Sentence examples for experiment a test from inspiring English sources

In addition to the word-naming experiment, a test known as the Een-Minuut-Test (One-Minute Test (EMT)) by Brus and Voeten (1973) was used to assess reading decoding or reading fluency.

One of the four reactors in a nuclear power station approximately 100 km (60 miles) north of Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), exploded and caught fire as the result of an ill-conceived experiment (a test to quantify how long the steam turbines would run while coasting to a stop if the reactor was abruptly shut down).

To illustrate the human body's ability to maintain a constant temperature regardless of the demands put on it, Jones recalls that in one experiment, a test subject on a treadmill ran the equivalent of a marathon in a chamber whose temperature was slowly raised from minus 45°C to 55°C: "The temperature of his body core deviated over the experiment by less than one degree".

On Friday, Dr. Altmann said Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, had given him a summary of the part of the confidential faculty inquiry related to the 2002 experiment, a test of whether monkeys could distinguish algebraic rules.

In another experiment, a test of activeness, he measured what fraction of a 10-minute period the animal spent in motion.

In the experiment, a test set of 2000 samples is generated from uniform priors for and with each noise variance ( and ).

Perhaps, he suggests, it should be seen as an ongoing experiment, "a test-bed for pluralism on a globalising planet that desperately needs more pluralism".

The whole affair, spurred by the imminent expansion of the museum's premises, has been billed a grand experiment, a test-drive toward the future.

To carry out the experiments, a test voice by the ITU-T P was used.

For LTP experiments, a test pulse was applied every minute at an intensity evoking ∼35% of the maximum evoked response.

The last several decades of constitutional law can be viewed as a kind of natural experiment--a test of whether the rule of law established by the Constitution can be maintained if judges systematically defer to government officials' assertions of power.