However, stock-taking is a critical step towards strengthening DRR as an area of scientific endeavor and translating emerging knowledge into more effective disaster plans, policies, and programs and to prevent duplication of effort.
Phil was responsible for researching and coordinating intelligence, preventing duplication of effort by police forces, and ensuring that officers working on the same case were kept informed of each other?s progress.
Rejewski commented: The inter-Allied cryptologic collaboration prevented duplication of effort and facilitated discoveries.
This unified approach to identifying research questions may also help to prevent duplication of effort.
To prevent duplication of effort, FlyBase curators stopped skimming newly published papers once we began e-mailing authors.
The most pressing problem is that of efficiency of the process: despite the fact that typically several databases attempt to focus on a particular type of biological data, and often collaborate at least sufficiently to prevent duplication of effort and ensure compatibility of resulting data formats, it is impossible for human curators to keep up with the growing pace of publication.
Modern clinical NLP systems often use Commercial off the shelf (COTS) NLP tools such as UIMA, GATE, and OpenNLP to prevent duplication of efforts.
It was also supposed to prevent duplication of efforts and level the playing field so that large sequencing centers would not have a monopoly on the information [12, 13], although, as I will describe, it is arguable whether a truly level playing field exists.
Such an effort may also prevent duplication of efforts as we have seen with the screening of multiple libraries of FDA approved compounds against the Ebola Virus.
There is a need for tools to track and share data and disseminate the results in order to prevent duplication of efforts and to encourage synergies.
