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DNA tests had shown that another man was responsible for the crime.
The recent “stress tests” of European banks were blatantly designed as a confidence-building measure rather than a genuine exploration of possible systemic weaknesses – failing, for instance, to include the possibility of default on Greek sovereign debt.
With almost 30% of city dwellers in the Asia-Pacific region living in slums, one of our greatest tests will be to improve their living conditions without wreaking havoc on the environment.
Europe’s Political Stress TestsPRINCETON – In recent years, the European Union – or, more accurately, the powerful countries of northern Europe – has been subjecting its weaker members to social and political “stress tests” in the name of fiscal rectitude.
In October and November, the ECB will announce the results of its bank stress tests.
Both the eurozone and the Schengen Area have survived the tough tests they have faced for one reason: They bring practical, tangible benefits to their members.
The US experience is consistent with OECD evidence that students from countries with greater income inequality score lower on academic achievement tests.
Moreover, in France, taxi drivers must undergo regular health and professional tests, to which UberPOP drivers are not subject.
The current constitutional crisis has caused many to wonder how Egypt will face future political tests.
Trump believes that, by withdrawing from the JCPOA, he can pressure Iran to agree to a new, more comprehensive deal that would cover not just the country’s nuclear program, but also its ballistic missile tests, provocative regional behavior, and human-rights violations.
The pace of recapitalization needs to be stepped up, and the new round of “stress tests” for European banks will mark a clear line in the sand.
Likewise, the dramatic reduction in the cost of gene sequencing, from roughly $40 million per human genome in 2003 to about $5,000 today, together with a rapid increase in computational power, is boosting the speed, accuracy, and robustness of medical diagnostic tests.
But her mother had no money to pay for the screening tests and to compensate the blood donor.
For most healthy men, however, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) – a leading independent panel of experts on prevention and primary care – has publicly recommended against widespread PSA tests.
Instead, he is closely monitored with various follow-up tests.
And its tight control of the use of its patents has inhibited the development by others of better and more accurate tests for the presence of the gene.
With current tests, it is impossible to verify that a patient has been infected with SARS until several weeks after symptoms begin.
We don't have vaccines or rapid tests for SARS, but we do have them for flu.
The city-state now scores near the top in science and math on international tests.
Attempts to shore up the banks through “stress tests” that lack credible recapitalization facilities and resolution mechanisms have undermined confidence in sovereign debt.
Those seeking an answer may find it in the recent international outcry over the new series of French nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific.
Last June, shortly after the successful international agreement on the indefinite extension of the Treaty banning the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the newly elected French president Jaques Chirac announced that France would conduct a final series of tests on Muroroa Atoll.
It is not long ago that French experts had argued that the treaty banning nuclear explosions, which the nuclear weapons states have committed themselves to sign by the end of 1996, would have to allow small scale nuclear tests if only to reassure French nuclear bombs against the problem of nuclear ageing', the uncertainty whether all parts of the atomic bomb remain reliable.
On August 10, the French delegate to the Geneva Disarmament Conference, where the treaty is being negotiated, declared that his government will demand a ban of "all nuclear weapons tests and all other types of nuclear explosions".
Yet it revealed, at the same time, the limited effect of international protests directed against legitimate governments: the protests aimed at stopping the tests; however, if they were successful, it would have endanger the very progress it has produced.
If France and China were forced by angry public opinion to stop their current tests, there will be no water-tight test-ban treaty next year.
For both, their nuclear programme is a matter of national security, they will forego future testing only if they are confident they can maintain their nuclear forces without such tests.
Yet the best hope for escaping from the nuclear shadow lies not in stopping the small number of French and Chinese tests.
Since the beginning of the nuclear age, a total of 2037 nuclear tests were conducted; 1030 by the US, 715 by the then Soviet Union, 45 by Britain;China has exploded 43, France 204 nuclear devices.
Similarly, if France were to give in to international anger and cancel all further tests, the nascent disposition to Europeanize the French deterrent would be nibbed in the bud.
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