In fourteen recent test launchings, at ranges of five thousand miles, Atlas has been striking on an average within two miles of the target.

The weather bureau has estimated that radioactive fallout from the test might arrive here next week.

Later experiments are often designed to test a hypothesis that a treatment effect has an important magnitude ; in this case, the number of experimental units is chosen so that the experiment is within budget and has adequate power, among other goals.

This district includes notable schools such as the magnet Liberal Arts and Science Academy, which, by test scores, has always been within the top thirty high schools in the nation.

Conversely, a standard line on which voice service has been unsubscribed ( such as an ADSL dry loop ) may still accept calls to the 958 test exchange but not allow calls to standard numbers.

The customer specifies scenarios to test when a user story has been correctly implemented.

The " Ramsey test " for evaluating probability distributions is implementable in theory, and has kept experimental psychologists occupied for a half century.

It should be noted, however, the ' formal ' test is criticised for not including consideration of convergent evolution, and Theobald has defended the method against this claim.

Historically, allegations of cannibalism were used by the colonial powers to justify the enslavement of what were seen as primitive peoples ; cannibalism has been said to test the bounds of cultural relativism as it challenges anthropologists " to define what is or is not beyond the pale of acceptable human behavior ".

" is too loaded with spurious connotations to be meaningful ; but he proposed to replace all such questions with a specific operational test, which has become known as the Turing test.

The Turing test is commonly cited in discussions of artificial intelligence as a proposed criterion for machine consciousness ; it has provoked a great deal of philosophical debate.

If a compression test does give a low figure, and it has been determined it is not due to intake valve closure / camshaft characteristics, then one can differentiate between the cause being valve / seat seal issues and ring seal by squirting engine oil into the spark plug orifice, in a quantity sufficient to disperse across the piston crown and the circumference of the top ring land, and thereby effect the mentioned seal.

The search for a valid and reliable test of clairvoyance has resulted in thousands of experiments.

It has been suggested that this test is unfairly beneficial to the prosecution.

However, the current DCI standards were made with the intention of standing the test of time, much like 35 mm film which has evolved but still retained compatibility over a substantial part of a century.

An electric field has the special property that it is conservative, which means that the path taken by the test charge is irrelevant: all paths between two specified points expend the same energy, and thus a unique value for potential difference may be stated.

Using the ratio test it is possible to show that this power series has an infinite radius of convergence, and so defines e < sup > z </ sup > for all complex z.

Hoxby, who has researched the systemic effects of school choice, determined that areas with greater residential school choice have consistently higher test scores at a lower per-pupil cost than areas with very few school districts ( see Hoxby, 1998 ).

Most recently, public outcry against No Child Left Behind testing and teaching to the test has brought progressive education again into the limelight.

This avoids confusion between past events ( which cannot be changed ), the present ( which one can test but not generally change ) and future events ( which one still has time to change even on a large scale ), which can prevent noticing or taking an action to improve a future outcome.

" Then examine it and test it by these rules you have, and firstly, and chiefly, by this: whether the impression has to do with the things that are up to us, or those that are not ; and if it has to do with the things that are not up to us, be ready to reply, " It is nothing to me.

Fiedler went on to make several other test flights before German pilots took over the Reichenberg missiles.

In its simplest form, ANOVA provides a statistical test of whether or not the means of several groups are all equal, and therefore generalizes t-test to more than two groups.

The Ames test uses several strains of the bacterium Salmonella typhimurium that carry mutations in genes involved in histidine synthesis i. e. it is an auxotrophic mutant, so that they require histidine for growth.

It also supports several advanced features, such as cryptographic signature checking and test result reporting.

Additionally, the cylinder pressure developed when an engine is running will be higher than that shown in a compression test for several reasons.

On Feb 27th 2008 the incumbent president Leonel Fernández test rode the system for the first time and free service was offered thereafter several times.

John Mark Byers agreed to, and subsequently passed, a polygraph test during the filming of Paradise Lost 2: Revelations in regard to the murders, but the documentary indicated that Byers was under the influence of several psychoactive prescription medications that could have affected the test results.

No test is capable of directly comparing the explosive properties of two or more compounds ; it is important to examine the data from several such tests ( sand crush, trauzl, and so forth ) in order to gauge relative brisance.

Until the end of the silent era, several inches were cut from the start of each shot developed to test it.

The real purpose of this car was to test several improvements originating from Kar Kraft, Shelby and McLaren.

: W3C began development of its own Arena browser as a test bed for HTML 3 and Cascading Style Sheets, but HTML 3. 0 did not succeed for several reasons.

The Binet has also been revised several times and is now similar to the Wechsler in several aspects, but the Wechsler continues to be the most popular test in the United States.

There were also several nuclear test missiles that were launched from Johnston Island in 1962 during the " Operation Dominic " series of nuclear tests, from a launchpad at.

In single fiber electromyography ( SFEMG ), which is considered to be the most sensitive ( although not the most specific ) test for MG, a thin needle electrode is inserted into different areas of a particular muscle to record the action potentials from several samplings of different individual muscle fibers.

Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.

The disciplines are not all " races " or timed-speed events, as several disciplines test a competitor's various riding skills.

For example, a general purpose processor might require several instructions to test a bit in a register and branch if the bit is set, where a micro-controller could have a single instruction to provide that commonly required function.

The scientists used several locations in the USSR for their works, the largest was a massive test range to the West from Lake Balkhash.

There are several small SMES units available for commercial use and several larger test bed projects.

By 1961, several test articles were ready for testing from USAF B-52 bombers, with drop-tests starting in January.

The Delta 183 program used a satellite known as Delta Star to test several sensor related technologies.