Ethanol subsidies began decades ago as a small test to see if corn could produce a fuel that would be an appropriate substitute for gasoline.
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The method is being employed at a small test facility, where waste water is piped through a complex maze of equipment, including a membrane that removes the nasty stuff.
"When we opened up, we acted like teenagers, " says Mr. Puglisi, speaking this spring in a small test kitchen near his two restaurants, alluding to an effort to break out from under Noma's long shadow.
If Twitter goes that route, it would not be surprising to see government maintained accounts included in a small pilot test before the new measures are released to the public.
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The Nottinghamshire federation is bringing two to three test cases on behalf of 153 former officers, while Devon and Cornwall has a similarly small number of test cases for 86 of its members.
Asia's wealthy like to start with a small allocation to test the waters.
But while the Institute ranks the car as a "top safety pick" based on its performance in front- and side-impact tests, it gave the 2012 Mercedes C-Class a "poor" grade in the new small-overlap test.
It is built on small companies that want to test and refine things, in small dollar increments, with a greater degree of control than ever before possible (thanks to Google, frankly, because they invented or at least perfected the micro-buy known as pay-per-click).
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This was turned into a cancer test by attaching small amounts of radioactive material to the antibody.
The idea of Kickstarter is brilliant: It allows small companies and individuals to test the market for whatever they plan to offer.
One factor that could be contributing to the rise: a bullish analyst meeting yesterday by Agilent (A), which has a small business that makes network test equipment.
Some nations may take part in one international survey, but not in another, the study said, and a lot of emphasis can be placed on small differences between countries' test scores.
Ramzam says that identity thieves frequently test credit card information by moving small sums of money, and banks have responded by scanning transactions records looking for unusual recipients of what look like test transactions.
Strategists put together spots very carefully and pre-test major messages on small groups of voters.
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Geron had injected stem cells into the spine of a small number of spinal patients to test safety.
However, it said that only a small group of people are being test-marketed in what it describes as a 'price trial' for the card.
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As a public company, it got too much pressure to become profitable for it to further reduce an already small patient population with a diagnostic test.
Yet, after the contract was awarded to Siga, it turned out that the company did not meet the test of being a small business (less than 500 employees).
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Cynan Ellis-Evans of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, said the idea of using a small lake away from Vostok to test methods would now have to be looked at again.
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This test will give a small number of people the option to pay to have a message routed to the Inbox rather than the Other folder of a recipient that they are not connected with.
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Originally designed for the pharmaceutical industry to test the safety and effects of drugs, the authors have pioneered RCTs to test the claims that small, uncollateralized loans to the poor are a persuasive antidote to poverty.
"The Dongria's campaign became a litmus test of whether a small, marginalised tribe could stand up to a massive multinational company with an army of lobbyists and PR firms and the ear of government, " he said.
After returning to union in 1996 with Richmond, Bateman was chosen for the 1997 Lions to South Africa and earned a cap in the final Test to join a small elite who have played for both Great Britain and the Lions.
The team now plan to test the soups in a small pilot study involving 50 women.
The company declined to elaborate beyond confirming the test is available to a small group of users.
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But I think the odds are fairly small that we would go do the test and not do the implant.
He set about making a wind tunnel in his garage and placed small shields on toy school buses to test them.
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The Replicator ships with a small plastic square its makers use to test the printer in order to make sure that everything is running well.
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