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* Efforts to improve fairness by reducing first-move advantage include the rule of swap, generalizable as " swap -( x, y, z )" and characterizable as a partially compounded and partially iterated version of the pie rule (" one person slices ; the other chooses "): One player places on the board x stones of the first-moving color and a lesser number y stones of the second-moving color (" slicing " in the pie metaphor ); the other player is entitled to choose between a ) playing from the starting position, in which case the selecting player is also entitled to choose which color to play, and b ) placing z ( usually-y ) + 1 ) more stones on the board at locations of that player's choice (" reslicing " in the pie metaphor, with limitations created by the board's existing setup akin to limitations arising from the existing slices in the pie ), in which case the former player is entitled to choose which color side to play.
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Efforts are further being made to improve the business and investment environment.
Efforts were also made to decentralize planning and improve the managerial skills of government officials.
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Efforts to improve attendance included serving alcoholic beverages with meals inside the Euro Disneyland park, in response to a presumed European demand, which began 12 June 1993.
Efforts to improve the city include the " 21st Century Waterfront Plan " – a $ 120 million redevelopment of the Chattanooga waterfront and downtown area, which was completed in 2005.
Efforts have been made since to improve the infrastructure of those settlements, but many problems remain, especially in large lowrise neighbourhoods in north and northeast Podgorica.
Efforts to improve the effectiveness of teams can ameliorate, if not eliminate, the consequences of Brooks's law.
Efforts have been made to improve the passage in which eels migrate across the hydroelectric dams on St. Lawrence River
Efforts were made to improve massed on-call artillery and air support, which had previously been difficult to coordinate.
Efforts by the Tidy Towns committee and residents ' associations to improve the appearance and quality of the local environment are ongoing.
Efforts to improve the existing fortifications and build new ones were well underway by 1939.
Efforts are underway to raise its profile including the establishment of the Tōgane Kujūkuri Toll Road to improve the town's accessibility and the opening of the Kujūkuri Sardine Museum as a point of cultural interest.
Efforts have been made to improve sanitation systems in India, including laws that ban the construction of dry toilets, and the manual removal of human waste.
Efforts are now being made to improve her living conditions.
Efforts were made to improve employment and economic conditions through the Civilian Conservation Corps and through the use of sustained yield forestry.
Efforts to improve aid effectiveness have gained significant momentum in the health sector, due in large part to the work of the International Health Partnership ( IHP +).
Efforts to improve bilingual education gained momentum in 2001 when both California and Texas embraced bilingual education-friendly policies.
Efforts to improve military readiness and capability, and to sustain an extended blockade, were intensified between September 1939 and April 1940.
Efforts have been made to improve the area's social problems and implement environmental improvements, many of which have been successful.
Efforts to improve the technology are currently underway.
Efforts to improve safety have included adding electronic speed monitoring signs and warnings lights on curves, removing trees to improve visibility around blind curves, and increased patrol and enforcement of traffic laws.
Efforts were also made to improve the facilities at Neath.
Efforts to improve the transport infrastructure of Glasgow post-World War II were hit by the problem of crossing the Clyde.
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Efforts by members of the Vermont Historical Society and other historical groups through the years have followed up on rumored likenesses, only to come up empty.
Efforts to demarcate the porous boundary with Sudan were delayed by the Second Sudanese Civil War.
Efforts were undertaken not only to place women in occupations dominated by males, but also to bring males into fields traditionally believed to belong to the women's sphere, such as child care and elementary school teaching.
Efforts to revitalize this important part of the city have been undertaken by the municipal government and have been very successful thus far.
Efforts by the Indian Government to make Hindi the sole official language after 1965 were not acceptable to many non-Hindi Indian states, who wanted the continued use of English.
Efforts to include the whole of Bosnia within a new Yugoslavia effectively terminated by late 1991 as Izetbegovic planned to hold a referendum on independence while the Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats formed autonomous territories.
Efforts to demarcate the porous boundary with Sudan were delayed by the Second Sudanese Civil War.
Efforts in 1867 to begin production by the Trinidad and Tobago Petroleum Company at La Brea and the Pariah Petroleum Company at Aripero were poorly financed and abandoned after Walter Darwent died of yellow fever.
Efforts have been made by Chinese entrepreneurs to satisfy increasing demand for turtle meat as gourmet food and traditional medicine with farmed turtles, instead of wild-caught ones ; according to a study published in 2007, over a thousand turtle farms operated in China.
Efforts to purchase or trade these inholdings for other federal lands are ongoing and through partnerships with other entities, 10 million dollars is hoped to be raised to acquire private inholdings by 2016.
Efforts to bolster economic activity are evidenced by the city enacting policies to benefit small businesses, and even going so far as to paint a mural on the facade of a large water treatment building facing the freeway that depicts two shopping bags headlined by the words, " Shop in Fountain Valley.
Efforts have been made by the government in recent years to expand food production, and several projects have been undertaken, largely financed by foreign donors.
Efforts to develop a safe and effective syphilis vaccine have been hindered by uncertainty about the relative importance of humoral and cellular mechanisms to protective immunity and the fact that T. pallidum outer membrane proteins have not been unambiguously identified.
Efforts to establish the play's date of composition and genesis have been complicated by its uncertain relationship with another Elizabethan play with an almost identical plot but different wording and character names, A Pleasant Conceited Historie, called the taming of a Shrew, which is often theorised to be a reported text of a performance of The Shrew, a source for The Shrew, or an early draft ( possibly reported ) of The Shrew.
Efforts to develop resistant cultivars began in the Netherlands in 1928 and continued, uninterrupted by World War II, until 1992.
Efforts have been made to revive them, such as the takeover of the Krishnarajendra Mills by the Atlantic Spinning and Weaving Mills, but they have run into other problems.
Efforts by Jewish Christians to proselytize Jews go back to the first Century when Paul preached first at the synagogues in each city he visited.
Efforts by the Beiyang government to end the protests by sealing off the Peking University campus led to Cai's resignation.
* Electronic Newsletter of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cambridge, MA-scroll down to Current Legislative and Policy Efforts by Mitchell Kapor.
Efforts have been made to create a unified body of commercial law in the United States ; the most successful of these attempts has resulted in the general adoption of the Uniform Commercial Code, which has been adopted in all 50 states ( with some modification by state legislatures ), the District of Columbia, and the U. S. territories.
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