On the ABC versions, ten contestants competed in a preliminary "Fastest Finger" round for the right to play the main game on each episode.
It should be considered instead as a tool for a preliminary and fast assessment in an optimization process.
But several networks reported what are called preliminary "fast national" ratings for the prime-time hours on Tuesday night, and the cable news networks had preliminary figures from most of the country's 50 biggest cities.
This paper represents the results of investigation of preliminary fast neutron irradiation influence on reliability of IR-LEDs manufactured on the basis of AlGaAs heterostructures.
The preliminary fast neutron irradiation leads to the shift of defined temperature limits while the probability of catastrophic failure grows with neutron fluence that can be explained by lower radiation resistance of ohmic contact.
Performers submitted to preliminary fasting and sexual abstinence.
Almost three-quarters of the Democrats currently in the Senate voted against the preliminary "fast-track authority" bill that passed that chamber Friday, and even larger majorities of the party's House members will work to defeat it when it comes before them next month.
Broadcom's chips also use a preliminary version of a faster, 54-megabit-a-second update called 802.11g.
If these branching rods were partial acid fast positive, a preliminary report was issued stating "Gram positive branching rods that are partial acid fast positive suggestive of infection with Nocardia spp. are seen".
In the time domain we used a systematic-sampling with a reading every 10 minutes, but the choice of the proper sampling frequency was based on a preliminary 24h measurement campaign, using the faster available sensor, at 2 readings each minute.
