Efforts were made to take the grab samples at random periods so that the mass of data could be treated as a 6-hr. composite sample.

Efforts were made towards improving education standards ; and, in an effort to unify Chinese society, the New Life Movement was launched to encourage Confucian moral values and personal discipline.

Efforts have been made to create internationalized domain names that further extend the English alphabet ( e. g., " pokémon. com ").

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

Efforts are further being made to improve the business and investment environment.

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

Efforts are being made to more fully develop quantum cryptography, which will theoretically allow guaranteed secure transmission of information.

Efforts were also made in 1991 to include Bosnia and Herzegovina within the federation, with negotiations between Milosevic, Bosnia's Serbian Democratic Party, and the Bosniak proponent of union-Bosnia's Vice-President Adil Zulfikarpašić taking place on this matter.

Efforts were also made to decentralize planning and improve the managerial skills of government officials.

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 psychometrically distinguish between normal and pathological dissociation have been made, but they have not been universally accepted.

Efforts were made during Nasser's time in office to realise the social goals of the National Charter.

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

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 are being made to diversify the range of local crops with Floriculture and Sericulture being introduced in the local area, as well as the cultivation of mushrooms.

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 are being made to select breeds which are tolerant or resistant to various pathogens.

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.

Efforts were made by the DMP to stop the march and break it up at Terenure and Rathmines DMP stations, but the paraders broke through the cordons at both points.

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 are being made to preserve green space wherever possible, which includes retaining the green belt fronting 24 Avenue N. W.

Efforts were made to solve the social problems that had already started to affect earlier estates.

Efforts were made to set up trading posts on the Leaf Lakes and Otter Tail Lake.

Efforts are made to protect both species of sea turtles since nests have been declining in recent years due to the severe erosion of the beach.

Efforts have been made and are ongoing to secure compensation for the illness or death of family members exposed to the mill tailings.

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 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 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 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 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 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.