Japan has become a key testing ground for the two companies and their new, real tobacco e-smokes as they grapple with shrinking demand for traditional cigarettes in other developed countries.
Interestingly, critical illness has the potential to become a key testing ground and field of application for these emerging modeling techniques, given the increasing availability of point-of-care testing and the need for titrated interventions in this patient population.
The question of Narendra Modi, seen by many as responsible for the 2002 violence against Muslims in Gujarat, became a key test of Mr. Kumar.
Along with related issues like United States access to passenger flight data from European flights, the program became a key test of the balance between national security and civil liberties.
Social conservatives here also say Mr. Santorum has voiced support for what has become a key litmus test for many evangelicals: the "Heartbeat Bill" in the state legislature, which would ban abortions after a fetus has a detectable heartbeat, typically six to eight weeks.
The tests have become a key component in the institute's annual list of Top Safety Picks.
"Unfortunately there is no easy solution — stress tests have become a key part of the tool kit in dealing with the reshaping of banks," said Nils Melngailis, a managing director in London at Alvarez & Marsal, a consulting firm that was involved in assessing Greek and Irish banks.
These test results have become a key lever in an accountability system that divides schools into those that are making "adequate yearly progress" and those that aren't.
Although the sample did not test positive under baseball's program, it was retested by federal authorities after they seized it in a 2004 raid, and it may become a key factor in Bonds's perjury trial, the people said.
Transcriptic, the cloud-based biotech lab that tests for experimental drugs automation and robotics, has become a key platform for many biotech companies in Silicon Valley.
