Large scale effort In addition to reaching pregnant women and children under the age of five, blanket distribution of nets to local households is having a major impact.
Shawn Bay, the founder and chief executive of eScholar, a software company that has helped build successful student data warehouses in 20 states, said that efforts to build educational data warehouses failed no more frequently than similarly large-scale efforts in the corporate world.
STA typically concentrates its resources in large-scale efforts in select applied fields--fusion research, for example, and commercial space development.
Feds promised the biggest piece of the budget in their national high speed rail transit program earlier this year to large-scale efforts in Florida and California that would connect Tampa and Orlando with 168 MPH trains, and Los Angeles and San Francisco with trains running up to 200 MPH.
To this end, cloud computing has the potential to facilitate large-scale efforts in translational data integration and analysis.
Organizations such as MIDAS [ 6] and PACER [ 7] also recognize the utility of large-scale efforts in agent-based computation and modeling benefits.
Large-scale efforts in deeper sampling and sequencing of the transcriptome will help completely identify genes related to of transcription factor families in orchids.
A recently published study by Reimand and Bader provides a timely example of the importance of large-scale efforts in cancer genomics, and the valuable insights that mining these datasets can yield [ 1].
Cloud computing potentially offers an efficient and economical means to obtain the power and scale of computation required to facilitate large-scale efforts in translational data integration and analysis.
Current large-scale efforts in this connection include the collection of NCI-60 human tumor cell lines (containing 6 GBM lines) (Scherf et al., 2000), the translational Cancer Genomics program (Garnett et al., 2012), and the Broad-Novartis Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE) (Barretina et al., 2012) which includes 62 GBM samples.
