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As part of its missile and nuclear-force modernization, China is also focusing on developing its sea-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) such as the JL-2, testing the DF21-D as an anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) for maritime strikes, and further developing its anti-satellite weapon capabilities (ASAT).
The North Korean government is not so much interested in testing the new US president as it is in testing nuclear devices and missiles.
For some people, this will mean expensive genetic testing and designer diets, but for most, it will mean realistic advice based on visibly demonstrable phenotypes – a tendency to gain weight, for example, or an intolerance or allergic response to certain food types.
But even with proper statistical testing, many tens of thousands of these biological factors may seem to be important due to mere chance.
Local healthcare clinics started bundling testing and treatment for the two diseases; and, as anti-viral medications have become available in Africa, the rate of TB infections in HIV patients has begun to fall.
They announced that the therapy they were testing, an antiretroviral drug called Truvada, had proved effective enough to end the randomized phases of the trials, and that they were offering the pill to all of the studies’ participants.
The risk can never be reduced to zero, but the stress testing carried out by regulators shows that most major banks can now survive very extreme economic shocks.
Testing is only a small element of a weapons program – and not necessarily an essential one.
In recalibrating their WMD development and testing strategies, North Korea’s leaders hope to offset the military and technological superiority of the US-South Korea alliance, thereby attaining greater economic and political leverage in the region, and, most important, guaranteeing the regime’s survival.
Brazil is already testing its appeal as an energy power through the actions of its powerful state energy company, Petrobras, which is now as active in Africa as it is in Argentina.
Before they began building their islands in the South China Sea, they spent several months testing possible US reactions through symbolic moves.
These early initiatives can serve as important testing grounds for new curricula and methods.
Meanwhile we were still able to take measures in helping people within the disaster zone; they were evacuated, and more than 200 medical organizations were involved in testing the population for radiation poisoning.
Science and rationality threaten such conformism, because they encourage skepticism, free inquiry, and testing of the traditional perspectives that the BJP is so eager to entrench.
The Benelux Economic Union treaty of 1944 was an early testing ground for the Europe of the Six, and it was the joint Benelux Memorandum, fathered by the far-sighted J. W. Beyen and presented in Messina in 1955, that gave the impetus to the creation of the common market.
We have teamed up with the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the pharmaceutical company Novartis to support cancer treatment and testing efforts in four countries: Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Suzanne Maloney, a former State Department official, expressed cautious optimism, stating that “it is early days and it will require a lot of testing, but Mr. Rouhani has been more ambitious than I would ever have hoped.”
Part of the segmentation of online markets involves web companies testing price points to estimate precisely the demand curve and its links to household characteristics.
Cameron is also testing arrests for Facebook comments, the suspension of social networks, and more lethal power for police.
A recent study authored by PATH, with support from Novo Nordisk, reported that across Benin, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, and Zambia, just 20% of the health facilities that provide diabetes diagnosis and treatment had insulin in stock, and only one in four had testing strips available to monitor diabetes.
France’s decision to abandon military conscription in 1996 while pressing ahead on nuclear testing did little to improve the relationship.
Economists can help by testing which international rules and institutions are needed to reform an inefficient and often inhumane system.
These are testing times in Shangri-La.
That, of course, is like testing your home’s fire extinguishers against burglars.
We are currently testing other durable insect-control solutions, including wall paints blended with three different insecticides.
For example, genetic testing is being used to pre-select participants for clinical trials, cutting recruitment times.
Testing MedicineMost people are surprised to learn that rigorous application of formal rules of evidence to evaluate medical research and decide on the best treatments is a recent phenomenon.
A group of people, some of them missing limbs, sat on a bench waiting to be served; others were limping or walking from one small room to another – from assessment to fitting to testing.
That is why smart regulators charged with ensuring healthy competition, like the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, use a “sandbox” approach to enable testing of new technologies and business models without a crushing burden of regulation.
Again, rigorous analysis requires testing these historical analogies for fitness with current circumstances.
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