The researchers expect their design will cost 10 times less than current tests.
The current tests were introduced between 2000 and 2003, amid concerns about the standard of teachers' literacy, numeracy and ICT.
Prudhomme also argued that the Tour titles taken away from Spaniard Alberto Contador and American Floyd Landis for doping offenses suggested the current tests do work.
More direct evidence from studies of experiments with animals and humans, however, suggests that we may have to alter the very concept of what we mean by hearing loss, and that current tests - particularly pure-tone audiometry which measures our ability to perform "pin-drop" hearing - may not be sufficient to pick up the early signs of a decline in hearing function.
This will not mean scrapping the current national tests - as the pilot scheme will continue in parallel with the present testing system.
In the future, software for voice and facial recognition will surpass all the current biometric tests in terms of accuracy and ease of use.
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The current trial tests how Viread performs against hepatitis B.
Current BSE-tests can only be applied on the brain of a dead animal during a post-mortem.
Nicknamed "Caffeine" the new version is still in the testing phase and will replace the current engine once tests are complete.
The current crop of noninvasive tests grew out of a discovery made in the late 1990s by Dr. Lo at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
But Kwok sees many of his company's current Internet initiatives as critical tests of future China plays.
Environmental campaigners have long been calling for more stringent tests, claiming the current regulations were about 30 years out of date.
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The virtuous 60, chosen among Canada's largest companies, will have passed tests designed to reflect the current standards of a small but growing number of investors who want their money to be a force for good (or at least to do no harm).
Current workers at Fort Detrick are being given polygraph tests by the FBI to see if any leads may materialize.
So a serious test of their health would not only measure how much banks have lent to the likes of Italy, Greece and so on, which did happen in the last tests, but would also apply the current low market prices to banks' holdings of these loans (or sovereign bonds, in the jargon).
Studies have shown that a technique called liquid cytology is a better system than the current one, and also facilitates the use of HPV tests where appropriate.
The new tests could be incorporated into or even replace current, first-trimester screenings, some of which can prove inconclusive and result in women being sent for unnecessary invasive tests.
The important point about Dexia is that its current difficulties tend to undermine confidence in the famous European stress tests, the recently completed Europe-wide process of verifying that the region's banks are tickety boo.
But tests so far show its mobile phone radiation reader rivals current consumer brands on the market, Softbank said.
But unlike the current version of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the ban was confined to tests above a specific threshold that was verifiable and allowed a limited number of proof-tests of existing stockpiles to determine their reliability.
The current recommendation for people at average risk of colon cancer is to get regular screening tests starting at age 50.
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So the stress tests' methodological approach of averaging recent trading losses would exaggerate RBS's current fragility and vulnerability to loss - and in a sense would discriminate against it.
Under the current system, all companies with 401(k) plans must pass complex "nondiscrimination" tests annually.
The EPA said that while not all tests have been completed, the results of two tests indicate that engines in newer cars likely can handle an ethanol blend higher than the current 10-percent limit.
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