The Critical Assessment of Information Extraction systems in Biology (BioCreAtIvE) challenge evaluation tasks collectively represent a community-wide effort to evaluate a variety of text-mining and information extraction systems applied to the biological domain.
It may take time and effort to evaluate the economic payoff of VNU's acquisition binge.
A serious effort to evaluate age verification technologies was made in 2008.
It said the F.D.A. would closely monitor the effort "to evaluate whether the new label is meeting the needs of American consumers".
Crewdson, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 as a reporter for The New York Times, should have made some effort to evaluate these innuendoes rather than simply repeating them.
In the past six years, the New York State Department of Health, together with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, started the Safe Motherhood Initiative, a coordinated effort to evaluate and address the causes of maternal death.
True to its "horse race" philosophy of covering politics, early on most of the press declared Cain's plan a brilliant campaign move without making any effort to evaluate its substantive merits.
The above post exclusively addressed the choice of pass versus run, and made no effort to evaluate the comparative merits of the different passing options in Mr Carroll's playbook.
Now the soul-searching has led to another search: the Gallagher Initiative, an ambitious effort to evaluate the whereabouts, lives and needs of the elderly Irish in New York.
Admiral Mullen noted that the Army, in particular, was moving ahead with its own effort to evaluate military professionalism, and he cited the work done by Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, who leads the Army Training and Doctrine Command.
Some nuclear power advocates say that Dr. Jaczko was too quick to kill the commission's effort to evaluate Yucca, after Mr. Obama told the Energy Department to shut the program down.
