Title IX has been a source of controversy in part due to claims that the OCR's current interpretation of Title IX, and specifically its three-prong test of compliance, is no longer faithful to the anti-discrimination language in Title IX's text, and instead discriminates against men and has contributed to the reduction of programs for male athletes.

As such, with a focus on increasing female athletic opportunities without any counterbalance to take male athletic interest into consideration, critics maintain that the OCR's three-prong test actually operates to discriminate against men.

On April 20, 2010, the United States Commission on Civil Rights weighed in on the OCR's three-prong test and procedures for implementing it.

Critics of the three-prong test contend that it operates as a " quota " in that it places undue emphasis on the first prong ( known as the " proportionality " prong ), which fails to take into account any differences in the genders ' respective levels of interest in participating in athletics ( in spite of the third prong, which focuses on any differences in the genders ' respective levels of interest in participation ).

Defenders of the three-prong test counter that the genders ' differing athletic interest levels is merely a product of past discrimination, and that Title IX should be interpreted to maximize female participation in athletics regardless of any existing disparity in interest.

Thus while defenders argue that the three-prong test embodies the maxim that " opportunity drives interest ", critics argue that the three-prong test goes beyond Title IX original purpose of preventing discrimination, and instead amounts to an exercise in which athletic opportunities are taken away from male students and given to female students, despite the comparatively lower interest levels of those female students.

However, Justice O ' Connor used the three-prong test of Mathews v. Eldridge to limit the due process to be received.

For the plain view doctrine to apply for discoveries, the three-prong Horton test requires:

Usually this takes the form of a small three-prong implement which is attached to the top of the bridge with one prong between each pair of strings, although anything which stops the bridge vibrating will suffice, and sprung clothes pegs, for example, have been used.

At harvest time, gardeners usually dig up potatoes with a long-handled, three-prong " grape " ( or graip ), i. e., a spading fork, or a potato hook, which is similar to the graip but with tines at a 90 degree angle to the handle.

The semester-long, immersion program involves a three-prong partnership with Taylor University, the Universidad del Azuay, and the Verbo Church of Cuenca.

The Netherlands East Indies was invaded in a three-prong attack by using 3 groups: western, center and eastern group.

In spite of his demotion, Ángeles formulated the rebel grand strategy of a three-prong attack south to Mexico City: ( 1 ) Obregón would advance south along the western railroad, ( 2 ) Pancho Villa would advance south along the central railroad, and ( 3 ) Pablo González Garza would advance south along the eastern railroad.

In the initial stage, the British forces would advance in a three-prong assault to clear the frontier region.

Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.

I knew of but one test and I threw it out to her for what it was worth.

Naturally, the statewide races will provide the major test for the expanding council.

We cannot test public opinion until the President and the leaders of the country have gone to the public to explain what is required and have asked them for support for the necessary action.

It's extremely accurate for an auto, and the test rifle I tried was completely trouble-free in functioning.

This first test is being leased for ten years but future projects will require at least 15 years.

The x-ray data did not permit Douglass to determine uniquely the space group, but a negative test for piezoelectricity led him to assume a center of symmetry.

The saline tubes were saved and used for the indirect Coombs test in the following manner.

In all cases the activity against Af cells was spread over a wider area than that with Af cells, regardless of the type of test ( saline, albumin, indirect Coombs ) used for comparison.

In 1913 an abortive provision was made for the stay of federal injunction proceedings upon institution of state court test cases.

And the monastic communities were supposed to be made up of volunteers selected only after a novitiate which would test their religious aptitude for monastic rigors, their spiritual athleticism.

This test method is intended for determining the dimensional changes of woven or knitted fabrics, made of fibers other than wool, to be expected when the cloth is subjected to laundering procedures commonly used in the commercial laundry and the home.

The wash wheel is the equipment preferred for the test.

Hudson now proposed to sail all the way through and test the seas beyond for the long-sought waterway.

There was no close examination of his clothes for bloodstains, and certainly no scientific test was made of them.

The bond issue will go to the state courts for a friendly test suit to test the validity of the act, and then the sales will begin and contracts let for repair work on some of Georgia's most heavily traveled highways.

If the Orioles are to break their losing streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon.

Finally, there was a wide area of agreement on the value of the President's making a final effort in the summit spotlight for a nuclear test accord.

Just to test himself, he played roulette for quarters on his old combination, five and seventeen, and within an hour, he had won, surprisingly, twenty dollars.

Pete stood by with a slide and took the smear, sent it down to the lab with a request for the test.

Although many UML tools support some of the new features of UML 2. x, the OMG provides no test suite to objectively test compliance with its specifications.

When a plan fails the ADP test, it essentially has two options to come into compliance.

Like all compliance testing, it is important that the test equipment, including the test chamber or site and any software used, be properly calibrated and maintained.

* Food sampling, the process of taking a representative portion of a food for analysis, usually to test for quality, safety or compositional compliance.

* Monitoring of nuclear test ban compliance ( see National Technical Means )

In January 2008 the FDA cleared a home test called SpermCheck Vasectomy that allows patients to perform postvasectomy confirmation tests themselves ; however compliance for postvasectomy semen analysis in general remains low.

* Acid2 test compliance.

On March 17, 2005, OCR announced a clarification of prong three of the three-part test of Title IX compliance.

On April 20, 2010, the U. S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights abandoned the 2005 clarification that allowed institutions to use only Internet or e &# 8209 ; mail surveys to meet the interests and abilities ( third prong ) option of the three-part test for Title IX compliance.

These dealt with considering non-scholarship athletes in prong one of the three-part test for compliance and allowing interest surveys to determine compliance with prong three.

* Give equal weight to all three prongs of the test governing Title IX compliance

Traceability supports numerous software engineering activities such as change impact analysis, compliance verification or traceback of code, regression test selection, and requirements validation.

Additionally, the compliance test suites have been criticized for being buggy and incomplete — most notably, in 2005 Ulrich Drepper criticized the LSB for poorly written tests which can cause incompatibility between LSB-certified distributions when some implement incorrect behavior to make buggy tests work, while others apply for and receive waivers from complying with the tests.

* Legal assurance that the successful test has resulted in a certification listing, which is considered public information, which sets out the tolerances and conditions of use for the certified product, to enable compliance with the law through listing and approval use and compliance,

* nuclear test detection experiments are designed to improve the capabilities to detect, locate, and identify nuclear detonations, in particular to monitor compliance with test-ban treaties.

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology ( CCHIT ) has developed an open-source program called Laika to test EHR software for compliance with CCHIT interoperability standards.

IEC Standards are used by members of the CB Scheme of international agreements to test and certify products for safety compliance.

* Part 307: Analysis and compliance test methods for electronic visual displays

One of the US Vela satellites used to monitor compliance with the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty recorded an event near the Prince Edward Islands that had the characteristic " double flash " signature of a small nuclear test.