New applications and protocols like Telnet, file transfer protocol (FTP), and network control protocol (NCP) were constantly being devised, tested, and deployed on the network.
A checklist that included the items described below was devised, tested and improved before being used for data extraction.
As data collection and analysis progressed, a coding frame was devised, tested and adjusted, and once refined applied to the transcripts using qualitative analysis software (NVivo7, 31).
Athletes use drugs to enhance their performances, scientists devise tests to identify those drugs, then the athletes move on to more sophisticated doping techniques.
But industry experts say it is hard for new companies to come in because of shortages of specialized personnel, especially the psychometricians who devise tests and monitor their validity.
David Biltchik, a consultant in Washington, worked with Italian producers, scientists, diplomats and American officials to devise tests that would convince the Agriculture Department that Parma hams, which are cured for 400 days, posed no threat to American lives.
And once armed with the drug, you have to devise tests that reveal what type of cancer someone has, in order to find out whether the drug will work in his case.
Because tests consume time that otherwise could be devoted to instruction, it is important to devise tests that are efficient.
Besides early diagnosis, another goal is to devise tests that spot tumors most likely to metastasize and kill.
Evidently, further empirical research on how valuation contributes to capacity is required before we can devise tests that declare subjects to be incapable due to pathological valuations.
