Dr. Edwards and Dr. Steptoe worked with no public funding or direct research support at a time when the concept of a test-tube baby seemed the stuff of Orwellian science fiction.
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Researchers note that the only way to stay safe is to check those URLs and only visit sites that you trust (which isn't very reassuring) and "may or may not be exploitable" from Mac and PC versions of Safari -- the same vulnerability exists only they haven't written the proof-of-concept exploit to test it yet.
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There are a lot of ways you can field test your concept early on before programming anything.
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More so, you can test a concept with little risk (on all sides) and tweak before you start manufacturing.
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It began offering maternity at Gap.com in 2000 and Oldnavy.com in 2001, as a way to test the concept without giving up valuable square footage.
Thus, to test the concept in a low cost manner, she rented a food cart and started serving lunches in an outdoor mall in Boston.
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In 2001 Linux pranksters raced pigeons against a 40-gigabytes-per-second fiber line to test a concept a puckish American scientist first coined a decade earlier:CPIP--Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol.
In my case, there are plenty of features that got cut due to lack of resources and time but I have what I believe to be sufficiently good design, structure and content to test the concept with a live audience.
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The car's juice showed up as a blip on PJM's network, but the test showed the concept is at least workable.
Among others, in 1995 it funded a young Johns Hopkins researcher to test a new concept for a prostate cancer vaccine on 20 patients.
Next month, the group also will start test marketing a concept called the Soil Trust, an ambitious loan guarantee for money lent to local enterprises.
Mr Grade also introduced the concept of the Public Value Test which will be formally applied before new services, projects and changes, are given approval.
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The first test market for his concept was Israel, where 80 percent of the population lives in a narrow, densely populated stretch along the Mediterranean coast, making it a perfect laboratory for such a charging network.
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If your sales organization has not stepped up to the high velocity sales model, perhaps it is time to put a foot in the water and test the performance of this concept within your company.
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Instead of building features and hoping that they would work, we made sure to find the smallest set of requirements needed to prove a concept and give it to the people to test as soon as possible.
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After all, race is not a scientific concept that can be unequivocally confirmed with a DNA test or any other objective measure that could stand up to judicial scrutiny.
As this is a proof of concept -- and one we couldn't test out, at that -- it's unclear how well these features work, and it's unlikely that we'll ever see the prototype make it to market.
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The "soccer moms" never put it to the test though, as the Windstar Solutions never cruised past the concept stage.
The significant attraction to companies producing glucose monitoring devices is that the business model is a classic razor-and-blade concept as an overwhelming portion of sales by these companies consists of the recurring test strips.
No word on any test markets just yet, but folks can apparently check out the concept first-hand at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven this week -- or simply head on past the break for a video.
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Test the idea on everyone you know, and let them that you have a business concept you believe in and are committed to pushing forward.
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Test Track guests enter an all-new, interactive pre-show area that includes concept cars like the Miray roadster and the Chevrolet EN-V, as well as dynamic media displays that include models and sketches of vehicle design possibilities.
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