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testing

the checking of raw materials, components and finished products to ensure that they meet specified performance standards. In principle all materials, components and products could be tested but in practice firms will usually only test a sample of such items. See QUALITY CONTROL. See also ADVERTISING EFFECTIVENESS TEST, NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, TEST MARKETING.

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Sixty-three percent had a regular health care provider; of this group, 69% felt that it was important to receive HIV prevention services from their provider, and 57% had ever discussed HIV testing with their provider.

Frequency of HIV testing is suboptimal among some men who are at high risk

Proficiency testing is a method of checking laboratory testing performance by means of an inter-laboratory test.

Proficiency testing: an effective measure of competency of rubber characterization labs

They] have been the back bone of testing, because they put their hands on the equipment daily.

Defense transformation (Dec. 15, 2004): Army Test Command ensures equipment meets standards

5 include a new improved Graphic User Interface (GUI), improved ease of use, advanced signaling and media testing, advanced monitoring, and a large number of built-in media and scripts.

RADVISION announces industry's most advanced test management suite for development of voice and video over IP devices

As students progress through the educational system with additional testing required by states, abundant pressures can negatively impact their performance.

Implementing strategies to assist test-anxious students

The instruction also poses a seamless verification process that fosters an integrated testing philosophy in an effort to streamline Test and Evaluation (T&E), much as the acquisition process itself is being streamlined.

Test and evaluation in a dynamic acquisition environment

Assessing ELLs in their native languages is a form of testing accommodation.

Assessment of English language learners

Some HIV fighters caution that hurried and imperfect implementation of rapid testing could mean that some people will get life-shattering information but won't receive the life-saving care that should follow.

Testing times: the importance of identifying HIV infections before it's too late

However, how should these clustering techniques be deployed in a testing environment?

Best practices for managing clustered test environments. (Enterprise Networking)

Universal testing machines (UTMs) stretch, bend, compress, or pull plastic samples at a controlled speed until they break.

How to buy universal testing machines. (Outfitting Your Lab)

Justice Antonin Scalia dissented, calling the testing program an "immolation of privacy and human dignity in symbolic opposition to drug use.

Urine--or you're out: drug testing is invasive, insulting, and generally irrelevant to job performance. Why do so many companies insist on it?

With manufacturing standards stressing the need for castings of near perfect quality, nondestructive testing has become widely used throughout the foundry industry.