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.

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

In the narrative, just prior to this test, when Joseph had first met all of his brothers ( but not identified himself to them ), he had held a feast for them ; the narrative heavily implies that Benjamin was Joseph's favorite brother, since he is overcome with tears when he first meets Benjamin in particular, and he gives Benjamin five times as much food as he apportions to the others.

In Australia and South Africa, much anticipated test matches are played on Boxing Day.

If a second compression test is performed shortly thereafter, and the new reading is much higher, it would be the ring seal that is problematic, whereas if the compression test pressure observed remains low, it is a valve sealing ( or more rarely head gasket, or breakthrough piston or rarer still cylinder wall damage ) issue.

Similarly so, researchers note the potential for costly delay if developers spend too much time attempting to coerce hesitant test users from participating.

By 1990, after efforts by Wendy's agency, Backer Spielvolgel Bates, to get humor into the campaign, a decision was made to portray Thomas in a more self-deprecating and folksy manner, which proved much more popular with test audiences.

If confirmed, this would imply special relativity is an approximation to a more general theory, but since the relevant comparison would ( by definition ) be outside the observable universe, it is difficult to imagine ( much less construct ) experiments to test this hypothesis.

") appears to be much easier than the problem of actually finding the factors of N. Specifically, the former can be solved in polynomial time ( in the number n of digits of N ) with the AKS primality test.

I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist.

Algorithms that are much more efficient than trial division have been devised to test the primality of large numbers.

Besides its established role as a diagnostic technique, PET has an expanding role as a method to assess the response to therapy, in particular, cancer therapy, where the risk to the patient from lack of knowledge about disease progress is much greater than the risk from the test radiation.

The HWR test is no longer much used, outside of New York law.

The prototype impressed Bushnell and Dabney so much that they felt it could be a profitable product and decided to test its marketability.

Without such instrumentation one might have to have someone crouched over Windows Task Manager at the server to see how much CPU load the performance tests are generating ( assuming a Windows system is under test ).

In July 1962, a 1. 44 megaton ( 6. 0 PJ ) United States nuclear test in space, above the mid-Pacific Ocean, called the Starfish Prime test, demonstrated to nuclear scientists that the magnitude and effects of a high altitude nuclear explosion were much larger than had been previously calculated.

Although these weapons were much smaller ( 300 kiloton or 1. 3 PJ ) than the Starfish Prime test, since those tests were done over a populated large land mass ( and also at a location where the Earth's magnetic field was greater ), the damage caused by the resulting EMP was reportedly much greater than in the Starfish Prime nuclear test.

A much more accurate data set can be obtained from an adiabatic calorimeter, but such a test may take 2 – 3 days from ambient at a rate of 3 ° C increment per half hour.

At that time, because the retrovirus had only been recently identified as the AIDS virus, much of the pooled factor VIII concentrate supply in hospitals was tainted because doctors did not know how to test for the disease, and donors often did not know they were infected or that blood was a factor in the transmission of the virus.

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.

* One-way ANOVA is used to test for differences among two or more independent groups ( means ), e. g. different levels of urea application in a crop.

The algorithm proceeds by successive subtractions in two loops: IF the test B ≥ A yields " yes " ( or true ) ( more accurately the number b in location B is greater than or equal to the number a in location A ) THEN the algorithm specifies B ← B − A ( meaning the number b − a replaces the old b ).

This is a negative Romberg's test, or more accurately, it denotes the individual's inability to carry out the test, because the individual feels unstable even with open eyes.

The former astrologer, and scientist, Geoffrey Deans and psychologist Ivan Kelly conducted a large scale scientific test, involving more than one hundred cognitive, behavioral, physical and other variables, but found no support for astrology.

When the students were asked to comment on the accuracy of the test with a rating more than 40 % gave it the top mark of 5 out of 5, and the average rating was 4. 2.

A more flexible test, covering autocorrelation of higher orders and applicable whether or not the regressors include lags of the dependent variable, is the Breusch – Godfrey test.

The tester strains also carry mutations in the genes responsible for lipopolysaccharide synthesis, making the cell wall of the bacteria more permeable, and in the excision repair system to make the test more sensitive.

After extensive antimicrobial testing according to the Agency ’ s stringent test protocols, 355 copper alloys, including many brasses, were found to kill more than 99. 9 % of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ), E. coli O157: H7, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterobacter aerogenes, and vancomycin-resistant Enterococci ( VRE ) within two hours of contact.

A novel assay that mimics dry bacterial exposure to touch surfaces was developed because this test method is thought to more closely replicate real world touch surface exposure conditions.

A more refined measure for this exercise is to weigh the completed bridge rather than measure against a fixed quantity of materials provided and determine the multiple of this weight that the bridge can carry, a test that emphasizes economy of materials and efficient glue joints ( see balsa wood bridge ).

The team managed two early wins before losing the test to New Zealand and only winning one more game as well as drawing once.

In both countries, BCG vaccination is not routinely given to adults because it is felt that having a reliable Mantoux test and being able to accurately detect active disease is more beneficial to society than vaccinating against a relatively rare ( in those countries ) condition.

That made the Browns ' entry into the NFL in the 1950 season the first test of whether their early supremacy could carry over into a more established league.

If a problem is suspected then a more comprehensive test using a leak-down tester can locate the leak.

* Those participating in the writing course sought out test users more frequently to add a perspective outside their own as developer.

Researchers note that developers began to limit seeking input from test users after the test users suggested remedies the developers felt were improbable, leading the developers to believe consulting the test users would only prove to be more work.

To measure how well the program is exercised by a test suite, one or more coverage criteria are used.