The study cited the critical importance of adjusting farmer practices to lower methane emissions (draining paddies mid-season can have a big effect, for instance) and of finding new rice varieties that can stand up to rising temperatures in the important growing regions.
For instance, it told of finding phantom targets.
In one instance, the task of finding documents about the distribution of weapons to police for use against protesters was entrusted to interior ministry officials who had helped prepare those very documents in the first place.
We said that if the Americans want to do a remake of our movie, they wouldn't be able to because, for instance, the question of finding the money to cure the boy is never an issue in our movie.
For instance, the probability of finding error rates higher than 20% during a measuring interval in Trial 2 was around 0.80 for the fixed-antenna case and 0.14 for the antenna-selection case.
A new book, "The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom," by a young Belarus-born American scholar, Evgeny Morozov, has made the case most provocatively, describing instance after instance of strongmen finding ways to use new media to their advantage.
And, of course, this is yet another instance of companies finding themselves resetting expectations for investors in the wake of a changing financing environment.
Lucent, for instance, faces the task of finding cash to meet obligations to creditors for day-to-day operating expenses.
The U.S. Coast Guard's Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System, for instance, reckons the likelihood of finding a disabled ship or a stranded sailor in relation to a number of variables, including wind and current data and the search paths already covered.
A reoptimization algorithm exploits the knowledge of an optimal solution to a problem instance for finding good solutions for a locally modified instance.
