The first step is to identify the scale of problem.
So, having broadly identified the scale of the opportunity, the basic building blocks for moving toward it and some of the sources of finance, what will it take to actually achieve the inspiring aim of restoring nature in a generation?
For example … the number of ballot papers used and returned last month from polling stations is critical [to know] because it will help to identify the scale of election rigging".
A recent NSPCC report which first identified the scale of abuse in teenage intimate relationships said social networking sites were a "central mechanism for partners to extend their exploitation and control … to all aspects of young people's lives".
And the IMF's analytical work whether in identifying the scale of the losses from the financial meltdown or in predicting the effect of the crisis on public finances has helped reinforce its intellectual credentials.The extra cash has allowed the IMF to go into crisis-hit countries with packages that can make a difference.
Over a decade ago, the NSPCC conducted a major research programme to try and identify the scale of the problem.
The mean and variance are fixed to 0 and 1, respectively, to identify the scale of the latent variable.
We note that we constrained the means of item parameters of each scale to zero in order to identify the scale of person abilities (Bond and Fox 2007).
Significant future challenges include the highly hygroscopic nature of unformulated ARG powder and identifying the scale of dose of ARG required to achieve the response in lungs.
These results help identify the "scale of effect" of topographic complexity which can be directly integrated into ecological engineering designs to increase biodiversity on tropical seawalls.
