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The merits of the Salk anti-polio vaccine were not established on the forensic platform or in newspaper editorials, but in the laboratory and by tests in the field on thousands of children.
If the new Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far.
The saline and albumin tests were performed as described for the ABO samples except that the mixture was incubated for 1 hr at 37-degrees-C before centrifugation.
The red cells for the Rh antibody tests were used within 3 days after drawing except for the Af cells, which had been glycerolized and stored at -20-degrees-C for approximately 1 year.
For purposes of sample selection only ( individual tests were given later ) we obtained group test scores of reading achievement and intelligence from school records of the entire third-grade population in each school system.
It is as follows: `` The usual sensitivity tests showed that the specific qualities of skin-perceptiveness ( pressure, pain, temperature ), as well as the kinesthetic sensations ( muscular feelings, feelings in the tendons and joints ), were, as such, essentially intact, although they seemed, in comparison with normal reactions, to be somewhat diminished over the entire body.
A series of eight special tests were conducted at different rotor speeds to determine the oxygen transfer rate.
Five of the tests were conducted with a polyethylene cover to simulate an ice cover.
At Oxford one hundred years ago there were very few Catholics, partly because religious tests were removed only in 1854.
The discs were designed by Gaudí and Jujol between tests during their stay in Majorca, while working on the restoration of the Cathedral of Palma.
Many clinical tests were inconclusive, probably because it had been used as a surface antiseptic.
Ten of the tests, which had a total of 300 participants, involved subjects picking the correct chart interpretation out of a number of others which were not the astrologically correct chart interpretation ( usually 3 to 5 others ).
These tests were performed under wet exposure conditions.
The Lions ' 2005 tour to New Zealand, coached by 2003 England world cup winning coach Clive Woodward, won all seven games against provincial teams however suffered heavy defeats in all three tests and were narrowly defeated by the New Zealand Maori team.
In June 2011, the Health Minister of Malaysia, Liow Tiong Lai, instructed companies selling " Strawberry Syrup ", a material used in some bubble teas, to stop selling them after chemical tests showed they were tainted with a carcinogen identified as DEHP.
The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

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In a study of the use of econometrics in major economics journals, McCloskey concluded that economists report p values ( following the Fisherian tradition of tests of significance of point null-hypotheses ), neglecting concerns of type II errors ; economists fail to report estimates of the size of effects ( apart from statistical significance ) and to discuss their economic importance.
After examining the long history of empirical research, Bowen, Hollander and Viane concluded: " Recent tests of the factor abundance theory theory and its developed form into many-commodity and many-factor case that directly examine the H-O-V equations also indicate the rejection of the theory.
Other modern tests described by Bane include those by Williams ( which concluded that longbows could not penetrate maille, but in Bane's view did not use a realistic arrow tip ), Robert Hardy's tests ( which achieved broadly similar results to Bane ), and a Primitive Archer test which demonstrated that a longbow could penetrate a plate armour breastplate.
The series all generated 1100 MW, and many of the tests concluded only when the test-stand ran out of hydrogen propellant.
Scientists concluded after the tests were completed that a large release of anthrax spores would thoroughly pollute German cities, rendering them uninhabitable for decades afterwards.
In November 1943, the U. S. military conducted a series of tests as well on several Type 82s they had captured in North Africa ; they concluded that the vehicle was simpler, easier to manufacture and maintain, faster, and more comfortable for four passengers than the U. S. Jeeps.
After running dye tests in the bore hole, they concluded that the flooding was caused by a natural interaction between the island's freshwater lens and tidal pressures in the underlying geology, refuting the idea of artificially constructed flood tunnels.
" Although a Human Effects Advisory Panel was established in 1998 to provide independent assessment on human effects, data, and models for the use of ' non-lethal weapons ' on the general population, the TECOM Technology Symposium in 1997 concluded on non-lethal weapons: " Determining the target effects on personnel is the greatest challenge to the testing community ," primarily because " the potential of injury and death severely limits human tests.
The French tests concluded in early 1996.
Toxicity tests by Dow Corning shows the solvent to increase the incidence of tumors in female rats ( no effects were seen in male rats ), but further research concluded that the effects observed in rats are not relevant to humans because the biological pathway that results in tumor formation is unique to rats.
He concluded it was infrasound caused by a large fan and duct system and soon got to work preparing tests in the labs.
HIV experts reviewed the three tests and concluded that the 1996 result had been a false positive.
This review panel then issued its own 24-page report ( PB 211-014, available from NTIS ), which concluded that " the 1960-63 Corvair compares favorably with contemporary vehicles used in the tests ... the handling and stability performance of the 1960-63 Corvair does not result in an abnormal potential for loss of control or rollover, and it is at least as good as the performance of some contemporary vehicles both foreign and domestic.
However, on 8 July an appeals court overturned Mijailović's sentence after tests had concluded that he was suffering from a mental illness at the time of the killing.
However, on 8 July, an appeals court overturned that sentence after tests had concluded that he was suffering from a mental illness at the time of the killing.
In 2006, Dr. Wolfgang E. Krumbein, ( Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg ), having analyzed the ossuary, concluded that the Israeli Antiquities Authority's conclusion "... originate from a series of errors, biases, mistaken premises, use of inappropriate methodology, mistaken geochemistry, defective error control, reliance on unconfirmed data, disregard of information ( such as the cleaning and preservation actions performed the ossuary, and the use of a comparative isotope methodology despite the fact that the ossuary inscription fail to meet the cumulative prerequisite conditions for such tests and comparisons.
This review panel concluded that " the 1960 – 63 Corvair compares favorably with contemporary vehicles used in the tests ... the handling and stability performance of the 1960 – 63 Corvair does not result in an abnormal potential for loss of control or rollover, and it is at least as good as the performance of some contemporary vehicles both foreign and domestic.
After carefully testing more than a thousand small specimens without knots or other defects, Buffon concluded that it was not possible to extrapolate to the properties of full-size timbers, and he began a series of tests on full-size structural members.
The first, released in 1995, concluded that the reported recovered material in 1947 was likely debris from a secret government program called Project Mogul, which involved high altitude balloons meant to detect sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests and ballistic missiles.
DNA tests concluded, on August 30 of that year, that the body exhumed in January was that of Duquet.
In 2005, a Massey University study in New Zealand concluded that sailors from the Royal New Zealand Navy, Royal Navy and Fijian Navy who observed the tests from nearby ships later suffered adverse health effects from exposure to radiation fallout, including cancer and genetic abnormalities in the veterans ' children.
Subsequently, the CPS concluded that there would be no prosecutions of scientists involved in the tests, although the decision will be reviewed following the result of the inquest into the death of a volunteer, Ronald Maddison, in November 2004.
After doing these tests, the scientists involved concluded three significant things.

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In January 1951, the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation of Elizabeth, NJ published Dianetic Processing: A Brief Survey of Research Projects and Preliminary Results, a booklet providing the results of psychometric tests conducted on 88 people undergoing Dianetics therapy.
* January 7 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
* January 3 – Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
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.
She also asked Louisa Adams in a letter dated January 3, 1818, " When will Mankind be convinced that true Religion is from the Heart, between Man and his creator, and not the imposition of Man or creeds and tests?
Designed by Argentine architect César Pelli and Filipino-Malaysian Engineer Deejay Cerico under the consultancy of J. C. Guinto, and Filipino Designer Dominic " Minick " Saibo, the Petronas Towers were planning started on 1 January 1992 after rigorous tests and simulations of wind and structural loads on the design after seven years of construction and became the tallest buildings in the world, It was excavators began digging down 30 metres below the surface of the site on 1 March 1993.
Five atmospheric tests were detonated, starting on 27 January 1951 at Area 5 as part of Operation Ranger.
In late January 2011, the airport hosted sea level tests for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
The Navy won the contest to design and control the tests, and on January 11, 1946, Admiral William H. P. Blandy was appointed head of Army / Navy Joint Task Force One ( JTF-1 ), newly created to conduct the tests which he named Operation Crossroads.
In January 1867, Baldorioty de Castro received a communication from Puerto Rico's Superior Instruction Juncture, notifying him that he was selected as a member of the Test Commission, where he was in charge of monitoring tests being issued in physics and the natural sciences.
In a letter to his wife two days later, David Selznick admitted that Leigh was " the Scarlett dark horse ," and after a series of screen tests, her casting was announced on January 13, 1939.
Although there were indications that tests of the worm were carried out as early as August 2002, Sobig. A was first found in the wild in January 2003.
Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, in January of 2040, the U. N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden.
IBA transmission tests commenced in January 1973 and Capital Radio went on air on 16 October 1973, ten days after LBC, using the following FM and AM frequencies: 95. 8 MHz FM from the Croydon transmitter station and 557 kHz ( 539 m ) MW from London Transport's Lots Road Power Station, Chelsea.
He passed his midshipman tests on 20 January 1805 and shortly afterwards was posted to HMS Prince George, but on 27 June, at the request of his uncle, Rear-Admiral Charles Stirling, he joined his uncle's flagship, the 98-gun HMS Glory.
A January 2007 study from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that saliva tests of the enzyme amylase could be used to indicate sleep debt, as the enzyme increases its activity in correlation with the length of time a subject has been deprived of sleep.
The last known occasion that this card was broadcast on British screens was Friday 9 January 2004, when early morning tests were carried out on BBC One and BBC Two.
Editorial cartoon from the January 18, 1879, issue of Harper's Weekly criticizing the use of literacy tests.
The interim report, released on 22 January 2004, was perceived by the media as supporting a complete abolishment of the statutory tests at both Key Stages 2 and 3.
Running tests started on the THSR high speed line on January 27, 2005, after four months of delays, on the Tainan – Kaohsiung section.
Selected by RCA as a Payload Specialist ; and approved by NASA to fly on the space shuttle Columbia on Space Shuttle Mission STS-61-C. During the six-day mission, ( January 12 to 18, 1986 ) he performed a variety of physiological tests, observed the deployment of the RCA Satcom Ku-1 satellite, and operated primary experiment, an infrared imaging camera.
The first such test took place in January 1973, and the concept was proved to be valid in a subsequent series of tests.

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