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.

* finger-nose testing-This test has several variations including finger-to-therapist's finger, finger-to-finger, and alternate nose-to-finger.

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.

In some area codes, multiple additional prefixes had been reserved for test purposes, in addition to the standard 958 and 959.

Some carriers have been known to disable payphone calls to 958 or 959 test lines, such as Bell Canada's system-wide ANAC line at 958-2580 or ( area code ) 958-6111.

Many knock-outs have been made in the apoptosis pathways to test the function of each of the proteins.

After the proper facilities had been built and the personnel hired to make such a change, the U. S. Department of Agriculture issued an injunction and refused to allow Creekstone to buy the kits necessary to test.

Humans ( older than 18 months ) and other great apes, bottlenose dolphins, pigeons, and elephants have all been observed to pass this test.

While rooted in rather different theories, these two traditions have been characterised by a constant reference to experimental research to test hypotheses, both at clinical and basic level.

In May 2007, the program, which had only previously been available digitally as a paid subscription from Audible. com, became a free podcast distributed by NPR, after a two-month test period where only a " call of the week " was available via podcast.

Today some of Lyell's mechanisms for geologic processes have been disproven, though many have stood the test of time.

New programs based on modern learning theories that test individual learning, and teach to mastery of a subject have been proved by the Kentucky Education Reform Act ( KERA ) to be far more effective than group instruction with compromise schedules, or even class-size reduction.

For example, students have been found to perform better on a test of knowledge about a text passage when a second reading of the passage is delayed rather than immediate ( see figure ).

Adjusting the scores down if an old test has been used can mean preventing capital punishment since in the United States a diagnosis of mental retardation prevents execution.

In May 1985, the vessel was instrumental for ' Operation Exodus ', the evacuation of about 300 Rongelap Atoll islanders whose home had been contaminated with nuclear fallout from a US nuclear test two decades ago which had never been cleaned up and was still having severe health effects on the locals.

Gold is insoluble in nitric acid, which dissolves silver and base metals, a property that has long been used to confirm the presence of gold in items, giving rise to the term the acid test.

He returned to Zwickau in 1527, and was chosen as town physician at Joachimsthal, a centre of mining and smelting works, his object being partly " to fill in the gaps in the art of healing ", and partly to test what had been written about mineralogy by careful observation of ores and the methods of their treatment.

Three of the 180 cases are currently been taken as " test cases " by the Department of Justice and policy with regard to firearms licences will be determined based on the outcome of these cases, according to the Ministerial Briefing document for the newly elected Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter.

He has been called the " Father of History ", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative.

Cronje, who'd previously been vice-captain, was named as captain for the test series with New Zealand in 1994-95.

In 2003 after the breakup of Columbia during re-entry, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board conducted tests at Southwest Research Institute, which used an air gun to shoot foam blocks of similar size, mass and speed to that which struck Columbia at a test structure which mechanically replicated the orbiter wing leading edge.

A prototype is an early sample or model built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.

This test replicated the initial eyewitness reports up to that point but did not provide evidence as to why the fire flashed over.

In late 1912 Abderhalden's " defensive ferments reaction test " was applied to the differential diagnosis of dementia praecox from other mental diseases and from normals by Stuttgart psychiatrist August Fauser ( 1856 – 1938 ), and his miraculous claims of success were soon replicated by researchers in Germany and particularly in the United States.

* Actor Jim Carrey replicated the Tempur-Pedic wine glass test in Yes Man.