulated by Scottish philosopher and historian, David Hume (1711–1776), is that many writers make claims about what ought to be on… …
95Plateau's problem — In mathematics, Plateau s problem is to show the existence of a minimal surface with a given boundary, a problem raised by Joseph Louis Lagrange in 1760. However, it is named after Joseph Plateau who was interested in soap films. The problem is… …
96Hilbert's sixteenth problem — was posed by David Hilbert at the Paris conference of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900, together with the other 22 problems. The original problem was posed as the Problem of the topology of algebraic curves and surfaces (… …
97Word problem (mathematics) — In mathematics and computer science, a word problem for a set S with respect to a system of finite encodings of its elements, is the algorithmic problem of deciding whether two given representatives represent the same element of the set.… …
98The Gothenburg Study of Children with DAMP — was a study of six year old children in Gothenburg, Sweden that began in 1977. The purpose was to find out what proportion of the children had DAMP (initially called MBD) and to follow the development of that group over the years. The results and …
99Nurse scheduling problem — The Nurse scheduling problem (NSP) is the problem of determining a work schedule for nurses that is both reasonable (or fair) and efficient. Despite seeming trivial, this is a complex problem due to its many constraints and many possible… …
100Inverse problem for Lagrangian mechanics — In mathematics, the inverse problem for Lagrangian mechanics is the problem of determining whether a given system of ordinary differential equations can arise as the Euler–Lagrange equations for some Lagrangian function. There has been a great… …
