The need to measure student achievement against standards has led to the development of highly sophisticated new "value-added" testing techniques.

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Of course good testers do it a bit more fancy than this, they use risk based testing and apply sound testing techniques.

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The clinical trial he had been taking part in was testing new techniques for treating knee cartilage problems.

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Under the moratorium, our laboratories have maintained our arsenal through the Stockpile Stewardship Program without underground nuclear testing, using techniques that are as successful as they are cutting edge.

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That is because quick and dirty techniques for testing primality already exist.

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At that stage Dr Pusztai's research simply looked like a proof of principle checking that the techniques for transplanting and testing lectin genes worked, prior to exploring other, less harmful lectins as built-in insecticides for crops.

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So for his Ignite NYC talk, he performed a series of experiments to find just what sorts of obscuring techniques can defeat a common facial recognition algorithm known as Eigenfaces, testing an off-the-shelf implementation of that algorithm in a program called Neurotechnology.

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At the time, the Home Office responded that DNA testing would not be used alone but would be combined with language analysis and investigative interviewing techniques.

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The Clinton Administration maintains that various experimental devices and techniques being pursued as part of its Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP) will be able to replace testing and equip a new generation of scientists with the expertise necessary to sustain the U.S. deterrent for the foreseeable future.

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