Leading data analysis Compiling data UNICEF maintains a series of global databases for tracking the situation of children and women globally.
We standardized scientific names of species with global checklists or adopted taxonomic views provided by global databases.
Here, we used global databases of known deltaic deposits, valley networks8 and present-day martian topography to test for the occurrence of an ocean on early Mars.
Years ago, operatives could use fake passports that correlated to no real people, but now passports are checked against global databases for authenticity.
Additionally, the variability and uncertainty for three generic interfaces are computed and compared using information obtained from global databases, inter-laboratory and repeatability testing programmes.
This typically consists of many years of rain-gauge and temperature-sensor readings that have been digitized and uploaded into global databases.
I am particularly interested in development and analysis of regional and global databases for plant ecological traits, including the new Ecological Flora of California.
An analysis of global databases, both public and private, with strategies for efficient searching of patents is given as a guideline for a prospective microbial patentee.
Data owners, peer-reviewed journals, research institutes and universities have cited various problems with the feasibility of establishing global databases — including maintenance costs, restrictive data-exchange policies and conflicts of interest.
Some even want a country's HDI number to determine the effort it has to put into reducing carbon emissions.Rankings based on large global databases such as Google's will also have their share of problems.
While these estimates suffer from various problems, improvements in global databases are critical to improve the targeting of interventions that can meet the challenges posed by poverty and to chart progress against international development indicators.
