The second most critical issue is that the code follow the Ptolemy coding convention.
For irrigated sorghum, solar radiation was the second most critical input instead of rainfall.
The demand for "honest and transparent governance" was the second most critical issue highlighted by respondents in the UN's global survey for a better world.
The most critical problem of education in the world's developing countries is that of providing elementary schooling for all or even most of their children, and the second most critical problem then becomes one of keeping those children in school.
Intensive speculation therefore stands as the second most critical issue, after extreme land constraints, which has pushed the development of housing projects to fringe lowlands and agricultural lands (Fig. 4).
Despite the overwhelming evidence that investing in children during the first, most critical years of life (birth to 5) pays the greatest future dividends, nearly every penny of the $634 billion we'll spend on education this year will be poured into grades K-12.
In Sobral, Brazil, 'social mothers' like Franciane are helping to make a clean sweep in the reduction of under-5 mortality by helping mothers during pregnancy and in the first, most critical, month of a baby's life.
Investments in the data supply chain including data capture, movement, data prep, and management is the second-most critical area followed by investments in IoT infrastructure.
Now we're back up to five or six hundred". But it is still on the trust's "endangered" list, its second most critical rating.
Eduardo Porter reports, "...Republican candidates unequivocally proclaimed...The first most critical step is to get the federal government out of the poverty business, take the money from federal welfare programs and hand it to the states which are closer to the problem and will have better ideas".
