" A small pilot study has found no benefit from packing of simple cutaneous abscesses.

In August 2011, two of three subjects of a pilot study were confirmed to have been cured from chronic lymphocytic leukemia ( CLL ).

Although it has morphological similarities with the pygmy killer whale, the false killer whale and the pilot whales, a study of cytochrome b gene sequences by Richard LeDuc indicated that its closest extant relatives are the snubfin dolphins of the genus Orcaella.

In 1985, LaBerge performed a pilot study which showed that time perception while counting during a lucid dream is about the same as during waking.

The National Institutes of Health's, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has funded a pilot study to determine whether a macrobiotic diet may prevent cancer.

He intended to become a pilot and moved to Germany in 1996, enrolling at the University of Greifswald to study German.

In a study conducted by U. S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences in a report published May 1995 titled " Technical Report 1027-Simulator Sickness in Virtual Environments ", out of 742 pilot exposures from 11 military flight simulators, " approximately half of the pilots ( 334 ) reported post-effects of some kind: 250 ( 34 %) reported that symptoms dissipated in less than 1 hour, 44 ( 6 %) reported that symptoms lasted longer than 4 hours, and 28 ( 4 %) reported that symptoms lasted longer than 6 hours.

No more sites were developed for the next two decades until a second ' pilot ' study in 2006 by the Highways Agency ( HA ) concluded that ramp metering provides a net benefit under certain conditions-generally more congested junctions.

Ramp metering is being introduced more widely in the Netherlands after a pilot study by the AVV Transport Research Centre which concluded that ramp metering can provide a small benefit for the traffic flow on the highway, leading to a higher capacity.

Since then, treatment had continued in the cities that participated in the pilot study, until heroin maintenance was permanently included into the national health system in May 2009.

The original pilot of Star Trek (" The Cage ", later reworked into the two-part episode " The Menagerie ") included plot points similar to that touched upon in this episode, particularly the aspect of humans being put on display for study.

In the early 1980s San Jose International Airport was one of the first U. S airports to participate in the noise regulation program enacted by the U. S. Congress for delineation of airport noise contours and developing a pilot study of residential sound insulation.

Fourteen deaf and cognitively impaired adults participated in the pilot study, and all were able to learn to use manual signs ; improved behaviour was also noted.

In the pilot episode of Mork & Mindy, Orson tells Mork that he is assigning him to study the planet Earth.

This was a pilot study with a single-group outcome design and no placebo or other control group.

The LOTO Project ( Landscape Opportunities for Territorial Organization ), a recent pilot study for regional landscape planning undertaken by the European Institute of Cultural Routes, an agency of the European Union ,< ref >

In a pilot study involving twelve lung cancer patients, chemotherapy drugs were infused with zinc in order to test its potential as a treatment.

The design step may involve a pilot study to in order to discover any hidden issues.

A pilot study suggested that topiramate is effective against infantile spasms.

In 1999 we completed a pilot study with low budget VR equipment.

The study considered a number of early childhood educational pilot programs for at risk children, similar to Head Start, but more intense, such as the Perry Project in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

For example, in educational psychology, researchers could conduct a qualitative pilot study to determine which group of students should be selected for quantitative study by observing or interviewing different groups of students.

Flight training is a course of study used when learning to pilot an aircraft.

His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.

The expression was his trade-mark, his open sesame to good luck, and his prayer that pilot and plane would always return.

And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.

`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).

The pilot plant was a circular lagoon 81 ft in diam at the surface and 65 ft in diam at the bottom, 4 ft below the surface, with a volume of 121,000 Aj.

The pilot lagoon was located as shown in Figure 1 to serve the area just south of the existing housing area.

The pilot lagoon was designed to handle the wastes from 314 persons with a 4-day aeration period.

The pilot plant was equipped with a 3-hp. turbine aerator ( Figure 2 ).

Wires whined as a cold November blast rocked the silver wings, but the engine roar was reassuring to the pilot bundled in the open cockpit.

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

Hani Hanjour, one of the hijackers who was trained as a pilot, assumed control of the flight.

He had wanted to be a commercial pilot for the Saudi national airline but was rejected when he applied to the civil aviation school in Jeddah in 1999.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

In at least one case, a plane was hijacked by the official pilot.

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

American 11 was hijacked 15 minutes after the flight departed by Omari and four other hijackers, which allowed trained pilot Mohamed Atta to crash the Boeing 767 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of an attack that killed thousands of people.

It was also quickly determined that Mohamed Atta was the pilot among the hijackers.

* portal. telegraph. co. uk ( Article which reports that the Saudi Arabian Airlines pilot named Omari was not involved with the terrorist attacks )

The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.

Jean Navarre was the pilot who was tasked to make the flight, but he died on 10 July 1919 when he crashed near Villacoublay while training for the flight.