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The same is true, Sibal continues, of Kashmir and India’s nuclear
tests.
In addition, the upcoming asset-quality review and stress
tests
of the banks, if sufficiently rigorous, could provide assurances that banks receiving cheap ECB funding are adequately capitalized.
Today’s brave new world of financial globalization will almost surely face severe new stress tests, reminding us that recessions still happen.
BRUSSELS – Europe has just endured two more difficult
tests.
After years of accelerated missile development, which culminated in successful
tests
of intercontinental ballistic missiles and, allegedly, a hydrogen bomb last year, North Korea’s nuclear program has become an imminent threat not only to its neighbors, but also to the United States.
Regarding the banking sector, stress
tests
have been applied since 2004, and a target capital-adequacy ratio of 12% has been maintained since 2006.
Zhao, however, was the first to advocate giving autonomy back to the peasants and so initiated the first pilot
tests
to abolish the People’s Commune.
This year, the overall leader, two other riders, and two teams were expelled or withdrew from the race as a result of failing, or missing, drug
tests.
Both European and American debates have been replete with posturing and
tests
of will, turning politics into a game of “chicken.”
Intervention by two American aircraft carriers in the Taiwan Straits in March 1996 humiliated the Chinese, who were forced to stop intimidating Taiwan with missile
tests.
The North conducted its recent nuclear and missile
tests
despite Chinese sanctions, which have halted coal imports from North Korea – the regime’s main revenue source.
It recognizes the potential benefits of some immigration, but calls for strict proficiency tests, to ensure that only migrants who can fill a skills gap in the recipient country are accepted.
After expeditiously restoring confidence in the banks by forcing them to undergo severe stress tests, they gave households time to repair their balance sheets.
Chest X-rays for lung cancer and Pap
tests
for cervical cancer have received similar, albeit less definitive, criticism.
Naturally, individual cases dictate which
tests
and treatments are best, but an additional concern about frequent screenings is the problem of false positives.
Since 95% of them will test positive, there will be, on average, 475 positive
tests.
Of the 99,500 people without cancer, 1% will test positive, yielding 995 false positives out of 1,470 positive
tests.
Such studies ideally would involve blood, imaging, memory, and medical tests, as well as detailed lifestyle questionnaires filled out by thousands of young and middle-aged people.
Study participants would be followed over decades to see who developed the disease, and which
tests
proved positive before Alzheimer’s was diagnosed.
The study showed which
tests
were able to predict the outcome most accurately decades ahead of onset.
And detailed short-term memory
tests
were abnormal ten years before onset, as suggested in the Framingham and Kungsholmen studies.
These
tests
are now becoming part of clinical practice, and are available commercially.
Memory and other cognitive
tests
can reveal whether one has minor problems with some aspects of thinking – a condition known as “mild cognitive impairment” that precedes Alzheimer’s disease.
The problem is that the
tests
must be administered by a trained neuropsychologist and take more than an hour to complete; moreover, many people with mild cognitive impairment do not progress to dementia.
This year, two small studies of blood
tests
seemed to predict Alzheimer’s 1-3 years before it occurred, but the
tests
are complicated and require the measurement of ten or more substances.
As one journalist pointed out, when 400,000 people (far more than Hazare’s followers in Delhi) marched in Kolkata in May 1998 to protest against the government’s nuclear tests, the media barely noticed.
Indeed, India’s nuclear
tests
are what initially spurred the NSG’s formation.
But after further
tests
I discovered that she was carrying a strain of bacteria that is resistant to most antibiotics in our therapeutic arsenal.
Scientists carrying out early studies and the first crucial
tests
were forced to use approximations.
But to know which theory describes physical reality, experimental
tests
must eventually be developed.
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