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A social issue is a problem that influences many citizens within a society. It is a group of common problem in present-day society and one that many people strive to solve. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's control. Social issues are the source of a conflicting opinion on the grounds of what is perceived as morally correct or incorrect personal life or interpersonal social life decisions. Social issues are distinguished from economic issues; however, some issues (such as immigration) have both social and economic aspects. There are also issues that do not fall into either category, such as warfare.
There can be disagreements about what social issues are worth solving, or which should take precedence. Different individuals and different societies have different perceptions. In Rights of Man and Common Sense, Thomas Paine addresses the individual's duty to "allow the same rights to others as we allow ourselves." The failure to do so causes the creation of a social issue.
There are a variety of methods people use to combat social issues. Some people vote for leaders in a democracy to advance their ideals. Outside the political process, people donate or share their time, money, energy, or other resources. This often takes the form of volunteering. Nonprofit organizations are often formed for the sole purpose of solving a social issue. Community organizing involves gathering people together for a common purpose.
A distinct but related meaning of the term "social issue" (used particularly in the United States) refers to topics of national political interest, over which the public is deeply divided and which are the subject of intense partisan advocacy, debate, and voting. In this case "social issue" does not necessarily refer to an ill to be solved, but rather a topic to be discussed.

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  1. Ah-E

    Spotting gearbox assembly issues

    The question might be a bit silly.. (asking for advice regarding the theory of machines content, not a homework). I'm enrolled in the mechanical engineering bachelor's. I applied for several internships however I couldn't pass because of a particular type of questions. The interviewer shows me...
  2. Superposed_Cat

    Debugging a Backprop Neural Network: Issues & Solutions

    I am trying for the first time in 5 years, to make a n- layer, m-width backprop neural network from scratch, My issue is, I've tried training it on XOR, where it returns 0.48 for any of the inputs instead of 1 for half of them and 0 for the other half, if you give it a dataset where the outputs...
  3. core7916

    Troubleshooting a Boost Circuit: Voltage Rise & Gate Issues

    Hello. I am creating a boost circuit and there is a lot of problems while testing. Before creating circuit i have simulated circuit in modelsim. Problems. 1. Sudden voltage rise from 40% to 50 % dury cycle. ( i am checking each duty cycle ) 2. When applying a gate voltage to mosfet the the...
  4. Vanadium 50

    Troubleshooting Linux Kernel Issues with Older CPUs

    I am not sure what the next step is: Linux kernel 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8.x86_64 work s fine. 4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.x86_64 works on two of my five machines. On the other two, I get the screen messages "CPU Stall" but nothing obvious in the log files. The troubled machines have older CPUs (Haswell)...
  5. R

    Backyard Tow Rope Troubleshooting: Motor Binding Issues

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  6. skaiser

    I Issues collimating my laser with 4f system

    I am using 2 lenses in a 4f configuration. The input is a large collimated beam (632nm). After passage through the 2 lenses the beams vertical dimension remains constant, however, the horizontal dimension get smaller, as if it is being focused only in the horizontal direction. Does anyone have...
  7. dom_quixote

    B Geometric Issues with a line, a plane and a sphere...

    I - A point divides a line into two parts; II - A line divides a plane into two parts; III - Does a smaller sphere divide a larger sphere into two parts, like layers of an onion? Note that the first two statements, the question of infinity must be considered. For the third statement, is the...
  8. Jessie24789

    I Doppler Shift & Christoffel Symbols Issues

    About a month or two ago I started doing simulations of light physics around black holes and yesterday I got a fast Christoffel symbols function for the Schwarzschild metric in cartesian coordinates, but now the photon ring appears flipped. I feel as though it is wrong. But as I am still pretty...
  9. K

    A How can I overcome alignment issues with a bow-tie cavity?

    Hello! I am having some issues with a bow-tie cavity I am aligning and I would really appreciate any help. The cavity is not locked, so it does have some vibrations (it is on damping legs), and I want to lock a laser to it. I am seeing some peaks, but the output power is lower than expected...
  10. M

    Make_shared pointer is giving me issues

    Any idea what I'm doing wrong in the code below? It seems lines 15-16 are the problem. I thought ptr2 was a pointer. What am I missing? #include <memory> #include <iostream> class c1 { public: void f1() { std::cout<<"im a class \n"; } }; int main() { c1*...
  11. T

    COVID Dizzy & Headache = 75% chance of Cognitive Issues as Aftereffects

    Popular article: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/seven-ten-people-long-covid-23442293 Research article: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2022.804937/full Well, that's not particularly good news. ☹️ Tom
  12. Woomir

    I Why is my magnetic levitation experiment not working?

    [Mentor Note -- Two similar thread starts merged into one] Hey all, I have been working on this project for a while now, which features suspending an object midair through the use of magnetic levitation principles. Cool right? And so I have been researching and trying, even finding ground...
  13. R

    Comp Sci Solving Complexity Issues: Merging Algorithms

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  14. mechorigin

    Engineering Having issues series resistive and reactive impedance matching

    The only thing I could think of was using Q=sqrt(6000/50)-1 = 10.9, which then gets me XL=545 and XC=550, or 96.4nH, and 0.32pF at resonance of 900Mhz. I tried seeing if Zin=Zout equation would bring me close, so I tried Z=545+(50-550)=45, then XL for 38.5nH was 217.7, and XC for 2.4pF was 74...
  15. E

    Gauss' law and flux concept issues

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  16. theycallmevirgo

    In recovery from some health issues

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  17. entropy1

    I Issues on notation and concept of entanglement

    As a follow up from my other thread, where I consider popular media describe entanglement sort of as: and I think this may be wrong. As a follow up question I want to put forward this: A singlet state of entangled particles is notated in a superposition of product states as: ##|up, down...
  18. K

    New car headlights -- Visual issues with oncoming cars

    In recent years, I found that many cars, I don't know if their headlamps are original or customized, the light is very bright or sharp, sometimes causing me to see temporary shadow in the eye like camera flash or even a little bit faint. In addition to yellow and white light there are also many...
  19. P

    3 Phase Harmonics and Solid State Relay Issues

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  20. kyphysics

    Why Age-Related Memory Issues Can Be So Oddly Specific?

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  21. R

    Gold jewelry and fertility issues

    Hello! According to recent studies, gold nanoparticles play a negative role on male fertility (reducing the motility of sperm cells, among other things), So, the question is, is the amount of gold absorded from donning gold jewerly enough to have noticeable spermatotoxic effects?
  22. BillTre

    Sean Carroll podcast on Issues Related to Basketball Analytics

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  23. jim mcnamara

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  24. P

    I Troubleshooting Calculator Issues: Wolfram & Equation in Photo

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  25. Kaushik

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  26. U

    Chemistry Why does the solution divide by two in Mole Stoichiometry?

    So essentially I followed pretty much what is in the picture here in this solution. https://www.slader.com/textbook/9780134162430-chemistry-a-molecular-approach-4th-edition/242/exercises/79/ My question is essentially why does he do the 0.07XXX mol f2 * 2mol clf3/3mol f2 * 92xx g/2mol f2 =...
  27. J

    Fortran MinGW64 GFORTRAN Issues newer versions

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  28. The-dude

    Static Electricity- Solving Material Placement Issues

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  29. W

    I Countability of Finite Product Sets: Foundational Issues?

    Hi, I gave my friend a proof that the set of pairs ##\ mathbb N \times \mathbb N \times...\mathbb N ## (Finite product) is countable. I gave an injection : ##(a_1, a_2,...,a_n) \right arrow p_1_^{a_1} p_2^{a_2}...p_n^{a_n}## Where the ##p_i## are distinct primes. My friend is telling me this...
  30. marciokoko

    Solve angle issues for opening a door with a linear actuator

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  31. jim mcnamara

    Policy for pandemic issues and how models shape it

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/mathematics-life-and-death-how-disease-models-shape-national-shutdowns-and-other This shows how policy can be informed about differing effects of control policies in different environments. One of the bleak aspects of UK choices is shown as a graph...
  32. Vigardo

    Weird (or not) issues in thin-walled cylindrical shell buckling modes

    Dear FEA experts, I’m trying to analyse* some finite elements model of a thin walled cylinder with variable cross-section, but I’m observing four weird issues in the buckling modes. The structure is vertically (along z-axis) and horizontally (along y-axis) loaded on top. Would you help me to...
  33. RJCanz

    Calculating Capacity of Steel Rack: Yield Stress Issues

    Hi guys. Recently I've been assigned to know / calculate the capacity of the racks in our section. Our racks has layered steel pipes that are carrying the loads. After actual testing it can carry a load around 25 tons after yielding or having a bend. So my next step was to calculate for its...
  34. Sofa

    Issues Determining Change in Elastic Potential Energy

    I've attached a screengrab of the problem (Specifically, Part B, as indicated in the image) and my attempt at a solution. Summarized, my thinking was based on using ##-\Delta U=\frac{Kx_i^2-Kx_f^2}{2}##. After using up all my attempts, the solution, as it turns out, was U2=4.91J. No variation...
  35. O

    Teaching Forces - Having issues with directions & vectors

    Hi everyone. I'm the only physics teacher at my school, so I have nobody to bounce ideas off of. I'm having a problem with students getting confused with direction when calculating net force. I teach an introductory physics course. It's the first time the students have ever seen physics and...
  36. S

    Solving Power Delivery Issues in a 5V Series Circuit with a 1.5V Rated Relay

    Hello, I'm using a "TQ2SA-1.5V Panasonic 2 Form C AS Single side stable, 1.5VDC 2A DPDT NON-LATCHING SMD Relay" (specifically the coil side of this relay) that is rated for 1.5 volts that is connected in series to this circuit (as the last device in this circuit shown below), which in this...
  37. jtbell

    Potential issues with Face ID versus Touch ID?

    It looks like sometime in the next few days I'm going to buy a new iPhone to replace my 5S. I've been thinking about this for almost a year, but now it's become somewhat urgent because my wife needs to replace her old Nokia non-smartphone soon. According to our cellular provider (Consumer...
  38. W

    What Causes #HREF! Errors in Excel 2007?

    Hi all, I am having #HREF! issues in Excel 2007 when copying formula-based data from one sheet to another. The suggested solutions online are not working. I understand what the issue is: when copying from one sheet to another, Excel is trying to use data from the previous sheet, sheet_j...
  39. D

    Clear Ice industrial generation issues

    Summary: Problems generating industrial clear Ice tube. The ice is cracking and we don't know why. Summary: Problems generating industrial clear Ice tube. The ice is cracking and we don't know why. Hi all! I'm an engineer from Spain and I'm working in a new project (factory ice). We have...
  40. A. Neumaier

    Insights Clarifying Common Issues with Indistinguishable Particles

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  41. BillTre

    Protective Hormone may Raise Issues of Treatment vs. Enhancement

    The recently described hormone Klotho (which I never heard of before) seems to provide relief from some aging and brain problems (like Alzheimer's) and may even enhance brain function (as in a "smart" pill). This NY Times article describes research background and some of the potential issues it...
  42. Auto-Didact

    A Is QM Foundations Facing a Crisis?

    This thread is a shootoff from this post in the thread Summary of Frauchiger-Renner. The topics are related, but this thread offers a new perspective that diverges from the main subject of that thread. In QM foundations, the sheer amount of interpretations, disagreement among experts about what...
  43. Wrichik Basu

    Automotive Death of a car battery and related issues

    We have a Toyota Etios Liva, four years old, petrol variant. Today, my father took it for annual servicing at the authorised service centre, where the service personnel declared that the battery was "dead". Our car is not used much. Usually on an average, it is driven for around 14km per month...
  44. J

    Meshing & connection issues for a beam/line solid

    I designed two geometries (one for beam/line reinforcements and other second for a solid block shown below) in Ansys workbench spaceclaim for static structural analysis. In Ansys workbench Mechanical, I got a weird mesh for the reinforcements which I modeled as beam in Spaceclaim (shown...
  45. ohwilleke

    I Are there issues with Conformal Gravity as a DM solution?

    One approach that has been proposed to replicate the description of dark matter phenomena in galaxies with a gravity modification that is set forth in a simplified manner in the phenomenological toy model theory MOND is to do so through a variation on Einstein's General Relativity known as...
  46. B

    Gaming PC in my 2018 Kenworth T680 Truck -- Power Issues?

    Hello I'm trying to set up my gaming computer in my 2018 Kenworth T680 but having power issues. Both with the monitor and the tower. But mostly the monitor. I realize the power inverter is likely incompatible with monitor and tower PSU. I need a workaround. Issue: Monitor works interminitly for...
  47. YoungPhysicist

    Wood/Glass/Metal Reusing Lead: Why is My Ingot Oxidizing?

    Recently I've been recycling lead from old bullets.But everytime I recast the molten lead to an ingot, its surface is oxidized, therefore I am losing lead every single time I reuse it. Are there simple solutions to this without using an atmosphere of noble gases?
  48. L

    I Is Dark Matter Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe?

    I understand that the evidence for dark matter, although indirect, is quite strong. Yet there are a few things that puzzle me about the dark matter idea. If dark matter is the predominant form of matter in the universe, why does it have no effect on solar system dynamics? The solar system is...
  49. GANESH SHETTI

    Installing an EOT crane in a factory (ceiling clearance issues)

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  50. C

    Quantum Intermediate-level QM book aimed on foundational issues

    Hey there! While considering going into foundational issues in QM (reading abou entanglement and Bell's theorems now), I realized I may need a better grasp of QM. I have studied both Griffiths' and Cohen-Tannoudji's (both volumes, excluding the appendices) books. I am not very confident in my...
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