Under the guidelines of the American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine, doctors are advised to conduct stress tests routinely among older people who want to start exercising.
The European Banking Authority released more details of how it would conduct stress tests of 90 of Europe's largest banks.
European leaders had agreed to conduct stress tests on their big banks, an exercise successfully undertaken in the United States last year, in an effort to restore market confidence.
In Australia, the top securities regulator recently stated its intention of bringing computer-driven trading firms under stricter supervision and forcing them to conduct stress testing, to protect "against the type of disruption we have seen recently in other markets".
In a bid to quell those fears, Japan's nuclear regulator, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, has ordered the country's nuclear operators to conduct stress tests, or computer simulations that analyze whether a reactor can withstand disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis.
BRUSSELS — The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, is pushing for the European Union to conduct "stress tests" on all the nuclear reactors of its member countries in the wake of Japan's calamity.
What is more, it is becoming ever clearer that the big banks face a wave of write-offs on their loans.In July the government asked banks to conduct stress tests assuming a 60% decline in housing values.
That includes the promise by Yoshihiko Noda, the prime minister, to conduct "stress tests" to ensure that the rest of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors, most of them now suspended, can safely be restarted.At Fukushima, more bills will come due, including for removing radioactive topsoil from a vast area.
But it will do little to protect the economy from a prolonged credit squeeze.Symptomatic of Germany's reluctance to peer into the state of its banks is its steadfast refusal to force them to conduct stress tests against published criteria.
A computer program was developed to conduct stress and deformation analyses of sandwich pipe with different winding angles.
