Divide the enormous undertaking facing you into manageable tasks, prioritize appropriately, and set about accomplishing each in turn.
This may be because the task of prioritizing a few genes (often 10 20) is simpler than prioritizing the entire genome, or that the task of identifying a disease gene is more clearly defined.
With more than 80,000 chemicals in the marketplace and comprehensive toxicity data on fewer than 1,000 of them, EPA faces a herculean task of prioritizing review and regulating the most dangerous chemicals.
We found that the OD method was more efficient at the task of prioritizing gene expression outliers than other alternatives.
Given these rationalizations for the value of biodiversity, jurisdictions responsible for the protection and or management of biodiversity are commonly faced with the difficult task of prioritizing effort, expenditures, regulatory initiatives, and opportunity costs towards various units of biodiversity whether they represent individuals, populations, or ecosystems (Brooks et al. 2006).
These plots demonstrate how two processes, or tasks, interact and indicate if one task is prioritized over another, indicating a between task trade-off.
However, the current beetle epidemic in this area highlights the challenges faced by forest managers tasked with prioritizing stands for mitigation activities such as salvage harvesting and direct control methods.
Policy makers tasked with prioritizing conservation resources may benefit from using this increased predictive power to identify and direct efforts toward particularly vulnerable taxa or situations.
Give yourself a reward for accomplishing important tasks through prioritizing.
Based upon the barriers, the task force prioritized those for which there could timely and sustainable solutions (Table 1).
