Boeing did some of the safety testing on the 787 battery system, but much of the testing was done by a subcontractor, Thales of France, which made the 787's electrical system, and by battery maker GS Yuasa of Japan, according to a previously released NTSB report.
"The current system is dogged by means-testing, a postcode lottery of charges, a rationing of services and poor standards and nothing in the plan looks like it will address any of these concerns, " its general secretary Dot Gibson said.
The issue came to a head in December when the city sought to qualify for a federal grant program by testing out the new evaluation system on a set of 33 failing schools.
"We discovered a flaw in the Department of Commerce's lockup system during a testing period sponsored by the department, " said a Bloomberg spokesman.
In order to finish the trial quickly, Glaxo is testing the response generated by the immune system due to the vaccine.
The widespread monitoring and testing of herds required by such a system would be expensive but probably less so than the slaughter and disposal of millions of animals.
Such is his commitment to breaking the old system that BHP has recently been testing indexed prices by selling iron ore on spot markets at well below contract prices.
The UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy are currently testing such a system and want to launch it by the end of the year.
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Since April, Verizon has been testing a version of the researchers' P4P system implemented by the New York-based file-sharing start-up, Pando.
Since April, Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ) has been testing a version of the researchers' P4P system implemented by the New York-based file-sharing start-up, Pando.
Google, to which Blunsom's work is closely connected, is internally testing a new statistical system that is refined to near-perfection by linguistic rules, he says.
"Potentially the system could make the process of drug creation more efficient by reducing failure rates in testing and showing chemists which of the potential thousands of solutions would be best-suited to their problem, " he added.
TeraGrid, which is already the world's largest open computer, storage and networking system (exceeded only by the U.S. government's weapons-testing labs, which is "closed, " or isolated inside one institution), uses 16 different computer platforms and runs seven different operating systems.
They have been testing a laser system for measuring lunar dust and soil kicked up by rocket exhausts, and while using precipitation as a substitute to calibrate the laser, they found they could measure the average size of raindrops passing through it.
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The Center urges President Bush to use the summit to rectify this situation somewhat by demanding than no new heavy ICBM's such as the "Mod 5" be deployed by the Soviet Union and that other modernization and testing of improvements to the SS-18 system be banned.
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