The United States and Western Europe offered infusions of money, expertise and, just as important, a new status: the prospect, if the novice democracies met certain tests, of membership in the great clubs of civilized nations, NATO and the European Union.
The Primary Atomic Reference Clock in Space (PARCS) mission is designed to perform certain tests of relativity theory, to study the performance of individual GPS space-vehicle clocks, to study the dynamics of atom motion in microgravity, to advance the state-of-the art for space clocks, and to serve as a pathfinder for precision instruments based on laser cooling of atoms.
Indeed, even outside the video game world, people who trained with NeuroRacer saw improvements on certain tests of memory and attention, the group reports online today in Nature.
Of course, a properly skeptical person does not accept just any "evidence" that matches his/her preconceptions and ignores the rest; evidence must pass certain tests of verity and must be verifiable independently and abundantly.
But much of this evidence is based on correlations: Self-reported avid readers or those familiar with fiction also tend to perform better on certain tests of empathy, for example.
Improvement in the entire cohort of subjects after shunting was most significant on certain tests of executive function, attention, and speeded psychomotor action (category fluency, digit symbol, and trails A time), and not memory.
Those inexperienced with structural assessments would benefit from feedback, supplementary information, or examples on how to administer certain tests of the CGA and how to assign a score to the answers given by older people.
We paid no attention to statistics regarding MSA's rarity, typical age of onset or the reliability of certain tests for it.
It defaults to pi, but can be overridden on the command line so you can see for yourself the effect of using 1.0 or 0.0 in certain contexts of certain tests instead of a number that cannot be optimized at the CPU microcode level.
A round-robin test generally produces a clear picture of the overall quality of certain test procedures carried out by the participating organisations.
