A preliminary test of three hypotheses.
The vote was only a preliminary test of strength.
At the World Bank, Caroline Anstey, the chief spokeswoman, said that all mail is routinely tested and that a preliminary test on Monday came up with a positive result.
The boxer, Choi Yo-Sam, 33, was found to be brain dead in a preliminary test conducted at Soon Chun Hyang hospital in Seoul before he was transferred on Monday to Asan Medical Center.
After a preliminary test aimed at finding a suitable range for K and the optimal burn-in period, we tested K from 1 to 18 through five independent runs.
After a preliminary test aimed at finding a suitable range for K and the optimal burn-in period, we tested K from 1 to 20 for the full dataset including the four species under study.
As a preliminary test, we looked at droplets in the liver, as this organ removes pathogens and microbial products from the blood, and plays a key role in the body's immune response (Mackay, 2002).
In a preliminary test, nitrogen ion beam at 60 eV decelerated from a primary 20-keV beam bombarded naked plasmid DNA.
A preliminary test found Pimentel's blood-alcohol count at 0.10 -- just above the state's legal limit of 0.08, she said.
A pilot study involving a preliminary test questionnaire design and wording was evaluated at a neighbouring district general hospital during July 2007, and received 53 responses; however, data were discarded from this pilot study, as the small sample size precluded any significant statistical conclusions.
However, a preliminary test is reported here.
