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If the price for France's continued willingness to act as a major promoter of European integration is a handful of nuclear tests, it is a price worth paying.
Under a double-freeze arrangement, North Korea might halt only its observable activities, such as its missile and nuclear tests.
They created tests that can establish a person’s HIV status or gauge the disease’s progression.
Some say that the tools we use to measure intelligence – IQ tests – are themselves culturally biased.
The late Stephen J. Gould, author of The Mismeasure of Man, dismissed cross-cultural research using IQ tests as an attempt by white men to show their superiority.
If we focus on training teachers in how to inspire their students to identify with their school – rather than teaching students to take standardized tests – we just might be able to reproduce these schools’ great results.
Once an HIV-infected individual tests positive, achieving the second 90% (AVR treatment) depends mainly on funding and staffing; with a sufficient health budget, medicines can be made available for all infected individuals.
In the latest (2012) scores on international achievement tests, US teenagers scored below the OECD average, dropping to 31st place in math; 24th place in science and 11th place in reading.
To understand why, we should look back to October 2014, when the European Banking Authority began balance-sheet stress tests for the eurozone’s largest 123 banks and found a capital shortfall of €25 billion ($28 billion) in all of them.
Banks that failed the stress test and didn’t take the result seriously are partly to blame, but so, too, are regulators who did not sufficiently hold the banks’ feet to the fire to improve their balance sheets, and who may have applied stress tests that were too weak to detect financial frailty.
The EBA conducted another series of stress tests and reported the results in late July.
This latest round looked at 51 banks and, contrary to previous tests, was not designed to identify capital shortfalls, but rather to provide “a common analytical framework to consistently compare and assess the resilience of large EU banks to adverse economic developments.”
Fortunately, following the 2016 round of stress tests, the EBA is now also considering this type of regulatory sanction.
Disability benefits and eligibility tests were also dramatically changed.
Although Kenya has a well-functioning and well-funded agricultural research system, the government has not even permitted field tests of GM crop varieties.
Simple blood tests, a doctor’s consultation, and someone qualified to help with the birth can make a huge difference.
So the failed missile launch probably means that a resumption of nuclear testing is inevitable, following tests in 2006 and 2009.
However, radioactive elements, such as Krypton-85 or Xenon-135, were not detected in the atmosphere after previous tests.
California’s public schools, from kindergarten to high school, rank poorly on standardized tests.
First, the regime threatened to conduct more nuclear tests if the United Nations does not withdraw its recommendation to prosecute the country’s leaders for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.
Indeed, there are stress tests, and so-called reverse stress tests, whereby insurers are required to describe what would need to occur to make them fail.
At the outset, these children lagged behind their peers in all development tests.
They could profit from smartphones with simple adaptations that can be used in a range of health-screening tests (for example, for cardiovascular disease, HIV and other pathogens, or malaria), with the results being sent straight to hospitals for an immediate response.
The stress tests conducted by the US Treasury last year suggested that the banking sector had re-attained sufficient capital.
Because biochemical-based tests cannot differentiate between C. auris and other invasive Candida infections, several cases of C. auris were initially misidentified as C. haemulonii.
After the North renounced the subsequent Agreed Framework, negotiated by President Bill Clinton’s administration, in 2003, it expelled IAEA inspectors, withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and has since detonated three nuclear devices and conducted a variety of missile tests.
This spring, it conducted a nuclear test and a series of missile tests, accompanied by a stream of bellicose rhetoric.
With more nuclear tests, a demand for nuclear weapons could grow in South Korea and Japan.
Such efforts should be renewed as soon as possible; the US should agree to bilateral as well as six-party talks with the North, possibly in exchange for a moratorium on nuclear tests.
Even if it is not, how can an internally roiled India respond adequately to its many external tests, the severity of which was underscored recently by Pakistani troops’ killing of two Indian soldiers along the Line of Control in Kashmir.
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