Basically it is a meticulous statistical analysis of global carbon dioxide measurements that have been going on for decades, including the renowned monitoring effort on the slopes of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii.
That kind of conclusion takes much more walking the same trails over and over and in the end -- while you can never be certain the animals are absent -- you can at least focus your long-term monitoring effort on areas where you are more likely to find them.
There also needs to be extra monitoring effort on aquifers.
This said, the basic evidential principles outlined here remain the same, and demonstrate how crucial it is, when resources are limited, to focus monitoring efforts on those parameters which maximise strength of inference about key hidden conditions and latent factors, such as magma ascent.
First, although respondents were unanimous that the purpose medication reconciliation was to decrease errors, monitoring efforts focused on completion of the medication reconciliation process (i.e., compliance), with limited resources allocated to monitoring its accuracy or effectiveness (i.e., effect on medication errors).
Although migratory pathways and the poultry trade should continue to be scrutinized, monitoring efforts should focus on wintering and breeding habitats of migrating waterfowl, especially wetlands located within ecoregions with a disproportionately large number of avian influenza outbreaks.
In general, to better understand seafood Hg concentrations, monitoring efforts should focus on seafood items that tend to exceed federal criteria (e.g., the U.S. EPA criterion of 0.3 ppm), that are relatively understudied, or that have highly variable Hg content.
Based on our findings, monitoring efforts and insecticide applications for R. mendax should be targeted mainly to fields close to upland forest and directed to the field borders within distances of less than 80 m from field edges.
And on the monitoring efforts of licensing officials – including, most recently, backlash against new licensing "spy vans" – one commenter says: "Wish they'd have spent as much time keeping an eye on Jimmy Savile..."...
They are often focused on specific areas, and this should be considered in national measurement and monitoring efforts [18, 19].
It demanded that BP release and post all data related to the month-old spill and monitoring efforts on a public Web site.
