The committees of the SIG deal with the other aspects of licensing, marketing and review including developing and maintaining the Qualification Process, oversight of the Bluetooth specifications, and developing, improving and maintaining the test methodology and concepts as well as other strategic functions.

In many circumstances, test users play a significant role in developing software.

Allowing users to test developing products can have its limits in effectiveness, as the culture of the industry and desired outcomes can affect the effect on CRM creation, as a 2008 case study suggests that the responsiveness of test users can vary dramatically depending on the industry and field of the user.

The W3C is developing a comprehensive test suite to achieve broad interoperability for the full specification by 2014, which is now the target date for Recommendation.

Some varieties of potato contain greater glycoalkaloid concentrations than others ; breeders developing new varieties test for this, and sometimes have to discard an otherwise promising cultivar.

However, professional and practitioner associations frequently have placed these concerns within broader contexts when developing standards and making overall judgments about the quality of any test as a whole within a given context.

After the test, India continued expanding its nuclear power capacity and developing its nuclear physics programme, but made no further nuclear tests until 1998.

Researchers are also interested in proteins that can fold into more than one stable configuration ; protein aggregation diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease and Huntington's Disease as well as prion diseases such as Mad Cow disease can be better understood by constructing ( and deconstructing ) disease models ; the most common way of doing this is by developing a way of inducing the desired disease state in test animals ( administering MPTP to give the animals Parkinson's disease, or knocking out a gene essential for the prevention of certain tumors from the animals ' genomes ).

The USSR countered by rapidly developing their own nuclear weapons, surprising the US with their first test in 1949.

In turn, the U. S. countered by developing the vastly more powerful thermonuclear weapon, testing their first hydrogen bomb in 1952 at Ivy Mike, but the USSR quickly countered by testing their own thermonuclear weapons, with a test in 1953 of a semi-thermonuclear weapon of the Sloika design, and in 1956, with the testing of Sakharov's Third Idea – equivalent to the Castle Bravo device.

* 1960s ( developing ): The US unsuccessfully sought Australian permission to test Sarin and VX gas on 200 " mainly Australian " troops, probably in the Iron Range rainforest near Lockhart River, Queensland.

Locusts thus provided a valuable " test bed " for better biological understanding and developing new technologies for microbial pesticides.

At Ursinus he worked for several years developing a digital electronic computing machine to test the theory that solar fluctuations, sun spots in particular, affect our weather.

His accomplishments from 1989 to 1992 included testing the F / A-18 and A-7 aircraft ; performing research work with NASA on pitch control margin simulation and flight ; completing the first military flight of F / A-18 enhanced performance engines ; piloting the first flight test of the National Aerospace Plane external burning hydrogen propulsion engine ; developing a new handling qualities rating scale for high angle-of-attack test ; and participating in the F / A-18 out-of-control recovery test program.

During 1989 L ' Oreal ceased to test finished products prior to their launch on the market and has committed to developing alternative methods.

In the early 1900s Baden-Powell began developing the concepts of scouting and he put his theories to the test during the summer of 1907.

The aforementioned article, referring to the alleged test as " a great event that demonstrated the rapidly developing cutting-edge science and technology of the DPRK ", also makes mention of efforts by North Korean scientists to develop " safe and environment-friendly new energy ", and made no mention of plans to use fusion technology in its nuclear weapons program.

The test stand was modified in the early 60's for use in developing and testing the Apollo era Rocketdyne F-1 rocket engine that propelled man to the moon.

Amniocentesis ( also referred to as amniotic fluid test or AFT ) is a medical procedure used in prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal abnormalities and fetal infections, in which a small amount of amniotic fluid, which contains fetal tissues, is sampled from the amnion or amniotic sac surrounding a developing fetus, and the fetal DNA is examined for genetic abnormalities.

Esperanto literature began before the official publication of the constructed language Esperanto ; the language's creator, L. L. Zamenhof, translated poetry and prose into the language as he was developing it as a test of its completeness and expressiveness, and published several translations and a short original poem as an appendix to the first book on the language, Unua Libro.

Capillary blood sampling can be used to test for, for example, blood glucose ( such as in blood glucose monitoring ), hemoglobin, pH and lactate ( the two latter can be quantified in fetal scalp blood testing to check the acid base status of a fetus during childbirth ).

* The direct Coombs test is used to confirm that the fetus or neonate has an immune mediated hemolytic anemia.

This is a painless test performed using sound waves and is virtually identical to the scanning done in pregnancy to look at the fetus.

During the episode " Secrets of the Soul ", a flashback is shown of Lyta Alexander floating in a Vorlon test tube ; the camera then pans past two other test tubes showing a Drazi fetus and then a Centauri fetus.

A pregnancy test will be positive even if there is no embryo / fetus.

An example of the rational connection test being failed can be found in R. v. Morgentaler ( 1988 ), in which Dickson was of the opinion that laws against abortion should be struck down partly because of a breach of health rights under section 7 and an irrational connection between the objective ( protecting the fetus and the pregnant woman's health ), and the process by which therapeutic abortions were granted.

Vibroacoustic stimulation can wake the fetus, and is sometimes used to speed up the test or to facilitate further evaluation of a nonreactive nonstress test.

A contraction stress test ( CST ) is performed near the end of pregnancy to determine how well the fetus will cope with the contractions of childbirth.

* First trimester screening, a prenatal test aimed to detect diseases or conditions in a fetus or embryo

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.