Efforts shifted from spraying to the use of bednets impregnated with insecticides and other interventions.

Efforts to trace it from Estonia back to Denmark have, however, been in vain.

* 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.

Efforts are made to transport raw materials from the rest of the world and from the mineral-rich west to the Chinese plain.

* Efforts to protect the Earth from asteroid impact have been neglected.

Efforts to predict tertiary structure from the primary structure are known generally as protein structure prediction.

Efforts toward unification proceeded from 1988.

Efforts to exchange federal land from other areas for inholdings were still in the negotiation phase in 2012.

Efforts were made starting in the 1830s and continuing through the 19th century to detect infrared radiation from other astronomical sources.

Efforts to eradicate a small colony from Tasmania's Lake Crescent without using chemicals have been successful, but the long-term, expensive and intensive undertaking is an example of both the possibility and difficulty of safely removing the species once it is established.

Efforts to raise CHF 6. 2M ($ 7M ), to buy and save the villa of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard from most certain demolition are underway.

Efforts have been initiated to protect the property from logging and development.

Efforts have been made to port Coda onto Microsoft Windows platforms, from the Windows 95 / Windows 98 era, Windows NT to Windows XP, by means of open source projects like the DJGCC DOS C Compiler and Cygwin.

Efforts by Frank Miller, then owner of the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, Hiram Johnson and others, succeeded in gaining War Department approval to construct an airfield at Alessandro Field located near Riverside, an airstrip used by aviators from Rockwell Field on cross-country flights from San Diego.

Efforts by the southern communities from the late 18th century to build a number of relatively expensive construction projects along the coastline, such as a new road from Stonington Borough to Mystic and a bridge over Lambert ’ s Cove, at first led residents of the northern end of the town to oppose budgeting monies for these projects, and eventually caused the northerners to secede and form their own town.

Efforts to make the Trinity navigable for steamers continued from 1852 to 1940, when 236 miles of waterway had been completed and Liberty served as an inland port with barge connections to the Houston Ship Channel.

Efforts were made, especially in the Third Plan, to move industry eastward to make it safer from attack during World War II.

Efforts to create cellular directories have met stiff opposition from several fronts, including those who seek to avoid telemarketers.

Efforts were made to reassure the medical community that the laws were both constitutionally sound and specifically exempting physicians from liability.

Efforts are ongoing to eradicate the weevil from the rest of the United States.

* Zimbabwe: Efforts at land reform in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe moved, after 15 years, in the 1990s, from a " willing seller, willing buyer " approach to the " fast track " land reform program.

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 are underway to restore nineteenth century industrial buildings in the downtown area ; those that were beyond repair were demolished in the late 1990s and early 2000s and replaced with the Veteran's Memorial and a farmer's market.

Efforts to control inflation in Latin America, specially those in which the nominal exchange rate was used as main policy tool, backfired producing an initial expansion in output followed by a recession.

Efforts were also made to seek out those musicians who could not come.

Efforts to minimize torque steer were achieved by the half shafts and the angles of the joints at the ends of those shafts being equalized, helping the Legend to accelerate in a straight line.

Efforts were made in 1838 to dredge the canal, but did not succeed in keeping the passage navigable for any vessels except those with a shallow draft.

Efforts in faculty hiring, program development and partnership building focus on those needs.

Efforts such as the Community Development Program in the Philippines have demonstrated that transitional societies can work toward balanced national development.

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 find such evidence have been made since 1960, and several are ongoing.

Efforts to know the future or the will of the deity could also be understood as heterodox if they went outside the boundaries of orthodox Yahwism, and even commonly accepted revelatory mechanism such as dreams could be condemned if the resulting message was perceived as false.

Efforts to restore it centre around intensively managed land areas, such as gardens and golf courses.

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 such as quarantine are not possible as the disease is so widespread and symptoms are non-specific.

Efforts such as requesting the U. S. Justice Department to reject the plan were unsuccessful.

Efforts continue to this day to restore such commuter service.

Efforts to reinstitute commuter trains, such as the Schuylkill Valley Metro, have been unsuccessful.

Efforts are underway to increase the amount of heathland on the chase, reintroducing shrubs such as heather in some areas where bracken and birch forest have crowded out most other plants.

The first attempt to produce such database was the FAU Aibo Emotion Corpus for CEICES ( Combining Efforts for Improving Automatic Classification of Emotional User States ), which was developed based on a realistic context of children ( age 10-13 ) playing with Sony ’ s Aibo robot-pet.

Efforts to transfer specific microfinance innovations such as solidarity lending from developing countries to Canada have met with little success.

Efforts were made to keep the festival relevant, including more eclectic acts such as country superstar Waylon Jennings and emphasizing more heavily electronica groups like The Prodigy.

Efforts to blunt such criticism were limited due to a severe case of laryngitis, which prevented him from responding to the invitation from local television personality George Putnam to debate Yorty on his show.

Efforts to promote this form of tax reform in the United States continue under the aegis of organizations such as The Henry George Foundation of America.

Efforts are being made in Great Britain by organizations such as the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust to halt this decline by creating Conservation headlands.

Efforts have been made to move towards new, more adaptive and experimental protocols such as OLSR and B. A. T. M. A. N.

Efforts are being made to obtain approval for a coral snake antivenom produced in Mexico which would work against U. S. coral snakebite, but such approval remains speculative.

Efforts such as the Silbervogel and X-30 / X-33 have all failed to materialize into a vehicle capable of successfully reaching space.

Efforts are hampered by factors such as the Kivu conflict, which may be, and often is, considered a continuation of the Second Congo War.

Efforts were also made to encourage PDI, such as refurbishing the tomb of the late President Sukarno in 1978 and officially recognizing him as the " Hero of Independence Proclamation ".

Efforts in recent years to clean up such bodies of water have actually resulted in cleaner water in many rivers and creeks and healthier natural places to swim.