For decades, NCS has been known for making the scanners that score standardized tests and being the largest commercial processor of student tests, scoring 39 million tests annually.
Think of credit rating as a simple grading system where the top students perform the best on tests (making money) and those at the bottom are the biggest risk for dropping out of school (defaulting).
The company hasn't released the results of any benchmark tests yet, making it difficult to gauge the company's claims about Crusoe's performance.
Before classifying a worker, it is critical to have a basic understanding of the tests applied in making the distinction between employee and independent contractor.
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It differs from the MRI of medical tests in making moving images rather than still ones.
And if Andrew Strauss's men needed any further indicator of Ricky Ponting side's decline, the two defeats in India followed their defeat by Pakistan at Headingley, making it the first time Australia have lost three Tests in a row since 1988-89.
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Examiners will struggle too, to produce a single test that measures the same level of ability in children of different ages. (In music tests all candidates for a given grade play the same pieces: in an English test, quite different reading texts and writing topics would suit an eight-year-old than an 11-year-old.) The changes might even have the perverse effect of making children sit more tests.
The result was a sudden injection of urgency, with Riga - clearly intent on making the most of a rare chance to impress - offering Heurelho Gomes his first real tests of the night.
Mr. Thompson also suggested changes to the teacher evaluation system, making it less focused on tests.
And we're going to reform and strengthen Medicare for the long haul, but we do it by reducing the cost of health care, by making the health care system smarter so that instead of five tests you get one test, and then it's emailed everywhere.
French cigar traders draw a parallel with what happened to French wine making in the 1970s: despite scandals, defeats in tasting tests and competition from new wines on three continents, French growers complacently rested on their vines, convinced that they had the best soils, the best wine-making weather and the best grapes.
After various tests on the virtual prototype (such as making sure vital systems are insulated from lightning strikes), its ceiling, rate of climb and other handling characteristics are fed into a flight simulator.
The technology can scale easily as patients can do the tests themselves in minutes and are as cheap as making a local phone call.
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The hope is that by telling buyers which herbs are valuable for what, which characteristics to seek when making a purchase, and which chemical tests identify active ingredients, the new pharmacopoeia will provide that boost.
The tests its conducting now will go a long way towards making those determinations.
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The 32-year-old won 55 caps after making his Test debut in 1998, but found himself overlooked for the autumn Tests in favour of younger players.
So far, it has admitted to running tests using LTE but has not publically stated it would be making the move.
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He is set to undergo more tests in the coming months as doctors monitor his condition before making further decisions about his treatment.
Oxford researchers writing in the journal Nature hope now to establish whether genetic tests can help in making early diagnosis.
Scientists did extensive aerial and shipboard tests earlier this week on the waters near the release point, making sure the sargassum algae was clean.
The medical examiner's office is still awaiting results on a few tests before making a final evaluation, Stokes said.
As investors in European banks await the results of widely-anticipated stress tests, one big European financial institution is making a gutsy call: it is telling investors to buy European bank stocks.
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The left-hander played 76 Tests, 123 ODIs and three Twenty20 internationals for England, making his last appearance in September 2006.
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