GrapeNet is a first of its kind initiative in India that has put in place an end-to-end system for monitoring pesticide residue, achieve product standardization and facilitate tracing back from pallets to the farm of the Indian grower, through the various stages of sampling, testing, certification and packing.

The White House endorsed the integration of the Common Alerting Protocol ( CAP ) in a presidential initiative, and FEMA is in the process of testing implementation.

In 2006, the Centers for Disease Control announced an initiative for voluntary, routine testing of all Americans aged 13 – 64 during health care encounters.

The selection process features aptitude testing, medical examinations, interviews, plus a number of challenging individual plus team planning and initiative exercises.

ASCI Red ( also known as ASCI Option Red or TFLOPS ) was the first computer built under the Advanced Strategic Computing Initiative ( ASCI ), the supercomputing initiative of the United States government created to help the maintenance of the United States nuclear arsenal after the 1992 moratorium on nuclear testing.

A California ballot initiative he backed, Proposition 102, would have mandated widespread testing, tracing of sexual partners by state authorities, and a mandatory quarantine of persons with AIDS.

The Advanced Simulation and Computing Program ( formerly called Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, or ASCI ) is a supercomputing initiative of the United States government, created to help the maintenance of the United States nuclear arsenal after the 1992 moratorium on nuclear testing.

Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

It could have continued testing to the full on the grounds that the radiation danger was far less than the danger of Communist world domination.

In 1959, the Yacht Safety Bureau was reorganized by the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers and a group of insurance underwriters to provide a testing laboratory and labeling service for boats and their equipment.

Although the Taylor Scale was designed as a group testing device, in this study it was individually administered by psychologically trained workers who established rapport and assisted the children in reading the items.

Each person was to enter the testing room, carrying a suitcase of samples.

In the testing room he was to make, successively, three presentations to three different people.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

For example, the analysis of the debris at the testing site of the first U. S. hydrogen bomb, Ivy Mike, ( 1 November 1952, Enewetak Atoll ), revealed high concentrations of various actinides including americium ; due to military secrecy, this result was published only in 1956.

During this time, the groundwork was laid down for modern day fluid dynamics and aerodynamics, with other less scientifically-inclined enthusiasts testing various flying machines with little success.

The small size of the missile forebody and the K-band AN / APQ-64-radar limited performance, and it was never able to work in testing.

While he told staff that he had bumped into a suitcase, the media briefly reported it as a sign of cutaneous anthrax and a possible link to the 2001 anthrax attacks, although FBI later addressed the rumors stating that " Exhaustive testing did not support that anthrax was present anywhere the hijackers had been.

This view was challenged by China and North Korea, who accused the U. S. of large-scale field testing of biological warfare against them during the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ), but this claim has been disputed.

" Behaviorism was a reaction against " faculty " psychology which purported to see into or understand the mind without the benefit of scientific testing.

His replacement, Jacky Ickx, had a strong second half to the season, winning in Germany and Canada, after Jack Brabham was sidelined by a testing accident.

When the Soviet Union was the only member state which refused to sign, the U. S. embarked on a massive nuclear weapons testing, development, and deployment program.

" The DNA testing was originally proposed to add new members, many of whose family record books were lost during 20th-century upheavals, to the Confucian family tree.

The Chelmscombe Quarry finished its work as a limestone quarry in the 1950s and was then used by the Central Electricity Generating Board as a Tower testing station.

Pregnancy testing was conducted in the mid-20th century by injecting urine from a woman into a male toad's lymph sacs, and if spermatozoa appeared in the toad's urine, the patient was deemed to be pregnant.

Strong evidence for hybridization was found through genetic testing, which showed red wolves have only 5 % of their alleles unique from either gray wolves or coyotes.

Like BBC1, the ITV network was officially broadcast in black and white ( though programmes were actually broadcast in colour as early as July that year for colour transmission testing and adjustment ) at this point so the episode was seen by most in black and white.

The reasons why episodes were produced in colour for monochrome transmission are not stated in any literature but it is possible that it was for the purposes of testing the look of sets and costumes using the new cameras.

Cessna started his aircraft ventures in Enid, Oklahoma, testing many of his early planes on the salt flats.

He started work on Wigan Pier by the end of April, but also spent hours working on the garden and testing the possibility of re-opening the Stores as a village shop.

Cystistat is not currently available in the United States or Canada, though testing has recently started in Canada.

This was when the U. S. started testing their own systems.

started with a second place each for Hulme and Bruce in the first two Grands Prix, but in June Bruce was killed in a crash at Goodwood while testing the new M8D Can-Am car.

* Malta: Policemen have started testing Segways on patrol in Valletta.

Alpha testing of the software started in February 1987, beta-testing in May ; the release of X11 finally occurred on 15 September 1987.

NERVA NRX ( Nuclear Rocket Experimental ), started testing in September 1964.

However, in 1997, Dr Matalon's employer, the Miami Children's Hospital, patented the gene and started claiming royalties on the genetic test, forcing the Canavan Foundation to withdraw their testing.

Following extensive testing at different sites, including Siberia, the type T815 was introduced in 1982 and production started in 1983.

Tatra also went back to its roots and decided to produce once again a bonneted CBE heavy duty off road truck to continue the successful line started with T111, so in 1999 the T163 Jamal was put in to full production after first prototypes were built in 1997 and followed extensive testing including at Siberia, as a heavy duty dump truck, once again based on proven backbone tube chassis construction with the cabin designed by Jiří Španihel The T163 6 × 6 is used mainly on construction sites and in quarries.

A smaller 45-meter, 350 mm caliber gun was completed for testing purposes, and Bull then started work on the " real " PC-2 machine, a gun that was 150 meters long, weighed 2, 100 tonnes, with a bore of one meter ( 39 inches ).

It was built as stage three of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative ( ASCI ) started by the U. S. Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration to build a simulator to replace live WMD testing following the moratorium on testing started by President George H. W. Bush in 1992 and extended by Bill Clinton in 1993.

In 2012 Rothamsted started testing genetically modified wheat which has been modified to produce an aphid alarm pheromone produced by aphids when under attack, this helps deter the pests.

In 2009, Nissan started testing a new FC vehicle in Japan.

Ironically, it was at about this point that the US started its own testing in response to the Soviet program.

By May 1998 Acorn started to offer their ' Registered Developer ' scheme members the chance to pre-order a pre-launch prototype for testing and development, these were offered at a £ 950 ( ex VAT ) a significant discount on the public price of £ 1500 ( ex VAT ) revealed in June ..

The case of Rio Ferdinand started a debate about punishments relating to drug testing in football, with there being differing views on whether the punishment was too harsh or too lenient.

In 1952 ground-launched testing started at the Picton Range, a small test site set up outside Picton, Ontario near the RCAF base at Trenton, Ontario.

In 1875 the Altoona Works started a testing department for PRR equipment.

Ravitch said that the charter school and testing reform movement was started by " right wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation ," for the purpose of destroying public education and teachers ' unions.