They draw their conclusions from Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT).
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The 12 positive findings, including two in New York, may reflect a fraction of the true cheating rate because testing in amateur cycling so far applies only to top finishers overall or of age group and category.
Jose Banda, superintendent of Seattle Public Schools, defended the use of testing to rate teachers.
But they have since roared back, partly because British companies have had no choice but to live with a testing exchange rate and partly because of the recovery of other European economies.
The TSA has, by their own admissions and testing, a terrible failure rate.
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They will continue to explore through and are also testing methods to measure the rate that gas rises from seeps in the seafloor.
He revealed that 5% to 7% of players who agreed to random testing in 2003 wound up testing positive, though he figures the actual usage rate to be much higher, since drugs like Human Growth Hormone can't be detected in tests.
If one in 1, 000 people have a disease and the false-positive rate for a test is 5%, then the probability that a person testing positive has the disease is at most 2%.
Described by a PR rep we contacted as a "new user experience" the company is testing, the assistant talks to users directly and asks them to rate a few movies on the spot before providing new suggestions.
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Napster formally launched today that flat-rate all-you-can download Napster To Go service they've been testing for the past few months.
In December Pfizer stopped testing its experimental good-cholesterol drug, torcetrapib, after it boosted the death rate in a 15, 000-patient trial--even though it raised good cholesterol by 60% in past studies.
The testing was done with petrochemicals in water (to replicate oil spills), and the rate of chemical uptake is the highest they've seen.
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