The cloud provides a low-cost way for engineers, product developers and even marketing folks to experiment with new ideas and test their feasibility within a short timeframe so that they can quickly move forward with successful ones.

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They are stimulated to think outside the box and experiment to test their new knowledge.

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It carried out a rough and ready experiment to test the reliability of fingerprints.

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To test that hypothesis, Dr Gino and her colleagues ran the experiment again, this time including a test meant to detect self-alienation.

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In 1935, Einstein, along with two young collaborators, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, proposed an experiment that would test this idea by probing action-at-a-distance.

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Robbins discussed his theory with Macknik and Martinez-Conde, who devised an experiment to test it.

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With their new laser in hand, Dr Leitgeb and his colleagues set up an experiment that let them test the system on a range of skin conditions, including a healthy human palm, allergy-induced eczema on the forearm, inflammation of the forehead, and two previously diagnosed cases of basal-cell carcinoma.

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After the six week experiment was over, I conducted the same eye chart test and recorded the results.

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In another experiment, the team repeated the test with 20 children between the ages of two and seven.

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Lower start-up costs and less strict worker protection make it easier for innovative entrepreneurs in America to experiment on a small scale (hence the smaller size of new firms), to test the markets and to expand.

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